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Greenpeace and French environmental campaigners had called for the shipment, sent by France-based nuclear company Areva, to be stopped.
The BBC Shanghai is due to reach Australia by 27 November.
French officials said an inspection had revealed no problems that could prevent the ship from sailing.
The 25 tonnes of nuclear waste comes from Areva's reprocessing plant in Beaumont-Hague, near the port of Cherbourg, from where the ship set sail on Thursday.
Yannick Rousselet, of Greenpeace France, said the BBC Shanghai "should not be used" to transport the nuclear waste.
Nathalie Geismar, of French environmental group Robin des Bois, said that other ports had found a "staggering number of flaws" in the 14-year-old ship.
Shortly before the cargo ship set sail, French Green MP Denis Baupin tweeted (in French) that Areva was "using a dustbin ship to carry waste, without any serious inspection".
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (Ansto) said a full inspection of the ship had been carried out by both French maritime safety authorities and by the French nuclear safety regulator on 14 October.
"The ship's seaworthiness was confirmed and certified," a statement said, adding that the ship had been chosen by Areva.
The waste comes from spent nuclear fuel sent from Australia to France for reprocessing in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ansto said.
Under French law, the waste from the operation is required to have left the country by the end of 2015.
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In just two words, Josh Hawkins teaches the basics of the Australian vernacular.
The 30-year-old's advice is to "abbreviate everything".
"We're from Australia. We love a good chat, but not for too long," Josh says at the start of the video, which also stars local actor Rhys Keir.
The pair then run through a list of some of Australia's favourite abbreviations, including:
The clip has already been viewed on Facebook more than 1.5m times since it was uploaded on Monday.
It has been a surprise success for Josh, and a little like lightning striking twice, after he made headlines in May for his trick-shot video "The thug life chose me".
"It was pretty insane and I didn't think it would happen again," he told the BBC.
His only regret: misspelling the town of Wollongong (south of Sydney).
"Practically the whole town has been messaging me.
"I was in a rush so I didn't spell-check it and I got a whole bunch of messages today."
He says he will use his appearance on breakfast television on Wednesday to issue a very public apology to Wollongong. | A youth pastor from Sydney has created a stir online with his very simple tutorial titled How to Speak Australian. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33519486"} | 274 | 25 | 0.449749 | 1.162126 | 0.090728 | 0.47619 | 11.52381 | 0.47619 |
Junaid Hussain, 18, admitted putting details online in June 2011 and making hoax calls to a counter-terror hotline.
He was a leader of Team Poison, a computer hacking group which has claimed responsibility for more than 1,400 illegal activities.
He was given a three month sentence for each offence at Southwark Crown Court.
The jail terms will run consecutively.
Team Poison - which identifies itself as "TeaMp0isoN" online - has previously claimed responsibility for computer hacking attacks involving foreign politicians, major international businesses, an international humanitarian agency and foreign law enforcement.
Hussain admitted making the hoax calls to the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist hotline between January 1 2010 and April 14 2012, which prevented legitimate callers getting through.
A further offence was left to lie on file.
Scotland Yard said further investigations are ongoing into the activities of other members of TeamPoison. | A hacker from Birmingham has been jailed for six months after publishing the address book of former Prime Minister Tony Blair on the internet. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "19018142"} | 212 | 29 | 0.476358 | 1.029773 | -0.603923 | 0.32 | 6.76 | 0.32 |
Batting first, Notts made 429-9, their second-highest List A score, anchored by Brendan Taylor's 154 off 97 balls.
Somerset were well placed after a stand of 154 in 16 overs between Dean Elgar (91) and Peter Trego (66).
The hosts' lower order kept attacking but continued to lose wickets and they were all out for 405 in 48 overs.
Jamie Overton (40) looked to be taking the match to the final few balls with some magnificent six hitting, but was run out when attempting to keep the strike to give Notts victory.
When South Africa opener Elgar and Trego were in full swing, the mammoth target looked achievable - the duo smashing Somerset to 221-3 in the 24th over.
But the dismissal of Trego, caught on the mid-wicket boundary off spinner Samit Patel, was quickly followed by Stuart Broad bowling Elgar, checking the hosts' momentum.
Somerset's lower order still managed to find regular boundaries as the required run-rate hovered around 10 an over, although Overton's cameo alongside Roelof van der Merwe (43) and Lewis Gregory (26) was ultimately in vein.
Earlier Nottinghamshire's batsman had struck Somerset's bowlers to all parts on a flat Taunton track with Riki Wessels (81) and Patel (66) providing fine support for Taylor.
The Zimbabwean raced to his hundred in just 69 balls, and appeared to be taking Notts beyond the List A best of 445-8 they made against Northants at Trent Bridge in 2016.
He was eventually dismissed by Lewis Gregory (4-60) in the 48th over, but had already done enough to ensure the huge total which put his side in the last four. | Nottinghamshire set up a One-Day Cup semi-final at Essex on Friday after beating Somerset by 24 runs in a high-scoring thriller at Taunton. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40260941"} | 389 | 36 | 0.411656 | 0.941312 | 0.116526 | 0.533333 | 11.2 | 0.533333 |
Valerie Armstrong died last Wednesday night after she was hit by the scrambler bike in a forest park in west Belfast the previous evening.
A requiem Mass was held for Mrs Armstrong in the Church of the Nativity in Poleglass on Monday.
Father Pat Sheehan said the days since her death were "hard and harrowing".
Mrs Armstrong was walking her dog along a path near Mila's Lake in Colin Glen Forest Park on Tuesday when she was struck.
A 17-year-old boy has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and having no insurance.
Fr Sheehan said Mrs Armstrong's "terrible" death "could have been avoided and should have been avoided".
He added that the hearts of those who knew Mrs Armstrong "have been heavy and our grief has been intense".
"When I think of Valerie Armstrong, I think of a cheerful and positive person - a person of faith and hope," he told mourners.
"Valerie loved life, she loved her husband Seamus, and she was committed to their three wonderful children, Dylan, Lucy and Sophie."
He said her death "has shocked us, angered us and left us broken-hearted".
He warned that people "need to think about what they are doing" when buying motorcycles for "young people living in built-up areas".
"These choices can and have devastating consequences even though that was never intended.
"These choices are destroying lives - both the lives of people like Valerie and the lives of young people responsible."
He added: "Would it bring people to their senses if they had to face the heartbreak that has been caused?
"What if they had to listen to Seamus' heartbreak; a young man who has lost a wonderful wife?
"What if they had to they answer the questions of three young children who wonder why this terrible thing has happened to their mother?
"What if they had to explain to Valerie's broken-hearted parents that it was meant to be just fun?" | The death of a mother who was struck by a motorcycle "has robbed us of a light and plunged us into darkness", mourners at her funeral have heard. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36884290"} | 438 | 39 | 0.455474 | 1.218839 | -0.121634 | 0.96875 | 12.65625 | 0.71875 |
He will also resign as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), which he has led for a total of 20 years.
Scottish voters backed the country staying in the UK by 2,001,926 votes to 1,617,989 in Thursday's referendum.
Three arrests have been made after rival Union and independence supporters gathered in George Square in the centre of Glasgow.
Police, including officers on horseback, had to separate the two groups.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said there were about 100 people in each of the two groups, and although there had been some "minor disorder" it had been dealt with quickly, with no arrests so far. The square was closed to traffic with local diversions in place.
The square had hosted a party by "Yes" supporters ahead of the referendum.
BBC Scotland reporter Cameron Buttle, who was at the scene, said the confrontation started quickly with flares being fired and a "co-ordinated" charge from the Unionist side, who were singing Rule Britannia.
Meanwhile, the Queen has said Scotland's vote to stay in the Union was "a result that all of us throughout the United Kingdom will respect".
She added: "Knowing the people of Scotland as I do, I have no doubt that Scots, like others throughout the United Kingdom, are able to express strongly-held opinions before coming together again in a spirit of mutual respect and support."
Elsewhere, Prime Minister David Cameron said the three main Westminster parties would now deliver their campaign pledge to boost the powers of Scotland's devolved parliament.
Mr Salmond, 59, is Scotland's longest-serving first minister, having held the post since the SNP won power at the Scottish Parliament in May 2007.
Speaking from his official residence at Bute House in Edinburgh, the first minister told journalists: "For me as leader my time is nearly over, but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream shall never die.
"I am immensely proud of the campaign that Yes Scotland fought and particularly of the 1.6 million voters who rallied to that cause."
Mr Salmond said he would resign as SNP leader at the party's conference in November, before standing down as first minister when the party elects its next leader in a membership ballot.
He said there were a "number of eminently qualified and very suitable candidates" to replace him.
But Nicola Sturgeon, the current deputy first minister and deputy SNP leader, is seen as a clear frontrunner.
Mr Salmond, who will stay on as MSP for Aberdeenshire East, added: "It has been the privilege of my life to serve Scotland as first minister.
"But, as I said often during the referendum campaign, this is not about me or the SNP. It is much more important than that.
"The position is this. We lost the referendum vote but can still carry the political initiative. More importantly Scotland can still emerge as the real winner."
Ms Sturgeon said she could "think of no greater privilege than to seek to lead the party I joined when I was just 16," but said she would not make an announcement today.
She added: "Alex Salmond's achievements as SNP leader and Scotland's first minister are second to none. He led the SNP into government and has given our country a renewed self confidence."
Mr Salmond also used his resignation statement to question Mr Cameron's more powers pledge.
"We now have the opportunity to hold Westminster's feet to the fire on the 'vow' that they have made to devolve further meaningful power to Scotland," he said.
"This places Scotland in a very strong position.
"I spoke to the prime minister today and, although he reiterated his intention to proceed as he has outlined, he would not commit to a second reading vote (in the House of Commons) by 27 March on a Scotland Bill.
"That was a clear promise laid out by Gordon Brown during the campaign.
"The prime minister says such a vote would be meaningless. I suspect he cannot guarantee the support of his party."
Many politicians paid tribute to Mr Salmond's contribution to political debate, including David Cameron who spoke of his "huge talent and passion".
On referendum night, 28 of Scotland's 32 local authority areas voted in favour of staying in the UK.
Glasgow, Scotland's largest council area and the third largest city in Britain, voted in favour of independence by 194,779 to 169,347.
But the the 75% turnout in Glasgow was the lowest in the country, and hoped for breakthroughs in other traditional Labour strongholds such as South Lanarkshire, Inverclyde and across Ayrshire never materialised for the nationalists.
Edinburgh, the nation's capital, clearly rejected independence by 194,638 to 123,927 votes, while Aberdeen City voted "No" by a margin of more than 20,000 votes.
Across Scotland, 84.6% of registered voters cast their ballot in the referendum - a record for a national election.
Mr Cameron said the Westminster parties would ensure commitments on new Scottish parliament powers were "honoured in full" after the final referendum result was announced.
He said that Lord Smith of Kelvin, who led Glasgow's staging of the Commonwealth Games, would oversee the process to take forward the commitments, with new powers over tax, spending and welfare to be agreed by November, and draft legislation published by January.
The prime minister also spoke of the implications for the other nations of the UK, and said "millions of voices of England must also be heard".
He added: "The question of English votes for English laws, the so-called West Lothian question, requires a decisive answer so just as Scotland will vote separately in the Scottish Parliament on their issues on tax, spending and welfare, so too England as well as Wales and Northern Ireland should be able to vote on these issues.
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It sounds like the sort of plan any normal golfing dad and lad might hatch.
But not if your father's former Ryder Cup player Paul Broadhurst - and the three weeks he had in mind for his eldest son Sam included the job of being his caddie at the 146th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.
It was at Carnoustie almost a year ago when this father and son combination dovetailed to such good effect for the first time to win the British Seniors Open - and earn 51-year-old Broadhurst the added prize of a belated chance to play this week in his 16th Open.
"Every dad dreams of winning a big tournament with his son on the bag," Broadhurst told BBC Sport.
"It was quite emotional with Sam working for me, and having the rest of the family up there in Scotland too.
"I said at the time that these sort of things don't normally happen to people like me. I've been around a long time, won some events and played in the Ryder Cup.
"But I've never been one of the real, top, top players. So, for someone like me to come along and win a Senior Major was really special."
Having played last week in the United States, where he now plays regularly on America's more lucrative Champions Tour, Broadhurst's success has meant a tough four-week schedule.
Baltimore last week, Birkdale this. Then on to Royal Porthcawl, in South Wales, to defend his Seniors title before a week at North Berwick in the Scottish Seniors Open. And now he has Sam at his side for the majority of it.
"I've got a regular caddie in the States, but Sam deserved to do these next few weeks, having done so well for me at Carnoustie.
"He knows how far I hit it. He knows my game pretty well. And I've got my coach Tim Rouse here for a couple of days. I've got good people behind me, I've always had a relatively decent record in the Open and I'm very much looking forward to this week.
"I probably thought my Open Championship days were in the past, since playing my last one at Lytham in 2012. But, five years later, I've got another go at it and it's a course I think I can play well on, weather dependent.
"It's tough, but not necessarily a bomber's track and I think a senior like me can get it round."
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Broadhurst tied for 17th in Southport when he played his only previous Open on this golden, golfing stretch of West Lancashire coast in 1991, finishing nine shots behind the winner, Ian Baker-Finch.
But he has been playing steadily on the Champions Tour in America as he and wife Lorraine adjust to an exciting new life in their own private over-50s club.
Apart from all the former American legends, he has fellow Europeans Bernard Langer, Jose Maria Olazabal, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Jesper Parnevik, Ian Woosnam, Colin Montgomerie, Roger Chapman and Miguel Angel Martin to contend with.
And it means a routine which currently involves three weeks out of every four away on the road, with his eldest daughter as "acting nanny" to their youngest son.
"It can be a lonely place if you're struggling," he said. "But I've not struggled in many. I've had some good first-day scores, shot under par every time.
"The Sundays haven't been great when, if you're not scoring four under or better, you're out of it. But I've been on the leaderboard and my game's not far away. I've been putting better the last three or four and I've earned my place."
Not to mention more than $400,000 (£307,000) - to stand 25th in the rankings, well in contention for the US Seniors' end-of-season finale, the Schwab Cup.
Aside from his rare claim of being unbeaten in Ryder Cup combat (played two, won two at Kiawah Island in 1991), Broadhurst's other main claim to golfing fame is a joint share of the lowest-ever round scored in an Open, or any Major in fact.
He emulated Mark Hayes, Isao Aoki and Greg Norman when he shot his nine-under 63 in the third round at St Andrews in 1990.
Since then, six more have matched that 63, including both last year's runner-up Phil Mickelson, in the first round, and last year's winner Henrik Stenson, on that final memorable record-breaking day, at Royal Troon.
"People have been getting close the last few years," admits Broadhurst. "And, if we do get good weather, there's every chance it could go.
"Mickelson had a go last year, then Stenson and Justin Thomas in the US Open had a good chance. It's just hanging on. Get a relatively calm, sunny day and then an eight-under 62 is definitely on the cards.
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The attacks happened in Drumchapel at about 18:50 on Saturday. Police said a group of men were involved in an altercation outside the BetFred bookmakers in Hecla Avenue.
Two men, both 38, were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital with stab wounds. Their conditions have been described as stable.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
A 39 year-old woman was also taken to hospital for treatment to a hand injury and has since been released.
Det Sgt Raymond Sagan, of Drumchapel CID, said: "From our CCTV inquiries so far, we can see that there is a large group of around 20 to 30 people standing outside who all witnessed what happened.
"It is absolutely crucial that these people come forward and speak to us as they will hold vital information that could help us trace whoever is responsible for this violent attack." | Police are investigating an attempted murder and a serious assault after two men were stabbed in Glasgow. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39547598"} | 187 | 22 | 0.524543 | 1.176742 | -0.647107 | 0.611111 | 9.222222 | 0.5 |
While the optician normally delivers new glasses to the Vatican, Pope Francis insisted on travelling to the shop in central Rome this time.
Large crowds gathered outside the shop as he spent an hour inside, at the end of which he insisted on paying.
Pope Francis has reportedly expressed regret at not being able to walk freely on Rome's streets.
The Pope was accompanied by an assistant, a bodyguard and several police officers on his visit.
A German tourist, Daniel Soehe, said he had failed to see Pope Francis in the Vatican earlier in the day, but then spotted him in the optician's shop.
"I told my father, 'Hey, that was better than going to St Peter's dome: Seeing the Pope in a shop trying on new glasses'," he told the Associated Press news agency.
While archbishop of Buenos Aires, he was often seen travelling on public transport or walking through the city.
In a profile in National Geographic magazine this month, Pope Francis is quoted as saying: "You know how often I've wanted to go walking through the streets of Rome - because in Buenos Aires, I liked to go for a walk in the city.
"I really liked to do that. In this sense, I feel a little penned in." | Pope Francis drew crowds for an unusual reason on Thursday - after slipping out of the Vatican to visit an optician. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34148161"} | 292 | 31 | 0.653205 | 1.51917 | -0.056024 | 0.863636 | 11.636364 | 0.681818 |
Sean Ervine top-scored with 49 as Hampshire posted 148-8, with four wickets for Graham Wagg and two for Glamorgan debutant Wayne Parnell.
Glamorgan slumped to 13-3 in reply before a 69-run stand between captain Jacques Rudolph and Mark Wallace.
But four wickets from Chris Wood helped Hampshire regain control and seal a second win from three T20 matches.
Having beaten Surrey and lost to Essex in their first two games of the campaign, Glamorgan had made an encouraging start to this encounter at the Swalec Stadium.
South Africa fast bowler Parnell had missed both those fixtures through injury, but marked his first appearance for Glamorgan with a wicket in each of his first two overs.
Hampshire captain James Vince and Jimmy Adams were his victims, caught at slip and third man respectively.
Wickets continued to tumble as Parnell was replaced by Wagg, who claimed the prized wicket of England international Michael Carberry - caught behind by wicketkeeper Mark Wallace - before he had another former England star, Owais Shah, caught superbly by Colin Ingram at mid-wicket.
Zimbabwean Ervine led Hampshire's revival as his abrasive 35-ball innings off 49 balls helped the visitors recover from 39-4 to 115-5, before he was trapped lbw by Wagg.
Will Smith's swift 30 gave Hampshire late momentum as they ended on 148-8, and he was also prominent with the ball as he bowled Ben Wright with the second delivery of Glamorgan's innings.
It was a disastrous start to the hosts' reply, with Chris Cooke and Ingram both chopping the ball on to their own stumps off the bowling of Wood to leave the Welsh county reeling on 13-3 in the fourth over.
That brought Rudolph and Wallace together at the crease and their patient partnership of 69 guided Glamorgan to 82-4.
But when Rudolph and Craig Meschede were dismissed either side of a rain delay the wind was taken out of Glamorgan's sails.
Wood took two wickets in successive deliveries - leaving himself on a hat-trick when he next plays - as Glamorgan limped to 127-8 at the end of their 20 overs.
Glamorgan squad: Jacques Rudolph (capt), Will Bragg, Chris Cooke, Dean Cosker, Michael Hogan, Colin Ingram, Craig Meschede, Wayne Parnell, Andrew Salter, Ruaidhri Smith, Graham Wagg, Mark Wallace, Ben Wright.
Hampshire squad: Will Smith, Owais Shah, Jimmy Adams, Sean Ervine, Liam Dawson, Gareth Berg, James Vince (capt), Michael Carberry, Danny Briggs, Chris Wood, Adam Wheater, Fidel Edwards, Yasir Arafat. | Hampshire inflicted a second successive T20 Blast defeat on Glamorgan as they claimed a 21-run win in Cardiff. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32936824"} | 629 | 31 | 0.50348 | 1.413958 | 0.173071 | 1.047619 | 24.095238 | 0.761905 |
St Mary's Church in Barby, Northamptonshire, was packed with those paying tribute to Mr Lomax, who died earlier this month at the age of 67.
He was a founding member of the NTST and a pioneer of supporters' involvement with their football clubs.
The Cobblers Trust was the first of its kind when it was formed and became a template for many other clubs.
Andy Burnham, a Labour MP and former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, was a pall bearer.
He said: "I wouldn't be anywhere else, because Brian had a very big impact on my life.
"He was a true father figure to many of us and that's why we had such a huge turn out here today.
"He changed our lives when we were young men, radical men, who wanted football to change for the better and Brian Lomax offered us a vision for how that could be done."
Mr Lomax was the first managing director of Supporters Direct and stepped down as its chairman in 2009.
He also served as a Liberal Democrat councillor on Daventry District Council. | Hundreds of mourners have turned out for the funeral of Northampton Town Supporters' Trust founder Brian Lomax. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34882994"} | 244 | 26 | 0.615514 | 1.503276 | 0.492457 | 0.894737 | 11.526316 | 0.578947 |
Dr Don Hull, a consultant haematologist at Craigavon Area Hospital, said people living with cancer in Northern Ireland should be given the same treatment as patients in England.
There are 38 cancer drugs available to patients elsewhere in the UK that are not readily available to terminally-ill people in Northern Ireland.
Dr Hull has called for "equal access".
He said: "I think local patients deserve equal access to the funding that is being made available to cancer patients in England.
"I would urge the new minister to take counsel and discuss widely with me and colleagues in my profession."
In February, the then-Health Minister Jim Wells proposed the reintroduction of prescription charges to pay for a new specialist drugs fund.
A consultation by the Department of Health (DoH) on how to implement the fund including the possibility of introducing prescription charges to pay for it closed earlier this month.
Cancer charities have said they are awaiting the outcome.
Dr Hull also said that while the number of cancer patients is increasing, so too are advancements in the drugs that can help cure or sustain patients' lives.
He added that while the drugs are not a magic bullet, in some cases they can target the tumour so effectively that all cancer cells are killed.
"I know patients who could avail of these drugs and these drugs are known to be effective," he said.
"They are expensive, but some cancer patients in England and Scotland are accessing them.
"There are many advancements in cancer drugs and there is also a better understanding than ever before of the illness, so we are actually refining our cancer treatments to target particular mutations and abnormalities of the cancer cells that isn't present in normal cells.
"It is good that we can be more specific in our treatment."
Dr Hull was speaking to the BBC against a backdrop of new entertainment stations that have recently been installed in the Macmillan cancer unit at Craigavon Area Hospital.
The Southern Health Trust has spent £200,000 on the bedside entertainment scheme, which provides touch screen systems providing access to TV, radio and internet for patients to use during treatments like chemotherapy or blood transfusions.
Staff can also log onto these terminals to access patient records.
For patients like Audrey Fenton, the new screens help pass the time as she receives her chemotherapy three times a week, with each session lasting six hours.
It is gruelling for the former nurse, who refers to chemotherapy as her friend.
"Oh it's definitely a friend because it is part and parcel of getting me well again. I lean on it to help get me through this time," she said.
Audrey is 57 and was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma eight months ago.
She said: "The first thing that goes through your mind on receiving the diagnosis is how long have I got. No matter what your faith is, your lifestyle - no-one wants to leave their loved ones."
Audrey has no issue with her cancer drugs, but recognises that it is the expertise of her doctors and the advancement of medicine that is keeping her alive.
"There has been a moderate response to the treatment. At the moment the prognosis might be five to seven years, but if the treatment keeps working maybe longer," she said.
"I feel the best I have felt in a long time. I'm staying positive."
She added: "I feel I am living with cancer, I am not dying from cancer. I am living with it and the chemotherapy is all part of it. I will take what they give me to get me well."
With a hearty laugh, Audrey told me that of course she is very scared.
"You couldn't possibly be told you've got a cancer that can't be cured and not be scared," she said.
"I try to look on this time as me time. I have had a busy life and now it's time for me to take time out to get well.
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Eastwood was the only animal left after a charity found new homes for 1,571 cats and dogs in just one day.
Eastwood had been poorly when he was younger and the charity thought this may have put people off.
But thankfully the story has a happy ending.
The Bissell Pet Foundation had a free adoption day at 69 shelters in the American state of Michigan, which meant loads of people came to look for new pets.
A thousand animals got new homes in the build up to the big day too.
Lots of people heard about Eastwood being left on his own and tried to find him a new home.
One family who heard about Eastwood was the Van Gundy family.
Steve, the dad of the family, is coach of the Detroit Pistons, a very famous basketball team in the United States.
They had meant to go to the adoption event but missed out.
When they heard Eastwood was still waiting to find a new home they said the knew he was the dog for them.
The family say they are looking forward to taking Eastwood swimming in the lake by their house. | A one-year-old Labrador finally has a new home after seeing thousands of his animal friends get new owners. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39809496"} | 232 | 27 | 0.492497 | 1.13448 | -0.004166 | 0.695652 | 9.478261 | 0.521739 |
The Hatters also reached the last 16 of a cup competition in 2014-15. Not the FA Cup this time, but the Cheshire Senior Cup and a tie at Alsager Town. The attendance? 141.
The difference between the two fixtures - just 14 years apart - could not be more marked.
It underlines just how far Stockport, who enter the FA Cup this weekend alongside the likes of Dunkirk, Deeping Rangers, Larkhall Athletic and Sporting Khalsa, have fallen.
None of the other 159 clubs playing in the FA Cup this weekend can boast a continuous membership of the Football League that lasted more than a century, from 1905 to 2011.
And none have a team named after them in China either.
Stockport Tiger Star were a second division club based in Shenyang, 155 miles from the North Korean border, who changed their name after a visit from the English side in 2004.
Remarkable as it sounds, County drew a crowd of 22,000 - comparable to matches involving Manchester United and Barcelona elsewhere in China around the same time - to a friendly against Tiger Star.
The club made two such trips, thanks to contacts of then commercial director Steve Bellis, currently the director of a grassroots football organisation based in the north west who has just returned to Stockport in an advisory capacity.
Instead of heading to the sprawling mass of Beijing or Shanghai, where Europe's biggest names now tour so regularly, they went to Shenyang and Urumqi, among the stops on Chancellor George Osborne's current trade mission, in the east.
"They were different places - and things didn't always go to plan," said director Jon Keighren.
"On the 2001 trip I remember laughing at Andy Welsh, who was a teenager at the time, and Mike Flynn, who brought Mars Bars and Pot Noodles with them.
"When we went to the welcoming banquet and were given sea slugs and pigeon heads to eat, suddenly they were everyone's best friends."
While Stockport Tiger Star no longer exist, there remains an affection for Stockport among football fans in the region.
Visitors are still welcomed to Edgeley Park and there are loose plans to go back, although the stark reality of County's part-time status is an obvious hindrance, one of the clear differences between then and now.
Stockport and Manchester City met six times in the league from 1997 to 2003. Stockport won three and lost one.
In 1999 they were in a higher division than their illustrious neighbours.
That's 1999. Sixteen years. Not that long ago.
Tony Blair was Prime Minister, the euro was launched and Manchester United won the Treble.
The years have been kind to City. Not so Stockport.
"When I was a kid, I got most of my geographical knowledge through County and the teams they were playing," said Bellis. "Not for one second did I think I would be discovering new places like Brackley and Braintree."
Stockport's fall has been dramatic.
Administration in 2009. Relegated to League Two in 2010. Into the Conference a year after that.
In 2013, they dropped into the Conference North with a hefty thud.
Instead of Manchester City, Stockport's local derby now is a meeting with Curzon Ashton, five miles from Manchester City's Etihad Stadium in distance, a million in glamour and prestige.
"I don't like to look back," said Bellis. "We have to deal with the reality of where we find ourselves.
"But sometimes little things shake you. Seeing the Colwyn Bay directors celebrate beating County at Edgeley Park is what sticks with me.
"I didn't begrudge them it - not one little bit. But you just think 'how has this happened?'."
Last season's visit by Chorley drew a season high of 3,401, modest at best by Football League standards but 650 more than any other side in the league managed.
The return of Bellis's marketing nous and the steady hand of Keighren and his fellow directors have brought stability to a club that was hurtling towards oblivion. A five-year plan is in place to return County to the Football League by 2020.
And the approach - as it has had to - has changed dramatically.
"Growing up as a Stockport fan was never easy," said Keighren, a lifelong fan who became a director in 2013.
"So many kids in the area drifted off to watch United and City. To me, you were either one of them or one of us.
"I don't think like that any more. Nowadays, you might see shirts of other clubs at Edgeley Park. We have to embrace that and try to give children and the wider community an experience they wouldn't have at United or City, purely because they can get closer to the players than is practical at those big clubs.
"For all that has happened over the last few years, going into administration in 2009 had the biggest impact because we owed money to businesses in the community and it damaged them.
"They are the relationships we are now trying to repair."
A step in the right direction would be victory in the FA Cup second qualifying round on Saturday. A win would bring a reward of £4,500.
But while Stockport's name stands out as the grandest of the 160 clubs involved, their progression is far from guaranteed. They face a tricky tie against fellow National League North side AFC Fylde, who are above them in the table.
The trip to Kellamergh Park, with its 533 covered seats and a capacity of just over 3,000, will seem a long way from White Hart Lane or a game against Manchester City. | In 2001, then-Championship club Stockport County reached the fifth round of the FA Cup, facing Tottenham at White Hart Lane in front of a crowd of 36,040. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34344244"} | 1,264 | 41 | 0.303051 | 0.909626 | -0.234498 | 1.3125 | 34.96875 | 0.8125 |
With delicate features and an unkempt beard, Maxime Hauchard, 22, helped to carry out executions in the arid Syrian landscape.
He was once, according to his uncle, a calm and happy little boy. "He was never even naughty as a child," Pascal Hauchard said.
But this week, Maxime became the latest name in the roll-call of Western recruits fighting alongside Islamic State.
He had already given a Skype interview to French television, describing life in Syria and his desire to become a martyr.
It's an odd kind of celebrity for a French boy from rural Normandy who, according to local reports, converted to Islam at the age of 17.
But converts appear to make up a striking number of the French citizens attracted to the militants' cause, and generate a huge amount of interest back home, as shown by the case of the British militant nicknamed "Jihadi John".
The second Frenchman has been named by prosecutors as Mickael Dos Santos, 22, from a small town just south-east of Paris.
"They do it on purpose, of course they do," says Professor Jean-Pierre Filiu, from the School of International Affairs at Sciences-Po.
"Western recruits have no military value [to militant groups] at the moment; they have no training or expertise. Their value is in propaganda and recruitment. Militant leaders want to use European Muslims as hostages for their own propaganda, to generate fear of a fifth column back home. And it's working."
Responding to the latest video, President Francois Hollande said that more must be done to warn French families of the dangers of militant recruitment campaigns, which he said could touch people from every background, including converts.
Converts do appear to make up a substantial portion of those attracted to IS from France.
One recent survey by the French Institute, CPDSI, found that 90% of those who adopted radical Islamic beliefs had French grandparents, and that 80% came from atheist families.
Over half of all phone calls to a government helpline, set up to combat jihadist recruitment, concerned teenagers without any Muslim or Arab background. Those figures may not be representative of all French recruits in Syria, but they give some context to stories like Hauchard's.
Pierre N'Gahane, who is a member of a government de-radicalisation team working on the issue, says the profiles of those attracted to IS ideology are hugely varied.
"You have the young girl who got high grades at school, and went to dance lessons, who in the course of a single day rejected her friends, and changed her dress and diet," he explained.
"Or the serial delinquent, always in trouble with the law, who dropped out of the army. Or the young student who was already isolated, and tips into radicalism during one moment of fragility."
Prof Filiu believes that the reason these young people have such hugely diverse profiles is partly a reflection of the tactics used by IS.
"Any recruits that arrive are brutalised in a kind of initiation ceremony," he told the BBC, "and then they are forced to recruit four or five of their buddies through Facebook. That's why you have profiles that are so unpredictable, and why converts bring in more converts."
But, he says, it's also precisely because most of them don't come from a Muslim religious culture and aren't looking for religion at all.
Instead they are isolated teenagers, "fast-tracked" into an extreme ideology, "a cult", whose appeal is very different to the piety and purity promised by organised religion, Mr Filiu adds.
"If you look at the images sent home," he told me, " it's all pizza and guns and sunsets over the Euphrates. It's an offer to join 'the winners'. Anybody who wants to become famous knows that if he goes and kills a hostage, he'll become a star, and be splashed across the front page of the newspaper back home."
Pierre N'Gahane agrees. "Converts to radical Islam are very different to those converting to Islam," he says.
"They don't go through the mosque. They're fragile people who are drawn to a sectarian version of Islam, and really any other kind of sect would have done just as well. The attraction is a narrative that gives them an identity as victims of Western society, and as somehow special and chosen by God."
That has clear implications for how the government here should be tackling the problem.
Imams and mosques have little influence on recruitment drives which happen almost entirely on Facebook or via other internet sites. And there are few easy ways to tackle a network with such intimate connections and such disparate appeal.
Some have blamed France's social inequality or lack of integration, but surveys have suggested that many converts are from well-integrated, middle-class families.
But with more than 1,000 French citizens now either fighting with groups like IS, en route to join them, planning to do so, or returning to France, the government is under pressure to curb the flow of recruits.
It has launched several programmes designed to target those at risk. One of the most recent, says Mr N'Gahane, focuses on offering psychological support to those wanting to leave France to join the group.
The police now also have the power to confiscate the passports of anyone believed to be about to flee.
Prof Filiu says societies may always harbour a radical fringe, ripe for cults to tap into.
What makes this recruitment drive so effective, he believes, is the way it harnesses the internet for a simple but effective propaganda campaign. The only way to counter it, he says, is to ignore the European faces in its execution videos, and its use of Islamic symbols, and focus on the victims.
But so far, he says, "they're winning. And we're just following each red herring they throw at us". | Two Frenchmen that have been spotted in Islamic State's latest execution video are reported to be recent converts to Islam, sparking fresh debate in France about what's driving the appeal of Islamic State, and how to tackle it. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30119868"} | 1,333 | 50 | 0.444077 | 1.217304 | 0.587765 | 1.139535 | 27.72093 | 0.813953 |
Three club patrons have resigned since BBC Sport revealed on Tuesday that Evans, 25, would train with his former club after serving a prison sentence.
But United manager Nigel Clough said it had "nowhere near been decided" whether or not to re-sign Evans.
Shirt sponsor DBL Logistics said it "strongly condemns rape and violence".
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A company statement read: "DBL Logistics would end its back-of-shirt sponsorship with Sheffield United if the club employed a convicted rapist.
"However, whilst the current situation remains and Ched Evans is not contracted to Sheffield United, DBL Logistics will continue its business to business relationship with the club."
John Holland Sales, which sponsors the front of players' shirts, said it will "re-evaluate" its position if Evans rejoins the Blades.
Clough, whose side were beaten 1-0 by Walsall in the Football League Trophy on Wednesday, told BBC Radio Sheffield: "How you can sign a player that has not played football for two years and seven months? I don't think anyone is in a position to do that.
"Believe it or not, it isn't the top of our priorities. We have four games in 10 days.
"Those games will determine if we stay in two cup competitions and whether we get back in the top six in the league. Those are our priorities."
Campaign groups have criticised the decision to allow Wales international Evans to train with the club.
TV presenter Charlie Webster said on Tuesday that she was standing down as a patron, saying the club failed to acknowledged the "extremity" of Evans's crime.
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Two more patrons - 1960s pop star Dave Berry and school food and health adviser Lindsay Graham - stood down on Wednesday.
Berry told the BBC he "needed to make a moral stand", while Graham said she was standing down for "personal" reasons.
Sheffield Central MP Paul Blomfield wrote an open letter to Sheffield United co-chairmen Kevin McCabe and Jim Phipps urging the club to reconsider the decision to allow Evans to train with the squad.
Evans, who maintains his innocence, has scored 59 goals in 167 appearances during spells with Manchester City, Norwich City and Sheffield United.
He was sentenced to five years in April 2012 for raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in May 2011, having been found guilty by a jury at Caernarfon Crown Court. At his trial, he admitted having sex with the woman but denied rape.
Evans was released from prison in October after serving half of his sentence. He has not offered any apology to his victim.
He has declined any request to be interviewed by the BBC, but released a video statement on his personal website in which he said he wanted to play again.
An inquiry into his conviction will be fast-tracked by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body which examines potential miscarriages of justice.
Almost 157,000 people have signed a petition urging United not to take the player back after the club chose not to renew his contract following his conviction. His deal expired during his sentence.
The Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) asked United to allow Evans to train at the club in an attempt to regain fitness.
PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor said: "As a trade union, it is our role to offer help and guidance to all our members, whether dealing with success or the utmost difficulties.
"We have some current and former players who are in prison or have served time in prison.
"It is a fundamental part of the justice system in this country and society in general that a person serves the punishment which the court determines is appropriate and, providing that has been done, an individual is entitled to be released to continue with his or her life." | One of Sheffield United's sponsors has said it will end its association with the club if they re-sign convicted rapist Ched Evans. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30023525"} | 852 | 34 | 0.503718 | 1.425925 | 0.148769 | 1.923077 | 29.5 | 0.923077 |
The 28-year-old, who is undefeated since April 2013, won with a day and two races to spare.
Scott is now one of six sailors to win three Finn world titles, along with fellow Briton Sir Ben Ainslie.
"I have been really pleased with my year and the way I've been sailing," said Scott, who also won in 2014.
"The last couple of months have been tricky to manage because we've been testing these new boats that have just come out, so to be able to come here and show good form and win with a couple of races to go is great.
"I've sailed a good, consistent week and it's come good early, which is great."
Weymouth-based Scott came into the penultimate day of racing on the Hauraki Gulf with an imposing 52-point lead, and claimed the top-18 finish he needed to secure overall victory by coming second in the first of the day's two races.
He was also runner-up in the day's second race, giving him an overwhelming 54-point lead over France's Olympic bronze medallist Jonathan Lobert going into the final day of competition.
"I was trying to stay risk-free where possible and fortunately the racing panned out in a manner that rewarded that," added Scott, who has already secured his place on Team GB for next year's Rio Olympics.
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The Scottish Ambulance Service is to trial a new system aimed at prioritising life-threatening calls such as car crashes and cardiac arrest.
It said the proportion of calls requiring the fastest response time of eight minutes would fall by 74%.
Other calls would be prioritised by clinical need, with no time target.
The new model has three levels of response:
The first category includes serious road accidents, patients who are unconscious and not breathing, and pregnant or very young patients.
The second category includes people with chest pains, breathing problems or stroke symptoms.
The service said a year-long review of clinical data found 103,708 calls were classed as needing an eight-minute response but this was later found unnnecessary.
In response to a Liberal Democrat Freedom of Information request, the ambulance service said: "In terms of 999 calls, the proportion of calls categorised as requiring an eight-minute response will change from 30.6% of the total volume to approximately 8% of the total volume."
Liberal Democrat MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton said: "These new figures reveal that the number of calls requiring an eight-minute response is set to be cut by almost three-quarters as the service prioritises those calls which are the most urgent.
"In August, Scottish Liberal Democrats highlighted the pressure our ambulance service was under when we uncovered that over 4,000 of the most urgent call-outs took longer than 20 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.
"If this system can avoid this happening and ensure crews get to those suffering cardiac arrests or caught in car crashes even quicker, then it is worth piloting."
Scottish Ambulance Service chief executive Pauline Howie said the new system would save more lives and improve the quality of care for patients.
He said: "The model is based on the most extensive, clinically-evidenced review of its kind ever undertaken in the UK, involving almost 500,000 patient cases.
"This review will help us send patients the right response based on their health needs.
"We will be able to respond faster to more patients with time-critical, immediately life-threatening conditions, such as cardiac arrest. These are patients who may only have minutes to live without intervention.
"In other situations, we will safely and more effectively send more patients the response they need first time, improving clinical outcomes. Many patients whose lives are not in immediate danger will still receive a response within eight minutes even though this is not clinically required."
Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood said: "I am persuaded by the extensive clinical evidence that has been put forward and know that patient safety is at the heart of these changes.
"We are keeping these changes under close review over the next 12 months to ensure that we are seeing the improvements to patient safety and patient outcomes that are expected." | A new ambulance response system is expected to reduce the proportion of calls requiring the fastest call-out by almost three-quarters. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38037900"} | 604 | 28 | 0.50581 | 1.276068 | 0.344668 | 3.56 | 22.28 | 0.92 |
The Sentinel-1a spacecraft has been put in orbit on a mission to map the planet's surface using radar.
It will be followed by a fleet of other satellites - also called Sentinels - over the next five years.
Brussels is describing its Copernicus programme as the biggest ever effort to characterise our world.
When the full satellite system is operational, it will be producing daily some eight terabytes of data to detail the state of Earth's land surface, its oceans and its atmosphere.
European nations have so far committed 7.5bn euros (£6.2bn; $10.3bn) to the project. But the vision for Copernicus is that it is unending - that every Sentinel satellite is replaced at the demise of its mission, ensuring there is continuity of information deep into this century.
"Once all the Sentinel satellites have been launched, the Copernicus programme will be the most efficient and fullest Earth-observation programme in the world," said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
"This investment will allow Europe to establish itself at the forefront of research and innovation in a cutting-edge sector - namely, space. Many skilled jobs have been created and many more are yet to come."
The Soyuz carrying the first radar observer lifted clear of the Sinnamary launch pad on the Guianese coast at 18:02 local time (21:02 GMT; 22:02 BST).
The ride to an altitude of 699km took 23 minutes. A signal confirming a clean separation for Sentinel-1a from the rocket was received shortly afterwards.
Controllers at the European Space Agency's (Esa) operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, must now commission the spacecraft.
The first hours will be spent sending commands to the satellite to get it to unpack its solar wings and the panels of its radar instrument.
These were all folded to fit inside the Soyuz. The task should be complete by early morning on Friday, European time.
Formal entry into service is expected in about three months' time, although it is likely that the platform will start imaging the Earth as early as next week to begin the process of instrument calibration.
Radar has myriad uses, from monitoring shipping lanes for pollution or icebergs, to mapping land surfaces to track deforestation or the performance of rice production.
However, a key use for Sentinel-1a will be in disaster response.
Copernicus uses a range of technologies to get a broad picture of the health status of the planet
Radar is especially good at detecting the extent of flood waters, and this type of image is also regularly employed following major earthquakes to assess the damage to infrastructure.
Sentinel-1a will test a new laser-based data-relay system that will be at the heart of the Copernicus system. The technology, developed by German engineers, will not only handle more data than traditional downlinks but speed the information's receipt on Earth.
"The laser terminal will reduce the access time to data from hours to minutes," explained Esa Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain.
"In the case of natural catastrophes, saving time will save lives."
Five further Sentinel-themed missions with different types of sensors should be in orbit by 2019.
The idea is that the satellites are flown as pairs so that the revisit periods to locations on the Earth to take the next swath of images are kept as short as possible.
Thus, a Sentinel-1b will be launched next year. Sentinels 1c and 1d will be sent up to take over observing duties when it looks like 1a and 1b might be about to fail.
In this way, Copernicus and its dedicated Sentinels will start to build continuous, cross-calibrated, long-term datasets.
These will be a boon to climate studies. But the EU hopes the data will prove to be a powerful tool also to help design and enforce community-wide polices, covering diverse areas such as fish stocks management, air quality regulation, and keeping track of waste disposal practices.
Copernicus is the EU's second major space project after the Galileo satellite-navigation system, which is also in the process of roll-out.
As with "Europe's GPS", Esa has been engaged as the procurement agent, designing the satellites' requirements and contracting with industry to produce them.
Sentinel-1a's construction has been led by Thales Alenia Space (Italy/France), with its C-band radar instrument and electronics coming from Airbus (Germany and UK).
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David Patrick Hughes, 19, struck three parked vehicles, knocked down a lamp post and damaged drain pipes outside five different High Road addresses.
The chase on 9 May ended when he crashed his Audi A3 into a garden wall.
Hughes, of Fell View Drive, Egremont, admitted 17 offences and was sentenced to nine months in jail suspended for two years at Carlisle Crown Court.
He must also complete 150 hours of unpaid work and was banned from driving for a year.
The police chase came five days after Hughes sped away from officers and damaged a taxi in the same town.
Judge Peter Davies said it was "two moments of madness". | An uninsured teenager driver damaged cars and houses during a police pursuit in Whitehaven, a court has heard. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36628959"} | 144 | 28 | 0.444152 | 1.056489 | -0.159833 | 0.45 | 6.5 | 0.45 |
Raich Alcock, 52, made his way from Accrington town centre to Arnold Street at about 03:30 BST on 6 September.
Lancashire Police said he collapsed when he got home after sustaining a serious head injury. Detectives believe this either happened on the way home or at his house.
He died in hospital 10 days later.
Police want to trace two men and a woman who walked the same route - from near Accrington town hall, across Eastgate and Friar Court, to Dowry Street.
Det Insp Tim McDermott said: "We are trying to establish exactly what happened to Mr Alcock, from making that journey home to being found collapsed at his home later that morning after sustaining a serious head injury which later proved fatal.
"We need anyone who may have seen him - the people described or knows anything that could help us with our investigation - to get in touch at their earliest opportunity."
Christopher Singleton, 37, from Derby Street, Accrington has appeared at Preston Crown Court charged with Mr Alcock's murder.
He has been remanded in custody to appear at the same court on 25 November for a plea and case management hearing.
A 44-year-old Accrington man, arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting murder, has been released without charge. | Detectives investigating a fatal attack on a Lancashire man are appealing for three people who walked the same route home as him to come forward. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37494298"} | 299 | 33 | 0.528694 | 1.236419 | -0.060954 | 1.5 | 9.576923 | 0.730769 |
The 63-year-old was airlifted to Glasgow's Southern General after the aircraft came down near the airstrip at Kingarth at about 15:45 on Saturday. He died on Sunday morning.
The other person on board, a 52-year-old man, was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital and remains in a critical condition.
The cause of the crash is being probed.
It is believed the plane came down about 1km from the airstrip, in the south of the island.
Police Scotland said it was working closely with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch. It has asked for any video or mobile phone footage which may help with the inquiry.
The 63-year-old's relatives have been informed of his death and a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal. | A man who was on board a light aircraft which crashed on the Isle of Bute has died in hospital. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "28731400"} | 171 | 24 | 0.581409 | 1.224257 | -0.982573 | 0.857143 | 7.333333 | 0.761905 |
The 24-year-old left-back was a free agent, having left the Seagulls earlier this summer following a three-year stint at the Amex Stadium.
Chicksen only made two appearances for Brighton last season, in between loan spells at Leyton Orient and Gillingham.
He becomes Charlton's 11th signing of the transfer window.
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In far from ideal conditions, the Olympic champion was only 10cm below his season's best, set in April.
"I've opened the season better than I've opened before," said Rutherford. "Touch wood it continues."
Dafne Schippers won the women's 100m and Kim Collins, 40, the men's, while Tiffany Porter won the 100m hurdles.
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World 200m champion Schippers took the women's 100m in 10.94 seconds on a chilly Friday night.
Britain's European champion Porter came home first in the women's 100m hurdles, clocking 12.89 secs despite a scrappy performance.
"The championships are the main focus. We're still in some heavy training so I'm pleased to come away with the win," said Porter, the world indoor 60m bronze medallist.
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Former Commonwealth champion Kim Collins won the men's 100m in 10.08 secs, pushing reigning 60m world indoor champion Trayvon Bromell into second, with Britons Chijindu Ujah and Richard Kilty third and fourth.
"When you step on the line age has nothing to do with it, you step on the line as men," said veteran St Kitts and Nevis sprinter Collins.
"My personal goal is to be the first over-40 under 10 seconds in the 100m and then retire."
Rutherford, returning from a three-month training block in Arizona to compete in Manchester, said adjusting to the British weather was "a bit of a shock".
"We're hopefully going to have a good run into the Olympics," he added.
"It's always at the back of your mind. Ultimately, you want to set yourself up for a good Olympic Games. Not many people have retained it and I've got a good as chance as any."
Elsewhere, Britain's Harry Aikines-Aryeetey won the men's 150m in 15.10 secs, compatriot Sebastian Rodger claimed victory in the men's 200m hurdles (22.66 secs) and America's Ryan Wilson won the men's 110m hurdles (13.62 secs).
In the women's pole vault, America's Katie Nageotte won with a 4.50m vault, while Germany's Laura Muller won the women's 200m in 23.11 secs. | Britain's Greg Rutherford continued his impressive start to the season with a Games record 8.20m to win the long jump at the Great CityGames in Manchester. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36347004"} | 555 | 37 | 0.382972 | 1.049483 | 0.340769 | 1 | 16.068966 | 0.655172 |
Ofcom chief executive Sharon White said in a speech in London on Wednesday night that "four operators is a competitive number".
The proposed £10.2bn ($15.6bn) deal would reduce the number of UK mobile networks from four to three.
She said mobile operators implied that the UK market was "too competitive".
Ms White also said they claimed that profit margins were too low.
O2 is owned by Spain's Telefonica, while Three is owned by Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa.
"Consolidation can in theory have benefits - improving economies of scale and making it easier to finance investment. However, Ofcom's experience is that competition, not consolidation, drives investment and delivers low prices," Ms White said.
Having four UK networks had delivered "good results for consumers and sustainable returns for companies", she added.
The Ofcom chief said a combined Three/O2 would have a market share of more than 40% and would remove the "competitive new entrant" in Three.
Her comments follow last week's warning by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that the merger threatened to "affect significantly competition" in both the retail and wholesale mobile markets.
The CMA has asked the European Commission for the right to investigate the deal, rather than the EC, as it said the deal mostly affected UK consumers.
It also argued there were "clear links" between this deal and BT's £12.5bn deal to buy EE.
The EC must decide by 30 October whether to allow the CMA to investigate.
Ms White said this was a crucial period for the telecoms market.
"The scale of change in the next 12 months and beyond could dwarf what we have seen over the last 10 years. If the current merger wave continues, there are risks to consumers and businesses who have enjoyed one of the most competitive markets of recent years," she said. | The UK telecoms watchdog has cast doubt on the merger of O2 and Three winning regulatory approval. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34471742"} | 418 | 22 | 0.524858 | 1.24256 | 0.121071 | 0.888889 | 20.666667 | 0.666667 |
Fr John McManus, from Portaferry, County Down, stepped aside in March 2011 during an investigation.
In June 2012, the Public Prosecution Service decided he had no case to answer.
Fr McManus told parishioners he was "delighted and privileged" to be joining them in celebrating Mass.
"The last time I celebrated Mass in this Church of Saint Patrick was on 9 March 2011, Ash Wednesday, when I informed you that I had requested administrative leave from ministry for the duration of the necessary inquiries.
"Since then, I have been very much at home living here among you.
"I wish to thank especially my family, my neighbours and friends of all faiths and none for their support and kindness shown to me during this time."
Police conducted an inquiry after a complaint was made to the Diocese of Down and Connor's child safeguarding office.
Fr McManus was a former press spokesperson for the diocese and a member of its committee that oversees the safeguarding of children.
He celebrated Mass in Portaferry on Saturday and Ballygalget on Sunday along with Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor.
Bishop Treanor said Fr McManus had co-operated fully with a "thorough investigation by the police and the Public Prosecution Service", as well as an inquiry within the Catholic Church.
He told churchgoers that the "canonical judicial inquiry concluded that there were not and are not any safeguarding issues that prevent his return to ministry".
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Jerry Yates tapped home Tom Adeyemi's cross on his debut to give the Millers an early lead.
Norwich were then reduced to 10 men on 18 minutes when forward Oliveira seemed to strike the face of Kirk Broadfoot.
Cameron Jerome's header gave the Canaries hope of a draw after the break, but Adeyemi nodded in against his former club to earn three points.
Rotherham, who have the worst defensive record in the division this season and are bottom of the Championship, took the lead in the seventh minute.
But the game came to a head after an unsavoury incident between Oliveria and Broadfoot.
Centre-half Broadfoot was initially fouled and whilst down on the floor, Oliveira appeared to hit the the Rotherham player in the face and was immediately dismissed by referee Geoff Eltringham.
It got even worse for Norwich when their influential midfielder Jonny Howson hobbled off injured. Despite pulling a goal back, Rotherham showed resilience to earn a vital win in their fight against relegation.
Norwich's ninth defeat in 13 Championship games means they fall to 11th in the table, eight points off the play-off places.
Rotherham caretaker manager Paul Warne:
"I didn't think many people would give us a chance and I thought that would be in our favour.
"Norwich came here today and I bet their staff did everything they could to say that it would be a difficult game, but I know how it works, they would have expected to beat the bottom of the league.
"We haven't got as good as players as Norwich have, that's a fact. We set them up to play ugly and it caused them problems.
"I still don't think a managerial career is for me but while the chairman has asked me to do it I will give it everything I have got."
Norwich manager Alex Neil:
"I have spoken to Jez Moxey (chief executive) and Delia Smith (owner) and the message is that it was a disappointing day and the decisions haven't helped us.
"We didn't start playing until the man was sent off. We got ourselves back into the game and then gave away a sloppy goal. The damage was done in the early part of the game.
"Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong, that happens when you're on a poor run."
Match ends, Rotherham United 2, Norwich City 1.
Second Half ends, Rotherham United 2, Norwich City 1.
Offside, Norwich City. Wes Hoolahan tries a through ball, but Timm Klose is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Timm Klose (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan.
Attempt blocked. Alex Pritchard (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kyle Lafferty.
Foul by Cameron Jerome (Norwich City).
Richard Wood (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lewis Price (Rotherham United) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Pritchard with a cross following a set piece situation.
Steven Naismith (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jerry Yates (Rotherham United).
Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Will Vaulks (Rotherham United).
Offside, Rotherham United. Darnell Fisher tries a through ball, but Anthony Forde is caught offside.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Anthony Forde.
Attempt blocked. Steven Whittaker (Norwich City) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan.
Steven Naismith (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jerry Yates (Rotherham United).
Attempt blocked. Steven Whittaker (Norwich City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Steven Naismith (Norwich City).
Tom Adeyemi (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Norwich City. Kyle Lafferty replaces Alexander Tettey.
Attempt missed. Darnell Fisher (Rotherham United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Anthony Forde.
Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Mattock (Rotherham United).
Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Richard Smallwood (Rotherham United).
Attempt blocked. Jon Taylor (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jerry Yates.
Attempt saved. Will Vaulks (Rotherham United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by John Ruddy.
Attempt saved. Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Darnell Fisher.
Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Will Vaulks (Rotherham United).
Substitution, Norwich City. Alex Pritchard replaces Jacob Murphy.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Jon Taylor replaces Joe Newell.
Attempt missed. Jerry Yates (Rotherham United) with an attempt from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Tom Adeyemi with a cross.
Offside, Norwich City. Wes Hoolahan tries a through ball, but Jacob Murphy is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Kirk Broadfoot (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Forde with a cross.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Russell Martin.
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It follows an alleged row with a security guard before a show near Byron Bay on 2 January.
According to a police statement the Brooklyn rapper, 19, was walking towards the stage at The Falls Music and Arts Festival when he was asked to prove his identity.
Badass allegedly punched the 20-year-old guard, breaking his nose, before going on stage to perform his set.
The rapper, whose real name is Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott, was later charged with assault causing bodily harm and spent the night in police custody, the statement added.
He could be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison if convicted.
Badass appeared in Lismore Local Court on 3 January and was released on unconditional bail, court official Melissa Everson said.
She added that the rapper would not be required to appear when the charge is next listed in Byron Bay Local Court on 19 March. He is free to fly back to the United States and will be represented in court by a lawyer.
Everson would not say whether the rapper had entered a plea at this stage.
Badass, who is the co-founder of the hip-hop collective Pro Era, is set to play four shows in Australia and New Zealand over the next week.
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Julie Bradford, 45, had baby Jack for daughter Jessica Jenkins, whose cancer treatment left her infertile.
Jessica, 21, from Rhymney, had her eggs frozen at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales before her treatment for cervical cancer began three years ago.
She said Jack, who was born last Friday weighing 6lb 10oz, was "perfect in every way".
"My mam is the most brave and amazing woman in the world. I love her so much for giving me my son," Jessica said.
"From a young age I longed to become a mother and our dream has come true."
Jessica and her husband Rees decided to pursue IVF earlier this year after she had been in remission since the summer of 2014.
She was diagnosed in 2013, aged 18, after doctors initially thought she was too young to have cervical cancer.
Jessica said: "They managed to take 21 eggs before I started chemo but only 10 survived and they were made into embryos and grown for two weeks then frozen.
"In May this year we had an embryo defrosted and implanted into my mother's womb for her to be the little oven helping our Jelly Bean grow."
Jessica and her mother want the age for routine smear tests for women in Wales to be lowered from 24.
Julie, from Rhymney, Caerphilly, said the last three years had been the "absolute worst" but she had the chance to "put things right".
She had felt useless while Jessica was "in agony" with cancer, she said.
"I've always known from a young age Jess has longed to become a mother just like I did. When cancer took the chance away for her to carry her own child we were all heartbroken.
"I decided that if I could be Jess' surrogate then I would have the control again.
It had been "an honour" to carry the couple's child, she added.
"We've spent a lot of time in hospitals and it has become normal to us. I'm just so happy that this last visit was for such a wonderful reason."
Canadian woman, 96, becomes a great-great-great grandmother
Caesarean births 'affecting human evolution' | A woman has given birth to her own grandchild by having a surrogate baby for her daughter. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38234003"} | 487 | 23 | 0.331771 | 0.882429 | -0.323004 | 0.944444 | 24.722222 | 0.722222 |
Thomas's birthday cake design beat off fierce competition from more than 2,000 school children across south Wales.
The first strike of the medal will be presented to the Queen to wish her a happy birthday.
The pupil attended the Llantrisant-based mint in to see how and where his medal was made.
As part of his prize, his class will join a schools workshop at The Royal Mint Experience, the organisation's visitor attraction.
The Royal Mint Museum's education manager, Lucy-Ann Pickering, said: "We would like to thank the primary school children of south Wales for their overwhelming response to this competition."
In 1967, the Royal Mint moved to Llantrisant in Rhondda Cynon Taff from London's Tower Hill where it makes billions of coins a year. | A seven-year-old from Cwmbran has designed both sides of the Queen's 90th birthday medal for the Royal Mint. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36746574"} | 173 | 31 | 0.596994 | 1.48553 | -0.363404 | 1 | 6.291667 | 0.666667 |
Gabon president Ali Bongo Ondimba, Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Caf president Issa Hayatou were all in attendance at the ceremony.
The Mascot sports Gabon's blue and yellow colours and Samba means hello and welcome in local Bantu language.
Gabon will be hosting the continental tournament for the second time.
They previously co-organised the competition with Equatorial Guinea in 2012.
'Sense of unity, equality and inclusion'
The black panther is a national symbol of Gabon and demonstrates the Central African nation's long term commitment to environmental protection, which includes creating a sanctuary for the some of the world's most fragile species.
President Ali Bongo Ondimba said: "I am thrilled today to see the Black Panthers play in this packed stadium where Gabonese from all walks of life are gathered to share their common passion for the game.
"Football, like no other sport, creates a sense of unity, equality and inclusion. All of these are at the heart of my vision for a changing Gabon.
"It is a pleasure to welcome the new president of Fifa, on his first trip to Africa, to see for himself the great welcome our country will give all participants and visitors to next year's tournament."
Infantino arrived on Friday in Franceville on the last leg of a three-day Africa trip that took him to South Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti.
The Group I match between Gabon and Sierra Leone ended 2-1 to the hosts but it was a friendly and points will not count towards qualification for the 2017 Nations Cup finals.
Gabon is currently constructing two stadiums in Port-Gentil and the northern town of Oyem for January's tournament, with the capacity of 20,000 and 20,500 respectively.
The Central African country will use four venues for the 16-team tournament, which will take place from 14 January to 5 February - these will be in Libreville, Franceville, Port Gentil and Oyem. | Gabon unveiled the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations mascot, a black panther named Samba, before their match with Sierra Leone in Franceville on Friday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35900924"} | 447 | 38 | 0.564988 | 1.421322 | -0.234073 | 1.333333 | 13.851852 | 0.888889 |
Colby resident John Donald Collister, 93, left his estate, valued at £1m, to the Manx nation following his death in 2007.
Director of MNH Edmund Southworth said: "This gift has the potential to make an enormous difference to heritage on the Isle of Man."
MNH first became aware it had been mentioned as a beneficiary in 2011.
Mr Southworth said it first heard the news in July when the administrator issued a claim in the High Court seeking the assistance of the court in the interpretation of Mr Collister's will.
He said: "In may ways he was an ordinary man but this is an extraordinary story."
Mr Collister, who worked as a painter, served in World War II with the Manx Regiment in Crete and north Africa and then returned to his trade in civilian life.
"History books are all about kings and queens and the ordinary man tends not to appear, but we now have an opportunity to change that, so that Mr Collister will be remembered for what he had done for this island," added Mr Southworth.
The Manx Museum and National Trust are now seeking views on how to best use the money.
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The 35-year-old, who also won silver in 1996, overtakes Dane Paul Elvstrom, who won four golds up to 1960.
Britain's Ainslie came ninth in a tense Finn medal race to edge long-time regatta leader Jonas Hogh-Christensen of Denmark into silver.
France's Jonathan Lobert won the medal race to grab bronze from the Netherlands' Pieter-Jan Postma.
Ainslie was handed a union jack and a flare after crossing the line and sailed past the huge, cheering crowds on the Weymouth shore.
"It's times like this you are supposed to come out with something clever but I can't think of anything," said Ainslie, who won silver and gold in the Laser class before switching to the heavyweight Finn dinghy to win further Olympic titles in Athens and Beijing.
"I am speechless. I am just so glad for everyone who has supported me over the last four years. It has been an amazing Olympics.
"After six races I was in a bit of trouble. Thankfully I turned things around and got it right when it counted.
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"It's been incredibly hard - there's a huge amount of pressure to perform at a home Games. It's been the hardest couple of weeks of my life but you just have to get on with the job.
"This was one of the hardest courses I have raced on and I don't want to do anything like that again."
Ainslie had trailed Hogh-Christensen all week and had not beaten the Dane until the seventh race of the regatta. He narrowed the gap to just two points on the final day of fleet racing and went into the medal race needing to finish ahead of Hogh-Christensen, and in the top six if Postma won.
Most observers expected an aggressive match-race between Ainslie and Hogh-Christensen and the Briton tracking his rival around the committee boat in the pre-start manoeuvring. Ainslie got a slow start before sailing off to the right side of the course, which he had identified as being where there was most wind.
He went around the first mark in fifth, with Postma behind him and the Dane in ninth. Ainslie climbed to second at the first downwind mark but then slipped back to join Hogh-Christensen at the back of the fleet.
1 Ainslie 46pts
2 Hogh-Christensen 46pts
3Lobert 49pts
4 Postma 52pts
5 Kljakovic Gaspic 55pts
But the Briton was perilously close to losing gold with Postma in third and attacking New Zealand for second. Postma, though, hit Kiwi Dan Slater's boat on the final upwind leg and had to take a penalty turn which dropped him to fifth at the finish.
Ainslie and Hogh-Christensen came home ninth and 10th and the Briton's coronation was confirmed.
"You can never say never but I don't think I can sail one of these again, it's killing my body," said Ainslie. "I don't think you will see me in Rio [for the 2016 Olympics]. But it's the best way to bow out at a home Olympics.
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The visitors - without their 2016-17 top scorer Chris Wood, who is close to joining Burnley - were clinical on Wearside and deserved their victory.
Samuel Saiz's crisp low finish across goal gave them a 1-0 half-time lead.
Stuart Dallas headed in Saiz's second-half cross to secure the Whites' second league win from their first four games.
Sunderland, who had begun the day level on points with Leeds with five from a possible nine, lacked cutting edge in the final third.
The hosts' best chance came in the first half, as Lewis Grabban's effort was headed off the line and up on to the crossbar by Liam Cooper.
Leeds' victory was their second from two away games this term and came after consecutive goalless draws at home.
Christiansen's side are one of only three teams in the Championship still yet to be defeated, after four games, together with early leaders Cardiff and Ipswich.
Sunderland manager Simon Grayson told BBC Newcastle: "For 20 minutes we were dominant. We asked a lot of questions of them.
"I don't think (Liam) Cooper knew too much about it when it hit him on the head and hit the bar - 70 seconds later it's in the back of our next. Those are the fine margins in a football match.
"From then onwards, I don't think you can fault the players' effort or commitment, but it was just that final ball that really matters, when you're trying to get back in to a game."
Leeds head coach Thomas Christiansen told BBC Radio Leeds: "I don't know if it's the best performance (in my time here so far) but it comes in the best moment, especially when the team needed it.
"We had the circumstances: Barcelona for me, personally, but also for the team, that Chris Wood will leave the team.
"There is no one above Leeds. Everyone worked for the same goal. Today was proof again that we are not winning games because of the individual player, but as the team."
Match ends, Sunderland 0, Leeds United 2.
Second Half ends, Sunderland 0, Leeds United 2.
Foul by Joel Asoro (Sunderland).
Vurnon Anita (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Joel Asoro (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by George Honeyman.
Offside, Sunderland. Jason Steele tries a through ball, but Aiden McGeady is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Billy Jones (Sunderland) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Aiden McGeady with a cross.
Attempt missed. Tyias Browning (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by George Honeyman.
Attempt blocked. Aiden McGeady (Sunderland) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by George Honeyman.
George Honeyman (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mateusz Klich (Leeds United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ezgjan Alioski (Leeds United) because of an injury.
Didier Ndong (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Didier Ndong (Sunderland).
Ezgjan Alioski (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Pontus Jansson.
Substitution, Leeds United. Mateusz Klich replaces Samuel Sáiz.
Aiden McGeady (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United).
George Honeyman (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United).
Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Grabban (Sunderland).
Goal! Sunderland 0, Leeds United 2. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Samuel Sáiz with a cross following a fast break.
Foul by Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United).
Didier Ndong (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Sunderland. Joel Asoro replaces Lee Cattermole.
Attempt saved. Ezgjan Alioski (Leeds United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Samuel Sáiz.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Kalvin Phillips.
Attempt blocked. Billy Jones (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by George Honeyman.
Foul by Samuel Sáiz (Leeds United).
Lee Cattermole (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Ezgjan Alioski (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Lamine Koné (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Lamine Koné (Sunderland).
Felix Wiedwald (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Sunderland. George Honeyman tries a through ball, but Aiden McGeady is caught offside.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Pontus Jansson.
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In some parts of the globe, the ground is going down 10 times faster than the water is rising, with the causes very often being driven by human activity.
Decades of ground water extraction saw Tokyo descend two metres before the practice was stopped.
Speaking at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, researchers said other cities must follow suit.
Gilles Erkens from the Deltares Research Institute, in Utrecht, in the Netherlands, said parts of Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok and numerous other coastal urban settlements would sink below sea level unless action was taken.
His group's assessment of those cities found them to be in various stages of dealing with their problems, but also identified best practice that could be shared.
"Land subsidence and sea level rise are both happening, and they are both contributing to the same problem - larger and longer floods, and bigger inundation depth of floods," Dr Erkens told BBC News.
"The most rigorous solution and the best one is to stop pumping groundwater for drinking water, but then of course you need a new source of drinking water for these cities. But Tokyo did that and subsidence more or less stopped, and in Venice, too, they have done that."
The famous City of Water in north-east Italy experienced major subsidence in the last century due to the constant extraction of water from below ground.
When that was halted, subsequent studies in the 2000s suggested the major decline had been arrested.
Pietro Teatini's research indicates that significant instances of descent were now restricted to particular locations, and practices: "When some people restore their buildings, for example, they load them, and they can go down significantly by up to 5mm in a year." How far they descended would depend on the type and compaction of soils underneath those buildings, the University of Padova researcher added.
Like all cities, Venice has to deal with natural subsidence as well.
Large-scale geological processes are pushing the ground on which the city sits down and under Italy's Apennine Mountains. This of itself probably accounts for a subsidence of about 1mm each year. But on the whole, human-driven change has a greater magnitude than natural subsidence.
Scientists now have a very powerful tool to assess these issues. It is called Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar. By overlaying repeat satellite images of a specific location, it is possible to discern millimetric deformation of the ground.
Archives of this imagery extend back into the 1990s, allowing long time-series of change to be assessed.
The European Space Agency has just launched the Sentinel-1a radar satellite, which is expected to be a boon to this type of study.
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Health watchdog Monitor has appointed an "improvement director" to work with Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
It comes after an inquiry was ordered in the wake of Connor Sparrowhawk's death while in Southern Health's care.
An emergency board meeting was held on Monday after the inquiry showed the trust failed to investigate his and other deaths.
The trust has apologised for failings and said systems have improved.
Monitor said the trust would now receive "expert support to improve the way it investigates and reports deaths" of people with learning disabilities.
Mazars, an audit firm, published a report on Southern Health in December which said the deaths of mental health and learning-disability patients were not properly examined between April 2011 and March 2015.
It blamed a "failure of leadership" at the foundation trust.
The report was ordered in 2013 after Connor, 18, drowned in a bath following an epileptic seizure while a patient in a Southern Health hospital in Oxford.
An independent inquiry said his death had been preventable, and an inquest jury found neglect by the trust had contributed to his death.
Monitor said when investigating, the trust also failed to engage properly with families.
The foundation trust covers Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and provides mental health services to about 45,000 people.
Monitor has taken regulatory action and the trust has agreed to implement changes.
Katrina Percy, chief executive of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We have agreed with Monitor that we will take a number of steps to show how we are improving.
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Dywedodd David Davis mai sicrhau nad yw unrhyw ran o'r DU ar ei cholled yw bwriad trafodaethau Brexit.
Roedd Mr Davis yn siarad yn Nhŷ'r Cyffredin wrth i'r llywodraeth gyhoeddi papur gwyn ar Brexit, fydd yn amlinellu'r strategaeth wrth adael yr UE.
Gofynnodd AS Ceidwadol Sir Drefaldwyn, Glyn Davies, os allai'r ysgrifennydd gadarnhau y byddai Cymru'n rhan o bob trafodaeth o hyn ymlaen.
Dywedodd Mr Davis: "Rydyn ni wedi cael nifer o gyfarfodydd o'r cyd-bwyllgor gweinidogion, dau dan arweiniad y prif weinidog, a thri dan fy arweiniad i.
"Rydyn ni wedi bod i Gymru i weld Llywodraeth Cymru a thrafod rhai o'r materion yma."
Dywedodd y byddai un o weinidogion adran Brexit, David Jones, yn cyfarfod gyda'r pwyllgor materion Cymreig yn fuan, gan ychwanegu: "Rydyn ni'n ystyried buddiannau Cymru o ddifrif a byddwn yn gweithredu'r trafodaethau yma fel nad oes unrhyw ran o'r DU yn methu allan. Dyna'r bwriad."
Gofynnodd AS Llafur, Madeleine Moon i Mr Davis sicrhau y byddai mynediad heb dariffau i farchnadoedd Ewrop i weithwyr mewn ffatrïoedd ceir a dur yn ne Cymru.
Atebodd: "Mae pob rheswm i ddisgwyl y gallwn ni lwyddo yn yr hyn yr ydyn ni'n bwriadu ei wneud sef amddiffyn swyddi ei hetholwyr."
Wrth ymateb i'r papur gwyn, dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Llywodraeth Cymru: "Roedd y Prif Weinidog a'r Ysgrifennydd Gwladol dros Brexit gyda ni yng Nghaerdydd ddydd Llun i drafod llawer o'r materion hyn, ac felly mae'n hynod siomedig nad oedd Llywodraeth y DU wedi rhannu'r ddogfen gyda ni cyn ei chyhoeddi.
"Bydd angen mwy o amser i asesu'r papur gwyn yn fwy gofalus cyn ymrwymo'n llawn. Ond fe fyddwn yn dweud ein bod yn croesawu'r ffaith fod Llywodraeth y DU wedi dechrau adlewyrchu ar rai o'r negeseuon yn ein papur gwyn ein hunain, Sicrhau Dyfodol Cymru.
"Mae'n drawiadol fod y pwyslais, hanner ffordd drwy'r ddogfen, yn symud i ymateb i'r materion economaidd fydd yn wynebu'r DU yn dilyn Brexit. Mae hyn yn gyferbyniad trawiadol i'n papur gwyn ein hunain ac mae'n cryfhau ein safbwynt mai blaenoriaeth fwyaf y DU yw sicrhau mynediad llawn a dilyffethair i'r Farchnad Sengl.
"Rydym yn croesawu'n ofalus y sicrwydd na fydd Llywodraeth y DU yn 'cipio tir' o ran grymoedd sydd wedi eu datganoli, ond rydym yn credu fod y ddogfen yn adlewyrchu diffyg dealltwriaeth o sail gyfreithiol a chyfansoddiadol y setliad datganoli. Ac rydym yn parhau i aros i gael ein darbwyllo fod y neges am ddatganoli'n gyntaf yn cyrraedd pawb yn San Steffan.
"Ar wariant a grymoedd fe fyddwn yn chwilio am sicrwydd mwy eglur yng nghyfarfod nesaf y cydbwyllgor gweinidogion."
Dadansoddiad Bethan Lewis, gohebydd gwleidyddol BBC Cymru, o'r papur gwyn:
Mae'r Prif Weinidog Theresa May eisoes wedi datgan ei gweledigaeth mewn araith, ond nawr mae wedi ei gyhoeddi ar ddu a gwyn.
Daeth y Llywodraeth dan bwysau gan rai o'i haelodau seneddol ei hun i roi mwy o gig ar yr asgwrn. A dyna fwriad y papur gwyn yma.
Mae'n rhoi mwy o fanylion am 12 egwyddor sy'n ganolog i strategaeth Prydain wrth adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd.
Yn eu plith mae cryfhau'r Deyrnas Gyfunol a sicrhau bargen sy'n gweithio i bob rhan ohoni.
Mae 'na addewidion i sicrhau bod barn Gweinidogion Cymru'n cael eu clywed, a datganiadau sy'n trio tawelu eu meddyliau ynglŷn â rhai meysydd allweddol - dyfodol ariannu prosiectau Ewropeaidd a thaliadau i ffermwyr.
Ac mae'n pwysleisio eto na fydd pwerau sy' wedi eu datganoli ar hyn o bryd yn cael eu tynnu'n ôl i Lundain o ganlyniad i Brexit.
Cyhoeddodd Llywodraeth Cymru a Phlaid Cymru eu papur gwyn eu hunain wythnos diwethaf. Ar berthynas Prydain gyda'r farchnad sengl ac ar fewnfudo, mae 'na bellter sylweddol rhwng llywodraethau Prydain a Chymru.
Bydd y ddogfen yma'n sail i fisoedd o drafod - ond mae yna gwestiynau di-ri yn parhau. | Mae'r Ysgrifennydd Brexit wedi dweud wrth ASau bod Llywodraeth y DU yn "ystyried buddiannau Cymru o ddifrif" wrth baratoi i adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38845312"} | 2,438 | 99 | 0.721644 | 1.874873 | 0.314581 | 2.851852 | 26.703704 | 0.925926 |
Amtrak's plans include expanding high-speed trains between Washington DC and Boston.
The vice president said "America needs to go big on infrastructure" investment.
Rail infrastructure in the US lags many other developed countries, particularly in terms of high-speed trains.
The new trains, which Amtrak expects to begin running in 2021, will have initial speeds of up to 160mph, but will be capable of speeds up to 186mph.
"We need these kinds of investments to keep this region - and our whole country - moving, and to create new jobs," said Mr Biden.
America's Northeast corridor, which includes Washington, New York City, and Boston is one of the country's busiest route networks.
Amtrak recorded 11.7 million riders along that route in 2015 - its highest number on record.
"The Northeast corridor is a national economic engine that carries a workforce contributing $50bn annually to the national GDP," said New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. | US vice president Joe Biden has announced plans to lend railway operator Amtrak $2.45bn (£1.86bn) to expand services and make upgrades. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37199521"} | 212 | 36 | 0.602257 | 1.234542 | 0.052889 | 0.5 | 7.423077 | 0.423077 |
The 20-year-old made eight appearances, scoring once, in a season which was disrupted by injury.
"The gaffer (Darren Way) has shown faith in me after I have been out injured and for that I would like to thank him," he told the club website.
"You can see the gaffer is doing well here and young players are given an opportunity to prove themselves." | Yeovil Town defender Omar Sowunmi has agreed a new two-year contract with the League Two club. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36382275"} | 85 | 29 | 0.431109 | 0.853245 | -1.409467 | 0.473684 | 4.263158 | 0.368421 |
Craig Nairn tried to break the windscreen with his prosthetic limb after the lorry was blown over in high winds at Ruskington, near Sleaford.
Eventually the glass broke with the help of his friend, Lincolnshire's Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Stuart Tweedale, who used a hammer.
Mr Tweedale said the driver was dragged out shaken but unhurt from the cab.
"I decided that I was going to make use of my prosthetic leg and try smash a bit of the glass out... So it did come in handy. Damaged it a little bit but it helped to save a man's life," said Mr Nairn.
"My leg can be repaired or replaced but the man's life is well and alive."
The pair were travelling independently of each other on the B1188 on Thursday afternoon when they both came across the lorry, which was on its side and had shed its load of straw bales with diesel fuel leaking out from the vehicle.
Despite their best efforts neither of the two could get the driver out and in a last-ditch attempt Mr Nairn, who lost his leg in a road accident 10 years ago, tried to use his prosthetic limb before the pair turned to a hammer.
"I was just doing what any normal person would do," said Mr Tweedale.
"You just never know what's going to happen and I thought that diesel and straw was certainly not a good combination so it was best to get the poor driver out as soon as possible.
"Thankfully I don't think he was injured but a little shaken by the experience." | A man used his false leg to try to smash an overturned lorry's window to rescue the driver during Storm Doris. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39079332"} | 369 | 29 | 0.470113 | 1.308246 | 0.216132 | 0.826087 | 13.565217 | 0.652174 |
It has backed a dedicated NSPCC helpline set up for victims of sexual abuse in the game.
The move comes after a number of former players in England revealed they were abused by coaches as youngsters.
The charity told BBC Scotland it had received calls from across the UK since it was launched on Thursday.
Former Manchester City and England player David White is among several who claim they were abused by former Crewe Alexandra coach Barry Bennell.
The 62-year-old was jailed in 1998 for sex offences against children and was imprisoned again last year.
In the same year, James Torbett, a former coach at Celtic Boys' Club, was convicted of abusing three young players, including former Scotland international Alan Brazil.
Donna Martin, the Scottish FA's child wellbeing and protection manager, said: "The safety and wellbeing of children is of paramount importance to the Scottish FA, and significant steps have been taken to ensure that their protection is integral to Scottish football's decision-making processes.
"The Scottish FA takes its role as the governing body of the national game seriously.
"We would urge anyone with any information relating to abuse or inappropriate behaviour - whether current or historic - to get in touch via the NSPCC's helpline, or [email protected]."
Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People, Tam Baillie, told BBC Radio Scotland the latest allegations may be the tip of the iceberg.
"I fear we are on the brink on many more revelations," he said.
Speaking on the Good Morning Scotland programme, he said: "I think we should commend people who've been brave enough to speak out and certainly the early signs are very worrying."
Mr Baillie praised the SFA for the speed of its response to the allegations.
He said: "The cultural shift that's required is that people feel confident that when they come forward they will be believed, whereas previously we know from painful experience that's not been the case.
"I think there's been an encouraging shift towards belief rather than trying to deal with it by sweeping it under the carpet and not acknowledging it."
He added: "If any good can come of this, it would shift that macho culture to be much more willing to look at how we better protect children in all sports to ensure we don't have a repetition."
Jim Gamble, the former chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, said sports clubs were a "perfect environment" for abusers.
"Sport and clubs that bring young people together to participate in sport creates almost a perfect storm," he told the John Beattie programme.
"You have young people who aspire to be something special. You're putting them in proximity to people they admire, people they sometimes put on pedestals, and the trust and the intimacy of the relationships that will develop as they work together can be the perfect facilitator for abuse.
"So I'm not surprised this has happened in football, I would shocked if it wasn't happening in every type of organisation that brings together aspirational young people with adults and individuals they admire."
John Cameron of the NSPCC, said the new helpline had received calls from people with information about historic abuse from across the UK.
It has also been alerted to concerns about possible abuse of children currently involved in the game.
He said the response was very similar to that which followed the exposure of Jimmy Savile's crimes. Both instances were an "abuse of authority and power", he said.
"There were people in authority, in the past, where allegations have been made against them, where people found it extremely difficult to speak out," he added.
"And if you look at the victims who came to our helplines during the Savile, Operation Yewtree investigation, we're hearing very similar tales of the difficulty, not being taken seriously if you did speak out, fearful of the implications if you did so."
Mr Cameron said some of the information the NSPCC had received had been passed on to the police.
"There are a number of people who have given us potential identifying information of alleged offenders and we are liaising directly with the police up and down the UK," he said.
He said background checks on potential employees were only as good as the information held on the individual by police and courts.
And he called for "robust recruitment processes" which would prevent potential abusers obtaining jobs in football. | The Scottish FA is supporting a campaign to encourage anyone with knowledge of child abuse in football to speak out. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38103772"} | 979 | 23 | 0.512922 | 1.262351 | 0.353669 | 1.571429 | 41.952381 | 0.809524 |
The firms are worried about the phrasing of proposals on encryption, bulk collection of data and openness.
The submission joins another, from Apple, which challenges the reach of the draft legislation.
If passed, the IP Bill would overhaul rules on how authorities access people's communications.
The five firms form part of a coalition called Reform Government Surveillance (RGS) which aims to promote a series of principles on how governments should collect communications data on their citizens.
"There are many aspects of the Bill which we believe remain opaque," the RGS companies state in their written evidence, citing the wording on judicial authorisation, encryption and technical requirements on tech firms among other things.
Their comments come in the form of written evidence submitted to a parliamentary committee considering the scope of the bill.
Currently, several of the corporations involved are standing by the provision of end-to-end encryption in some of their products - such as Apple's iPhones.
This allows people to communicate privately in a form that cannot be decoded, even by the company which makes the device.
The IP Bill would not outlaw encryption, but it would strengthen the power to force firms to give up decryption keys so that coded messages might be read.
On this issue, the tech firms rally behind comments made to the committee by Apple.
"We reject any proposals that would require companies to deliberately weaken the security of their products via backdoors, forced decryption, or any other means," the companies say.
There has been some question over whether companies could or should be compelled to insert "back doors" in their software - allowing intelligence agencies to access data which they transmit or store.
One key issue raised is that of extraterritorial jurisdiction - the extent to which UK authorities can compel foreign companies to comply with their laws.
"We have collective experience around the world of personnel who have nothing to do with the data sought being arrested or intimidated in an attempt to force an overseas corporation to disclose user information," state the RGS firms in their written evidence.
"We do not believe that the UK wants to legitimise this lawless and heavy-handed practice."
The submission notes that other countries around the world are likely to be influenced by what sort of laws are laid down in the UK and warns against "an increasingly chaotic international legal system".
There is also a comment on how surveillance might be made more transparent.
"As a general rule, users should be informed when the government seeks access to account data," the companies say.
"It is important both in terms of transparency, as well as affording users the right to protect their own legal rights."
If it is deemed necessary to delay notice in exceptional cases, the firms argue that the burden should be on the government to show that there is an overriding public safety case for doing so.
"I think it's very interesting how strongly the 'big players' of the internet have responded to the UK government's surveillance plans," said Paul Bernal, a legal expert at the University of East Anglia who also submitted evidence to the committee.
"The breadth of the intervention is remarkable - they haven't kept to purely technical matters, but talk about judicial authorisation, transparency and so forth," he told the BBC.
"This breadth shows how seriously they are taking the issue."
Dr Bernal also pointed out that the firms had raised the issue of "technical impositions" - the requirements that would be placed on communications companies by the bill should it become law.
Vodafone, in a separate submission, also commented on the obligation to obtain and generate data, saying: "There is nothing within the draft bill to indicate what this might mean, and could be used to require an operator to make changes to its networks and services simply to get more data — even relating to other companies' services — and to hold on to it for law enforcement."
Alongside the silicon valley firms expressing some anxiety over the draft IP Bill is the UK's own Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
In an 11-page submission to the parliamentary committee, the ICO praises some of the bill's proposals while questioning the reach of others, including the retention of internet connection records (ICRs).
ICRs are the domain names of websites visited by internet users, but not records of specific pages.
"Although these are portrayed as conveying limited information about an individual they can, in reality, go much further and can reveal a great deal about the behaviours and activities of an individual," the ICO says.
Among other concerns, the ICO also highlights a clause in the draft bill which enables the secretary of state to force the removal of electronic protections on communications data.
The consequences of this clause could be "far-reaching" and have "detrimental consequences to the security of data", the ICO warns.
"The Information Commissioner's comments will carry particular weight since he is a government-appointed official whose job it is to protect the public's information," commented the BBC's security correspondent, Gordon Corera.
"His concerns echo some of those of the tech companies that some of the language in the act - for instance on encryption and equipment interference - is unclear and could have a real impact on the security and privacy of individuals' data." | Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo have expressed concerns to the UK Parliament over the draft Investigatory Powers Bill (IP Bill). | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35263503"} | 1,145 | 29 | 0.383947 | 1.011294 | -0.128472 | 1.259259 | 39.296296 | 0.666667 |
Dylan Jackson, 20, of Crosby Close, Wolverhampton, attacked 46-year-old Herman 'Louis' Simpson at his home in Wolverhampton on 13 April.
Following a police manhunt he was arrested in Bath on 29 April.
Jackson was found guilty by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court and is set to be sentenced at a later date.
Det Insp Warren Hines, from West Midlands Police, said it was believed Jackson arrived at Mr Simpson's home for a pre-arranged heroin deal before robbing and stabbing his victim.
He described Jackson as "a determined criminal" motivated by greed, adding Mr Simpson's history of drug dependency left him "vulnerable".
"Louis leaves behind a family who are absolutely distraught at his death and my abiding hope is that the guilty verdict will allow them to begin the slow process of recovering from their sad loss," he said.
Sylvia Simpson, mother of Mr Simpson, said the family had "nothing but positive memories" of her son.
"Louis was a much-loved son, brother and father whose death has already left a huge void in many lives," she said.
"The outpouring of grief and kind words said by the community after his death showed what a kind, generous and loving person he was." | A man who went on the run after stabbing a former music teacher to death has been found guilty of murder. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34904399"} | 293 | 25 | 0.413155 | 0.894521 | -0.440066 | 0.818182 | 11.590909 | 0.636364 |
The game was held up several times through flares being thrown on to the pitch and some Coventry supporters coming on to the playing area in protest at the club's owners.
But, on the Sky Blues' return to the ground where they played as tenants in 2013-14, it was the Cobblers who bagged the three vital points against the bottom club.
City received an early setback when they were reduced to 10 men after Jordan Willis was given a straight red card for a reckless challenge in the 19th minute.
The Cobblers had the better chances of a poor first half, but they began brightly after the restart, breaking the deadlock in the 53rd minute when a quick break ended with Richards finding Anderson in the box and he fired into the top corner.
John-Joe O'Toole was also denied by the excellent Burge as Cobblers got on top. And, after another delay, Cobblers doubled their advantage in the 64th minute.
Burge tipped over a shot from Anderson and, from Matt Taylor's ensuing corner, Zander Diamond set up Anderson, who fired home from six yards.
Burge produce more heroics to thwart Richards while O'Toole should have done better when he fired over from a good position, but Anderson completed his hat-trick in the 76th minute when he swept home a cross from Boateng into the bottom corner.
That led to more fans and flares coming onto the pitch but the delays failed to prevent Cobblers from picking up three crucial points to leave City in deep trouble - now eight points adrift of safety.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Northampton Town 3, Coventry City 0.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 3, Coventry City 0.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Charles Vernam.
Attempt saved. Ryan Haynes (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Neal Eardley.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Harry Beautyman replaces Luke Williams.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Nathan Clarke.
Foul by Paul Anderson (Northampton Town).
Jodi Jones (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Paul Anderson replaces Hiram Boateng because of an injury.
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Charles Vernam (Coventry City).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Gregg Wylde replaces Keshi Anderson.
Goal! Northampton Town 3, Coventry City 0. Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Hiram Boateng.
Attempt missed. John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Coventry City. Jodi Jones replaces Ben Stevenson.
Substitution, Coventry City. Andy Rose replaces Marcus Tudgay.
Attempt saved. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Goal! Northampton Town 2, Coventry City 0. Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Zander Diamond.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Lee Burge.
Attempt saved. Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Delay in match (Coventry City).
Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Stevenson (Coventry City).
Attempt saved. John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Coventry City 0. Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marc Richards.
Attempt saved. Neal Eardley (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Second Half begins Northampton Town 0, Coventry City 0.
First Half ends, Northampton Town 0, Coventry City 0.
Attempt missed. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) header from the left side of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Callum Reilly.
Foul by Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town).
Dion Kelly-Evans (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Luke Williams (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Callum Reilly (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
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The BBC understands an undisclosed buyer will turn Dee House into a hotel, restaurant and bar.
Campaigner Adam Dandy said the plan's critics feel "ignored" by the council.
But the Labour-run council has insisted the proposal will "transform that area of the city".
A Cheshire West and Chester Council committee decided on Thursday not to make any recommendations about the deal which means council officials can now authorise its completion.
It will see the buyer, whose identity was not revealed by the council, sign a 150-year lease for the derelict 18th Century listed building, which has been empty since 1993.
The BBC has learnt the council's preferred bidder will restore it without adding new buildings. There will be minimal impact on the archaeological remains.
The plan includes improved public areas and viewing points, as well as a small interpretation room or cafe with an estimated £6m renovation cost.
The deal was called in for further scrutiny by Conservative councillors after the cabinet's authorisation in July.
The amphitheatre was partly uncovered in the 1960s, 2,000 years after it was built as part of a major legionary fortress called Deva with the unexcavated remainder behind a brick wall and underneath Dee House.
Dig Up Deva campaign organiser Adam Dandy, who gathered an 18,000 signature petition, said the sale destroyed thousands of "people's long-held desires to see (the amphitheatre) uncovered in part or in full in their lifetime".
It also ignored the wishes of the Romans 2,000 years ago, that Deva should "have a whole amphitheatre for Cestrians to enjoy".
Conservative Jill Houlbrook said it could be "the jewel in Chester's crown", and claimed the decision was not based on "open consultation".
But Labour cabinet member Louise Gittins said: "We'd never move forward as a council if we had a consultation on every single detail".
Ms Gittins added: "Everything starts now. We're going to transform that area of the city. It's going to be amazing". | Plans to sell off a building which sits over the covered part of Chester's Roman amphitheatre have been approved, despite the objections of more than 18,000 people. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37321878"} | 476 | 41 | 0.505281 | 1.421888 | -0.081014 | 0.733333 | 13.233333 | 0.6 |
Plans for some of the ships to dock at a Spanish port were cancelled after Nato allies voiced concern.
Nato is concerned planes from the carrier could be used to attack civilians in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
President Vladimir Putin also hinted that an aerial bombardment of rebel-held east Aleppo could resume.
Russia and its ally, the Syrian government, had said earlier that they would continue a moratorium on the bombing.
At an international conference in the Russian city of Sochi on Thursday, Mr Putin said other parties to the conflict had not been keeping their promises.
"Where is the disengagement of terrorists from the healthy part of the opposition?" Mr Putin asked.
"So far we have been restrained, and we have not been rude to our partners, but everything has its limits. We could respond."
The Admiral Kuznetsov can carry dozens of fighter bombers and helicopters. It has been sailing for the past week from Russia to the Mediterranean.
The BBC's Jonathan Marcus reports from Brussels that the battle group is currently at anchor off the North African coast and taking on fuel.
The group has two "oilers" (tankers) with it and it is not clear which of the vessels is actually refuelling, he adds.
The Russian embassy in Madrid formally withdrew a request to Spain for refuelling after being approached by the Spanish foreign ministry.
"Given the information which appeared on the possibility that these ships would participate in supporting military action in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the ministry of foreign affairs requested clarification from the embassy of the Russian Federation in Madrid," the Spanish foreign ministry had said on Wednesday in a statement to the BBC.
It added that permission had been granted in September for three Russian ships to dock in the port of Ceuta between 28 October and 2 November. It said such stops for Russian naval vessels had taken place for years in Spanish ports.
Nato had said the final decision on resupply rested with Spain.
"We are concerned and I have expressed that very clearly about the potential use of this battle group to increase Russia's ability and to be a platform for air strikes against Syria," Nato's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told journalists on Tuesday.
The naval group also includes a nuclear-powered battle cruiser, two anti-submarine warships and four support vessels, probably escorted by submarines.
The battle group is expected to join about 10 other Russian vessels already off the Syrian coast.
Some 2,700 people have been killed or injured since the Russian-backed Syrian offensive started last month, according to activists.
Western leaders have said Russian and Syrian air strikes on Aleppo could amount to war crimes, an accusation rejected by Russia.
About 250,000 civilians who live in Aleppo have been trapped by the fighting. Moscow announced last week a "humanitarian pause" in attacks as part of a plan to allow civilians and fighters to leave the area. | A group of warships including Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, is reportedly refuelling at sea off North Africa en route to Syria. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37791523"} | 645 | 43 | 0.481047 | 1.211838 | -0.079108 | 0.928571 | 20.392857 | 0.714286 |
Wilson, who can play in defence or midfield, had two loan spells with the Cherries in 2007.
The 28-year-old spent six seasons at Stoke, making more than 150 appearances, and has been capped 24 times by his country.
He missed out on the Republic's Euro 2016 squad with a knee injury.
Stoke manager Mark Hughes said last week that Wilson was set to leave the club. "It's fair to say that Marc probably feels his future lies elsewhere and it's fair to say I probably agree with him," he said.
Wilson did not feature for Stoke in their 1-1 draw against Middlesbrough against Middlesbrough on the opening day of the Premier League season on Saturday.
"I enjoyed my years at Stoke but I spoke with the manager Mark Hughes and we both agreed it was time to move on - I am excited now to start a new chapter in my career," he told Bournemouth's official website.
"I didn't come to AFC Bournemouth to play in a team that's going to get relegated. I see a lot of positives in this team."
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To commemorate this special day two limited new coins have been made.
A sterling silver £5 coin, featuring a version of the Royal Arms, and a limited number of gold £500 coins, known as the sovereign, have been produced.
Jenny went to the Royal Mint to get an exciting behind the scenes look as the gold coins were being made. | Prince George, the son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, celebrates his first birthday today. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "28422708"} | 99 | 23 | 0.343358 | 0.740249 | -1.299882 | 0.526316 | 4.578947 | 0.421053 |
Arrest warrants for the four were also dropped, a lawyer for the victims said.
Ten Turkish activists lost their lives as a result of the raid, in which Israeli commandos stormed the lead ship in the convoy to Gaza.
Dropping the charges was a key part of a deal agreed between Israel and Turkey this June to normalise bilateral ties.
Under a deal reached this year, Israel agreed to pay $20m (£15.9) in compensation to the victims of the raid. In return, Israeli nationals would not be held criminally or financially liable for the incident.
The officials, including former military chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi, went on trial in absentia in 2012.
The deal allowed Turkey and Israel to restore normal relations in June, mending a six-year rift that followed the flotilla incident.
It also allows Turkey to send aid to Gaza and carry out infrastructure projects in the Palestinian territory.
Turkey was once Israel's closest ally in the region, and the two countries share many strategic interests.
The Turkish-owned ship Mavi Marmara was part of a flotilla attempting to breach an Israeli blockade of Gaza when it was intercepted by Israeli commandos on 31 May 2010.
Ten pro-Palestinian Turkish activists, one of them a dual American citizen, were killed and dozens wounded as clashes broke out after the commandos boarded the ship, descending on ropes from helicopters.
The two sides had blamed each other for the violence.
A UN inquiry was unable to determine at exactly which point the commandos used live rounds.
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PC Steven Walters had denied two counts of sexual assault between February and April last year but pleaded guilty at Stafford Crown Court on Monday.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Walters "targeted vulnerable victims of crime for sexual purposes".
The 48-year-old will be sentenced on 29 September.
Walters, who is suspended from his job in Sutton Coldfield, had also denied misconduct in a public office, but the prosecution offered no evidence on that charge.
The police watchdog was alerted after one of the victims complained about the officer.
IPCC Commissioner Derrick Campbell said Walters "completely abused" his position of trust.
"I would like to praise the courage and bravery of the women who came forward to give evidence against him and hope that they can now move on with their lives in the knowledge that justice has been done.
"Such unprofessional and disgraceful conduct cannot go unchallenged and I hope that today's outcome reinforces the message that officers who behave in such a way will be exposed and brought before the courts where appropriate." | A West Midlands police officer has admitted sexually assaulting two women while on duty. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37279265"} | 236 | 19 | 0.551169 | 1.175472 | -0.805837 | 0.533333 | 13.933333 | 0.533333 |
Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson Jr said prosecutors had two aggravating factors and that Craig Stephen Hicks is "death penalty qualified".
Craig Hicks is charged with the murders of Deah Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and her sister, 19-year-old Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.
Prosecutors said Mr Hicks shot the three after coming to their door.
Their family has pushed for hate crime charges, saying Mr Hicks targeted them for their religious identity.
Federal investigators have opened a separate inquiry and more charges could be added against Mr Hicks, District Attorney Roger Echols said, but for now "first-degree murder is the highest crime you can be convicted of and that is our focus".
The killing of the three students in February sparked international outrage, especially on social media where the hashtag #ChapelHillShooting was used hundreds of thousands of times.
US President Barack Obama himself denounced the killings as "brutal and outrageous murders", adding no-one in the US should be targeted for "what they look like" or "how they worship".
Dozens of firearms were found in the condominium Mr Hicks shared with his wife, in addition to the handgun he had when he turned himself in, prosecutors said.
He also kept pictures and notes on his computer about parking activity in the lots around his home, according to police search warrants.
Neighbours described him as an angry man who had frequent confrontations over parking or loud music, sometimes with a gun holstered at his hip.
Prosecutors said they believed Mr Hicks had gone to Barakat's door with a concealed gun and shot him and the two women further inside after an exchange, according to the News Observer.
He then allegedly shot the two women a second time in the head and shot once more at Barakat, prosecutor Jim Dornfried said.
Barakat was a second-year graduate dental student at the University of North Carolina, and his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, was scheduled to begin dental studies in the next school year.
Her sister, Razan, attended North Carolina State University as a design student. | A North Carolina judge has ruled a man accused of killing three Muslim students can face the death penalty. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32196183"} | 501 | 23 | 0.374234 | 0.995034 | -0.548032 | 1 | 20.65 | 0.8 |
The sketch show, which featured Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nina Wadia and Kulvinder Ghir, explored the collision of British and Indian cultures.
Goodness Gracious Me aired on BBC Two from 1998-2001, after starting life on Radio 4 two years earlier.
The show's regular characters included Smeeta Smitten, the Competitive Mothers and Mr Everything Comes From India.
An advertisement for people to feature in the audience of the London filming revealed that the original cast would be back for an episode of the "ground-breaking British Asian sketch show, featuring new characters alongside some favourites from the original series in a wealth of brand new sketches".
Both Bhaskar and Syal went on to star in The Kumars at No 42, with them playing chat show host Sanjeev and her the grandmother Ummi.
Wadia spent five years playing Zainab Masood in EastEnders, before leaving the soap last February.
Mock the Week host Dara O Briain will front another of BBC Two's anniversary celebrations, in the form of a quiz called All About Two.
Also featuring Richard Osman from Pointless, the show is described as "part quiz, part silliness, part discovery and all love". | The stars of Goodness Gracious Me are reuniting for a one-off episode to celebrate 50 years of BBC Two. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "26483277"} | 279 | 29 | 0.497913 | 1.361791 | -0.273383 | 1.227273 | 10.363636 | 0.681818 |
Shabir Ahmed, 59, of Oldham, was one of nine men convicted of sex offences against children at Liverpool Crown Court in May.
He was not named at the time because he faced further charges, but was jailed for 19 years.
He has been found guilty at Manchester Crown Court of raping and sexually abusing a girl for more than a decade.
Prosecuting, Rachel Smith said Ahmed, of Windsor Road, had treated his victim as a "possession" which he used for his own sexual gratification.
She said he had been "a violent and controlling man" who had abused the girl on "an almost weekly basis".
"She tried to make him stop, but it was to no avail," she said.
The court was told the victim felt a sense of shame about what happened to her, which had stopped her reporting it to the police for many years.
Ms Smith said the reality of what he had done "was never far from her thoughts" and that she had described "having dreams about it".
Judge Mushtaq Khokhar adjourned sentencing until August to allow for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.
Speaking after the verdict, Det Ch Supt Mary Doyle said Ahmed's victim had "shown phenomenal bravery to come forward and tell the police about what happened to her".
"We already knew Ahmed was an integral part of the Rochdale grooming case - now we can also say his horrific campaign of abuse began many years ago with the systematic rape of this one victim," she said.
Ahmed was one of the nine men from Rochdale and Oldham who were found guilty of exploiting girls as young as 13 at two takeaway restaurants in the Heywood area of Rochdale.
Ms Doyle said he had been "the ringleader of a loosely connected on-street grooming ring" and had been "the common denominator in a group of men who raped and abused girls aged between 13 and 17 at the time of the offences".
The case sparked protests and vandalism in Heywood and caused national debate about the safety of children in care and whether race was a factor in on-street grooming.
Ahmed was found guilty at Liverpool Crown Court of two rapes, aiding and abetting rape, sexual assault and trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
Sentencing him in May, Judge Gerald Clifton said Ahmed was an "unpleasant and hypocritical bully" who had ordered a 15-year-old girl to have sex with one of his fellow gang members as a birthday "treat". | The jailed leader of a Rochdale sex ring has been found guilty of 30 child rape charges. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "18540902"} | 592 | 29 | 0.456669 | 1.145237 | -0.357306 | 1.611111 | 27.555556 | 0.833333 |
The 21-year-old from Uttoxeter broke his own world mark by winning in 57.13 seconds, well clear of the field.
Peaty is the first British man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal since Adrian Moorhouse, who won the same event in Seoul in 1988.
Welsh star Jazz Carlin won silver in the women's 400m freestyle soon after.
"It's so surreal to get Team GB's first gold," said Peaty, who finished more than 1.5 seconds clear of his nearest rival.
"I came out tonight and took the first 50 easy and came back with everything I have got. I did it for my country and that means so much for me."
South African Cameron van der Burgh, the London 2012 champion, took silver, while Cody Miller won bronze for the USA.
Peaty, who was already the world, European and Commonwealth champion, emulates the achievement of fellow Britons David Wilkie (1976), Duncan Goodhew (1980) and Adrian Moorhouse (1988) in winning breaststroke gold.
It took five days for Britain to win their first gold at London 2012, but Peaty's medal came on the second day of action in Rio.
Peaty, making his Olympic debut in Rio, has been dominant from the first moment he got into the pool at the weekend, having first broken his own world record with a time of 57.55secs in the heats.
Moorhouse, who dominated British swimming in the late 1980s, believes Peaty's physical and mental attributes sets him apart from his rivals.
"He is very good at turning threats to opportunities," he said.
"He has the technical ability and talent to do this and can then cope with the pressure of the moment and put a bubble around himself. He has got everything."
Five-times Olympic swimmer Mark Foster added: "Everything just went right.
"He has had problems with his start but he has worked on it tirelessly and everything came right for him.
"I knew the race was over before it started. Physically he is an absolutely beast.
Rebecca Adlington, who won two Olympic swimming gold medals at Beijing 2008, said: "His stroke and power is incredible."
Peaty's achievement delighted British Olympic team-mates Adam Gemili and Greg Rutherford.
Sprinter Gemili said that Peaty was "in a class of his own", while long jumper Rutherford said on social media: "The whole of GB tower here in the village erupted when Adam Peaty won. What a brilliant feeling."
BBC Sport's chief sports writer Tom Fordyce:
"This was more than just Britain's first gold medal of these Rio Olympics, it was one of the finest displays by a British athlete in Olympic history.
"To win over 100m by 1.56 seconds, to leave the last Olympic champion more than a body length behind, is extraordinary even by the exalted standards Adam Peaty has set in his young career.
"Wilkie 1976, Goodhew 1980, Moorhouse 1988, and now Peaty 2016. The moment a young man's life changed forever."
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Peaty still lives with his parents in his hometown of Uttoxeter in Staffordshire and was afraid of water as a child.
The City of Derby swimmer rose to prominence in 2014, taking two golds at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He has also won eight European golds and three world golds.
Shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 2014 and 2015, Peaty became the first man to go under 58 seconds in the 100m breaststroke at the world trials last year, setting what was then a world record of 57.92secs.
He has lowered that time by 0.79secs in Rio.
Peaty's grandmother Mavis, or Olympic Nan as she has called herself, is becoming a bit of a star on social media.
Mavis has been following her grandson's exploits in the pool from her home in Staffordshire and has also been showing her enthusiasm on social media.
Since Sunday morning, she has gone from 106 Twitter followers to more than 3,000.
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After Peaty qualified for the final, Mavis told BBC Radio 5 live: "Caroline [Adam Peaty's mum] had to phone me because I said: 'I can't get this telly on'. I couldn't get the red button going. Then I thought I know what I can do - my iPad. So I got the BBC up on my iPad and I watched it on there.
"Since I've been going to watch Adam, it's given me a new life, a different life, that I never dreamed of. I've loved every minute of it.."
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The M11 has been shut in both directions between Harlow and Bishop's Stortford near Stansted Airport.
The chemicals have been identified as melamine formaldehyde resin and phosphoric acid, Essex Fire and Rescue Service said.
Firefighters have been advised they are not hazardous and Highways Agency clean-up crews are tackling the spill.
The motorway has been closed from junction 7 to 8 and motorists have been urged to avoid the area and find alternative routes.
"Diversions are in place but the road is likely to remain closed in both directions for some considerable time," a police spokesman said.
"Motorists going to Stansted Airport should plan alternative routes avoiding the motorway and allow plenty of extra time for their journeys."
The slip roads from the M25 onto the M11 have been shut and congestion is building up on other roads in south Essex.
The Highways Agency said the motorway was not likely to be reopened until 03:30 BST on Friday and it may be later.
Divisional fire officer Terry Povey said: "The chemicals are low risk to the health of people and we have contained the leak.
"We have blocked the drains and a clean-up team is tackling the spillage.
"This has been downgraded because the chemicals do not pose a significant health risk.
"It is now a matter of getting the road cleared so it can reopen."
Essex Police said: "The fire service will be dealing with the spillage in liaison with the Environment Agency.
"The ambulance service is treating the driver of the lorry, who has received cuts and bruises but is not believed to be seriously injured."
No other vehicles were involved in the crash which happened at 17:10 BST. | A lorry has overturned on a motorway in Essex and spilled a large amount of chemicals across both carriageways. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "28148809"} | 383 | 30 | 0.556058 | 1.349591 | -0.059168 | 0.7 | 16.6 | 0.7 |
The 34-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest early in the second half of the third-round tie while playing for the French sixth-division side.
The medical services treated him on the pitch but were unable to revive him.
Derme had been capped four times by Burkina Faso and had played in the French lower leagues and in Moldova, as well as in Burkina Faso. | Former Burkina Faso international Ben Idrissa Derme has died during a French Cup tie for amateur side AJ Biguglia. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37341495"} | 90 | 33 | 0.688914 | 1.523476 | -0.524675 | 0.55 | 3.8 | 0.45 |
Essex Police posted an update on social media to say officers were searching for Bradley Cooper, 21, from Basildon.
Cooper apparently commented using the profile name "Norman", saying: "Got to love the busy bodies."
Someone else replied, saying: "Yes Norman, also known as Bradley Cooper, writing on your own wanted picture."
The comments were later removed from the police page.
An Essex Police spokesman said they "occasionally get this sort of reaction" from wanted people.
"Essex Police regularly uses social media to encourage members of the public to help us find people wanted for offences," she said.
"We occasionally get this sort of reaction from people who are wanted, but we will continue to use social media because it is such a valuable resource and work is ongoing to arrest this man."
Photos of "Norman" on his Facebook page appear to be of the same person in the police picture. His profile suggests he is currently in Amsterdam.
He has a London accent and is believed to have last been living in Curling Walk, Basildon, officers said. | A man wanted for breaching a harassment order seemingly labelled police as "busy bodies" in a Facebook appeal intended to help track him down. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34943383"} | 224 | 33 | 0.490321 | 1.10125 | 0.206065 | 0.851852 | 8.185185 | 0.62963 |
The striker has started the last four matches, scoring three goals, as Killie boosted their chances of avoiding the play-off with two wins and a draw.
"Kris has been fantastic since he came into the starting line-up," Clark told BBC Scotland.
"Kris needs to be the man who starts, he needs to be the main man that the team is built around."
Two years ago Boyd scored the solitary goal that beat Hibernian on the final day of the season to retain Killie's top flight status and he looks like the go-to man again.
Boyd, 32, captained the side in the 4-0 win at Hamilton last weekend due to the absence of goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald and he is likely to do it again against Partick Thistle.
"He's been tremendous on the training ground, he's been a great example and been a real advocate of what I'm trying to do and he's pushed that forward and thankfully for any goalscorer he's getting his rewards with goals," said Clark.
With Dundee United relegated, Kilmarnock are in the play-off position with three games remaining, four points behind Hamilton and six adrift of Partick.
The Rugby Park boss has in the past battled relegation while in charge of Blackpool and Birmingham and he hopes that experience can help.
"The main thing for me that I can pass to the players because I've got personal experience of it, is never give up," he explained.
"We went to the 96th minute with Birmingham City against Bolton Wanderers to secure our Championship status.
"So that just shows you never ever give up no matter what the situation - keep fighting right to the end - and that's obviously one thing we'll do in the last three games.
"We've got three huge games and with each game that goes by if we keep getting positive results it gives us a better opportunity.
"The next one is obviously Partick Thistle and if we get a win, we can drag them into the equation alongside ourselves and Hamilton.
"Like I've said all along the only time we can effect a team around us is when we play them, so obviously the result against Hamilton and what we do against Partick will be important for us."
Thistle are one of the sides Killie has played against since Clark took over the reigns so that gives him the benefit of having seen them first hand as opposition.
"It give me personal knowledge but my staff have been brilliant for me in terms of helping me and that was crucial in terms of why I wanted to keep them when I came into the job - their knowledge of the game up here.
"But I've seen Thistle and I've also watched their game from the weekend against Inverness. They'll be hurting because they weren't expecting to be in this position." | Manager Lee Clark sees Kris Boyd as the catalyst for Kilmarnock's quest to secure their Premiership status. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36205518"} | 643 | 27 | 0.432152 | 1.143703 | -0.014546 | 0.894737 | 29.894737 | 0.684211 |
Judges said the order should be enforced within 10 days and audiences must stand when the anthem is played.
In the 1960s and 1970s, cinemas regularly played the anthem but the practice declined. Opinion on the court move is divided on social media.
There is no uniform law in India regarding the anthem and the 29 states have had their own laws on the issue.
According to the new ruling, the anthem must be played in all cinemas, accompanied by an image of the Indian flag.
"The people should stop following individual notions of freedom and have a sense of committed patriotism," Indian media reports quoted judges as saying.
The hashtag #NationalAnthem was one of the top trends on Twitter India on Wednesday afternoon.
Shyam Narayan Chouksey, a 77-year-old resident of Bhopal, had petitioned the court asking for the national anthem order.
"Over the years I've been seeing that the proper respect for the national anthem is not being paid by the common people as well as the constitutional functionaries," he told the BBC Asian Network.
Shaina NC, spokesperson for the ruling BJP party, called the court ruling a "fantastic" move.
The BBC India Facebook page asked its followers for their opinion.
"Why are we moving backwards[?]" asked Krushik AV. "Patriotism is something through education..."
Another follower, Sachin Sudheer, disagreed saying it was a "wonderful feeling to stand up with everyone".
Although there is no specific law that mandates standing for the anthem in India, the home ministry's rules, which carry the force of law, specify that it is compulsory to stand to attention when the anthem is played.
And cinemas that play the anthem often display messages asking audiences to stand up.
There is some concern that people could be targeted for not "respecting" the national song: | India's supreme court has ruled that the national anthem must be played in every cinema before a film is screened. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38155630"} | 431 | 30 | 0.578274 | 1.311375 | 0.210893 | 1.363636 | 16.681818 | 0.636364 |
One of the big questions from the Rio Olympics is whether it matters what flag or nationality an athlete performs under.
In other words, what should we do about the Kenyans who have been running under passports of convenience from other countries?
The most popular of such countries would appear to be Bahrain, under whose flag lots of Kenyans and Nigerians have been performing.
Bahrain obviously want to have their national anthem played at the Olympic Games, or at least have an athlete wearing their colours competing.
They can't seem to be able to find their own nationals who can perform at this level but they have the money to buy top class athletes from other countries to do it for them.
Elizabeth Ohene:
"I have to confess that when the Olympic Games are on, I am not an enthusiastic Ghanaian"
I started off thinking this was unfair. Then, I wondered what to make of the fact that we, the spectators, also seem to switch nationality at will.
I have to confess that when the Olympic Games are on, I am not an enthusiastic Ghanaian.
It is easy to understand why this is so if you consider what our performance record at the Olympics has been since we started participating way back.
We have won a grand total of four medals, made up of two bronze and one silver in boxing and a bronze in football.
The only way I watch sports, be it on television or sitting in the stands, is to adopt a team or an individual to support.
Sometimes the decision on who to cheer might depend on what colour kit someone is wearing, especially when the game I am watching is something I don't know very much about.
Obviously if a Ghanaian is on the field it is so much easier to decide where to direct my emotions.
With Ghana not in the reckoning when it comes to the Olympics, I am often Kenyan, especially when a certain David Rudisha is on the tracks; I am regularly Jamaican for all kinds of reasons; I am sometimes British, American and every once in a while I am South African.
During the Games that have just ended, I felt I had to be Brazilian simply to demonstrate my happiness that Brazil had managed to stage a well-organised Games in spite of all the recent problems they have had.
Then the other night, I found myself caught between supporting Belarus and Uzbekistan when watching something called rhythmic gymnastics.
It is not surprising therefore that watching the Olympics has been an exhausting experience for me.
I am therefore now thinking that the nationality switching phenomenon could be quite a good idea.
Look at it this way: The Kenyans obviously have more good and potentially great athletes than they need.
If you are a Kenyan athlete and can't get into the Kenyan team, you are out of the Olympics.
But if you call the Bahrainis and they gave you a passport, you could be performing at the Olympics and maybe even beat those who made it into the Kenyan team at the country trials.
I certainly wouldn't mind if Ghana could find some money and entice a few top athletes to wear our colours, carry our flags, perform and win a few medals for us and then we shall even hear our national anthem played at an Olympic ceremony.
We wouldn't have to worry about providing sporting facilities here.
We would get a few temporary Ghanaians, they would give us a lot of joy performing under our flag for two weeks.
They would come to Ghana after the games to call on the President and boost his standing and then go away.
It seems a cheap and harmless way to make a lot of people very happy.
More from Elizabeth Ohene: | In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene looks at the Olympians who switched allegiances. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37159083"} | 787 | 31 | 0.430325 | 1.19255 | 0.322655 | 0.809524 | 34.714286 | 0.619048 |
The Scottish champions released a short statement following news of talks with Malky Mackay and Brendan Rodgers.
David Moyes, Roy Keane, Paul Lambert and Neil Lennon have also been strongly linked with the vacancy.
"We will take our time to go through this process thoroughly and in the proper manner," added the statement from the Glasgow club.
Deila delivered two titles, taking Celtic to five-in-a-row, but the Norwegian fell at the semi-final stage in both domestic cups this season and suffered a miserable European campaign.
"The club has been and will be speaking to a number of candidates," adds the statement.
"We will continue this process with the aim of identifying a new manager who we believe will deliver success to the club." | Celtic insist they have "no preferred candidate" as they seek a replacement for departing manager Ronny Deila. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36319900"} | 168 | 27 | 0.650251 | 1.404518 | -0.092523 | 0.4 | 7.7 | 0.4 |
The education department, which is introducing the tests, says it would be "unfair" to use them as a measure.
There are three different testing systems that schools can use - but the study says the results are not "sufficiently comparable".
A head teachers' union said: "It is hard to avoid saying 'we told you so'."
Tests for pupils at the beginning of school, known as "baseline tests", were intended as a starting point against which to measure progress through primary school.
But they have faced opposition from teachers' union leaders who criticised them as introducing an unnecessary set of tests for young children who had just started school.
The Department for Education has now backed away from using the tests for measuring progress this year - after publishing a study that it had commissioned looking at the comparability of the three testing systems.
"That study has shown that the assessments are not sufficiently comparable to provide a fair starting point from which to measure pupil progress," says a statement from the Department for Education.
"In light of that, we will not be using this year's results as the baseline for progress measures. This would be inappropriate and unfair to schools."
The study from the Standards and Testing Agency concluded that the tests in literacy and numeracy, with three separate systems in use, were not sufficiently comparable.
Schools could choose between versions of the test provided by Early Excellence, Durham University's Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) and the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).
The study suggested that pupils of similar ability could get different results, depending on which test they had taken. As such the results could not be reliably used as a standard benchmark to measure progress.
The National Association of Head Teachers said the government had "outsmarted itself by choosing multiple providers of these assessments - none of which compare to each other".
"They cannot provide a measure of progress that can be compared between schools.
"This outcome is symptomatic of the general chaos on assessment in the primary phase, with poor planning and a lack of consultation with the people who know what will actually work."
Delegates at the National Union of Teachers had attacked baseline tests at their annual conference at Easter. The union said that its campaign had "made the government come to its senses and realise that baseline assessment was never a good idea in the first place".
Malcolm Trobe, interim leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said: "It was too narrow a way of assessing the ability of young children and having different assessment methods in different schools was muddled."
Labour's shadow children's minister Sharon Hodgson said the government was "u-turning on assessment policies that they were championing only weeks and months before".
"This government's piecemeal approach to assessments lacks any joined-up or coherent strategy, threatening standards in our schools."
Early Excellence, a widely-used provider of baseline assessments, said that it would continue to offer its version of the test next year.
The education department says it is still committed to the principle of baseline testing and "will continue to look at the best way to assess pupils in the early years".
As such, there will be optional baseline tests if schools want to take them next year, but the results will not be used for "accountability purposes". | Baseline tests for reception pupils in England are not reliable enough to measure progress this year, says a study for the Department for Education. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35989662"} | 702 | 29 | 0.510359 | 1.288589 | 0.417437 | 2.307692 | 25.807692 | 0.846154 |
With Conservative leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg absent, Labour's Ed Miliband was challenged to be "bolder" on spending.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood called on Mr Miliband to hold an "emergency budget" to reverse cuts made by Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg
The Labour leader said there was a "huge difference" between his plans and those of the Conservatives.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said she would encourage Labour to spend more, in the event of a hung parliament.
"If Labour won't be bold enough on its own, I think people should vote for parties who will hold Labour to account and make them bolder," she said.
Ms Wood said people were "seeing through the austerity myth", and that austerity and old politics were not inevitable.
"We will work for a new politics for all," she pledged.
Mr Miliband said Labour would defend the NHS, with more doctors and nurses, and stand up for working families.
He said Labour's plans included a "mansion tax", ending the so called "bedroom tax" and a bankers' bonus tax to fund jobs for young people.
He said he would "reject" the arguments of parties trying to break up the United Kingdom.
Asked by Ms Wood to commit to £1.2bn extra for the Welsh government's annual budget, Mr Miliband said he would not make "false promises".
UKIP leader Nigel Farage called parties' spending plans "farcical".
He also accused the BBC of selecting an audience that was too "left-wing".
"The real audience is at home," Mr Farage said.
David Dimbleby, who hosted the event, said the audience had been chosen by an independent polling organisation.
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett called the austerity agenda "spiteful".
"The Green Party are the real challengers, offering a million new jobs, combating climate change, protecting vital community services," she said.
In later exchanges on the NHS, Ms Wood told Mr Miliband Labour's record on running the service in Wales was "not good, you know".
Mr Miliband said there were "challenges" for the NHS in Wales, but suggested cuts to the Welsh government's budget - set in Westminster - were to blame.
In a BBC interview following the debate, Conservative Leader of the Commons William Hague said the debate highlighted the "interesting" relationship between Labour and the SNP.
"Nicola Sturgeon, it is very clear from this debate, wants to put Ed Miliband into Downing Street and then drive him into more and more extreme positions," he said.
"It is also very clear that she would be in the driving seat."
Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said a "centre-ground voter" would have been "alarmed" by the debate.
A "responsible, strong and balanced" coalition needs the Lib Dems, he said.
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10 May 2015 Last updated at 11:44 BST
Amongst the nominations for best entertainment show are Strictly Come Dancing, The Voice and The Great British Bake Off.
But which programme will be leaving with a world-famous BAFTA award?
The TV awards are being held at the Theatre Royal and hosted by Graham Norton.
If you can't make it to the red carpet the event will be shown on BBC1 at 8pm on Sunday. | The stars of the small screen will be out in force at the 2015 TV BAFTAs. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32681081"} | 101 | 21 | 0.611547 | 1.24278 | -0.488034 | 0.764706 | 5.058824 | 0.529412 |
The small letterbox was on top of a pole at the corner of Sir George Bruce Road and Erskine Wynd in Oakley.
It was removed from its mountings sometime between 18:30 on Tuesday 25 November and 09:30 on Wednesday 26 November.
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The government is confusing GDP per household with household income.
GDP per household is what you get when you add up everything produced in the economy in a year and divide it by the number of households. GDP per household does have an impact on household income, but not on a pound-for-pound basis - so you would expect it to fall by somewhat less than £4,300.
If you think about it, this must be the case. GDP is currently about £1.8tn a year - if you divide that by 27 million households you get £66,666. But average household income is about £44,000. They are clearly not the same thing.
Another thing to stress is that the Treasury is not saying that the economy would be this much per household worse off than they are now in 2030. It is saying that the economy would be 6% smaller in 2030 if the UK left the EU than it would be if it stayed in.
But the question is, how much do we believe in this sort of study at all. Reality Check has discussed in the past the problems with economic modelling.
If you don't want to be influenced by economic modelling then look away now, after all, it is very difficult to predict anything in 15 years.
If you are still reading, the thing to take away from this morning's events is this: ignore the headline figures - the Treasury thinks that leaving the EU would be bad for the UK economy, reducing its output by a considerable amount.
If what you care about is economic modelling, then this is a perfectly respectable piece of modelling, following broadly similar methodology to the one from the Centre for Economic Performance, although headlining the figure taking into account dynamic effects rather than static ones (dynamic models include changes that happen over time such as trade increasing competition or efficiency).
This is not hugely surprising - economic models tend to assume that free trade and economic cooperation are a good thing.
Looking into the detail, it is a bit odd that the Treasury has used ONS forecasts for what will happen to population by 2030, without considering what difference leaving the EU would make. Given that one of the key points of leaving the EU is supposed to be to tighten up the UK's borders, it seems a mistake not to take into account that effect.
The same is true, as mentioned earlier, with the figures of GDP per household being based on the number of households in 2015, not a forecast for 2030.
One useful thing from this Treasury report is that it helps put into context the significance of the UK's contribution to the EU Budget. The Treasury says that the 6% of GDP in 2030 would cut tax receipts by £36bn, dwarfing the contributions to the EU. Indeed, the Treasury has reached the £36bn figure after subtracting the UK's £7bn a year average net contribution.
Reality Check verdict: The precise figure is questionable and probably not particularly helpful. If you want to be influenced by economic modelling, the useful thing to take away is that the Treasury thinks leaving the EU would be bad for the economy, by an amount that would dwarf the savings from not having to contribute to the EU Budget.
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The 32-year-old Pole has not raced in Formula 1 since a horrific rally crash in 2011 left him with only partial movement in his right arm.
The test, Kubica's third for Renault, is described by the team as "a new phase in assessing [his] capabilities".
It will increase speculation about an impending - and remarkable - comeback.
Kubica has already done two tests in a 2012 Renault and has said that his physical limitations do not affect his driving.
But it cannot be certain that he can return until he has proved that is also the case in faster and more demanding 2017 machinery.
Renault F1 managing director Cyril Abiteboul said: "The first two days of testing allowed both Robert and ourselves to gather a great amount of information.
"The upcoming session with the RS17 at the Hungaroring will allow us all to obtain detailed and precise data in a current car and representative conditions.
"After this test, we will carefully analyse the collected information to determine in what conditions it would be possible for Robert to return to competition in the upcoming years."
The test in which Kubica is taking part is the official two-day F1 test on the Tuesday and Wednesday following this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix.
It will enable Kubica's performance to be measured directly against other teams and drivers and with the immediate context of Renault's performance over the previous race weekend.
A source close to Kubica has told BBC Sport that "Robert is ready to come back at his level".
Should Kubica prove to be anything close to his former abilities, it would leave Renault with a difficult choice.
They have been considering replacing their second driver Jolyon Palmer for some time as the Englishman has lagged behind the performance of team leader Nico Hulkenberg this season.
If Kubica performs successfully in the Hungary test, the temptation to draft him in for the Belgian Grand Prix on 25-27 August after F1's summer break may be difficult to resist.
A return by Kubica would be one of the most remarkable comebacks in sporting history.
He suffered a partially severed right arm and multiple fractures in his rally crash in February 2011.
At the time, he was regarded as one of the brightest talents in the sport, a winner of the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix for BMW Sauber and considered to have similar levels of talent to superstars Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
But the injuries curtailed his career on the eve of his second season with Renault, at a time when he was widely considered to have been lined up to join Ferrari as Alonso's team-mate in 2012.
He has spent the past six and a half years struggling to get his body into a condition where he can make a comeback to F1 and in the past few months believes he has finally done so.
He said after his most recent test on 12 July: "My doubts about my capacities have disappeared with these two days of tests. I am no longer afraid of not being at the level but there remains a way to go."
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First half profits fell 25% to €330m (£282m) due partly to falling demand in China and Italy.
But Prada said it saw 2016 as "a turning point."
It has been reviewing prices, product variety and online marketing to appeal to more customers.
Revenue fell 15% to €1.55bn compared to this time last year and in April Prada announced its lowest profits in five years.
It was previously criticised for opening too many new stores and failing to invest enough online.
Prada said it was on track with plans to double its e-commerce sales over the next two years by increasing the number of products it offered online, particularly shoes.
It will also expand its social media activities so it can raise its profile among "the 'always connected' millennials," referring to the 20s -30s age group.
The company added it was working on a "potential launch of 'shoppable' content with selected key items on Instagram".
This at a time when rival luxury brand Mulberry, also known for its leather handbags, reported a trebling of profits in June following a switch to more affordable products.
Mulberry has struggled in recent years as a result of the company's failed attempt to compete with higher end brands, such as Prada and Fendi.
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The group of states, which includes Russia, said on Saturday that they will cut supplies by 558,000 barrels per day.
Opec announced last month that it would be slashing its own production to ease an oversaturated global market.
It is the first time in 15 years that a global pact has been struck.
"I am happy to announce that a historic agreement has been reached," said Qatar's Energy Minister, Mohammed Bin Saleh Al-Sada, whose country holds Opec's rotating presidency.
The agreement was made at a meeting at Opec's Vienna headquarters.
Opec, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, has already committed to halting the supply of 1.2 million barrels a day, starting from January.
Opec said then it was seeking for non-member states to also lower their output, and Russia had signalled it would co-operate.
The moves come after more than two years of depressed oil prices, which have more than halved since 2014, due to a supply glut on the market.
Among the non-Opec countries attending the meeting were Azerbaijan, Oman, Mexico, Malaysia, Sudan, South Sudan and Bahrain.
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She said that raising interest rates would show "how far our economy has come in recovering from the effects of the financial crisis".
Her remarks come after a string of data indicated a strengthening US economy.
Many investors are confident the Fed will raise rates at its next meeting on 15 and 16 December.
Wall Street stocks dipped following the remarks.
Manufacturing data released during her testimony showed factory orders in October rose after two months of decline. New orders were up 1.5%.
Ms Yellen recognised that the slowing global economy and a stronger dollar had had an impact on the US, but said consumer and business spending along with housing investment was still strong.
On Wednesday, she told a group of economists that she expected the US economy to continue to experience steady growth.
The Fed has kept its short-term benchmark interest rate near zero since 2006.
The central bank will be paying close attention to Friday's jobs report. The bank has previously said it is watching the labour market and inflation rate closely to determine when to make its increase.
"Ongoing gains in the labour market, coupled with my judgement that longer-term inflation expectations remain reasonably well anchored, serve to bolster my confidence in a return of inflation to 2%," Ms Yellen said.
Chair Yellen said a rate of 100,000 new jobs per month would be enough to sustain the labour market. She also indicated that she expected this growth to help raise wages which have been mostly stagnant since the financial crisis.
"I would expect to see some upward pressure on wages - I think we've seen some welcome hints," she said.
Follow Wednesday's mass shooting in California, Ms Yellen was asked about the impact of these events and global terrorism on the US economy.
She said that the central bank had not seen any impact from the recent mass shootings or terrorist attacks, but that "it does have the potential to have a significant economic effect," she said. | US Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen has told Congress that the economy is reaching a point where it can handle an interest rate rise. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34999941"} | 404 | 31 | 0.520279 | 1.160276 | -0.329764 | 0.72 | 15.52 | 0.56 |
The Premiership fixtures for the coming season gave Thistle, Motherwell and Hamilton Academical fewer guaranteed games against Celtic and Rangers.
Thistle will meet the Scottish Professional Football League this week.
"As fixtures can't be changed, the question of compensation remains live for clubs affected," said Thistle.
"We look forward to a positive and robust exchange of views on this matter at the meeting.
"We are also in touch with the other clubs in the league and will be arranging to meet them at a separate time."
Thistle and Motherwell had both expressed anger that they would only have one home game against both Celtic and Rangers before the Premiership splits into two for the final five fixtures.
Dundee, Hearts and Inverness Caledonian Thistle will have two home games against both the Glasgow clubs.
Thistle and Motherwell have complained that it not only left the financially disadvantaged because of the Old Firm's travelling support but would hamper their search for league points.
"Reluctantly, we accept that there will be a sporting disadvantage in the coming season," Thistle said in a website statement.
"However, we will press the SPFL to show how it intends to avoid this recurring in future.
"Contrary to press reports suggesting the SPFL has already decided there will be no compensation or fixtures changed, Thistle has secured a meeting with the SPFL this week to discuss the situation in more detail.
"The board hopes that, despite media comment suggesting otherwise, the SPFL would not have agreed to a meeting if minds have already been made up on this important matter." | Partick Thistle will continue to press for compensation after accepting that a fixture list they claim damages the club financially cannot be altered. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36643639"} | 353 | 29 | 0.557234 | 1.299821 | 0.47757 | 0.72 | 12.32 | 0.56 |
In a strong display with contributions from all 13 players, GB started well and improved throughout the first three quarters to establish a winning lead.
Gabe Olaseni led their scorers with 16 points and Dan Clark and Teddy Okereafor added 11 each.
GB will face Greece in Tuesday's final after the hosts beat Romania.
The first match of a summer that will feature a minimum of 12 games - including at least five in the Eurobasket finals - featured some encouraging signs for GB coach Joe Prunty.
They took the first quarter 26-17 with the aid of two three-pointers each from Clark and Ben Mockford, but it was the crispness of their passing and the energy in their defensive hustle that extended the lead to 41-23 in the second period as they held their opponents scoreless for four and half minutes.
Ahead by 19 at the interval, GB kept up the defensive pressure virtually to the end of the game, allowing their opponents just 35 points in the second half.
Prunty was enthused by the display: "There were a lot of positives, and they came from a lot of people," he told BBC Sport..
"Our spacing was good…I liked the way we shared the ball - like whether we missed something like a screen or the ball, we still kept playing, moving and sharing the ball." | Great Britain made an assured start to their Eurobasket preparation programme by beating Ukraine 84-64 in the Patras International tournament opener. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40858201"} | 301 | 30 | 0.462279 | 1.177738 | 0.092567 | 0.416667 | 10.958333 | 0.333333 |
In a statement, Bangor said Dawes had failed "to gain his acceptance on the current Pro Licence course, in accordance with Uefa club licensing criteria".
Former Premier League striker Gary Taylor-Fletcher will take temporary charge for the remainder of the season.
Taylor-Fletcher joined the Citizens in February.
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The metal figure of Terpischore, the muse of dancing and choral music, had been hanging from its base 90ft (27m) above the ground since Saturday.
Part of High Street West and Garden Place had to be cordoned off and shows at the theatre were cancelled.
A crane has been brought to the site and the statue taken down.
Sunderland City Council had said removal could not take place until the wind had died down.
It apologised for the inconvenience the street closure had caused to local businesses and residents but said the prime concern was safety.
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It was rescued by a member of the public behind Higher Fore Street, Redruth, on Wednesday evening.
Veterinary surgeon Sharon Stevens said the otherwise healthy young adult animal had been sprayed with an aerosol and set alight.
"We see enough horrible things, but this is simply inexcusable," she said.
The animal died moments before arriving at the emergency veterinary treatment centre, CVets.
The vet said the woman who rescued the hedgehog heard and witnessed the "sustained" attack on the defenceless creature, but was too scared to confront the youths on her own.
"She heard the boys shouting 'it's still alive, go on do it again' and they knew what they were doing," Ms Stevens told BBC News.
"If it had been a cat, it could have fought back, but all a defenceless hedgehog can do is curl up in a ball.
"It was in the wrong place at the wrong time and has suffered this horrible attack.
"All its spines were burned and it would have suffered badly."
The vet said she wanted to speak out in the hope of preventing this type of horrific attack happening again.
"I just hope those boys feel sorry and ashamed of what they've done," she added.
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The two leaders, who hugged each other in front of reporters, also praised their countries' warm relations.
They discussed increasing trade links and security co-operation.
Mr Modi was also the first foreign dignitary to have dinner at the White House with Mr Trump.
A White House statement said the two leaders "resolved that India and the US will fight together" against terrorism which they called a "grave challenge to humanity", pledging to expand the sharing of intelligence and deepen joint counter-terrorism efforts.
They also "called on Pakistan to ensure that its territory is not used to launch terrorist attacks on other countries".
The leaders said they would strengthen co-operation against threats including Pakistan-based militant groups Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
They urged Pakistan to "expeditiously bring to justice" those behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and last year's attack on an air base in Pathankot, which Indian officials have suggested were perpetrated by those two militant groups.
India has seen several terror attacks in recent years which Delhi claims were conducted by Pakistan-based militants.
It has also accused Pakistan of secretly sponsoring some of these attacks, which Pakistan has strongly denied.
India also "appreciated" the recent move by the US to label top Kashmiri militant Syed Salahuddin a "specially designated global terrorist", the White House said. The move effectively blocks him from transactions in the US.
The Trump administration's strong words on Pakistan and terror will be seen as a major diplomatic victory for India.
Previous US presidents, such as Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, also came out with similar rhetoric but it never translated to anything more substantial, mainly because both were warned by the state department of the perils of isolating Pakistan.
In Donald Trump, however, Delhi senses a difference - a president who is more blunt and outspoken on Islamist terror without worrying about any potential diplomatic fallout.
So on that score, Trump and Modi are on the same page. But India's main concern is Pakistani support for Kashmiri separatist groups, at a time when the situation in Indian-administered Kashmir is particularly tense.
The US, on the other hand, is more concerned with the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan's perceived support for militant groups operating there as well as the Taliban, at a time when President Trump has approved plans to increase American troops on the ground.
Earlier on Tuesday, Mr Modi and Mr Trump gave a joint news conference in the White House's Rose Garden.
"The relationship between India and the United States has never been stronger, never been better," President Trump said.
He praised Indian airline SpiceJet's recent order of 100 planes from US manufacturer Boeing, and said he looked forward to exporting more energy resources to India, including natural gas.
Mr Trump, who regularly posts on Twitter, also described himself and Mr Modi as "world leaders in social media".
Mr Modi said the US was India's "primary partner" for its social and economic transformation, and that his plan for a "new India" converged with Mr Trump's "vision for 'making America great again'".
He invited President Trump and his family to visit India, which Mr Trump accepted, said the White House.
Mr Trump said his daughter, Ivanka, would also be leading a US delegation to an entrepreneurship summit in India later this year.
Earlier in his trip to the US, Mr Modi met the heads of 20 US companies, including Apple's Tim Cook and Google's Sundar Pichai.
He told them that his government had pushed through thousands of reforms to make India "business friendly".
He later tweeted: "Interacted with top CEOs. We held extensive discussions on opportunities in India." | US President Donald Trump and Indian PM Narendra Modi have met for the first time in Washington DC, vowing to fight terrorism together while issuing a warning to Pakistan. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40412834"} | 824 | 38 | 0.500343 | 1.15264 | 0.334823 | 0.935484 | 24.032258 | 0.741935 |
Mr Buhari expressed "deep shock" at the past week's violence between herdsmen from the Fulani ethnic group and local farmers, an official statement said.
Several thousand people have been displaced, according to local media.
Benue has a history of violent attacks and reprisals between semi-nomadic herdsmen and farmers.
The clashes are often linked to cattle raiding.
Mr Buhari called for unity among Nigerians, saying: "There should not be any reason why Nigerians of any group or tongue cannot now reside with one another."
Different groups of Fulani militants killed a total of more than 1,200 people in 2014, meaning that if taken together they would be the world's fourth deadliest militant group, according to the most recent Global Terrorism Index.
The scope of their attacks is now enough to "pose a serious threat to stability", the report said.
The communal violence in central Nigeria is not connected to the six-year insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the country's north-east.
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New alleged victims of Jim Torbett have come forward claiming he sexually abused them during the 1980s and 90s.
Torbett "vehemently denies" the allegations against him.
The investigation also reveals new claims about former Hibernian and Rangers coach Gordon Neely, who died in 2014.
An alleged victim claims he was repeatedly raped by Neely from the age of 11. It has also been claimed that when allegations of abuse surfaced, Neely was sacked from Hibs but the police were not informed.
He then joined Rangers where it is claimed he began abusing boys there. Rangers also sacked him over alleged abuse. The club claims it informed the police.
The allegations about Torbett and Neely are made in a BBC programme Football Abuse: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game, to be screened on Monday.
They include:
Celtic Boys' Club was founded by Jim Torbett in 1966 with the permission of the then Celtic FC manager, the late Jock Stein and former chairman Sir Robert Kelly.
It was created as a separate entity from the football club, but it has been closely linked throughout its history and acted as a feeder club, producing a string of Celtic greats including Roy Aitken, Paul McStay and Tommy Burns.
Torbett had two stints at the Boys' Club, the first from 1966-1974. He returned to the Boy's Club around 1980 and stayed until a series of Daily Record stories revealed abuse claims against him in 1996.
He was jailed for two years in 1998 on conviction of abusing three former Celtic Boys' Club players, including former Scotland international Alan Brazil, between 1967-74.
At the trial, former Celtic photographer and Boys' Club chairman Hugh Birt claimed Torbett was fired in 1974 after child abuse allegations arose.
Birt, who died four years ago, told the court Stein, then honorary president of the Boys' Club, sacked Torbett as a result of the abuse claims.
The BBC has spoken to three additional sources close to the events in the 1970s who support Birt's evidence to court that Torbett was ejected from the Boys' Club by Stein, following complaints of child abuse.
Stein was then the Celtic manager as well as honorary president of the Boys' Club.
Torbett returned to the Boys' Club in around 1980 after Stein had left Parkhead. But no allegations against Torbett in his second period at the Boys' Club have surfaced - until now.
Kenny Campbell, now 44, joined Celtic Boy's Club in 1985 as a 13-year-old. A year later, he joined the U-14s, which was managed by Torbett.
He said Torbett took a special interest in him and won the trust of his parents.
Kenny told BBC Scotland: "Pretty quickly he became a hero of mine. In my mind he was doing good things [for me].
"I'd have jumped in front of a bus for him if he had asked me, guaranteed. So it was as if he had a hold over us."
He said Torbett began the abuse while he was sitting on the couch with him one night.
Kenny said this was the beginning of up to four years of sexual abuse at the hands of Torbett, which carried on even after he was signed by the senior Celtic team.
The young player didn't tell anyone: "I just thought it was natural. I just thought that was what happened," he said.
Kenny made about 20 appearances for the reserves at Celtic but illness effectively ended his Celtic career. His life spiralled into drink and drugs, but he is now clean and sober.
He said he was angry that Torbett was allowed to return to Celtic Boys' Club despite previous abuse claims.
"I feel aggrieved at that, eh, if they had never let him back in it would … never happened in the first place, I could have had a normal life, normal people round about me. If Celtic had done their due diligence … it wouldn't have happened to me."
The BBC has spoken to a second former Celtic Boys' Club player who alleges he was abused by Torbett for three years from 1990.
Torbett's lawyer told the BBC he "vehemently denies these completely false allegations".
He added: "Clearly allegations of this kind must remain in the hands of the police and due process of the law must be followed here."
In a statement, Celtic FC said the club was "fully committed to safeguarding children".
The statement went on: "Celtic Boys' Club was separate and distinct organisation from Celtic Football Club. It was vital that justice was served at that time, due to the extremely serious nature of this issue."
The statement added that anyone with any concerns should contact the club.
The BBC has discovered what appears to be the "official" account of why Torbett left the Boys' Club in the archives of The Celtic View, which was the sanctioned, in-house magazine for Celtic FC.
Dated November 1974, the report is headlined: "Jim bows out…after another season of glory." It states that Torbett was leaving for his own personal and business reasons and is a glowing tribute to his time at the Boys' Club. There is no mention of abuse allegations.
The BBC understands the police were never called.
The Celtic View archives also reveal that in 1977, three years after he allegedly threw Torbett out of the Boys' Club, Jock Stein was pictured presenting Torbett with an award recognising his services to Celtic Boys' Club.
On the same evening, according to the archives, Stein made way for Celtic board member Kevin Kelly as honorary president of the Boys' Club.
Birt would tell the court in 1998 that he attempted to prevent Torbett returning to the Boys' Club and raised the issue with Celtic board members, including Kevin Kelly.
Two other sources have told the BBC that when Torbett was allowed to return to the Boys' Club in around 1980, Mr Kelly would have been aware of the previous claims of abuse against Torbett.
Mr Torbett's company The Trophy Centre had a lucrative contract with Celtic to provide branded merchandising.
Mr Kelly and Jack McGinn, a Celtic FC director from 1981, worked with Mr Torbett at his Trophy Centre business from 1986 and 1998 respectively. Their associations with the company continued long after Torbett was jailed for abuse.
Mr Kelly strongly denies being aware of allegations concerning Torbett when he returned to the Boys' Club, and told the BBC that he was not aware of any previous allegations against Torbett until his court case in the 1990s.
Jack McGinn, a Celtic FC director from 1981, also denies any previous knowledge of Mr Torbett's offending prior to his second spell at the Boys' club.
Both Mr Kelly and Mr McGinn said that if they had been aware of Mr Torbett's prior offending, they would have done all they could to prevent him returning to Celtic Boys' Club.
Jon Cleland, an alleged victim of Gordon Neely, was a prodigious talent. In around 1981, at the age of 10, he joined Hutchison Vale FC, the Edinburgh football talent factory known for producing players like John Collins, Allan Preston and Leigh Griffiths.
Neely was one of the coaches at the club. He was known for an ability to spot and develop youth talent, and was well thought of in Edinburgh football circles.
Jon says he was soon targeted by Neely, and subjected to 18 months of serious sexual abuse.
Describing his first assault at Neely's hands, he said: "He took me into a room at the back of our hall and told me to take my shorts down and he put me over his knee and he proceeded to spank me… I had done something wrong and it was my punishment. [I] didn't tell anyone."
Jon's silence seemed to be Neely's cue to escalate the abuse. Jon was 11 at the time.
He told BBC Scotland: "He said I looked like I had had an injury… then he asked me to lean over a desk, and that's when I was raped.
"At that age, hadn't a clue what was going on."
Jon said he was raped around 10 times over the next 18 months. Asked if he had been able to tell anyone, he said: "No. I couldn't have possibly at that age. I thought it was my fault. I thought I had done something wrong."
Jon began training with Hibs, but Neely was driving him to training, and abusing him in the car beforehand.
He said: "It was at that point that I couldn't do it, couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't face going to football training."
Jon said he gave up football to escape the abuse.
Neely took up a youth development position with Hibs in around 1983. In about 1986, abuse allegations concerning him were put to the late Hibs chairman Kenny Waugh.
Sports reporter Ray Hepburn told the BBC Waugh had confided in him.
Mr Hepburn said: "He said 'we've had complaints by two sets of parents about Gordon Neely. And his behaviour with some of the boys'.
"And of course it was quite devastating news. He went on to explain that he had sacked him that day, had reassured the parents by dealing with it in a very speedy and decisive way. And that was kind of the way people did things then."
The BBC has also spoken to the then Hibs manager John Blackley who confirmed Hepburn's story that Waugh had been made aware of complaints.
The police were never involved. Nor did anyone at Hibs warn Rangers about Neely's behaviour.
In a statement, Hibs said it was "saddened to be told that personnel at the club at the time were allegedly made aware of concerns about Neely and, again allegedly, did not contact the police.
"[This] is something which current policies and practices would prevent from happening today," the statement said.
Neely then moved to Rangers in 1986, where BBC Scotland learned the abuse continued.
One former player told the programme: "He had his own office inside Ibrox and he'd call you in and he'd make you close the door.
"He'd pull your shorts and pants down and then he'd spank you with like this rubber shoe. I mean I wasn't the only one. He'd give you 10 or twenty whacks for anything. I was only about 13."
Rangers told us it was aware of an alleged incident more than 25 years ago involving Neely, sacked him and informed the police.
Police Scotland told the BBC they were unable to confirm whether Rangers made a complaint or not, despite Freedom of Information requests.
The BBC also asked surviving senior executives and football personnel who were at Rangers at that time, for more details - but received none. The Crown was unable to find details of a report being sent to the fiscal in relation to a complaint about Neely in 1990.
In a statement Rangers said: "It is understood the individual was dismissed immediately and that the police were informed.
"All employees adhered to the strictest codes of conduct."
The club added that it would "always co-operate fully" with the authorities."
Several opportunities to put an end to Neely's abuse were wasted, according to BBC Scotland's investigation, and Neely simply changed tactics, by reinventing himself as coach doing one-to-one training and activity weekends in Dunkeld, and nearby Dalguise, in Perthshire for young footballers.
A decade after Hibs sacked him, and more than five years after Rangers got rid of him it is alleged Neely was still abusing.
"Paul," (not his real name), told BBC Scotland: "I was playing with one of the Edinburgh clubs [around 1995] and a man came up to me after a match. It was Gordon Neely. And he said he could make me a better player, and I needed some one-to-one coaching. Said he knew all the big players and managers. He was impressive.
"So every other weekend I'd go up to Dunkeld. He told me I had a condition that was hampering me. And that he could help me with it."
Paul was then abused by Neely.
"I knew it was wrong," he said. "It went on for about 10 minutes each time but I couldn't do anything. I just froze.
"I didn't want to complain because I thought it would ruin the chances of me getting the trial he'd promised me. So I just put up with it.… for almost three years."
Gordon Neely died in 2014.
The programme also features claims from former Clydebank and Rangers player Levi Stephen about a third alleged perpetrator.
Stewart Regan, the chief executive of the Scottish FA said an independent review into allegations of historic child sexual abuse in Scottish football was under way.
"We await its findings," he added.
"The latest allegations are a matter for the investigatory authority, Police Scotland.
"We would urge anyone who has suffered abuse to come forward using the dedicated, confidential NSPCC 24-hour helpline 0800 023 2642, directly to the police on 101 or via email to the Scottish FA at [email protected]."
Football Abuse: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game is being shown at 22:40 on BBC1 Scotland and will be available on the BBC iPlayer shortly afterwards.
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27 October 2016 Last updated at 08:53 BST
They may need to put animals like sharks in the same tanks as smaller fish - but they need to be sure the sharks won't eat their smaller tank-mates!
To do this, staff at the Blue Reef Aquarium in the north-east of England are teaching their sharks a special feeding technique called target feeding.
It means the shark will know what it is allowed to eat and what mustn't be dinner! | One of the challenges faced by staff in aquariums is making sure all the fish can live together peacefully. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37773834"} | 103 | 23 | 0.483792 | 1.04249 | 0.241048 | 0.45 | 4.6 | 0.45 |
Members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith are taking the action as part of a campaign to get the powers transferred to the Welsh Assembly.
Chairwoman Heledd Gwyndaf said she was prepared to be jailed rather than pay for her licence until powers were devolved.
TV Licensing said the campaigners risked prosecution and a £1,000 fine.
"It's not an easy decision to make, we're obviously breaking the law," said Ms Gwyndaf of her refusal to pay the £147-a year licence.
"I have done this for many months now. I have a young family, I have three small children.
"I have received many letters telling me that I need to pay, telling me that a bailiff is on the way, giving me a date as to when the bailiffs will arrive."
But she said she believed devolving broadcasting was important to the Welsh language and to Wales as a nation.
"In other countries where broadcasting is already devolved, for example in Catalonia and the Basque country, they have six or eight radio stations and television stations in their mother language, or that broadcast bilingually," she said.
"There's no reason why we cannot devolve broadcasting to Wales."
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said it could not comment because of the impending general election.
Labour's Welsh Government minister Alun Davies, who has responsibility for broadcasting, said he favoured greater accountability - but not full devolution.
"I don't think there's a groundswell of opinion across Wales for executive responsibility for broadcasting to be devolved to Wales," he said.
"But I think there is concern across Wales about what we see on our screens, and what sort of services we receive. And what I would like to see is a greater sense of accountability from broadcasters and regulators to Wales, and to the institutions of Wales."
He said he wanted to see broadcasters become more accountable to assembly members.
"We all know that we don't see enough programming made in Wales, we don't see the portrayal of Wales on our screens in a way that we deserve and should see, and I think it's time that both regulators and broadcasters came to Cardiff and explained what they are doing to serve Welsh audiences," he added.
Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats support the devolution of broadcasting. The Conservatives favour shared accountability but not full devolution, while UKIP do not support any devolution of broadcasting powers.
In a statement, TV Licensing said: "Regardless of personal opinion, a TV Licence is required to watch or record TV programmes as they are broadcast, or watch BBC programmes on iPlayer." | More than 50 Welsh language campaigners are refusing to pay their TV licences until broadcasting powers are devolved. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39952115"} | 610 | 27 | 0.501729 | 1.261887 | 0.413116 | 1.263158 | 27.421053 | 0.842105 |
The disruption is part of a UK wide strike called by the Unite union.
It balloted its members after failing to reach an agreement with the employer, Swissport, in a long-running dispute about pay.
A second 48-hour strike is planned to start on 6 January.
Belfast International Airport said it is looking into the implications of the strike: "December the 23rd is one of the busiest days of the year with around 62 inbound, and 62 outbound flights.
"Christmas Eve is also very busy for flights.
"We have contingency plans in place to deal with any industrial action.
"We have teams on stand-by to minimise any disruption over this busy time."
Unite Regional Officer, George Brash, has called on Swissport to engage with his union through the conciliation service ACAS.
He said: "We appreciate that this is a very busy time of year at our airports and we are urging management to make a serious offer to meet the workforce's pay expectations.
"This will be a UK-wide strike involving over 1,500 check-in staff, baggage handlers and cargo crew.
"It is likely that this will result in severe disruption at both Belfast City and International Airports where Unite represents the overwhelming majority of workers." | Passengers at Belfast International and Belfast City Airports face disruption on the 23 and 24 of December due to a planned strike by baggage handlers and check-in staff. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38349130"} | 276 | 38 | 0.655195 | 1.389526 | 0.616874 | 1.548387 | 8.129032 | 0.83871 |
In a speech in London to trade unionists and activists, he said there needed to be more "transparency" over how Britain would leave the EU.
The High Court ruled on Thursday that MPs should be allowed to vote on triggering Article 50.
The government has said it will appeal against the decision.
Speaking to the Class think tank, Mr Corbyn said his party "accepted and respected" the decision of voters to leave the EU but insisted on "transparency and accountability" to Parliament about the government's plans.
"I suspect the government opposes democratic scrutiny of its plans because frankly there aren't any plans.
"There are no plans beyond the hollow rhetoric, which they keep on repeating - apparently - that Brexit means Brexit.''
The Labour leader accused Prime Minister Theresa May of reaching "secret deals" over Brexit with companies such as Nissan, which confirmed it will build two new models at its Sunderland plant following talks with the government.
"We can't have secret deals on Brexit, company by company," Mr Corbyn said.
"All our businesses need the kind of assurances that apparently Nissan has had about the shape of the government's Brexit plans to make the right investment decisions."
Mr Corbyn said that after "six wasted years of austerity and savage cuts", the Conservatives have started to change their rhetoric towards giving more help to ordinary working-class families.
This month's Autumn Statement from the Chancellor Philip Hammond would be "the test of whether they could back up their rhetoric with meaningful change", he added.
Labour has promised £500bn in investment over a decade in infrastructure improvements to railways, housing, energy and broadband, he said.
"A country that doesn't invest is a country that has given up, that has taken the path of managed decline," he told delegates.
"We offer a different way forward that meets the needs and aspirations of our people in 2016, not a 1980s - or even 1950s - never-never land."
The party leader said a Labour government would also hit out at tax dodging.
"This is the message to the tax dodgers - a Labour government will come after you. No more turning a blind eye, no more shabby deals - we will collect the taxes," he said.
The government has said MPs will get a say over any final deal relating to Brexit.
But it is challenging the High Court ruling that states Parliament has the right to vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU.
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Around 2,700 arrived in Slovenia on Saturday and more were expected overnight. Most aim to travel on to Austria, Germany and other countries.
Slovenia's army has been placed on standby to help police deal with the influx, Prime Minister Miro Cerar said.
He said Slovenia would accept the migrants as long as Austria and Germany kept their borders open.
Hungary said it closed its border with Croatia at midnight on Friday because European Union leaders had failed to agree a plan to stem the flow of asylum seekers.
Last month it also shut its frontier with Serbia, which was another transit route to Western Europe.
On Saturday, hundreds of refugees were bussed across Croatia, from its border with Serbia to its border with Slovenia.
Many had spent weeks walking through Greece, Macedonia and Serbia to reach the Croatian border.
Slovenian authorities registered them and then arranged transport to the Austrian frontier.
Slovenia's official STA news agency later some of the migrants had already reached the Austrian border and were being registered at the Spielfeld crossing.
A spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said most of the migrants crossing Slovenia were from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
"They are fleeing from war... they are literally running for their lives," Caroline van Buren told AFP news agency at the Petisovci checkpoint.
"Unlike other countries, Slovenia had time to prepare. It's not perfect, but things are moving."
A train carrying about 1,200 migrants arrived at the Sredisce ob Dravi crossing, AFP reported.
Meanwhile, two buses carrying mostly families with small children and babies arrived at the Gruskovje crossing where they were given medical help, food and warm clothes.
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"We are going to focus even more on safety and security and order so our country can function normally,'' Prime Minister Cerar said.
Croatia is a member of the EU but, unlike Hungary and Slovenia, it is not part of the Schengen zone of passport-free travel.
However, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said border controls with Slovenia would also be temporarily reinstated to safeguard Hungary from a "mass wave of unidentified, uncontrolled migrants".
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to travel to Turkey on Sunday for talks on the migrant crisis with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Tens of thousands of migrants are arriving in the EU from Turkey, risking a sometimes perilous sea crossing to the Greek islands.
On Saturday, 12 refugees - four of them children - drowned while trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, the Turkish coastguard said. They were thought to be from Syria or Afghanistan.
615,895
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137,500 Libya & Tunisia to Italy
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 77.79 points at 18493.06.
The broader S&P 500 index fell 6.55 points to 2168.48, while the Nasdaq slipped 2.35 to 5097.63.
The price of US crude fell 2.6% to $43.04 a barrel, its lowest level since April, while Brent crude slid 2.3%.
The drop in crude sent shares of US oil producers tumbling.
Exxon Mobile shares fell 1.9% and Chevron fell 2.5%.
Shares of Verizon and Yahoo both slipped after it was announced that the US telecoms giant would buy Yahoo's core internet business for $5bn.
Verizon Communications fell 0.4% and Yahoo shares were down 2.7%.
Kimberly-Clark, the maker of household goods including Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers, fell 1.5% after reporting disappointing results.
Retail stocks were some of the day's top performers. Department store Nordstrom climbed 4.6% and Gap shares rose 3.5%.
Investors are preparing themselves for more earnings results released this week. Tuesday will be focused on Verizon in the morning and Apple and Twitter after US trading closes.
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"They don't feel that anyone listens to them, never mind speaks for them," opposition whip Conor McGinn said.
He said the challenge facing leader, and Islington MP, Jeremy Corbyn was to relate to the rest of the UK.
Mr McGinn also warned that Labour could lose votes if it adopted an anti-nuclear weapons stance.
A review of the party's defence policy is under way. The Labour leader opposes Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system, but many of his MPs support its renewal.
Mr McGinn, who falls in to the latter category, warned: "Defence might not win you a lot of votes, but it can definitely lose you a lot of votes if you're not in the right place on it."
In an interview with Parliament's House magazine, Mr McGinn, MP for St Helens North, said: "I think there is a political crisis that has engulfed what would be seen as the traditional Labour working class. They don't feel that anyone listens to them, never mind speaks for them.
"And I think that's a real problem for the Labour Party particularly. Sometimes it can seem that we're preoccupied with things that are insignificant to the population."
Labour, he said, needed to appeal to ordinary voters if it wanted to win elections.
"I think when you lose an election you should look at the reasons why and try, within the parameters of your own values, to move closer to the public, not further away from the public."
He also set out what he saw as the "challenge" for Mr Corbyn, who after 30 years as a backbench MP representing the London constituency of Islington North was elected party leader in September 2015.
"I love London, and it's a fantastic city, and Islington is a great place," he said, "but it's not like the rest of the country".
"I think the challenge for Jeremy having been an MP for 30-odd years for a seat like Islington, is how he relates to the rest of the country," he added.
The MP also said many people wanted a secure job with a decent wage that enabled him to afford his own home, and an annual holiday or a new car.
"The problem with sections of the left is that they sneer at people like that," he said.
He added: "There is a patrician socialism that not only wants to tell working class people what's best for them, but what they should and shouldn't think.
"I think if we are to have a genuine revival in the politics of the left, then we need to start listening to people and hearing their truths." | Working class voters feel that the Labour Party no longer understands them or their concerns, a Labour frontbencher has warned. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36365284"} | 611 | 28 | 0.426721 | 1.074753 | 0.310009 | 1.227273 | 24.5 | 0.772727 |
Sky Atlantic's supernatural horror Penny Dreadful, set in Victorian London, won for original music, production design and make-up and hair.
BBC One's Sherlock won the sound and editing awards in the fiction category.
Mackenzie Crook won his first Bafta, for comedy writing, for Detectorists, which he starred in with Toby Jones.
Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright was honoured in the drama category for her rural police thriller.
The BBC One drama is one of four programmes leading the nominations at next month's Bafta TV awards, where it is up for three alongside The Missing, Line of Duty and Marvellous.
Julian Farino, the director of BBC Two's fantasy-biopic Marvellous - which starred Toby Jones as Neil Baldwin - was also honoured at Sunday night's Craft Awards ceremony, hosted by Stephen Mangan.
Staff on ITV talent show The X Factor won the entertainment craft team award, beating rival teams on BBC One shows The Voice and Strictly Come Dancing.
Other winners included the 2014 FA Cup Final (ITV Sport), Channel 4's Grayson Perry: Who Are You?, ITV's The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies and Messiah at the Foundling Hospital (BBC Two).
Work on BBC One's Doctor Who, Paedophile Hunter and Dispatches' Children on the Frontline on Channel 4, the BBC's Winter Olympics 2014 coverage and The Musketeers (BBC One) was also honoured.
Hilary Briegel was handed the evening's special award, for her work as a vision mixer on programmes including Absolutely Fabulous, Only Fools and Horses, Newsnight, the Wimbledon Championships and the Olympic Games.
Sherlock - starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman - has now earned nine Baftas in four years.
Penny Dreadful, whose cast includes Helen McCrory, Eva Green and Simon Russell Beale, also triumphed in the original music category for Abel Korzeniowski's score.
British Academy Television Craft Awards winners in full:
Special award - Hilary Briegel
Breakthrough talent - Marc Williamson (The Last Chance School)
Costume design - Phoebe De Gaye (The Musketeers)
Digital Creativity - Live From Space: Online
Director, factual - Dan Reed (The Paedophile Hunter)
Director, fiction - Julian Farino (Marvellous)
Director, multi-camera - Paul Mcnamara (2014 FA Cup Final)
Editing, factual - Jake Martin (Grayson Perry: Who Are You?)
Editing, fiction - Yan Miles (Sherlock)
Entertainment craft team - Dave Davey, Robert Edwards, Falk Rosenthal (The X Factor)
Make up and hair design - Enzo Mastrantonio, Nick Dudman, Stefano Ceccarelli (Penny Dreadful)
Original music - Abel Korzeniowski (Penny Dreadful)
Photography, factual: Marcel Mettelsiefen - (Children On The Frontline, Dispatches)
Photography and lighting, Fiction - Mike Eley (The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies)
Production design - Jonathan McKinstry, Philip Murphy (Penny Dreadful)
Sound, factual - Mike Hatch, Kuz Randhawa, Matt Skilton (Messiah At The Foundling Hospital)
Sound, fiction - John Mooney, Douglas Sinclair, Howard Bargroff, Paul Mcfadden (Sherlock)
Special, visual and graphic Effects - MILK VFX, REAL SFX, BBC WALES VFX (Doctor Who)
Titles and graphic identity - Mark Roalfe, Tomek Baginski, Ron Chakraborty (Winter Olympics 2014)
Writer, comedy - Mackenzie Crook (Detectorists)
Writer, drama - Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley) | Penny Dreadful and Sherlock were the biggest winners at Bafta's Television Craft Awards, honouring British TV talent from behind-the-scenes. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32478771"} | 912 | 36 | 0.533666 | 1.440397 | 0.664738 | 1.115385 | 25.653846 | 0.807692 |
Ten Protestant men were shot by the IRA in County Armagh in 1976, in an attack known as the Kingsmills massacre.
An inquest has been told the original Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) investigation was short of manpower.
The court also heard RUC Special Branch denied police detectives permission to question a number of prime suspects.
The Kingsmills victims were travelling home from their jobs in a textile factory when an IRA gang ambushed their minibus.
The gunmen ordered the only Catholic man on board the bus to leave the scene, before lining up the Protestants and opening fire.
More than 150 bullets were fired at the defenceless men - 10 died and one survived but was very seriously injured.
The RUC's investigation was led by Det Ch Insp James Mitchell, an experienced officer who had joined the police force in 1959.
He rose from the rank of constable to a leading position in the RUC's Criminal Investigation Department, investigating some of Northern Ireland's most grisly murders.
Giving evidence to the inquest in Belfast, Mr Mitchell said that he arrived at the scene of the murders within 20 minutes of receiving the emergency call.
He was greeted with what he described in court as "one of the most gruesome murder scenes of the Troubles".
Mr Mitchell said that while responsibility for the attack was originally claimed by a group calling itself the South Armagh Republican Action Force, he had no doubt it had been carried out by Provisional IRA members from north County Louth and south County Armagh.
The former officer faced questions over the RUC's handling of the investigation - including issues that had been raised in a 2011 review of the case by the Historical Enquiries Team.
Mr Mitchell told the court that he required between 40 and 50 detectives to work on such a huge murder investigation, but the maximum he was given was 12 detectives and two sergeants.
He said that from ballistics reports, the RUC knew that 11 weapons had been used in the Kingsmills attack - some of which had also been used in a string of other IRA murders.
These included the IRA gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange hall in 1975, which led to the deaths of five men.
A barrister acting for some of the families of the Kingsmills victims questioned Mr Mitchell about claims that the RUC failed to interview a number of witnesses.
The former officer confirmed that the RUC had planned to interview a suspected IRA man but RUC Special Branch officers denied them access to the suspect.
The court also heard that the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) had reported a sighting of a hijacked van - which was believed to have been used by the Kingsmills gunmen - parked outside the home of another suspected IRA member.
Mr Mitchell was asked why that man not brought in for questioning but he was unable to explain the decision.
The former detective was also asked why his officers had apparently failed to respond to a number of entries in the RUC's serious incident log.
One entry related to a phone call from a young woman who told police she saw a large group of men behind a shop in County Armagh on the afternoon of the Kingmills attack.
The court heard she was also able to describe the hijacked van used by the gunmen.
Mr Mitchell said he could not say why her report did not appear to have been acted on by the RUC.
The inquest also heard that the RUC failed to trace or question several eyewitnesses who came across the scene in the aftermath of the attack.
These included three men described in court as "potentially important witnesses" and a woman who gave a lift to the Catholic man who the gunmen had ordered to flee the scene.
The court heard that the woman, who had been driving a small car, brought the man back to his home after the shootings.
However, she was never identified let alone interviewed to check if she could help with the investigation.
Speaking outside court, Colin Wharton - who lost his brother in the Kingsmills attack - described the failures in the RUC investigation as "staggering". | The detective who led the investigation into the Kingsmills murders has faced questions over failures to trace and interview potentially vital witnesses. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40047047"} | 915 | 28 | 0.465764 | 1.200822 | 0.518382 | 1.521739 | 34.217391 | 0.913043 |
Sarah Louise Catt, 35, of Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire, took a drug when she was full term, 39 weeks pregnant, to cause an early delivery.
She claimed the boy was stillborn and that she buried his body, but no evidence of the child was ever found.
Catt made a "deliberate and calculated decision" to end her pregnancy, a Leeds Crown Court judge said.
Catt, who already had two children with her husband, had a scan at 30 weeks confirming her pregnancy at a hospital in Leeds, the court heard.
Suspicions were raised when she failed to register the birth weeks later.
Catt had been having an affair with a work colleague for seven years, the judge was told.
The court heard her husband was unaware of the pregnancy and was not consulted about her decision to have an abortion.
She maintained she had a legitimate abortion at a clinic in Manchester.
But analysis of her computer revealed she had purchased over the internet a drug which can induce labour, from a company in Mumbai, India.
The defendant pleaded guilty in July to administering a poison with intent to procure a miscarriage.
She told a psychiatrist she had taken the drug while her husband was away and delivered the baby boy by herself at home.
Catt said the child was not breathing or moving and that she had buried his body, but did not reveal the location.
The defendant gave a child up for adoption in 1999, the court was told.
She later had a termination with the agreement of her husband, tried to terminate another pregnancy but missed the legal limit and concealed another pregnancy from her husband before the child's birth.
Mr Justice Cooke said Catt had robbed the baby of the life it was about to have and said the seriousness of the crime lay between manslaughter and murder.
Sentencing, the judge told Catt she clearly thought the man with whom she was having an affair was the father and she had shown no remorse.
Ch Insp Kerrin Smith, who led the North Yorkshire Police investigation, said the case was "unusual, disturbing and very complicated".
Catt had proved to be "more than capable of being extremely deceitful in her actions", said Ch Insp Smith.
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William Wright told the Ballymena Guardian newspaper: "I am totally in favour of getting out."
He is a director of the Wrights Group which turns over almost £300m a year and employs more than 1,500 people.
Chief executives of other major local employers, such as Norbrook and Moy Park, support staying in the EU.
The UK is holding a referendum on its EU membership on 23 June.
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Last week the chief executive of the Wrights Group, Mark Nodder, said the company did not have a corporate position on the referendum but "each of us has our own personal view".
The EU is not a major export market for the Wrights Group, though Dublin Bus is a significant customer.
Mr Wright said he believed that the UK could strike better trade agreements outside the EU.
He added that farmers do not need to "fear an exit" as the UK government would put in place support measures after the withdrawal of EU subsidies.
In Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is the only major party supporting an exit with Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionists, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Alliance all in favour of remaining.
Last year, Mr Wright signed general election nomination papers for the successful DUP candidate in North Antrim, Ian Paisley.
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Sgt Steven William Darbyshire, 35, from Wigan, in Greater Manchester, was shot by insurgents on Wednesday while on security patrol in the Sangin district of Helmand province.
The father-of-two was the fourth member of 40 Commando to die in as many days.
On Thursday, the MoD announced that four British soldiers had been killed in a road accident in Helmand.
A total of 307 UK military personnel have died in Afghanistan since the start of operations in 2001.
In a statement released by the MoD, Sgt Darbyshire's family said "being Royal Marine was Steven's life and [while] growing up it was all he wanted to do".
"Our world will be a bleaker place without him, his infectious laughter and fantastic sense of humour," they said.
"Mere words do not begin to convey the deep grief and painful heartbreak his untimely death has brought to his shattered family and friends."
Sgt Darbyshire joined the Royal Marines in 1996 and served in Northern Ireland and Iraq before being deployed to Afghanistan.
His first tour was in 2007 and he returned again in April this year as part of Alpha Company.
His commanding officer, Lt Col Paul James, said he was "a charismatic, loyal, determined and dedicated sergeant with an irrepressible and infectious sense of humour".
Lt Col James said: "The last time I saw him he was covered in thick mud having just fallen into an irrigation ditch, but he gave me a beaming smile and in the manner that only he could deliver, illuminatingly described his misfortune to all."
"He never took life too seriously, but he cared passionately for the lives of others. He was a selfless, honest and extraordinarily courageous leader who thrived in the role of troop sergeant."
Known as "Darbs" to his colleagues, Sgt Darbyshire had two young sons, Ryan and Callum, with his wife Kate.
He was a fan of football, golf and rugby, and had represented the marine corps as a rugby league player.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox said he was "deeply saddened" to learn of his death.
"The tributes from Sergeant Steven Darbyshire's colleagues paint a picture of a talented marine and an inspirational leader, who has made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the national security of his country," he said. | A Royal Marine shot dead in southern Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of Defence. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "10407468"} | 543 | 18 | 0.423525 | 1.085125 | -0.531732 | 1 | 27.058824 | 0.764706 |
West Mercia said an allegation had been made towards the officer, based in Shropshire, relating to a "personal relationship".
The force refused to confirm the PCSO's name or gender, but said they had served for six years.
A hearing found the PCSO's behaviour had fallen "below the standards expected".
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Gwynedd council says the ward of Bryncrug/Llanfihangel in Meirionnydd has attracted no nominations.
It follows a decision by the sitting independent councillor Arwel Pierce to stand down from the authority.
The council said a by-election for the vacancy would have to be held some time after the elections on 3 May.
Mr Pierce was Gwynedd council's portfolio leader for highways and consultancy.
A Gwynedd council spokesperson said after nominations closed on Wednesday: "We can confirm that no candidates have been nominated for the Bryncrug/Llanfihangel ward.
"In accordance with the Representation of the People Act 1983, a by-election to fill the vacancy will be held in due course."
The ward covers a largely rural area on the south western edge of Snowdonia, including the villages of Bryncrug, near Tywyn, and Llanfihangel-y-Pennant in the foothills of Cadair Idris. | While thousands of local council candidates are hitting the campaign trial, one corner of north Wales has failed to tempt anyone to step forward. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "17622555"} | 245 | 28 | 0.488797 | 1.019249 | -0.278658 | 0.384615 | 6.538462 | 0.384615 |
They were flown home from Mexico where he had lived for years and where he died in 2014 at the age of 87.
A ceremony was held in the cloisters of Cartagena University, near Garcia Marquez's family home in the city.
He is best known for his magic realist novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera."
A bronze bust of the writer was unveiled by the writer's son Rodrigo Garcia Barcha in the centre of the cloisters of the university as the centrepiece of the memorial.
"It's a day of joy mixed with sorrow," his sister Aida Rosa Garcia Marquez told the French news agency AFP.
"But there is more joy than sorrow because to see a brother get to where Gabito reached can only bring joy."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in the town of Aracataca near Colombia's northern Caribbean coast and started working as a journalist in the late 1940s in Cartagena.
He had lived since the 1980s in Mexico but his family decided he should be buried in Cartagena where many of his family members were also interred.
"Cartagena is the city where the Garcia Marquez family is based. It is where my grandparents are buried." said Gonzalo Garcia Barcha, one of the author's two sons, from France where he now lives in an interview with AFP.
"It seemed natural to us that his ashes should be there too."
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The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm will form the basis of the serial, which will be made with the assistance of the Harry Potter author.
The BBC said it was a "coup" to secure the books, which feature private detective Cormoran Strike.
Filming details for the series have yet to be determined.
The number of episodes for the series are still in discussion, and it is not yet clear when it will be broadcast.
The BBC - together with US broadcaster HBO - has already made a small screen version of Rowling's A Casual Vacancy, which is due to be aired in February.
Production company Bronte Films, which made the mini-series, will also be responsible for the new crime drama.
BBC director of television Danny Cohen said: "It's a wonderful coup for BBC TV to be bringing JK Rowling's latest books to the screen.
"With the rich character of Cormoran Strike at their heart, these dramas will be event television across the world."
It emerged Rowling had written The Cuckoo's Calling under a male pseudonym last year, which immediately propelled the book into the bestsellers' list, three months after publication.
She said it had been a "liberating experience" writing under an unknown identity and had hoped to "keep this secret a little longer".
It later transpired a legal firm was the source of the leak of information to The Sunday Times, which revealed the news.
At the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival earlier this year, Rowling revealed the series of books were open-ended and she would produce more than her seven Harry Potter books.
"It's not seven. It's more. It's pretty open ended," she said, adding she could keep giving more cases to Strike.
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More illegal immigrants have been caught between the ports at the Hook of Holland and Harwich so far this year than in the whole of last year.
Josh Fallow, from Norfolk-based Richard Long Transport, said stowaways were becoming a "bigger and bigger problem".
The UK Border Agency has not yet responded to requests for a comment.
Dutch and UK lorry drivers are lobbying for more checks on Stena services crossing the North Sea.
More than 200 stowaways have been detected this year, including 68 at Harwich earlier this month, and another 50 bound for Hull last week.
I was able to board a Stena crossing in the Hook on Tuesday without showing any tickets, or a passport.
It was possible to reach the lorry deck unchecked during the crossing to Essex.
I also found a hole in the fence at the terminal at the Hook into a secure area where trailers were stored.
I spoke with one UK driver in Belgium who had been offered £2,500 to smuggle three migrants to the UK only last week.
Lorry drivers were also not security checked before boarding. My passport was shown in Harwich although I only witnessed one lorry being scanned on arrival.
Artur van Dijk, president of Transport and Logistic Nederland, which represents 5,500 truck companies, is lobbying his government and the European Union.
"We are quite worried about the situation," he said. "We all know about the problem at Calais and fear a lot of refugees will change from Calais to the Hook."
Last week representatives from the UK Border Agency travelled to Holland to discuss the stowaway problem with border security counterparts at the Hook.
Krijn Torreman, who owns Dutch-based Mammoet Ferry Transport, said he had spent £300,000 on increased security on his 450-strong fleet, but it was not enough to stop three Albanians from stowing away on one of his trailers.
The migrants had broken into a secure area on the Stena-owned dock at the Hook and were sealed by a trafficker. Their attempts to reach the UK were thwarted because the lorry drove inland. They flagged down the driver and were arrested by the police.
Mr Torreman said: "We need to have 100% CO2 control or sniffer dogs. If it continues, the problem will grow in any terminal in Belgium and Holland. We can't protect my drivers if they are on the way anymore. That is the worrying part about it.
"We need the help of the authorities to make sure that we can do safe transport and also that we can protect not just our drivers, but our cargo."
Last week MP Bernard Jenkin said only 6% of lorries arriving at Harwich were checked.
Mr Fallow said he dove heavy agricultural machinery between the Hook of Holland and Harwich in Essex twice a week.
Although he has not been targeted by stowaways so far, he said he was making extra checks on his loads.
"They are trying to find any way they can into the UK," he said. "Some have been found in Rotterdam. That is now going to become a bigger and bigger problem. More of them are going to find their way up here because Calais is getting tighter and tighter."
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Dieudonne was also fined €9,000 ($9,500; £6,300) by the court in the city of Liege. He was not in court.
The comedian, who insists he is not anti-Semitic, made the remarks during a show in Liege in 2012.
He has several convictions for anti-Semitism and hate speech.
One of his most recent was after the attack in January on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
Dieudonne rose to prominence through the invention of the "quenelle", a hand gesture critics have likened to an inverted Nazi salute.
Several French cities have banned the comedian from performing.
The Belgian court's judgement on Wednesday said that "all the accusations against Dieudonne were established - both incitement to hatred and hate speech but also Holocaust denial".
Eric Lemmens, a lawyer for Belgium's Jewish organisations, said the guilty verdict was a "major victory".
Earlier this month the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Dieudonne in a separate case. It judged that freedom of speech did not mean his performances could be racist or anti-Semitic.
Dieudonne was at that time appealing against a fine he received from a French court in 2009 for inviting a Holocaust denier on stage.
In March, Dieudonne was found guilty by a French court of condoning terrorism and given a two-month sentence.
He had posted on Facebook "I feel like Charlie Coulibaly" just days after the January Paris attacks..
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The unmanned aerial vehicles captured a rare white southern whale calf on film as well as recording scenes little known about by scientists.
Record numbers of the whale species have been recorded in their Great Australian Bight breeding grounds.
Australia's southern right whale population is estimated to be 3,000 - 20% of its pre-whaling population.
Murdoch University and Curtin University have been researching southern right whales for almost two decades.
The whales are found only in the oceans of the southern hemisphere. They inhabit waters close to Antarctica during the summer and migrate north in winter.
Curtin University researcher Claire Charlton said it will take many years for the animals to come off the endangered list.
"To assess their health and recovery, long-term population monitoring in the order of decades is required," she said.
The Great Australian Bight is famed for its vast stretches of sheer cliffs. With water access restrained, the whales can be sighted only from the air.
Drones are equipped with rangefinders which allow the vehicles to assess the size and health of mothers and their calves over the three-month breeding season.
Murdoch University researcher Fredrik Christiansen said the research team have assessed more than 170 whales since the season began in late June.
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Mr Jones told the Senedd it was "utterly wrong" to use EU citizens living in the UK as "bargaining chips".
He said: "It makes them sound like hostages. They are not hostages. They are welcome in Wales."
He replied to a question from Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood who called on him to give reassurances to people from other parts of the EU living in Wales.
The comments come amid a debate in the Conservative leadership on guaranteeing the rights of EU citizens already in this country after Brexit.
Mr Jones told First Minister's Questions that he has written to Home Secretary Theresa May over the issue.
Ms May had suggested last weekend that the status of existing EU residents in the UK could be part of Brexit negotiations.
But Tory leadership contender Andrea Leadsom has said citizens of other EU countries living in the UK cannot be "bargaining chips" in Brexit negotiations.
Rival leadership contender, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Stephen Crabb, echoed Ms Leadsom's pledge.
During an urgent question session in the Senedd on EU citizens, Simon Thomas of Plaid Cymru said: "There are 67,000 people from European Union nations living in Wales, and 500 of them are doctors in our health service. We can't afford to lose these people.
"They are part of our families, part of our communities and part of contemporary Wales. It is disgraceful that these people are treated in the way that they have been in the past week."
Jenny Rathbone, Cardiff Central Labour AM, said she spent part of Monday morning "trying to remove a racist slogan from somebody's front door".
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The 17-year-old, who has not been named, was arrested in connection with the deaths of Barry Street, 32, and Nathan Oakley, aged 18, on Thursday.
Post-mortem tests carried out on Saturday confirmed both men died as a result of stab injuries.
The suspect has been remanded in custody and will appear at Ipswich Youth Court on Monday.
Suffolk Police were called to West Meadows traveller site at 13:15 GMT on Thursday after reports that a man in his thirties had been stabbed and collapsed close to the entrance of the camp.
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies warned if the Budget forecasts were right "we should all be worried".
"This will lead to lower wages and living standards, not just lower tax revenues for the Treasury," it said.
Mr Osborne blamed global factors for the cut, but Labour said his credibility was "completely shot".
Labour also accused him of cutting taxes for the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
The independent forecasting body, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), revised the UK growth forecasts down for the next five years in Wednesday's Budget, and Mr Osborne warned the outlook for the global economy was "markedly weaker" with the UK "not immune" to a slowdown.
The IFS said lower UK productivity was largely to blame for the downgrade.
Another think tank, the Resolution Foundation, warned that the richest households would be the greatest beneficiaries from next year's tax changes.
From April 2017, no one will start paying income tax until they earn £11,500 - up from £11,000 from April 2016. And the threshold for the higher rate of tax will be raised from £43,000 to £45,000.
The Resolution Foundation said that would mean the poorest 20% of households gaining just £10 a year on average, while the richest 20% would gain £225.
Despite the lower-than-expected growth, Mr Osborne said he was still on track to get the UK back in the black by 2020, insisting on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he would clear the deficit.
But he added the proviso that it would happen "in normal times when the economy is growing".
However, the IFS warned Mr Osborne was "running out of wriggle room" and gave him just a 50% chance of hitting his target of a £10bn surplus on the public finances by 2020.
It also warned that if growth deteriorated further then Mr Osborne would need fresh spending cuts or tax rises to meet his pledge.
"If there was another downgrade in fiscal forecasts of a similar magnitude and the chancellor did wish to remain on course to deliver a budget surplus in 2019-20 then this would surely require more real policy change," said IFS director Paul Johnson.
Mr Johnson also said the chancellor had "managed to shift quite a lot money around" to try and meet his target but he can only "get away with this once".
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In the Budget, Mr Osborne said he would cut spending by a further £3.5bn in the last year of parliament, on top of the cuts announced in November, but did not specify where these would fall.
Mr Osborne said he would also bring forward capital spending, previously due in 2019, and delay tax revenues for the same year to make sure he achieved his budget surplus target.
"If we get another downgrade in prospects or prospects for tax receipts which is perfectly possible - it's almost a 50:50 chance that that will happen - if that happens again he won't be able to get away with a similar set of actions next time," said Mr Johnson.
"He will either have to actually impose some real tax increases of some more spending cuts or he'll have to say, 'look I'm just not going to meet my target. This is the last chance, this is the last time he's going to be able to get away with moving things around like this."
Mr Johnson also warned that there would be an additional "year of austerity" after the next election as a result of Mr Osborne's pledge to maintain the surplus.
"The chancellor has added another year of austerity, another year of spending cuts to the end of his plans so even if we get - if we get - to surplus in 2019/20 which is the plan, we'll have to have another year of pain to stay there the following year," Mr Johnson told the BBC's World at One. | Growth in wages and living standards is set to slow, a think tank has warned, after Chancellor George Osborne revised down forecasts for economic expansion. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35830754"} | 902 | 34 | 0.41529 | 0.995652 | 0.273329 | 1.357143 | 29.214286 | 0.857143 |
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