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35894283 | Creative Skillset Cymru, based in Cardiff, works in areas such as film, television, radio, fashion, animation, games and advertising.
The organisation, which has managed a number of Welsh Government projects, said "difficult decisions" on resources had to be made.
Creative Skillset will also close its Scotland and Northern Ireland offices.
Speaking to BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf, Rhodri Talfan Davies, director of BBC Wales and chairman of Creative Skillset Wales' national advisory board, described the closure as "a blow".
He added: "This is obviously disappointing news, Creative Skillset - which is a British body - plays a key part in delivering the training needs of the creative industries. This is a sector that by now employs about 40,000 people and the chances to grow during the next few years are enormous.
"So we have immediately set up a work committee to look at how we can save the situation and ensure stability for the team." | A body that helps develop skills and talent for the creative industries is to close its office in Wales. |
37517285 | The 500kg (1,100lb) device was found in Portsmouth Harbour by a barge carrying out dredging works on Thursday.
The Gunwharf Quays retail complex had to be evacuated while the German bomb was safely dealt with.
The Royal Navy towed it into open waters about 1.5 miles (2.4km) east of the Isle of Wight, where it was blown up on Friday morning.
Dredging works are being carried out in the harbour ahead of the arrival of the Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth next spring. | A World War Two bomb found on the seabed off Hampshire has been blown up in a controlled explosion. |
34532636 | Many plants produce caffeine, primarily as a naturally bitter deterrent against plant-devouring insects, like caterpillars.
But an experiment with caffeinated nectar has now shown bees are attracted to and even "drugged" by the compound.
The research is published in the journal Current Biology.
Prof Francis Ratnieks from the University of Sussex, a senior member of the research team explained that previous research had shown that caffeine boosted bees' memories of the location of a flower.
"So people [already] thought it would affect their perception of nectar," he told BBC News.
To find out if this was the case, the research team set up two artificial flowers for bees to feed from - one containing sugary nectar without caffeine, and another with a concentration of the compound similar to that found in many plants.
So they could record each individual bee's behaviour, the team glued tiny identification numbers to the insects' backs.
The bees would return to the caffeinated nectar more quickly - making slightly more foraging trips, but the most striking finding was that caffeine "made the bees dance" much more.
After a visit to the caffeinated nectar, honeybees were much more likely to perform their waggle dance - a series of movements that communicate the location of a nectar source to their nest-mates.
By dancing, explained Prof Ratnieks, "they're communicating - hey, I've found some good food".
"The vast majority of bees don't waggle dance - they only do it to communicate a particularly good location."
So the caffeine had an effect on the insects that was "akin to drugging" - causing them to behave as though the nectar source was of higher quality, and richer in sugar.
"And it's presumably cheaper for the plant to produce a small amount of caffeine than a large amount more sugar."
Dr Margaret Couvillon, who led the study, said the "post-exposure" effects on the bees were also very surprising.
"The bees that had been foraging on the caffeine kept revisiting the feeder [for many days] once it was empty," she told BBC News.
"So the effects of this one three hour experience (of caffeine) lasted for many days."
Dr Couvillon explained that, while the classic image of pollination was a "warm, mutualistic relationship," where the pollinator receives a reward from the plant, this showed a conflict.
She said: "We're showing a way that the plant gets the upper hand on the bee, through an action that's akin to drugging."
Follow Victoria on Twitter | A morning caffeine dose is something that so many of us find irresistible, and according to research, foraging bees seek a similar buzz. |
37204783 | Striker Leigh Griffiths held up a shirt with RIP Kieran and the number 13 on it after scoring against Aberdeen.
The goal came in the 13th minute of the game as supporters prepared to stage a minute's applause for Kieran McDade.
Celtic fan Kieran collapsed while on the pitch at Dunbeth Football Club in Coatbridge on 18 August.
The club had earlier confirmed on Facebook that the teenager died in hospital on Friday morning.
It is now raising funds to help Kieran's family through a JustGiving page.
His sister, Amy, said that Kieran had donated some of his organs, which had already saved the lives of two other people.
She wrote: "My family would like to thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts for the overwhelming prayers and support you have given us.
"Our beautiful boy is now with the angels and will forever live on in our hearts.
"Would also like to let everyone know that Kieran has remained the most sensitive and generous boy that he is and donated some of his organs which has saved two peoples lives today. What a brave soldier, he will be truly missed." | Celtic players and fans have paid tribute to a 13-year-old boy who died after collapsing during a football training session. |
36985481 | The venues have teams responsible for identifying the animals and sending them back to their natural habitat, says Tania Braga, responsible for Sustainability in Rio 2016.
"Around 25% of Rio has original forests," she told BBC Brasil.
"We don't want to hide the animals, we want to show that we can live side by side. It's a privilege to have such diversity to show."
Around the golf course in Barra da Tijuca, the western district of the city where the main Olympic infra-structure has been built, there are about 230 different types of animals including a threatened species of alligator.
According to Ms Braga, they are "well adapted and a much less aggressive species than the ones found in Florida".
"When they reach the golf course, for instance, we make sure there is no risk to the animals and to the public."
Earlier in the year, capybaras - giant rodents that are a common sight in the area - caused damage to the grass.
The building of the golf course in a protected area caused controversy, but organisers say that conditions around the venue now are actually better than they were before.
It is a controversial assessment considering the poor conditions in the lagoons and the diminishing size of natural habitats.
"With urban expansion, people started living closer and closer to the animals. In fact, we invaded their space," says biologist Izar Aximoff.
A group of biologists who monitor conditions in the area highlight the struggle of animals such as alligators to survive. Images kept by the team show alligators swimming in sewage, resting in floating rubbish and caught in plastic.
"Developments in the area surrounding the Olympic Park intensified in the past 30 years and reached a critical point now, forcing animals like alligators and snakes out of their natural habitat," said geologist Silma Cardoso de Santa Maria.
Reports of alligators, snakes and capybaras in swimming pools and backyards are not uncommon.
"Irregular use of land or bad planning caused immense damage also to smaller animals like crabs, birds, fish and insects affecting the whole chain," she added. | Alligators, sloths, capybaras and snakes are some of the unexpected visitors showing up at Olympic venues built in areas surrounded by lagoons and vegetation. |
39920649 | Peter Thompson, from Bournemouth, began his challenge on 1 April in St Petersburg and finished in Dublin on Sunday.
The 32-year-old has raised almost £18,000 for mental health charities Livability Holton Lee and Mind.
He said travelling between countries had been a logistical nightmare.
Mr Thompson said he hoped his challenge would "encourage others to be open about mental health and, if comfortable, share their own stories".
"We all face our own issues but wouldn't it be great if everyone was able offer support instead of judgement, advice instead of avoidance, or simply a smile instead of a stare," he said.
Between each marathon he had to move from one country to the next, in "a mixture of trains, planes, buses, taxis, cars and ferries".
Along the way he said he suffered a leg injury and got fined after a bus driver refused to accept a 50 euro note.
He ate cake for breakfast some days and even found time to hand wash his running kit on occasions.
He said it had been the "best thing and the hardest thing" he had ever done.
Although he rarely had time to sit down to a proper meal he said he had consumed about 6,000 calories each day - eating mainly sandwiches and chocolate.
He praised family, friends and running clubs in various countries who had "gone out of their way" to help him, including running with him at points along the route. | A charity fundraiser has achieved his goal of running 44 marathons on consecutive days - one in each of 44 countries. |
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The election, which happens on 7 May this year, will allow adults vote to vote for who they think should be in charge for the next five years.
And in the build up to the big vote Newsround is interviewing the leaders of some of the main political parties.
In our second leader interview we took schoolchildren to meet Leanne Wood, the leader of the Welsh Nationalist Party Plaid Cymru.
She answered questions on immigration, education and why politics is important for kids.
They also asked her about becoming leader of her party and what challenges she'd overcome to get the top job.
Watch here to see what she said. | Ahead of the General Election Newsround is putting kids' questions to the different politicians hoping to run the country. |
38011134 | 17 November 2016 Last updated at 09:19 GMT
He asked for governments around the world to act quickly to help save vulnerable animals from being poached.
The illegal hunting of animals is driving many species to the edge of extinction.
Prince William said that endangered animals are still being killed in "horrifying numbers" and work to tackle the crisis must speed up
"We know that we aren't moving fast enough to keep up with the crisis. Rhinos, elephants, pangolins, lions, they are still being killed" he told the conference.
But he also said there was "much to be proud of" when it came to efforts to stop illegal poaching and believes there is hope these animals can be saved.
He called on governments to send a clear signal that trading in ivory is wrong. He said out that China has already said it will bring in a total ban, the USA already has done so and that other nations including the United Kingdom are considering it.
The UK government said they are doing "more than ever before" to tackle the illegal wildlife trade.
While the international trade in ivory has been banned since 1989, it is still possible to sell antique ivory in the UK as long as it was carved before 1947.
Prince William is on a two-day visit to Vietnam to highlight the damage the illegal trade in wildlife has on some of the world's most iconic animals. | Prince William has given an important speech at a big wildlife conference in Vietnam, in Asia. |
27484425 | Never before has anyone seen mummy hair, muscles and bone in such detail.
Each mummy was put into a special CT scanner (an X-ray machine) to investigate the mummies layer by layer, building up a 3D picture of each one.
The study's revealed many details about who these people were, how they lived and how they died.
By peeling away each layer museum staff could see the face of the person underneath the bandages and for the first time to tell the age of the mummies, what they ate, and the kinds of diseases they suffered from.
John Taylor, from the British Museum said he was "stunned" when he saw the images.
"It's as if you switched a light on in a dark room and things jump out with a clarity where you are able to find out what the life experiences of these people really were," he said.
The researchers were able to see muscles and even arteries in the ancient bodies.
They even saw that some arteries seemed clogged with fatty deposits, which could mean that these particular people ate rich fatty foods and maybe died of heart disease.
After peeling away the muscle, researchers were able to see the skeletons in amazing detail.
They were able to guess the age of the individual mummies from their pelvis and their teeth.
Many of them had bad teeth with signs of abscesses (infections), which would have been very painful to live with.
One scan shows a spatula (shown in green) left inside the mummy's skull.
The tool would have been used to pull the brain out through the nostrils during the embalming process.
But in this case a large chunk of brain (shown in blue) was left inside, along with the tool, possibly because the person carrying out the embalming did a bad job.
Researchers also discovered that the mummies lived between 3,500BC and 700AD.
All of them lived in the Nile Valley in Egypt. | The British Museum has carried out scans on eight Egyptian mummies, revealing amazing details about the people inside the caskets. |
20040935 | Eleven care workers are to be sentenced later for the maltreatment and neglect of five patients at Winterbourne View.
A BBC investigation also found evidence of alleged abuse against former patient Ben Pullar.
The National Autistic Society said the case should be "fully investigated" but police said they would not reopen it.
Mr Pullar is autistic and bi-polar, with severe learning difficulties, and when he was 18, he spent almost a year at Winterbourne View from July 2009.
The nurse involved, Maxwell Nyamukapa, was suspended and later reinstated. Despite repeated attempts to contact Mr Nyamukapa, he has refused to comment.
The police logged it as an assault, and said the nurse had acted instinctively and in self-defence.
Sarah Lambert, from the National Autistic Society, said: "Any disabled person living in residential care who sustains serious injury must have their case fully investigated.
"Abuse of those with autism and other disabilities by those who are supposed to care for and protect them is utterly abhorrent and is a disability hate crime.
"The police must reopen this case in order to send a clear message that any abuse by support staff is not only totally unacceptable, but a serious criminal offence."
Daily care notes from his time at the hospital state Mr Pullar "had an accident with his teeth" just weeks after he arrived.
His family were told at one point he had "bitten the floor" and he was taken to Bristol Dental Hospital where the alarm was raised.
Notes obtained by Inside Out West said the nurse was bitten and retaliated in order to remove his fingers - and later, that he had pushed and pulled to get them out.
South Gloucestershire Council has declined to comment on Mr Pullar's case.
Castlebeck, the hospital's owner at the time, said its new board and management was rigorously reviewing what happened at Winterbourne View.
It said it had also referred Mr Nyamukapa twice to the Nursing & Midwifery Council, which declined to comment.
Inside Out West is on BBC One West on Mondays at 7.30pm and is available for seven days after on the iPlayer. | An autism group has called for a new investigation after allegations a patient lost two teeth when he was punched at a private Bristol hospital. |
34211092 | Mohammud Modibbo was unable to go to school as a child because he worked as a trader, travelling around the country.
He decided to enter primary school in his mid-80s and had recently begun secondary school in the northern city of Kano.
His teacher, Abdulkarim Ibrahim, said Mr Modibbo was "easy-going and jovial".
"During classes, he was very attentive and asked questions when he didn't understand - either asking the teacher or a student sitting beside him," Mr Ibrahim told the BBC Hausa service.
Mr Modibbo had dreamed of pursing a university education, but his "sudden death" had robbed him of that chance, the teacher added.
Initial reports put his age at 83, but his family says he was 94.
Mr Modibbo was an Islamic scholar who sat in school alongside pupils young enough to be his great-grandchildren, and even great-great grandchildren, says BBC Nigeria correspondent Will Ross.
Pupils and teachers at his school are sad they have lost the pupil who had so passionately embraced the motto: "It's never too late", our reporter adds.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records the oldest person ever to have enrolled at primary school, was Kenyan Kimani Maruge at the age of 84.
He passed away five years later. | A man believed to be the oldest school pupil in Nigeria has died at the age of 94, his family says. |
28560758 | A survey of 198 employers in the UK indicated, for graduates, being good at communicating, a team player, confident and analytical were all more important than having technical knowledge.
But this changed after two years in the job, when firms said knowledge was increasingly important.
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) supported the findings.
"Technical knowledge" was ranked 24th out of 30 competencies desired by employers at the recruitment stage, in the research, carried out by education provider Kaplan.
But after two years of employment, the importance of technical knowledge rose to second place.
Stuart Pedley-Smith, head of learning in the UK at Kaplan, said: "On the whole, we found that the employers we surveyed do not recruit graduates for the subject-specific nature of what they learned at university."
He said employers saw a university degree as proof that graduates had reached a certain level of competence.
Mr Pedley Smith added: "There is a well-known saying within recruitment - 'Recruit for attitude and train for skill.'"
Employers were happy to provide training for the more technical areas, he said.
Rob Wall, CBI head of education and employment policy, said: "The UK is facing a growing skills gap, so we must have an education system that better prepares young people for the world of work.
"That means not only do they need higher skills, but the character, determination and ability to communicate effectively and help forge successful careers."
Mr Wall said the CBI had found 89% of British firms had regarded attitudes to work and character as the most important factor when recruiting graduates. | Employers prefer "soft" skills rather than technical knowledge in graduates they are recruiting, a study suggests. |
32556930 | Rick Jones, from Catford, set off from London Bridge on 23 April and danced his way through Essex and Suffolk before arriving in Norwich on Friday.
He completed the trip despite being stopped by police and enduring pain from stinging nettles and blisters.
He will officially finish his dance on 6 May at St John Maddermarket church.
In keeping with the journey undertaken by Shakespeare actor Will Kemp, he will dance again from St Stephen's Street up to City Hall to meet the lord mayor, before jumping over the wall at the church to celebrate his feat.
"I had a real adventure," said Mr Jones, 58.
"I met loads of people and that becomes the story, really.
"I was stopped by the police in Suffolk who wondered what was up when I was dancing down the A134 outside of Bury St Edmunds.
"Someone apparently thought I'd got out of hospital or something, so I had to prove I had danced the whole way."
It is thought Kemp embarked on his trip, to prove how popular he was with the public, after falling out with Shakespeare when he was turned down for a role in Hamlet.
He told the story in his account "Nine Daies Wonder".
Mr Jones' dance began on the anniversary of the day Shakespeare was believed to have been born in 1564.
He chose to complete it in nine days, as the title suggests, despite finding out only after booking hotel rooms that it actually took Kemp 23 days because his dancing was so vigorous.
During the trip Mr Jones visited Southwark, Romford, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Braintree, Long Melford, Bury St Edmunds, Thetford, Hingham and eventually Norwich. | A man has accomplished a 100-mile (160km) morris dance from London to Norwich recreating a journey undertaken by William Shakespeare's clown in 1600. |
34189248 | The Garden City Mall, one of the biggest shopping centres in the city, has also been evacuated.
One of the men refused to be searched by security guards and was overpowered in a scuffle, a witness said.
In 2013, al-Shabab gunmen killed 67 shoppers at the city's Westgate mall.
Police spokesman George Kinoti told the BBC that the three men in custody were all Kenyans and the explosives were discovered in one of their bags.
"The situation is under [the] absolute control of our security agencies and the entire country is under multi-agency surveillance," he said.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead in Nairobi says it is believed to have been a small explosive device with a battery and a mobile phone attached, which could have been used as a trigger.
A statement from Garden City Mall quoted the governor of Nairobi Evans Kidero as saying it would reopen on Wednesday morning.
Mr Kidero also thanked the local police and mall employees for their "swift handling and containment of the situation."
Following the Westgate siege, security was stepped up at Nairobi's shopping complexes.
Al-Shabab has since launched a number of high-profile attacks, including one in April on a university in the north-eastern town of Garissa in which close to 150 people died. | Three men have been arrested at a shopping centre in Kenya's capital with a suspected explosive device, which has since been detonated in a controlled explosion, police say. |
37727066 | The area, near the border with Bangladesh, has been sealed off by security forces since attacks on border posts left nine police officers dead.
Access to about 50,000 vulnerable people is restricted, the UN says.
Rakhine has seen long-running tensions between Buddhists and the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority.
Since the co-ordinated attacks near Maungdaw earlier this month, army operations have reportedly left at least 30 Rohingya Muslims dead and displaced up to 15,000.
But with journalists banned from the most sensitive areas, these figures are impossible to verify.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) both issued pleas for the government of Myanmar, previously known as Burma, to do more to allow aid to reach Rohingya populations and other groups.
"The Burmese government has a responsibility to search for and arrest those who attacked the border posts," HRW's Asia director Brad Adams said.
"But it is required to do so in a manner that respects human rights, ensures that the area's people get the aid they need, and allows journalists and rights monitors into the area."
Amnesty said it had heard reports that civilians have been required to cross conflict lines to receive help.
"Civilians cannot be put in a position where they have no other option but to put their lives in harm's way to access much needed aid," said Rafendi Djamin, the organisation's South East Asia and the Pacific director.
Buddhist nationalists in Myanmar see the country's estimated one-million Rohingya as Bangladeshi intruders, despite many having lived in the country for generations.
The government of Myanmar refuses to grant them citizenship. | Human rights groups have called on the government in Myanmar to ensure aid can reach the northern part of restive Rakhine state. |
15230750 | Officials results, announced after 93% of votes had been counted, gave Mr Tusk's Civic Platform party enough seats to continue in coalition.
The centre-right Civic Platform took 39% of the vote, against 30% for its conservative challenger, the Law and Justice Party.
The leader of Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has admitted defeat.
Civic Platform becomes the first Polish party to win two consecutive terms since communism's fall in 1989.
Mr Tusk, 54, appears to have been rewarded for presiding over four years of strong economic growth, since winning a snap election in 2007.
Poland has been the only EU member state to avoid recession, and this year its economy is forecast to grow by about 4%, the highest rate among the EU's seven largest economies.
The electoral commission said Civic Platform's 39% would translate into 206 seats in the 460-member lower chamber.
By Adam EastonBBC News, Warsaw
Poland's elections produced two significant firsts - a governing party was re-elected for the first time since the collapse of communism in 1989 and a new anti-clerical party, Palikot's Movement, won third place.
Donald Tusk's Civic Platform was probably rewarded for its predictability. It did not run an especially impressive campaign, but more voters seem to place their trust in its ability to handle the second wave of the global crisis than any of its rivals. Its focus on Europe is also appreciated by many.
Janusz Palikot is an extrovert businessman who wants a clear separation of Church and state. He created a party based around himself and campaigned on legalising abortion, gay marriage and marijuana.
Those are still extremely controversial issues in Poland, where the Roman Catholic Church remains influential. Mr Palikot's support among younger voters is perhaps a sign that Polish society is heading in a more liberal and secular direction.
Mr Tusk's coalition ally, the People's Party, won 8.6% of the vote, or 30 seats.
Law and Justice won 157 seats; a new liberal pro-secular party, Palikot's Movement, came third with 10%, giving it 40 seats; the Democratic Left Alliance was the fifth party to make it into parliament, taking 8.2% and 26 seats.
Mr Tusk said he would work on forming a governing coalition on Monday.
He is expected to renew his alliance with his current partner, the agrarian-rooted People's Party, which has said it is willing to team up with the Civic Platform again if an offer is made.
He campaigned on his economic success and also vowed to pursue a steady rapprochement with Russia, despite rows over missile defence and gas pipelines as well as the conduct of an inquiry into a plane crash that killed Poland's president last year.
"It is the highest honour for me and for Civic Platform that we will be working for the next four years for all of you, regardless of who you voted for today," Mr Tusk told supporters on Sunday.
"In the next four years we will work twice as hard," he said, according to AP news agency.
The Law and Justice Party's Jaroslaw Kaczynski is known for his mistrust of the two countries which invaded Poland during World War II, Germany and the USSR. He also attracts support from Polish Eurosceptics.
"I am deeply convinced that the day will come when we will succeed," Mr Kaczynski said. "Sooner or later we'll win because we are simply in the right."
The 62-year-old served as prime minister from 2005 to 2007, with his twin brother, Lech, as president. Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash with 95 others in April 2010.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski competed in the snap presidential polls which followed, but lost to Mr Tusk's ally Bronislaw Komorowski. | Prime Minister Donald Tusk has become the first Polish leader to be re-elected since the end of communism. |
19408265 | Bomb disposal experts had been called in to take the device away.
Earlier, the departure hall that serves most European destinations had been evacuated as a precautionary measure following the discovery of the 500kg German bomb during construction work.
Several flights were cancelled and dozens delayed.
The bomb was uncovered by workers digging near Pier C, which connects the main plaza with Departure Hall One, serving most destinations within Europe's 26-country passport-free Schengen zone.
Schiphol was used as a military airfield by Nazi Germany during the 1939-45 war.
It is now one of Europe's busiest airports, handling some 48 million passengers every year.
Unexploded bombs dating back to the war are still frequently discovered in Europe.
A 550lb (250kg) American bomb was detonated by a bomb disposal team in the German city of Munich on Tuesday.
A 1.5-tonne mortar bomb probably fired by Nazi forces was also safely removed from the Polish capital, Warsaw. | A suspected World War II bomb found at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport has been safely detonated, allowing normal operations to resume. |
34243967 | "Reviens Leon! (Come back, Leon!)," shouts his portly wife. "I've got the same at home."
Today the catchphrase "Reviens Leon!" has been commandeered for a very different campaign: to lure back to France the thousands of tech whizz-kids who spent the last decade fleeing abroad.
In an open letter in Le Monde, the heads of 10 successful French start-ups pleaded with Silicon Valley expatriates to book their return flights to Paris.
"France is not the country it was when you left," they wrote.
"It is now full of the opportunities which you used to search for elsewhere. Today, we've got the same at home.
"It's in France that it is happening. So come back, Leon!"
Today great efforts are being made to show the world that France is no longer a land of "ossified structures, stultifying routines and petty-minded middle-managers" (to use the language of the letter).
The young economy minister and former banker Emmanuel Macron has made three trips abroad this year to high-tech conventions, most recently in Israel last week.
At each stop he urges investors to forget the cliches, and to focus on the business transformation that he says is under way.
So what truth is there in the claim that the French digital "ecosystem" is beginning to produce the goods?
"It is not an exaggeration. Things really have changed in Paris in the last couple of years," says Christopher Ciminelli, who runs the tech news website 01net.com.
"Business creators in France are younger and younger. The government is genuinely taking steps to help. I would say the whole image of France abroad - certainly in the digital field - has become very positive."
The list of successful ventures is certainly beginning to catch the eye.
Top of the list are the three French "unicorns" - non-listed digital companies that are valued at more than $1bn.
These are the internet ad-placing company Criteo; the flash-sales pioneer Vente Privee; and the car-sharing facilitator BlaBlaCar.
BlaBlaCar's founder Fred Mazzella explained to me the changes that have helped his company reach 20 million customers in 19 countries.
"Over the last couple of years the system of financing - which was a real problem in France - has been transformed. Before, there were gaps in the financing chain from business angels to large professional investors.
"But today there are many new types of investor in Paris - like the entrepreneurial fund ISAI - and you can raise anything from one to a hundred million euros. It's made a huge difference, turning start-ups into scale-ups."
Another factor is the spread of incubators - places like The Family, NUMA, and 50Partners - which provide not just a physical base for new companies, but also advice and knowhow.
From the government side, Mazzella praises initiatives such as the Research Tax Credit, which means start-ups can get reimbursed up to three-quarters of their spending on research projects.
But the big shift has been one of mentality.
"A few years ago, all the top students who came out of the best 'grandes ecoles' - their ambition was to work in the established giants like BNP or L'Oreal," says Mazzella.
"Now they all say they want their work in start-ups and build their own."
Source: Fortune Global 500
Of course it is in the interest of Mazzella, Macron et al to talk up France as much as possible. They need the investors and they need the brains.
And not all may be as rosy as they like to portray.
In Israel last week, venture capitalist Yoav Tzruya said French start-ups were still "too happy to stay on the French market, rather than having global ambitions. And they still need better financing."
Macron himself admitted France was "15 years late when it comes to finance - but we are stepping up the pace".
Compared to London, Paris still lags far behind when it comes to attracting outside money.
According to Management Today, Paris drew under 400 Tech Investment Projects in the past decade against London's more than 1,000.
And there remains France's reputation as a high-tax country with an overweening state sector. Le French-bashing is not exactly out of fashion.
Still, one constant has held true through the hi-tech explosion: the ability of French grandes ecoles to turn out highly competent computer engineers and business modellers.
These are the people scooped up by the thousand in California and London.
And these are the Leons now being urged to come home. | A popular French TV advert for pasta sauce from the 1980s showed a jolly rustic fellow chasing after a train that was laden with all sorts of lovely food. |
35801457 | These numbers are hardly revelatory. We've seen them from Scotland before against France and England and Ireland and Wales and pretty much everybody else you care to mention.
We've seen Scotland hold on to the ball for an age in games like this. For a decade and more we've seen them batter their way from halfway, across the opposition 22 and up to the try-line.
And then we've seen it all go wrong.
Not just seen it, but expected it. The expectation is changing, though. Murrayfield's fatalistic attitude is under threat now that Scotland have backed up their win in Rome with their first victory over France in 10 years. The 29-18 scoreline is also their biggest win over France in 17 years. This is the kind of history that Scotland want to be involved in.
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It's only a few short weeks, but it seems like an eternity since Greig Laidlaw's men were being spooked by the thought of 10 championship losses in a row. Now the narrative has altered and it's become about a shot at three straight wins, in Dublin on Saturday - a feat that Scotland haven't managed in this competition since Rob Wainwright's team of 1996.
Ireland will have more substance than France. Better players, greater motivation, a cannier coach in the celebrated Joe Schmidt, Vern Cotter's old pal from their days at Clermont. On Sunday, France showed again that their reputation outflanks their reality. Guy Noves isn't so much staging a revolution as a re-run of recent failings.
Scotland had the hammer blow of an early French try, then they lost their stand-off, Finn Russell. In the opening 13 minutes, Cotter's side gave up a try, three penalties and a line-out and for those of us who can still see the ghosts of the past, it was ominous.
This team, though, has a resolve that doesn't just exist in sound-bites in press conferences. It was there in glorious deed.
Stuart Hogg typified it. In a game that is dogged, at times, by brutality and danger, Hogg reminds you of rugby's beauty. He's a modern player but he plays the way the maestros of yesteryear played, back in a time of space and freedom and invention.
Hogg will get the headlines but he had a hell of a supporting cast.
Duncan Taylor has gone from nowhere man to pivotal in the midfield. Laidlaw has gone from a slightly haunted leader into an inspirational one. John Barclay has exposed as lunacy his long exile from the set-up. There are renaissance stories here.
If they carry on and win in Ireland then even the most doubting of souls would have to admit that a corner has been turned at long last.
Tommy Seymour was not one of the names on everybody's lips as the Scotland fans floated out of Murrayfield.
We could start the roll call of key influences in a huge Scotland victory and it would take a while to get to him. Two defenders beaten all day, five carries, 25 metres gained. Solid, but not spectacular. Not by his standards. Seymour is a fine predator, but this was a game where the prey were just a little too hard to find.
Why talk about Seymour? Because of one moment that reveals the truth of what players and coaches say about games of this magnitude being decided by fine margins. Sometimes the margins are so fine that you need to watch the game all over again, pausing and rewinding, to find them.
This is where Seymour comes in.
Sunday's Test is in its 36th minute and France are on the attack. Maxime Mermoz is blasting up the left touchline, Hogg measuring him for the tackle. In the background is Seymour, watching the play like a hawk, anticipating Hogg's hit and the subsequent ruck, at which he would play a major part that would go largely unnoticed in real time.
When Mermoz hits the floor, Seymour swoops. His timing is perfection. His body immovable. Mermoz has no option but to hold on and give away the penalty. What happens next is Scotland's progression in microcosm.
Everything is quick and accurate - the decision-making and the execution. Seymour rips the ball out of Mermoz's grip and shovels it to Taylor, who is 10 metres inside his own half but blissfully aware of the opportunity at hand. He taps and goes - and goes.
Virimi Vakatawa can't stop him. Neither can Wenceslas Lauret. Taylor gallops on and scores in the corner, then Laidlaw bangs over the conversion from the touchline. Seven beautiful points in the blink of an eye.
Seymour didn't score on Sunday, he didn't make any box-office plays or produce moments that got Murrayfield to its feet, but his contribution at that breakdown had a huge ripple effect. It set Taylor in motion, whose try shook France, who never fully recovered.
That was Scotland's second try of the day and a window to the new team's ambition. So, too, the third. We will remember Laidlaw flinging out a speculative pass and Hogg helping the ball along to Tim Visser while simultaneously fooling Scott Spedding, who was expecting Hogg to catch it.
That was a lovely moment that spoke to Scotland's ability to finish, but the penalty that gave Laidlaw the freedom to throw that Hail Mary pass without fear came on the back of a surge from WP Nel.
This was in the 66th minute - a prop still driving on while the two starting French props had already been replaced. This is the norm for Nel and Alasdair Dickinson, his partner in the front row.
Dickinson has played 282 minutes of this Six Nations, Nel has played 298. Of all the other props only England's Dan Cole has had more involvement (301 minutes).
As a partnership, Dickinson and Nel have been out there together far longer than any other starting props. It's a symbol of their great strength but also a sign of the uncertainty about what's in reserve.
The burden on them has been huge, but these are physically and mentally strong men. Against France, they were part of a Scottish pack that won three scrum penalties and two scrum free-kicks (Scotland won a fourth penalty when Moray Low replaced Nel). In Rome, they won six scrum penalties.
Joy at scrum-time is a new phenomenon for Scotland - as is winning Six Nations matches. They have two in a row now. After Sunday, Ireland won't doubt their capacity to make it three. | From the time the scrum was set to the moment Stuart Hogg's footwork got him over the French line for Scotland's opening try, the ball went through the hands of 13 different Scottish players in 14 phases that lasted one minute and 48 seconds. |
36799983 | Owen Smith said there was a "widespread view" among MPs that there should only be one challenger, but that he was not sure how they should be chosen.
He suggested the party's deputy leader, MPs or executive committee could choose between him and Angela Eagle.
Mr Smith postponed the formal launch of his campaign after the Nice attack.
A leadership contest is under way after most Labour MPs signed a vote of no confidence in Mr Corbyn, who rejected their calls to stand down and won a battle to be automatically included on the ballot to be put to members.
Former shadow business secretary Angela Eagle was the first to mount a challenge, with Mr Smith - the former welfare spokesman - now also putting himself forward.
Speaking on the Daily Politics, Mr Smith said the party owed Ms Eagle a "debt of gratitude" for mounting the challenge, and that he had delayed coming forward himself because he had been visiting his brother in hospital.
His candidacy has sparked fears among Mr Corbyn's critics that he could split the vote from members opposed to the leader.
Mr Smith said: "I think there's a widespread view in the parliamentary Labour Party, and indeed amongst many of the members, that probably there should only be one challenger."
Asked how that challenger should be determined, he said: "I'm not sure yet. I think it's not really for me to determine how we get there as one of the challengers, but I am prepared to submit to whatever mechanism - whether it's the deputy leader of the party, or the parliamentary leadership of the party, or the NEC (National Executive Committee) come up with, or the PLP itself.
"I think we need to find a mechanism to get to there and I will absolutely stand by whatever that decision is."
Mr Smith also repeated his call for a second EU referendum, claiming voters had been "sold a pup" by the Leave campaign.
He said the poll should be held once the terms of the UK's Brexit negotiations are clear.
"The analogy I would use is that you would not go out and buy a car without having a look under the engine and checking it actually works," he said.
"That is what we have been asked to do with Brexit and now we have got an opportunity to test drive the car, if you like, over the next 18-month period and check whether we actually want to buy it."
The former shadow work and pensions secretary had been due to make a speech in Pontypridd, formally launching his campaign, but he said he would not go ahead as planned following the "heartbreaking" news from Nice overnight.
He tweeted in French: "Solidarity and fraternity with the French people."
In his planned speech, Mr Smith - who has been Pontypridd MP since 2010 - had been due to say he was the only one of a "new generation of Labour MPs" who could "secure Labour's future".
Mr Smith has been given a boost after one of Mr Corbyn's strongest supporters in Parliament transferred her support to him.
Jo Stevens, who has been MP for Cardiff Central since May 2015, said it had become "painfully obvious that we have been unable to fulfil the very basic day-to-day operation as the official opposition in Parliament" in recent weeks.
"We cannot present ourselves as a government-in-waiting without leadership and a leadership team that commands the respect and support of not only members... but Labour voters and potential Labour voters," she wrote in an e-mail to party members.
Despite facing a revolt from his MPs, Mr Corbyn retains the strong support of many party members and has said he will fight the challenges in a contest which is expected to be decided in September.
Mr Corbyn, who was accused by some MPs of not campaigning strongly enough for a Remain win in last month's EU referendum, has suffered dozens of resignations from his front bench.
Labour's ruling NEC said on Tuesday that Mr Corbyn would automatically go on to the ballot paper as the sitting leader. His challengers need the backing of 51 MPs or MEPs - 20% of the Parliamentary party - to stand.
Speaking outside the meeting, Mr Corbyn, who was elected as leader overwhelmingly in a vote of Labour members and registered supporters last year, said he would campaign on "all the things that matter".
Ms Eagle - who has already secured 51 nominations from MPs - has been calling for Mr Corbyn to resign for days.
She said she had eventually decided to launch a formal challenge because he was unwilling to stand down and she could provide the real leadership he could not. | One of the two MPs hoping to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader says only one challenger should appear on the final ballot. |
32622680 | The Saudis see growing Iranian influence everywhere - to the north in Iraq and Syria, to the east in its own country and in Bahrain, and now pointedly to the south in Yemen.
But this view belies the complexities of Yemeni domestic politics, overemphasises the role of Iran, and is unlikely to lead to anything approaching a successful conclusion, as is being seen with the Saudi-led bombing campaign, which is yet to achieve its stated aims.
The Houthi moniker, originally but a clan name, has been associated with the Zaidi branch of Shia Islam and, thus, by overly simplified if not erroneous extension, the "Twelver" Shiism predominant in Iran and Shiism in general.
Firstly, Houthis are not all Zaidis, and neither are all Zaidis Houthis. And secondly, Zaidism is considered to be the branch of Shiism least in dispute with Sunni doctrine.
Whatever the religious similarities between the Houthis and Iran, there is an implicit notion that any commonality matters. Whether nominally united or separated by faith, it is seldom as determining a factor in action as it is fatuously perceived.
None of this is to ignore commonalities between Iran and the Houthis.
Both display a vociferous anti-American and anti-Israeli streak, and there are obvious instances of the Houthis co-operating in some way with Iran in recent years.
A day after the Houthis took over the Yemeni capital Sanaa in February, an aviation agreement with Iran was signed and an Iranian Mahan Airlines plane landed in the city.
But simplistically labelling the Houthis as "Iranian-backed" obscures the domestic nature of the conflict which predates the Arab Spring.
Zaidis ruled parts of Yemen for almost 1,000 years until 1962 and were even supported by Saudi Arabia in the 1970s.
But then the Houthis, who emerged as a Zaidi revivalist movement in the 1990s, fought a series of wars between 2004 and 2010 against the Saudi-supported central Yemeni state led by then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who also happens to be a Zaidi.
Religious divisions have, therefore, played a surprisingly minor role in the past until they were deepened not least by Saudi Arabia's attempts in the 1990s in particular to spread its own austere version of Sunni Islam in Yemen.
The Houthis believed that such policies were designed to further marginalise their position, given their historic powerbase of Saada province being right on the Saudi border.
The numerous wars fought against government forces gave the Houthis all the training and combat experience that they needed to humiliate Saudi forces when they intervened in Yemen in 2009 and to apparently fare so well against the recent air campaign launched by Saudi Arabia and its allies.
More importantly perhaps, many years of war have festooned Yemen with weapons.
There are plenty of accusations that Iran supplies the Houthis with weapons. Some reports lack credibility, like Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV's insistence that 185 tons of Iranian weapons miraculously made it through the international naval taskforce currently blockading Yemen.
Other stories, like the Iranian dhow that was stopped on route to Yemen in 2013 with a range of advanced equipment, are far more plausibly an example of Iranian weapons shipping.
While one UN Security Council report noted independent verification was unable to confirm the allegations, a more recent, as yet unreleased one, concluded that a pattern of Iranian support had emerged.
Nevertheless, a perennial problem with such instances is that the evidence of Iranian involvement often comes from sources that have a vested interest in plugging such a line: whether from the Saudi, Yemeni or American side.
External supplies notwithstanding, an obvious source of weaponry for the Houthis came thanks to a new-found agreement with their erstwhile adversary, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who seemed to support the Houthis in their takeover of Sanaa in autumn 2014.
This gave the Houthis the opportunity to help themselves to an unknown quantity of US weaponry from army bases captured curiously easily.
Overall, the perennial resort to the "Iranian-backed Houthi fighters" logic is problematic as it simplifies the conflict too much and mandates too much of an external focus.
If Iran is the major source of supplies, then an air campaign to destroy stores and interdict resupply might make sense. But this logic is being sorely tested by the complete lack of a collapse of the Houthis (quite the opposite, so far) in the face of the bombing onslaught.
Similarly, the urgency to combat the Houthis lest some hypothetical Iranian proxy force develops on the Arabian Peninsula means that, as a direct corollary, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has received a free pass to expand its orbit of power.
Recently, the group reinforced its hold on Mukalla in the southern province of Hadramawt taking over an airport, a military base, and a prison, freeing dozens of prisoners including AQAP leaders.
Given that AQAP remains the core US interest in Yemen, such a turn of events will surely have given its leadership pause to reconsider its open support of the Saudi campaign.
It would not be surprising if US cautions about the knock-on effects of the campaign enabling AQAP played a role in Saudi's announcement on 21 April 2015 that it was ending the air campaign.
But the sense that the Gulf Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, are simply winging their policy in Yemen is inescapable.
In lieu of anything approaching a cogent, strategic plan, the short-termist resort of bombing to win does not inspire hope for the near future.
Dr David Roberts is a lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London. He was the Director of the Qatar office of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). His book, Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City State, will be published in 2015. Follow him on Twitter @thegulfblog | Sunni power Saudi Arabia has - deliberately or otherwise - projected the fighting in Yemen as a proxy war with regional Shia rival Iran, though this is a dangerous mischaracterisation of the conflict. |
35608786 | The Antrim player moved into a 3-1 lead at the Motorpoint Arena on Thursday but Englishman Hawkins fought back to win the next two frames.
Allen prevailed in the deciding frame and the world number nine will meet Michael White on Friday night.
The Welsh player beat former John Higgins 4-1 in the fourth round.
Allen hit two centuries as he defeated Ryan Day 4-1 on Wednesday to set up a last-16 encounter with Hawkins. | Mark Allen held his nerve in a final frame decider to beat Barry Hawkins 4-3 and progress to the Welsh Open quarter-finals in Cardiff. |
37583902 | Writer and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge will appear in the two-week run at the Soho Theatre in December.
Tickets for the 13 performances sold out within about 10 minutes of going on sale on Friday, the theatre said.
Fleabag was born when Waller-Bridge performed a series of short plays at the theatre before taking the character to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013.
It then returned to Soho before being commissioned as a television series by BBC Three. It later moved to BBC Two and the series has received more than a million iPlayer requests this year.
Fleabag is a dark comedy in which Waller-Bridge plays a sarcastic, sex-obsessed young woman attempting to navigate modern life in London.
Waller-Bridge told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the show's stage origins helped her develop the TV series.
"I essentially had two months worth of build up to that performance you see on the screen, which is a luxury that few screen actors have," she said.
"In the show, people would laugh, so I'd go, 'Tick, that's staying in, I know how to perform that'. I was testing material and creating the right performance.
"The moment it was just me talking to a camera, I had to keep bringing back the echoes of that audience reaction because otherwise I wouldn't have known how to pitch it so specifically I guess."
The TV version received warm reviews from critics, with The Guardian describing it as "utterly riveting", while the Radio Times praised its "unusual, clever and brave depiction of a female world in disarray".
The Telegraph described the show as "a gloriously rude, and far funnier, update of Bridget Jones".
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Fleabag, the hit BBC comedy that started life as a one-woman theatre show, is returning to the London stage. |
39095841 | The five pedestrians were hit by a Mercedes on Bromley Road in Bellingham just before 08:30 GMT.
A 35-year-old woman and another 25-year-old man initially described as being in a critical condition are now stable, as are two men aged 36 and 45.
The driver of the car was arrested on suspicion of drink driving.
He was also arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving before being taken to a south London hospital with a head injury.
An off-duty police officer carried out the arrest.
London Ambulance Service said it treated the pedestrians for a range of head, chest and leg injuries before taking them to hospital as a priority.
Bromley Road, from Crantock Road to Bellingham Road, has now been reopened by police.
On Facebook, one person wrote: "Big car crash on bromley road... tons of police, ambulances, even helicopter landed in pc world... my thought and prayers are with them."
The crash was near a car wash, opposite a row of shops.
Witness Raee Towolawi, 26, was on her way to church with her mother, brother and sister, when she heard screaming.
She described the scene as "carnage".
"There were two men lying flat on their backs, just lifeless or unconscious," she said.
Ms Towolawi added: "I thought they were dead. I was just shocked and couldn't believe what I was seeing.
"I didn't notice the car until I came back afterwards. I just thought they'd been stabbed or shot."
The car appeared to have left the road and crashed into the end of a hedge. Its bonnet and boot were popped open by the impact and its airbags were deployed.
Debris, including a bollard, was strewn across the pavement.
Anyone with information has been asked to contact police. | A 25-year-old man is in a critical condition and four others are injured after a car crashed in to them in south-east London, police have said. |
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27633444 | The charity says that in the year to March there was a 14% increase in the numbers getting into financial difficulty, as a result of having to pay the money back.
But HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has denied that people are being harassed to repay what they owe.
The overpayments happen when people's income rises unexpectedly.
They are then asked to pay back money they have received from Child or Working Tax Credits.
In some cases people have been asked to repay £7,000, after their circumstances changed.
Maureen Grosvenor was asked to repay £2,600 in tax credits, after her husband left her. HMRC admitted it had made a mistake, and eventually cancelled the demand.
But the experience was very stressful.
"I was devastated. I was depressed," she told the BBC.
"I couldn't afford to pay them back. I thought they were going to have to send me to prison," she said.
Citizens Advice said it handled nearly 30,000 such cases last year.
"For thousands of families, Whitehall calculations are leading to household debt," said Gillian Guy, the chief executive of Citizens Advice.
"Tax Credits are there to make sure people get a decent standard of income, but the sharp rise in debts from overpaid tax credits suggests this policy is having the opposite effect."
In total, more than £1.5bn was overpaid to claimants in the year 2012-13.
But HMRC has hit back at the claims, saying underpayments and overpayments are a necessary part of the system.
Releasing new figures, it said there were 1.5 million overpayments in 2012-13, down from 1.6 million the previous year.
It said it was targeting people who refuse to pay the money back, after being asked repeatedly to do so.
"Most people pay their taxes on time, but a minority do not, and some refuse to engage with us at all," said a spokesman.
"It is wrong that this should hand an advantage to those who simply dodge their obligations, and it is unfair on the vast majority who pay their taxes in full and on time," he said.
HMRC now uses private debt collection agencies to help recover the tax credits it is owed. Last year, it made 215,000 such referrals.
People who owe money are sent text messages and called on the phone, but are not visited by bailiffs.
From 2015, HMRC will be given the power to take money directly from people's bank accounts, providing they are left with £5,000 in the account.
It's thought that around 17,000 people could be affected by the new powers. | There has been a sharp rise in debt problems caused by tax credit overpayments, Citizens Advice has said. |
38303561 | Strontian Community School Building Limited proposes replacing a mid-1970s primary school building with a new one on another site in Strontian.
The group has received £50,825 from the Scottish Land Fund to buy a plot next to Ardnamurchan High School.
The rest of the funding needed to pay for the school is to come from a loan and community shares offer.
Once built, the building would be leased to Highland Council. The local authority has described the project as "innovative".
The new building would be designed in such a way that it could easily be converted into three terraced houses, or another community facility, in the future.
This conversion would happen if Highland Council later decided to construct its own primary school in the village.
Donald McCorkindale, chairman of Strontian Community School Building Ltd, said the group was delighted to receive the grant from the Scottish Land Fund.
He said: "It is a huge boost not only in financial terms but in the confidence placed in this ground breaking initiative."
John Watt, of the Scottish Land Fund's committee, said: "In Strontian, local people have spoken and decided that they want to purchase land on which to build a new community owned asset, in this case a primary school.
"This unique proposal has both community and public sector support and includes a longer term plan that will see the community owned building designed to be converted into much needed housing in the future."
Land Reform Secretary Roseanna Cunningham added: "I am delighted that, with support from the Scottish Land Fund, the community in Strontian now have the ability to purchase a strategic piece of land in their village.
"The ownership of this will allow them to progress their ambitious and innovative project to initially house the local primary school and, in the longer-term, provide much needed affordable housing." | A community in the west Highlands has secured funding for its plan to build its own primary school. |
40560827 | About 8% of the UK population living in private households acted as informal carers last year, Department of Work and Pensions figures show.
The ONS calculates that it would cost £56.9bn to replace these unpaid carers with paid workers.
Both sexes spent more time on unpaid care in 2015 than in 2000, it says.
The ONS links the rise in unpaid care by family members to "a rapidly ageing population and a higher life expectancy".
"At age 65 a man will spend, on average, 44% of the rest of his life in poorer health, and a woman, 47% of her life," says the ONS document.
Women are more likely than men to be informal carers, with women making up 59% of carers.
The Department for Work and Pensions definition of care is quite broad, including doing someone else's shopping or helping them with paperwork.
The ONS also looked at figures for "active caring", which is the amount of time washing someone or replacing bandages.
On average, women over 50 spent one minute and 15 seconds "actively caring" for someone each day, the ONS found.
The figure for men of the same age was just 45 seconds.
But the amount of caring time spent by both sexes had risen between 2000 and 2015, by 15 percentage points for men and 21% for women.
The ONS analysis of the 2011 Census indicates that when women reach 50 they are likely to spend 5.9 years of their remaining life as unpaid carers.
"In contrast, men at 50 are likely to spend 4.9 years of their remaining life as an unpaid carer," it says.
By 65, these figures reverse, with 65-year old women likely to spend 2.6 of their remaining years as unpaid carers, and 65-year-old men 2.7 years, the ONS says.
The analysis found that half of adult carers were employed either part- or full-time.
And almost a third of these (29%) said they spent 35 hours or more a week as informal carers.
The value of unpaid care outweighs the amounts spent on formal social care, the document suggests.
The latest figures show that NHS England spent almost £17bn on social care in 2015-16, while Wales spent £1.4bn.
Scotland spent £2.9bn in 2013-14, according to the latest figures available.
Northern Ireland calculates the figures in a different way, so they are not directly comparable, says the ONS.
Heléna Herklots, chief executive of Carers UK said the organisation's own research reflected the ONS analysis.
"More and more of us are providing care for an older, disabled or ill loved one, yet even a few hours caring a week can result in having to cut down hours or give up work, bringing devastating and irreversible consequences for long term financial security.
"As our population ages, growing numbers of people will be juggling work and care, particularly in later life and society and public services must adapt to support them," said Ms Herklots. | Unpaid carers save the UK economy almost £60bn a year, suggests a new analysis of official figures by the Office of National Statistics. |
36987725 | Division One's bottom side declared on 548-6 to lead by 478 runs, after Lancashire reached 70-1 at stumps.
Resuming 99 not out, opener Smith got to his hundred with a four off the first ball of day two and went on to his second first-class double century.
Ryan McLaren added 81 not out as Hampshire dominated for a second successive day at the Ageas Bowl.
Smith, leading Hampshire in the absence of England's James Vince, maintained his first-day patience as he batted over nine and a half hours for his first ton since September 2014.
After eclipsing his previous best tally of 201 not out (for Durham against Surrey in 2008), Steven Croft eventually had him caught at mid-off, by which time the home side were closing in on 500.
Lancashire paceman Saqib Mahmood took his maiden first-class wicket with the third new ball to end with figures of 1-115 on his Championship debut.
Gareth Berg had Tom Smith caught behind early in the visitors' reply but Haseeb Hameed and Luke Procter saw Lancashire through to the close with no further damage.
Hampshire captain Will Smith told BBC Radio Solent:
"I wanted to bat to give the team a sizable total and batting a lot of overs to put a lot of overs into their guys' legs is plan A work. It is always a grind with me, but they bowled well for the most part.
"To go so long without a hundred is pretty galling. I was annoyed not to get one last year. I have contributed ok this year with kicking on for whatever reason.
"We got a lesson from Surrey in the last game of how to go about a four-day game. They took the benefit of winning the toss to bat first. They executed their plan to a tee and we took inspiration from that."
Lancashire fast bowler Saqib Mahmood told BBC Radio Manchester:
"It is a flat wicket, but we stuck at it well and didn't let them get away. It isn't an easy wicket to take wickets on. Nicks are not carrying to slip and there isn't a lot of zip.
"I was saying to one of the lads when you dream about your first-class debut this isn't the wicket to make it on. But it will only make me a better player. It won't always be like this, there will be easier days.
"I have been working hard on some technical things and got a go in the white ball stuff. That went well so I think I have deserved my chance." | Stand-in captain Will Smith's career-best 210 helped Hampshire post a huge first-innings total against Lancashire. |
33087859 | Earlier this year a review by Prof Graham Donaldson suggested wide-ranging changes.
They include more lessons on computer programming and more cooperation between primary and secondary schools.
Mr Lewis told BBC Wales the reforms would take up to eight years to introduce.
It would be the biggest shake-up to education since 1944, he added.
Speaking on The Wales Report with Huw Edwards, Mr Lewis said: "He has shown us a framework that fits with the way welsh parents, Welsh communities would want to shape the Welsh education system, which is very distinctive, very different from what we are seeing happening over the border in England.
"But I think it is what we would like to see, and what we need.
"We are not playing games here. This is fundamental reform. Graham Donaldson has said seven to eight years. I think that is a realistic timeframe for us."
More on this story on The Wales Report with Huw Edwards, on BBC1 Wales at 22:35 BST | A review into what is taught in schools in Wales will be implemented in full, Education Minister Huw Lewis has confirmed. |
17908679 | HMS Dauntless is the largest destroyer ever built for the Royal Navy, made from nearly 3,000 tonnes of steel. Its wide hull helps to support its two massive radar.
This Type 45 destroyer is radically different in design from earlier warships. The sleek, angled lines means it appears no larger than a fishing boat on another ship's radar. It is the navy's first stealth warship.
This is also the first time that a Type 45 destroyer has been deployed to the Falklands and the first time the navy has invited a TV crew on board a Type 45 during a deployment.
Many of the 200-strong crew were not even born when a much larger task force left to liberate the islands exactly 30 years ago.
But there are still a few veterans of that conflict on board. Weapons engineer Steve Collins was just 18 when he was on HMS Antelope, sunk by the Argentine air force in San Carlos Sound, better known as Bomb Alley. That was his very first deployment. And this will be his last.
He says he is looking forward to seeing the islands once again and visiting the memorials. But he also insists the deployment is nothing out of the ordinary.
Gary Morris, another Falklands veteran serving on board, also dismisses talk that this deployment to the South Atlantic is an act of "provocation" towards Argentina.
It is, he says, routine to have a Royal Navy warship protecting a piece of sovereign British territory.
The ship's captain, Will Warrender, says he can "understand why there's been a spike in interest" with Dauntless heading south.
But he adds that the Royal Navy has had a presence there for "many, many years". No-one on board seems to want to stoke any political fires.
Nevertheless, the design of Dauntless was born out of the bitter lessons from 1982, when Britain lost half a dozen ships to low-flying Argentine jets and sea-skimming missiles.
The Type 45 destroyer is the most advanced air defence destroyer of its kind. In theory, at least, it could deal with any threat posed by the ageing Argentine air force.
Down in the ship's nerve centre, the operations room, dozens of computer screens stream data from the two large radar, which can see for up to 250 miles.
From 60 miles they can identify and engage multiple targets at the same time. They can even track an object the size of a cricket ball, travelling at more than Mach 2 - twice the speed of sound.
Lt Tom Rowley, one of Dauntless's air warfare officers, describes it as an "awesome capability".
Its main weapon is the Sea Viper missile. It can reach speeds of Mach 4 to Mach 5 in only two seconds and carry out flight manoeuvres three times more severe than a fighter pilot can withstand. Dauntless can carry 48 Sea Viper missiles.
If there were ever to be an "Armaggedon" scenario, it could fire them all in just two seconds. But at £1m each, Dauntless has only ever test-fired one.
Its other defences are machine-guns mounted around the vessel, a 4.5-inch gun on the bow, and a Lynx helicopter that can protect the ship from attack by submarine or other surface ships.
But Capt Warrender says it is much more than just an air defence destroyer, providing "versatility and flexibility".
There is plenty of space on board to add other weapons systems, such as a compartment that could be fitted with Cruise missiles. There is also an extra cabin to carry a detachment of Royal Marines or special forces.
There is more room for the crew than other Royal Navy ships, with most accommodated in two-bunk cabins.
There are separate messes for officers, senior and junior ratings. But for a seven-month deployment like this it is hardly luxury living. Each crew member is fed for just £2.38 a day.
The Royal Navy too is having to eke out the most from this £1bn warship. Originally, Britain was planning to buy 12 Type 45 destroyers. But the navy is getting only six.
For Dauntless that means this voyage is about much more than just patrolling the Falklands. En route, off the west coast of Africa, the crew has been helping to train other nations in the region in how to combat maritime crime.
Teams from The Gambia, Senegal and Morocco have been put through their paces on Dauntless, carrying out boarding missions and learning how to tackle anything from piracy to illegal fishing and the illicit trade in drugs, weapons and people smuggling.
Capt Warrender says it shows that the Royal Navy is getting the best value for money for the taxpayer. Today's navy has a surface fleet of just 19 frigates and destroyers.
But back home this mission is still likely to be seen as primarily about defending the Falklands - particularly at a time of rising tensions with Argentina.
Those tensions have already raised doubts as to where Dauntless may be able to stop on its return journey.
It is no secret that the government would like to show off its latest warship to the rising economic powers in the region, particularly Brazil.
Dauntless is not just flying the flag for the navy, but for British business too, and the main contractor BAE systems.
However, South American nations have already turned away other British warships - an act of solidarity in Argentina's dispute over the ownership of the islands.
Capt Warrender says he is not prepared to be drawn on where the ship may or may not go.
But he admits that the climate in South America "does make it a little more difficult" to stop off in the region. For the crew of Dauntless it might be a very long journey home. | It is one of the Royal Navy's most advanced and powerful warships, now on its way to the other side of the world; destination - the Falkland Islands. |
35253322 | 8 January 2016 Last updated at 09:07 GMT
The Carbon Trust has warned that when trees are left to decompose, they produce gas which is bad for the environment.
Instead, some trees are recycled by being turned into wood chippings or compost.
Martin's been to a waste centre in Greater Manchester, to see how it's done. | It's easy to forget about your tree after Christmas is over, but with thousands of people throwing their trees away at once, the way they are disposed of can make a big difference. |
34745074 | But while we wait for that to resolve itself - the former prime minister's daughter Carol is reported to be in talks with museum bosses - we decided to take a look at some of her most memorable fashion moments.
Lady Thatcher (then Margaret Roberts) working as a research chemist in 1950. She is reputed to have helped invent Mr Whippy ice cream, although there is some debate about that.
This is a royal blue velvet dress, a colour she favoured throughout her time as prime minister, and a halo style hat trimmed with ostrich feathers on her wedding day in 1951.
Thatcher attends a Cabinet meeting in 1972 with a ministerial red box in one hand and one of her soon-to-be famous handbags in the other.
Thatcher wears a pale blue waistcoat, and one of those pussybow shirts, for which she would become renowned in 1979 before she became prime minister.
Outside the Oval Office in the summer of 1987 with US President Ronald Reagan, Thatcher shows off a stylish two piece.
Looking defiant in a cream headscarf and jacket during her visit to British forces in Fallingbostel, Germany in 1986.
During her trip to Moscow in 1987, Thatcher greeted crowds in an elegant, fur-trimmed winter coat. She was first dubbed the Iron Lady by Soviet Army newspaper Red Star.
Ten years after entering Downing Street, Thatcher thanks the applauding crowd at the Blackpool 1989 Conservative conference dressed in brilliant blue.
At the start of her third term, the "helmet" of swept back hair is (very) firmly in place, along with the pearls, a hangover from her pre-Downing Street days.
Donning her customary blue as she opens an infirmary with Chelsea pensioners and Prince Charles in 2009. | The Victoria and Albert Museum is at the centre of a row over whether it should exhibit Lady Thatcher's dresses and handbags. |
33770261 | 4 August 2015 Last updated at 09:23 BST
He's been showing off his moves in Tahiti and dropped into the BBC's studio in Los Angeles to tell us more. | Australian stunt biker Robbie Maddison has found a way to surf on his motorbike. |
39927377 | The 36-year-old left Manchester City last summer and joined Espanyol, before starting his second spell at Malaga in January.
His final game - if selected - will be Sunday's home match against Real Madrid, who could win La Liga.
Demichelis, who can also play in midfield, won 51 caps for Argentina and also played for River Plate and Bayern Munich.
"Unfortunately this day comes to us all," said the veteran. "I've been deliberating it for some time, as I have always been very worried about the end of a professional football career.
"I am grateful to the profession, and in this case Malaga in particular, because they extended my career as a professional footballer." | Malaga defender Martin Demichelis will retire at the end of the season. |
34548394 | The portrait by Oscar Rialubin from the Philippines is called Xyclops.
Martin Samworth, chief executive of CBRE said: "The competition constantly provides us with new perspectives on working environments within cities. This year was no exception and Rialubin's intimate portrait of a watch repairman gives insight into a universal trade. Urban life is constantly changing and the beauty of the competition is that it has captured this every year through the winning images."
The Europe, Middle East and Africa prize was awarded to Armen Dolukhanyan for another black-and-white picture. This one shows a young couple, both in the Ukrainian police force.
Peter Graney's photograph of poultry being prepared for market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, won him the Asia Pacific prize.
The other top award went to Christopher Martin, as the winner of the Americas prize for his picture Winter Work, which shows an aeroplane being de-iced at Calgary International Airport, Canada.
Cocu Liu won the mobile section of the competition, capturing this winter scene in Chicago on his phone camera.
There were two awards for younger photographers, with Diogo Miguel Carvalho Goncalves claiming the prize for the 13-15-year-old category with this picture taken at the Carreiros do Monte in Madeira.
The 16-25 age category was won by Belal Hossain Rana, who photographed technicians in Bangladesh working underground to repair electrical cables.
As well as these awards a picture is selected to depict each hour of the day around the globe - here is a small selection of them.
Pedro Lins's picture was taken during a series of protests in Rio De Janeiro in Brazil.
A construction site opposite Borna Mirahmadian's home in Tehran, Iran, is the subject of another image selected by the judges.
Mirahmadian said: "One night I noticed the employees were working double-shift throughout the night (apparently to finish their job on time). Contrasting colours of the lights and shapes of workers' silhouettes grabbed my attention and after a long wait, I could capture this shot from the window of my bedroom."
Johanna Siegmann photographed professional dog walker Leslie in Malibou, California.
Siegmann said: "She can walk up to 20 dogs at a time, although on this day she 'only' had 12. Here she is driving them to a dog park, where they will be allowed to run around, unleashed. The hardest part of her job, from what I witnessed, was unravelling the giant macrame knot of leashes created when the dogs weave in and out around each other."
Martin Faltejsek's picture was taken in London and captured a man with his smartphone.
Faltejsek said: "I was spending some time at my friends in London and one night we went out to buy some food. Walking through the little backstreets, we were passing by so many people standing in front of walls or sitting down on pavements, holding their smartphones and smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.
"I love the simplicity in the picture, the symbol of an empty wall and one little man standing there. We tend to live our lives inside social sites and we prefer to spend our time swiping through our phones instead of communicating with people in real life. I find this reality very sad." | A portrait of a watch repairer has been crowned the winner of this year's CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition, beating more than 21,000 entries from 113 countries. |
35625207 | West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to the B4452 between Harbury and Ufton following a crash shortly after 10:00 GMT on Saturday.
On arrival the cyclist was found with "very serious injuries" and an air ambulance was dispatched.
However, the cyclist was later confirmed dead at the scene. The driver was uninjured. | A cyclist has been killed in rural Warwickshire after being involved in a collision with a 4x4 vehicle. |
21537206 | The US said if confirmed it would be "another provocative step".
International talks over Iran's nuclear programme are due to resume in Kazakhstan next week.
Western powers fear Tehran is seeking weapons technology, but Tehran says it is refining uranium only for peaceful energy purposes.
The Natanz facility, in central Iran, is at the heart of the country's dispute with the UN's watchdog.
By Bethany BellBBC News, Vienna
The IAEA says Iran has started to install about 180 advanced centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear plant - potentially a major upgrade in Iran's nuclear programme.
There is concern in the West that these new machines could significantly speed up Iran's production of material that could be used in a nuclear bomb.
Centrifuges are used to enrich uranium. Low-enriched uranium is used for civilian purposes. But higher-grade enriched uranium can be used as the material for an atomic bomb.
Iran says its nuclear work is purely peaceful, and that its enriched uranium will be used for reactor fuel and for medical and scientific purposes.
But this announcement by the IAEA could hurt the chances for the next round of talks between Iran and six world powers in Kazakhstan next week.
The US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, want Iran to cut back on enrichment - not expand it.
The IAEA released a report each quarter detailing its progress at monitoring Iran's nuclear development.
The BBC obtained a copy of the latest report, which has not yet been officially released.
It concludes: "The director general is unable to report any progress on the clarification of outstanding issues including those relating to possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme."
It adds that despite intensified dialogue with Iran, no progress has been made on how to clear up the questions about Iran's nuclear work.
The IAEA has made similar complaints in previous quarterly reports, and Iran is under an array of sanctions as a result of its lack of co-operation.
Iran had informed the IAEA in a letter on 23 January that it planned to introduce a new model of centrifuge called the IR2m, which can enrich two or three times faster than current equipment.
Gas centrifuges are used to increase the proportion of fissile uranium-235 atoms within uranium.
For uranium to work in a nuclear reactor it must be enriched to contain 2-3% uranium-235 while weapons-grade uranium must contain 90% or more uranium-235.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the new centrifuges could cut by a third the time Iran, one of Israel's fiercest opponents in the Middle East, needed to create a nuclear bomb.
US state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the report development at Natanz was "not surprising".
"The installation of new advanced centrifuges would be a further escalation, and a continuing violation of Iran's obligations under the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and IAEA board resolutions," she said.
But she added that Iran had the opportunity to allay the international community's concerns during talks in Kazakhstan next week.
Starting on 26 February, the talks will involve Iranian officials, the five permanent members the UN Security Council, and Germany. | Iran has begun installing advanced centrifuge machines for enriching uranium at its nuclear plant at Natanz, says the UN's nuclear watchdog. |
37243393 | Reports of 19 incidents of birds physically attacking people or taking food were submitted from March to the end of August in Scarborough.
Further avian assaults were reported in Whitby and in Filey.
Scarborough Borough Council has started to record "gull-mugging" incidents to "assess the size of the problem".
The figures are contained in a report due to go before councillors in the town next week.
22
reported gull "muggings" have been made to Scarborough Borough Council
50%
of the incidents occured in July
13 people reported that their food was stolen by the seagull
9 people reported to the council that they had been "directly attacked" by a seagull
An action plan for "minimising the public nuisance of local gull populations" was approved in November, with measures including a poster campaign and handing out 'gull proof' sacks which protect the plastic refuse bags inside.
Seafront buildings were also "gull-proofed" with the installation of netting.
Issuing fines for people spotted feeding gulls was considered, but the council later ruled the "counter-productive" option out.
The council intends to continue collecting the data, submitted via an online form, for a further 12 months and to compare their research with other seaside local authorities.
Both herring gulls and kittiwakes are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act but the council said it was inshore-feeding herring gulls which presented the biggest nuisance. | So-called "gull-muggings" have claimed 22 victims in the seaside towns of North Yorkshire over the last six months, new figures have revealed. |
20482666 | The Bath teenager finished third in the 100m individual medley with a personal best time of of 59.72 seconds.
Hungarians Katinka Hosszu and Zsuzsanna Jakabos took gold and silver, with Britain's Sophie Smith in fifth.
"I'm really happy because I didn't expect to come here and medal," said O'Connor, who turns 17 on Friday.
"I've been putting in really hard work in training so to come away with a medal and my first senior medal, I'm over the moon. Obviously I was going in ranked third so I knew I had a chance but anything can happen in a race.
"I was a bit nervous because that was only my second senior final but I just pushed hard and managed to go a bit faster than the semis." | Britain's Siobhan-Marie O'Connor won her first senior international medal at the age of 16 with European short course bronze in Chartres, France. |
40691665 | Two men in a car were reported to have entered a vehicle servicing firm's grounds on the Annvale Road in Keady at about 17:25 BST on Friday.
One of the men got out of the white Hyundai car and fired two shots.
No-one was hurt in the incident but employees were left "very badly shaken", police said.
The car used by the gunmen was found burnt out on Dundrum Road near Tassagh in County Armagh about 20 minutes later.
Police are asking for anyone who may have seen the car between 14:00 and 17:45 on Friday afternoon to contact them. | Police are investigating a shooting at a business premises in County Armagh. |
39961732 | The appointment of Robert Mueller, who headed the FBI for more than a decade, came just over a week after President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey - sparking calls for such a move.
But what is a special counsel? And what will he do?
The special counsel was appointed by Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. He made the decision as "acting attorney general" because Attorney General Jeff Sessions has stepped aside from the Russia inquiry.
Mr Rosenstein said that given the "unique circumstances", it was in the public interest for a special counsel independent "from the normal chain of command", to lead the investigation.
By placing authority for the probe into the hands of Mr Mueller, the idea is that it will be able to proceed without any interference, including from the White House.
According to Mr Rosenstein's order, he will look into:
That last point gives him quite a broad remit, with observers suggesting that he will also determine if the president himself has committed any wrongdoing.
"This is the way we are going to learn about whether there was an obstruction of justice or whether Mr Trump has violated the law in a way that would require action against him," Professor Stefan Halper, who served as a White House official in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, told the BBC.
The special counsel has the powers of a US attorney - meaning he can subpoena records and bring criminal charges.
He can also prosecute anyone who interferes in his investigation through crimes including perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses
The special counsel can also ask for his jurisdiction to be widened.
He will not be supervised on a day-to-day basis but the attorney general, or in this case Mr Rosenstein, will be able to request an explanation for "any investigative or prosecutorial step" and can decide that any such action does not need to go ahead.
He must notify Congress if such a decision is made.
The justice department will provide staff that can work for Mr Mueller, and he can also ask for specific people from both inside and outside the department.
He will have to propose a budget in the next 60 days - and update it annually.
As acting attorney general in this matter, only Mr Rosenstein can fire him, and for the following reasons: misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest or for other "good cause", including violation of department policies.
However, President Trump could replace his deputy attorney general at any time.
Not necessarily. When a special counsel's work ends, a confidential report must be provided to the attorney general explaining the decision to lay charges or not.
The attorney general then has to notify Congress and can decide if the report should be made public.
The term "special prosecutor'" in the US context harks back to the Watergate scandal, when President Nixon's attorney general appointed Archibald Cox to lead an independent investigation.
But there was actually no law defining and regulating such an appointment, which allowed Mr Nixon to later fire Mr Cox. Only later, in 1978, was the Ethics in Government Act passed, which defined the circumstances under which an "independent counsel" could be appointed.
This role actually had more independence from the attorney general than the current special counsel position.
But the legal provision regulating it was allowed to expire in 1999 after the controversy of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's wide-ranging investigation into President Bill Clinton, which started as an inquiry into the Whitewater land deal allegations but ended up providing details of his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
So the titles "independent counsel" or "special prosecutor" no longer exist.
Instead the justice department has regulations allowing an outside "special counsel" to be appointed to investigate a person or matter when it might present a conflict of interest for the department or under other "extraordinary circumstances". | A special counsel has been appointed to oversee the investigation looking into alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election, and if Trump campaign figures were complicit. |
35967027 | West Heslerton, near Malton, has gone on the market for a guide price of £20m after being owned by the same family for more than 150 years.
The village has a 21-bedroom mansion, pub, petrol station, playing fields, 43 homes and 2,116 acres of land.
Pub landlady Claire Marshall said: "We've had calls from all the press in the UK, America, Australia, all over.
"It's an end of an era for us, but hopefully we can find a decent landlord that will keep things the same, in the traditional manner that the estate has been run.
"We've been looked after well by the family."
Eve Dawnay owned the estate until her death five years ago, but the Dawnay family have now decided to sell up.
John Myers, who has been a West Heslerton resident all of his life, said: "I've lived in the same house here for 78 years.
"There's nothing you can do about it, as long as the owner who buys it are alright with me, I will be alright with them."
Figures from the Land Registry show other terrace houses and semi-detached properties have sold in the West Heslerton postcode for between £95,000 and £116,500, with the nine-bedroom Old Rectory last sold in 2011 for £700,000.
£700,000
Price of 9-bedroom Old Rectory when it was bought in 2011
£116,500 Terrace property in West Heslerton in 2013
£110,000 Semi-detached house in the village in 2014
£95,000 Price of a High Street terrace house in 2014
£111,000 Another High Street terrace house sold in 2012
The Office for National Statistics puts the current average house price in Yorkshire and The Humber at £181,000, a rise of 3.9% in the past year.
The estate agents involved in the sale expect it to be on the market for between four and 12 weeks.
Tom Watson, of Cundalls, said: "The rents have always been a reasonably low level.
"Because rents are reasonable, that helps the village to have a good community of all ages."
It is estimated the annual income for the estate is £388,000.
Frank Bruce, who was born in the village, said: "It's beautiful. There are some things money can't buy, the views, the people, it's great. Not much has changed at all.
"As long as things continue more or less as it is, but who knows what will happen." | The sale of a North Yorkshire village has been described as an "end of an era" by its residents. |
40682201 | Pallets, wood and other items were taken away by Northern Ireland Housing Executive staff and community volunteers at about 06:00 BST on Friday.
Sinn Féin councillor JJ Magee said many residents were supportive of the move.
Concerns had been expressed that the bonfire was too close to blocks of flats and a children's nursery.
Mr Magee said he believed there are other materials which have been hidden and may be placed on the site before 8 August, which is when the bonfire was due to be lit.
In August, anti-internment bonfires are lit in some republican areas to commemorate the introduction of internment without trial of republican suspects, which was brought in by the British government in 1971.
Mr Magee also said the process of removing the material has been ongoing throughout the summer, and that Housing Executive contractors had already removed up to 140 pallets on Tuesday.
"There is community engagement all year in relation to this," he said.
"There are ringleaders in the crowds that are using younger people to bring material there. I'd like them to stop and get involved in the community, in the summer schemes."
"I'd encourage them to stop collecting, and go and listen to residents and youth leaders who are frustrated with this," added Mr Magee.
On Wednesday, a Housing Executive spokesperson said it was regularly removing materials from the site, and would continue to do so. | Material gathered for a bonfire in the New Lodge area of north Belfast has been removed from the site. |
37800236 | Many gay people vote for the party, said the DUP leader.
"This suggestion that every single person who is a homosexual wants to change the definition of marriage is wrong," she said.
"I know plenty of people in that community who don't want to see marriage redefined are quite content to live in partnership."
The first minister has denied letting online abuse harden her opposition to same-sex marriage.
The DUP's support for the traditional definition of marriage was a manifesto commitment, said Mrs Foster, adding that she would continue to use a petition of concern to veto any attempts to change the law on marriage at Stormont.
A petition of concern places the requirement of a cross-community majority on a motion in the assembly.
The first minister told PA on Thursday that she and her colleagues had been subjected to "vicious" online abuse by gay activists, but suggested that far from influencing her this would send her in "the opposite direction".
However, she told BBC News NI it was a complete misrepresentation to say the DUP makes its decisions on the basis of online abuse.
Mrs Foster told BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Politics programme that if people wanted to have a rational debate about marriage, she would be willing to engage, but "please don't call me all the names of the day on social media".
She said she would not meet LGBT activists who abuse her over the internet.
On the issue of women procuring abortion pills over the internet, the DUP leader said: "The law is what it is and if someone breaks it then due process has to be gone through."
She said it should be a matter for the individual conscience of medical professionals to decide whether they should tell the police about such cases, or maintain patient confidentiality.
The first minister said she had still not received a report from a working group on the issue of terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities, even though it is a fortnight since the health and justice ministers confirmed they had been given the document.
Mrs Foster said the working group had been engaged in an "important piece of work on a hugely sensitive issue.
"Therefore we have to give it due consideration," she added.
She did not clarify whether DUP MLAs would be given a free vote on the matter should any change in the law be proposed.
On Brexit, the DUP leader welcomed the rejection of a court challenge by other parties at the Belfast High Court.
Mrs Foster described the case as "a futile attempt to drag the peace process and the Belfast agreement" into the Brexit debate.
The first minister was also scathing about next week's all island civic dialogue on Brexit, which is being convened by the Irish government.
She described it as an "absolute sideshow" which would merely provide an opportunity for political "grandstanding".
After the UK leaves the European Union, Mrs Foster insisted, there could be no question of people having to show passports to travel between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
The DUP leader said she had told both the prime minister and the Northern Ireland secretary that it was a "red line" that Northern Ireland must be treated in exactly the same way as any other part of the UK when it comes to passports.
She said other issues, such as access to the European Single Market or the Customs Union, would develop during the course of the UK-EU negotiations.
Last weekend the Ulster Unionists invited the SDLP leader Colum Eastwood to their conference as a symbol of the unity of the new Stormont opposition.
But Mrs Foster described this as a "sign of desperation", and said there was absolutely no chance she would be inviting her partner in government, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, to a DUP conference anytime soon. | Gay people are welcome in the membership of the DUP, First Minister Arlene Foster has told BBC News NI. |
38105346 | The 30-year-old was fatally injured on the doorstep of his home in the town near Inverness, 12 years ago.
The father-of-two's killer - a stocky man with a baseball cap - handed him an envelope before shooting him with a German-made handgun. Mr Wilson died later in hospital.
A massive police inquiry was launched but the murder remains unsolved.
In a statement Police Scotland said: "Following a review of the Alistair Wilson murder under homicide governance processes introduced by Police Scotland, the investigation remains active and ongoing.
"We will consider all forensic and investigative opportunities.
"We remain absolutely committed to tracing the person responsible for Alistair's death and continue to ask the public for any information which might assist us."
The gun involved in the shooting on 28 November 2004 was found the following month in a drain on Seabank Road, Nairn, by council workers carrying out gully cleaning.
Forensic analysis identified it as the murder weapon but tests on the gun failed to extract any DNA.
Criminologist Prof David Wilson told BBC Radio Scotland's Beattie programme that "a key to unlocking" the case were the contents of a blue or green envelope that the killer handed to Mr Wilson.
On the night of his murder, Mr Wilson had been putting his young sons to bed when his wife Veronica told him that there was a man at the door of their home.
Mr Wilson went to the door and was given an envelope.
He went back into the house and spoke to his wife, then returned to the door where he was shot three times.
Prof Wilson said: "Holding back some key pieces of information that only the police are aware of is one way of establishing whether people coming forward do genuinely have information which is of help, or simply wasting police time.
"I think, given how old this case is now, one of the keys to unlocking the case might be for Police Scotland to talk about what was contained within that letter."
Peter Bleksley, a former Scotland Yard detective who has been following the case, said: "I am sure they (Police Scotland) hope, as much as those who were close to Alistair will hope, that it will eventually be solved.
"We have seen cases in the UK that have been solved decades after they have been committed." | Police Scotland says it remains "absolutely committed" to finding the killer of Nairn banker Alistair Wilson. |
36592022 | Mark Dias, who worked at the force for seven years from 2006, said he was targeted after challenging alleged misconduct by fellow officers.
He said Asian officers within the force were "seen to be corrupt" and those who complained branded "trouble-makers".
Cleveland Police said it could not comment on any civil proceedings.
In 2014 the force was at the centre of claims of institutional racism.
Mr Dias, who was selected for a fast-track development scheme, said he was forced out of his job as an acting inspector after he challenged alleged misconduct.
He said: "Asian officers were seen to be corrupt and for those who complained about racial discrimination, they were seen as being liars, trouble-makers and money-grabbers.
"You essentially became somebody the organisation wanted to get rid of.
"If you whistle blew, it was about 'let's discredit the whistleblower' not looking at what the whistleblower was talking about.
"To be castigated and demonised to an extent because you did that - that's not what the police service is about."
In April, the president of the National Black Police Association, Janet Hills, claimed the Cleveland force's professional standards department effectively spied on all its Asian officers.
Cleveland Police said it had received concerns about operations "alleged to have focussed disproportionately on black and minority officers".
But a statement added there were "no ongoing operations of this kind" and was checking whether operation fitting the description had ever taken place in the past. | A former police officer is suing Cleveland Police, claiming he was bullied, discriminated against and put under surveillance. |
34571125 | A message on Simon Binner's LinkedIn profile read: "I died in Switzerland with Eternal Spirit on 19 Oct 2015 and my funeral was on 13 Nov 2015."
He added: "There is nothing that I can say that's positive about MND."
In a YouTube video his wife Debbie Binner said he "strongly" believed he had the right to choose when he died.
The businessman, a 57-year-old Cambridge University graduate from Purley, Croydon, wrote that the disease accelerated "very rapidly" after he was diagnosed in January.
He added: "I don't recommend MND! Better to have one massive fatal stroke or be killed instantly by a drunk driver! "
In the video, Mrs Binner said her husband was rushed into choosing when he would die because assisted suicide is illegal in the UK.
She added: "He doesn't want to go to Switzerland and he doesn't want to go into a hospital. He wants to be at home as much as possible with his friends and family.
"And I think the most important thing to say is that Simon believes if that was available in the UK he may well want to stay alive longer.
"Christmas would be lovely for us to have Simon."
Mr Binner said: "I don't want to go to Switzerland either.
"I want to be here for Christmas but I can't be because I don't know. I have to go." | A man with motor neurone disease (MND) has used a professional networking site to name Monday as the day he will die at a clinic in Switzerland. |
19884660 | Best known as the karate kicking manservant in the Pink Panther films he was, following his first screen role in 1957, an ever present face on film and television.
Burt Kwouk was born in Manchester on 18 July 1930 because, as he later remarked, "my mother happened to be there".
In fact his parents were on a business trip and shortly after his birth, returned to Shanghai where Burt spent his early years before returning to the UK in 1954.
His first credited role was in McLeary Moves In, a thriller series based on the Morris West novel and broadcast by ABC television in 1957.
A year later he made his first major film appearance in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, the true story of the English missionary to China Gladys Aylward.
Kwouk played Lee, the leader of a prison revolt who helps Aylward get a party of children to safely though Japanese lines.
He was one of the few genuinely Oriental actors to play a major role in the film with many of the other, ostensibly Chinese characters, being played by a European cast.
With British TV thrillers of the '60s and '70s seemingly unable to function without the obligatory oriental villain, Kwouk was rarely out of work.
In 1964 he made his first appearance as Cato, Inspector Clouseau's manservant, in the second of the Pink Panther films A Shot In The Dark.
In what became a running gag through the series Cato, a martial arts expert, was required to keep the Inspector on his guard by attacking him "whenever and wherever I least expect it".
In the same year he made the first of three appearances in the James Bond films with the part of Mr Ling, an associate of Goldfinger, in the film of the same name.
He appeared in two more Bond films in 1967 - the David Niven spoof Casino Royale and You Only Live Twice with Sean Connery.
He reprised his role of Cato in The Return of the Pink Panther in 1975, The Pink Panther Strikes Again in 1976 and in The Revenge Of The Pink Panther two years later.
He was also the narrator in the English version of the Japanese TV series The Water Margin, which ran in the UK in the late '70s and gained cult status.
There were two more appearances in Pink Panther films in the 1980s but, following the death of Peter Sellers, the series had run out of steam and was critically panned.
The BBC series Tenko, gave Kwouk his first major television drama role as Yamauchi, the commandant of a women's prisoner of war camp set up in Singapore following the Japanese invasion.
He handled the difficult role well, portraying a man who was not essentially evil, but who was a product of the military machine unable to show compassion to a defeated enemy.
A total of 30 one-hour episodes were produced between 1981 and 1984 with the majority of the series filmed in Dorset due to budgetary constraints.
In 1993 he made his last appearance as Cato in The Son Of The Pink Panther but as before, the absence of Peter Sellers proved too great and the film flopped.
He hosted E4's spoof Japanese TV gameshow Banzai in 2001, the highlight being Kwouk's "Confucious say..." style monologues.
It was ironic that, as one of the few British East Asian actors, he was caught up in the controversy surrounding the Channel 4 show The Missing Chink, in which he took a guest role.
Produced as an ironic comment on the relative unobtrusiveness of the Chinese community in Britain, it was attacked by some as "blatantly racist" mainly on account of the provocative title.
He continued to play character roles in film and TV before joining the cast of the long-running BBC sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine in 2003.
His character, a Chinese washing machine repair man improbably named Entwistle, replaced the Compo character after the death of Bill Owen.
As one of the first British-Chinese actors there was never a shortage of parts and he seemed unconcerned about the dangers of being stereotyped.
He was yet another graduate of the school of great British character actors, with the ability to take a variety of roles ranging from slapstick comedy to strong drama. | Burt Kwouk was once described as a funnier version of Bruce Lee, yet the majority of the roles he played in a 50-year career were straight ones. |
35362626 | The former Udinese boss watched his new team beat Watford after his appointment at the Liberty Stadium on Monday.
He will take charge of the Swans for the first time at Everton on Sunday.
"I let them [Udinese] know I would have liked to work at Watford, even in the Championship, but other managers were hired," the 60-year-old told Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.
"Given their results, which include promotion and their good form in the Premier League, they made the right decision."
Guidolin left his last managerial post with Udinese in May 2014 and took up a position as technical supervisor for the Pozzo family, who own Udinese, Granada and Watford.
The 60-year-old Italian said he had received offers to manage again in Italy, but held out for a chance abroad.
"I preferred to wait as I wanted to experience something outside of Italy, and in the end I was rewarded," he said.
"I knew it wouldn't be easy as I'm not well-known internationally, but my agent Frank Trimboli did a great job in getting me this opportunity with Swansea."
Guidolin has appointed former Chelsea midfielder Gabriele Ambrosetti as a coach and will also work alongside Alan Curtis, who had been interim manager since Garry Monk's departure last month.
"The initial signs are encouraging. I was impressed by how cordial everyone was," added Guidolin.
"The first half against Watford was our best performance in some time. I have been following Swansea for the past month and I am convinced we have a great base to work from.
"I will try to implement my work on things that make a big difference like focus, concentration and intensity while trying to get them to play good football."
Guidolin cited the stress of the job when he left his post at Udinese, and he added: "It is my strength, and my weakness. Stress can help you, but it can also hurt you.
"When your job occupies your entire day, the results eventually come and that is the secret to my career. However, at the same time, the struggle drains you." | Francesco Guidolin says he had hoped to manage Watford - but is happy to now be Swansea City's new head coach. |
40488500 | The driver jumped the kerb and struck fellow cab drivers who were sitting awaiting their next fares, police said.
According to US media, the driver told police he mistakenly stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake.
The incident, on the eve of the Independence Day holiday in the US, was not believed to be terrorism-related.
Major Frank McGinn of Massachusetts State Police said one of the victims remains in serious condition, three had significant injuries and six others suffered less serious injuries.
All the victims appeared to be cab drivers, he added.
The driver, who is reported to be a 56-year-old man from Cambridge, Massachusetts, stayed at the scene to co-operate with police.
Maj McGinn told reporters the crash appeared to be "just a tragic accident".
He said the unidentified driver is known to be a "very nice gentlemen from his peers" and was thought to have been alone in the vehicle at the time.
Police have seized the cab and the cause of the crash remains under investigation, state police said in a statement.
"At this preliminary point in the investigation, there is no information that suggests the crash was intentional," the statement said. | Ten people have been taken to hospital with injuries of "varying severity" after a taxi drove into people at Boston's Logan airport, police say. |
30685793 | An estimated 63,000 people now live with the disease.
Approximately 10,000 more people have been living with cancer since 2010, a figure that represents an 18% rise over the last five years.
The increase is due to improvements in survival and detection, and a growing and ageing population.
The number of men with prostate cancer has seen the biggest rise of 27% over the last five years.
Macmillan Cancer Support's general manager in Northern Ireland, Heather Monteverde, warned that care for cancer patients must be adapted.
"Without a complete transformation of the way people are supported after their treatment ends, there is no way patients will get the after-care they so desperately need, whether that's practical help at home, financial advice, or even emotional support," she said.
"Our existing health and social care structures were not set up to deal with the needs of such a huge number of people who have survived cancer, but who often continue to require considerable support," she added.
The charity has been working with the Health and Social Care Board, Public Health Agency and Northern Ireland Cancer Network to advocate individually tailored patient care.
A Transforming Cancer Follow Up (TCFU) programme, which cost ??1.3m, has been used as a template by all five health trusts in Northern Ireland as a new model for breast cancer follow-up treatment.
The scheme includes access to a clinical nurse specialist, an additional treatment summary and an invitation to a health and well-being event. | A record number of people living in Northern Ireland have been diagnosed with cancer, according to figures released by Macmillan Cancer Support. |
30282791 | About 2.6 million viewers a night watched the show which came from Minsmere in Suffolk.
The RSPB, which owns the site, reported a 28% leap in visitor numbers for the year.
However, businesses in Suffolk reported a mixed response to the impact of the programme, with many in the area saying they had seen no difference in trade.
Visit Suffolk's survey found 31% of coastal businesses said the programme had had a positive impact, while 46% said it had no immediate effect.
Springwatch, which is presented by Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan and Martin Hughes-Games, broadcast from the north Suffolk coast near Sizewell from 26 May until 12 June.
The show highlighted species including marsh harriers, bearded tits, avocets and bitterns.
Amanda Bond, from Visit Suffolk, said the programme had provided an "amazing opportunity" for Suffolk's tourism industry and would have a long legacy.
According to Visit Suffolk's survey of 121 businesses, the impact was felt less strongly in the local countryside and towns, where 18% and 25% of respondents respectively claimed it had a positive immediate impact.
In the surrounding countryside, 58% said Springwatch had no impact on business, while in towns the figure was 50%.
Adam Rowlands, senior site manager for RSPB Minsmere, said the reserve had continued to feel the benefit of hosting Springwatch.
"Lots of people have been coming in saying they've chosen to holiday on the Suffolk coast as a consequence of seeing Minsmere on the Springwatch programmes," he said.
"It wasn't just for the period when the programme was on the telly."
The programme is due to be broadcast from Minsmere for the next two years. | A nature reserve has seen a boost in visitor numbers after it hosted BBC's Springwatch programme this year. |
36266179 | Sales have been hit by falling tourist numbers because of the strong dollar, and competition from discounters like TJ Maxx and online retailers.
It follows retailer Gap's announcement this week that its sales also fell in the same period.
Macy's revenues fell 7.4%, sending its shares down 10% to a four-year low.
Revenues fell to $5.77bn from $6.23bn in the same quarter a year ago - the fifth consecutive quarterly fall.
It now expects comparable store sales this year to fall 3-4% rather than the 1% forecast by industry analysts.
In January Macy's and rival JC Penney's were forced to axe thousands of jobs and close stores.
Macy's Chairman and CEO Terry Lundgren said in a statement: "We are not counting on the consumer to spend more, so we are working harder to give customers more reasons to buy from us."
The company opened a group of Macy's Backstage stores last year to compete with discount stores and is opening nine more in the next six months.
It has also expanded online by acquiring Bluemercury, an upscale beauty and spa company.
Mr Lundgren said: "Given that the first quarter is a relatively small portion of the total year, we have an opportunity to make up some ground in the months ahead, and particularly in the fourth quarter." | US department store Macy's has seen its income plunge 40% in the first three months of the year and it has slashed profit forecasts for the whole year. |
40274496 | It is the biggest demolition project ever seen in Russia's capital and the rehousing is to begin later this year.
Opponents say their right to private property has been infringed and fear being moved to remote tower blocks.
The Duma (lower house) backed the law overwhelmingly. The revised text allows residents to vote against demolition.
MPs included a mechanism allowing residents to take their apartment block off the demolition list if more than one-third vote to do so. That vote can take place at any time.
A demolition decision can also be blocked if residents take the matter to court. The option of a legal appeal was not in the initial draft of the law.
The affected flats are mostly five-storey blocks thrown up quickly in the 1950s and 60s to deal with a post-World War Two housing crisis.
They are called "Khrushchevki", after then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
Distress as Moscow demolitions to go ahead
In recent months thousands of Muscovites have rallied against the demolitions.
Several protesters were detained outside the Duma on Wednesday.
The law still requires approval by the upper house - the Federation Council - and the signature of President Vladimir Putin.
That approval is expected - and Mr Putin has backed the demolitions.
Moscow City Hall has pledged to start building new flats for the affected residents before the end of this year. | Russian MPs have passed a controversial law to start demolishing more than 4,500 old Soviet-era apartment blocks in Moscow, despite big protests. |
39172385 | The creature was first spotted more than a week ago off Start Bay near Slapton.
There have been reports on social media of its return in recent days and some photos now show it spouting water into the air.
It was seen close to shore on Saturday evening and has attracted other species to the area.
Pete Moore from Forest and Beach Outdoor Learning Centre said: "It's incredibly active, has been feeding loads and it's a great spectacle. People have been coming from a long way to try and see it."
It is thought the whale is coming in to feed on herring and mackerel, which are also attracting large number of gannets.
Whale watcher Pete has lived nearby for 14 years. "I've never see so many species of animal feeding in the bay, it's like Blue Planet.
"The herring gulls are following the whale like they might follow a trawler, and we've got loads of spectacular gannets, porpoises and seals too," he said.
He said the whale had been doing a loop of Start Bay, and most sightings had been in the late afternoon or early evening.
The Sea Watch Foundation, which records sightings of whales, said it was rare for humpbacks to be seen off the UK coastline until about five years ago, when sightings increased from about five per year to between 15 and 30.
Sea Watch director Dr Peter Evans said numbers rose to about 40 in the past 12 months, a record high.
He added: "They seem to be recovering and it could be just that there is a lot of fish about.
"They won't hang around anywhere unless there's food." | A humpback whale has returned to Devon bay and is attracting large numbers of spectators hoping to catch a glimpse. |
36739307 | Belgian coach Paul Put, who led Burkina Faso to the final of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, is being considered.
Also on the list is German Gernot Rohr, who has been in change of Gabon and Niger as well as Burkina Faso.
The other names are local coach Kanfory Lape Bangoura and French duo Jean Marc Nobilo and Bernard Simondi.
Bangoura is currently the caretaker coach of the Syli Nationale after Frenchman Luis Fernandez left the post in May.
Nobilo also has experience in Africa including a stint in charge of Benin and most recently with Algeria's under-20 team.
Simondi, as well as Put and Rohr, has spent time in charge of Burkina Faso he has also coached at club level in Africa at Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia and Algerian sides Entente Setif and most recently CS Consntantine.
The five candidates are set for a final interview in Conakry on 13 July.
Guinea are unable to qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Gabon but have one final match to play against Zimbabwe in September.
The new coaches main task will be to lead the team in the 2018 World Cup campaign where they will play Tunisia, DR Congo and Libya with only the group winners to progress to the finals in Russia, | The normalisation committee of the Guinea Football Federation has named a shortlist of five to be the new national team coach. |
36803087 | Only one body has been found since the plant partially collapsed in February, killing four men.
Efforts to recover the three remaining bodies were halted amid fears of a further collapse.
The men's families had opposed plans to use explosives for the demolition.
Steve Hall, son-in-law of victim Ken Cresswell, previously said: "We want the men back in one piece, not many pieces."
The remains of the boiler house at the Didcot A plant will be brought down between 05:30 and 07:30 BST.
Remote-controlled vehicles will be used to place explosive charges at the base of the building's columns.
RWE Npower described the operation as "extremely complicated", and said the recovery operation will resume as soon as the building is demolished and the area declared safe.
Earlier in the week, the firm sent letters to people living nearby informing them preparations for the demolition had started.
It said noise from the explosion would last "about a minute" and any airborne dust would not be harmful "but could cause a nuisance".
It warned members of the public to not attempt to enter the site "for safety reasons and out of respect for the families of the three men involved in this incident".
Michael Collings, 53, from Brotton, Teesside, Christopher Huxtable, 34, from Swansea, Ken Cresswell, 57, and John Shaw, 61, both from Rotherham, were killed in the collapse.
Mr Collings' body was recovered soon after, but family members have criticised the length of time it has taken to find the other three.
John Howley, the uncle of Mr Cresswell, described it as "diabolical".
Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion also branded it a "national scandal".
Roads in the area will be closed during the blast. | The final section of Didcot Power Station's boiler house will be demolished on Sunday - despite opposition from families of men killed when it collapsed. |
30813925 | Michael Pendry, 55, had 658 "filthy images" of children in his cottage in the grounds of Radnor Primary School, Cardiff.
He was caught after sharing the images online with other paedophiles for "sexual gratification".
Judge Huw Rees at Cardiff Crown Court said: "I am taking a risk in you."
Pendry admitted three counts of possessing indecent photographs of children and one count of possessing extreme pornographic images involving animals.
He was given a three year community order to complete a sex offenders treatment programme. | A primary school caretaker who admitted collecting more than 600 indecent images of children has walked free from court. |
39854415 | Symphonic Brass Wales will join thousands of people in the march past the Kremlin in Moscow during the Victory Day commemorations on Tuesday.
The annual mass parade marks the anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.
The band is thought to be the first non-Russian ensemble to have been invited to take part.
The Immortal Regiment parade is for people to remember their relatives who fought in WW2.
Cornet player Alexandra Humphreys said the event would be "very emotional".
Ms Humphreys, who presents Ffeil - the Welsh-language TV news programme for young people on S4C - said the players had been asked to share photographs of their loved ones who had fought in the war to be made into posters as is usual at the parade.
She told BBC Wales she had sent over a picture of her great-great uncle Arthur, who died during the war.
"They put a photo of him on a placard. It was quite emotional because I had never really seen him until a couple of weeks before I came to Russia," she said.
"It's nice to remember him in the same way the Russians remember their war heroes."
The march of remembrance will follow a mass parade of military strength in Red Square, involving 10,000 soldiers. | A Welsh brass band is performing in a major World War Two remembrance parade in Russia. |
39698465 | While accepting the UK was leaving, Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer said Labour would press for a different deal prioritising jobs and work rights.
It would also seek an early deal on transitional arrangements to smooth the way for the UK's departure in 2019.
The Conservatives said only they had a clear plan for exiting the EU.
Ahead of a campaign visit to Wales on Tuesday. Theresa May said the Brexit vote should have been a "wake-up call for a generation of politicians who have taken the people for granted for too long" but instead other parties had "closed ranks".
Labour, most of whose MPs backed a Remain vote in last year's referendum, is in a fight to hold onto seats in Leave-voting constituencies on 8 June.
The Conservatives are hoping to take seats from Labour in areas which voted to leave the EU, including the Midlands, the north-east and north-west of England and across Wales, with a message that it is implementing the will of the people expressed in last year's vote.
Labour has been criticised by, among others, former prime minister Tony Blair, for what he says is a lack of clarity in its approach to Brexit.
Unlike the Lib Dems, it has ruled out a second referendum, but suggested Parliament could stop a so-called "hard Brexit".
In Labour's first major policy statement on the issue of the election campaign, the party is signalling that it would take a different approach to the two-year process of negotiating the EU's exit - expected to start in earnest in June.
It would scrap Theresa May's Brexit plan - outlined in a White Paper in February - which envisages leaving the single market and customs union.
Instead, it will focus on delivering a deal which "retains the benefits" of single market and customs union membership.
On immigration, a Labour government would on its first day in office guarantee the legal status of the three million EU nationals living in the UK to correct what it says is a "shameful injustice".
It would then press for reciprocal guarantees for the 1.2 million Britons living on the continent.
In a further break from the government's policy, Labour says leaving the EU without a deal would not be a "viable option" - although it is not clear whether its promise of a "truly meaningful" vote in Parliament on the final deal would amount to a potential veto.
In addition, it would replace the government's proposed Great Repeal Bill - which would scrap the 1972 European Communities Act and transpose the myriad of existing EU law applying to the UK into domestic law - with an EU Rights and Protections Bill.
It insists there can be no "rolling back" of workplace protections, environmental standards and consumer rights acquired through EU membership and the Bill will not include any measures to limit the lifespan of laws or directives, such as sunset clauses.
"This will make sure that all EU-derived laws are fully protected without qualifications or limitations," Sir Keir Starmer will say.
"A Labour government will never consider these rights a burden."
Labour would negotiate with the remaining 27 EU members in the interests "of the many, not the few", he will claim.
"We will approach negotiations in a completely different way to a Tory Brexit.
"We will scrap the government's Brexit White Paper and replace it with fresh negotiating priorities that reflect Labour values.
"The White Paper will have a strong emphasis on retaining the benefits of the single market and customs union, as Labour knows that is vital to protecting jobs and the economy."
Labour has previously set out six tests for a successful Brexit - including maintaining a strong, collaborative relationship with the EU, protecting security co-operation, delivering for the whole of the UK and introducing a fair immigration system.
In response, the Conservatives said Jeremy Corbyn was a "weak leader of a divided party who could not get the right deal for the UK".
"We have a clear plan for the Brexit negotiations, and every vote for Theresa May will strengthen her hand in those negotiations to get a good deal for the UK," said MP and former minister Dominic Raab.
"Only Theresa May and the Conservatives can provide the strong and stable leadership the United Kingdom needs to see us through Brexit and beyond."
In a fresh intervention on Tuesday, Mr Blair said the Conservatives' position on Brexit must be "turned against them".
Writing in the Guardian, he warned Mr Corbyn "this is not the time to fight a conventional partisan election". | Labour say they would scrap Theresa May's Brexit plans and unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU residents before talks start, if they win power. |
34669045 | The five biggest parties have been in negotiations for almost six weeks about the budget, welfare reform as well as past and present paramilitary activity.
"We are coming to the vital stage, the endgame," said the DUP leader.
"It is my view that if we cannot reach agreement then the process itself will be terminated."
Mr Robinson said there was a "very significant responsibility on all those who are in leadership in Northern Ireland".
On Wednesday, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin said he believed a deal was "achievable", within a timeframe of "days, not weeks".
His colleague, North Belfast MLA Gerry Kelly, said on Thursday that his party had concerns about the government's plans on dealing with the past.
"The British and Irish governments agreed at Stormont House on the need to provide justice and truth recovery mechanisms that would give disclosure to families of victims of the conflict," he added.
"The British government's legislation on dealing with the legacy of the past is in clear breach of that agreement."
Mr Kelly said Sinn Féin would not sign up to the proposed legislation "as it stands".
"Victims across the board deserve the truth and they deserve full disclosure," he added.
Earlier, Mr Robinson said there was a range of outstanding issues that were not yet resolved.
"I don't see any of them as being insurmountable, if there is goodwill on the part of the parties," he said.
"I believe it is possible for us to get a deal, but it does require leadership, it does require commitment and it does require all of the parties to stretch themselves."
The DUP leader described his critics as "the whingers, the wreckers, the political snipers who hope for failure" for their own benefit.
"It will not benefit anybody if in aggrandising themselves, they destroy our process here in Northern Ireland," he said.
"I look to all of those who genuinely want to get a way forward to ensure the next few days are meaningful in this talks process and that we try and close issues."
UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said criticism of his party by Mr Robinson and Mr McGuinness showed that its "firm and principled stand is irritating the two biggest parties who are clearly busting to do a side-deal at Stormont Castle".
Mr Nesbitt said his party would remain in the talks, "but we will not support handing out the begging bowl to London again".
He said the UUP would focus on the "greater good," adding: "We will stick in and do what is right for the people of Northern Ireland."
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers said she was "encouraged that the parties are continuing to engage intensively, but difficult issues remain".
"It is essential a successful conclusion is reached very soon - next week could be crucial to the success or failure of this process." she said. | Northern Ireland's parties need to reach a deal in the next 10 days or "there will be no agreement", First Minister Peter Robinson has said. |
33333904 | A meeting of Fifa Congress, due to be held in December, will select a new president after incumbent Sepp Blatter called for "profound restructuring".
"Quite frankly we need some new names and new thinking," said Scudamore.
"The thing has to change. Everybody's been saying it for some time. Clearly this a seismic shift in the dynamic."
United States and Swiss prosecutors are separately investigating alleged corruption at world football's governing body. Seven Fifa officials were arrested in Switzerland in May and a further seven people indicted.
Blatter, 79, appeared to stand down from his post on 2 June when he said he would "lay down my mandate" but has since stated he "did not resign" and is believed to be considering standing for re-election.
Scudamore, however, wants to see new blood given a chance.
"In some ways it almost needs a corporate, proper businessperson, as opposed to a football politician," he told BBC Sport's Richard Conway. "The problem with football politicians is, it's all about votes. We need someone who can transcend that and is a more unifying candidate.
"It's right that the game is run on a one country, one vote basis, I don't think there's one country that's bigger than any other, despite anybody's history. Therefore you need a unifying candidate that somehow transcends the past."
Scudamore says he has no plans to run himself to succeed Blatter - and does not believe any English candidate would be right for the role.
"The idea that anybody from England would be suitable for a world-unifying candidate would be very difficult. It's one of the reasons we don't do so well when we bid for World Cups," he said.
"England is seen to have had its day in terms of running world football and probably it needs someone from one of the emerging nations, shall we say, or at least somebody who is independent of what's gone on in the past."
Scudamore was speaking on the day the Premier League published its review of the 2014-15 season, a document that outlines prize payments to clubs, fan demographics, player statistics and grass roots initiatives.
The Premier League review revealed:
Prize money is awarded using a system dating to the formation of the league in 1992, which last season resulted in a ratio of 1.53:1 between the club finishing top and the club finishing bottom.
"It's essential, which is why Burnley could come up last season and they could beat Manchester City, draw with Manchester City, draw at Chelsea. That's because they've got enough income to compete," said Scudamore.
"Every time they take the field against any team, no matter whether it's the top of the league or whatever, they can compete in that individual match, and that I think stands us out from any every other league.
"The more income everybody has.... it narrows the competitive gap."
"Occupancy is clearly an important measure, attendance is an important measure. After making sure we have the best players we can on the field, the number one strategic priority is to make sure the stadia are full," said the chief executive.
"Clubs have to work very hard to make sure the stadiums remain full. These are important things must the clubs to strive at, to keep ever increasing those numbers."
Celtic have been granted permission to introduce a safe standing area and could become the first top-flight club in Scotland to do so.
Scudamore said: "It's very hard while the whole Hillsborough issue is still very raw and such an emotive issue, the idea that we're contemplating opening even that small risk I just think is very difficult.
"In many ways it's almost like: 'not on my watch'. Having spent all of my professional working career in football with the shadow of Hillsborough around me, it's just very hard.
"It might seem Luddite, it might seem old-fashioned, but I just find it very hard personally, as the administrator, to even expose myself to the risk of something that is not as safe as what we've got now."
"It's great, and it's why all the investment in the Elite Player Performance Plan has been so essential," said Scudamore.
"Fifty-four home-grown players, I think 44 that played in the Under-21 league, so all the numbers are going in the right direction.
"There is English talent coming through and they're coming through in ever-increasing numbers. They are technically gifted, physically gifted and also I think, from a holistic education point of view, there's an intelligent group of young players coming through that are more rounded a better-prepared than they've ever been."
"It's absolutely fantastic," added Scudamore.
"All the clubs have been investing and making big strides in the past couple of years and obviously we're obviously involved at the grass roots and lower levels.
"The whole thing is growing, from the bottom of the base and up through the academy system, and any success at the top level is great." | Fifa's next leader should be someone with a corporate background who "transcends the past", Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore says. |
35560822 | The North West Ambulance Service said two children were "critically" injured in the 15:20 GMT crash in Belvidere Road.
The driver of the Peugeot car, a woman in her 80s, was also injured and treated at the scene.
Seven of the girls were taken to hospital by ambulance, with one attending voluntarily.
Read the latest updates on this story and more from across Merseyside.
Consultant paramedic Mike Jackson, who was first on the scene, said in addition to the two "critical" injuries, a further three of the girls were likely to have fractured limbs or head injuries.
He described the remaining three victims as "walking wounded".
Belvedere Academy, a nearby girls school, posted a statement on its website which said: "Unfortunately there has been a road traffic accident outside the academy.
"School bus service will be significantly delayed. Please make arrangements to collect your daughter as soon as possible."
Several roads in the area have been closed, including Belvidere Road, the junction at Devonshire Road and Admiral Street and the junction between Princess Gate and South Street. | Eight girls aged between 11 and 17 have been injured in a collision with a car near a Liverpool school. |
40949966 | Her England colleagues Tammy Beaumont (36) and Natalie Sciver (40 not out) helped Surrey to 133-6 after they had chosen to bat first.
Taylor and Eve Jones (26) gave Thunder a good start to their reply.
But they were all out for 100, with Rene Farrell (5-26) recording the second-best bowling figures in the WSL.
The Australian dismissed Taylor and Eleanor Threlkeld in a pivotal 14th over to set up victory, which maintained Surrey's 100% start to the competition, while Lancashire have lost both of their group matches to date.
Wicketkeeper-batter Taylor did not play in the 2016 tournament as she was taking a break from cricket while trying to overcome anxiety problems, and missed Thunder's defeat by Yorkshire at Headingley on Friday as she was attending a family wedding. | England's Sarah Taylor scored 34 on her Women's Super League debut but her Lancashire Thunder team lost to Surrey Stars by 33 runs at Old Trafford. |
32181936 | The Slovenia-born 25-year-old beat France's Maxime Chazal 6-3 6-2 in the first round of qualifying for the clay-court Casablanca Open in Morocco.
Bedene, who moved to the UK seven years ago, attended a citizenship ceremony last Tuesday.
He is ranked 83rd in the world, ahead of James Ward in 111th place.
On seeing 'GBR' next to his name in the Casablanca schedule, he wrote on Twitter: "It's taken a while to get to this but it's awesome to see."
After the victory over Chazal, he added: "Happy to get the first match out of the way. Was solid to be fair and more to come which is always good. Looking forward to the next one.
"Thanks for all the support and love guys, I feel really lucky."
Bedene reached his first ATP final in India at the start of the year, beating top-20 players Roberto Bautista Agut and Feliciano Lopez along the way.
He hopes to play for the Great Britain Davis Cup team, although he has already represented Slovenia and current rules prohibit a player appearing for two nations.
"He's a good player with a very good serve," Murray said in Miami last week.
"He's a legitimate top-100 player. When he plays challengers he's there or thereabouts; when he plays on the main tour he wins matches. It's not like he turns up and always loses in the first round.
"I would imagine he's going to be comfortably in the top 70 or 80 in the world for a while."
Bedene is the top seed in Casablanca qualifying and will play Austria's Michael Linzer or Frenchman Maxime Texeira in the second round. | Aljaz Bedene has won his first match since becoming a UK citizen and taking up the position of British number two behind Andy Murray. |
34185559 | Catholicism does not recognise divorce and teaches marriage is a lifelong commitment.
In order to separate, Catholics must have their marriage annulled by showing it was flawed from the outset.
The radical reforms allow access to procedures free of charge and fast-track decisions.
Until now the procedures have been seen as arcane, expensive and bureaucratic.
Catholics seeking an annulment previously needed approval from two Church tribunals. The reforms will reduce this to one and remove the requirement of automatic appeal. An appeal will still be possible if one of the parties requests it.
The new fast-track procedure will allow bishops to grant annulments directly if both spouses request it.
Because annulment procedures are complicated, couples normally require experts to guide them through, meaning that gaining one can be expensive.
Without an annulment, Catholics who divorce and marry again are considered adulterers and are not allowed to receive communion.
Last year, the Pope set up a commission of church lawyers and clerical experts to look at how to streamline the procedure.
Writing about the changes, Pope Francis said it was unfair that spouses should be "long oppressed by darkness of doubt" over whether their marriages could be annulled.
It was a pope's refusal to grant King Henry VIII an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon in the 16th Century that led to England's break with Rome and the creation of the Church of England, with the monarch as defender of the new Church.
In the intervening centuries, the process of obtaining an annulment for ordinary Catholics has remained a lengthy and costly one.
The move by Pope Francis to simplify and streamline the process has come to fruition unusually quickly for the Vatican.
It's only a year since he set up a commission of Church lawyers to look at reforms to the process.
While they're not expected to change Catholic teaching on divorce, they are likely to make it easier for estranged couples to prove that their marriage was invalid from the beginning. | Pope Francis has unveiled reforms intended to make it easier for Roman Catholics to get annulments and remarry within the Church. |
35687169 | Fusion Festival has teamed up with Capital Liverpool radio station and wants to host the event at Otterspool Promenade in September.
The festival, now in its fourth year, boasted performances from Ed Sheeran, Rudimental and The Vamps in 2015.
The line-up and ticket information for the event on 3 and 4 September will be announced in April.
A Birmingham City Council spokesman said they had no comment as the festival is not a council-organised event.
The move follows Liverpool being declared a Unesco City of Music in recognition of its musical heritage.
Claire McColgan, Liverpool's culture director, said: "We're delighted that Fusion Festival is heading to Liverpool.
"It's a real coup that this city is going to host yet another major music event this year which will bring with it a creative and economic boost to the area."
Damien Sanders, event director of Fusion Festival, said: 'We are so excited to finally announce that Fusion is coming to Liverpool.
"Liverpool is such a vibrant, fun city that we can't wait to become part of its musical fabric."
The decision by Fusion to move the festival from Birmingham to Merseyside is a blow for festival fans in the West Midlands.
The area also lost Wireless Festival in 2015.
The proposed location of the festival at Otterspool Promenade is subject to a licence being granted. | A music festival that has attracted more than 50,000 fans is moving from Birmingham to Liverpool. |
17785335 | The decision came after four team mechanics narrowly avoided being hit by petrol bombs during a clash between protesters and police on Wednesday.
Team boss Bob Fernley said: "We have to ensure the crew are comfortable."
"It would have been wrong not to go ahead with the race because it would mean in the future when there is any unrest, you would have to do the same thing. I was here in the dark, my sons went to various villages because they wanted to see what was going on, my wife was out shopping. There is so much unrest in other parts of the Middle East, far beyond anything you're seeing here."
In a separate incident on Thursday, Sauber became the second team involved in a roadside incident.
A bus containing 12 of their mechanics took to the hard shoulder after encountering a burning bottle in the road and seeing masked men running towards their lane.
Sauber confirmed that nobody from the team was hurt and they did not regard it as an attack on their vehicle.
F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone said he had offered Force India a police escort from the track following their incident on Wednesday.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Ecclestone said: "I said if they were the slightest bit concerned, whatever time they would normally leave the circuit, I will be here and travel in their vehicle back to the hotel, without any escort or police.
"If they want an escort, they can have police, I am happy to travel without. I don't think they have any need to be concerned."
Ecclestone and the Bahrain Grand Prix organisers have worked hard to present the Gulf state as safe.
The incident on Wednesday came as the Force India team members were returning from the track to their hotel at about 2000 local time on the main highway from the track to the capital, Manama.
Ecclestone said he did not want to comment on the incident because he was not there.
He insisted it was "absolutely 100%" the right decision to go to Bahrain, pointing to recent riots in Spain and crime in Brazil as examples that other countries had problems.
Asked if he felt Bahrain were blurring the boundaries between sport and politics by using a "UniF1ed" slogan to promote the grand prix, Ecclestone said it was "not for us to decide how somebody wants to use the race. We're not here to give an opinion on how this country should be run - or any other country".
Fernley told BBC Sport Force India fully supported the Bahrain Grand Prix but safety was paramount.
He said: "We are doing the best we can to make sure the crew is safe. There will be protests, it was an unfortunate incident and when it happens to your team you have to deal with it in a proper manner."
Asked how he felt about the teams being told Bahrain was safe, Fernley said: "We all know there is a very slight risk with coming here."
Not all the teams are staying in central Manama - McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes are all in a resort complex about two miles (3km) from the track. | Force India chose not to run their cars in the second practice session at the Bahrain Grand Prix so they could return to their hotel before dark. |
37208767 | The programme is repeated on BBC One Scotland at 23:25 BST and available on demand from BBC iPlayer.
Sunday's programme features Aberdeen's trip to Celtic Park and Rangers' visit to Kilmarnock.
Hamilton hosted Ross County, Inverness took on St Johnstone, Motherwell met Dundee and Hearts met Partick Thistle. | Sportscene features all of the weekend Scottish Premiership action in its new regular Sunday timeslot of 18:00 BST on BBC Two Scotland. |
27289398 | It is unclear how many people were involved in the attack, but one person was shot and then detained by police.
There is no information yet on the motivation for this attack, but it comes a week after an attack at a station in Urumqi, in the western region in Xinjiang.
It also follows an attack at Kunming station in March that killed 29 people.
Chinese authorities have blamed both these attacks on separatists from the Uighur minority group, which lives in Xinjiang.
Local media carried conflicting accounts on the number of people involved in Tuesday's attack, with some reporting four attackers, while others said there were two young men, one of whom managed to get away.
It was also unclear how the incident started. Guangzhou Daily quoted a store owner who said the suspects had waited by his shop for about two hours before they launched their attack.
But several eyewitnesses told Guangzhou Journal that the attack began shortly after a train from Kunming arrived at the station. They said that among the disembarking passengers was a group of young men clad in white clothes and wearing white caps, holding large knives.
China News spoke to a woman from Inner Mongolia who was among those attacked.
Ms Liu Yuying had just arrived at Guangzhou railway station and was taking pictures in the plaza outside when two men rushed towards them wielding knives. She injured her leg when she fell while trying to flee.
Two other people from her tour group, believed to be brother and sister, were slashed, she said.
In a statement on the public security bureau's official microblog, police said they arrived at the station at 11:30 on Tuesday.
They shot a male suspect armed with a knife after he failed to heed warnings, they said.
The six injured people had been taken to hospital for further treatment, they said, and further investigations were underway.
This is the third attack on a public transport hub in China in three months. Officials say Uighur extremists from the Xinjiang region carried out the attacks in Urumqi and Kunming.
Xinjiang has seen a long history of discord between Chinese authorities and the minority Uighurs, including bloody ethnic riots in 2009 that left about 200 people dead.
The Uighurs, who are ethnically Turkic Muslims, say that large-scale Han Chinese immigration has eroded their traditional culture. Beijing, meanwhile, says it has invested heavily in the region to improve people's lives. | At least six people have been injured in a knife attack at a station in Guangzhou, Chinese officials say. |
36551127 | The job cuts are the latest to hit the workforce in Motherwell, which has more than halved since a peak of 630 employees in 2009/10.
Management at Terex Trucks blamed market conditions and a downturn in global demand.
The company produces articulated and rigid trucks which serve industries such as construction and mining.
In the latest round of cuts, subject to a statutory consultation period, 55 jobs on the shop floor will go, along with 10 administrative positions, leaving a staff of 300.
The firm started producing trucks in Motherwell in 1950 and was acquired by Volvo in 2014.
GMB Scotland organiser Alan Ritchie said: "These latest cuts mean more manufacturing misery for Lanarkshire and the Scottish economy, coming less than 24 hours after grim growth forecasts and the threat of a Scottish recession.
"Generations of Terex workers have delivered decades of world-class manufacturing here in Motherwell but, as we've seen at the likes of Tannoy in Coatbridge, a proud history counts for absolutely nothing.
"Let's be clear that Scottish manufacturing is in total freefall and our slide towards a low-skill, low-wage economy gathers apace without any meaningful intervention from the Scottish or UK governments." | A dumper truck manufacturer has announced a further 65 redundancies at its North Lanarkshire base. |
40510652 | The 22-year-old has made 32 appearances for the Saints since coming through the club's youth system and has become the Canaries' fifth signing of the summer.
"From the outside, it's a massive club pushing to get back to the Premier League," Reed told the club website.
"The philosophy here suits me down to the ground, so I'm really excited and very happy it's done."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Championship side Norwich City have signed Southampton midfielder Harrison Reed on a season-long loan deal. |
37328449 | Cox, who took T38 100m athletics bronze on Friday, won the C4-5 time trial as Dame Sarah Storey finished fourth.
Her success came shortly after GB's Hannah Cockroft retained her T34 100m title and 15-year-old team-mate Kare Adenegan took silver.
Britain have won 35 medals in Rio, including 15 golds.
Cox told Channel 4: "I can't believe it. I'm over the moon. I have only been doing it a year and a half and being on top of the world is amazing."
Earlier, Andy Lewis won GB's first gold of the day with victory in the PT2 Para-triathlon.
Sabrina Fortune claimed women's F20 shot put bronze, while swimmer Alice Tai took bronze in the women's S10 100m backstroke.
Toby Gold won silver and compatriot Andy Small bronze in the men's T33 100m as Britain secured eight medals on the third day.
Isabel Barr was the last Briton to win a Paralympic medal in two sports at the same event with medals in the shooting and athletics at Seoul 1988.
Cox was only 16 months old when Storey won her first Paralympic medal at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, where she competed as a swimmer.
Cox had a stroke aged 23, which led to her being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Storey, a 12-time gold medallist who won the C4-5 time trial at London 2012, completed the 500m race in 37.068 seconds to take the lead.
However, Cox triumphed in 34.598 seconds, with China's Zhou Jufang taking silver in 36.004 and compatriot Ruan Jianping bronze in 36.557.
Cox said: "I have worked so hard, my legs were tired and I was mentally exhausted from yesterday."
Storey said: "I'm a pursuiter - it should be a sprinter winning it.
"Fourth is the worst place to be, but even if I'd gone as quick as I did in London I'd still have been fourth."
BBC Sport's Elizabeth Hudson in Rio
"This was always the race which would be the toughest part of Dame Sarah Storey's Rio programme.
"Most of her training is focused on road racing so going from that to the minimum distance was always going to be a challenge.
"Kadeena Cox was favourite for gold and she delivered in style with a new world record to follow her athletics bronze on Friday night."
Adenegan, 15, is the youngest athlete in the Great Britain team and is the only racer to have beaten Cockroft during her four-year dominance in the T34 category.
The pair were almost level for the first 40m on Saturday, before Cockroft powered through to finish in 17.42 seconds, a Paralympic record.
Adenegan, who took up the sport after watching the London Paralympics, finished in a personal best 18.29 seconds.
"The 100m is my favourite event, my strongest. I'm a little upset with the time," Cockroft told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I was going for the world record all season. I was a tenth of a second away from it. But I came for the gold, and I've got the gold."
Fortune, 19, earlier threw a career-best 12.94m to take bronze in the women's F20 shot put.
"I came here for a personal best - I didn't think I'd get a medal as well," she said.
Richard Whitehead, 40, set a Paralympic record of 23.07 seconds to qualify for Sunday's T42 200m final.
Graeme Ballard was fifth in the T36 100m final, with Mohamad Ridzuan Mohamad Puzi of Malaysia winning gold in 12.07 seconds, after Ukrainian favourite Roman Palvyk was disqualified for a false start.
Earlier, Lewis secured PT2 gold as triathlon made its Paralympics debut.
The 33-year-old, who had his right leg amputated aged 22, finished in one hour 11 minutes 49 seconds.
"It brings tears to my eyes that I'll be able to tell my kids that I won this gold medal," said Lewis. "Perhaps I'll have my first beer in two years now."
In the PT4 event, George Peasgood finished seventh and Great Britain team-mate David Hill 10th.
In the pool, Ellie Robinson - the S6 50m butterfly gold medallist - finished fourth and four-time Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds sixth in the S6 50m freestyle, won by Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko.
Both Britons have restricted growth and it was Simmonds' performances at London 2012 that encouraged Robinson, now 15, to begin competing.
Tai took bronze in the women's S10 100m backstroke, four years after she was selected as a torchbearer at the London Games.
Tai, who was born with a club foot, finished in one minute 9.39 seconds as New Zealand's Sophie Pascoe won gold.
Paralympic veteran Sascha Kindred was sixth in the men's S5 50m freestyle and Andrew Mullen finished fourth in the men's S5 50m butterfly.
Just 24 hours after India won their first Paralympic gold medal since 2004, local government officials celebrated the achievement by handing out cash prizes.
Men's T42 high jumpers Mariyappan Thangavelu and Varun Singh Bhati won gold and bronze respectively and received approximately £225,000 from the Tamil Nadu government.
India, the world's second most populous nation, has the worst Olympic record in terms of medals per head and they won just one silver and one bronze in Brazil.
Therefore, the achievements of Thangavelu and Bhati have been widely celebrated.
Elsewhere, Slovakia's Darko Duric entertained the crowd in the aquatics centre after he forgot to take the headphones off the top of his cap before his 50m butterfly S5 race.
Also in the pool, Ukrainian Maksym Krypak broke the world record in the men's S10 100m backstroke with a time of 57.24 seconds.
12:30 BST - Single sculls rowers Rachel Morris & Tom Aggar are GB's strongest gold contenders in day four's rowing
14:00-15:20 - Lauren Steadman, Clare Cunningham and Faye McClelland in the PT4 women's para-triathlon, before Alison Patrick and guide Hazel Smith go in the PT5.
14:52 - Rhys Jones in the men's T37 100m final
15:00 - Wheelchair tennis with Wimbledon champion Gordon Reid among the Brits in action in singles and doubles
15:00 - Table tennis men's and women's semi-finals begin, with plenty of GB action including Susan Gilroy in her fifth Games
15:12 - Men's and women's S8 100m freestyle heats with gold medallist Ollie Hynd, Josef Craig, Stephanie Millward and Stephanie Slater
15:25 - Favourites Neil Fachie and pilot Pete Mitchell go in the men's tandem B 1000m time trial
15:35 - Men's T53 400m final with GB's Moatez Jomni
15:40 - Men's F41 javelin final with GB's Kyron Duke
16:15 - Sophie Thornhill and Helen Scott and Lora Turnham and Corinne Hall in the women's tandem B 3km pursuit final
16:15 - GB v Germany in men's wheelchair basketball group B preliminary
16:42 - Jody Cundy, Jon Allan-Butterworth and Louis Rolfe in men's mixed team sprint C1-5 final
18:00 - ParalympicsGB flagbearer Lee Pearson in equestrian action
21:30 - Sammi Kinghorn in women's T53 400m final
21:33 - World champion Jo Butterfield in F51 club throw final
21:37 - USA star Tatyana McFadden goes for the first of six golds in the women's T54 400m
21:53 - Amy Marren, 18, appears in the SM9 200m individual medley final
22:09 - Becky Redfern makes her Paralympics debut in the SB13 100m breaststroke final
22:28 - Women's T38 long jump final with Olivia Breen
22:29-22:37 - Defending champion Jessica-Jane Applegate and Bethany Firth go head-to-head in the S14 200m freestyle final, with Tom Hamer in the men's final
22:56 - Polly Maton, 16, goes in the women's T47 100 final
23:32 - Richard Whitehead defends his men's T42 200m title after breaking the Paralympic record in heats | Kadeena Cox became the first Briton since 1988 to win a medal in two sports at the same Paralympics as she took cycling gold in Rio. |
39174190 | Charteris missed the first two matches against Italy and England with a broken hand but was a second-half replacement in the 29-13 defeat in Scotland.
After starting for Bath in their 24-3 defeat by Wasps on Saturday, Charteris believes he is ready to face Ireland in Cardiff six days later.
"I feel good and would give it a go," the Bath lock said.
Scarlets second-row Jake Ball has partnered captain Alun Wyn Jones in the first three games.
Charteris, who will celebrate his 34th birthday on Thursday, played just under an hour in Bath's defeat against Premiership leaders Wasps at the Rec.
"It was a fast paced game," he said.
"It was good to get a run out, it has been a stop start season so far.
"The hand felt good, which was the main thing. I might have been back sooner but I managed to pull my hamstring in training.
"I am fully over that now with two games under my belt.
"Hopefully it will be good to finish the season, stay injury free and play some rugby."
Fellow Welsh forward Taulupe Faletau also played 80 minutes for Bath and is battling for a starting spot in the back-row after recovering from a knee problem.
"It is good to see him back," added Charteris.
"He is a quality player and you can see when he gets his hands on the ball he is such a threat." | Wales second-row Luke Charteris says he is ready start in their Six Nations match against Ireland on Friday. |
28324408 | Patrick McLoughlin's suggestion comes after Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe called for offenders to get six points on their licence.
The increased sanctions would mean a driver could get banned if they got caught twice in three years.
A government spokesman said it was "considering a number of options".
It has been illegal to use a mobile phone while driving since December 2003.
As it stands offenders get three points on their licence and an initial £100 fine, which could increase to a £1,000 fine should the case go to court.
Mr McLoughlin's suggestion was made during a lunchtime briefing with journalists on Tuesday.
The Daily Mail reported that he said: "We've got to change this. I want to alert people to what they are doing.
"The person who is using their phone doesn't realise the damage or the danger that they could be in, so it ends up ruining different people's lives."
Figures released by the Department for Transport show that in 2012 there were 17 fatal accidents involving mobile phones and a further 67 "serious accidents".
Home Office figures show that in 2012 in England and Wales more than 92,500 fixed penalty notices were issued for using a handheld mobile phone while driving, which is a fall of 32% on 2011 when more than 123,000 notices were issued.
Julie Townsend, deputy chief executive of road safety charity Brake, said she would welcome the proposal should it ever become legislation.
She said: "We hope the government will implement it. Brake has long campaigned for tougher penalties for mobile phone use at the wheel because of the suffering we see the bereaved and injured victims of road crashes put through as the result of such a senseless and unnecessary risk."
A Department for Transport spokesman said: "Using a mobile phone while driving is extremely dangerous which is why we are considering a number of options to deter drivers."
In August 2013 the department increased the initial fine drivers received for getting caught using their phone from £60 to £100.
Shadow transport secretary Mary Creagh said: "Sadly under this government we have seen the first increase in motorway deaths in nearly a decade.
"Using your phone while driving is illegal and Labour will be pressing the government to take firm action to prevent these avoidable deaths."
Last week research by the motoring group the RAC suggested that a fifth of motorists did not know it was illegal to check social media websites on a phone while driving. | The penalty for using a mobile phone while driving could be doubled from the current three points, the transport secretary has suggested. |
39320619 | The man told the woman he had spotted a leak in her bathroom while working on the roof of her block of flats in Summerston.
She allowed him into a flat where he stole a five-figure sum of money before fleeing.
The robbery happened in Rothes Drive at about 13:00 on Thursday.
Police said the pensioner was not injured during the incident but was "extremely upset".
The suspect is described as white, between 40 and 50 years old, 5ft 8in tall and of medium build. He was clean-shaven and was wearing a beige jacket.
Det Con Gary Boyle, of Maryhill CID, appealed for witnesses, saying: "Although the lady involved may not have been physically injured during incident, she is extremely upset about what happened and very saddened by the fact that someone she thought was there to help her has taken advantage of her and stolen her life savings.
"We do not think the lady was specifically targeted, we believe it was more opportunistic, and so would ask if anyone in the area has, in the last few days, been approached in the same manner by a man fitting the description.
"If you have any information that will assist officers with their enquiries, then please contact Maryhill CID via 101." | A bogus workman stole an 80-year-old woman's life savings after conning his way into her house in Glasgow. |
36423145 | In 1961 Antonio Imbert Barrera was a senior official in the government of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and plotted with 10 others to assassinate him.
President Trujillo's death ended 31 years of bloody dictatorship.
Only Imbert and one other survived the aftermath.
Read: 'I shot the cruellest dictator in the Americas'
Imbert, who was 93 when he died, also took part in a US-backed coup in 1963 against the leftist President Juan Bosch.
He later formed part of a military junta established after the coup and was declared president in 1965.
He also helped fight off the insurrection which aimed at returning Juan Bosch to power, which eventually sparked a US invasion.
Imbert was himself shot by followers of Trujillo in 1967, but survived. | The Dominican Republic has declared three days of mourning after the death of the last survivor of a group who toppled the Trujillo dictatorship. |
37255940 | Dyma i chi 'chydig o help gan Cymru Fyw a'r swyddfa Ystadegau (ONS).
Hon yw'r rhestr ddiweddara' o'r enwau mwyaf poblogaidd, o darddiad Cymreig, gafodd eu cofrestru y llynedd (2015) yng Nghymru.
1) Dylan 163 (1)
2) Osian 127 (3)
3) Harri 120 (2)
4) Jac 97 (6)
5) Rhys 95 (4)
6) Evan 92 (5)
7) Tomos 76 (8)
8) Cai 70 (9)
9) Ioan 68 (10)
10) Morgan 67 (7)
Does yna ddim newid i'r rhestr o ran enwau newydd, ond mae'r drefn wedi newid rhywfaint. Mae Osian yn cynyddu mewn poblogrwydd eto eleni, tra bod Morgan wedi disgyn lawr i'r degfed safle.
1) Seren 119 (1)
2) Ffion 105 (4)
3) Erin 101 (3)
4) Megan 91 (2)
5) Mali 64 (5)
6) Nia 48 (-)
7) Alys 47 (7)
8) Carys 44 (-)
9) Efa 43 (-)
10) Cadi 37 (6)
Mae Seren yn serennu eto ar ôl dod i'r brig y llynedd. Mae Nia, Carys ac Efa yn codi i'r 10 uchaf. Yn 2014, Elin, Lois a Lili oedd yr enwau poblogaidd eraill yn y 10 uchaf. | Wrth i 2016 ddirwyn i ben ydych chi'n chwilio am enwau addas ar gyfer eich plentyn? |
35768096 | Watson, 23, was back in action for the first time since claiming her third WTA title at the Monterrey Open on Sunday.
The world number 53 won the first set on a tie-break before her Kazakh opponent levelled the match, but Watson hit back to win 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 6-1.
"When it was important, I was able to bring out my best tennis," Watson said.
Watson, who was granted a wildcard after reaching the fourth round last year, plays Romanian 32nd seed Monica Niculescu in round two. | British number two Heather Watson reached the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells with a three-set win over Galina Voskoboeva. |
40976057 | The Department of Finance has asked departments to outline what reductions to their revenue would look like if a 4%, 8%, or 12% cut was implemented.
Officials have said it is an "information-gathering exercise".
Any decisions will be made by a new Northern Ireland Executive or by direct rule ministers.
Northern Ireland has effectively been without a devolved government since January.
Its institutions collapsed amid a bitter row between the DUP and Sinn Féin about a botched green energy scheme.
Subsequent talks failed to reach an agreement.
Health and social welfare is exempt from the cuts scoping exercise, while some aspects of policing and education will be protected under the terms of the Fresh Start Agreement of November 2015.
The Department of Finance said the exercise will help to plan the revenue budgets up until 2019-2020, but that the capital budget is increasing in real terms and will be unaffected by the cuts scenarios.
A Department of Finance spokesperson said: "Under normal processes, at this time of the year NI Civil Service departments begin budget planning for the next financial year.
"The Department of Finance has commissioned an information-gathering exercise to collect the necessary data that will allow a future executive to make key, informed decisions on a budget for 2018-19 and beyond.
"This process is for information-gathering purposes only, covering a number of scenarios for non-protected areas. It will be for an incoming executive to make decisions about funding levels and final budgets.
"Similar to previous budgets, it is proposed to provide full protection from reductions for health and welfare reform with some protection for education and PSNI budgets." | Northern Ireland's government departments have been asked to identify potential cuts of between 4% to 12% ahead of the next budget. |
36407643 | The boy climbed through a barrier and fell into a moat, where he was grabbed and dragged by the gorilla.
The zoo said it took action to shoot the 400lb (180kg) gorilla as the situation was "life-threatening". The boy is expected to recover.
Last week two lions were shot dead in a zoo in Chile after a man entered their pen in an apparent suicide attempt.
Cincinnati zoo has temporarily shut its gorilla exhibit following the incident on Saturday.
The boy had fallen about 10ft into the moat. Video shows the boy being dragged through the shallow moat. The gorilla then stops, with the child below him and looking up at him.
But the boy was reportedly dragged by the 17-year-old male western lowland gorilla named Harambe for about 10 minutes.
The child was taken to a local hospital and although no information about his condition has been released it is believed he will recover.
Zoo director Thane Maynard said: "[The officials] made a tough choice and they made the right choice because they saved that little boy's life. It could have been very bad."
He said a tranquilliser would not have had a quick enough effect.
Mr Maynard said that although the boy was not under attack, he "certainly was at risk".
He added: "We are all devastated that this tragic accident resulted in the death of a critically-endangered gorilla. This is a huge loss for the zoo family and the gorilla population worldwide."
Two female gorillas in the enclosure did not approach the child and were unharmed.
Harambe was born in captivity in Texas and moved to Cincinnati zoo in 2014, where it was hoped he could be part of a breeding programme. Cincinnati zoo has had the largest number of western lowland gorilla births in the US.
In a similar incident in 1986 on the island of Jersey, a Crown dependency of the UK, a five-year-old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure.
He lost consciousness and a silverback gorilla called Jambo famously stood guard over him, protecting him from other gorillas and stroking his back. When the boy came round he started to cry and the gorillas retreated, allowing keepers to rescue the child, Levan Merritt.
A life-sized statue of Jambo fetched £18,000 ($26,000) at auction and he even appeared on Jersey stamps.
The western lowland subspecies inhabits west African rainforests and is the most numerous, although exact figures are not known. There are more than 500 in zoos worldwide.
The shooting of the lions last week in Santiago, Chile, brought criticism from activists. Zoo officials said no fast-activating tranquillisers were available.
The man had jumped into the enclosure and stripped naked. | Zoo officials have shot dead a gorilla after a four-year-old boy fell into its enclosure in the US city of Cincinnati. |
38351557 | The unnamed female calf was born to 12-year-old mother Sundara after a 22-month gestation.
Keepers at the zoo said both mother and daughter were doing well and visitors would be able to see the new arrival.
The calf is the 19th elephant to be born at Chester Zoo in its 85-year history, with five, including the new calf, part of the same family.
Richard Fraser, assistant team manager of elephants at the zoo, said: "As soon as Sundara began showing early signs of labour, you could see the rest of the family knew something special was about to happen.
"She delivered her calf on to soft sand with all the family gathered around.
"Sundara then gave her a series of little kicks to gently stimulate and encourage her to her feet.
"Minutes later, the new arrival was up and standing and making her first attempts to suckle."
Elephants are born into captivity in the UK only once or twice a year, and Asian elephants are listed as endangered.
Living to about 50 to 60 years old, there are between 35,000 and 40,000 in the wild and managed breeding programmes. | An Asian elephant has been born at Chester Zoo, increasing its herd to seven. |
20399401 | Chris Grayling said the plan would be co-ordinated by private and voluntary sector groups who would be paid if re-offending was reduced.
The mentors would help with finding housing and training opportunities.
Probation officers welcomed the idea but expressed doubt about whether enough mentors could be found.
Almost half of adult prisoners are re-convicted within a year of release and, like his predecessor Ken Clarke, Mr Grayling has made tackling reoffending a priority as justice secretary.
In his speech on Tuesday, Mr Grayling said he would be expanding the government's use of payment-by-results to organisations which delivered cuts in reoffending.
Only those who are jailed for more than a year are currently provided with opportunities to join rehabilitation programmes. The government says it wants all but the highest-risk prisoners to be in programmes by the end of 2015.
Mr Grayling said: "When all we do is just take those people, release them onto the streets with £46 in their pockets and no other support, why are we surprised that they reoffend again quickly?
"Whether you are the hardest of hard-liners on crime, or the most liberal observer, every single one of us has a vested interest in an enlightened approach to reducing reoffending. We can't just keep recycling people round and round the system.
Having a mentor meant that when I got released I knew I had someone to talk to and tell how I felt. He was an ex-prisoner, so he has been through the system himself. He knows what it's like and he knows the struggles.
Having someone can show a way to avoid stepping back into the old cycle of going back to committing crimes. It can be really tempting. When you come out there are two roads - the proper road, where you will struggle at first, or you can commit crimes. If you get away with crimes you can afford food and housing. If you don't get away with it you'll get those things supplied anyway because you'll be in prison.
It definitely made a difference for me because I looked at my mentor's life, saw how good their life was and thought that if I took their advice my life could be similar.
"When someone leaves prison, I want them already to have a mentor in place to help them get their lives back together. I want them to be met at the prison gate, to have a place to live sorted out and above all someone who know where they are, what they are doing, and can be a wise friend to prevent them from reoffending.
"Often it will be the former offender gone straight who is best placed to steer the young prisoner back onto the straight and narrow - the former gang member best placed to prevent younger members from rushing straight back to rejoin the gang on the streets.
"There are some really good examples out there of organisations making good use of the old lags in stopping the new ones. We need more of that for the future."
Mr Grayling said he had also launched a review of youth custody because the average cost of £100,000 per detained offender was a "bad return on investment". He said the review would focus on how to better educate and rehabilitate young offenders, rather than just locking them up.
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said that Labour supported attempts to rehabilitate offenders - but said the government's numbers did not add up, because the Ministry of Justice was losing a quarter of its budget and thousands of staff.
"If Chris Grayling is proposing to include an additional 50,000 jail-leavers in rehabilitation programmes and to have an army of more than 60,000 mentors, then he needs to come clean about how this will be funded.
"If it means that resources for existing rehabilitation programmes are going to be cut further or spread more thinly to pay for it, the fear is under-resourced rehabilitation programmes won't be effective in stopping jail-leavers from returning to a life of crime."
Just over 86,000 people left jail in the 12 months to June 2012. Four out of 10 prisoners serve sentences of six months or less. Harry Fletcher, of the National Association of Probation Officers, said the idea of mentors was "excellent" but he thought it would never happen because so many prisoners were released every year.
"You'd need an army of volunteers or employees of private companies to do it properly," he said.
Others fear reform of the probation service is happening too fast.
Sue Hall, from the Probation Chiefs' Association, said: "If payment by results is to be brought in for rehabilitation by 2015, that's a very tall order and any change that is coming in as quickly as that does run a risk of destabilising the system and if that happens then people could be at risk." | Every prisoner released in England and Wales should have a mentor to help get his or her life back on track, the justice secretary says. |
34677211 | Founded in 1965 as a left-wing Muslim group, it staunchly opposed the Shah of Iran and was involved in the protests that led to his downfall and the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
It initially endorsed the republic's founder Ayatollah Khomeini but, after its leader Massoud Rajavi was barred from standing in the first presidential election, the MEK turned against the government.
It launched an armed struggle to topple the Islamic Republic, claiming responsibility for the assassination of several high-profile figures.
The authorities launched a bloody purge of supporters of the MEK, also known as the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), and Mr Rajavi fled to Paris.
He later relocated to Camp Ashraf in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, near the Iranian border, with most of his followers. There the movement steadily acquired the characteristics of a cult, with veneration of Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam.
During the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the MEK carried out several armed attacks on Iran in coordination with Saddam's army, losing much of its domestic support in the process.
The MEK's relations with the West have been complex. The United States and European Union listed the group as a terrorist organisation during the pro-reform presidency of Iran's Mohammad Khatami, only to reverse the decision under his hardline successor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The MEK scored a propaganda coup in 2002, when it revealed the existence of Iran's major nuclear facilities. This led to a long standoff between the Islamic Republic and the West.
In post-Saddam Iraq the group disarmed and eventually relocated to Camp Liberty, a former US military base near Baghdad, fearing for the safety of its members under Iraq's Shia-dominated government.
There are estimated to be over 2,000 followers in the camp, while the MEK's leaders are based in France. They refer to Maryam Rajavi as "Iran's president in exile". Massoud Rajavi himself has not been seen in public for years.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | The Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) is an exiled opposition group that backs the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. |
35794869 | Van Niekerk ran 100m in 9.98 seconds in Bloemfontein on Saturday to add to his 19.94 personal best over 200m and 400m world title-winning 43.48.
The 23-year-old was helped by a legal 1.5m/sec tailwind and 1,300m altitude.
"Wow! Finally reaching my dream of sub 10," Van Niekerk wrote on Instagram alongside a video of the race.
Former world and Olympic 200m and 400m champion Michael Johnson wrote on Twitter: "Sub 10, sub 20, sub 44. That's crazy. Great things could be ahead."
Van Niekerk will only run the 400m at the Olympics in Rio this summer. | South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk has become the first athlete to run under 10 seconds for the 100m, 20 seconds for the 200m and 44 seconds for 400m. |
38961615 | Jordan Matthews admits manslaughter, but denies the murder of Xixi Bi, 24, at their flat in Llandaff, Cardiff.
Mr Matthews told Cardiff Crown Court he had planned to marry Miss Bi.
He told defence barrister Christopher Henley QC he had "never laid a hand on Xixi Bi, not on purpose".
Mr Matthews accepted he was smoking "quite a lot" of cannabis at the time, and the court heard he felt "insecure" when his girlfriend went to visit her family in China.
He said he became "paranoid" about Miss Bi being unfaithful to him, and believed at the time she had received a message from someone called "Ben" on the Tinder dating app.
Both prosecution and the defence agreed that Miss Bi did not have the Tinder app, nor any contact called "Ben".
The defendant said he had picked Miss Bi up from a sofa and threw her against a door frame. She crashed into a chest of drawers and, when she swore at him in response, he had punched her.
Mr Henley showed Mr Matthews charts of Miss Bi's extensive injuries, including a broken jaw and ribs.
Asked if he used a weapon, Mr Matthews said: "No sir, I would never use a weapon against anyone in any fight, especially not my girlfriend.
"It's taken the best thing in my life away from me."
In cross-examination, prosecutor Paul Lewis QC asked Mr Matthews if he was a jealous man.
Twice, Mr Lewis said: "You beat her to death, didn't you?"
Matthews replied: "I didn't intend to. It was an accident."
The trial continues. | A 24-year-old man accused of murdering his girlfriend by beating her to death has told a jury it was "an accident" and he did not mean to cause her serious harm. |
33252258 | Sion Davies, 25, died after being shot with the weapon and falling from a third floor balcony at a flat at Caia Park in October, 2014.
Lee Roberts, 33, and Anthony Munkley, known as Charlie, 53, were jailed for life at Mold Crown Court on Thursday.
The judge, Mr Justice Wyn Williams, said it was a punishment murder over a drugs debt.
Munkley was given a concurrent eight-year sentence for drugs offences and Roberts got four years.
Munkley's wife, Gwenythe, 55, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice after helping her husband to evade arrest.
Her sentencing was adjourned for pre-sentence reports and she was bailed.
All three defendants were also found guilty of conspiring to supply drugs, although Munkley admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis.
Evidence from Mr Davies's mobile phone was used to convict the men, which had recorded footage of the attack on it.
It proved Munkley was at the flat and had not disappeared as he had claimed when a "mystery Geordie man" carried out the murder.
The court heard Mr Davies suffered "horrific" injuries in the attack and subsequent fall.
A statement from Mr Davies's family said: "We are still completely devastated at the loss of Sion and still can't believe this is real.
"Regardless of the circumstances of his death, Sion was a caring, loving son, brother and partner and we are lost without him." | Two men have been jailed for at least 28 years for murdering a Wrexham man with a crossbow. |
40428988 | Formerly the Kintyre Course, it has been redesigned and upgraded and forms the second course to the Ailsa.
Bruce, best remembered for his victory at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, was brought up at Turnberry Castle.
Eric and his brother Donald Trump Junior have been running The Trump Corporation since their father stepped down after being elected US president.
The King Robert the Bruce course has been designed by Martin Ebert, who was also responsible for the changes to the Championship Ailsa Course, which officially reopened in June 2016.
Eric Trump said: "To know that the King of Scotland, Robert the Bruce, was born here at Turnberry Castle is something we're incredibly proud of; therefore, it made sense to name this new course after a legendary Scottish Warrior.
He described Mr Ebert as an "exceptional architect with tremendous vision".
"The final product will be a course which, similar to its famous counterpart, will sit among the ranks of the top courses anywhere in the world," he said.
Mr Ebert said it had been an honour to create "what will certainly be one of the top courses in Scotland and the UK".
He said: "The location of the links at Turnberry, right on such a tremendously rugged coastline, really elevates the playing experience for the golfer and heightens the challenges laid out in front of them.
"As well as creating some spectacular golf holes, we've also introduced an ecologically diverse wetland area between the 5th and 13th holes which will become a haven for wildlife as it matures.
"The wetland will also provide a beautiful visual feature as well as offering a strategic playing challenge for both holes." | Donald Trump's son, Eric, has opened the King Robert the Bruce golf course at Turnberry in South Ayrshire. |
32115595 | Pte Shaun Cole, 22, from Edinburgh, was attending the Ultra Music festival in Miami with two friends.
Local media has reported that he died as a result of a head injury and his body was found on a pavement. He was serving with the Royal Scots Borderers.
Pte Cole's family described him as "an extremely popular young man" with "a flair for life". They said his life has been "taken from him too soon".
In a statement, released by the Army, his family said: "It comes with such regret that we have had to say goodbye to an amazing son, brother, grandson, nephew and friend.
"An extremely popular young man, he had a flair for life and was always the life and soul of everyone he was around. He was an incredible young man who had his life taken from him too soon. We ask everyone to respect our privacy to grieve. "
Police in America said the former Tynecastle High School pupil had a blunt force trauma to the head, and they were still trying to establish whether his death was an accident or murder.
Pte Cole had recently returned from serving in Sierra Leone, where he was helping with the fight against Ebola.
Commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Matt Munro said Pte Cole would be "missed terribly".
He said: "The men and women of 1 SCOTS are shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the death of Private Shaun Cole."
"Only recently back from helping to battle the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone and a veteran of the conflict in Afghanistan, Shaun achieved an extraordinary amount in a military career that was full of promise but was tragically cut short. We will miss him terribly.
"Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with Shaun's family at this desperately difficult time."
Tom Rae, head teacher at Tynecastle High School, said: "Shaun is remembered fondly as a helpful, pleasant and hard-working student.
"He had a good sense of humour and was popular with his peers, the staff and was a real team player."
Jamie Lothian, who is understood to have been on the music festival trip with Mr Cole, wrote on Facebook from Fort Lauderdale: "It is killing me inside to write this but I still can't get my head around any of it.
"I've not only lost one of my best friends but a brother and there is not a moment for the rest of my life that I'll never stop thinking about you bro! Thanks everyone for the support." | A Scottish soldier has died while on holiday in Florida. |
40265130 | They defeated Venezuela 1-0 last Sunday to win the Under-20 World Cup.
And Abraham - a former under-19 international - said: "They did the country so proud and we would love to follow in their footsteps.
"We want to show we are the next up-and-coming players for the England squad, so there is a bit of pressure."
Abraham, who is back at Chelsea after scoring 26 goals for Bristol City last season, is 19 and was eligible for the under-20 team but was selected in the under-21 squad by Aidy Boothroyd.
"It's bittersweet," added the striker, who played at the Under-19 European Championship in 2016.
"It's a great achievement. I'm sure they're proud of themselves.
"The whole country is proud of them. They deserved to win it. But I'm here to win the Euros and we've got a lot of good players, so we're in with a chance.
"It's massively inspiring. We're going into a massive tournament now with the under-21s and it would be nice to end it on a blast. The boys are confident."
Nathan Redmond, who is back with the under-21s after making his senior England debut against Germany in March, revealed the players have been relaxing by watching dating show Love Island.
"I managed to get it on the laptop so a few of the boys were round watching it," said the 23-year-old Southampton forward.
"It's another thing which keeps everyone together.
"We have games rooms and a lot of stuff to keep us occupied. A lot of the boys appreciate the downtime and chilling out. When you've got time to take your mind off football, you take it."
The under-21 tournament is held every two years and this year's finals have been expanded to 12 teams, split into three groups of four. The group winners and the best-placed runner-up will progress to the semi-final stage.
Six venues will be used for the 15-day tournament, which will conclude with the final in Krakow on 30 June.
England's match at the Kielce City Stadion in Poland is the opening game of the tournament and kicks off at 17:00 BST.
Boothroyd's team qualified by winning a group that included Norway and Switzerland.
However, the under-21s have disappointed since reaching the final back in 2009, failing to qualify from their group in 2011, 2013 and 2015. In fact, they have won just one game at the finals over the past three tournaments.
This year, watch out for Spain's Marco Asensio, who scored for Real Madrid in their recent Champions League final win over Juventus, while Portugal have Renato Sanches - named young player of the tournament at Euro 2016 - in their squad.
BBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter Ian Dennis: "England are not regarded as one of the favourites but Boothroyd will be aiming - at the very least - for his team to reach the knockout stages of this expanded tournament.
"I spoke to him recently and we discussed their match against Sweden, who are the defending champions. Understandably, he described as them a "difficult team" and it is worth noting Sweden finished above Spain in qualifying. Their goals were shared among 15 different players.
"The focus for now is purely to get out of the group and it's important England start well.
"Boothroyd told me 'it's a lot easier if you get some points on the board from your opening game' but England have not won their first fixture in the past three Euros.
"The fancied sides? Spain, Germany and Italy are right up there."
By Ian Dennis
Jordan Pickford: Everton-bound, outstanding for Sunderland and another opportunity to showcase his talents on the European stage. Last summer he was part of the team that won the Toulon tournament.
Nathaniel Chalobah: At 22 this is a player who should be playing on a regular basis. Back in March, Gareth Southgate talked about the Chelsea man pushing for a defensive midfield role with the England senior team.
The England manager will be in Poland so it's a chance to catch his eye with options elsewhere limited.
Nathan Redmond: I was in the Czech Republic two years ago and he was England's best player in an otherwise disappointing campaign.
His game has improved since his switch from Norwich to Southampton and he has the potential to be one of the stars of the whole tournament. | England Under-21s open their Euro 2017 campaign against Sweden on Friday with striker Tammy Abraham hoping to emulate the success of the nation's under-20s. |
39513790 | The English pair, seeded seventh, lost 21-16 21-15 to unseeded Thai duo Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai in 34 minutes.
The Adcocks had led 8-5 early on but lost four consecutive points and never regained control of the tie.
They had been in fine form recently, reaching the semi-finals of the Indian Open last week. | Chris and Gabby Adcock were beaten in straight sets in the second round of the Malaysia Open mixed doubles. |
37177658 | The child, one of seven, was taken ill over Christmas 2015. Following her death her siblings were taken into care.
The Western Bay Safeguarding Children Board review did not suggest her death could have been prevented.
But, it added, "working practices have been modified".
Authors said lessons could be learned about communication between agencies like children's services, foster carers, schools and police.
A board spokesman stated: "The safeguarding of children remains an absolute priority for all of the board's member agencies.
"The board has ensured that all of the agencies involved have been made aware and that working practices have been modified accordingly to take account of the review's findings."
The review said other improvements included relocating social work teams into "multi-agency community hubs".
The Western Bay Safeguarding Children Board covers the three local authority areas of Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend. | A review into the death of a four-year-old girl from Bridgend who died of peritonitis has said her death "was not down to neglect". |
35194909 | Storm Frank is due to sweep in from Tuesday evening, with Cumbria and south and central Scotland at most risk.
December has already seen communities in Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire swamped by rising waters.
Prime Minister David Cameron has defended government spending on flood defences after the devastation across northern England.
There are already nine severe flood warnings - meaning "danger to life" - in England and Wales, mostly around York which was flooded on Saturday.
The Met Office issued amber weather warnings - meaning "be prepared" - for rain in Strathclyde; Central, Tayside and Fife; Dumfries, Galloway, Lothian and Borders; and North West England for Wednesday.
There are also yellow weather warnings - meaning "be aware" - for rain for the rest of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, North East England and Yorkshire and Humber.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency warned Storm Frank could bring further flooding to Scotland. Wales is also bracing itself for more rain.
Floods minister Rory Stewart told the BBC that the government would spend £2.3 billion on flood defences over six years.
"There are going to be different parts of the country where people are going to be pushing for bigger schemes," Mr Stewart said.
"We have to try to be fair, we're putting a lot of money into this and we're making sure we're spending it in the most cost effective way we can."
The government has ordered a major inspection into how it is planning to prevent floods in the future.
But the Labour Party's John McDonnell said that "a long term cross-party plan" was needed to help solve the issue of flooding and any review must include the views of experts on the ground.
Liberal Democrat party leader Tim Farron said extra funding was needed for flood defences, and said Prime Minister David Cameron needed to "show he cares about the North by following up his words with deeds".
Experts estimate the damage caused by flooding across northern England could cost more than £1.5 billion. | A fresh storm threatens to bring more flooding to parts of the UK. |
37719757 | The 21-year-old has scored five goals from nine Championship starts this season, including two against Nottingham Forest on Tuesday.
"I do believe in time he's going to be a bona fide Premier League player," Coyle told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"It's the likes of the Sam Gallaghers and Tommie Hobans that, as a manager, you'd be looking to invest in."
Gallagher made 18 top-flight appearances for Southampton in the 2013-14 campaign, 15 as a substitute, scoring in a victory over Norwich.
However, a serious knee injury halted his progress and he failed to score in 15 games on loan at MK Dons last season.
Asked if he would like to sign Gallagher permanently, Coyle said: "I'd love to - Tommy Hoban's another one I would love to.
"He's young and he's still got a lot to learn, but I try to speak to him each day to try and impart some experience that I've picked up over the years, some knowledge of playing in that area.
"He's willing to listen, he's willing to learn and it's showing." | Blackburn Rovers boss Owen Coyle says he "would love to" buy on-loan Southampton striker Sam Gallagher. |
19711026 | The German Medical Association (Bundesaerztekammer) said the proposal would undermine the safety mechanism provided by ethics committees, which do prior assessment of clinical trials.
The EU Commission wants a new EU draft regulation to take effect in 2016.
Bureaucracy is hampering human drug tests in Europe, the Commission argues.
After World War II Germany tightened up ethical standards in medicine, shocked by the abuses committed by Nazi doctors.
The new EU regulation would replace the 2001 Clinical Trials Directive.
Health Commissioner John Dalli, who presented the proposal on 17 July, said "800 million euros [£637m; $1.03bn] per year could be saved in regulatory costs and boost research and development in the EU, thus contributing to economic growth".
He insisted that patient safety would not be compromised.
The Commission says the current directive has been applied in diverse ways in the EU, leading to a big regulatory burden. That contributed to a 25% fall in the number of clinical trials conducted in Europe in 2007-2011, it says.
The new proposal cannot become law until EU health ministers - grouped in the EU Council - and European Parliament have approved it.
The Commission aims to make it easier to conduct multi-national clinical trials in Europe, by introducing one authorisation procedure, simplified reporting procedures and more transparency.
The proposal also calls for checks by Commission specialists on the conduct of clinical trials in the EU and other countries, to make sure the rules are properly supervised and enforced.
The news website Nature says the current directive has been criticised by many medical experts as excessively bureaucratic. They have also blamed the directive for the transfer of medical research to some non-EU countries where oversight of clinical trials is less strict.
German MPs are set to examine the new EU proposal this week.
The German Medical Association - the main ethical watchdog for doctors in Germany - says it wants the role of ethics committees in clinical trials to be made explicit in the EU proposal. It also says that rejection of a clinical trial by an ethics committee must mean that the trial is ruled out.
The proposal must also allow for member states to conduct their own checks in cases where a clinical trial is pioneered by one member state, the German doctors say.
The proposal also undermines German clinical trial safeguards for minors and for people incapable of giving consent, the association says. | German doctors have voiced concern about EU plans to speed up clinical drug trials and streamline testing procedures across the 27-nation bloc. |
33414591 | John Whittingdale told Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards it was "reasonable" S4C should make "the same kind of efficiency savings" asked of the BBC.
The warning came as the minister announced the BBC would foot the bill for free TV licences for people over the age of 75 from 2018.
Shadow Culture Secretary Chris Bryant denounced it as a "shabby little deal".
S4C receives the bulk of its money - £75m - from the BBC licence fee, with £7m from the UK government plus some commercial income.
Mr Bryant had warned in May that the Welsh channel could be "shrunk" as a result of pressure on the licence fee.
But in June, junior UK culture minister Ed Vaizey dismissed criticism of S4C's financial arrangements, saying the channel was "extremely generously funded". | Welsh TV channel S4C faces budget cuts similar to those faced by the BBC, the UK culture secretary has told MPs. |
33926342 | The two men were suspected members of Ansarullah Bangla Team, a militant group accused of links to previous attacks on bloggers, police said.
Mr Neel was hacked to death by a gang armed with machetes at his home in the capital Dhaka last week.
It was the fourth such killing of a secular blogger this year.
Police say the two men being held are key suspects in Mr Neel's murder.
Mr Neel's attackers had tricked their way into his home by saying they were looking to rent a flat.
Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government is indifferent to attacks on bloggers by Islamist militants.
In May, secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was killed by masked men with machetes in Sylhet. He was said to have received death threats from Islamist extremists.
In March, another blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was hacked to death in Dhaka. Blogger Avijit Roy, who courted controversy by championing atheism and also tackling issues such as homosexuality, was killed in Dhaka in February. | Bangladesh police say they have arrested two suspected members of a banned Islamist group over the killing of atheist blogger Niloy Neel. |
38448941 | Prosecutors said the trio made more than $4m by using information they obtained through hacking into some of the top law firms.
They profited by buying stock in firms imminently about to be acquired.
One of the defendants has been arrested while the other two are still at large.
Manhattan Attorney Preet Bharara warned the case should serve as a wake-up call for law firms who now have to worry about cyber fraud in addition to the threat posed by a rogue employee making money out of forthcoming mergers and acquisitions.
The three Chinese men have been charged with conspiracy, insider trading, wire fraud and computer intrusion.
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They are alleged to have made investments based on information obtained from hacking into unnamed law firms working on merger deals, by posing as information technology analysts. The trio are alleged to have targeted the email accounts of individual law firm partners.
One of the suspects, Iat Hong, from Macau, was arrested on Sunday in Hong Kong, police told the BBC. He attended a court hearing on Monday and is reported to be awaiting extradition. The others were named as Bo Zheng of Changsha, and Chin Hung of Macau.
Lawyers for the trio have not so far commented on the allegations against them.
Police in Macau told BBC Chinese said that they had "no record" of the US authorities asking for assistance to find the two missing defendants.
The suspects are accused of targeting at least seven New York law firms in their efforts to obtain information about forthcoming deals, The New York Times reported.
The newspaper said they were "extraordinarily active in pursuing information" and quotes the indictment against them as saying that, between March and September 2015, they "attempted to cause unauthorised access to the networks and servers of the targeted law firms on more than 100,000 occasions".
The indictment says that among the deals the trio are alleged to have profited from was the acquisition of e-commerce company Borderfree by Pitney Bowes Inc and Intel Corp's purchase of circuit manufacturer Altera Corp. Both were completed in 2015. | Three Chinese citizens accused of hacking into computers of American law firms advising on company mergers have been charged with multi-million dollar cyber fraud in New York. |
35814367 | Ben, from Sheffield, was 21 months old when he went missing after travelling to the Greek island of Kos in 1991
His mother Kerry has always maintained her son is alive and was probably abducted.
Dr Alan Billings, the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, said the search would be reviewed in October.
He said that by October if "all that could be done has been done" then it would be the end of the investigation.
Amongst other things the new money will help send officers from the South Yorkshire force to Kos.
Ben vanished on 24 July 1991, after travelling to Kos with his mother and grandparents who were renovating a farmhouse in the village of Iraklise.
A DNA test was carried out on a man in Cyprus in an attempt to establish if he could be the toddler, but proved negative in 2013.
In 2012, a police operation focused on a mound of earth and rubble close to where Ben was last seen, but no trace of him was found. | A police force has secured £450,000 from the Home Office to investigate the disappearance of toddler Ben Needham for another six months. |
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