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40680373 | The action, which began at 00:01, coincides with the final day of The Open golf tournament in Southport.
Rail union RMT said it recognised "the severe impact" the strike would have but it had "no option but... to force the company back to the negotiating table".
Merseyrail said there would be limited services across the region.
A spokesperson said trains would still be able to get people to and from Royal Birkdale, where the championship has been held since Thursday.
However, there will be no rail services across the rest of the Merseyrail network.
RMT claims the driver-only-operated trains are unsafe and will lead to widespread job losses.
The union's general secretary, Mick Cash, said: "Merseyrail are completely ignoring the clear wishes of their own passengers, who overwhelmingly oppose the idea of driver-only-operated trains on their network."
"Merseyrail have repeatedly kicked all conciliatory approaches by RMT negotiators back in our faces and made it crystal clear that all that they are interested in is the union signing a surrender document, which gives them a free hand to rip apart the safety culture on the railway," he added.
Merseyrail managing director, Jan Chaudhry-van der Velde, described the action as "disgraceful".
"The RMT executive thinks nothing of doing down the Liverpool city region in its proudest moments," he said.
"This industrial action is nothing to do with safety. If it was, the RMT would never have agreed a staffing deal last month with Great Western Railway, which sees new trains introduced, some with guards on them and some operating only with drivers." | Workers at Merseyrail have started a 24-hour strike in a dispute with the firm over driver-only-operated trains. |
36213479 | First some were hit by tear gas as they tried to cross the border into Macedonia, then the stormy weather played havoc with their fragile tents. Most of the tents here were donated by charities but they are not fully waterproof.
Despite the squalid conditions, the makeshift camp of Idomeni is witnessing something of a marriage phenomenon. In the past few days, a handful of couples have become engaged and the camp has become a wedding venue for the first time.
Many of the refugees and migrants at Idomeni have been here since the main refugee route to northern Europe was closed off almost two months ago.
They stayed hoping the borders would reopen, but nothing has changed and they are trying to work out how to move on with their lives.
They are among more than 50,000 people stranded in Greece. While others have relocated to temporary camps organised by the government and the army, those at Idomeni are staying put.
They fear being forgotten and demand safe passage to continue their journeys.
"Life here is still tragic," explained one woman from Damascus. "At least in Syria if you die, you die once. Here you die every day."
But life at Idomeni is also about survival and a constant search for normality.
Among the migrants and refugees here are a man selling Greek coffee for a euro, a barber with one solitary chair for his clients and a falafel-maker, who left his restaurants behind in Syria - to be destroyed.
The community even has a TV reporting team which regularly uploads videos to social networking sites.
Saher and his fiancee, Roquia, had been engaged for four months. They wanted to wait until they reached Germany to be married but, as they realised that might take years, they decided they could not wait any longer.
"The borders won't open anytime soon, so we thought why not marry now?" said Saher. "I am happy of course to be married, but I am sad too.
"My only wish is that eventually the whole of Syria will be safe and I can return."
As word got round that the couple were to have a party, the news also reached the deputy mayor of nearby Paionia, who also happens to own a wedding dress factory. Without hesitation, he donated a dress, on the condition it be used afterwards for other women wishing to marry.
"People are living in a period of difficult times - they don't have money, they don't have food, they're displaced, they're damaged," said the deputy mayor, Ioannis Avramopoulos.
"It was nothing to donate this dress. I hope the couple grow old together in love."
For once, there were no tears of sadness in the camp, but tears of joy and an atmosphere of celebration. With dancing and music blaring from mobile phones and small speakers, a fire was lit.
Small lamps were brought by volunteers, rose petals were thrown onto a makeshift honeymoon suite - a tent raised on wooden planks so as not to get flooded. Inside it, a little table had been set up with perfume and cigarettes.
"My parents are still in Syria and cannot be with me - and that makes me very sad," said Saher. "But the people of Idomeni have become my family now."
The guests at the party, eager to congratulate the couple, brought with them wishes for a happy future and prosperous marriage, but no gifts. Many have spent their life savings on escaping violence and have few euros left.
They often show visitors to the camp pictures and photographs of what they left behind. Their homes are now a pile of grey rubble.
One woman is permanently reminded of the horrors she managed to escape. Her seven-month-old baby bears the scars of cigarette burns inflicted by so-called Islamic State militants.
The EU is still struggling to reach a viable solution to the migrant crisis, and those trapped in the middle are beginning to understand two certainties. One is that the borders opposite are not opening any time soon. The other, that although they may no longer have much, they at least have each other. And life must go on, somehow. | It has been a tough week for the refugees camped out on the northern Greek border with Macedonia. |
38795676 | Morocco left the organisation in 1984, after it recognised the independence of Western Sahara, regarded by Morocco as part of its historic territory.
It was the only country in Africa that was not a member of the continental body.
AU leaders also voted for Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat to be the next head of the AU commission.
Mr Faki Mahamat beat Kenya's top diplomat Amina Mohamed.
The race is usually settled behind the scenes before the vote but this went to seven rounds of voting.
Outgoing commissioner, South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, stayed in the job an extra six months after leaders failed to agree a candidate in July.
Mr Faki garnered 39 votes in a hotly contested election at the ongoing heads of state summit in the city.
While campaigning for the job, he said he dreamt of an Africa where the "sound of guns would be drowned out by cultural songs and rumbling factories" and pledged to streamline the bureaucratic AU during his four-year term in office.
Analysts say he was considered an outsider but being at the forefront of the fight against Islamist militants in Nigeria, Mali and the Sahel may have worked in his favour.
Western Sahara is the last African case on the United Nations decolonisation committee.
A referendum was promised in 1991 but never carried out due to wrangling over who is eligible to vote.
BBC World Service Africa editor James Copnall says the issue is likely to remain contentious despite Morocco's readmission to the AU.
Kitesurfing in a danger zone | Morocco has been readmitted as a member of the African Union (AU) after months of intense lobbying. |
35112158 | Here, we look back at at some of the most popular Big Pictures we've featured in 2015.
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At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws collecting any kind of media. | Each day we feature one of the fabulous photographs sent in by the BBC News website audience across England. |
36376226 | A draft of the report contained a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef and references to Kakadu and Tasmania.
But Australia's Department of the Environment requested that Unesco scrub these sections from the final version.
A statement from the department said the report could have had an impact on tourism to Australia.
It also said the report's title, Destinations at Risk, had "the potential to cause considerable confusion".
"In particular, the World Heritage Committee had only six months earlier decided not to include the Great Barrier Reef on the in-danger list and commended Australia for the Reef 2050 Plan," the statement said.
"The department was concerned that the framing of the report confused two issues - the world heritage status of the sites and risks arising from climate change and tourism.
"Recent experience in Australia had shown that negative commentary about the status of world heritage properties impacted on tourism."
Prof Will Steffen, an emeritus professor at the Australian National University and head of Australia's Climate Council, was one of the scientific reviewers on the paper.
He told the BBC that he was "amazed by the apparent overreaction that's gone on".
"I don't understand it at all. I think it was a very balanced report. There was nothing in that report that was not already known," he said.
Prof Steffen was sceptical about official explanations that the report risked causing confusion over the status of the reef and could impact tourism.
"There's no substance to either of those arguments," he said.
"There was no mention at all that the Great Barrier Reef might be listed as endangered. There was also a paragraph at the end that discussed steps the Australian government is taking to mitigate risks to the reef."
Prof Steffen also noted that distribution of the report, which summarises risks to World Heritage areas in many nations, would likely be limited to specialists who worked in associated fields.
"You wouldn't expect to see it on a bestseller list," he said.
The report was created by Unesco in partnership with the Union of Concerned Scientists and the United Nations Environment Program.
It is not clear why Unesco agreed to the government's request to remove the passages. | All references to climate change's impact on World Heritage sites in Australia have been removed from a United Nations report. |
34184531 | Forget the 'difficult second album' concept - imagine the pressure to deliver new and exciting goods when you get to album number fourteen.
"After three and a half decades of being together, if you're going to make another new album, it needs to be something very special - otherwise we shouldn't bother," says Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes.
But he admits "reinventing the Duran Duran sound" - made famous on 1980s hits like Rio, The Wild Boys and Girls on Film - can sometimes be "easier said than done".
"It took longer than usual," says Rhodes of the two years they spent perfecting Paper Gods. "Probably the first year was spent down underground in the mine, trying to find some gold."
Founded by Rhodes and bassist John Taylor in Birmingham in 1978, Duran Duran has been through several incarnations and its members haven't always seen eye to eye.
But Rhodes tells the BBC these days he, Taylor, singer Simon Le Bon and drummer Roger Taylor have all learned to work through the rows and appreciate each other.
You're headlining Bestival this weekend and heading off on a UK tour in November - how do Duran Duran cope with living in each others pockets after 37 years?
At this point we are like a family. There is a lot of affection for what we've been through together and we enjoy being together. We laugh a lot together.
I mean, there are times when we could all sort of kill each other. Tempers will fray and people will want to take a song in a different direction - we just have to let go of that once we leave the studio.
You've said you found 'a whole new level of inspiration' working on Paper Gods, but it took some time?
I think people always think we have this grand plan - it just isn't like that. We really sit around with some instruments and try to find a direction and sort of wipe the slate clean every time.
Do you throw a lot of stuff away then?
We throw away I would say two albums worth of material to get the third. We do have very high standards - there's four of us, so there is usually someone who says 'I think that can be better'. We tend to write a few songs and then we finally get one that we all agree is better than the others - so then you've almost got to say 'this is the new standard - everything we have has got to be at least this good.'
You'd worked with producers Mark Ronson (2011's All You Need is Now) and Nile Rodgers (Notorious, 1986) separately before, but not together - how was that?
Mark had known Nile since he was a little boy but he'd never ever worked with him and he said 'I think you should work with Nile again', and 'can I please be on those sessions too?' It was such a simple idea.
Nile is always pure pleasure to have around. The way he plays guitar lifts people's spirits. He'd just come off the back of the Daft Punk record Get Lucky, so sitting in a room with him and Mark Ronson, who played us his forthcoming track with Bruno Mars, Uptown Funk - and we all know what happened to that song - having those two people in the room with the four of us was really a dream team. We did two songs together over about three days, Pressure Off, the first single, and a track called Only in Dreams. It was electric in the room.
When it comes to [Nile's] CV, I can't think of anyone in recent years that has a better one - David Bowie, Madonna, Chic, Sister Sledge, obviously his work with us, Debbie Harry, Grace Jones, Diana Ross. And all of those albums are so special - he brings some amazing energy.
There's quite a roll call on your album too - Janelle Monae, former Red Hot Chilli Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, Hideaway singer Keisza - and on the other end of the scale is Lindsay Lohan, who voices a doctor on the track Danceophobia?
With Keisza we wanted the ultimate diva on that track [Last Night in the City] with the voice that could shatter glass around the universe and an energy. She is a rising star and she is going to be around for a long time.
[Lindsay] was in London doing [the play] Speed the Plough and we'd known her for a little while. She sent [Simon] a note saying, 'hey, I hear you're in the studio - can I come and do something on the album? We had this idea based on Michael Jackson's Thriller, on the wonderful monologue that Vincent Price delivered. She really nailed it.
Lindsay's reputation precedes her but actually she loves doing the things that she does and she is damn good at it. It took us a little while to get her there - I think Simon had to go and fetch her in the car in the end - but she came along with her sister and took over the entire place, it was a lot of fun.
You teamed up with producer Mr Hudson too - who's worked with Kanye West and Jay Z. What do you think he brought to the album?
He was a very key character. Ben came along about a year in and helped us do some editing. He literally said 'well I love that one, this one I think we could work on a bit more and why don't we do something new?'.
He'll play a little bit of guitar, or contribute to lyrics - so he almost became like our fifth member for the project.
I think we're quite a tough room to walk into because we all have known each other for a very long time. Probably being from Birmingham helped a little, but he came for an afternoon and stayed for the best part of the next year.
You were one of the first bands to be played on MTV in the 1980s - what do you think of Kanye being given their lifetime achievement award this year?
That's quite a short lifetime, but I think he deserves it. Kanye is definitely one of the most interesting artists of his generation and we all admire him, and I think see a little bit of ourselves in him - that he wants to change things and try out different things. He's adventurous musically. He's definitely cut from the same sort of marble as we came from.
Taylor Swift presented him with the award - arguably the biggest artist in the world at the moment. Is she somebody you would like to work with?
I haven't met her actually, but I admire her process and I admire the way she has insisted that musicians are compensated properly for their work [by streaming services]. She took a very brave and intelligent stance. The way things have gone online has made it very hard for more esoteric artists to find that audience and build their sound - to actually survive. Every little bit helps and the fact that she's gone out there and stuck her head above the parapet and said 'no, you shouldn't take advantage', I think was really right.
And yes of course, I think she's very talented too and if she wants to give us a call, absolutely!
Paper Gods is released via Warner Bros Records on 11 September. | As Duran Duran return with their 14th album Paper Gods, Nick Rhodes talks about being "like a family", working with the "dream team" of Mark Ronson and Nile Rodgers and seeing a bit of themselves in Kanye West. |
36297966 | Terry, 35, is out of contract at the end of this season and in January said he would not be extending his stay.
The centre-back broke down in tears as he addressed the home supporters at Stamford Bridge after his side's 1-1 Premier League draw against Leicester.
"We all want the same thing," said Terry in response to fans chanting "John Terry, we want you to stay".
He added: "I want to stay, the club knows that, the fans know that."
Terry is considering whether to accept the club's offer of an extra 12 months, but are yet to comment on the exact nature of the role that has been offered.
On Friday, a Chelsea spokesman said: "With it coming so late in the season, this is a big decision for John and his family."
Chelsea will be managed next season by Italy boss Antonio Conte, who takes over from Guus Hiddink after previous manager Jose Mourinho was sacked in December.
"This has been a difficult season, we are where we deserve to be in the league. The fans have stuck with us. Thank you," added Terry.
"I can assure you we'll be back fighting for this title next year. On a personal note, this has been tough for me, very emotional. Before I sign off I'd like to say thank you to Guus Hiddink. He is a great man."
Terry was suspended for the game against the Foxes and has made 703 appearances since making his debut in October 1998. | Chelsea captain John Terry "wants to stay" at the club after being offered a "different role" on a one-year deal. |
38096222 | Labour's UK leader election system was changed to one member one vote (OMOV), where all votes count equally, in 2015.
Under Welsh Labour's current rules an "electoral college" weighs the vote equally between three groups.
The groups are elected members (AMs, MPs and MEPs), trade unions and other affiliated groups and ordinary members.
Welsh Labour acquired the power to change the rules at the party's UK conference in September.
Any changes would apply to a future contest to succeed Labour's current leader in Wales, First Minister Carwyn Jones.
They would also be used in a deputy leader election if Welsh Labour decided to create such a role.
A consultation on its new powers, which include control over assembly and general election candidate selection, will start in the spring.
UK Labour's move to OMOV - with "registered supporters" given a vote too - was seen as helping Jeremy Corbyn win the leadership.
And some on the left of the party in Wales would like to see the same system applied here.
Swansea East AM Mike Hedges, a supporter of Mr Corbyn, told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales he would campaign for OMOV as it is the "direction of travel" of all political parties.
"I fully support one member one vote, I think it's the fairest system," he said.
"Every member's vote counts exactly the same.
"I think that's really important to make everyone feel they're valued.
"It would be strange if Welsh Labour kept a different system [from the UK party]."
Labour Torfaen AM Lynne Neagle disagrees.
"I think it is absolutely fundamental that we maintain the links with the trade union representatives that the electoral college provides," she said.
"We are a broad church, the electoral college represents all wings of the party and fundamentally also ensures that whoever leads Welsh Labour has the support of the Labour group in the national assembly."
Mr Jones has refused to say when he plans to stand down as Welsh Labour leader and first minister but there has been speculation he may go in 2019, after serving 10 years.
The leading potential candidate on the left of the party is Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford.
Other candidates who have been touted as potential successors to Mr Jones - Health Secretary Vaughan Gething and Economy Secretary Ken Skates - are seen as being more centrist, as are many of Labour's new intake of AMs.
The consultation will last a year.
Welsh Labour will ask AMs, MPs, members, unions and other affiliated groups for their views.
Mike Payne from the GMB union will become Welsh Labour chairman next year and will oversee the consultation.
He said it is not yet decided how a final decision will be taken.
"Whether that's ultimately a Welsh Exec [Welsh Labour's ruling committee] decision or whether we decide it should go to conference to discuss and agree, that's a debatable point of the consultation."
A Welsh Labour spokesman said: "Having secured greater autonomy we will engage with stakeholders on how best to implement the whole package of rules." | Welsh Labour is to consider changing its leadership election rules to the system which saw Jeremy Corbyn become UK party leader, BBC Wales has learned. |
39502276 | Nicola Farningham claimed she was a single mother but was living with her husband Paul at their Dundee home.
A court was told the mother-of-four had been forced to sell her house to start paying back the money.
Farningham, 39 admitted a charge under the Tax Credits Act committed between 15 May 2005 and 14 July 2014.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard previously that she was employed as a tax credits advisor in HMRC's Dundee call centre, advising the public about child and working tax credits.
Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson told the court that an HMRC investigation was launched in 2014 following a tip-off.
She said: "The investigation into the accused established that she had married Paul Farningham on 7 September 2007 and that they had four children together.
"The accused and Mr Farningham had shared a joint bank account since 2004 and a joint mortgage for their property which they bought together in 2005.
"When she was interviewed the accused said they had not been co-habiting at any stage despite buying a property and having four children."
The court was told that a compensation order of £40,410 to be paid within six months had been agreed.
Kevin Hampton, defending, said: "Subject to the house being sold she will pay more towards the outstanding debt.
"She understands she is in a very difficult position today, given length of time and the amount involved.
"This was not to fund an extravagant lifestyle or excessive spending.
"This money all went towards bills, primarily child care."
"This has had and will have a devastating effect on her."
Sheriff Alastair Carmichael jailed Farningham for 21 weeks and told her: "It's a sad and familiar tale.
"Ultimately though, it's a fraud on public finances." | An HM Revenue and Customs worker who fraudulently claimed £65,000 in benefits has been jailed for five months. |
40702486 | It was a really exciting but tough game. India played well but England fought back hard, and in the end India were bowled out for 219 with eight balls unused.
England's Tammy Beaumont was named player of the tournament, after finishing as the leading run-scorer with 410.
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Joseph, 14, Northamptonshire | On Sunday England's Women won the Cricket World Cup in style, beating India by nine runs. |
31708693 | BBC Sport is paying tribute to pioneering women in sport in the run up to International Women's Day on 8 March. Here we look at the battle for the Women's Boat Race to be held on the same course and same day as the men's.
It is nearly 90 years since the first women's Cambridge v Oxford University Boat Race and finally they are being allowed to compete on the same tideway course as the men and have equal television coverage and funding from sponsors.
As a proud veteran of the 2003 Women's Boat Race - I was one of the defeated Cambridge crew - it has been fascinating to be able to step back in time to trace where the race has come from, and the stories of those women who participated in it.
First stop was my birthplace, Cornwall. Not only did the first men's University Boat Race in 1829 take place in a boat built to the design of the Cornish racing shells of the time, but there were a few notable female rowers hailing from the county.
One such was Ann Glanville, from east Cornwall, and her all-female crew, who achieved notable success against men in local regattas in the 1840s. A mother to 14 children, she was even presented to Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales, and billed as the female rowing champion of the world.
Fast forward 150 years and another trailblazing woman has been a key part of the movement to give the races equal billing: Helena Morrissey, chief executive of race sponsors, Newton Investment Management.
She was a Cambridge graduate herself, although not involved in rowing. However, she was instrumental in putting her shoulder to the rock of resistance a few years ago, and giving it a massive heave.
She refused to listen to excuses that women could not cope with negotiating the tides and bends of the men's 7000m course and until now had to make do with a 2000m course on a different stretch of the Thames in Henley, days before the men's showpiece. Many casual sports fans were not even aware a women's race existed.
So it is remarkable how far we've come. The first race, in 1927, was staged after much discussion of whether they could wear shorts, or their more demure gym tunics. One of the Cambridge rowers had to sit on a stool in front of university staff, simulating the action of rowing, to ascertain which clothes best preserved her modesty.
There were attempts to keep the sport ladylike and in the first few races they were not allowed to race side by side and instead first rowed downstream, passed the judges, who marked on style and grace.
They then raced upstream against the clock and one female athlete was heard exhorting her crew to "row like hell". This caused some upset in the media, presumably among those men who preferred their ladies rather more reserved.
And The Times report of the day stated that hordes of angry men headed to the river to shake their fists and yell at the women as they did not see it as a sport they should partake in.
As part of the filming, I met a group of ex-rowers now in their 50s, 60s and 70s to discuss their memories of the Women's Boat Race. We had a wonderful conversation over a hot cross bun or two, looking at photographs of the big hair and shoulder pads of the Oxbridge crews of the 1970s and 1980s.
One Oxford rower from 1985 brought a photo along that was published in the media of the time. It featured their male cox surrounded by his female crew, all in gowns, mortar boards and fishnet nights (above). The media were apparently fascinated by the idea of a male of smaller stature giving orders to eight women, all about six feet tall. These days it's fairly standard in the Boat Race to have one gender coxing the other.
One thing that came across to me was the attitude then, which remains the attitude of female athletes from any sport now, when faced with the glaring inequalities between men and women: "we just got on with it".
In the United States, there was a federal law called title IX passed in 1972 which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education programme or activity. But the women rowers at Yale University were still being treated as second class citizens and decided enough was enough.
In 1976, they stripped off their clothes to reveal title IX across their backs as they demonstrated to the Yale hierarchy and in a prepared statement told the university: "These are the bodies Yale is exploiting".
It did the trick. American Daphne Martschenko will be competing for Cambridge next month and told me: "It was a moment that defined history, and shaped the lives of women who were to come afterwards in sport in the United States.
"In terms of what it has done for me personally, it's opened so many doors, it's provided so many opportunities.
"It has made it such an honour not to only row for Stanford University but made it a possibility to come here, to row for Cambridge at this historic and monumental time."
I cannot wait for the Women's Boat Race in 2015, and it will be an emotional moment for me when the starting flag drops. I will be in the BBC commentary box, and I will be reflecting on my own Boat Race, and on those in the decades before who played their part in the journey to that moment. Fighters, trailblazers, but above all - women.
The Boat Race will be shown on BBC One on 11 April from 16:15 BST. | History will be made on 11 April on the waters of the Thames when the men's and women's Boat Race teams race on the same day for the first time. |
29848691 | The visitors took a surprise lead in the second half when Joaquin Larrivey finished after Nolito's backheel.
Luis Enrique's Barcelona side hit the woodwork four times, with Lionel Messi and Neymar both being frustrated twice.
Luis Suarez, making his home debut, had two chances to score an equaliser but missed with a header and had an effort saved by goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez.
It means Suarez has lost in both of the competitive matches he has played for Barcelona since joining from Liverpool for £75m.
After serving a four-month suspension for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during the World Cup, the Uruguayan striker made his first appearance for Barcelona in their 3-1 El Clasico defeat away at Real Madrid last Saturday.
Barcelona missed out on winning La Liga by three points last season and will hope this result does not prove crucial at the end of the campaign.
They had the majority of the chances and could have scored inside the opening 10 minutes but Neymar wasted a header and then hit the bar.
Barca's Lionel Messi, two goals away from becoming the all-time La Liga goalscorer, had three opportunities in the first half.
His first shot was punched away by Alvarez, he then rounded the goalkeeper but saw Jonny Castro deflect his shot onto the bar before the Argentine headed over from eight yards out soon after.
Larrivey put Celta Vigo ahead inside 10 minutes of the second half, one of only four shots on target they had in the whole match.
But Barcelona continued to be wasteful.
Neymar hit the bar, Suarez headed straight at Alvarez from 10 yards out and Messi clipped the upright from a free-kick as Celta Vigo held on to claim their first La Liga win at the Nou Camp. | Barcelona suffered their first home La Liga defeat of the season as they were beaten by Celta Vigo at the Nou Camp. |
37720480 | The former chancellor said many voters felt "completely disconnected" and didn't feel part of a "national economy that works for them".
"I think many used the EU referendum to express that anger," he said.
Mr Osborne, who was sacked as chancellor in July, had campaigned for the UK to remain in the European Union.
He faced criticism for warning of a £30bn "black hole" if the UK voted to leave.
He told the BBC's Sunday Politics North West that being a backbencher "is a complete change of life and tempo", adding he now has time to "think about mistakes I've made and how we can put them right."
"I've got to go on learning, not least why the country voted the way it did in the referendum that led to me leaving Downing Street."
"I don't think I properly understood the sense that people had in many communities, particularly in the north of England, that they were completely disconnected from the system, from the way our country was governed, they felt angry about things."
Defending his economic record, the former chancellor said that when he entered Downing Street in 2010 "the country was in an economic crisis".
He insisted: "All of my efforts and energy was on trying to fix the crisis", adding attention should to turn to helping "communities who feel left behind" due to job and pension insecurity.
Mr Osborne explained he launched his Northern Powerhouse think tank last month to ensure the project doesn't lose "momentum".
Asked what he hoped his legacy would be, he said "The Northern Powerhouse is what I want to be remembered for, [as a] Member of Parliament who threw everything in to reversing that north-south gap".
Mr Osborne also pledged to remain an MP in Cheshire, despite the proposed abolition of his constituency.
The seat will disappear under boundary proposals which will reduce the number of MPs in the county by one.
Mr Osborne may face a contest with neighbouring Conservative MPs to stand in a Cheshire constituency if proposed boundary changes are approved.
He said he was "pretty confident" that he will be representing the county after the next general election, insisting "my heart is here". | George Osborne has said he made "mistakes" in the EU referendum campaign and failed to understand the anger felt by many Leave voters. |
37430112 | The Stagecoach vehicle caught fire in Wellington Road, forcing the closure of the southbound and northbound lanes.
The driver was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
A spokeswoman for Stagecoach North Scotland said: "One of our vehicles suffered a technical problem. The vehicle was not in service and there were no passengers on board."
She added: "Safety is our absolute priority and we will investigate the cause of this incident as a matter of priority."
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was called out to tackle the blaze. | A bus driver has been taken to hospital after his vehicle caught fire in Aberdeen. |
36570131 | The insect was discovered at Ivinghoe Beacon by National Trust entomologist Peter Brash.
He believes it is the first recorded sighting of the species in the Chilterns.
The rare sighting of the fly, which is listed as a priority for conservation action, fulfils a decades-long ambition for the insect expert.
"Nobody knows much about this enigmatic hoverfly," he said.
"I first saw a picture of the Phantom hoverfly 23 years ago and immediately wanted to see it.
"Some say it only survives for around 10 days as an adult, whilst others say that it stays in the tree canopy and only descends to the ground to breed."
The Phantom is rare to Britain because its preferred habitat of scrub near woodland on chalk is uncommon.
Mr Brash said perfect conditions for the insect had been created at the trust's Ashridge Estate. | A hoverfly so rarely seen it is known as 'the Phantom' has been spotted on the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire. |
32573928 | Robert Gurling, from Romford, was last seen with the boy at Great Notley near Braintree, at about 10:30 BST on Saturday.
Despite an extensive search, Essex Police have not been able to find Mr Gurling, who is not allowed unsupervised access to the child.
He is described as white, aged in his 40s, 6ft tall, and of medium build.
He has cropped dark brown hair that is greying and was wearing a grey tracksuit top and jeans.
The boy has blonde hair and was wearing a jacket, grey tracksuit bottoms and red trainers.
They may be travelling in a blue car.
The police search included use of the force helicopter.
Det Ch Insp Simon Werrett said: 'Mr Gurling has abducted his child from the foster parents.
"He is not allowed unsupervised access to the child and therefore we need to urgently locate the child to ensure he is safe and well." | Police are searching for a man who has abducted his three-year-old son from the child's foster parents. |
32194270 | UKIP leader Nigel Farage welcomed Mike Whitehead's move, with Mr Whitehead citing a row with the local Conservative group for his decision.
The Conservatives said Mr Whitehead had been "sacked" as its candidate in the constituency last week.
He had previously resigned as a Tory councillor on East Riding Council.
Mr Whitehead will not be standing for UKIP in the general election because the party already has a candidate in the constituency. But he will stand in the local elections, which take place on the same day.
Mr Whitehead is the second district councillor from East Riding Council to join UKIP in recent weeks.
Speaking on BBC Five Live, Mr Whitehead said the Conservative party had "terminated" his candidacy in the Hull West and Hessle seat after he refused not to stand as a local councillor.
"The Conservative Party took a pre-emptive strike because they knew I was going," he said.
"I got an email on Wednesday evening to say that if didn't stand aside from my intentions to stand in the local elections they would remove my candidacy in Hull West and Hessle."
UKIP leader Nigel Farage described the move as a "hammer blow to Tory pretensions in the north of England".
The Conservative Culture Secretary Sajid Javid denied Mr Whitehead had defected from the party. "The gentleman involved was not a Conservative candidate," he said.
"He was up until last week but he was sacked and so it's not a defection."
Labour's former home secretary Alan Johnson has been MP for Hull West and Hessle since 1997.
He is defending a 5,700 majority from the 2010 general election when the Conservatives finished third.
Labour's Jon Trickett, shadow Cabinet Office minister, insisted the move was "another huge blow" for the prime minister's authority.
"UKIP and the Tories increasingly share the same people as well as the same policies. Both stand for increased health service privatisation, extreme spending plans which threaten the NHS and further tax breaks for those at the top."
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said the Conservatives might play the councillor's move down, but it would give Mr Farage something to smile about, especially as there had been plenty of stories about his parliamentary candidates making headlines for the wrong reasons.
The full list of general election candidates for all 650 UK constituencies will be published on 9 April. | A former Conservative parliamentary candidate has joined UKIP, amid a row in the Hull West and Hessle constituency. |
36033022 | The Investing in the Teaching Workforce scheme would have allowed teachers over 55 to retire early and access their pension to make room for new staff.
But on Wednesday it was revealed it would not go ahead during the assembly's current mandate.
It was initially expected to be up and running by spring 2016.
However, there was no agreement on how newly-qualified a teacher should be to apply for a job under the scheme.
The Northern Ireland Teachers' Council (NITC), which represents the main teaching unions, said it was concerned it would not proceed.
However, the Department of Education (DE) said the scheme had merely been delayed and not abandoned.
The minister initially decided that only teachers who had graduated within the past three years would be eligible for a new job under the Investing in the Teaching Workforce plans.
Mr O'Dowd later said the executive would decide if the three year limit should be increased.
The executive will not be able to take that decision before the end of the current assembly term.
Avril Hall Callaghan, general secretary of the Ulster Teachers' Union and chairperson of the NITC, said the delay was "extremely disappointing".
"We've been told that a decision on whether the scheme will proceed will be made by the new education minister following the elections May and once ministers have been appointed.
"The mandate for the current executive has reached a point at which it is no longer possible to seek agreement to the scheme being finalised and launched.
"The unions will be lobbying the political parties in the run up to the election and will prevail upon the new minister to implement the scheme as soon as possible.
"The teaching unions remain committed to this initiative which they believe is an innovative way to rebalance the age profile in schools.
"It is imperative that this £33m should not be lost to the education budget", she said. | A scheme which planned to replace older teachers with newly qualified staff has been delayed indefinitely. |
40240752 | In other results on Sunday, Kwesi Appiah's second spell as Ghana coach began with a 5-0 thrashing of Ethiopia in Kumasi.
The twelve group winners plus the best three group runners-up will qualify for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations along with the hosts Cameroon.
Knowledge Musona took over the Zimbabwe captaincy for the Group G game against Liberia after Willard Katsande - who had skippered the Warriors at this year's Nations Cup in Gabon - was dropped.
Belgium-based Musona's first strike came on 24 minutes, with Zimbabwe taking that one-goal advantage into the break.
His second came just five minutes into the second half and the Warriors captain was able to celebrate his hat-trick with a goal in the 63rd minute.
It was Zimbabwe's first hat-trick in 13 years - Peter Ndlovu was the last man to achieve the feat.
The result puts Zimbabwe top of Group G, after DR Congo beat Congo Brazzaville 3-1 on Saturday.
Zimbabwe are targeting a fourth appearance at the Nations Cup finals.
Ghana also heralded in a new era as coach Kwesi Appiah returned for a second spell in charge of the Black Stars who duly began their Group F campaign with a 5-0 thrashing of Ethiopia in Kumasi.
Captain Asamoah Gyan began the rout with a landmark strike in the 10th minute - his 50th goal for his country.
Just four minutes later, John Boye added a second with Ebenezer Ofori making it 3-0 to Ghana on his debut just before half-time.
After the break, a Raphael Dwamena brace made it 5-0 to the hosts who are looking for their first Nations Cup title since 1982.
Uganda's Geoffrey Sserunkuma struck late in their delayed Group L match away to Cape Verde as the Cranes - despite their travel problems - secured a big 1-nil victory away from home.
A solitary goal from Stephane Sessegnon was enough for Benin to take an early lead in Group D after their 1-0 win at home to the Gambia.
In Group H, a late goal from Salif Keita earned Central African Republic a 2-1 win over Rwanda on Sunday.
CAR took the lead in the 70th minute through Junior Gourrier, but AS Vita Club striker Earnest Sugira equalised for the visitors right at the death.
Just when the Amavubi thought they had secured a valuable point on the road, Keita struck CAR's winner in the third minute of added time to snatch all three points. | Zimbabwe captain Knowledge Musona hit a hat-trick as his new-look national side beat Liberia 3-0 in their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Harare on Sunday. |
40406401 | Simon Hart and Chris Davies are being investigated over separate single alleged breaches of the code of conduct.
Neither MP said they were in a position to comment on the allegations.
The commissioner Kathryn Hudson has resumed her work on the inquiries following the election.
Her website said that she had "started but not completed" five of six current investigations on 3 May but that she "could not make any decisions about those inquiries during dissolution [of Parliament]".
Full details of the allegations have not been disclosed.
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP Mr Hart is being investigated over an alleged breach of paragraph 15 of the code of conduct.
Brecon and Radnorshire's Mr Davies is also being investigated over an allegation of a breach of the same paragraph.
The paragraph states: "Members are personally responsible and accountable for ensuring that their use of any expenses, allowances, facilities and services provided from the public purse is in accordance with the rules laid down on these matters.
"Members shall ensure that their use of public resources is always in support of their parliamentary duties. It should not confer any undue personal or financial benefit on themselves or anyone else, or confer undue advantage on a political organisation."
The commissioner's office would not expand on the nature of the allegations. | Two Welsh Conservative MPs are the subject of inquiries by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, it has emerged. |
39745914 | In fact, over the course of 42 years, Nelson Hunter has delivered almost four million bottles of fizzy stuff to customers across County Antrim.
For many, the lemonade man was an iconic part of growing up in Northern Ireland.
There are childhood memories of eagerly watching out of the front window to see the van pull up with the latest order of brightly-coloured soft drinks.
Nelson first started doing the job in 1975, but is now stepping down after more than four decades.
He said soft drinks had been a key part of his life, long before he took up his job at the age of 23.
"My mother used to get Maine soft drinks delivered to the house - two bottles every week.
"When I was very small, I remember seeing the Maine man.
"A good few years later, I then went for an interview at Maine, got the job, and it wasn't too long before I was soon known all around the town as the Maine man," said Nelson.
Nelson said although many of the products had changed over the years, many of his customers have remained the same.
"Maybe it's because I've been around for so long, but, in some cases, I'm now delivering to the third generation of some families.
"I've many memories of young children standing at doors with their mothers, and now I'm bringing bottles to their doors and they're now standing with their children."
Nelson said he could deliver up to 480 bottles a day, five days a week.
Not surprisingly, he has a strong grasp of the local geography and believes the old methods are sometimes the best for finding new addresses.
"It can sometimes be tricky delivering to a new house, especially if you're not too sure where exactly it is, but I don't use a sat nav or anything.
"It might just take me a little longer than usual - but when I find it once, I'll always find it again."
Over the years, Nelson said his customers had become very close friends and are "just like one big extended family".
"When I got engaged and was getting married all the customers got together and planned a big celebration where they all came out and egged me.
"It was really great fun and we still laugh about it," he said.
"They also used to buy me gifts when my children were born and I'm so thankful to them all for their support over the years.
"The job wouldn't really be the same without them and over the last few days I've had so many well wishers. It means so much - I'm definitely going to miss the people the most."
Customers on Nelson's round can rest easy in the knowledge that they will still be able to get their flavoured favourites delivered to their front door.
Nelson is training an apprentice who will take up the route after he leaves.
Any advice?
"You've got to have patience, because you don't always know how long you'll be out on a job," he said.
"And you also need to be able to build trust with your customers, because they're the most important part of the job." | Being the lemonade man takes a lot of bottle. |
40211275 | The party's deputy leader was defeated by the Conservatives' Douglas Ross who overturned his majority of 9,065.
The seat had been a key target for the Conservatives in Scotland.
In his victory speech, Mr Ross said: "I give a promise that my first and only priority will be to serve the people of this constituency to the best of my ability."
Mr Robertson was beaten by former MSP Mr Ross by 18,478 votes to 22,637. Labour had 5,208 votes and the Liberal Democrats polled 1,078.
He added: "I'd like to pay tribute to my fellow candidates. Could I also say to Angus, thank-you on behalf of the people of Moray for your outstanding service to the people of Moray over the last 16 years."
Mr Robertson became one of the SNP's most high-profile figures after the 2015 election, thanks to a weekly platform at Prime Minister's Questions.
As group leader at Westminster, and as a result of the SNP's newly-acquired third-party status, he was handed the task of challenging the UK government on everything from welfare reforms to Brexit and foreign affairs.
Mr Robertson - who took over as SNP deputy leader in 2016 - has often been lauded for his PMQs performances, earning a reputation as a formidable opponent and potential future leadership contender.
Born in London to Scottish and German parents, he grew up in Edinburgh before attending university in Aberdeen.
He worked as a journalist and then as a European and international affairs adviser to SNP MSPs at Holyrood before he was elected to Westminster in 2001 to represent Moray.
He served as the party's defence spokesman and, in 2015, was appointed as a member of the Privy Council and the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee.
Mr Robertson was the party's campaigns director for the 2007 and 2011 Scottish elections and previously served as business convener, chairing the SNP's National Executive Committee. | The SNP's Westminster leader Angus Robertson has lost his Moray seat in the general election. |
35349455 | Oldham, who had last won in the league back on 14 November, went close early on when Matty Palmer fired over.
But, on 23 minutes, Winchester then fired low past Jayson Leutwiler from 20 yards for his first goal of the season.
Shrewsbury's chances were at a premium, James Wallace being denied by Joel Coleman before Ian Black drilled wide.
Oldham had Anthony Gerrard playing at the back after re-signing for the club as a free agent earlier in the day.
The former Walsall, Cardiff City, Huddersfield Town and Shrewsbury centre-half, who had a loan spell with the Latics at the end of last season, has re-signed on a deal until the end of the current campaign.
It meant an instant return to the Meadow for Gerrard, six days after ending his non-contract arrangement with Shrewsbury, where he had been playing for free in an attempt to kick-start his career.
Oldham's first win since the return of manager John Sheridan lifts them a place to 22nd, within seven points of 20th-placed Shrewsbury.
Micky Mellon's men, who won on Saturday at leaders Burton Albion, have not won at home in the league now in three months, having picked up just two points out of a possible 18 at the Greenhous Meadow.
Shrewsbury Town boss Micky Mellon told BBC Radio Shropshire:
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"I cannot argue with the stats but it shouldn't be a negative playing at home. It is just about working hard and working smartly. We were not smart tonight and that cost us.
"Maybe a few of the lads are fatigued, I don't know, but I am as baffled as anyone else. It is difficult to explain why we played as we did.
"Oldham outran us all over the pitch. We didn't keep the ball well enough. It is hard to know why after Saturday this happens. I cannot explain it." | Oldham Athletic defender Carl Winchester's first-half goal helped his side to a vital three points at fellow League One strugglers Shrewsbury Town. |
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30956026 | The tigers, classed by conservationists as critically endangered, were born to eight-year-old tigress Kirana on 2 January after a 105-day pregnancy.
Sumatran tigers are found only on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra. They are the smallest of all tigers and also have the narrowest stripes.
Tim Rowlands, curator of mammals at Chester Zoo, said he was "thrilled" with the "special arrivals".
He said: "These tiny triplets are now part of a safety net against the population in the wild becoming extinct.
"That to me is incredibly humbling."
With their mother keeping a close eye on her cubs, it will not be possible to ascertain their sex for some time.
Mr Rowlands added: "We were first alerted to them when we heard tiny squeaks coming from their den.
"Initially we weren't sure about how many she had had - we just kept seeing flashes of tiny balls of fluff - but we've since spotted that there are three."
It is the third time Sumatran tiger cubs have been born at Chester Zoo, with Kirana producing litters in Oct 2011 and in June 2013.
"It's still early days but Kirana is an experienced mum and she's keeping her cubs very well protected. She's doing everything we would hope at this stage," said Mr Rowlands.
Sumatran tiger facts
Sumatran tigers are found in patches of forest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
The species is classed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as critically endangered in the wild.
They are faced with a high threat of extinction due to widespread habitat loss and poaching for their body parts which are used in traditional medicine.
There are 300-400 Sumatran tigers in the wild with about 200-250 in captivity in zoos around the world.
Sumatran tigers are the smallest of all tiger species.
Their stripes are narrower and closer together than those of all other tiger species.
Source: Chester Zoo | A trio of rare Sumatran tigers cubs have been born at Chester Zoo. |
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The home side capitalised on Irish mistakes and scored three tries in Friday's 22-9 victory in Cardiff.
"I really admired the way the team clawed their way back but we made a couple of errors and those things accumulate," said Schmidt.
"We undid ourselves effectively and set ourselves up to be scored against."
Ireland conceded 10 points while Johnny Sexton was in the sin-bin at the start of the second half.
Schmidt said his team "got stung" but believes they will respond with a good performance in next week's Six Nations finale against England at the Aviva Stadium.
"Sometimes these things spin on very little margins," he said.
"Next week you could convert two or three things and you win those games. We've got to make sure we roll our sleeves up and make sure that happens because there is still a lot to play for.
"We can still finish in the top three."
Wales' championship hopes were extinguished after defeats by England and Scotland and man of the match Rhys Webb was happy the home side silenced their critics with George North scoring twice and Jamie Roberts adding a late third.
"Everyone was writing us off week in, week out, but we didn't become a bad team overnight," said scrum-half Webb.
"We felt we performed well in the last three games but we played for the full 80 minutes and put in one hell of a shift against a very good Irish side."
Ireland captain Rory Best admitted the visitors "only have ourselves to blame" after seeing their Six Nations title hopes suffer a huge blow.
"We are bitterly disappointed. Wales are a quality side but we made a lot of mistakes," Best said.
"Barring at 6-5, we never really got in front or dominated the way we'd have liked and had a few chances in the 22 that we didn't convert.
"They put us under pressure but we have to deal with that better. We put a lot of ball down and it wasn't really like us. We're normally more clinical than that.
"It's devastating. We came here expecting to win." | Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt rued his team's error count after their Six Nations title hopes were all but ended by Wales in the Principality Stadium. |
37243122 | Over several months, she suffered seizures, was evaluated by a stroke team and had procedures carried out, including a CT scan and EEG test.
During one seizure she lost consciousness. Hospital staff believed epilepsy to be the cause, but seven months later the tumour was diagnosed.
A watchdog said an MRI scan of her brain should have been done sooner.
The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) investigated a complaint made by the family of the woman, who has since died and has not been named.
The SPSO said NHS Highland's decision to start the woman on anti-epileptic medication was "appropriate".
But it added that the subsequent monitoring of the medication and her condition were "not reasonable".
The SPSO also said there was a delay in her receiving a follow-up appointment at a neurology clinic.
In a report on its investigation, the health watchdog said: "During our investigation, we took independent advice from a consultant neurologist.
"We found that, while some aspects of Mrs A's care and treatment were reasonable, there was an unreasonable delay in performing an MRI, a scan used to diagnose health conditions that affect organs, tissue and bone, of her brain.
"This should have been arranged within four weeks of Mrs A's admission after the loss of consciousness and seizures."
The woman was a patient of NHS Highland's Raigmore Hospital in Inverness and Nairn Hospital.
In a statement, the health board said: "We have already apologised to the patient's family for the way we handled this matter and would again like to sincerely apologise for the failures identified.
"We have reviewed the findings within the report and the recommendations will be shared with the professionals involved. We are also reviewing current practices." | NHS Highland has apologised for failures that delayed the diagnosis of a woman's brain tumour. |
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Halfpenny, 26, is expected to have a scan on the injury on Monday amid fears he will miss the World Cup.
Scrum-half Rhys Webb, also 26, may also be out after damaging ankle ligaments as Wales beat Italy on Saturday.
"Really can't thank you all enough for all your well wishes. Trying to stay as positive as possible," Webb tweeted.
Webb was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff after the game, which Wales won 23-19.
Wales coach Warren Gatland said the scrum-half's injury was "not a break, but could be ligament damage".
The player tweeted earlier on Sunday: "Morphine and a scrub off the nurses. Good start to a glorious Sunday morning."
Toulon full-back Halfpenny was also taken off on a stretcher during Wales' final warm-up game, appearing to twist his right knee while attempting to collect a loose ball.
His right leg was heavily bandaged from the start of the game, and former Wales winger JJ Williams said he should not have been risked.
"The bandaging on his leg was quite enormous wasn't it? So there's a problem there," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"I think it was a bad decision to play him at all.
"It was the ideal chance to try Matthew Morgan at full-back - just give him a run out.
"They are paying the penalty. Now we've got a deep problem of who is going to replace these boys."
Webb has established himself as Wales' leading scrum-half, while Halfpenny is their main goal-kicker.
If Webb is ruled out, Racing 92 veteran Mike Phillips is a leading candidate to be recalled, having been omitted from the original 31-man squad.
Wales begin their World Cup campaign against Uruguay in Cardiff on 20 September, before facing England, Fiji and Australia in their pool. | Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny says he is "trying to stay as positive as possible" as he waits to discover the extent of his knee injury. |
39011346 | Three weeks later, he would gaze in a mirror, unsure what he would see.
Reflected back at him was the face of another man: the nose, cheeks, mouth, lips, jaw, chin and even the teeth of his donor, Calen Ross.
What the two men had in common was that they had both, at the age of 21, turned a gun on themselves.
Unable to speak clearly after seeing his new face, Mr Sandness wrote a note for his doctors and family to read: "Far exceeded my expectations."
Mr Sandness, from Wyoming, was left with a face almost completely destroyed after his attempt on his life in 2006.
After extensive surgery, he still told people he had been in a hunting accident to explain his appearance.
Mr Ross, who lived in Minnesota, did not survive when he shot himself in early June 2016, leaving behind a pregnant and devastated widow, Lily.
She was committed to fulfilling her late husband's wish to be an organ donor but was uneasy about the prospect of another man taking his face.
"I didn't want to walk around and all of a sudden see Calen," she told the Associated Press.
But she gave her consent after being reassured that Mr Sandness had his own eyes and forehead and would not be identifiable as her husband.
Dr Samir Mardani, a specialist in facial reconstruction, spent more than 50 Saturdays over three years practising the surgery and transplanting the faces of cadaver heads.
They had estimated it would take years to find a matching donor, but five months after Mr Sandness was put on a donor waiting list - a match, in Mr Calen, was found.
The delicate and complex procedure included identifying nerve branches on the faces of both men and using electric currents to determine their function - smiling, or opening and closing the eyes, for example.
This was crucial for Mr Sandness to be able to do those things with his new face.
Mr Sandness, now 31, and Lily have not met. But he has written her a letter, in which he spoke of her husband's favourite things.
"He's still going to continue to love hunting and fishing and dogs - through me," he wrote. | On 16 June last year, Andy Sandness was wheeled into an operating theatre at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to undergo one of the rarest surgeries in the world. |
34988913 | The e-borders scheme was meant to collect and analyse data on everyone travelling to and from the UK before they arrive at ports and airports.
But the National Audit Office says checks remain "highly manual and inefficient", and IT systems outdated.
The Home Office says all UK arrivals are checked against watch lists.
The e-borders scheme has been dogged by problems since its launch in 2003, and in 2014, the head of the UK Border Force, Sir Charles Montgomery, told MPs it had been "terminated" in its current form.
By collecting advanced passenger information (API), such as passport numbers and nationalities, it was meant to allow officials to "export the border" by preventing people from embarking on journeys to the UK where they were considered a threat.
Among the report's key findings:
The NAO said a database known as the Warning Index - designed to flag up known criminals or terrorists - was still being used eight years after it should have been retired.
While it has been upgraded, it is "still far from good" and suffers an average of two "high priority incidents a week".
These breakdowns include situations where part of the system is not available or performing too slowly to function, or where it is inaccessible at 30% or more control points at a port or airport.
The Home Office insisted contingency arrangements were in place for when those incidents occurred.
Analysis: Danny Shaw, BBC home affairs correspondent
This is a devastating critique of a project presented by the Home Office, first under Labour, as the key to securing Britain's borders. In fact, as the report reveals, the programme has been torpedoed by its ambition.
Collecting and assessing advance passenger information on more than 200 million journeys a year was always going to be hard task - involving co-ordinating the supply of data from 600 air, ferry and rail carriers and 30 government agencies.
Add in creaking computer systems, a high turnover of key staff and a draining legal dispute with the private contractor, and it's clear that ministers and officials over-reached themselves.
There's little doubt more advance passenger information is available now than in 2003, when the scheme was first developed, but the costs have risen hugely with some border checks still being conducted using scraps of paper.
The Warning Index operates alongside another system called semaphore, but the NAO said the failure to integrate them meant staff still had to check passports manually and consult printed A4 sheets when probing suspicious vehicle registrations.
Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said e-borders had not "delivered value for money".
"Some valuable capabilities have been added to our border defences during the life of this project, though their efficiency is impaired by a failure to replace old IT systems," he added.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, described the report as a "devastating indictment" of the e-borders project.
"With the terrorism threat level currently at severe, a failure to properly cover millions of people entering the country without having passenger information in advance gives a green light to people who wish to come to the UK for illegal or dangerous activity," he said.
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Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said every passenger arriving in the UK was checked against a range of watch lists.
"The e-borders programme was set up under the Labour government and when that contract ended in 2010, our immediate priority was to invest in stabilising the crucial but old-fashioned systems, to tackle the fast-evolving terrorist, criminal and illegal immigration threats faced by the UK.
"The Border Systems Portfolio, in conjunction with a range of programmes across security and law enforcement, is working effectively to keep our citizens safe and our country secure." | The Home Office has been criticised for failing to complete a project to boost UK border security - despite spending at least £830 million on it. |
33617037 | The Bevan Foundation analysed the winners and losers in Wales.
It says ministers will need to fill "holes" in a shrinking safety net, as workless families with children face a 15% fall in their incomes.
The Treasury said it wants a lower welfare society - while Welsh ministers want to "protect people" from cuts.
The Merthyr Tydfil-based charity looked at changes to incomes, tax thresholds and welfare payments.
It says the winners include 600,000 state pensioners, who will get a 2.5% rise a year until 2020.
Chancellor George Osborne outlined how the welfare system would change in his recent Budget, including freezing working-age benefits for four years, scrapping housing benefit for under-21s and restricting public sector pay rises.
But he replaced the minimum wage by a National Living Wage, starting at £7.20. He also raised the amount people need to earn before they pay income tax.
The foundation says that the overall impact of the tax and benefit changes is "highly uneven" with a "substantial minority" set to see their incomes fall in real or cash terms.
The report warns that for households with few or no savings, limited assets and weak job prospects "the shrinking safety net is a very real issue even if they are not currently claimants".
The foundation says policy in Wales needs to explore how best people can reduce the need for help from the benefits system.
In summary, its analysis finds:
The foundation says there are challenges facing the Welsh government:
Dr Victoria Winckler, director of the Bevan Foundation, said: "It is right that employers should pay people enough to live on but it's just that right now the economy is not booming and I think it's going to be difficult for people to find extra hours to make up for the shortfall."
She said the 600,000 pensioners have been promised a 2.5% rise each year, which will mean a "shift in the income and spending of older people rather than younger people".
Dr Winckler added: "We need to do something quite urgently to help young people find work, support parents in work and help disabled people into work because life on benefit is going to bring increased hardship."
A Treasury spokesperson said: "As the chancellor said in the budget, we are moving Britain from a low wage, high tax and high welfare economy to a higher wage, lower tax and lower welfare society.
"That's why we have introduced the national living wage, which taken with all the welfare savings and the tax cuts means that a typical family where someone is working full time on the minimum wage will be better off in 2020."
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "The UK government has continued to cut back the welfare state. We already know that welfare cuts have a disproportionate impact on Wales.
"Our own research has shown that changes to welfare that have already been introduced will reduce the income of working-age adults in Wales this year by around £900m. These further welfare cuts will make this worse." | More people will be driven further into poverty unless Welsh policymakers react to a shake-up of the UK's welfare system, a think-tank has warned. |
17878435 | Drogba's goal early in the second half - his fourth in this Wembley showpiece - proved decisive as the remarkable turnaround in Chelsea's fortunes under interim manager Roberto di Matteo was rewarded with silverware.
Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina was badly at fault as Ramires scored at the near post after 11 minutes and Chelsea looked in cruise control when Drogba continued his love affair with the FA Cup final and Wembley with an angled finish.
The introduction of substitute Andy Carroll sparked Liverpool into life and he pulled a goal back just after the hour - and thought he had equalised as Kenny Dalglish's side laid siege to Chelsea's goal in the closing stages.
"Once Liverpool got it back to 2-1 it was certainly a different game, Chelsea deserved it, for over an hour they were the better team the problem for Liverpool was the fact they had to get those two goals in the last 30 minutes, they gave it everything but it was not enough in a game that lasts 90 minutes."
He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.
Chelsea survived and can now turn their attentions to the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in Germany on 19 May as they face an increasingly arduous task to finish in the Premier League's top four.
As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
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The final started with £85m worth of striking talent on the bench as Carroll was a Liverpool substitute and Chelsea's Fernando Torres missed out on a starting place against his former club.
The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.
Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.
Liverpool did have one moment of danger in the first half when Chelsea failed to clear Glen Johnson's cross and Branislav Ivanovic blocked Craig Bellamy's goalbound shot.
Chelsea doubled their lead seven minutes after the restart, with the second coming from their most reliable source of Wembley goals. Frank Lampard escaped Spearing with ease and fed Drogba inside the area, who controlled before sending an angled left-foot finish across Reina.
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2009:Chelsea 2-1 Everton
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Liverpool introduced Carroll for Spearing and were rewarded after 64 minutes when he put them back in contention. Stewart Downing blocked Jose Bosingwa's attempted clearance, which fell into the path of Carroll. He turned John Terry superbly before firing high past Cech.
At last Liverpool had impetus and were getting the dangerous Suarez into threatening positions, allowing him to force Cech to save low to his right with an effort from the edge of the area.
Carroll thought he had equalised with his header against the bar with eight minutes left. Liverpool claimed the ball had cross the line and Chelsea were grateful for a miraculous intervention from Cech to turn his effort on to the woodwork.
He was then denied by a magnificent tackle from captain Terry as Liverpool continued to press - but Chelsea survived as the memories of the nightmare under Villas-Boas faded even further into the background.
Full Time The referee brings the game to a close.
Salomon Kalou takes a shot. Blocked by Martin Skrtel.
Steven Gerrard concedes a free kick for a foul on Didier Drogba. Frank Lampard produces a shot on goal direct from the free kick, Jose Reina makes a save.
Martin Skrtel sends in a cross, Daniel Agger takes a shot. Petr Cech makes a save.
Andy Carroll takes a shot. Blocked by John Terry.
Dirk Kuyt gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Ashley Cole. Petr Cech takes the free kick.
Substitution (Chelsea) makes a substitution, with Florent Malouda coming on for Juan Mata.
Glen Johnson takes a shot. Juan Mata gets a block in.
Stewart Downing decides to take the corner short.
Corner taken left-footed by Stewart Downing to the near post, John Terry makes a clearance.
Corner taken left-footed by Stewart Downing from the right by-line to the near post, clearance by John Terry.
Salomon Kalou concedes a free kick for a foul on Andy Carroll. Direct effort from the free kick comes in from Steven Gerrard.
Martin Skrtel takes a shot. Branislav Ivanovic gets a block in.
Outswinging corner taken left-footed by Stewart Downing, clearance made by John Terry.
Sanchez Jose Enrique delivers the ball, Jose Bosingwa manages to make a clearance.
The ball is swung over by Steven Gerrard, clearance made by Jose Bosingwa.
Booking Luis Suarez is cautioned.
Andy Carroll takes a shot. Petr Cech makes a fantastic save.
Jordan Henderson produces a right-footed shot from just outside the area that goes harmlessly over the bar.
The ball is sent over by Jordan Henderson, John Terry makes a clearance.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Didier Drogba on Sanchez Jose Enrique. Steven Gerrard takes the direct free kick.
Petr Cech takes the indirect free kick.
Substitution Dirk Kuyt comes on in place of Craig Bellamy.
The assistant referee signals for offside against Luis Suarez.
Substitution Raul Meireles comes on in place of Ramires.
The ball is swung over by Glen Johnson, Header from deep inside the area by Andy Carroll goes over the bar.
The ball is crossed by Stewart Downing, Ashley Cole manages to make a clearance.
The ball is swung over by Steven Gerrard, clearance made by Branislav Ivanovic.
Sanchez Jose Enrique sends in a cross, Headed effort from deep inside the penalty area by Andy Carroll misses to the right of the target.
The ball is swung over by Stewart Downing, clearance made by Branislav Ivanovic.
Sanchez Jose Enrique crosses the ball, Headed effort on goal by Daniel Agger from inside the penalty box misses to the right of the goal.
Steven Gerrard decides to take a short corner.
Luis Suarez takes a shot. Petr Cech makes a save.
Jordan Henderson produces a cross.
Luis Suarez is flagged offside by the assistant referee. Petr Cech restarts play with the free kick.
A cross is delivered by Stewart Downing, Steven Gerrard has shot on goal from just outside the box which goes wide of the right-hand upright.
Steven Gerrard sends in a cross.
Branislav Ivanovic fouled by Stewart Downing, the ref awards a free kick. Petr Cech restarts play with the free kick.
Craig Bellamy produces a cross, save made by Petr Cech.
Shot from outside the area by Glen Johnson misses to the left of the target.
Stewart Downing sends in a cross, clearance made by Branislav Ivanovic.
The ball is delivered by Craig Bellamy, clearance made by John Terry.
Effort from outside the penalty area by Jordan Henderson goes wide left of the goal.
The referee blows for offside against Juan Mata. Jose Reina takes the free kick.
Stewart Downing provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - Andy Carroll - Chelsea 2 - 1 Liverpool Andy Carroll gets on the score sheet with a goal from deep inside the penalty box high into the middle of the goal. Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool.
Didier Drogba produces a left-footed shot from deep inside the penalty area which goes wide of the left-hand post.
Luis Suarez concedes a free kick for a foul on Didier Drogba. Frank Lampard has a direct shot on goal from the free kick.
Stewart Downing produces a cross.
Effort from the edge of the box by Salomon Kalou goes wide of the right-hand upright.
The ball is swung over by Steven Gerrard, Branislav Ivanovic makes a clearance.
Glen Johnson sends in a cross, clearance by Branislav Ivanovic.
The ball is crossed by Sanchez Jose Enrique.
Juan Mata takes a shot. Save made by Jose Reina.
Jose Reina takes the direct free kick.
Substitution Andy Carroll on for Jay Spearing.
The referee gives a free kick against Didier Drogba for handball.
Luis Suarez takes a shot. Save made by Petr Cech.
Juan Mata crosses the ball, save by Jose Reina.
The assist for the goal came from Frank Lampard.
Goal! - Didier Drogba - Chelsea 2 - 0 Liverpool Didier Drogba fires in a goal from inside the area to the bottom right corner of the goal. Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool.
The ball is swung over by Juan Mata, clearance by Daniel Agger.
Stewart Downing produces a cross, Branislav Ivanovic manages to make a clearance.
Frank Lampard takes the inswinging corner, John Terry produces a left-footed shot from inside the area that clears the bar.
Foul by Glen Johnson on Didier Drogba, free kick awarded. Ashley Cole takes the direct free kick.
Corner taken by Craig Bellamy from the right by-line played to the near post, Frank Lampard manages to make a clearance.
The referee gets the second half started.
Half Time It is the end of the first-half.
John Terry takes the free kick.
Booking Caution for Daniel Agger.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Daniel Agger on Mikel.
The official flags Juan Mata offside. Jose Reina restarts play with the free kick.
Foul by Sanchez Jose Enrique on Ramires, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Petr Cech.
The ball is swung over by Stewart Downing, clearance made by John Terry.
Luis Suarez has a headed effort at goal from deep inside the area missing to the left of the target.
Craig Bellamy produces a cross, save by Petr Cech.
Outswinging corner taken right-footed by Craig Bellamy from the right by-line, Branislav Ivanovic makes a clearance.
Stewart Downing crosses the ball, clearance made by Ashley Cole.
Didier Drogba takes a shot from 35 yards and went wide of the left-hand upright.
Direct free kick taken by Daniel Agger.
Booking The referee shows Mikel a yellow card.
Mikel gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Steven Gerrard.
The offside flag is raised against Martin Skrtel. Petr Cech restarts play with the free kick.
Foul by Salomon Kalou on Glen Johnson, free kick awarded. Steven Gerrard crosses the ball in from the free kick.
Ashley Cole takes a shot. Blocked by Jordan Henderson.
Sanchez Jose Enrique challenges Ramires unfairly and gives away a free kick. Juan Mata delivers the ball from the free kick left-footed from right channel, Daniel Agger makes a clearance.
Shot by Frank Lampard missed to the left of goal.
Salomon Kalou has an effort at goal from outside the area which goes wide right of the goal.
Daniel Agger produces a cross, save by Petr Cech.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Craig Bellamy. Petr Cech takes the indirect free kick.
Stewart Downing crosses the ball, clearance made by John Terry.
Ramires sends in a cross, save by Jose Reina.
The ball is crossed by Glen Johnson, John Terry manages to make a clearance. Craig Bellamy takes a shot. Branislav Ivanovic gets a block in.
Assist by Juan Mata.
Goal! - Ramires - Chelsea 1 - 0 Liverpool Ramires finds the back of the net with a goal from deep inside the penalty box to the bottom right corner of the goal. Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool.
Salomon Kalou is caught offside. Jose Reina restarts play with the free kick.
Foul by Didier Drogba on Steven Gerrard, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by Steven Gerrard.
Long range effort from Didier Drogba misses to the left of the goal.
The ref blows the whistle to begin the match.
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It used to employ thousands of people but is now run as a historical education centre.
BBC reporter Mark McAlindon has been to have a look around. | Nenthead Mine, considered one of Europe's best preserved former lead mines, is being given a £250,000 make over. |
35604160 | The 25-year-old has made 97 appearances and scored four goals since joining the Baggies from Rochdale in August 2011.
Dawson's current deal still had a year to run but his new contract will keep him at The Hawthorns until 2018.
"I'm really enjoying my football, especially over the last year and a half when I've been a regular in the first team," he told the club website.
"I've been down here a few years now, the family is settled in this area, so it was a very easy decision to extend my contract.
"It means I can just concentrate on playing and doing everything I can to stay in the team and carry on contributing to things." | Defender Craig Dawson has signed an improved one-year contract extension at West Bromwich Albion. |
35711608 | The Italian, 60, missed Wednesday's victory over Arsenal, hours after he was first admitted in London.
He saw a respiratory specialist after failing to fully respond to treatment.
"He remains in a comfortable position and is making good progress but doctors have advised he misses this game to continue his recovery," Swansea said.
"He is expected to remain in hospital over the weekend before his release.
"Everyone at Swansea City continue to wish him a speedy recovery.
"Alan Curtis will continue to carry out his duties for the fixture against the Canaries."
Swans coach Curtis took charge of the side at Emirates Stadium and said the win will have lifted Guidolin's spirits.
After Saturday's game against relegation rivals Norwich, the Swans travel to Bournemouth on 12 March and then bottom club Aston Villa visit the Liberty Stadium on 19 March.
Wednesday's victory moved Swansea six points above the relegation zone in 16th place. | Swansea boss Francesco Guidolin will miss Saturday's Premier League visit of Norwich as he remains in hospital to recover from a chest infection. |
39726845 | Cafodd ei ddewis wedi cyfarfod o aelodau yn Llangefni.
Mr Jones oedd Aelod Seneddol Môn o 1987 i 2001, a bu'n Aelod Cynulliad rhwng 1999 a 2013.
Albert Owen o'r blaid Lafur yw AS presennol yr ynys, wedi iddo gael ei ethol gyda mwyafrif o 229 o bleidleisiau dros ymgeisydd Plaid Cymru, John Rowlands, yn etholiad cyffredinol 2015.
Mae Mr Owen wedi cadarnhau y bydd yn sefyll eto ar 8 Mehefin.
Bu Mr Jones yn arweinydd Plaid Cymru o 2000 i 2012, ac ef oedd Dirprwy Brif Weinidog Cymru rhwng 2007 a 2011.
Gadawodd Mr Jones ei rôl fel AC yn 2013 i arwain Parc Gwyddoniaeth Menai.
Roedd sedd Ynys Môn yn nwylo'r Ceidwadwyr rhwng 1979 a 1987.
Fe fydd UKIP yn cyhoeddi enw eu hymgeisydd nhw ar gyfer yr etholaeth ddydd Iau.
Bydd rhestr lawn o ymgeiswyr ar gael unwaith i'r enwebiadau gau ar 11 Mai. | Mae cyn arweinydd Plaid Cymru Ieuan Wyn Jones wedi cael ei ddewis i sefyll yn enw'r blaid yn etholaeth Ynys Môn yn yr etholiad cyffredinol ar 8 Mehefin. |
38494328 | The Welsh Government marketing campaign aims to promote Wales' culture and heritage, and follows on from the 2016 Year of Adventure.
A "rich and inspiring" programme of events includes Dylan Thomas tours and trails, the unveiling of two major artworks and one of the world's biggest sporting events.
Funding is also available for projects.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said 2017 is not about looking backwards, but "bringing the past to life" with "cutting-edge innovation."
"It's about creating and celebrating new Welsh legends, modern-day personalities, products and events that are made in Wales, or enriched by coming here," he said.
The Welsh Government said £150m is spent on holidays in Wales every year where culture and heritage is the main activity, with 61% of overseas visitors citing Wales' historic sites as a key reason for their visit.
Visit Wales has already approved £1.28m for 35 projects as part of the Year of Legends, including:
Other highlights are the release of a new film about King Arthur and the UEFA Champions League final which will be held at the Principality Stadium in June.
There will also be a recognition of global talent inspired by Wales, from Roald Dahl to Dylan Thomas to J.R.R. Tolkien with tours and trails, as well as exhibitions and collections by Amgueddfa Cymru and the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. | Wales' past will be brought to life "like never before" as part of its 2017 Year of Legends. |
25611928 | Drivers can expect up to two weeks of disruption while work on the Northern Inner Distributor Road (NIDR) occurs.
The work, starting on Wednesday, will see the closure of the northbound carriageway of Staplegrove Road beyond Richmond Road for drainage work.
The one-mile (1.6 km) NIDR will see Staplegrove Road, in the west, linked to Priory Avenue in the east.
The project, which will also see a bridge built over the River Tone and the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal close to Priory Fields Business Park, is expected to be completed by the autumn.
Somerset County Council said the road would also help with the regeneration of the Firepool area.
Councillor Harvey Siggs, cabinet member for highways, said: "There will be some disruption, we are still asking everyone to be patient about it, to understand it's the end goal that's really worth having.
"Where we can we are running single lane traffic, but at times we will need to close roads completely." | The next phase of a £22m project to ease congestion in Taunton town centre is due to start. |
22156173 | The inquiry was conducted over nine months involving US and German experts.
It concluded that Wolfgang Priklopil in all likelihood acted alone when he abducted the 10-year-old in 1998.
Ms Kampusch escaped from a windowless cell in the suburb of the capital, Vienna, in 2006. Priklopil committed suicide the same day.
DNA tests and the questioning of 113 witnesses had led to theories being discounted that Priklopil had accomplices, the report said.
Ms Kampusch, now 25, has said that she never saw anyone else during her time in captivity.
"Although the involvement of others in the kidnap cannot be completely ruled out, there is no objective proof this was the case and no leads could be found," read the report commissioned last year by the Austrian parliament.
However, the head of the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany, Joerg Ziercke, said there was no definitive scientific proof as Priklopil was no longer alive.
Conspiracy theories abounded after a schoolgirl said that she had seen Ms Kampusch being forced into a vehicle by two men. Her subsequent statements contradicted her initial testimony. The girl later withdrew her statement entirely.
Mr Ziercke said that the girl had mistakenly identified the kidnapper's car for another, seen a little later, where there were indeed two men sat inside.
Priklopil's car and house in Strasshof were searched for DNA and evidence of further suspects but nothing was found, he said.
The death of the unemployed telecoms engineer was confirmed as suicide, after the report authors re-interviewed the driver of the train that he threw himself in front of. | A new investigation into the kidnapping of Austrian girl Natascha Kampusch has debunked conspiracy theories, saying her captor "most likely" acted alone. |
32142212 | She died in a nursing home in Osaka, the city she was born in on 5 March 1898.
She is survived by three children, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Ms Okawa was recognised in 2013 as the world's oldest living person, as well as the world's oldest living woman, by Guinness World Records.
While celebrating her birthday earlier this month, Ms Okawa said that 117 years did not seem such a long time.
She also said the key to a long life was getting at least eight hours of sleep a night and eating sushi - her favourite food.
She said she particularly enjoyed mackerel on vinegar-steamed rice.
Her birthday celebration was shown on national television in Japan.
Born to a kimono-maker, Mrs Okawa married her husband Yukio in 1919. They lived in Kobe where he ran a business. When he died in 1931. she moved back to Osaka.
She lived across three centuries, seeing four emperors of Japan, six British monarchs, and 20 US presidents.
Craig Glenday, the editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, said previously of Ms Okawa: "Her impressive longevity... is an inspiration and a testament to the Japanese lifestyle."
Ms Okawa's name has since been taken down for the entry for the world's oldest living person on the organisation's site.
It is not yet known who now holds that record, but the site does state that the oldest living man is Sakari Momoi, also of Japan, who turned 112 in February.
The oldest person who has ever lived according to Guinness was Jeanne Calment of France, who lived 122 years and 164 days. She died in August 1997. | The world's oldest living person, Japan's Misao Okawa, has died from heart failure at the age of 117. |
36889819 | Speaking to the BBC, the co-chair of an inquiry into BHS compared Sir Philip unfavourably to late media magnate Robert Maxwell, who took millions from the Mirror Group's pension funds.
"This statement is highly defamatory and completely false," said law firm Schillings, representing Sir Philip.
Mr Field said he would not apologise.
He told BBC business editor Simon Jack that Sir Philip's conduct was "displacement therapy".
"Instead of writing a big cheque he is firing off lawyers' letters. He needs to stop messing around and write a big cheque".
His earlier remarks were made on Radio 4's Today programme.
The development came after a damning MPs' report, published on Monday, concluded Sir Philip, the billionaire former owner of BHS, extracted large sums and left the business on "life support".
The report, from the Business, Innovation and Skills and Work and Pensions committees and co-chaired by Mr Field, did not suggest that Sir Phillip had done anything illegal.
But it said his failure to resolve BHS's £571m pension deficit was a major factor in the firm's demise.
The pension scheme is now in the Pension Protection Fund, meaning that its 20,000 members will receive less money than they had expected
Sir Philip, responding late on Monday to the report, called it "the predetermined and inaccurate output of a biased and unfair process".
BHS is in the process of closing down after what the MPs' report called the "shambolic" ownership of Dominic Chappell, who bought the retail chain from Sir Philip for £1 last year.
BHS was "hurriedly sold to a manifestly unsuitable" buyer in that deal, even though Sir Philip knew Mr Chappell was a former bankrupt with no retail experience, the MPs found.
The sale went unchallenged because Sir Philip ran his retail empire as "a personal fiefdom", they said.
"With the benefit of hindsight, clearly Retail Acquisitions and Mr Chappell were a very bad choice as purchaser on many fronts and I feel badly let down," said Sir Philip.
But he said the sale of BHS was "made one hundred per cent in good faith".
"As I told the committees, I am trying to find a solution for the BHS pension and am continuing to work with the Regulator to achieve an outcome.
"I am sad and sorry for all the BHS people caught up in this horrid story, but I do not believe that this story is being in any way fairly portrayed."
Mr Field and Sir Philip have had a long-running feud, with the Monaco-based businessman accusing the Labour chair of the Work and Pensions Committee of bias and conducting a "trial by media".
Sir Philip originally refused to appear before MPs last month unless Mr Field resigned as chairman.
He eventually relented saying it "would be the first and only opportunity I have had to tell my side of the very sad BHS story."
25 July 2016
URGENT
Dear Sir
SIR PHILIP GREEN
We act for Sir Philip Green and write with reference to your interview on Radio 4's Today programme this morning.
In that interview you alleged that our client had stolen money, specifically from the BHS and Arcadia pension funds. This statement is highly defamatory and completely false.
Our client has never stolen any money from BHS, Arcadia or the pension funds and you know that. In particular, there is nothing in the recent Report of the Work and Pensions and Business, Innovation and Skills Committees, (the Report) (of which you were one of the Chairs) to support your allegation.
Clearly an allegation that our client is a thief is likely to cause him serious harm.
Further, in relation to the recent Parliamentary hearings and the Report and allegations made there you were protected by privilege. That does not apply to the interview this morning (or any others you intend to make).
In the circumstances, our client requires an immediate and fulsome apology in relation to the allegation (to be agreed in terms of the content and manner by this firm in advance of publication).
We look forward to hearing from you on this point within 24 hours. This matter is clearly urgent as your defamatory statements are being repeated in the media, for which you are undoubtedly liable.
The other remedies to which our client is clearly entitled will very much depend on form and manner of your response and in the meantime, all of our client's rights are reserved.
Please acknowledge receipt.
Yours faithfully
SCHILLINGS | Former BHS owner Sir Philip Green has demanded an "immediate apology" from MP Frank Field for comments he made about his running of the collapsed retailer. |
40013122 | Latest research suggests that by 2025 there could be nearly three million people over the age of 65 needing care in England and Wales - a 25% increase since 2015.
The Health Foundation last year estimated pressures on social care in Wales would rise by about 4.1% a year over the next 15 years due to population changes, the nature of complex and chronic conditions and rising costs.
It is a challenge that all levels of government have to grasp.
Social care covers everything from help in an individual's home for tasks such as washing and dressing, to round-the-clock help in a care home or nursing home.
The way the system works is different, depending on which part of the UK a person lives in.
But unlike the NHS, social care is not usually free.
Some people aged 65 and over will get help towards their costs, but others can pay the full cost.
Social care for the elderly takes up around a third of Welsh councils' social services budget - more than £550m in 2016-17.
IF SOCIAL CARE IS DEVOLVED, DOES UK POLICY STILL MATTER?
The devolved governments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each set their own rules.
But that is not to say that decisions made on social care in England would have no bearing at all on policy in Wales for example.
If the UK government decided that the state should contribute less and that a higher proportion of the social care budget in England should be paid for by the personal savings and incomes of individuals receiving care and their families.
Then that could mean less money being allocated to Wales from Westminster through the Barnett funding formula.
SO WHAT IS THE SITUATION IN WALES?
1: Care in own home
The maximum someone has to pay in Wales for care in their own home is capped in Wales at £70 per week.
Those with savings of less than £24,000 (not including the value of their own home) - could pay less.
But it is up to councils to determine whether a person's needs are severe enough to make them eligible for help - and most set the bar at the two highest levels - "substantial" or "critical".
However, from April 2016, everyone has a right to have their needs assessed.
The Welsh Government says 20,000 people in Wales benefit by paying this maximum or less for care in the home.
Councils get £13m to operate this cap.
2: Care homes
People with assets of more than £30,000 (including the value of their home if it is unoccupied) pay the full cost of their residential care but if your resources fall below £30,000, you then qualify for financial help.
The amount an individual then has to pay is determined on the basis of their income (e.g. from pensions or benefits).
The Welsh Government has pledged to increase the limit to £50,000 by the end of this assembly term in 2021. They say that could benefit about a quarter of the 4,000 or so people who currently pay the full cost of their care.
People who need nursing care (because of a health need) can get a contribution from the NHS towards their costs - and some could even get all their fees met.
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WHAT ABOUT ENGLAND?
As things stand, those with individual assets of more than £23,250 have to pay for the full cost of that care regardless of whether it is in a care home, nursing home or in their own home.
The value of a home (as in Wales) is only included if a patient receives care at a care or nursing home.
But from April 2020 - the UK government had delayed the original 2016 date - the cost of care was set to be capped at £72,000 from the age of 65 onwards.
However, that sum only included the care element. Some £230 a week of the costs charged by the care home will not count, as these are being classed as living costs that people would have to pay in the community to cover things such as accommodation, food and bills.
As in Wales, people needing nursing care get a contribution from the NHS towards their costs.
The Conservatives in their manifesto proposed a further revamp.
Under the plans nobody who has assets of less than £100,000 would have to pay for care.
But crucially that calculation included the value of the house - for people paying for care in their own homes.
If their assets are above £100,000 they will have to pay until their value reaches that cut-off point.
The party said nobody would have to sell their house in their lifetime, or that of a surviving partner, but ultimately care costs would be taken from their estate.
But following criticism the prime minister announced there would be an "absolute limit" on the money an individual would have to pay - although the manifesto mentioned no such cap.
SCOTLAND
In Scotland, anyone over 65 is entitled to free personal care if they are assessed as needing help.
It is up to local authorities to set their criteria for who is eligible. Most have set it at substantial or critical level.
Personal care includes support to wash, dress and prepare meals. It does not, however, cover the cost of supplying the meals or for tasks such as help with shopping.
Anyone who needs care which requires a qualified nurse have that provided free by the NHS.
If an individual is in a care or nursing home they will get £171 towards personal care and £78 towards their nursing care if they have a medical need.
However, they may be entitled to some help if their assets - and that could include their house - fall below £26,250 (it will rise to 26,500 in June 2017).
They will be assessed to see how much they can contribute.
Everyone is entitled to keep at least £16,250 (rising to £16,500 in June 2017).
NORTHERN IRELAND
Social care is much more integrated in Northern Ireland. There are five health and social care trusts, which assess the help people need.
For people over the age of 75 most care in the home is provided free.
Those who are under the age of 75 may have to pay towards their care. Any charges are at the discretion of the local trust.
If someone needs to be looked after in a care home or nursing home, those with assets of over £23,250 - and that may include the value of the individual's property - pay for the full cost of their care.
Those with less may be entitled to some help - and everyone gets to keep at least £14,250 of assets. | The number of older people affected by chronic conditions and disability is set to soar in the next eight years, experts have warned. |
40152481 | The 20-year-old finished on 11 under par to record his first European Tour victory.
Defending champion Fitzpatrick carded 68 on Sunday to briefly hold the clubhouse lead, while Wood needed to par the 18th to force a play-off.
Wood, who led heading into the final round in Malmo, Sweden, could only manage a bogey to finish tied second.
Having dropped a shot at the third, Paratore birdied back-to-back holes before the turn and added two more on the back nine.
He crucially saved par on the 18th after being fortunate to have a shot to the green following a wayward drive.
"I couldn't be happier," he told the European Tour. "I really enjoyed this win."
Playing in the group behind, Wood also pulled his tee shot on the last into the trees and was forced to take a penalty drop from an unplayable lie.
He made four birdies, but the the 29-year-old's scorecard was littered with bogeys, including that dropped shot at the last.
Jamie Donaldson of Wales finished four shots off the pace after leading on Friday.
Fitzpatrick, who won the second of his three European Tour titles in Malmo last year, recovered from a double bogey at the third to card one of the rounds of the day. | Italy's Renato Paratore won the Nordea Masters by one shot from Englishmen Chris Wood and Matthew Fitzpatrick. |
40484955 | The Serious Fraud Office case relates to the way Barclays raised billions of pounds from Qatari investors during the 2008 financial crisis.
Apart from Mr Varley the other three are former executives Roger Jenkins, Thomas Kalaris and Richard Boath.
All were bailed to appear at the next hearing on 17 July.
That will take place at Southwark Crown Court, where the accused, along with their former employer Barclays PLC, are expected to enter a plea.
All four were appearing at a preliminary hearing at Westminster magistrates court.
The charges mark the first time that any UK bank or its former top executives have appeared in a criminal court to face charges relating to the way they behaved during the financial crash.
The senior district judge, Emma Arbuthnot, told Mr Jenkins, aged 61, and Mr Kalaris, also aged 61, to pay bail of £500,000 each, as Mr Jenkins lives in the US and Mr Kalaris has dual nationality.
Mr Varley, aged 61, and Mr Boath, aged 58, were given unconditional bail.
The BBC understands that the four former executives all intend to plead not guilty at the next hearing. | Four ex-Barclays bankers, including the former chief executive John Varley, have appeared in court charged with fraud. |
36465881 | Daren Metropoulos, 32, is buying the near 22,000-sq-ft (2,040-sq-m) property, which was on the market for $200m (£138m).
He bought the neighbouring property from Mr Hefner in 2009 for $18m.
Mr Metropoulos is a principal at Metropoulos & Co, which is run by his father Dean.
"The heritage of this property transcends its celebrity and to have the opportunity to serve as its steward would be a true privilege," Daren Metropoulos told The Wall Street Journal.
The mansion was built in 1927 and purchased by Playboy in 1971 for a reported $1.1m, making it the most valuable real estate deal in Los Angeles at the time.
It features a tennis court, free-form swimming pool, wine cellar, home theatre and games house but needs renovating to meet the same standards as other Beverly Hills homes.
Neither party has confirmed what the mansion was sold for.
Mr Hefner, 90, has the right to remain living in the property until his death. The LA estate eventually replaced the original Playboy Mansion, which opened in 1959 in Chicago.
Playboy Enterprises put the mansion up for sale as part of a change in corporate strategy forced by the rise of free online porn.
Both its magazine and website have banished pictures of fully nude women, which has boosted online traffic. However, it now makes most of its revenue from licensing the Playboy logo on merchandise.
Metropoulos & Co is best known for rescuing Hostess, the snack food company that makes Twinkies and other calorific treats.
The firm, along with fellow private equity house Apollo, bought the "snack cake" division of Hostess in 2013, after the company filed for bankruptcy, for $410m.
Daren's brother Evan Metropoulos said at the time: "It's an iconic brand and it's something that millions of Americans love and enjoy. It's very much worth saving." | The Playboy mansion, home to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, is being sold to a private equity boss who lives next door. |
35881196 | Professor of social work Ray Jones told the Education Committee family support services were being "decimated" because of council cuts.
He cited predictions of a 71% cut in funding to family support and early intervention services in England.
The government said it was up to councils to set local services.
"Councils are ultimately responsible for deciding what services are needed in their area, and we are giving them almost £200bn to spend on local services by 2020 to support this," said a spokeswoman.
But Prof Jones said ongoing cuts were putting pressure on the child protection system.
He said early intervention and family support services should be retained rather than cut.
"Children's centres are closing, funding for voluntary organisations like Home Start is being turned off," he said.
"The consequence is that we are escalating children and families into the child protection proceduralisation and bureaucracy, because this is the only resource we have for those children.
"It's threatening for families and children, it's demoralising for social workers, and we are overheating the child protection system."
His comments were backed up by councillor Roy Perry, chairman of the children and young people board of the Local Government Association.
He said: "Prevention is clearly better than cure, so putting money into early services is important.
"In my council, and in councils across England, there's a lot of worry that there's less resources available for youth work, youth clubs, family support work and children's centres, and that is an issue.
"The resources need to be targeted and focused more closely."
He said: "The issue now is that councils are having to protect their investment in child social workers and social work teams, but that does mean that there are frankly less resources available for those other activities."
Prof Jones was citing figures from the Losing in the Long Run report, jointly published by Action for Children, Children's Society and National Children's Bureau earlier this month.
It suggests funding from central government for early intervention projects, such as teenage pregnancy support, respite care for disabled children and family and support services, would see cuts from £1bn to £3.2bn over the next four years.
Although local authorities will gain powers to pay for services through local business taxes, most councillors surveyed for the report feared there would be cuts to these services.
The government spokeswoman said statutory guidance made it clear councils should work closely with other services to identify, as early as possible, children who may be at risk.
"Funding for children's services, including the early intervention grant, is non-ring-fenced to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities," she added. | Struggling families are being pushed into the child protection system because early intervention services are not available, MPs have heard. |
40263797 | The award is chosen by a race management team, which includes clerk of the course Gary Thompson and rider liaison officer Richard Quayle.
Norton were the only team to have two top-10 finishers in both the Superbike and Senior TT races.
The team were represented by the Australian pair of David Johnson and Josh Brookes.
Brookes also improved the fastest Mountain Course lap by a Norton rider to 130.883 mph, with Johnson also achieving a 130 mph lap in the Senior event.
Team spokesman Stuart Garner said: "I'm really pleased to win this award but it reflects exactly what we've strived to create at Norton - a team." | British motorcycle manufacturer Norton has been given the team award for technical excellence at the TT races. |
32594556 | Now, of course, no self-respecting gym is without one. They are comfortably the best-selling piece of gym equipment in the US.
They appeal to everyone from amateurs to Olympians, if nothing else, because it may seem a far more comfortable option than pounding the streets in the depth of winter.
But how safe are they?
The question has been raised by the sudden death of Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Dave Goldberg, who was found lying next to a machine at a Mexican resort.
The SurveyMonkey chief executive had slipped, banged his head and later died of his injuries.
About 24,000 people were admitted to US hospitals last year with treadmill-related injuries, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates, with slips and strains the most common causes.
But deaths are rare, with 30 reported deaths over a 12-year period to 2012, according to the CPSC, and not all of these are caused by hazards specific to treadmills. Some people suffer heart attacks from the exercise, for example.
Indeed, you are more likely to be killed by lightning than by exercising on a treadmill. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 261 people died in the US after being struck by lightning between 2006 and 2013.
Children, however, are at particular risk.
The daughter of US boxer Mike Tyson died after becoming entangled in the cable of a treadmill, and there are numerous cases of children suffering severe friction burns after trapping fingers and hands in the revolving belt.
Australia has even launched a public campaign on the dangers of treadmills to young children.
Few gym companies in the UK approached for information responded, but LA fitness said that the number of people injured on treadmills was "low - just 2% of all our accidents".
The company recommends being properly inducted on machines, knowing the safety features, having water at hand and not looking at your feet when you are running as among the best ways to stay safe.
And any inherent risks in with exercise need to be contrasted with the risks of inactivity.
Advice on exercising can appear confusing - one recent report suggested that intensive training may be as bad as not jogging at all.
But World Health Organization advice remains that adults should do at least 75 minutes of vigorous exercise a week. | It will surprise no-one familiar with the relentless whir of a treadmill to learn they were once used to a punish inmates in 19th century British workhouses. |
40031692 | Its Welsh manifesto will also say mental health services should get "parity" with physical treatment.
Neil Hamilton, leader of UKIP's assembly group, said it was a "vigorous document" with Wales "at its heart".
UKIP is resuming election campaigning on Thursday, which parties had paused after Monday's terror attack.
Other political parties are due to re-start their campaigns over the next few days, with just two weeks to go until polling day on 8 June.
Pledges in the UKIP Welsh manifesto will include:
Mr Hamilton called the document, entitled Wales Into the World, a post-Brexit "full-spectrum vision".
"From taking those earning minimum wage out of income tax altogether to putting mental health on an equal footing with physical health; our manifesto is a vigorous document filled with domestic policies with Wales at its heart," he said.
"This manifesto is specific to Wales and will accompany the national manifesto being launched in Westminster."
Mr Hamilton, who is also standing as a parliamentary candidate in June, will launch the manifesto in Cardiff Bay on Thursday morning.
The party performed badly in local elections earlier this month, failing to win any Welsh seats. | Election plans to cap government costs, scrap police and crime commissioners and give parents more rights over schools will be revealed by UKIP later. |
23806756 | The 41-year-old will star opposite British actor Henry Cavill, who will reprise his role as Superman from the most recent film, Man of Steel.
Director Zack Snyder revealed the big screen superhero mash-up at a comic convention in San Diego last month.
Production is expected to begin next year for release in the summer of 2015.
"We knew we needed an extraordinary actor to take on one of DC Comics' most enduringly popular super heroes, and Ben Affleck certainly fits that bill and then some," Warner Bros President Greg Silverman said in a statement.
Mr Snyder, who also directed Man of Steel, said in a statement that Mr Affleck will provide an "interesting counter-balance" to 31-year old Cavill's Clark Kent.
"(Affleck) has the acting chops to create a layered portrayal of a man who is older and wiser than Clark Kent and bears the scars of a seasoned crime fighter, but retain the charm that the world sees in billionaire Bruce Wayne," said Snyder. "I can't wait to work with him."
The sequel - which has yet to be given a title - will reunite Man of Steel stars Amy Adams (Lois Lane), Laurence Fishburne (Perry White) and Diane Lane (Martha Kent).
Christian Bale most recently played Batman in director Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.
Michael Keaton and George Clooney have also donned the black mask and cape in previous Batman films.
Ben Affleck's film Argo, which he starred in and directed, won an Academy Award for best picture earlier this year.
The superhero genre is not new to Mr Affleck, who previously starred as the blind hero in the 2003 Daredevil film based on the Marvel Comics.
Batman and Superman are part of DC Comics universe, which is part of the Warner Bros Entertainment division.
Revenues from the latest films featuring Superman and Batman have exceeded $1bn (£655m) in recent years. | Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman in a forthcoming Superman sequel, bringing together the two superheroes in one film for the first time. |
36545015 | A government statement said they were found near the small desert town of Assamakka.
Interior Minister Bazoum Mohammed said it appeared they had died of thirst after being abandoned by their smuggler.
Niger lies on a major migrant route between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.
Mr Mohammed said nine of the adults were women and five were men. He said members of the group had died between 6 and 12 June.
Two victims have been identified as Nigerian but the nationalities of the others are not yet clear.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says about 120,000 people crossed through Niger's arid northern Agadez region last year.
Thousands of illegal migrants have travelled to Algeria in recent years, most of them via Mali and Niger. People smugglers have largely avoided Libya since it descended into political chaos. | Niger says the bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, have been found in the Sahara Desert near the border with Algeria. |
38904663 | Ex-Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmajo" Mohamed beat President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a surprise result.
The vote was held at the heavily guarded airport complex in the capital, Mogadishu, as the rest of the country is too dangerous.
Traffic was banned and a no-fly zone imposed over the city to prevent attacks by militant Islamists.
Despite this, suspected militants fired mortar rounds close to the venue on Tuesday night.
Somalia has not had a one-person one-vote democratic election since 1969.
That vote was followed by a coup, dictatorship and conflict involving clan militias and Islamist extremists.
Mr Mohamed's election is part of a lengthy and complex process to help the East African state rebuild its democracy and achieve stability.
More than 20,000 African Union (AU) troops are stationed in Somalia to prevent militant Islamist group al-Shabab from overthrowing the weak government.
The new president is popularly known as "Farmajo", from the Italian for cheese, because of his love for the dairy product.
Much of Somalia was a former Italian colony.
Thousands of Somalis quickly took to the streets to celebrate Mr Mohamed victory and cheering soldiers from the Somali army fired into the air, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Mr Mohamed is seen as a Somali nationalist, and his chances of winning increased after Somalia's arch-rival, Ethiopia, was seen to be backing the defeated president.
Mr Mohamed obtained 184 votes, compared with 97 for the outgoing president, who accepted defeat, avoiding a third and final vote.
"History was made, we have taken this path to democracy, and now I want to congratulate Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo," Mr Mohamud said in his concession speech.
Yes. The election hall, a converted aircraft hangar packed with MPs, was at the Mogadishu international airport complex.
It is viewed as the most secure site in Somalia, as the main AU base is there.
The vote was moved to the airport complex from a police academy because of growing fears that al-Shabab could strike.
The 2012 presidential vote was held at the academy, and the 2007 and 2004 vote in neighbouring Kenya and Djibouti respectively.
Yes.
A woman, Fadumo Dayib, had said she would stand but pulled out saying it was marred by corruption. However she has welcomed Mr Mohamed's victory.
More than 20 entered the race on Wednesday, but the number was reduced to two after two rounds of voting.
At least 16 of the original candidates have dual citizenship - nine hold US passports, four UK passports and three Canadian passports, according to a leading Somali private radio station.
Many Somalis obtained dual nationality after fleeing the decades-long conflict. The US, UK, Kenya and South Africa are among countries where many Somalis have settled.
The militants are suspected to have been behind a series of attacks on the eve of the vote, with two mortar rounds fired close to the voting venue.
Residents in Arbacow village outside Mogadishu say militants also attacked an AU base there.
Al-Shabab has a presence in much of the southern third of the country and has previously attacked the Somali parliament, presidential palace, courts, hotels and the fortified airport zone.
At least 19 politicians, as well as many civilians and soldiers, have been killed in its assaults.
Wednesday's security measures include a ban on flights to and from Mogadishu airport.
Who are al-Shabab?
Apart from achieving stability in a country that has not had an functioning government since the fall of the Siad Barre regime in 1991, he has to tackle corruption.
Unconfirmed reports said votes were being sold for up to $30,000 (£24,000) in a country heavily funded by foreign donors, and where most people are poor.
"This is probably the most expensive election, per vote, in history,'' Mogadishu-based anti-corruption group Marqaati said on Tuesday, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Ahead of the vote, the United Nations' envoy to Somalia, Michael Keating, told the BBC the new president would have to tackle corruption.
"It sets the stage for the next president to do something about it. In fact the credibility of the next president will revolve around whether he takes decisive action," he said.
Analysts say holding the election at the airport complex is also aimed at reducing the possibility of vote buying or other corruption during the election process.
Yes. The UN and AU see the vote as a building block in efforts to create a stable democracy in the hope that the next president will be chosen in a one-person one-vote election.
They cannot ignore Somalia. It is strategically important for international trade, as it lies along the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Foreign navies, including those of the US and China, have a strong presence in the region. They have succeeded in reducing piracy, which was a very big problem until a few years ago.
The US also has a huge military base in neighbouring Djibouti, using it to carry out air strikes on militants in Somalia.
Some analysts also fear that the conflict across the sea in Yemen could spill over into Somalia.
There have been reports that some groups are smuggling weapons into Yemen via the Eastern African state, increasing pressure on foreign powers to improve security in the region. | Somalia's MPs have elected a Somali-US national as the country's new president in a vote held in an aircraft hangar. |
40555624 | Stephen Hough, 58, is accused of Janet Commins' rape, sexual assault, murder and manslaughter but denies the charges.
Mr Hough said he could not explain why DNA matching his was found on her body.
Mold Crown Court heard he also denied once telling his ex-wife he had killed someone.
Giving evidence in his defence, Mr Hough was asked by his barrister, Patrick Harrington QC: "Did you have anything to do with her death?"
"No sir," he replied.
The court has previously heard another man, Noel Jones, admitted killing Janet at the time and served half of a 12-year sentence for her manslaughter.
He has never challenged his conviction, but he insists he did not kill her and has told the trial his signed confession statements were made up by police.
Eric Evans, the former detective who was in charge of the original investigation, told the court nobody thought to offer Jones a solicitor during the initial stages of his questioning.
Asked why, Mr Evans said it was because he wanted to investigate "properly and thoroughly". He said police could be "impeded" by solicitors representing clients.
"There was no requirement in those days for a person to be advised that he could have a solicitor," he said.
The court heard the Police and Criminal Evidence Act - designed to strike a balance between protecting individuals' rights and a fair investigation - was not brought into force until 1986.
Asking Mr Evans about an interview between him and Noel Jones, Mr Heywood said: "It was an interview between a senior police officer and a barely-literate 18-year-old. It's hardly a battle of equals Mr Evans, is it?"
"If you say so," he replied.
Mr Hough was asked in court if he knew Mr Jones.
He replied "no", adding he also did not know Janet or another man, Michael Orford, who Mr Jones previously claimed was involved in her death.
No evidence was offered against Mr Orford at the first trial.
Asked about being questioned by police following Janet's death, Mr Hough said he admitted siphoning petrol on the night Janet died - an offence for which he was later prosecuted and fined.
He also told the jury he had been masturbating in his car that night because he had no privacy to do so at home.
Asked about evidence his former wife gave claiming he had once told her he had killed someone, he denied any such conversation had taken place.
During cross examination, Mark Heywood QC, for the prosecution, said: "In early January 1976, on ground you knew very well, you raped... and murdered that little girl, didn't you?"
"No sir, I did not."
Mr Haywood claimed Mr Hough gave "no comment" responses during police interviews because he did not think his answers "would stand up to scrutiny".
He added DNA samples matching Mr Hough's and found on Janet's body proved his guilt.
Mr Heywood said: "Face reality Mr Hough. It's the evidence that proves what you did to Janet, isn't it?"
Mr Hough replied: "I do not know where they came from sir."
The case continues. | A man accused of murdering a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 1976 has told a court he had nothing to do with her death. |
21259913 | The haul of nearly 500 items, "the most important gift of its type to a British museum for over a century", was donated by the late collector Michael Wellby.
The collection includes a rare lapis lazuli bowl, made by Dutch goldsmith Paulus van Vianen, valued at £3m.
A selection of the objects will go on temporary display from next month.
They will be housed in the museum's West Meets East gallery before the entire collection is showcased in a permanent gallery.
Professor Tim Wilson, keeper of the department of western art, said: "The Ashmolean is extremely grateful to Michael and his family.
"This is the most important accession of objects of this sort to any UK museum since the bequest of objects from Waddesdon Manor by Ferdinand Rothschild to the British Museum in 1898."
Much of the collection was assembled in the 1940s from German sources, and Professor Wilson conceded some of the pieces may later transpire to have been looted by the Nazis.
He told the BBC's Arts and Culture Correspondent, David Sillito: "Michael was never terribly forthcoming about where things have come from so there's quite a lot of research about that to be done.
"It is perfectly true that these are the kinds of objects which Jewish collectors had in quantity. It is not impossible that one or two of these objects may, as research goes on, prove to have come from collections which were the subject of spoliation during the Nazi period.
"The British Government has a very honourable system of dealing with claims from affected families. The museum is fully signed up to that."
However, an Ashmolean spokesman added: "There is no reason to suppose Mr Wellby ever knowingly acquired any object that he knew or had reason to believe to have been looted from or sold under duress by a Jewish family in the period of Nazi rule".
Wellby, who died last year, was a renowned Mayfair dealer, specialising in German silver of the 16th and 17th Centuries. He sold many of the pieces he acquired through the family business but held on to some of the more exceptional items for his personal collection.
One of the most significant pieces is a silver gilt ewer, or pitcher, made in Portugal around 1510-15, which is enamelled with the Royal Arms of Portugal.
Other pieces incorporate ivory, agate, shell, and rock crystal.
Wellby's personal jewellery collection was auctioned off at Sotheby's last month, raising more than £2.8m. | A stunning collection of Renaissance silverware worth tens of millions of pounds has been bequeathed to Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum. |
38433596 | In a game bereft of clear-cut chances, there were just four efforts on target throughout the whole 90 minutes.
Middlesbrough wanted a penalty when Robert Huth brought down Adama Traore and Boro's Gaston Ramirez lashed the best opportunity wide from six yards.
Leicester, without a Premier League away win this season compared to 11 in last term's title-winning campaign, saw Leonardo Ulloa head a corner straight at Brad Guzan.
Boro move four points clear of the drop zone, while Leicester have a six-point cushion.
Possibly the most interesting event at the Riverside came after the game, when Huth admitted he should have conceded a penalty.
The German defender tried to get out of the way as Traore wormed his way into the area in the first half, and even though he made contact with the Boro winger, referee Bobby Madley waved away the appeals.
"We got lucky," Huth told Sky Sports.
Ex-Chelsea winger Pat Nevin, watching the game for BBC Radio 5 live, disagreed with Huth, saying: "There is nothing you can do as a defender. There is contact, but contact does not mean a penalty kick."
The point for Boro will be a minor consolation after conceding two late goals to lose at Manchester United on Saturday.
But it means they come out of the festive period with just one goal - and no wins - from three games.
Only Hull City have scored fewer goals than Boro's 17 in the Premier League this season and their lack of creativity against Leicester prevented them turning a draw into a win.
Left-back Friend - a first-half substitute for the injured Antonio Barragan - was often their most dangerous attacking outlet as he provided a number of dangerous crosses his team-mates failed to capitalise on.
Leicester's 1-0 win over West Ham at the weekend meant they were under less pressure to pick up all the points at the Riverside.
But they will now be without influential playmaker Riyad Mahrez potentially until early February, as he leaves to join the Algeria squad for the Africa Cup of Nations.
Mahrez has not been at his best this season though, and in the victory over West Ham it was the combination of Marc Albrighton and Islam Slimani that proved to be the Foxes' most potent weapon.
But with Slimani missing out with a fever - and himself primed for Algeria duty - and Albrighton on the bench, it is a struggle to see where Leicester's attacking thrust will come from over the next few weeks.
Perhaps from Jamie Vardy, who will return from a three-match suspension to face Everton in the FA Cup on Saturday.
Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka: "I am pleased with the players because it's two days after the tough defeat on Saturday against Manchester United.
"We played against a team who won the league last season and are in the Champions League - but we were better than them.
"I am happy with the performance but we could not score the goal."
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Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri: "I am pleased with the point because we came here looking for a minimum of one point.
"We defended well and showed good spirit. We wanted to do more but it was difficult because they closed down our actions well. It is an important point to start 2017 with.
"We were not lucky today. I am very, very happy."
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It's FA Cup third-round weekend coming up, so Leicester travel to Everton on Saturday in an all-Premier League tie, while Middlesbrough host Championship side Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday.
Match ends, Middlesbrough 0, Leicester City 0.
Second Half ends, Middlesbrough 0, Leicester City 0.
Attempt saved. Andy King (Leicester City) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniel Amartey with a headed pass.
Foul by Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough).
Andy King (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton with a cross.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Grant Leadbitter replaces Adam Forshaw.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) because of an injury.
Fabio (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City).
Substitution, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton replaces Nampalys Mendy.
Attempt missed. Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Stewart Downing replaces Adama Traoré.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ahmed Musa (Leicester City) because of an injury.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Ahmed Musa.
Substitution, Leicester City. Demarai Gray replaces Shinji Okazaki.
Substitution, Leicester City. Ahmed Musa replaces Riyad Mahrez.
Attempt saved. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Fuchs with a cross.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Fabio.
Attempt missed. George Friend (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Adam Forshaw.
Foul by Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough).
Andy King (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Fabio (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Adama Traoré (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christian Fuchs (Leicester City).
Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Leonardo Ulloa.
Foul by Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough).
Daniel Amartey (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Andy King (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Christian Fuchs.
Attempt blocked. Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Fabio.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Christian Fuchs.
Attempt saved. George Friend (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Second Half begins Middlesbrough 0, Leicester City 0.
First Half ends, Middlesbrough 0, Leicester City 0.
Marten de Roon (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Middlesbrough and Leicester played out a dull goalless draw at the Riverside to boost their respective effort to pull clear of the bottom three. |
39227384 | "In 2016, money politics and power-for-money deals controlled the presidential election, which was full of lies and farces," it said.
"There were no guarantees of political rights."
The US regularly accuses China of ignoring human rights - its own annual report on human rights in almost 200 countries was released last week.
The US report said Chinese civil society groups suffered "repression and coercion" and accused Beijing of curtailing freedoms in Hong Kong and Macau.
As well as sharp criticisms of American democracy, Beijing's report - which drew heavily on US media coverage - also highlighted cases of police violence and racism.
It accused the US of "wielding 'the baton of human rights'" while "paying no attention to its own terrible human rights problems".
"With the gunshots lingering in people's ears behind the Statue of Liberty, worsening racial discrimination and the election farce dominated by money politics, the self-proclaimed human rights defender has exposed its human rights 'myth' with its own deeds," it said.
Beijing strictly curtails freedom of speech and is frequently criticised for arbitrary detentions, official brutality, widespread corruption, a lack of transparency, a pliant judiciary and little in the way of democracy.
It is also extremely sensitive to criticism and has cracked down on domestic critics. | An annual report by China on human rights in the US has accused it of corruption, hypocrisy and brutality. |
33253254 | The men, all journalists, share space with bulky cameras, tapes and tripods. It is suffocating, but no-one complains.
"This room is our shared office. We share resources and stories too," one man, who works as a television reporter says with a wry smile.
Shahjahanpur may be a small town by Indian standards, (population 400,000 as of 2011) but it boasts of no fewer than 150 journalists. Poor communications and woefully inadequate infrastructure have not deterred them from their chosen profession.
They are currently working on a story that saw their town catapulted into the national spotlight.
Ironically, it is about the death of one of their fraternity, Jagender Singh, who succumbed to burn injuries following a police raid on his house in early June.
Mr Singh had worked alongside them in this very room until a few years ago when he decided that social media was a more potent force than conventional platforms.
So he ran a Facebook page with thousands of followers, where he posted largely unconfirmed stories on corruption involving government officials and ministers.
Mr Singh's son Rajan told the BBC that his father was regularly harassed by police officers at the behest of a state minister, Ram Murti Singh Verma, who was reportedly a regular subject of Mr Singh's stories.
He alleged that, on the day his father died, a group of policemen acting on Mr Verma's orders set him on fire during a raid on their home.
In a final statement from his hospital bed, the journalist also accused Mr Verma of setting him on fire.
The minister has denied the allegations and the ruling Uttar Pradesh government has firmly stood behind him. The police have said that Mr Verma set himself on fire, and they tried to save him.
However, following pressure from national media, police have filed a First Information Report (FIR) on the murder, charging the minister as well as four policemen.
Mr Singh's family have since received compensation from the state government, but have demanded the suspension of Mr Verma as a minister. They say they will return the money unless the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) takes over the investigation.
In another incident not long after the death of Mr Singh, another journalist, Sandeep Kothari from Madhya Pradesh in central India, was also burnt to death. Like Mr Singh, Mr Kothari wrote on corruption, but he specifically targeted the mining mafia.
The two deaths are the latest in a number of attacks on journalists working in towns outside India's big cities. They say their confidence is shaken and that they fear for their lives.
The Press Council of India (PCI) says 79 journalists have been murdered in India over the past 25 years.
Sharat Pradhan, a senior journalist in Lucknow, the state capital of Uttar Pradesh, once led a powerful journalists' union but left in disgust because he said the organisation had failed to effectively raise security issues.
Mr Pradhan says there is no official data on attacks, but claims there have been several high profile cases of assaults in his state over the past few years.
In one incident, a journalist from Pilibhit town, also in Uttar Pradesh, was tied to a motorcycle and dragged for over a mile until he fell unconscious. No-one knows what prompted the attack.
In another instance, state reporter Nikhil Mishra says he was threatened after he wrote about destitute women being ill-treated in a shelter.
On 24 June, some local reporters who went to cover a public outcry against unsatisfactory road repair works say the contractors threatened them with dire consequences if they covered the event.
Shiv Kumar, a reporter who works in Shahjahanpur for a national TV channel says journalism has become risky.
"We often get threats. Police try to create rifts between journalists. It suits them if we are divided. We are used to intimidation from all sides", he says.
"We have to work with them. We can't antagonise them", one small-town journalist said of their relationship with local politicians and policemen.
Sardar Sharma was Jagender Singh's boss for three years. He lamented the loss of respect for journalists and blamed reporters themselves for the situation.
"There is a criminal nexus between many journalists, politicians and police. Such journalists are fake. They indulge in extortion and blackmail. They have let us down", he said.
According to Mr Sharma, these "fake" journalists obtain ID cards from fly-by-night media companies by paying them between 5,000 and 10,000 rupees ($80-160).
He alleges that the state has a number of newspapers which have paltry circulation figures, but "thrive on government ads".
Nearly all journalists in small towns and cities like Shahjahanpur don't have permanent jobs and work as freelancers.
Media companies pay them only for published stories. A Hindi daily newspaper pays 150 rupees for a published news story, while a TV channel pays 700 rupees per story. So even if a print journalist gets 10 stories published a month, he will still earn less than a daily wage worker.
In stark contrast, reporters who earn salaried incomes from reputed media outlets in big cities earn hundreds of times more.
Furthermore, when reporters are not attached to a specific media organisation, it is much easier to intimidate and threaten them.
Prem Shankar Gangwar works for a Delhi-based national TV channel. He argues that if local journalists are regularised and made permanent, "70% of our problems will be solved".
Mohammed Irfan, an executive member of the National Union of Journalists, says this is a real concern for journalists.
"Our unions have raised these issues with management and with successive governments but so far without much success," he says. | A small group of men in a dingy room busily tap on their keyboards on a hot afternoon in Shahjahanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. |
30133597 | The software is being used to help movie makers cut the costs of planning action sequences.
The technique has already been used to "pre-visualise" scenes that were later filmed for the blockbuster Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
The team at Abertay believe it could significantly reduce the costs of preparatory work in the film business.
Technology lecturer Matthew Bett explained how "pre-visualisation" works.
Directors are able to position virtual cameras and change lenses to work out the best way to film an action sequence.
"It's a digital process of creating assets for the film, creating sets, creating camera shots mocking up, in a computer-generated way, a very early representation of what the film will be and look like," he said.
"That allows budgets to be fixed, allows directors to give creative input to the film at that stage, and allows the rest of the production to fall into line."
The team say they have succeeded in using relatively cheap games technology to do the job currently being done at huge expense in Hollywood.
"We're taking a piece of games technology and using it in place of some very expensive custom hardware that is being used by the film industry to achieve virtual production techniques," Mr Betts said. | Research at Abertay University in Dundee is applying computer games technology to the film industry. |
39932871 | Lloyds Bank said the government will see a return of £21.2bn on its investment.
At the height of the financial crisis taxpayers owned 43% of Lloyds.
Its return to the private sector is in stark contrast with the other bailed-out bank - Royal Bank of Scotland - that is still 73% owned by taxpayers.
The government has been slowly selling down its stake in Lloyds for the past five years.
Ministers have claimed that all the public money used to buy Lloyds shares has been returned.
However, the true cost is disputed, with some critics claiming the lost interest has not been taken into account.
Others have argued that the heavy losses previously suffered by Lloyds also hit the government's stake.
Either way, the £20.3bn of public funds used to buy the shares had already been recouped due to dividend payments made to all shareholders.
At last week's annual meeting, Lloyds chief executive António Horta Osorio told shareholders he expected the government to make at least £500m from the bailout.
But on Wednesday morning he said the true figure was closer to £900m and called Lloyds one of the "strongest banks" in the world.
He also said the government had received more money than was originally invested.
"The fact that the government decided to use taxpayers' money, which is a last resort, to put £20.3bn in Lloyds at the time is evidence that the bank was in a very difficult situation," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"When I arrived six years ago the bank was in a very difficult financial situation and not focused on its customers in the UK."
The shares have been sold off by Morgan Stanley at below the 73.5p average price paid in the three-stage bailout.
But taking the dividend payments into account means the total £20bn outlay has already been repaid.
Former chancellor George Osborne had hoped to offer the shares at a discount direct to the public, with a campaign similar to the classic Tell Sid campaign for British Gas in the 1980s.
Reaction from the City was broadly positive.
"Lloyds is now back to business as usual, and the withdrawal of a large seller from the market should be positive for the share price," said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"The Treasury won't be making a song and dance about the Lloyds sale, seeing as we are in a period of purdah running up to the general election.
"Indeed the champagne corks should probably be kept on ice seeing as the taxpayer has only broken even on the face value of the Lloyds bailout, and is still nursing a loss if you factor in the borrowing costs associated with stumping up the money back in 2009."
The turnaround has not been without pain. About 57,000 jobs have been cut at Lloyds as it returned to profitability.
The EU also forced the bank to sell 600 branches due to competition rules and £17bn was set aside to fund PPI misselling - the biggest bill for any of the banks caught up in the scandal.
"We were the first bank of the big banks to drop legal actions that were dragging paying PPI and I was the first bank to drop that legal action and start addressing s the issue seriously. It was a bad product this had to be done [fixed] on principle and not in terms on financial provisions," Mr Horta Osório added.
But this year a £4.3bn profit - the biggest in a decade - finally allowed the bank to put its past behind it.
While the sale of the Lloyds stake marks a major turning point for the bank, taxpayers' other bailed-out institution - RBS - remains firmly in government hands.
RBS was rescued with a £45bn bailout in 2008 and 2009 and has failed to turn a profit since.
The bank recently posted a ninth consecutive year in the red, with losses of £7bn, bringing total losses since the bailout to £58bn.
The lender still faces £5.9bn of charges related to historic misconduct issues and potential legal costs.
A £400m pot has also been set aside to compensate small business owners and customers of its controversial Global Restructuring Group.
The now-defunct division secretly tried to profit from struggling businesses, leaked documents showed last year. | The government has confirmed its remaining shares in Lloyds Banking Group have been sold, eight years after pumping in £20bn to save it. |
34968349 | A handball decision against Taylor gave James Milner the chance to earn victory from the penalty spot for the Reds.
Taylor believes referee Anthony Taylor was wrong, but felt his side played well despite falling to their ninth league loss in 10 starts.
"We played well and turned the corner a bit as a performance," said Taylor.
"But we obviously haven't got the result which is disappointing and hard to swallow.
"The performance was good, the boys played well and I think overall we can be proud of what we did and we frustrated Liverpool."
But defeat meant dropping a place to 15th in the table, one place below Chelsea and four points off the relegation zone.
Swansea's plight has led to speculation over manager Garry Monk's future, but Taylor believes the display at Anfield was an improvement.
"We got back to how we wanted to play and how we have been playing so we're happy with that," said the Wales international.
Taylor felt he was legitimately protecting his face when Jordan Ibe's cross struck his arm, leading to the penalty award.
"I don't think the ref was going to give it. Time stood still for about 10 seconds, the crowd shouted loud enough and it's a pen," lamented Taylor. | Defender Neil Taylor believes Swansea City "turned a corner" with the manner of their performance in Sunday's 1-0 Premier League defeat at Liverpool. |
35990508 | Williams replaced Dougie Freedman as boss last month, but Forest have since slipped to 17th in the Championship table after losing three and drawing one of his four matches in charge.
Williams told BBC Radio Nottingham talk of Fawaz interfering were "not true".
"I can categorically say I have picked the team and tactics," Williams added.
"Maybe the results haven't gone the way we would have liked, but it's been totally down to me. As staff we all discuss players and teams and how we will set up. But the final word is always down to me."
And Williams said he had "no concerns" when asked if there was any truth in rumours he was close to quitting.
You can see the interview with Paul Williams by clicking on the BBC Nottingham Sport Facebook page. | Paul Williams says he will not resign as Nottingham Forest head coach and has denied that chairman Fawaz Al Hasawi has been picking the team. |
38892112 | Adams is up against Natalie Portman, Ruth Negga, Emma Stone and Felicity Jones in the best actress category.
Jones' nomination is one of nine for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, while Arrival picked up seven nods.
The winners, voted for by the public, will be announced at a ceremony in London next month.
The Star Wars spin-off film is also in the running for best male newcomer (Riz Ahmed), best film, best sci-fi/fantasy film and best director (Gareth Edwards) along with several technical categories.
Up for best actor are Ryan Gosling for La La Land, Ryan Reynolds for Deadpool, Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea, Eddie Redmayne for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Benedict Cumberbatch for Doctor Strange.
Portman is recognised for Jackie, Negga for Loving and Stone for La La Land.
While there was an absence of female filmmakers in the best director Oscar nominations, Andrea Arnold (American Honey) found herself a place among a field of male competitors in the Empire nominations.
She will take on Taika Waititi, Denis Villeneuve, Ken Loach and Edwards.
Competing against Rogue One for best film are Hunt for the Wilderpeople, La La Land, Arrival and Deadpool.
I, Daniel Blake's Hayley Squires is up for best female newcomer.
Empire's editor-in-chief Terri White said: "This year has once again seen the fans out in force to vote for their favourite films in the Empire Awards. Which is why we are the only awards ceremony in the world to recognise Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Deadpool, Captain America: Civil War and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story alongside La La Land and Arrival!"
The Three Empire Awards will take place at The Roundhouse in Camden, north London, on 19 March.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Amy Adams may have missed out on an Oscar nod for her critically acclaimed turn in Arrival but the Empire awards have come good for the Hollywood star. |
39989108 | The Chiefs face Wasps in next weekend's final at Twickenham after dramatically beating European champions Saracens in Saturday's semi-final at Sandy Park.
"We're in a much different place. Even in the changing room after the game it feels different," Exeter fly-half Steenson told BBC Sport.
"We've talked very much about building and being champions this year."
Exeter, who were promoted to the top flight for the first time in 2010, lost to Saracens in last season's Twickenham showpiece after a poor first half.
But they made amends by scoring in the final seconds in front of a partisan home crowd to overcome Sarries, who looked to be heading for a shot at a third successive domestic title after a late try of their own.
"Maybe last year wasn't exactly the same way of thinking, maybe we were just happy to be in that final," added Ulsterman Steenson, who kicked eight points in Exeter's win.
"It was our first experience and a lot of people say you've got to go through finals and lose them to put yourself in a good position."
Steenson's thoughts were echoed by forwards coach Rob Hunter, who felt Saturday's win over Saracens was the high point of his Exeter career.
"It was probably, in some respects, bigger than the final last year," said Hunter.
"The final was a grand day out last year, it was all very new to us, whereas this year we're a different side, we expect a little bit more of ourselves.
"We've been there before, we're a bit more resilient, we've got a bit more experience.
"Two months into this season we did what we should have said in the changing room last year after the final, which was 'how do we win this next year', rather that 'it's been a great season'." | Exeter Chiefs have improved enough this season to win their first Premiership title, says captain Gareth Steenson. |
30666557 | Djokovic, the world number one, said he was unfit to play ahead of the final of the exhibition event on Saturday.
"I've been sick today with a fever and I'm not fit to play," said the Serb, who beat Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka 6-1 6-2 in the semi-final.
The Australian Open gets under way in Melbourne on 19 January.
Djokovic's withdrawal handed the Abu Dhabi title to Murray, who had looked in good form as he beat Feliciano Lopez in round one and then swept aside Rafael Nadal 6-2 6-0 in the semi-final on Friday.
Murray, 27, had revealed after that match that he felt pain in his left shoulder, but he was reassured by the results of a scan on Saturday.
"It's fine," he said. "There aren't any tears, just soreness."
After collecting the trophy, Murray confirmed that he would fly to Perth on Saturday and continue his build-up to the Australian Open at next week's Hopman Cup.
The Scot will team up with Heather Watson to represent Great Britain at the mixed team event, with their opening match against France on Monday. | Andy Murray won his first title of 2015 after Novak Djokovic withdrew from the Mubadala World Tennis Championship final in Abu Dhabi because of illness. |
40555122 | The outage affects southern Somalia, and was caused by damage to an undersea fibre-optic cable more than two weeks ago.
Somali Post and Telecommunications Minister Abdi Anshur Hassan has called the incident a "major disaster", costing Somalia "more than $130m".
He said the cable was being fixed and service will be restored "this week".
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Somalia's internet 'culture shock'
After more than 20 years of conflict, internet usage is low in Somalia, with just 1.6% of the population online in 2014, according to estimates by the International Telecommunication Union.
That same year, 3G mobile phone services in southern Somalia were cut off because of a threat from al-Shabab Islamist militants and the ban has stayed in place ever since.
Satellite internet is available, but users complain that it is costly and slow.
Internet cafes have therefore proved popular in towns and cities, as they provide more reliable connectivity. | Somalia's government says an ongoing internet outage is costing the country $10m (£7.7m) each day. |
39934646 | The Reverend Rola Sleiman is now expected to attend the Church's General Assembly on Saturday.
The Church said she was initially denied a visa by the Home Office but "common sense prevailed" and the decision was reversed.
A Home Office spokeswoman said it would not comment on individual cases.
She added that each application is considered on its individual merits based on the evidence provided and in line with the UK's immigration rules.
Ms Sleiman is the first female pastor in the Arab Christian world.
She is a representative of the National Evangelical (Protestant) Church of Syria and Lebanon and she took up a new post as parish minister in Tripoli, Lebanon, in February.
The Church of Scotland said its world mission council confirmed to the UK Visas and Immigration department last month that Ms Sleiman's expenses would be covered during her eight-day stay.
But Ms Sleiman received a letter from the Home Office on 8 May saying that it was not satisfied that her income was what she claimed and that the Church was going to support her financially.
However, after the situation received media coverage on Tuesday, the case was reviewed.
The Church of Scotland said it had been informed by the British Embassy in Amman in Jordan that Ms Slieman had now been granted permission to enter the UK.
The Very Rev Dr John Chalmers, principal clerk of the General Assembly, said: "We are grateful to the Home Office who have heard our request and granted a visa waiver enabling the Rev Rola Sleiman to travel and join us at the General Assembly in Edinburgh.
"It was clear from the support that we received overnight from the media, the public and the church that people felt a mistake had been made and an important voice might be missing from our Assembly.
"In the end common sense prevailed and it has all happened in time for us to complete Rola's travel arrangements.
"We now look forward to welcoming her." | A Syrian pastor has been granted permission to travel to the UK after initially being refused entry, the Church of Scotland has said. |
38994986 | The Welsh county's 2016 player of the year suffered a shoulder injury while diving in the field during the Netherlands' draw in Hong Kong.
Van der Gugten, 25, did not return to action after the injury on the first day of the game, bowling only seven overs and was unable to bat.
Glamorgan start their Championship campaign at Northampton on 7 April.
It is unclear how long Van der Gugten will be out for but he is expected to be in a fitness race to make the beginning of the campaign after having treatment in Australia.
The paceman, who was born in New South Wales, claimed 82 wickets in all formats in his debut season in the UK.
Meanwhile, Glamorgan are currently trying to finalise the signing of South Africa fast bowler Marchant de Lange for the 2017 season.
They already have Michael Hogan, Graham Wagg, Craig Meschede, Ruaidhri Smith and teenager Lukas Carey among their seam-bowling options. | Glamorgan's Dutch fast bowler Timm van der Gugten could be in doubt for the start of the season. |
39451528 | Four banks had wanted to negotiate with Apple to gain access to its payments technology for their own apps, avoiding having to pay fees to Apple.
But the country's competition watchdog has now barred them from collectively bargaining with Apple.
The decision is the first of its kind and could set a global precedent.
In its final ruling on the case on Friday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said that the collective threat to boycott Apple was "likely to reduce or distort competition".
They wanted their own apps to have access to the contactless payment technology used in iPhones.
The near field communication (NFC) system allows users to settle bills by holding their phone to a small terminal, with the money deducted from a bank card registered with Apple Pay.
Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, National Australia Bank and Bendigo & Adelaide Bank together command around two-thirds of Australia's credit card market.
But so far, they do not allow their cards to be used with Apple Pay because they have never reached agreement on the conditions.
Doing so would have put them in a much stronger position against Apple.
They wanted to convey to Apple that unless it gave them access to its iPhone technology, they would continue to prevent their customers from using Apple Pay.
Apple Pay collects a fee from the bank for each transaction, meaning Apple risked a significant loss.
But the commission said that ruling in favour of the banks would have reduced competition by forcing Apple to act more like Google, who's more open Android operating system allows contactless payments from individual apps.
"It is a tricky issue for a competition regulator to force one competitor to adopt a strategy of the other competitor," ACCC chairman Rod Sims explained.
It certainly looks like it.
They can still negotiate with Apple individually, but with much less bargaining power than they had hoped for.
If a single bank blocks its customers from using Apple Pay, it might well be the bank that loses out. Customers could be unhappy about being left out and switch to another bank.
In fact, some of the other Australian banks that do allow their cards to be uses for payment via Apple have seen an increase in customers since the gridlock between Apple and that group of four.
Representative for the banks said they were "disappointed" by the decision and would review their future strategies. | Apple has won a major regulatory battle in Australia that will likely see it retain control of its contactless payment technology. |
40176440 | Sir Ben Ainslie is currently leading the bid to become first British success in the world's oldest sporting event.
When asked whether she would like to be involved in the future, Mills, who won Olympic gold in Rio, said: "Definitely, it's an incredible event and something I have loved watching for many years.
"Along with the Olympics, it's the other pinnacle of our sport.
"I would love to be involved in some way in the future."
There are no women in the crews of the six boats in the 2017 America's Cup and Leslie Egnot is the only woman to helm a boat in the event, skippering the all-female crewed Mighty Mary in 1995.
Mills accepts there would need to be a change to enable women to compete in future events with roles becoming more physically demanding.
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"It's a really interesting discussion topic," said Mills.
"If you look at it in terms of the physicality now, there are four roles on that boat that mean there is absolutely no way genetically a woman could match a man, which you have to accept.
"But the rules of the boat could change a little bit and a few more roles in the crew become a little bit more specifically sailing skills-based. If physicality wasn't the dominant factor, then it could be an option.
"It's like all walks of life with equality and giving people a chance to prove themselves and breaking through that barrier.
"Hopefully in the future, we will get there."
Four times Olympic champion Ainslie is leading the Great Britain charge in his Land Rover BAR boat as they continue their quest to become the first British crew to win the America's Cup which was first staged in 1851.
In his crew is Mills' fellow Welsh competitor Bleddyn Mon.
"It's amazing to see him out there and he has worked so hard to get there," said Mills.
"We know a lot of the guys out there. It's very exciting to watch and if anyone can pull it round, it's Ben for sure."
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Mills, 29. is currently competing in a World Cup Series final event in Santander with Eilidh McIntyre in the 470 discipline which the Welsh woman won Olympic gold in Rio last year with the now retired Saskia Clark.
Mills has been considering switching to the 49erFX event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics but has yet to find a permanent partner.
Mills is planning to compete in the 470 world championships in Greece in July and the 49erFX global equivalent in Portugal at the end of August.
"I hadn't sailed a 470 since the Olympics," said Mills, who was third after the first day in Spain with the medal race on Sunday 11 June.
"A great opportunity came up to sail with Eilidh who was reserve in the Olympics.
"I feel rusty right now. It's just about having fun and seeing whether this is a viable partnership if I am going back into the 470.
"I am keen to do the World Championships with Eilidh next month.
"I am struggling on the crew front in terms of the 49erFX and still looking for a partner.
"This year is just about enjoying the journey with Tokyo being three years away." | Olympic sailing champion Hannah Mills says she would love to be involved in a future America's Cup. |
36460328 | The businesses all rely on the US company's cloud computing division - Amazon Web Services - to power their internet operations.
Amazon has acknowledged that some of its servers lost power early on Sunday morning.
This coincided with a major storm.
Local reports have linked the severe weather conditions to the blackout, but this has not been confirmed by Amazon.
Affected services included:
AWS's status dashboard indicated that its automated systems had managed to restore the majority of its affected compute servers within 70 minutes.
However, it noted that "a couple of unexpected issues" had caused problems to persist into Monday.
By this point, however, most of the affected services were working as normal again.
AWS is designed so its customers can choose to power their online services via several of its data centres at the same time.
In theory, this means that even if one site stops working, the client's online service should continue uninterrupted.
It is not clear whether the affected services had made use of the facility.
Amazon competes with Microsoft, Google and others to sell virtual computing facilities.
They suggest they can save companies the greater cost of building and maintaining their own servers.
Sunday's fault - and others before it - highlight a potential risk in centralising online services together in this way.
But one expert highlighted how quickly AWS had been able to handle its blackout.
"The speed at which Amazon got stuff back up and running is impressive and represents one of the big plus points of going down the distributed cloud route," said Chris Green, a tech analyst at the consultancy Lewis.
"When problems do happen, it can rectify them or shunt systems off to another data centre far faster than most companies could do in-house."
Several banks in Australia also reported problems with their apps over the weekend.
Some customers were unable to make online purchases, while others could not use smartphone fingerprint sensors to log into their accounts.
Melbourne-based Members Equity Bank blamed "server issues that have affected several banks following the storms on the east coast".
An AWS spokesman told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper that it was not involved with the banks' issues. | Australian food-ordering and ticket-selling apps, TV-streaming platforms and a car-sharing site temporarily stopped working because of problems at one of Amazon's data centres. |
20705370 | He landed in Miami, after being escorted to the airport in Guatemala City and placed on board an American Airlines flight.
Mr McAfee said before leaving he was "perfectly happy with the decision".
He was detained a week ago after fleeing from Belize, where he is wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of a neighbour.
The 67-year-old has denied any role in the killing. The authorities in Belize say he is not a suspect in the investigation.
He has spent more than a month on the run with his girlfriend, blogging about his exploits.
As he left Guatemala City, Mr McAfee said he was happy to be going home.
"I've been running through jungles and rivers and oceans and I think I need to rest for a while. And I've been in jail for seven days," he said.
He said he had no immediate plans when he reached Florida, only that he was going "to hang in Miami for a while".
Passengers on the same flight as Mr McAfee said that he had been taken off the plane before everyone else.
A spokesman for Miami International Airport said he would be escorted by federal authorities after clearing customs. It was not immediately clear where he was heading or what his legal status was.
In an interview with Bloomberg Television ahead of his departure, Mr McAfee said he wanted to apologise to the Guatemalan president for putting him in an awkward position during negotiations on a territorial dispute with Belize.
His lawyers blocked an extradition request from Belize, where he has been named a "person of interest" in the murder of Florida businessman Gregory Faull.
Mr McAfee says he is happy to talk to Belize police but did not want to be remanded in their custody.
He claims he is being persecuted by the authorities in Belize, whom he accuses of corruption.
Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow had a more prosaic explanation: "I don't want to be unkind to the gentleman, but I believe he is extremely paranoid, even bonkers."
Belize police spokesman Raphael Martinez said Belize's extradition treaty with the US extended only to suspected criminals, a designation that did not currently apply to Mr McAfee.
"Right now, we don't have enough information to change his status from person of interest to suspect," he said.
After making his fortune from the anti-virus software which bears his name, Mr McAfee has lived an eccentric life, funding start-ups, flying small planes low over the desert, and most recently, attempting to synthesise antibiotics from jungle plants in Belize. | The software tycoon John McAfee has arrived in the United States after being deported by Guatemala. |
36293793 | Suarez took his tally to 40 goals as Barca beat Granada to win the title.
Suarez, who scored 14 in the final five games, finished five clear of Real Madrid's Ronaldo - last year's winner.
Diego Forlan was top scorer seven years ago for Atletico Madrid, with Messi and Ronaldo each winning three Pichichis.
Messi, who plays alongside Suarez for Barca, was third this season with 26.
Former Liverpool striker Suarez, who played 35 times in La Liga this season, has scored 60 goals in 52 games in all competitions in 2015-16.
"I score goals thank to hard work and the help of my team-mates," said Suarez. "They give me the chances and I just put them away.
"[The Pichichi] would not have meant anything if we had not won the league."
Check out La Liga's top scorers list here. | Barcelona striker Luis Suarez signed off with a hat-trick as he became the first player other than Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to finish as La Liga's top scorer since 2009. |
19580747 | The charity, which combines skating with education for street children, says its priority now is to continue working after a suicide bombing that left four of its students dead.
"This tragic incident will not deter Skateistan from continuing our activities in Kabul," media officer Rhianon Bader told the BBC.
"We have many street working kids coming each week, and this incident only makes it more clear how important it is that we provide them with a safe space to have fun and gain access to education.
"More than the despair we are experiencing, we know that keeping the skate park open remains a light in the dark for the children here."
Those killed in the attack by a teenage Taliban bomber included Nawab, 17, and Khorshid, 14, who were instructors at Skateistan.
Khorshid's sister Parwana, eight, and student Mohammad Eesa, 13, also died, as did Assad - Khorshid and Parwan's cousin. Navid, a 14-year-old volunteer, is in hospital, seriously injured.
They were a tight-knit group, hawking scarves and chewing gum on the streets of the Afghan capital one day, donning helmets and kneecaps and gliding down skating ramps the next.
It's the second time the charity has been directly affected by the conflict in Afghanistan which has claimed hundreds of young lives in recent years.
Last December, four former female students were killed in a suicide attack targeting Ashura religious celebrations. Four of the charity's current students who were begging in the area were seriously injured.
Skateistan was started in 2007 with 10 skateboards by Oliver Percovich, an Australian now aged 37, who had moved to Kabul with his girlfriend.
He recalls how many kids shrieked in excitement when they saw him skateboarding. Some of them boldly came forward to borrow his skateboards. And when those boards came back to him in tatters after a few days, his decision was made.
"These kids are trying to break the shackles of old mentalities in Kabul. They are not scared. If they hadn't come after me every day, I would've left a long time ago," he told the BBC two days before Saturday's bombing.
Mr Percovich was unavailable for comment after the attack.
Skateistan
Kabul's fallen skateboard fanatics
Afghanistan has some of the toughest conditions in the world for children, with many working on the streets selling scarves, trinkets and chewing gum.
Skateistan started small, offering daily practice sessions in public spaces in Kabul. Street kids went along, as did children from richer families and it was a chance to bring them together, organisers say. Soon it was time to take the next obvious step: to build a skate park.
Mr Percovich admits that, at the beginning, he struggled to get by on only $10 a day. But eventually, donations started to flow in and he managed to get help from the Danish and Norwegian embassies.
Companies like Black Box Distribution contributed skateboarding equipment. The final step was persuading the Afghan Olympic Committee to donate land to set up the park.
The charity, whose logo is an assault rifle snapped in half by a skateboarder's wheels, hopes to open a new facility in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif later this year.
Today, nearly 400 children take part in Skateistan, 40% of whom are girls - making it the largest female sporting federation in the country.
In conservative Afghanistan, girls cannot be seen associating with men in public after they hit adolescence.
Recruiting girl students into Skateistan is a detailed and complicated process, says the charity's education co-ordinator, Benafsha Tasmim, 23.
"Parents allow girls on a number of conditions, the most important of which is that they practice in a female-only environment. We have classes for boys and girls separately."
Employing female instructors like Khorshid who died in the bombing helped in solving the problem.
One organiser says Khorshid was "always smiling no matter what troubles she had to deal with every day. She knew what she wanted in life and wasn't afraid to fight for it despite having more responsibilities and sorrows than a child should ever have."
The school will conduct memorial services throughout the week, providing assistance to families who lost their children in the attack. | Skateistan, Kabul's first skateboarding school, is perhaps the most unlikely non-profit sporting organisation in Afghanistan. |
38668268 | The Welsh side went 15 points down inside quarter of an hour as Soso Bekoshvili and Taku Ngwenya.
Tries for Tavis Knoyle and Sarel Pretorius restricted the half-time deficit to 22-14.
Pretorius grabbed a breakaway second, but Brive's forwards drove over twice to seal the win.
Brive's victory owed much to their forward dominance as they drove the Dragons backwards in scrums and forced a string of penalties in the contact area.
The Dragons ended with no reward from any of their three away matches in the group.
They got off to the worst possible start as prop Bekoshvili drove over from a line-out after four minutes, while veteran American wing Taku Ngwenya finished off a fine move.
But Knoyle scored after a break by number eight Ed Jackson in the 20th minute, O'Brien converting.
Another sweeping move from half-way saw Ngwenya and powerhouse centre Seremaia Burotu put prop Damien Lavergne over to make it 22-7.
With home centre Romain Cabannes yellow-carded on his own line, the Dragons stayed in contention as replacement Pretorius - on for the injured Knoyle - sniped over from close range.
The South African grabbed a second with an opportunist effort from 70 metres at the start of the second half.
But Brive turned the screw with tries from by Bekoshvili and Patrick Toetu from driving mauls to end Dragons' hopes.
Brive ended as comfortable pool winners with 23 points.
Newport Gwent Dragons captain Lewis Evans told BBC Wales Sport:
"After about 60 minutes we were in with a chance to get the bonus-point win, unfortunately there were one or two errors in execution and it let a team like Brive, with a very good power game, pin us back in our own 22.
"Besides the first five minutes we were in the game, Sarel [Pretorius] coming off the bench injected a real intensity but it's one which did get away.
"It's a competition we've done well in in previous years, so it's a shame we can't progress any further.
"We thought we could go over [to face Enisei] and do a job quite comfortably in Russia but they did overpower us, while Worcester's scrum was outstanding and we paid the price there."
Brive: Gaetan Germain; Taku Ngwenya, Romain Cabannes, Seremaia Burotu, Guillaume Namy; Matthieu Ugalde, Vasil Lobzhanidze, Damien Lavergne, Thomas Acquier, Soso Bekoshvili, Jan Uys, Sisa Koyamaibole, Fabien Sanconnie, Poutasi Luafutu, Petrus Hauman (capt)
Replacements: Francois Da Ros, Kevin Buys, Patrick Toetu, Johan Snyman, Dominiko Waqaniborutu, Jean-Baptiste Pejoine, Christopher Tuatara, Benjamin Lapeyre.
NG Dragons: Carl Meyer; Adam Hughes, Sam Beard, Adam Warren, Pat Howard, Angus O'Brien, Tavis Knoyle; Sam Hobbs, Thomas Rhys Thomas, Lloyd Fairbrother, Nick Crosswell, Cory Hill, Lewis Evans (capt), Ollie Griffiths, Ed Jackson.
Replacements: Rhys Buckley, Phil Price, Craig Mitchell, Rynard Landman, Nic Cudd, Sarel Pretorius, Dorian Jones, Harri Keddie.
Referee: Craig Maxwell-Keys (England)
Assistant referees: Christopher Ridley (England), Clare Daniels (England)
Citing Commissioner: Wayne Sheridan (Ireland) | Newport Gwent Dragons went out of the European Challenge Cup with a 36-19 defeat against pool leaders Brive in France. |
37692323 | We are certainly in a different world from 40 years ago when inflation flirted not with 1% but 30%.
Control of the "price beast" kept politicians awake at night. Inflation eroded incomes and savings.
Since the financial crisis, inflation has more or less disappeared as a political issue, squeezed out of the economy by collapsing growth and de-leveraging as the public and businesses paid off their debts.
Now, inflation is creeping up the political agenda.
And the fall in the value of sterling is only going to exacerbate that trend.
To be clear, today's increase is not "explicitly linked" - to use the Office for National Statistics' own phrase - to the pound's 17% decline since the referendum.
Fuel and clothing prices were at low levels this time last year, and today's inflation figure is a comparison with those numbers.
That is not to say that inflationary pressures are not building.
Input prices, that is the cost of raw materials and labour that goes into making things, rose by 7.2% in the year to September, the third monthly increase.
This is the key quote from the Office for National Statistics: "The recent return to positive producer price inflation can be partly attributed to the changes in the sterling exchange rate.
"All else equal, a depreciation of sterling increases the prices of imports, with a corresponding impact on the prices paid by producers for imports. If these producers raise their prices in turn, then movements in the exchange rate can influence output producer prices."
And that is likely to mean higher prices for consumers in the shops, following the trend already set at the fuel pump.
The return of higher levels of inflation is likely to be one of the defining issues for Theresa May's government.
The reason for that is simple.
Once the figure for inflation rises above the figure for wage growth - at present running at just over 2% - then incomes start falling in real terms.
That is politically uncomfortable for any government, particularly one that has staked its reputation on making the economy work "for everyone".
As Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, made clear on Friday, the first to feel the impact of a rise in inflation - at its most basic an increase in the price of essentials like food and fuel - are the "just managing classes" who spend a high proportion of their income on daily staples.
These are people in work but who feel very far from comfortably off.
Add to that the benefits freeze announced by the government last year, and the toxicity of even relatively low levels of inflation becomes clear.
Before the freeze, those on working age benefits or tax credits would be shielded to an extent from inflation by an automatic increase in benefits in line with the headline figure.
With that connection broken, real incomes for those on benefits and in work will be more adversely affected.
As the Institute for Fiscal Studies said this morning: "This policy [the benefits freeze] represented a significant takeaway from a large number of working age households.
"But it also represented a shifting of risk from the government to benefit recipients.
"Previously, higher inflation was a risk to the public finances, increasing cash spending on benefits.
"Now the risk is borne by low-income households: unless policy changes, higher inflation will reduce their real incomes."
It is important to remember as UK inflation ticks upward, we still live in a largely deflationary world.
The engine of that deflation is China, where weakening demand and a weakening currency has led to commodity price falls and markets flooded with cheap exports.
Poor growth across Europe is adding to that downward pressure.
Inflation - even in Britain - will not become "rampant". And of course some inflation is good for economic growth, as it encourages investment as businesses are motivated by the prospect of higher prices and higher profit margins.
Yes, an inflation increase is likely to be politically dangerous for Theresa May.
But we are not going back to the 1970s. | To a resident of the 1970s the headline "inflation soars to 1%" would seem as baffling as being told that in some distant time in the future people would walk around with telephones in their pockets and photographs of someone called Kim Kardashian would regularly threaten to "break the internet" (whatever that was). |
34787029 | Politicians attended a ceremony in Parliament Buildings to mark Armistice Day on Wednesday morning.
The national anthem was not on the event's order of service, but the Traditional Unionist Voice's (TUV) press officer began the singing.
Unionists denied the singing at the end of the event was politically-motivated.
Sinn Féin's Carál Ní Chuilín attended the service along with her party colleague Martin McGuinness, the deputy first minister.
She said a "small group of unionists" started singing "in an attempt to embarrass those in attendance".
The service had been "respectful and inclusive", she said, but some unionists "chose to disrespect the spirit of the event" with the unannounced singing of the national anthem.
"The event itself, led by assembly speaker Mitchel McLaughlin, received wide support from right across the political spectrum," Ms Ní Chuilín said.
"I welcome the fact that other unionist representatives came to me to express their anger and disappointment at how the civic remembrance event had been disrespected."
Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt approached Mr McGuinness after the event and said he was sorry for what he told the deputy first minister was a "stunt".
Later, he said it was "highly regrettable" that some nationalists felt "ambushed" by the singing of the anthem.
"The national anthem should be part of the ceremony, but everybody should know and it should be part of the running order.
"Today it was clear that the close of the ceremony left some people feeling very uncomfortable.
"I don't think it's good that people feel embarrassed - I wouldn't want that to happen to me."
The TUV's Sammy Morrison was the person who began the singing.
He said Sinn Féin should reconsider attending remembrance events if they had an issue with the singing of the National Anthem.
"I've been attending the act of remembrance every year since my boss, Jim Allister, was elected to Stormont in 2011.
"This is the first year it didn't appear on the order of service. I didn't see why it was left off.
"It was sung every other year - nobody that attended those events in the past was offended by it, I don't see why anybody should be offended by it this year.
"The vast, vast majority of people who attended obviously felt we should have been singing the national anthem as well because they joined in with me."
Democratic Unionist Party MLA Peter Weir said the singing had not been "a stunt or a politically-motivated gesture".
"There is an annual act of remembrance within Parliament Buildings, which usually closes with the singing of the national anthem," he said.
"Those of us who participated in the spontaneous singing this year did because it is normal for the anthem to be sung at such events."
"To avoid any confusion in future it would perhaps be beneficial if the national anthem was again placed on the order of service next year." | A rendition of the national anthem at an act of remembrance service at Stormont was a "childish stunt", a Sinn Féin MLA has said. |
38719324 | Gonzalo Higuain tapped in a brilliant Alex Sandro cross and Sami Khedira smashed home after Paulo Dybala stepped over a Higuain cross.
Dybala hit the post with a 25-yard effort in the second half as the champions eased to victory.
Sassuolo's best chance came when Matteo Politano and Alessandro Matri forced a double save from Gianluigi Buffon.
Juventus, chasing a sixth consecutive title, are now four points above second-placed Roma, who lost 3-2 at Sampdoria having led twice. Juve also have a game in hand on the capital side.
In Sunday's late game, third-placed Napoli drew 1-1 with struggling Palermo. They are two points behind Roma.
Elsewhere in Serie A, AC Milan lost 2-1 to Udinese and Genoa drew 3-3 at Fiorentina, with Giovanni Simeone scoring twice.
Diego Falcinelli scored a hat-trick as 18th-placed Crotone beat Empoli to boost their slim survival hosts. They are now eight points adrift of their opponents, who sit 17th.
Cagliari and Bologna - who had two men sent off in the closing stages - drew 1-1, as did Torino and Atalanta.
Match ends, Sassuolo 0, Juventus 2.
Second Half ends, Sassuolo 0, Juventus 2.
Alex Sandro (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luca Antei (Sassuolo).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus) because of an injury.
Foul by Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus).
Francesco Acerbi (Sassuolo) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Juventus. Tomás Rincón replaces Juan Cuadrado.
Foul by Alex Sandro (Juventus).
Matteo Politano (Sassuolo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Antonino Ragusa (Sassuolo) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Gregoire Defrel.
Foul by Alex Sandro (Juventus).
Matteo Politano (Sassuolo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo).
Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo).
Substitution, Juventus. Marko Pjaca replaces Paulo Dybala.
Substitution, Sassuolo. Antonino Ragusa replaces Alessandro Matri.
Alex Sandro (Juventus) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo).
Foul by Miralem Pjanic (Juventus).
Federico Peluso (Sassuolo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alfred Duncan (Sassuolo).
Attempt missed. Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Juan Cuadrado with a cross.
Attempt missed. Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) header from the left side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic with a cross.
Attempt saved. Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Juan Cuadrado with a through ball.
Foul by Alex Sandro (Juventus).
Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gregoire Defrel (Sassuolo).
Federico Peluso (Sassuolo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Federico Peluso (Sassuolo).
Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Paulo Dybala with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Luca Antei.
Alex Sandro (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luca Antei (Sassuolo). | Champions Juventus went four points clear at the top of Serie A with a comfortable win over Sassuolo. |
37549153 | Greggs, which has shifted from being a traditional bakery to focusing on food-on-the-go, said total sales rose by 5.6% in the 13 weeks to 1 October.
Like-for-like sales, which includes shops that have been open for more than a year, rose by 3.4%.
The company's new menu includes gluten-free options and lower calorie soups.
"The popularity of our summer menu including an extended range of Balanced Choice salads and yoghurts supported sales growth in the period," it said in a statement.
"We also saw continued strong growth at breakfast time, helped by our strong coffee offer and value deals."
The Newcastle-based firm said it had opened 103 new outlets so far this year, including 41 franchises. It closed 58 stores, leaving it with a total of 1,743 shops, 143 of them franchises.
It has refitted 145 stores and by the end of the year expects to have completed 200 refurbishments.
The company is now two years into its five-year strategic plan to shift from being a traditional bakery to focusing on the £6bn food-to go market.
Earlier this year, it announced the closure of three of its 12 bakeries as part of the plan to refocus the business. In its latest statement it said the Twickenham bakery would close next month.
The company is also investing in its supply chain and said its new distribution centre in Enfield would open in the the next few weeks.
Greggs said its expectations for the year as a whole remain unchanged and that while it anticipated "general industry-wide cost pressures" next year it expected to make further progress with its strategy. | High Street food chain Greggs has reported rising sales over the summer, helped by demand for its healthier options such as salads and yoghurts. |
39570263 | Two converted first-half tries from winger Vincent Duport, allied to a penalty from Luke Walsh, earned a 14-0 Dragons lead at the break in Perpignan.
The hosts scored four second-half tries through Krisnan Inu, Richie Myler, Tony Gigot and Duport, for his hat-trick.
Salford's only reply came from Justin Carney's second-half breakaway try.
Gareth O'Brien added the extras, but Salford were well beaten, Australian Walsh converting five of his side's tries, as well as adding two late drop-goals to his earlier penalty, for a 14-point individual haul.
Following their 12-6 Good Friday local derby win over Leigh, Salford had two days' less rest than their opponents, who won 29-22 at Huddersfield on Wednesday night.
The Red Devils brought in Aussie Todd Carney, making his first start for Salford against his old club, but their task was made more difficult with the loss of first Logan Tomkins (concussion) and then Junior Sa'u (adductor) through injury.
Only briefly did they entertain any hope of a comeback when, on the hour mark, another Catalans kick to the right was plucked out of the air by Justin Carney, who raced 100 metres to score.
But, just three minutes later, Walsh's kick downfield sat up and evaded O'Brien and bounced perfectly into the hands of the chasing Myler.
Gigot then scored his third try in as many appearances when he intercepted Robert Lui's pass and raced 70 metres to score before the oddity of two late Walsh drop-goals when the game was already won, followed by Duport's hat-trick try, from Thomas Bosc's kick to the left corner.
Catalans head coach Laurent Frayssinous:
"I'm pleased with the last few weeks and especially tonight with our defence. That was our best performance of the season in defence.
"I know that Salford played on Friday and there was some tiredness there but we did our job, which is really pleasing. Like every team in the competition, we have our bruises and our injury problems but I'm really pleased with how the squad is reacting and putting their hands up to play for us.
"We lost Justin Horo in the second half with an Achilles problem. I feared the worst when I saw it, but the medical staff don't think it is a rupture, And Krisnan Inu played with a sore knee too after he picked up a knock in the Huddersfield game. It is a credit to him for putting his hand up to play."
Salford head coach Ian Watson:
"Tiredness affected us massively. There were points in the game where it was there to be won and we just didn't have that little bit of energy.
"To be fair, it's not why we've lost the game and we won't make a big deal of it. Catalans did a great job. They played really well. They played smart at certain times.
"But to ask professional athletes to have a two-day recovery and travel for over 10 hours, get here late at night, then go and compete against professional athletes who have had a five-day turnaround, then the RFL need to have a look at themselves really and what they've made us do."
Catalans: Gigot; Duport, Inu, Thornley, Yaha; Walsh, Myler; Garcia, Anderson, Horo, Moa, Casty, Aiton.
Replacements: Bousquet, Bosc, Simon, Margalet.
Salford: O'Brien; Johnson, Welham, Sa'u, J Carney; T Carney, Dobson; Walne, Tomkins, Tasi, Jones, Flanagan, Krasniqi.
Replacements: Lui, Kopczak, Griffin, Lannon.
Referee: Phil Bentham (RFL). | Salford's five-match winning run came to an end at the Stade Gilbert Brutus as Catalans Dragons claimed their third victory on the trot. |
34655077 | Speaking to college students in Delhi, Mr Zuckerberg said expanding Internet access was key to economic growth.
Reports say some 900 students turned out for the session at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
Last month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the headquarters of Facebook in California.
With more than 130 million users, India is Facebook's largest market outside the United States.
"If you really have a mission of connecting every person in the world you can't do that without connecting people in India," Mr Zuckerberg told the students.
"We have the second biggest community in India and we want the next billion to come online."
Mr Zuckerberg said Internet access helped create jobs and lift people out of poverty.
Last month, Mr Modi hailed the political power of social media during his visit to the Facebook headquarters.
Mr Modi has said he wants to connect all India's villages to the internet - around a billion Indians currently lack internet access.
Facebook says its internet.org project, which offers free access to a bundle of mobile phone web apps, can help get the developing world online.
But it has drawn criticism in India, accused of favouring Facebook over local services.
"We have a moral responsibility to look out for people who do not have the Internet... and make sure the rules don't get twisted to hurt people who don't have a voice," the Facebook CEO said on Wednesday.
Mr Zuckerberg visited the Taj Mahal on Tuesday.
"It is even more stunning than I expected. It's incredible what people can build - and what love can motivate us to build," he wrote on Facebook. | Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has said India will be crucial to getting "the next billion online" and helping to combat poverty. |
28683496 | In closing statements, jurors were told Theodore Wafer, 55, should not have acted as "judge, jury and executioner" in shooting Renisha McBride, 19.
Mr Wafer has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the 2 November killing.
He said he fired because he refused to be a victim in his home.
On Wednesday, the jury began deliberations in the case.
In their arguments closing the two-week trial, prosecutors said Mr Wafer had easier options than to confront Ms McBride directly when she banged on the door of his house in Dearborn Heights in the early hours of the morning.
Ms McBride had crashed her car into a parked vehicle close to Mr Wafer's house hours before the shooting. It is unclear how and why she arrived at his house - the two did not know one another.
A toxicology report later showed that she had a blood alcohol level of 0.218%, well above the state's drink-driving limit.
"She was a young girl looking for help,'' said prosecutor Patrick Muscat.
"What he did had to be immediately necessary and it wasn't. It was reckless. It was negligent. I don't know how to describe it. It was horrific."
Mr Wafer has argued he acted in self-defence because he was afraid for his life.
In her closing statement, his defence lawyer Cheryl Carpenter asked jurors to put themselves "in his shoes".
"He did not know it was a 19-year-old who got in a car crash at 01:00," she said. "What he knew was someone was trying to get in."
On Monday Mr Wafer described how on the night of the killing he was woken by banging on his doors and thought there could have been more than one person outside his home.
He said he had been sleeping in a recliner and could not immediately find his phone to call the police for help.
Instead, he told jurors he took his 12-gauge shotgun and opened his front door slightly and saw the outer screen door was damaged. He said he pulled the trigger to defend himself.
"It was them or me," he said.
When police arrived, they found Ms McBride's body in a pool of blood just off the porch. She had been shot in the face.
Under state of Michigan law, Mr Wafer must convince the jury he had a reasonable and honest fear for his life.
If convicted, he could face a life sentence with the possibility of parole. | A man who killed an unarmed black woman on his suburban Detroit porch should have called the police if he was afraid, prosecutors have said. |
34996604 | His announcement followed another bloody year in the US in which thousands were killed and tens of thousands wounded by gunfire.
Here's a look at some of the statistics behind the violence.
Mass shootings: There were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker, which catalogues such incidents. A mass shooting is defined as a single shooting incident which kills or injures four or more people, including the assailant.
Source: Mass Shooting Tracker
School shootings: There were 64 school shootings in 2015, according to a dedicated campaign group set up in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Connecticut in 2012. Those figures include occasions when a gun was fired but no-one was hurt.
Source: Everytown for Gun SafetyResearch
All shootings: Some 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide]. Those figures are likely to rise by several hundred, once incidents in the final week of the year are counted.
Source: Gun Violence Archive
How the US compares: The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 - the most recent year for comparable statistics - was nearly 30 times that in the UK, at 2.9 per 100,000 compared with just 0.1.
Of all the murders in the US in 2012, 60% were by firearm compared with 31% in Canada, 18.2% in Australia, and just 10% in the UK.
Source: UNODC.
The home front: So many people die annually from gunfire in the US that the death toll between 1968 and 2011 eclipses all wars ever fought by the country. According to research by Politifact, there were about 1.4 million firearm deaths in that period, compared with 1.2 million US deaths in every conflict from the War of Independence to Iraq.
Source: Politifact.
Total number of guns: No official figure exists but there are thought to be about 300 million in the US, held by about a third of the population. That is nearly enough guns for every man, woman and child in the country.
The NRA: The right to own guns is regarded by many as enshrined in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, and fiercely defended by lobby groups such as the National Rifle Association, which boasted that its membership surged to around five million in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting.
Gun violence and terrorism: The US spends more than a trillion dollars per year defending itself against terrorism, which kills a tiny fraction of the number of people killed by ordinary gun crime.
According to figures from the US Department of Justice and the Council on Foreign Affairs, 11,385 people died on average annually in firearm incidents in the US between 2001 and 2011.
In the same period, an average of 517 people were killed annually in terror-related incidents. Removing 2001, when 9/11 occurred, from the calculation produces an annual average of just 31. | In his first weekly address of 2016, Barack Obama vowed to take executive action to increase background checks on gun buyers. |
39655072 | 21 April 2017 Last updated at 12:58 BST
This is the person who makes important decisions in their country.
There are 11 people who want the job.
But there is one candidate in particular, Marine Le Pen, leader of the party Front National, that many people have been talking about.
Martin has been looking into why people have very different opinions about her. | Adults in France are about to vote on who they want to be their next president. |
37383259 | The Switch Guarantee service was launched exactly three years ago, but the numbers using it have fallen consistently.
In the year to the end of June 2016, the number of switches averaged 88,031 a month.
That compares with a monthly average of 92,448 in the previous year.
Most account holders have steadfastly refused to move, despite incentives worth up to £220 being offered by banks and building societies.
Bacs, the organisation responsible for the switching service, will launch the new advertising campaign in newspapers, social media and online this weekend.
The adverts will feature a man reading a newspaper with a headline claiming that more than three million people have moved account since September 2013.
Official figures show there have been 3.2 million switches over the period, including those who have moved more than once.
There are as many as 68 million current accounts in the UK.
There will also be a new website to show people how to switch within seven days.
As part of its recent inquiry into current accounts, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) required that there should be a publicity campaign to persuade more people to move their accounts.
The government has been keen to encourage greater switching levels, to encourage new entrants into the banking market. | A new advertising campaign is being launched to persuade more people to switch bank accounts - because not enough people are doing so. |
39038545 | The team looked at adolescents who were generally more impulsive than their peers - a trait sometimes linked to the misuse of drugs.
They found teenagers who had a particular pattern of activity on brain scans were more likely to misuse drugs.
The early work appears in the journal Nature Communications.
Scientists asked 144 adolescents who had not previously used recreational drugs to fill in questionnaires and take part in behavioural tests to assess how impulsive they were and how attracted they were to trying new things.
Researchers then conducted a range of brain scans, while asking the adolescents to carry out tasks that could win them cash prizes at the same time.
The tests were designed to look at how particular parts of the brain responded to the prospect of getting a reward.
They found those teenagers who had less nerve activity in these brain areas during these tasks, were more likely to have drug problems two years later.
One theory behind this, the scientists say, is that teenagers who are more likely to take drugs have less motivation for traditional rewards like money, and more for less conventional rewards.
Prof Brian Knutson, at Stanford University, says he hopes with more work, these types of tests could help identify vulnerable teenagers who could be offered help before problems arise.
Meanwhile Prof Derek Hill, of University College London, said the study was "interesting" with carefully collected and analysed data.
But he cautioned that the methods used in the study were still experimental.
He added: "It is therefore important that results like this are replicated in separate studies before the results in this paper should be used to change the way these young people are diagnosed and treated." | An international team of scientists say the way teenagers' brains are wired may help predict whether they will develop drug problems in the future. |
36853760 | The 29-year-old pulled out of the 100m final at the Jamaican Olympic trials, but will race in his first 200m of the season in London on Friday.
"My hamstring is good. I have no issue right now," Bolt said.
"I had a strain. If I'd competed I probably would have torn my hamstring really bad, but I was never really worried. I know I'm in good shape."
Bolt will return to the Olympic Stadium in East London, scene of his three gold medals at the London 2012 Games, in his final competitive race at the Anniversary Games before he attempts the "triple triple" of 100m, 200m and 4x100m Olympic golds in Rio next month.
"I'm here to win," he said. "I'm always excited to be here and it is going to be a lot of fun.
"I needed a 200 race. I hadn't run all season, so I'm happy to run my first one here."
Asked about his rivalry with American Justin Gatlin, whom he beat in both the 100m and 200m at last year's world championships, Bolt said: "I am definitely a tough competitor.
"Last year, Gatlin was just not ready, it was the first time he was being chased, he was usually the one winning by far, but he had a tough competitor and it was hard for him. This year, I am in much better shape so I won't leave it to the last second."
Bolt won the 200m in 19.55 seconds in Beijing last year, and asked if he could beat his 2009 world record of 19.19 in Rio, he said: "It's possible.
"I'm happy I didn't get a really bad setback this season and I think the competition of the 100m will help my focus in trying to break the 200m record."
Media playback is not supported on this device | Olympic sprinting legend Usain Bolt insists he has no fitness problems after a recent hamstring injury scare. |
37037733 | Thousands attended the official opening by the Queen Mother, an occasion marked by a first day cover and even a 7" single by local teenagers Peter and Alison.
"The realisation of an idea that first caught the imagination of Dundonians more than 40 years ago", a contemporary newsreel commentator noted, was now a "splendid reality."
But while the bridge ushered in a new era of convenience for motorists, it sounded the death knell for the much-loved "Fifies" - the Tay Ferries that transported vehicles and generations of passengers between Dundee and Newport-on-Tay.
The last Fifie sailed just hours after the new bridge opened and was overseen by relief skipper John Lewis Squibb.
His daughter Margaret Wright said: "That was quite a sad day, especially for my dad.
"The ferry was doing the last crossing to Dundee and my dad was able to throw the last rope onto the boat before it took off.
"It was a lovely evening and the whole family was there which made it very special.
"I think he was very emotional, but progress, it was what was needed.
"The ferries could not take the quantity of traffic that was coming in.
"We needed the bridge."
Although work on the £4.8m bridge began in March 1963, there had been an appetite for such a crossing for decades.
Eventually, in 1958, test bores were taken and a traffic census was carried out, before William A Fairhurst's design was given the go-ahead two years later.
The construction involved a low temporary bridge which allowed the digging of coffer dams for the road bridge's pillars.
Conditions could be harsh and five men died in the bridge's construction, with three men lost when part of the temporary bridge collapsed in November 1965.
Bert Smith was due to work that evening but swapped his shift with John McQueen, one of the men who died.
He said: "I didn't want to work that night because my wife wasn't well, so I got a change with John McQueen.
"So I went home that night and it was not long after that, that the incident happened.
"He was killed when it should have been me. It still brings the hair up on the back of my neck yet, it really does.
"I think about them every November."
Mr Smith worked on the bridge for the whole of its three-and-a-half year construction.
He said: "It was a hard job, just because of the nature of the job. You had to be fit and able to work.
"It's a nice strong bridge.
"There's no reason for it not being there in 100 years time, because I remember all the piles that went into the foundation and the amount of concrete and steelwork that was involved."
In July 1966, the final girder was put in place and the Tay Road Bridge was complete.
Spanning 1.4 miles, the bridge rose from a height of 32 feet above sea level at Dundee to 125ft at Newport-on-Tay.
A viewing platform sat atop the toll booths, a feature of the bridge until tolls were abolished in 2008.
The five men who perished in the bridge's construction, along with William Logan, managing director of the main building contractor, who died in a plane crash in January 1966, are commemorated in memorial plaques beside the bridge.
Current bridge manager Alan Hutchison said it had become a "major piece of Scottish heritage transport infrastructure".
"It's been incredibly important when you consider the links it's created," he said.
Currently carrying 26,000 vehicles a day, anticipated traffic on the bridge in 1966 was less than a fifth of that figure.
Mr Hutchison said the crossing has weathered the rigours of half a century of traffic "incredibly well".
He said: "We now get 44-tonne European lorries and a few years ago the bridge was strengthened to accommodate the additional loading from these.
"So, with regular maintenance and inspections, it will continue to cope very well indeed."
Supervisor Jim McDonald, who has worked on the bridge for 34 years, oversees these inspections.
He recalled one of the bridge's more unusual travellers, a runaway bull called Bertie which escaped from a nearby abattoir in July, 2000.
"They nicknamed it Houdini because it escaped over a six-foot wall," he said.
"The abattoir was about half a mile from the bridge and it came onto the ramp and went on the northbound approach before they darted it."
The bull was captured after making it to Fife and following a plea for mercy by TV comedy writer Carla Lane, it was transferred to her animal sanctuary in West Sussex.
Mr McDonald also remembers the legendary Tay Road Bridge Jif lemon tree, where plastic lemons were placed on a tree beside the toll booths by workers for almost three decades.
He said: "It was just for fun to keep people's spirits up and all the children liked it.
"Every year we'd put them out in April and then in October or November, you'd bring them in again.
"Some people thought it was a real lemon tree and would take photos of it."
The trees and the tolls are no more - but the bridge is still going strong fifty years on.
A weekend of celebrations will take place in Dundee and Fife to mark the anniversary.
A mural designed by Fraser Gray and Martin McGuinness, which includes a portrait of William Fairhurst is being painted underneath the Dundee bridge approach road.
Alan Hutchison said: "The Tay Road Bridge is an incredibly well-maintained bridge.
"When bridges are designed they typically have what engineers call the design life of 120 years.
"We're only 50 years into that, but there's no reason why it won't go on forever." | Fifty years ago today, a new link between Dundee and Fife roared into life with the opening of the Tay Road Bridge. |
37362853 | The goal was announced by the president of the European Union's executive body, Jean-Claude Juncker, in his annual state of the union address.
He also wants at least one city in each EU country to have deployed a 5G mobile network by 2020.
However, one expert cast doubt over whether the public would benefit.
European officials have struggled to deliver an earlier promise to abolish mobile roaming fees.
The new pledges may not apply to the UK because it may have quit the EU before the end of the decade.
Mr Juncker said digital technologies were "permeating every aspect of life", so everyone should be able to get online.
"Everyone benefiting from connectivity means that it should not matter where you live or how much you earn," he said.
"So, we propose today to equip every European village and every city with free wireless internet access around the main centres of public life by 2020."
A factsheet for his Wifi4EU plan states that it applies to parks, squares, libraries and public buildings.
However, it makes clear that the commission plans to spend a maximum of €120m (£102m) to install the necessary equipment, and that local bodies will have to cover subscription costs, maintenance and other expenses.
Mark Newman, chief analyst at the telecoms consultancy ConnectivityX, said: "€120m doesn't sound like a huge amount of investment.
"In many towns and cities, people can already find free wi-fi on the High Street.
"I would question whether frugal councils will really see it as a priority to deliver free wi-fi in all their buildings and squares."
Mr Newman said the 5G pledge was also less impressive than it sounded.
"The 5G standard itself won't be ready until 2018," he said.
"And I can't see any spectrum licences being allocated until the next year or the one after that.
"So, the only deployment in 2020 would be in highly targeted areas - something like a shopping precinct or Trafalgar Square.
"That means there will be limited coverage and very few devices available to access it, so saying it should launch in major cities by that date isn't actually saying very much."
Additional goals set for 2025 included:
The EU's digital economy commissioner backed his president, suggesting the targets would help focus minds.
"Europe has the ambition to lead on the deployment of 5G," said Gunther Oettinger.
"It is time to move to a gigabit society and make sure all Europeans, whether in the countryside or the cities, can get access to a quality internet connection."
The European Commission has faced criticism of its handling of a promise to stop its citizens being charged roaming fees when using their handsets in a different European country to their own.
The executive first proposed the idea in 2013.
But when it published a detailed plan, earlier this month, it said there should be a 90-day limit to the commitment.
Its intention was to prevent people living in one country buying a plan from another to cover their day-to-day use.
But the move caused a backlash, and last week Mr Juncker called for the scheme to be rethought.
"The draft was not technically wrong," Mr Juncker said in his state of the union address.
"But it missed the point of what was promised.
"And you will see a new, better draft as of next week.
"When you roam, it should be like at home." | The European Commission wants free wi-fi to be provided in public spaces across its member states within four years. |
33034542 | Police said the privately-owned helicopter crashed in the valley just off the Ramsey to Douglas Mountain Road at about 09:00 BST.
It is believed there was only one person on board the aircraft, a man who was not thought to be from the Isle of Man, police said.
The annual TT motorbike racing festival was due to start this weekend but the opening race was delayed by the winds.
Det Insp Steve Maddocks of the Isle of Man Constabulary said the aircraft crashed into the fields near the 33rd Milestone.
Officers said they were unable to reveal the condition of the helicopter crash casualty.
The six-lap Superbike event was due to be staged on Saturday but has been postponed until Sunday.
Mountain Road has been closed between Ramsey and Creg Ny Raa until further notice while the cause of the crash is being investigated by police, the Isle of Man Rescue Service and air crash investigators. | A helicopter has crashed in the Isle of Man during high winds. |
37134791 | Media playback is not supported on this device
No individual GB female athlete has won gold in three successive Games but Jones, Laura Trott and Charlotte Dujardin might achieve that in 2020.
Reigning boxing champion Nicola Adams could join the list if she wins her flyweight final in Rio on Saturday.
"I will definitely go for it again," said double Olympic champion Jones.
Her coach Paul Green says the world number one could become Britain's greatest taekwondo athlete ever as the 23-year-old from the north Wales town of Flint looks for a third Olympic crown at the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
Cyclist Trott and dressage rider Dujardin could also look to make British Olympic history in Japan but Jones has already spelt out her desire to add to her London 2012 and Rio 2016 wins.
"I am only 23-years old and I love taekwondo, I love to fight," she said.
Jones retained her Olympic taekwondo title - winning GB's 22nd gold of the 2016 Games by winning a thrilling final 16-7 to defeat Spain's Eva Calvo Gomez in the -57kg category.
Two head kicks in the third round sealed victory for Jones - who has now won both GB's taekwondo golds since its introduction as a medal sport in 2000.
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Her success means Welsh athletes have now contributed 10 medals, including four golds, at the Rio Games.
Sailor Hannah Mills and cyclists Owain Doull and Elinor Barker have also won gold in what has been a record medal haul for Wales.
"Yeah, it feels different this time, but I still can't believe I won in London to be honest," admitted Jones.
"I knew I was good enough to come here and win and I would have been disappointed with anything less, but in taekwondo anything can happen and until you have that medal around your neck nothing is certain.
"I know I am better and have the talent to beat all these girls, but mentally you have to be right on it, every move is crucial, you cannot make a mistake.
"Winning again was another amazing moment, I've trained so hard and there was so much pressure. But all the training and hard work was worthwhile.
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Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Jade Jones has confirmed she wants to defend her Olympic taekwondo title in Tokyo where she could become a British Olympic record breaker. |
34679720 | The 46-year-old was placed in an induced coma after the fall in the World Young Horse Championships on 17 October.
British Eventing said on Friday that his condition had improved but he remains in a French hospital.
Fox-Pitt is GB's most successful rider with 20 major championship medals.
"His family remain hugely grateful to the fantastic team looking after him and to everyone for all the messages and support," the governing body said.
Fox-Pitt fell from his horse Reinstated, who was unharmed, at Le Lion-d'Angers. | British eventer William Fox-Pitt is out of intensive care following a "head trauma" suffered in a fall nearly two weeks ago. |
34224491 | The idea appears in proposals to allow elected Police and Crime Commissioners to take over fire services in England.
The consultation says a fire chief with no experience as a constable could run both services, under a PCC.
The national body for police chiefs has already said it is "surprised" by the idea.
The proposals are part of a broad and detailed strategy to merge parts of emergency service planning and management.
Elected PCCs currently oversee the work of each police force and they have the power to appoint chief constables - while a separate body made up of local councillors oversees fire and rescue services.
In the consultation, published by the Home Office, ministers say that they want to encourage more "efficiency and effectiveness" by placing a legal duty on all emergency services to work together.
They say this could ultimately include some PCCs taking over fire and rescue authorities - and that would mean creating a single organisation made up of police and fire staff.
That new body would need a chief officer answerable to a PCC - and this post would have to be a chief constable.
"The post of chief officer would be open to both senior police officers and fire officers, since they will have relevant experience," says the document.
"To achieve this, we will remove the requirement for senior fire officers applying for chief constable roles to previously have been a constable."
While proposals to bring fire services under PCC control have been expected, the National Police Chiefs Council did not appear to know ministers would were going to propose allowing fire chiefs to seek the top job.
Chief Constables Lynne Owens and Giles York, who speak for the police on national emergency services and workforce issues, said: "It was surprising to see the suggestion that a chief fire officer would be eligible to apply for the chief constable post included in the government's proposal.
"This seems to suggest a fundamental change to the current position in which chief constables hold the office of constable and are experienced in the exercise of those powers.
"We will look to work with the Home Office and College of Policing to better understand what is proposed to enable a full and thoughtful response to this issue, grounded in public, not self, interest."
Policing minister Mike Penning, a former firefighter, said: "It simply doesn't make sense for emergency services to have different premises, different back offices and different IT systems when their work is so closely related and they often share the same boundaries.
"Directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners are accountable to the people they serve and uniquely placed to improve the way the emergency services are delivered at a local level."
The Local Government Association has already said it sees no "pressing need" to change the way fire services are governed - and the Fire Brigades Union said it would fight any plans to merge the service with police.
"Police are law enforcers, while fire and rescue is a humanitarian service with a very different remit and culture," said FBU general secretary Matt Wrack.
"Firefighters need to be seen to be neutral within the communities they serve."
But Kevin Hurley, the PCC for Surrey, and both a former firefighter and police officer, said: "The key principles of both the fire service and the police are the same - to keep the public safe and act in their interests. As such, I see no reason to exclude senior fire officers from holding the position of Chief Officer for both services. I have already written to the Home Office to inform them that I would be keen to lead on collaboration between the police and fire service within Surrey as a 'Public Safety Commissioner'."
The consultation closes on 23 October. | Fire chiefs could become chief constables despite no previous experience of arresting criminals, the government has proposed. |
39815806 | Greg Clarke has ordered a report into whether it is appropriate to have official partnerships with gambling and betting.
"The sport has a duty to consider and ask itself what is right," Clarke told The Times.
The FA board is expected to make a decision this summer.
It has commercial agreements with the alcoholic drinks companies Carling, Budweiser and Carlsberg, as well as a long-term deal with betting firm Ladbrokes.
In April, Burnley midfielder Joey Barton was banned from football for 18 months after admitting charges in relation to betting.
The 34-year-old was fined £30,000 and warned about his future conduct after being charged with breaking FA rules for placing 1,260 bets on matches over a 10-year period.
But Barton questioned the FA and said it should "look at its own dependence on the gambling companies" instead of "blaming" the players.
Clarke added: "We are actively considering what our position will be and should be. It is right we consider it and then make a positive decision on what we are going to do or not." | The Football Association is "considering" its relationship with gambling firms and alcohol companies, says the governing body's chairman. |
30846652 | Kevin Pietersen's been showing off his latest inking, which is a map of all the places he's scored centuries (more than 100 runs) during his England career.
And yes - we know it's back to front. He took the selfie in a mirror.
Pietersen said on Instagram: "#tattoo #globalcitizen #stars It isn't the wrong way around. It's just the reflection!"
He told followers on Twitter to "work the stars out yourself".
Can you do the KP test? (Scroll down for the answers.)
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | He's got a few tattoos already but this one's - how shall we put it - a bit different. |
37488804 | Now, a group of parents who are aged over 60 and look after disabled children are calling on the assembly to change that.
Sherol Matthews, from Bangor, County Down, has been the main carer for her son William since he was knocked down by a car in 1990.
He was six years old. "Life just changed in a second," she said.
"It was a long haul after that. He was unconscious in hospital for nearly five months.
"It was traumatic. We didn't know if he was going to make it or not, but thankfully he did.
"It was difficult to register that we had actually lost the William that we had, but we had got a new one in his place with lots of different character qualities.
"But, we're so thankful that he's still with us - he's a different character than he was but there's still the rascal side to him and he has a great sense of humour."
What Sherol was not prepared for was the additional battle over the years with social services for help in caring for her son.
She said the most frustrating aspect was dealing with different people every time the family needed help and that, even after filling out multiple forms, there was no guarantee that help would be available.
"I think if they see you managing, then you're left to manage," she said.
"You have to go through such a ream of forms and, even then, it's often turned down.
"I'm not alone in this and it's awful always feeling that you have to beg and battle for each little thing."
The last five years have been especially hard with no respite, Sherol said.
"There was a place that I'd battled for years to get him into but because he was a wheelchair user, it wasn't readily available to him."
Finally, after telling her story at a conference two months ago, William was offered four days a month in a respite facility.
"He loves it, he's very happy there. And it means I can go to bed when I want and get up when I want on those four days.
"And I can even go out some night after tea time because I don't have to do the night-time routine."
Sherol's biggest concern is what will happen to William when she can no longer look after him.
He is getting bigger and heavier, and Sherol said she is struggling morning and evenings after the personal care she has carried out for over 25 years.
The charity Positive Futures has been helping Sherol, and many other families, put together a proposal for a Carer's Charter.
"The charter asks for things like the simplification of process, the simplification of paperwork" said Agnes Lunny, the charity's chief executive.
"We're asking for a single point of contact for families with health and social services and, above all, we're asking for joined-up government."
Sherol is hopeful that future carers will not face the battle she has faced.
"There have been many times when I've reached crisis point and I've had to walk away and go into a room and cry.
"But, we got over it.
"I never want to put him into care because William is very much a sociable person but he's happiest in his own surround so that's why I want his future care to be in his own home where he's happiest." | Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where the protection of carers is not enshrined in law. |
33849721 | For more than a decade, the Berkshire-based company has used the address to direct shoppers to a Star Wars section of its Jokers' Masquerade store.
But in July, Nominet, which oversees .uk domains, backed Disney's ownership claim.
The last time anyone successfully appealed against a Nominet ruling was in 2013.
The costume store's parent company, Abscissa, was also told to give up a further six domain names used for the same purpose:
Chief executive Mark Lewis said Abscissa had used two of the addresses for more than 12 years without being challenged.
"I can't believe that over the last two decades that someone from either Lucasfilm or Disney did not do a WhoIs [search] and find that that starwars.co.uk and star-wars.co.uk were not registered to them," he told the BBC.
"There has to be a point in time, surely, where a registrant has to be able to hold some title."
He added that Lucasfilm had owned star-wars.co.uk for a time prior to 2003, but had chosen not to renew it.
"We cannot find any case where a complainant lets a domain lapse, then files a complaint," he said. "I believe this case sets a precedent."
Nominet requires a complainant to prove that a domain name registration is "abusive" for it to agree to transfer ownership.
Its initial ruling supported Disney's claim on the basis that consumers visiting the sites would have "falsely inferred a commercial connection" between the fancy dress store and the film franchise.
But Mr Lewis disputes this conclusion.
"We haven't abused them," he said.
"We haven't rented them, we haven't offered them for sale - the internet domains point to legitimate Star Wars-branded costumes that we've been selling for the past 13 years."
He added that he did not believe the two sides would be engaged in the legal battle at all had Nominet not introduced shorter "name.uk" domains last year.
Disney bought Lucasfilm - the production company behind Star Wars - in 2012 for $4.1bn (£2.6bn). It plans to release a new film - The Force Awakens - in December.
A spokesman for the entertainment giant could not be reached for comment.
Nominet's initial rulings are determined by single expert, but appeals go to a three-person panel.
Since 2001, just 48 cases - representing 1.8% of the body's rulings - have led to an appeal. Of those appeals, 20 resulted in the original decision being overturned.
A spokesman for Nominet said it was unable to comment on the Star Wars case while it remained active. | A fancy-dress retailer is appealing against a ruling it must surrender its starwars.co.uk web address to Disney. |
38309313 | Judith Thompson said they are "utterly disillusioned" by the failure to reach agreement on how to deal with the past.
The victims commissioner said that she believes progress is still possible on the issue.
But she added that it will require political courage because all sides have something to fear.
Ms Thompson was responding to Secretary of State James Brokenshire who said a public consultation on how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles is on hold until he achieves "broad political consensus".
In a BBC interview, she accepted that going public with proposals that have not been agreed could "kill the process", but said progress must be made.
"It's going to require a lot of courage on all parts because what will come out through the proper investigation of these 2,000 deaths is not going to be comfortable for anybody," she said.
"But the consequences of not doing it are very, very far reaching and will bring us back to this point again at some point."
The Stormont House Agreement set out a plan for dealing with the legacy of the Troubles two years ago.
The British government and DUP are at loggerheads with Sinn Féin on the issue and the two sides have been unable to reach agreement on how that will be done.
In recent weeks, each side has blamed the other for the lack of progress.
"This is something that is far, far too important to be playing political ping pong around whose fault it might be," said Ms Thompson.
"I have sat down with victims' groups over the last number of days, and I think people feel utterly disillusioned.
"What people have said to me is, look people bring us in, everybody says they care about us, everybody says we are at the centre of what is happening and then they don't do anything.
"So what does that tell us? It tells us that we actually aren't important at all."
Asked if she also felt disillusioned by the lack of agreement on the issue, the commissioner said she desperately felt the "injustice" of the situation.
"Yes, there are political objectives, there are strategies and long-term strategies for all the players in the political arena, for where they want to get to, but the people I talk for, they don't have that time," she said.
One of the main sticking points in the negotiations on legacy is the issue of national security, and how much sensitive information the government and security agencies have said should be released into the public domain.
The commissioner has previously said the government cannot use national security as a rock under which to hide from Troubles-related issues.
Ms Thompson said she believes efforts to reach agreement on the past are now "teetering on the edge", and that victims have been let down.
"Collectively everybody has (let them down). Collectively victims have not been served well in the out-workings of our peace, and our peace has served most of us very well," she said. | The commissioner who represents victims of the Troubles has said they have been let down by politicians. |
31643047 | Sir Derek Myers, Stella Manzie, Malcolm Newsam, Mary Ney and Julie Kenny will head the council until 31 March 2019.
They replace the cabinet following the Casey Report's criticism of its woeful response to child exploitation.
Last year the Jay Report found 1,400 children had been subjected to abuse.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has also promised £250,000 to help set up an outreach project to help victims.
He said the commissioners would remain in control of Rotherham Council until the end of March 2019, but added that powers would likely be passed back to the local authority throughout that period.
He said: "I expect that there will be a phased roll back of powers to the authority as and when there can be confidence that the authority could exercise a function in compliance with the best value duty, and in the case of children's social care, to the required standard."
Sir Derek will be lead commissioner and command fees of £800 a day, Ms Manzie will take the role of the managing director commissioner with an annual fee of £160,000 and Mr Newsam will be nominated as children's social care commissioner.
Ms Ney and Ms Kenny will be supporting commissioners. The latter three will all be paid fees of £700 a day.
Rotherham Council has been told it will be expected to pay the commissioners' fees plus any "reasonable expenses".
The youth project funding will be provided with the aim of setting up an organisation similar to the Risky Business project, which repeatedly raised the issue of child abuse in the town before effectively being closed down by the council.
"Risky Business is now missing from Rotherham," said Mr Pickles. "This should not continue, and historic victims of child sexual exploitation should be given the help they need."
Mr Pickles said elections would be held in Rotherham in 2016 but rejected a Ukip call to put the whole council up for election in the forthcoming May poll.
He said: "I have carefully considered this, but I am clear that making such a change only some two months before the elections is neither practicable nor desirable."
Councillors elected in Rotherham next year will have to work under the instructions of the commissioners.
Sir Derek was knighted last year for services to local government in London.
Until he retired in November 2013, he was chief executive of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea at the same time. | Five government commissioners have been selected to run Rotherham Council after a report found the local authority "not fit for purpose" over its handling of child sexual exploitation in the town. |
36925698 | The Portugal Under-23 international, 22, spent last season on loan at Monaco and is the Championship club's first signing since Chinese investors Fosun International completed their takeover.
Wolves say they are also close to a deal for another Portuguese player - Atletico Madrid defender Silvio.
They also confirm the club's interest in another Benfica midfielder, Pele.
Wolves' only previous summer signing was goalkeeper Andy Lonergan from fellow Championship club Fulham on a two-year contract.
Wolves have also confirmed that striker Nouha Dicko will not be fit for the start of the season.
After having a staple removed from his knee at the start of July, the club now say it will take three or four more weeks before he is ready for first-team duty.
It means that Dicko will have missed an entire year since being injured in the 2-1 home win over Charlton in August 2015.
Costa spent last season on loan in France with Ligue 1 side Monaco, scoring three times in 25 appearances.
He came through the ranks at Benfica, starting his senior career in their 'B' team.
He was on loan in the Spanish top flight in 2015, making six appearances from the bench for Deportivo La Coruna.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Wolves have signed winger Helder Costa from Portuguese giants Benfica on a season-long loan. |
28799381 | Keiji Furuya and Yoshitaka Shindo visited the shrine to mark the 69th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.
The Yasukuni shrine commemorates Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not visit the shrine but sent a ritual offering instead.
Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshitaka Shindo, a regular visitor to the shrine, said he was not worried that his visit would cause diplomatic tension.
"Many valuable lives perished in the war. I came here to pray so that something like this will never happen again," he said.
The shrine is dedicated to souls of Japanese nationals who died in wars, but those venerated include 14 convicted Class A war criminals.
A museum in the shrine's grounds is also deeply controversial because of the way it presents Japan's World War Two history.
Visits to the shrine anger China and South Korea, who see it as a symbol of Japan's World War Two aggression and accuse Tokyo of failing to show adequate remorse.
China said it resolutely opposed such visits, calling the shrine a "spiritual tool of Japanese militarism".
"Only when Japan earnestly faces up to and deeply reflects on its history of aggression and completely makes a clean break from militarism, can it be possible for Sino-Japanese relations to achieve a healthy and stable development," said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying in a statement.
South Korea's foreign ministry said it "cannot help deploring" the visit and Mr Abe's offering, according to Yonhap news agency.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye also called on Japanese leaders to show sincerity over historical issues, in a speech commemorating the end of Japanese colonial rule.
Ties between Tokyo and its two closest neighbours have been severely strained by both historical issues and separate territorial disputes.
While Washington has been mediating relations between Seoul and Tokyo, tensions between China and Japan remain high.
Mr Abe paid a visit to the shrine in December, prompting a rare US rebuke.
He and the Chinese president have not yet held a formal summit, but met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in St Petersburg last year.
The two sides are reported to be eyeing a similar meeting at a regional forum later in the year. | Two Japanese cabinet ministers have visited the Yasukuni shrine, angering neighbours South Korea and China. |
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