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The Conservative peer became ill last month and spent 18 days in intensive care, he confirmed on Twitter. A spokeswoman said Lord Ashcroft was now recovering in the US and was "out of danger". The book, Call Me Dave, contains a series of allegations about the prime minister's student days. It includes claims of drug-taking and a club initiation ceremony, involving a dead pig, that Mr Cameron is said to have taken part in, but the book has been heavily criticised by allies of the prime minister. Sources have said Mr Cameron was never a member of the club in question, the Piers Gaveston Society, during his time at Oxford University. Lord Ashcroft suffered septic shock leading to renal and liver failure and heart damage, a report from Channel 5 TV in Belize reported. The report, which was played to guests at the launch event in London, said he had become unwell in Turkey on 22 September - where he had been visiting war graves to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign - the day after the Daily Mail started serialising the book. He later flew to Turks and Caicos but his condition deteriorated and on his arrival he was admitted to hospital before being rushed by air ambulance to the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Lord Ashcroft, who grew up in Belize, is said to be recovering in hospital in America. At the London book launch, a speech was read out on his behalf by publisher Iain Dale. "As you will have just seen, I have been a little preoccupied for the last four weeks," he said. "I haven't of course set foot in the UK since my illness but I am reliably informed that my book has caused a bit of a stir." The former Conservative Party chairman and donor has previously admitted to having personal "beef" with Mr Cameron after not being offered a major job in the coalition government. In the book, he says Mr Cameron had been aware of his non-domiciled tax status, which was heavily criticised by Labour, in 2009. But co-author Isabel Oakeshott has insisted the book was not motivated by revenge.

Lord Ashcroft has missed the UK launch party of the controversial book he co-authored about David Cameron, after suffering liver and kidney failure.

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The assets comprise properties, money from nearly 30 bank accounts and fine art belonging to Gioacchino Campolo. Dubbed the King of Videopoker, as he made his fortune by tampering with slot machines, Campolo was sentenced last year to 18 years in prison. Authorities have described the seizure as the largest ever from a criminal in Italian history. Campolo came by his fortune by altering slot machines in countless bars and cafes. In 2011, he was found guily of criminal association, usury and extortion. For 10 years he tampered with gambling machines, amassing millions in illegal profits, the BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome reports. Among the confiscated assets are more than 200 properties comprising homes, shops and land in Rome, Milan and Paris among other cities. Campolo also possessed more than 100 art works, including an original Salvador Dali. They are all now state property. The Italian fraudster is thought to have had strong links with one of the most powerful mafia networks in the southern region of Calabria, known as the 'Ndrangheta. Authorities say the criminal network helped him amass his fortune in return for sharing some of his profits. Italian police have hailed the assets seizure as a defining moment in its war against criminal networks. A police statement said that "taking on criminal fortunes means taking away prestige from the 'Ndrangheta within its own criminal environment". The 'Ndrangheta is estimated to have an annual turnover of tens of billions of euros, the AFP news agency reports. But, in 2010, the 'Ndrangheta suffered a major blow when police arrested more than 300 people suspected of belonging to the network following a sophisticated undercover operation.

Italian police have seized assets estimated to be worth about 330m euros (£253m) from a convicted businessman.

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Media playback is not supported on this device Former heavyweight world champion Haye, 36, made a series of graphic descriptions of hurting Bellew, with the BBBofC warning both fighters. Bellew, 34, stopped Haye in round 11, with the Londoner subsequently having surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon. "Some of the comments went too far," Haye told BBC Sport. It is expected that any sanctions against Haye will be announced after a BBBofC meeting on Wednesday. "If I have to pay a fine, I'll happily pay and take whatever punishment I need to," he said. Haye added he now has a "different kind of respect" for WBC cruiserweight champion Bellew and would not repeat such comments before a rematch, which he reiterated his desire to pursue. "When you get into that beast mode before the fight, you're not thinking about political correctness, you're not thinking about fines, you're just thinking about getting in the ring," he said. "When you're in that beast mode you say things which rub the average person up the wrong way." Haye suffered an Achilles injury in the sixth round at the O2 Arena, with Bellew capitalising to score a knockdown. A second knockdown in the 11th round saw Haye's corner throw in the towel, which the fighter now believes could have kept him from doing "irreparable damage" to his ankle and foot. "It was a strange situation - I was getting into my flow and it felt like I stepped on a bear trap," he said. "I saw Tony look down and think 'I've got you here,' so it just became about survival - trying not to get knocked out while trying to knock him out on one leg, which is pretty tough. "I knew it was completely ruptured - the pain was terrible, when I put my foot down I could hear it crunching, but the adrenaline is so high when you're fighting you can conjure up the energy from somewhere to keep going. "I believed if I landed that one shot I could change the outcome of the fight but I was fighting a current world champion - I gave it my best shot but came up short." Bellew said he is considering retirement following his win, but admitted an offer for one further fight could be too lucrative to turn down. Haye admits a rematch "solely depends on Tony" but sees a second bout as the first step as he seeks to regain a world heavyweight title belt. "I still believe it, more now than ever, that if I'm fit and healthy, I can beat anybody," he said. "Maybe [Tony] is happy with the victory over me and if that's the case, I wish him nothing but luck. If he wants to do it again, then great. "Very few people on the planet believe I'm the best so I need to win that fight again, bare minimum, and then people can maybe look at me for world title fights. "For me, focus on the leg, and I will become the world heavyweight champion."

David Haye expects a fine from the British Boxing Board of Control for his comments in the build-up to Saturday's defeat by Tony Bellew.

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Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said the idea was "attractive" and could help tackle poverty and inequality. Supporters said it would help unemployed people who fear taking a job would lead to cuts in their benefits. But Patrick Minford from Cardiff University's Business School said it was "not a workable scheme". Under Universal Basic Income (UBI) everyone would receive the same sum of money regardless of whether they work or not. There would be no requirements to show an individual is looking for a job either. In Scotland the policy has support from across the political spectrum, with feasibility work under way ahead of possible pilot schemes in Glasgow and Fife. Jamie Cooke, head of the RSA think tank in Scotland, told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme: "Moving from a system where you aren't working to a system where you are, you won't face those penalties, you retain your consistent payment. "You're given the security to be able to choose to work... or training, or to set up your own business in a way that is beneficial to you." However Prof Minford, who was an adviser to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, told the programme: "This is not a workable scheme because it's far too expensive. "It creates a tremendous tax, a disincentive for the average person further up the income scale who's paying for it all." Mr Drakeford told the assembly earlier in January he found the idea of UBI "attractive in the way that it can simplify and support people who currently have to rely on a very complex set of part-time work, part-time benefits and so on". But he added: "The political world will face a job of convincing the public about the merits of the scheme." Asked if he was worried by Mr Drakeford's comments, Prof Minford replied: "It's quite worrying for Wales. "I'm hoping Wales won't go the same way [as Scotland] towards this sort of extremely expensive socialist experiment".

Paying everyone in Wales a universal basic income would be a "worrying and extremely expensive socialist experiment", an economist has warned.

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Qiang Gao, 39, attacked the co-worker in the kitchen of the Szechuan Express takeaway in Thatcham, Berkshire in May. The victim, 40, suffered severe head injuries including a fractured skull and had a finger partially severed. Gao, of Acorn Drive, Thatcham was found guilty of attempted murder at Reading Crown Court. Adrian Foster, chief crown prosecutor for Thames and Chiltern Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said: "There is no doubt that, with the force used, Gao intended to kill the victim. "Gao clearly acted out of blind retaliation in a grossly disproportionate manner and is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous man." Gao was arrested on 28 May and charged with attempted murder the following day. He denied attempted murder, claiming self-defence, but was found guilty by a jury after a five-day trial.

A man who struck a colleague in the head with a meat cleaver after a row over a chicken has been jailed for 11 years.

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Probably not - for two sets of reasons. First, the basic facts have not changed - there is no doubt that the situation inside the Labour Party remains dangerously unstable, with probably a majority of Labour MPs deeply uncomfortable with Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. But his is a leadership his party members want, overwhelmingly so. And were a coup to be staged the membership would either re-elect him, or elect someone similar. We're in Bertolt Brecht territory here: the easiest solution for Corbyn-sceptic MPs would be to dissolve the party membership and elect another, as the poet ironically suggested for the Communist regime in 1953. But, failing that, they have to wait for the membership to change its mind. The tactics of any coup attempt revolve around the different views of what might have to occur to trigger such a change. Some think serious electoral reverses in next May's round of elections (the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, the London mayor etc) might do the trick. London could be particularly significant, both as the place where Labour did best at the election in May and as the heartland of the Corbynistas. The argument is that the election of a Tory mayor and a rough ride on the doorstep might re-educate enough of the new wave of Labour members to allow a different leader to be elected. Others argue that it might take two such rounds of May defeats to change enough minds. This, of course, relies on those defeats actually occurring, not to mention them having the effect the anti-Corbyn camp want. We shall see. And it's also worth underlining that the Syria intervention is an issue where Mr Corbyn is in tune with his membership. Then there's the not insignificant question of how a leadership challenge would be triggered. I'm told some Labour MPs have been digging into the archives to study how Hilary's dad, Tony Benn, went about challenging Neil Kinnock, in 1988, and that legal opinions on what Labour's murky and overlapping internal rules might actually mean are being studied in various Westminster offices. One of the key questions is whether Mr Corbyn, if challenged, would need to be nominated by 35 MPs in order to defend his position or whether he would be assured of an automatic position on the ballot papers. Second, there's the climate within the parliamentary Labour Party (PLP). One of the key problems for the coup plotters is identifying an alternative leader, to play Michael Howard to Mr Corbyn's Iain Duncan Smith, and at least keep the Labour show on the road in the 2020 election. Mr Benn has certainly put his head above the parapet - but he's done so on an issue that is highly divisive within the PLP, rather than one of the several causes which pit most Labour MPs against their leader. Take a look at the voting list on Wednesday, where two married couples - Harriet Harman and Jack Dromey and Jenny Chapman and Nick Smith - were split on the issue. In that agonised atmosphere, Mr Benn's moral certainties may not play well in the longer term, whatever their on the day impact. He may have given a masterly Commons performance (a real rarity these days) and made a powerful speech setting out the moral case for military intervention, in terms that had many Tory, as well as Labour, MPs swooning. "He's clearly running for the leadership - but of which party?" tittered one SNP MP. But most of Mr Benn's Labour colleagues were conflicted about the issue of whether intervention would work… and I'm not sure the appeal he made to their internationalist roots and to memories of Arthur Greenwood "speaking for England" in 1940 will have won over those who doubt both their leader and the case for military action. Certainly there were plenty of MPs from what might be called the "right" of the PLP who didn't back the government motion. So it may be worth watching other figures who didn't break cover last night - Rachel Reeves, anyone? All the same, Mr Corbyn's position has been weakened. He was forced to concede a free vote, under the threat of losing much of his shadow cabinet. He was comprehensively outperformed by his shadow foreign secretary and some of his internal critics suspect that competence rather than ideology might be the most corrosive issue for his leadership. This week also saw brutal meetings of the shadow cabinet and the PLP, and, ultimately, a significant chunk of the front bench voting with the government (Hilary Benn, Michael Dugher, Maria Eagle, Angela Eagle, Vernon Coaker, Tom Watson, Lucy Powell, Heidi Alexander, Chris Bryant, Gloria De Piero and Luciana Berger, for the record). And that list included one of his personal left-field picks for high office, the shadow health secretary Ms Alexander. She's proved an effective performer, but I suspect her name is mud in the Corbyn inner circle. Now there will be recriminations and, possibly, attempts at constituency level to deselect the recusants (there does not have to be a return to the '80s era of mandatory reselection; the coming Commons boundary changes will ensure most sitting MPs will not face a simple rubber-stamping to become their party's candidate again). If they succeed, some MPs may quit immediately, forcing uncomfortable by-elections, or simply go rogue in the Commons and vote as they please. We're still some way from further 80s retro developments like an SDP-style breakaway. And defections to the Liberal Democrats seem improbable, both because of the extent of their implosion last May and because a lot of Labour MPs regard the party's new leader, Tim Farron, as "Corbyn lite". So we're left with a destabilised official opposition and no obvious way to resolve its problems that does not involve a major smackdown. Things will get worse in the Labour Party before they get better. Find out how your MP voted Find out which constituency you live in *The Commons is made up of 650 MPs but the Speaker and his three deputies cannot vote while Sinn Fein's four MPs do not take their seats and did not take part. *There is also currently no MP for Oldham West and Royton, with a by-election taking place on Thursday.

Does Hilary Benn's barnstorming performance in the Syria debate mean he's about to displace his leader in some kind of Labour palace coup?

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The 28-year-old tested positive for a banned substance just days before heading to the Olympic Games in Rio. He claimed the result was orchestrated to stop him speaking out about politics in Indian sports, saying: "Their intention is to shut me up." Navin Agarwal, director general of India's anti-doping agency, denied samples could have been tampered with. Singh said he denied "all the allegations of doping that I am accused of". "I am being targeted and it's a clear case of conspiracy against me," he said. "My sample has been tampered with "I have been speaking out against the politics in sports in India and how badly athletes are treated and their poor training facilities, and this has riled many powerful people in the country." Singh is the second Rio-bound Indian athlete to fail a doping test after wrestler Narsingh Yadav, 26, last week tested positive for a banned steroid. Yadav has also denied wrongdoing, claiming his food supplements were spiked. "I believe that there is foul play involved in this entire episode," he told India's NDTV station. No sanctions for the pair have been announced, and Singh has been asked if he would like to have a second sample tested.

Indian shot put champion Inderjeet Singh believes he failed a drugs test because of a "conspiracy" against him.

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Financial stocks led the way, as the momentum in Washington for an overhaul of bank regulations held up in advance of a preliminary vote on Thursday. The Dow Jones climbed 37.46 points or 0.18% to 21,173.69. The wider S&P 500 added 2.81 points, rising 0.16% to 2,433.09. The Nasdaq closed up 0.34% at 6,296.70. Trade volume lessened, as investors trod with caution ahead of the UK general election and former FBI director James Comey's testimony in Washington on Thursday. Some of the impact of that testimony was blunted by the release of his prepared remarks, which repeated already available information. Energy stocks fared the worst on Wednesday, as oil prices slid following a new report that showed a rise in US production. Financial firms were among the biggest risers. The US House of Representatives is expected to approve a bill on Thursday that would undo many of the financial rules put in place after the 2008 crisis. Few expect the proposal in its current form to advance from the House into law, but they say its support is a sign that a more limited reform could succeed. The Federal Reserve also said three major banks, including Deutsche Bank and UBS Group, would be given more time to comply with one of those financial rules. Bank of America shares closed the day up 1.66%, JP Morgan Chase gained 1.15%, Deutsche added 0.75% and Goldman Sachs rose 0.58%.

Shares on Wall Street closed higher on Wednesday, recovering ground after a fall on Tuesday.

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However, they denied German media reports body parts of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had been identified. The cockpit voice recorder suggested he crashed the plane deliberately. A transcript leaked to German media revealed the frenzied final minutes, with the pilot, locked out of the cockpit, shouting "open the damn door!" Recovery teams have so far only reached the mountainside on foot or by helicopter to continue the search for human remains as well as parts of the aircraft, including the flight data recorder which is still missing. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said an access road was being built to the remote site. Mr Robin said work on the road, which would give all-terrain vehicles access to the area, could be completed by Monday evening. The German newspaper Bild published a transcript of the final minutes of the flight as caught on the cockpit voice recorder. It has not been independently verified. It shows the captain, who has been named in media as Patrick Sondenheimer, telling Lubitz he was not able to go to the toilet before take off, to which the co-pilot replies he can go at any time. The captain says "you can take over". Lubitz, 27, then appears to refuse to let the captain back into the cockpit. The captain can be heard banging on the door and screaming: "For God's sake, open the door!" The captain tries to break the door down with an axe. Passengers are then heard screaming as the captain begs again to be let in. Investigators think there is the sound of the plane's wing hitting a mountaintop before final screams. Meanwhile, there have been calls for a full investigation to be completed before any further conclusions are revealed. The German Airline Pilots Association pointed out that the flight data recorder was still missing and that the reasons that led to the crash could only be determined once all data had been examined. The European Cockpit Association said the release of voice recorder data was a "serious breach" of globally accepted rules. It said many questions remained unanswered. The suggestion that the co-pilot's action was deliberate led to speculation about his mental health, especially when investigators found anti-depressants at his house along with evidence of treatment by various doctors, including a torn-up sick note for the day he flew the plane. Reports about problems with his eyesight - possibly a detached retina - first raised in the New York Times, were also reflected in the German papers. But no full picture has emerged of what initially caused Lubitz to seek medical help and whether reports that he was stressed are linked to a prospect of impaired vision and its potential impact on his ambition of becoming a long-haul pilot for Germany's main carrier Lufthansa. Lufthansa, which fully owns Germanwings, says his training was once interrupted but only resumed after his suitability was fully re-established. Lubitz's ex-girlfriend has said he vowed last year: "One day I'm going to do something that will change the whole system, and everyone will know my name and remember." Family members continue to travel to the site of the crash. Ippei Yamanaka, co-worker of victim Junichi Sato, told AP: "His wife says she still she cannot believe what has happened, saying that it almost feels like her husband is away on his business trip and that it still feels like he is going to return soon." An official memorial service for those onboard flight 4U9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf will be held on 17 April in Germany's most famous church - Cologne Cathedral - in the presence of President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel. Meanwhile, the pastor of the Lutheran church in Andreas Lubitz's hometown, Michael Dietrich, told Associated Press the church was standing behind the family. He said there had been no direct contact with the family but he believed they were receiving good help. French prosecutors are also yet to question the Lubitz family. Unanswered questions What drives people to murder-suicide? Who was Andreas Lubitz?

Five days after Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crashed in the French Alps killing all 150 on board, investigators say they have isolated DNA of 78 victims.

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The 24-year-old, who has won 21 caps, becomes manager Alan Pardew's fifth signing of the summer. Janmaat underwent a medical at St James' Park on Tuesday and arrives as a replacement for Mathieu Debuchy, who has completed his move to Arsenal. "Daryl had an excellent World Cup and we're looking forward to him continuing that form for Newcastle," said Pardew. Janmaat made five appearances at the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil, where the Dutch finished in third place. Pardew added: "He is the perfect example of a modern full-back. "He is someone who is good defensively but offers a real threat going forward as well." Janmaat made 63 appearances for Feyenoord over the past two seasons. "This is the perfect club for me and I am looking forward to being with the team and getting started here." He is the latest man to join Pardew's squad following the arrivals of Emmanuel Riviere,Remy Cabella,Siem de Jong,Jack Colback and Ayoze Perez.

Netherlands right-back Daryl Janmaat has joined Newcastle United for an undisclosed fee from Feyenoord.

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Convicted criminal Steven Johnson had been wanted since January 2014 after breaching the terms of his parole. Police believe the 40-year-old went to Spain, where he posted Facebook and Twitter messages challenging officers to find him. He was arrested in Whiston, Merseyside, on Thursday and returned to jail. Read updates on this story and more from across Merseyside and Cheshire. Johnson, of Prescot, was serving a sentence of six years and 11 months for possession with intent to supply class A drugs, before being released on licence. During his time on the run, he used aliases on social media sites to post messages and photographs, including several of himself posing in front of luxury cars. In one message, he wrote: "Just got out of bed. Going for a massage." Merseyside Police said Johnson had now "got his wish". Sgt Mark Worrall said: "The arrest of Johnson shows that we never give up. "Johnson has been wanted on recall to prison for two years and he has obviously been living the high life abroad, but that has been cut short and he's now back behind bars."

A man wanted on recall to prison who taunted police with social media posts telling them "catch me if you can" is back behind bars.

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About 14m birds are bred for the table a year. Processing companies are big employers and the industry sustains thousands of jobs on farms and in factories. But poultry has a problem - how to deal with the waste it generates. At the moment, the millions of birds reared in Northern Ireland create 260,000 tonnes of poultry litter a year. The litter is a mix of bedding and droppings and if the industry expands, it could generate 400,000 tonnes of waste annually. For the moment, much of the waste is spread as fertiliser on fields. But it is rich in nitrogen and phosphorous which can run off into rivers and lakes and damage them - a process known as eutrophication. European Union regulations are in place to stop that. To show it is making progress, Northern Ireland needs a long term solution to deal with its poultry waste. The Northern Ireland Executive has set up a £15-20m fund to try to find an answer and soon it will be spending some of that cash. It will be lent to companies who will use it to part fund at least two "demonstrator" plants to test new technology. They would be expected to deal with at least 20,000 tonnes of waste a year. Six applications have been assessed by the business development agency, Invest NI. Stormont's Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill said at Christmas that schemes based on anaerobic digestion (AD) were furthest advanced in the selection process. Anaerobic digestion uses micro-organisms to break down organic matter inside a sealed and heated system. That gives off a biogas which can be burned to produce heat and power, but there is a problem with using AD technology for this. Unless expensive stripping processes are included, the same amount of nitrogen and phosphorous going into the system in the poultry litter, will be present in the byproduct, or digestate, when it comes out. If you want to spread the digestate on land, you will face the same potential problems with eutrophication. That is why, in 2014, a report commissioned by the agriculture minister said anaerobic digestion was not the answer to the poultry litter problem. However, it seems officials are determined to overcome this issue with the AD projects being assessed for funding. The Department of Agriculture has said that, in those projects, the digestate would either be exported for field spreading or further refined to separate out the nutrients in pellet form. The first loan agreement with Invest NI was expected to be signed by the end of last year. The minister said that once the finance was in place, she expected the first plants could be operational by late 2016 or early 2017.

Poultry meat is big business in Northern Ireland - worth £205m in 2014.

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They urged Palestinians to re-enter the compound on Thursday for the first time since the crisis erupted two weeks ago. The last remnants of Israel's recently installed security apparatus were taken away on Thursday morning. Palestinians had fiercely objected to the measures introduced after the killing of two Israeli policemen. They had refrained from entering the Old City complex known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount in protest over what they saw as an Israeli attempt to exert control over the contested site. Last week Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he was freezing all contacts with Israel, including security co-operation, until Israel cancelled the new measures. There have been intensive diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis, involving the US and Jordan, which is custodian of the holy site and has a large Palestinian population. The Israeli government has not yet commented on its decision to completely dismantle the infrastructure. Observers say it is a climbdown by Prime Minister Netanyahu which will put him at odds with more right-wing members of his cabinet. In a separate development, Mr Netanyahu accused the Qatar-funded pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV channel of fuelling the crisis. "The al-Jazeera network continues to stir violence around the Temple Mount," he posted in Hebrew on his Facebook page, vowing to "enact the required legislation to expel al-Jazeera from Israel". Palestinians sang, danced and let off fireworks as railings and security camera gantries were removed from the Lions' Gate entrance near the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif in the early hours of Thursday morning. "For 12 days no-one has slept, no-one has done anything except the al-Aqsa mosque," bystander Firas Abasi told AFP news agency. He said he felt like crying over what he called a "victory". Mass prayer gatherings had been held in the street outside the Old City walls and near-daily clashes between Israeli security forces and demonstrators have taken place since the metal detectors were introduced in the wake of the killings of the policemen near the site on 14 July. Four Palestinians were killed and three Israeli civilians stabbed to death by a Palestinian who said he was avenging Israel actions at the site. Israel said the security measures were necessary because the weapons used to kill the police had been smuggled on to the compound. Earlier this week, it said it would bolster its police presence around the site and introduce less obtrusive security measures over the next six months, including unspecified "advanced technologies".

Muslim leaders have lifted a boycott of a key holy site in East Jerusalem after Israel removed the last of the security measures which had led to uproar.

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The stowaway was identified by Chinese media as a 16-year-old boy from Sichuan named Xu. He was found on 27 May, hiding in the cargo hold of flight EK303 from Shanghai. The official Xinhua news agency and the Chengdu Economic Daily reported the boy had said he did it because he had heard beggars in Dubai could make 470,000 yuan ($71,275; £49,300) a month. Earlier this year, there was a story being shared widely on the Twitter-like Sina Weibo with the hashtag #DubaiBeggarsMake470000YuanMonthly. The China Daily report said non-United Arab Emirates citizens were making a fortune begging, some making 270,000 dirhams (that is where the 470,000 yuan figure comes from). At the time, people online were saying they were "prepared to go begging in Dubai" and some posts showed flight tickets with the caption "Do not stop me going". After Tuesday's story about Xu the hashtag is trending once again, with some people expressing amusement and others being much more critical. "People with dreams deserve praises," said Chi Ma Xiao De Xiao Ma Fa. But Kai Ge Lu - Deng Ta Hui Lai said on Weibo: "Are people who praise the teenager being serious? Everyone knows that entering the country in that way is illegal. "Also, the teenager wants to reap without sowing if he wants to be a beggar in Dubai to make money." Some users were blaming the media for spreading rumours about the riches of Dubai. On CCTV's official Weibo account, a user left the comment: "Media that have been publishing inaccurate reports should bear responsibility. They should be held accountable." BBC Chinese also spoke to two travellers from Shanghai to Dubai who thought social media reports had misled the boy. So is there any truth to the story? The China Daily report appears to be based on a story on Gulf News from April this year when Dubai police arrested a beggar who they said was making 270,000 dirhams per month. Dubai police carry out campaigns to stop begging on the streets and the man was arrested as part of the raid. Police said they had caught "professional" beggars, some of them carrying passports with business or tourist visas, but did not say how many of the 59 beggars detained were found with large amounts of money. Reporting by Grace Tsoi, Yashan Zhao, Saira Asher and Kerry Allen

The story of a Chinese teenager who stowed away on a plane to Dubai, reportedly hoping to make money there as beggar, has sparked a conversation in China about misinformation.

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The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) suspended Russia from the Rio Games starting on 7 September because of state-sponsored doping. Putin said the ruling was "cynical" and "humiliates those who take such decisions". Only Russian track and field athletes were banned from the Olympics. Putin, speaking at an award ceremony for Russian Olympians at the Kremlin, said the country would hold special competitions for banned Paralympic athletes, with the winners awarded the same prizes as in Rio. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russian Paralympians had taken "collective responsibility for an unproven crime".

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the country's Paralympics ban is "outside the bounds of law, morality and humanity".

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In a statement in the official Granma newspaper, the government described the project as "a serious error". "The symbols of the Revolution are and will always be sacred," it read. The colognes - Ernesto and Hugo - were unveiled on Thursday by a state laboratory in the capital, Havana. Labiofam said Ernesto, the cologne named after the Argentine-born revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro take over in Cuba in 1959, would be a woodsy and refreshing citric scent with notes of talcum powder. Hugo, named after the late Venezuelan president, would offer a softer, fruitier fragrance with hints of mango and papaya. "They will be very attractive colognes, but the names also mean a lot to us," said Isabel Gonzalez, vice-president for research and development for Labiofam during the launch. But the project was mocked in the social networks and criticised by supporters of the Cuban Revolution, who considered it disrespectful. Labiofam had been in the process of developing stylised bottles and labels for the products before putting them on sale in Cuba and overseas. "We didn't want to create propaganda, but rather pay homage to them and help their names endure," said Cuban biochemist Mario Valdes, who led the scent design team, on Thursday. The company said it had obtained the agreement of the families of Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez to use their names in the colognes. But that has now been denied by the Cuban government. "The details of this irresponsible action were discussed in detail on Friday with the company's director and the employees who presented the products, which were still being developed," read the statement of the Executive Committee of the Ministers' Council, headed by Cuban President Raul Castro. "The appropriate measures will be taken to deal with this serious error. "Such initiatives will never be accepted either by our people or by the Revolutionary Government."

The Cuban government has said it will take disciplinary action against a state pharmaceutical company that created perfumes named Ernesto Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez.

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Ander Herrera's first-half strike gave United a lead they deserved in a game low on intensity with both teams already assured of places in next season's Champions League. Arsenal barely raised a gallop for the first hour but finally came to life in the closing stages and levelled when substitute Walcott's cross was diverted past keeper Victor Valdes off Tyler Blackett. Former Barcelona keeper Valdes was on for David De Gea, who went off with an injury on what may well be his final Old Trafford appearance as speculation mounts that he will make a summer move back to his native Spain with Real Madrid. One man who looked like he was definitely saying farewell to Old Trafford was on-loan striker Radamel Falcao, who struggled badly for an hour before being replaced by Robin van Persie, taking time to wave to United's fans as he walked off. Media playback is not supported on this device In his programme notes, manager Louis van Gaal suggested a club of United's stature should not be celebrating fourth place - but it was hard to argue with his assertion that this season has been a move in the right direction after the dismal brief reign of his predecessor David Moyes. Arsenal will confirm a third-placed finish, and a Champions League group-stage spot, with victory against the Black Cats at Emirates Stadium, leaving United to contest the competition's qualifiers. Van Gaal addressed Old Trafford briefly after the final whistle before the Stretford End chanted loudly for De Gea in a clear attempt to convince him that this was the place where he should stay. Whether it will work is open to question. Such was the lame nature of Arsenal's first-half performance that they failed to muster a single shot, the first time they have produced this miserable statistic since a 2-1 defeat at Liverpool in November 2004. United were far more energetic and were rewarded with the lead after 30 minutes when Herrera arrived at the far post to meet Ashley Young's cross after he had escaped from Hector Bellerin. Van Gaal made a predictable change on the hour, replacing the labouring Falcao with Van Persie. The Colombian's body language suggested that this was the final time he would be seen at Old Trafford as a Manchester United player. The other United player whose future has become a matter of public debate, De Gea, showed why he is so highly prized when finally called into action just after the hour, reacting quickly to block Olivier Giroud as he threatened from an angle. Media playback is not supported on this device He needed Marcos Rojo to rescue him when Arsenal, finally showing signs of life, threatened again. Aaron Ramsey lofted the ball over the onrushing De Gea but Rojo recovered to clear the danger. De Gea then left the action prematurely as he went down injured and was replaced by Valdes. The debutant had barely had time to make any sort of contribution when Arsenal equalised, Walcott's cross taking a big deflection off Blackett to wrong-foot the keeper.

Arsenal will secure third place in the Premier League if they beat Sunderland on Wednesday after Theo Walcott's deflected cross gave them a late equaliser and a point at Manchester United.

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He has written to the parliamentary speaker criticising her for passing it in December without a quorum. Homosexuals were "abnormal" or were so for "mercenary reasons" and could be "rescued", a local paper quotes his letter as saying. The bill provides for life imprisonment for homosexual acts and also makes it a crime not to report gay people. The promotion of homosexuality - even talking about it without condemning the lifestyle - would also be punishable by a prison term. The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga in the capital, Kampala, says the president is aware that if he signs the bill there will be an international outcry, which could see some countries suspend aid to the country. His spokesman told the AFP news agency that Mr Museveni believes that gay people are sick but this does not mean they should be killed or jailed for life. "What the president has being saying is that we shall not persecute these homosexuals and lesbians. That is the point," said Tamale Mirudi. By Catherine ByaruhangaBBC, Uganda Uganda already has legislation banning gay sex, specifically between men, lesbianism wasn't considered under a provision of the 1950 Penal Code. The new law would add female-to-female sex to banned practices. The Penal Code also never made it an offence for someone to identify himself or herself as a homosexual. It was the act that was illegal. Gay activists have been able to state their sexuality in public and advocate for their rights without being prosecuted. This, legislators felt, endangered Uganda's culture and family structure, centred around marriage between a man and woman. There's been a battle here, well captured in the international media, between gay activists and Evangelical Christians over the rights and wrongs of homosexuality. So what MPs are trying to do is to create the "idea" of homosexuality in the law. Once you specify that homosexuality is wrong, you then ban its promotion. If the law is passed, standing up saying "I am gay" would become illegal. Citizens would also have to report anyone who they believe is gay to the police. And it would be illegal to provide advisory services to homosexuals. He denied that the president had changed his mind under pressure. "The president's position has been the same for a long time, nothing has changed," he added. Our reporter says Mr Museveni is trying to reach a compromise with MPs, because if he refuses to sign the bill, parliament can still force it through with a two-thirds vote. But in contrast to Nigeria, where earlier this month the president signed a bill banning same-sex marriages, gay groups and shows of same-sex public affection, Mr Museveni is politically strong and so more able to resist pressure from conservative groups, she says. Mr Museveni said the bill was forced through despite his advice to shelve it until the government had studied it in depth, Uganda's private Monitor newspaper reports. "Even with legislation, they will simply go underground and continue practicing [sic] homosexuality or lesbianism for mercenary reasons," he is quoted as saying. The president's eight-page letter to speaker Rebecca Kadaga said they could be "rescued" by improving the economy. He also disputed the view that homosexuality could be described as an "alternative sexual orientation". "You cannot call an abnormality an alternative orientation. It could be that the Western societies, on account of random breeding, have generated many abnormal people," he said. He said another reason women became lesbians was because of "sexual starvation" when they failed to marry, the Monitor reports. Ugandan gay rights activist Pepe Julian Onziema told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme he had mixed feelings about Mr Museveni's comments. "Him not assenting to the bill makes us happy but him calling us 'abnormal', 'nothing-doers', 'sexually starved', that is so derogatory," he said. "It encourages the community to attack people like me." There is meant to be a caucus meeting of ruling party MPs later this month to discuss the bill. The government will try to persuade them to reject it, but some have already said they would go against their government's wishes, our correspondent says. Human rights activists say the bill highlights the intolerance and discrimination the gay community faces in Uganda. One gay activist was killed in 2011, although the police denied he was targeted because of his sexuality. The bill has been condemned by world leaders since it was mooted in 2009 - US President Barack Obama called it "odious". The private member's bill originally proposed the death penalty for some offences, such as if a minor was involved or the perpetrator was HIV-positive, but this clause has been dropped. Correction 19 January: An earlier version of this story referred to Pepe Julian Onziema as a woman. The BBC is sorry for any offence caused.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has refused to approve a controversial bill to toughen punishments for homosexuals.

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The then-prime minister called the German leader days before the EU referendum, as opinion polls seemed to show voters moving to the Leave camp. But he later abandoned the idea of getting her and other EU leaders to make a statement granting concessions. No 10 decided it could be portrayed by Vote Leave as a sign of weakness. Newsnight has learned that Mr Cameron telephoned the German chancellor to ask whether she would be willing to issue a statement with fellow EU leaders granting the UK concessions on free movement. Under the plan, thrashed out at a meeting in Downing Street, the president of France Francois Hollande, the European Council president Donald Tusk and the European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker would all put their names to the joint statement by EU leaders. The former prime minister approached his German counterpart after Vote Leave had dominated the campaign in the wake of the publication of official migration statistics at the end of May. These showed the government had once again failed to meet its net migration target. The idea of a joint statement by EU leaders was eventually shelved. Newsnight understands that at an EU summit after the EU referendum the German chancellor made it clear to Mr Cameron that there could be no compromise for EU members on rules governing the free movement of people. The appeal by Mr Cameron to Mrs Merkel followed a discussion among senior Downing Street aides who said that the prime minister should reprise the success of "the Vow" in the Scottish independence referendum. Mr Cameron and the other main Westminster parties had moved to shore up the pro-UK vote in the final stages of that campaign in 2014 by pledging to devolve further powers to the Scottish parliament. The move considered by the prime minister, revealed by Newsnight in an investigation into the EU referendum campaign, shows that Downing Street came close to ripping up a key element of its strategy in the final stages. This was to focus on the economic risks of Brexit and to avoid discussing immigration on the grounds that Vote Leave would always say that the UK could never control its borders while it remained a member of the EU. In the end Downing Street maintained the focus of its campaign on the economy. Lord Cooper of Windrush, the Conservative peer who was the main pollster for the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, told Newsnight that the pro-EU side's failure to address concerns about immigration had been a weakness. He said: "The people who are very, very concerned about immigration, what they wanted was purely and simply for the UK to be able to have total control of its borders and total control of the flow of people into this country. And we didn't have an argument that could remotely compete with that. "It meant we couldn't really engage in the campaign on that vital issue. We didn't have much option but to keep trying to pivot back to the economic risks." One Downing Street source told Newsnight: "Fundamentally a question was put to the British public - would you be willing to be a little bit poorer to get control of immigration? We staked our chips on everyone going, 'Well, I don't want to be poorer.' They staked their chips on everyone going, 'I want to control immigration,' and they won." Lord Cooper also told Newsnight that the pro-EU side was forced into "humanely" phasing out a claim by George Osborne that a British exit from the EU would cost the average household £4,300 because voters did not believe it. Lord Cooper said: "The problem with that figure - the £4,300 - was firstly it sounded implausibly large to the ears of most people. Secondly it sounded strangely specific…The figure was sort of humanely phased out because we found when we tested the reaction in focus groups, we found people just rejected it. They didn't believe it." Matthew Elliott, the chief executive of Vote Leave, said he feared that the death of the Labour MP Jo Cox a week before polling day could have ended his campaign, when news broke shortly after the UKIP leader Nigel Farage had launched a controversial poster on immigration. But Mr Elliott said that the UKIP poster had little impact on the Vote Leave campaign because he had distanced the official Leave campaign from UKIP. Nicholas Watt was reporting for Brexit Britain - a BBC Newsnight special one month on from the referendum result. A day of discussion and debate is being held in collaboration with Intelligence Squared at the Royal Geographical Society in London, from 13:00 BST on Saturday 23 July, followed by a special programme on BBC Two at 18:00 BST and afterwards on iPlayer. The hashtag for the event is #BrexitBritain.

David Cameron made a late appeal to Germany's Angela Merkel for limits on free movement of people if the UK voted Remain, BBC Newsnight has learned.

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The sanctions focus upon suppliers to Iran's missile programme and groups that help to arm what Washington sees as terror organisations in the region. It is hard to see what practical impact these sanctions will have, since few of these organisations or individuals probably do business in the United States. But the sanctions sends a clear warning to Tehran the guard has changed in Washington. The Obama administration saw its relationship with Iran largely through the prism of the need to negotiate a deal to constrain Tehran's nuclear programme. Iran's regional activities - support for Hamas and Hezbollah, military support for the Assad regime, backing of the Houthis in Yemen, and its growing influence in Iraq - were all played down to ensure that the nuclear deal might go ahead. For the Obama team, restraining Iran's nuclear activities was the overarching goal. This was seen as an end in itself, one that might stave off military action, but also a step that might, over time, also lead Iran away from its relative economic isolation towards an improved relationship with the West. Opinion was deeply divided on the nuclear deal. The US and its major western allies, along with Russia, saw merit in the nuclear agreement that effectively "kicked the can down the road", postponing any confrontation with Tehran over its nuclear programme. Washington's regional allies though - countries like Israel, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, who have watched Tehran's rise with alarm - were much less impressed. And many of them may well have been hoping that the Trump team - which includes several vocal opponents of Tehran - might seek to undo the agreement. Things are a little more complex than that. On a recent trip to Israel's major annual security conference last week, many experts and officials there took the view that a bad deal, if properly implemented, might be better than no deal at all. What worries Israelis is the fact that Iran is now becoming a major player in the region. Its support for the Assad regime in Syria and the deployment of its allies - Hezbollah and various Shia militias, supported by officers from its Revolutionary Guard Corps - has provided Tehran with at least the opportunity to establish its allies on a long border with Israel from the Mediterranean Sea through Lebanon and Syria - all the way to the Jordanian frontier. Jordan too is concerned, as are several of the Gulf states, which explains their quiet strategic rapprochement with Israel. The irony in all of this is that it was largely US military power that established the conditions for Iran's rise to regional prominence. By deposing its archenemy Saddam Hussein and reducing Iraq to a minor military player with many other security problems on its plate - Washington opened the door to the expansion of Iranian influence in the region. A further irony is that in supporting the Iraqi government's efforts against so-called Islamic State, the US is objectively allied with Tehran, with several Iranian-influenced Shia militias fighting in the same campaign. The Obama administration's failure to countenance the forced removal of Syria's President Assad and its inept and half-hearted efforts to arm and train Sunni forces there, again favoured the emerging Shia axis. So the Trump administration comes to office with a desire fundamentally to change Washington's stance towards Tehran. These sanctions are but the first step. A declaration that Iran is now "on notice", in the words of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, may sound good, but it doesn't amount to a policy. What real steps does the Trump team envisage? Is it ready to back - albeit reluctantly - the nuclear accord while monitoring stringently Iran's behaviour? What wider international support can the US gather for tougher action against Tehran's missile programme - which it insists it is entitled to pursue? On the face of it here the US may have a point. UN Security council resolution 2231 calls on Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering a nuclear weapon. A US National Security Council briefing earlier this week noted that ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering a payload of at least 500kg to a range of 300km are inherently able to deliver nuclear weapons. "There should be no doubt," the briefing went on , "that the United States is committed to holding Iran accountable for adhering to missile restrictions and accountable for behaviour in the region that we consider to be destabilising." But what exactly does the Trump Administration mean by phrases like "holding Iran to account"? These are two countries whose warships potentially come into close proximity in Gulf waters every day. Tensions could spark a major confrontation. Is Washington on a collision course with Tehran? Its rhetoric might suggest so. But it is President Trump's actions - and of course Iran's own responses - that will determine where things go from here.

Within days of an Iranian missile test and a subsequent warning from the Trump administration, the US has now followed up by imposing a new round of economic sanctions.

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This is the first assault by jihadists in the West African state, raising fears of more instability in the region. The attack suggests al-Qaeda-linked militants are increasingly focusing on France's former colonies, as a way of getting back at France for its leading role in fighting them in West Africa. The former colonies have become increasingly vulnerable following a French-led military operation in northern Mali in 2013, which beat back al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its local affiliates after they seized control of the region and threatened to take the capital, Bamako. The insurgents retreated to their desert hide-outs and regrouped and in the last year have launched high-profile gun and bomb attacks. In November, they killed 22 people in an attack on a luxury hotel in Bamako. In January, at least 30 people were killed in an assault on a hotel and cafe popular with foreigners in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou. These were the first such attacks in the two cities, threatening the vital tourism industry. No. Muslims in former French colonies in sub-Saharan Africa have always practised a moderate version of Islam, embracing French culture and its people far more than their counterparts in North Africa. In fact, Ivory Coast's Muslim President Alassane Ouattara is married to French national, Dominique Nouvian, who was born Jewish but later became Catholic. Senegal's former President Abdoulaye Wade is also married to a French national, Viviane Wade. So, the growth of militant Islam in these countries has come as a shock. Groups like AQIM may be exploiting high levels of unemployment to gain recruits. The recent attacks have all been linked to veteran jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who was behind the audacious siege on the well-secured Algerian gas plant in 2013. Following the Burkina Faso attack, Senegal, another former French colony popular with tourists, ordered that security be tightened at hotels. This followed the arrest in Senegal of some imams in November on suspicion of promoting radical Islamist ideology or having close ties with the Boko Haram, a militant group which launched an insurgency in Nigeria, a former British colony, in 2009. Senegalese officials raised fears that Boko Haram, already active in Niger, Chad and Cameroon, all former French colonies, was expanding its influence in West Africa. Boko Haram is affiliated to the Islamic State group, which is al-Qaeda's rival, and there is concern that competition between the two to be the most ruthless jihadi group could lead to more attacks in West Africa. France has about 3,000 troops in the region as part of Operation Barkhane, which French officials describe as the "pillar" of their counter-terrorism strategy in the region. The troops are spread across five countries - Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. Apart from tackling militants in these countries, Operation Barkhane aims to break up arms-smuggling gangs, which operate freely across the region because of its porous borders. Many of the weapons come from Libya, which has turned into what some analysts call an arms bazaar since the overthrow of long-serving ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

Militant Islamists are expanding their influence in West Africa, with at least 18 people killed in an attack on a beach resort in Ivory Coast on Sunday.

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Rojo escaped with a yellow card from referee Craig Pawson for a two-footed lunge on Wilfried Zaha during United's 2-1 win at Crystal Palace on Wednesday. The Argentine also avoided a red card for a similar challenge on Everton midfielder Idrissa Gueye in the 1-1 draw at Goodison Park on 4 December. "Rojo is playing phenomenally," said Mourinho. Media playback is not supported on this device Palace boss Alan Pardew described Rojo's tackle on Zaha as "dangerous". "It's another two-footed tackle, I think he did one before [against Everton]. He was a bit fortunate to get away with that," he added. However, Mourinho defended the former Sporting Lisbon player, adding: "He is playing really well - emotional but very clean." Former England striker Alan Shearer, speaking on Match of the Day, said Rojo should have been sent off for his challenge on ex-United player Zaha. "We saw it against Everton and he got away with it. You cannot tackle like that. It would have changed the game completely," added Shearer. Wednesday's result leaves United sixth in the Premier League table, six points behind fourth-placed neighbours Manchester City and 13 behind leaders Chelsea. United recorded back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time since August as Zlatan Ibrahimovic struck late to deprive struggling Palace of a point. Ibrahimovic, 35, has scored nine Premier League goals since joining on a free transfer from Paris St-Germain in July. Mourinho revealed after the Palace win that he has warned Ibrahimovic that if he wanted to end his career with a holiday, he should stay away from England. "Zlatan has passion and plays like that. The personality is there," added the United boss. "I told him England is not the best place to go on holiday when you are a rich guy with a phenomenal career. If you want holidays don't come to England. "You come if you want to prove yourself, to show what you can do. His decision to come was based on that and I am very happy."

Manchester United defender Marcos Rojo is a "clean player with an aggressive nature", says manager Jose Mourinho.

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Police in New Mexico's capital Santa Fe confirmed the remains as those of Randy Bilyeu from Colorado. He went missing in January this year hunting for a $2m (£1.5m) trove hidden by art dealer and author Forrest Fenn. Thousands have searched for the hoard left by Mr Fenn, who gave clues about the treasure's location in a 2011 book. Bilyeu set out for the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico with a raft and his pet dog on 5 January. His wife reported him missing on 14 January, and the raft and dog were found the next day. The remains were discovered along a stretch of the Rio Grande river. Mr Fenn has urged people not to search for the treasure during winter and joined in search efforts to find Bilyeu. The writer says hunters should not look in "any place where an 80-year-old man couldn't put it". A Texan woman got lost searching for the treasure three years ago but was found by rescuers.

The remains of a 54-year-old man who disappeared hunting for a hidden stash of gold and jewels in New Mexico have been discovered, local authorities say.

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Konta beat world number 60 Kristyna Pliskova of the Czech Republic 6-4 6-7 (11-13) 6-3. Her next opponent will be another Czech, Katerina Siniakova, who beat Serbian Nina Stojanovic 6-3 6-4. Siniakova caused a surprise in the second round by defeating second seed Simona Halep. Konta looked in control early on against her opponent - the twin sister of world number six Karolina Pliskova - as she took the first set with a single break of serve. Neither player could force a break point in the second set and in the resulting tie-break Konta wasted two match points before the big-serving Pliskova levelled the match on her fifth set point. But Konta stayed firm in the final set, claiming the break and reaching the semi-final on her fifth match point. "I am very happy to have extended my stay here," she said. "She is one of the best servers on tour so I knew I was going to have a hard time on her service games. I was very happy I was able to get that break in the third and see it out in the end."

British number one Johanna Konta continued her good start to 2017 by reaching the semi-finals of the Shenzhen Open in China.

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Inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, rose by 0.3%. It was helped by smaller falls in food and fuel prices than a year ago. Annual inflation has been below the Bank of England's 2% target for two years, and last year it was zero. The BoE said earlier this month that it expected inflation to stay below 1% this year. North Sea oil prices dropped to a 12 year low of $27.10 last month and have almost halved over the past 12 months. But the Office for National Statistics measure of fuels and lubricants costs was only 7.3% lower than in January 2015, the smallest drop since November 2014. Continuing low inflation makes the chance of an interest rate rise in the near future unlikely. Few economists expect the BoE to raise rates before late this year at the earliest, and some analysts see a risk that the BoE could instead have cut to rates below the record low of 0.5% where they have been for almost seven years. Financial markets do not currently expect interest rates to rise until the end of the decade due to concerns including a global economic slowdown and continuing low oil prices. Food prices fell by 0.6% between December and January as opposed to a 1% fall a year earlier. Supermarkets have been engaged in a long-running price war, and discounters such as Aldi and Lidl continue to take market share from the "big four" supermarkets - Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisions. But the ONS said alcohol prices rose 5.2% between December and January, with spirits increasing by 7.5%, beer climbing by 3.6%, and wine up 4.8%.

UK inflation edged up to a 12 month high in January, as a fall in petrol prices eased.

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Landlord Mr Jones, 46, died at The Blossoms public house in Holyhead on Friday afternoon. Following a stand-off with police on the roof of a neighbouring pub, a 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder. He remains in custody A family tribute read: "A partner, soul mate, father, brother, uncle and our best friend. We love you." A post mortem examination was carried out on Saturday but North Wales Police say they are not releasing Mr Jones's cause of death yet. Officers have made a specific appeal to speak to people who were on board the number four Arriva Bus which left Bangor bus station at 14:00 GMT on Friday and arrived at Summerhill in Holyhead at about 16:00. Det Chf Insp Iestyn Davies said: "It is understood that the bus was caught in traffic around the Black Bridge area of Holyhead as events at the Blossoms public house were unfolding."

The man whose death at an Anglesey pub sparked a murder investigation has been named as David Jones.

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The leak happened at the Worthy Farm site in Somerset in June 2014 and damaged water quality and killed fish. Founder Michael Eavis, who was at Yeovil Magistrates' Court, said the sewage was in a £100,000 slurry tank. The Glastonbury Festival is one of the UK's biggest music events, with some 175,000 people attending each year. During the hearing, the judge was told that 42 fish were killed by the sewage after a "large quantity" of sewage filtered into Whitelake River. Sensors in the stream alerted the Environment Agency to increased ammonia levels. The court was told fish - including protected brown trout - died as a result. Glastonbury Festival 2014 admitted the single charge against it. Prosecuting, Kieran Martyn said: "The impact was extensive... It extended for at least 4km downstream." Representing the festival, Kerry Gwyther, said the leak in the tank was a "freak incident" and not as serious as was being made out. "We don't accept that it was a major incident as described by the agency," he said. "The leak period was eight hours. We do accept that there was a significant effect on water quality and the fish health. "Significant costs were not incurred in terms of a clean up." The case has now been adjourned while both parties put together more detailed background reports. Outside court Michael Eavis said: "Of course, I'm exceedingly sorry for what's happened. "We had a problem obviously - there were 200,000 people and we were storing slurry. "It was a tank for holding farm slurry, but on this occasion we were using it for the festival sewage and it was starting to leak. "It was a brand new build, it cost me £100,000, so that's my defence." Another issue yet to be decided is the seriousness of the breach. If it is a category one offence, the festival would be in line for a fine of between £55,000 to £300,000 or, if it is deemed a category two the fine would be £20,000. The defence team told the court any fine should be in line with the company's finances. They said the festival's net profit was £84,000 a year before tax. But the prosecution said turnover was about £37m. Mr Gwyther said the site donated £2m in 2015 to a number of charities, including the Somerset Wildlife Trust and WaterAid. District Judge David Taylor said there was "significant differences between one account to another" and said there would be a four-day hearing to decide the facts before sentencing. Kasabian, Dolly Parton and Metallica headlined the festival in 2014.

The organisers of the Glastonbury Festival have admitted allowing human sewage to leak from a tank and pollute a stream.

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The port at Invergordon is providing space for storing parts for the turbines and also office accommodation. The Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited is being constructed in the Moray Firth at a cost of £2.6bn. Energy firm SSE is among the scheme's investors. A total of 84 turbines are to be installed by Seaway Heavy Lifting. The Nigg Energy Park, also on the Cromarty Firth, is also being used for the construction of the wind farm. Fife-based Burntisland Fabrications Ltd (BiFab) is manufacturing offshore jacket substructures for the scheme at its yards in Arnish on the Isle of Lewis and Burntisland and Methil in Fife.

Port of Cromarty Firth has secured two contracts related to the construction of a massive offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth.

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More than 12,600 cases were discontinued from 2014 to 2015 - one in every eight Crown Court cases. At the same time, the proportion of Crown Court cases resulting in a conviction fell below the 80% mark for the first time since 2010-11. The CPS said cases were kept under "constant review". A study of the data suggested the principal reason for the fall in the proportion of cases resulting in conviction was because of the rise in the number that were dropped by the CPS after charges had been brought. The total number of cases dropped at that point was 12,615 last year - an increase of nearly 1,700 on the year before. BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said: "In 70% of the dropped prosecutions, the CPS offered 'no evidence'. "In other words the case was discontinued at a late stage, after the defendant had pleaded not guilty, and often after many months awaiting trial." He added the figures "are likely to fuel claims that the criminal justice pendulum has swung too far in favour of victims and away from the accused". A CPS spokesman said: "All cases are kept under constant review as they progress through the criminal justice system. "If new evidence comes to light, a witness decides to no longer support a prosecution or a co-defendant pleads guilty to the offence, the CPS will then review the case. "If there is no longer sufficient evidence or if it is no longer in the public interest, the CPS will stop a prosecution." He added: "In 2014-15 the CPS offered no evidence in 8.8% per cent of cases. This compares to 8.3% the previous year and 9.4% the year before that." Nazir Afzal, former chief Crown prosecutor of the CPS for north west England, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We have to ensure that we don't have the baying crowd mentality. "There are lots of people who are desperate for cases to be brought for all sorts of reasons. "A prosecutor must look at it in the cold light of day, professionally, ensure that they recognise any issues about the credibility of the allegation and make the decision that stands up." He added: "The accused person needs to have as much information given to him about what happened. That would not necessarily make life any better for him but certainly give an understanding that maybe, just maybe, the decision was right at the outset and something has changed."

The number and proportion of prosecutions dropped at Crown Courts in England and Wales has risen to its highest level in five years.

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The European Space Agency astronaut arrived at the orbiting space lab on Monday, along with two crewmates from Russia and America. But what exactly will she be doing during her time in space? The ISS gives the chance to do scientific experiments that cannot be done on Earth, as the station offers an environment of microgravity. Here we run through a few examples of the experiments on Samantha's 'to do' list... Samantha will operate a gadget called an electromagnetic levitator, which can heat metals to 2,000°C and then cool them very quickly. This will be a chance to see what happens to different metals when they go from liquid to solid, without the effect of the Earth's gravity. It's hoped the results will reveal more about the physics of the metals and how they work. Samantha will be testing new machine technology and how well they work in space, such as this astronaut joystick. Using a joystick in space may feel very different in space compared to on Earth. So these experiments will see how being in space might affect how well an astronaut can control a space robot or space machinery. Another thing is that equipment may need to be attached to the astronaut so it doesn't float away. The testing will also see what impact this has. Samantha will be doing lots of experiments to see how being in space affects her body. For example, she will experience 16 sunrises and sunsets every day on the International Space Station and be tested to see how this affects her body clock. Another important subject is food and energy. Experiments to see how much food an astronaut would need for a long mission will be carried out. Samantha will record what she eats and her energy levels over a period of time. Other things that will be looked at include how space affects skin and why many astronauts get headaches.

Italy's first female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti, is spending almost six months on the International Space Station.

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Inverness Caledonian Thistle manager Richie Foran insists Friday's Highland derby against Ross County is the most important match of his career.

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Ball made just one replacement appearance after a rib injury picked up in October restricted his chances. "I'm really excited, there's been a lot of hard work gone in and some disappointments along the way" he said. The 19 stone seven Scarlets forward will partner Alun Wyn Jones at lock after Luke Charteris was ruled out. The hand injury suffered by Bath's Charteris and Bradley Davies' long-standing knee problem meant that Ball was the obvious choice to step in for the Six Nations opener against Italy in Rome on Sunday. Meanwhile, Newport Gwent Dragons forward Cory Hill sits on the bench ahead of uncapped Osprey Rory Thornton. The Wales camp are hopeful that Charteris will be available to face England six days later. Ball's only international start since the 2015 World Cup was in the friendly against England in May 2016. "In the Six Nations last year, I came in with an MCL (knee ligament injury), then in the autumn with my ribs as well, it's been a bit of a frustrating time for me and I hadn't hit the form I wanted to over the last year and a half" Ball told BBC Wales Sport. "I'm back playing a lot of rugby and I'm very excited to be playing [in Rome], there's always been a good log of second rows in the Wales set-up and it's up to me to put my stamp on the shirt." Autumn on the sidelines Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac described Ball as a "man on a mission" with some fine displays over the Christmas and New Year period. That came after an awkward experience in November, when he made a brief replacement appearance against Japan but missed out to Charteris, Jones and Hill against South Africa. "Being [in the Wales camp] and watching the boys playing and not being involved is heartbreaking," he said. "You always want to be here and involved in some way, sometimes it even drives you a bit more seeing boys coming in and doing well." New freedom for Italy Ball, who wins his 22nd cap in Rome, says Italy could be free to play more open rugby, conditions permitting, under new coach Conor O'Shea. "Conor O'Shea has brought something a bit different, he's freshened things up and they'll be a revived team," he added. "He was saying they've got the freedom to go out there and play, and teams like that are always dangerous." Ball and Jones will be up against Treviso's Marco Fuser and his Scottish-born partner George Biagi, now with Zebre.

Wales lock Jake Ball says he wants to put his stamp on a second-row shirt after the "heartbreak" of the 2016 autumn series.

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The industry group said sales of the fish leapt more than 50% by value - to £186.7m - and 13% by volume. British food and drink exports as a whole grew by 8.3% year-on-year to £4.9bn - the largest first quarter figure on record. FDF credited better promotion of UK goods abroad, and the weaker pound. Sterling has fallen by about 16% against the dollar since Britain voted to leave the EU last June, making UK produce more competitive overseas. Quoting UK government figures, the group said whisky had remained the top food and drink export during the period, with sales of £895.9m. This was followed by Scottish salmon and chocolate. 2016, as a whole, was a record-breaking year for food and drink exports. That momentum appears to be continuing in 2017. This is good news for the industry and the government as it seeks new markets for British goods. Exports to non-EU countries have been growing at a faster rate than those to the EU for the last couple of years. A growth rate of 40% in South Korea is pretty impressive. But that still only amounts to some £50m worth of business. Compare that to Ireland, where we generated some £854m worth of exports in the first three months of this year. Ireland remains our most important trading partner by far when it comes to food and drink. Today's figures are yet more evidence that protecting this relationship post-Brexit will be key. The rise in the value of UK salmon sales is thanks in part to rising global demand for the fish, that has been hard to meet due to widespread lice infestations that have hampered production. That has led to higher prices for salmon across the board. The weakness of sterling has also helped to make Scottish salmon less expensive than salmon from Chile and Norway. British wine exports saw the greatest growth by volume, climbing 13.8%, while the value of the UK's cheese exports jumped 29.1% to £145.3m, thanks in part to a spike in sales to France. However, while the weaker pound benefited UK exporters, the FDF said it had also pushed up costs for British businesses that bring food into the UK from abroad. As a result, the UK's food and drink trade deficit - the difference between how much the UK imports and exports - actually widened 19% to £6.2bn in the quarter. Whisky £895m Salmon £186m Chocolate £155m Cheese £145m Beer £139m Wine £133m Pork £109m Gin £108m Beef £106m Vegetables £97m Source H&M Customs and Excise The UK exports significantly more to the neighbouring European Union than it does further afield. However at 9.4%, growth in exports to non-EU countries outpaced those to the EU, which climbed 7.4%. Ian Wright, Director General of FDF, said it was "pleasing to see non-EU exports performing beyond expectations". Food and drink sales to South Korea rose 40%, driven by beer sales, while exports to South Africa grew 31% thanks to animal feed. However, Elsa Fairbanks, director of the Food & Drink Exporters Association, another trade organisation, said: "Ease of access to EU markets will continue to be vital to our industry in future as many food and drink products are not suited to export to distant markets. "Although we recognise the need to explore new opportunities, leaving the EU should not mean ignoring those we already have."

Surging sales of salmon helped the UK to export a record amount of food and drink in the first quarter of 2017, the Food and Drink Federation has said.

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Motorcycles used as taxis and known as boda bodas are time-savers for people who need to get somewhere in Tanzania's north-western city of Mwanza. They seem to be the only way to beat traffic jams. But when you get on the bike and wrap your arms around the driver, you are actually putting your life in his hands. In the first half of this year, there were more than 5,000 road accidents in Tanzania. More than a quarter of them were motorcycle accidents. Boda boda drivers are often blamed for causing the problems on Mwanza's roads. They might get you where you want to go quickly, but they have a reputation for driving recklessly. There are hundreds of them competing for fares, which increases the risk of accidents. But that is also where trainee doctor Marko Hingi saw an opportunity to turn boda boda drivers into true life-savers. He was inspired by the fact that wherever there is a medical emergency in Mwanza, there is likely to be a motorcycle taxi driver nearby. "We have human beings here and we can use them as volunteers to help," says Mr Hingi, who works at a hospital in the city. He is also head of the Tanzania Rural Health Movement, which recruits boda boda drivers and turns them into first-responders, acting like paramedics. "In the past when somebody got injured, he bled while people looked at him until he died," says Anicet Mase, one of Mr Hingi's volunteer drivers. Now Mr Mase zips around Mwanza wearing a fluorescent orange vest and a backpack full of bandages and other first-aid kit. He and the other volunteer drivers have been trained in basic first-aid, such as keeping airways open, stopping bleeding and splinting fractured bones. The drivers also have mobile phones and are linked to a system called Beacon. Mwanza's fire station receives calls reporting emergencies. A dispatcher enters the details into the Beacon software, which then sends a text message to everyone linked to the system. If a motorcycle taxi driver is nearby, he can respond to the emergency. "We've designed [the Beacon] to be used in countries that don't have the resources to implement a robust EMS [Emergency Medical Services] system," says Michael McGee, the East Africa representative of Trek Medics International, which developed Beacon and runs a similar programme in the Dominican Republic. This "robust" service involves people calling for ambulances on emergency numbers such as 999, 112 or 911. But this is expensive and does not exist in many poorer countries. It is up to the sick and injured to get to hospital any way they can. When Mr Hingi was six he remembers his sick mother walking to hospital, worrying that wild dogs would attack her on the way. That childhood memory inspired Mr Hingi's dream to become a doctor and bring ambulances to Mwanza. "Communities are suffering because they lack a good system to help them," he says. As for Mr Mase, he is driven by the idea that boda boda drivers are now given the opportunity to counter their bad reputation for putting lives at risk on the roads. A big part of his work is to deal with injuries caused on the roads. About 90% of the 1.25 million people killed every year in traffic accidents die in low and middle income countries. However, there is a limit to what motorbike drivers can do to help. Some of Tanzania's roads are in too bad a condition for them to reach patients and evacuate them safely. So, even though the motorcycles in Mwanza find it easier to avoid potholes and wind through traffic, there is work to be done before boda boda drivers can really claim to be saving lives rather than putting them at risk.

Tanzania's motorcycle taxi drivers, often associated with deadly road accidents, are being trained to become life-savers, writes Ross Velton.

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The 23-year-old has agreed a two-year deal, with the option of a third year, and will link up with the Super League club for pre-season in November. "We have been keeping an eye on Sam for a while and have been impressed with what we have seen," said Warriors head coach Shaun Wane. "It is a big step for him to make the move from the Championship but he is very determined and driven." Wane added: "I am confident under the guidance of our quality backroom staff he has both the ability and passion to become a success as a full-time professional." Hopkins joined the Centurions from amateur club Leigh East and has been a regular for the Championship side since 2011. "The Warriors are the biggest club in Super League and when I learned of their interest in me and the chance to progress my career with them, it was an easy decision to make," he said. "I am looking forward to the remainder of the season with the Centurions and can assure everyone of my commitment to try and achieve success with them for the remainder of the current season."

Wigan Warriors have signed utility back Sam Hopkins from Leigh Centurions.

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Despite taking an early lead the Teessiders were 3-2 down at half-time. "You can't question the attitude, commitment and effort, it was first class," Agnew told BBC Tees. "But we were a bit naive at times defensively, not just the back four, as a team. So we all take responsibility for that and look forward to Burnley." England defender Ben Gibson was culpable for the first two goals having failed to clear, while Hull's fourth goal came as Harry Maguire was unchallenged in the penalty area. The defeat left Boro in 19th place after 30 games, seven points behind Hull, who are one place above the relegation zone. Middlesbrough welcome Burnley to the Riverside on Saturday.

Middlesbrough's defensive "naivety" cost them in Wednesday's 4-2 Premier League defeat by Hull City, says head coach Steve Agnew.

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The synalpheus pinkfloydi uses its large pink claw to create a noise so loud it can kill small fish. The team behind the discovery vowed years ago if it ever found a new pink shrimp it would "honour" the rockers. Sammy De Grave, head of research at Oxford University Museum of National History, said he has been a fan of the band since he was a teenager. And it is not the first crustacean he's named after a rock legend, having already named a species of shrimp after Rolling Stones front man, Mick Jagger - elephantis jaggerai. He said: "I have been listening to Floyd since The Wall was released in 1979, when I was 14 years old. "The description of this new species of pistol shrimp was the perfect opportunity to finally give a nod to my favourite band. "We are all Pink Floyd fans, and we always said if we would find a pink one, a new species of pink shrimp, we would name it after Pink Floyd." The pistol, or snapping shrimp, has an ability to generate sonic energy by closing their enlarged claw at rapid speed. It can reach 210 decibels - louder than your average rock concert - and results in one of the loudest sounds in the ocean. The description of the species, found off the Pacific coast of Panama, has been published in the Zootaxa journal and was co-authored with the Universidade Federal de Goiás in Brazil, and Seattle University in the US.

A new species of shrimp has been named after Pink Floyd thanks to a pact between prog rock-loving scientists.

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About 41,000 people descended on the city's Golden Mile to mark the Hindu festival of light, with entertainment including fireworks and dancing. The lights switch on earlier this month also attracted a record attendance with 37,000 in Leicester's south Asian area. The festival, also marked by Jains and Sikhs, celebrates the victory of good over evil. At the centre of Leicester's celebrations was a 110ft (34m) ferris wheel, known as the Wheel of Light. About 6,000 coloured lamps were strung up around the city. As well as fireworks and the street lights, shops put on entertainment and there was traditional dancing and music to mark the festival. Rangoli sand art decorations and light displays also wowed the gathered crowds. The demolition of the Belgrave Flyover last year allowed for an extension of the celebration along the full length of Belgrave Road.

A record number of people celebrated Diwali in Leicester in what is thought to be the largest event outside India.

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Bu farw'r Corporal Matthew Hatfield o Wiltshire, a'r Corporal Darren Neilson o ganlyniad i anafiadau y cawson nhw yn y digwyddiad ar faes Castell Martin ddydd Mercher. Roedd y ddau yn aelodau o Gatrawd Brenhinol y Tanciau. Dywedodd yr Is-gyrnol Simon Ridgway bod y ddau yn "filwyr talentog dros ben oedd wrth eu boddau gyda'u swyddi". "Mae'r catrawd wedi colli dau gymeriad ac mae'n fraint i fod wedi gwasanaethu gyda nhw. Bydd colled ar ôl y ddau." Mae dau filwr arall yn parhau yn yr ysbyty mewn cyflwr "difrifol", un yn Nhreforys yn Abertawe, a'r llall yn Birmingham. Mae'r Weinyddiaeth Amddiffyn, Heddlu Dyfed Powys a'r Gweithgor Iechyd a Diogelwch yn cynnal ymchwiliad. Dywedodd y gweinidog sydd â chyfrifoldeb, Tobias Ellwood, bod y ddau filwr fu farw yn aelodau o Gatrawd Brenhinol y Tanciau. Mae BBC Cymru yn deall fod y digwyddiad yn ymwneud â ffrwydron yn ffrwydro o fewn tanc Challenger. Yn ôl newyddiadurwr y BBC yno, roedd y safle'n brysur fore Gwener wrth i'r ymchwiliad gael ei gynnal. Oherwydd y digwyddiad, mae'r Weinyddiaeth Amddiffyn wedi gwahardd ymarferion tanio nes eu bod yn gwybod achos y digwyddiad. Mae'r gwaharddiad mewn grym ar gyfer yr holl fyddin, ble bynnag y maen nhw yn y byd. Mae safle'r fyddin yng Nghastell Martin yn ymestyn dros 5,900 acer ar hyd arfordir Sir Benfro.

Mae enwau'r milwyr fu farw mewn digwyddiad yn ymwneud â thanc ar faes tanio'r fyddin wedi eu cyhoeddi.

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Shadow leader of the house Valerie Vaz joked that cries of "Don't panic! Don't panic!" were being heard around 10 Downing Street as the government tries to organise its policies on Brexit. Commons Leader David Lidington speculated that his Labour opposition "don't like it up 'em'". Mr Perry, who also created sitcom Hi-de-Hi, died on Sunday aged 93. During the business statement, Ms Vaz said she grew up watching Dad's Army, adding: "It struck me that you could hear those catchphrases ringing around Number 10, so we hear the cry of 'Don't panic! Don't panic!' "Or as the Prime Minister slaps down her recalcitrant and wayward colleagues you can hear her muttering 'stupid boys'. "When you ask their position on Brexit, the infamous 'don't tell 'em Pike!'." Mr Perry worked with the late producer David Croft and the pair were also responsible for It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi and You Rang M'Lord? Commons Leader David Lidington also paid tribute to Mr Perry, who often wrote the theme tunes to his shows. He said: "I thought it was a wonderful gesture when outside Buckingham Palace earlier this week the military band in the changing of the guards ceremony played the theme tune to Dad's Army as a tribute. "But I do think when I look across at the Opposition, in particular when I look at their faces during Prime Minister's Questions, the phrase that comes into my mind is 'they don't like it up 'em'." The SNP's Commons leader Pete Wishart also chipped in, saying: "I would hate to say that we are all doomed but perhaps we are under this particular Government." TV references also came up in the Commons on Wednesday at Prime Minister's Questions when Jeremy Corbyn likened Theresa May's plan for the UK leaving the UK as one of Baldrick's "cunning plans" from the Blackadder series.

MPs have paid tribute to Dad's Army creator Jimmy Perry, using his show's famous catchphrases in the Commons.

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Media playback is not supported on this device Monday's 3-0 defeat by Wales, which followed a 1-1 draw with England and a 2-1 defeat by Slovakia, meant Russia finished bottom of Group B. Uefa had threatened to disqualify Russia after violence from fans. "After a type of tournament like this, you need someone else to take charge of the national side for major competitions," Slutsky said. The 45-year-old CSKA Moscow boss succeeded Fabio Capello as Russia coach last July, but only had a contract until the end of Euro 2016. He was told by the Football Union of Russia he would have to choose between the national team and CSKA at the end of the tournament. The 2018 World Cup will be held in Russia, who qualify automatically as hosts. Create leagues and play against your friends in BBC Sport's new Euro 2016 Predictor game

Russia coach Leonid Slutsky offered his resignation after his side were knocked out of Euro 2016 at the group stage.

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The winning image, by Hadi Asadi from Iran, shows the US president wearing a jacket of dollar bills and with burning yellow hair. Organisers of the Trumpism exhibition in Tehran have held similar contests in the past on themes including the Islamic State group and the Holocaust. This year's logo is based on the Nazi emblem, with a T instead of a swastika. It encouraged many comparisons between the US president and Nazism. "The 'ism' in Trumpism is a reference to racism and Nazism," organiser Masuod Shojai Tabatabaei told the Associated Press. "Many believe his remarks are similar to Hitler. He has had a bad attitude toward media [and] refugees." The group's Holocaust-themed cartoon contest last year drew condemnation from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. But organisers said it was designed to highlight Western double standards on free speech rather than cast doubt on the Nazi genocide. Others depictions in this year's competition drew on Mr Trump's promises to build a wall on the US-Mexican border as well as violence against women and attacks on the media. Entrants include several cartoonists from the US and the UK. American Clayton Jones's artwork shows the cover of two copies of Time magazine, one with President Trump's picture and the other with Adolf Hitler. They are both are portrayed as Time's Person of the Year with Mr Trump telling Hitler: "It is a great honor" and in return Hitler replies "Ja."

Hundreds of cartoonists from around the world have taken part in a competition in Iran attacking Donald Trump.

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Andrew Jones, 34, was convicted of grievous bodily harm and robbery after he left Reg Stocking lying in a pool of blood in West Bromwich. A jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court also found him guilty of a burglary using Mr Stocking's car as a getaway. Jones, of Dingle Street, Sandwell, was remanded into custody to await sentencing on 4 December. He was also found guilty of witness intimidation. Mr Stocking's blue Peugeot 207 was taken outside his home in Chapel Street, West Bromwich. Jones hid before jumping into the car while Mr Stocking opened his driveway gate, said West Midlands Police. Mr Stocking tried to stop Jones but he was hit and dragged by the car which left him in a critical condition with serious head injuries. Jones used the car as a getaway vehicle to steal a TV from a property in Groveland Road, Tipton just hours later. He stored the TV at his ex-partner's flat in Kendrick House saying "ask no questions and I will tell no lies". His ex-partner Stacey Johnson, 26, pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods at an earlier hearing and received a 12 month community order and was ordered to pay costs of £300. Detective Inspector Pete Rowe, from West Bromwich CID, said of the conviction: "We hope that this will give some comfort to the family as their loved one continues to recover from his ordeal and injuries."

A man has been found guilty of a car-jacking attack which left a 78-year-old man wheelchair bound, a court heard.

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That was the promise made by the Prime Minister at the weekend. But it left open a number of questions - did he mean everyone, no matter how remote, what technology will be used, and who is going to pay for it? Here is what David Cameron said: "Just as our forebears effectively brought gas, electricity and water to all, we're going to bring fast broadband to every home and business that wants it." As the government has already promised to bring fast broadband to 95% of homes via the BDUK programme, this is all about reaching the final 5%. The digital minister Ed Vaizey gave further detail, explaining that the plan was to bring in a universal service obligation of 10Mbps for "the very hardest to reach homes and businesses." But does that mean every home - even those up Welsh mountains or on remote Scottish islands? Let's presume it does, though just as with the obligation on BT to provide a phone line, there may be some upper limit on the costs involved in hooking up a home. Broadband campaigners have not greeted the government's pledge with huge enthusiasm. In particular, they have derided that 10Mbps minimum as woefully inadequate. I contacted a number of them to ask what the minimum speed should be and got answers ranging from 15Mbps to 100Mbps. There was also general agreement that fibre to the home was the technology which should be employed, though a few pointed out that 4G was now providing better speeds in some areas than fixed line broadband. The problem is that, even at a minimum 10Mbps, a universal service may prove an expensive undertaking and the cost of putting a 100Mbps fibre connection in every corner of the UK could be prohibitive. When the debate about fast broadband got going, it was calculated that universal coverage might cost at least £15 billion. A government which is implementing severe cuts in public spending will not be keen to put more money into broadband - although of course it is worth remembering that most of the cash spent so far on the BDUK programme has come from the TV licence fee. And just about all of that spending has been channelled through BT, which was the only company to apply for the money in most regions. Now the former monopoly telephone supplier looks likely to be a the centre of the effort to hook up the last 5%. But even if the government wanted to spend taxpayer funds to make that happen, there will be resistance from BT's rivals. Virgin Media has already called for an end to subsidies for rural broadband, claiming the market can now do the job - although it isn't clear that it will be moving to offer cable to every remote home. Meanwhile, there are signs of a split opening up between town and country over the subsidy issue. The director of the free market Institute of Economic Affairs Mark Littlewood told Radio 4's PM that people living in remote rural areas had made that choice, and fast broadband should not be a right. Rural broadband campaigners hit back. John Popham, who advises rural communities wanting to get connected, told me there was already a widening gap between town and country: "For me the issue is that urban connections are getting faster. Stuff is then developed to take advantage of those fast connections which is then inaccessible to rural users." Many of those campaigners have been deeply sceptical about BT's strategy for rolling out fast broadband, and some have joined calls for its Openreach division, which operates the fibre and copper networks, to be sold off. But here's the paradox - the move to make fast broadband a right for everyone could end up strengthening BT's hand. If it is asked to meet a Universal Service Obligation, without being offered subsidies to make that feasible, then the company will want something in return. It is Ofcom, not ministers, which is currently pondering whether Openreach should be sold off. But the regulator will be hearing strong arguments that a divided BT will not be in good shape to help the Prime Minister fulfil his promises on fast broadband.

So, every home and business across the UK can now have fast broadband if they want it.

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"We have big ideas for the future, and part of making them happen is building Instagram into a sustainable business," it said. Ads will appear in a few months and involve just a handful of firms. Instagram was bought by Facebook for $1bn (£619m), but has never made a profit. The company, which now has 150 million users, has been a favourite among consumers but has long left analysts wondering how it could turn enthusiasm among photographers into a business model. Early efforts by Instagram to generate revenue were met with user backlash, such as when the company changed the terms of service to seemingly indicate that it would own user images and could sell those images to advertisers. The failure of this move was acknowledged in the company's posting. "As always, you own your own photos and videos. The introduction of advertising won't change this," it said. In an interview earlier this year with the BBC, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom said that Instagram must "fund its own future." Social media advertising is a booming business in the US. According to research firm eMarketer, advertisers will spend $9.5bn on social network ads worldwide this year. Facebook has boosted its efforts to gain a larger share of this ad spending. This year, the company's share of global mobile ad revenues will rise to 15.8% from 5.35% last year.

The photo sharing service Instagram announced it will start placing ads in US users photo streams in a posting on its website.

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Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) reported 2,405 insolvencies between April and June - 7.8% up on the previous quarter. There were 1,144 bankruptcies, which was up 14.7% on the previous quarter and 51.1% more than a year ago. However, AiB said the figures showed a "return to trend". A year ago, the number of personal insolvencies in Scotland fell to its lowest level for more than 14 years following the introduction of the Bankruptcy and Debt Advice (Scotland) Act. The legislation introduced new measures such as mandatory money advice for people seeking access to statutory debt relief solutions such as sequestration. Although the latest bankruptcy figures were sharply up on a year ago, they were 41.7% lower than the same quarter in 2013-14 and 34.9% lower than in 2014-15. Personal insolvencies include both bankruptcies and protected trust deeds (PTDs). The number of PTDs recorded between April and June remained largely stable at 1,261, a 2.1% increase from the previous quarter. New debt payment programmes approved under the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS) fell slightly by 5.2% on the previous quarter, to 510. Quarterly figures for bankruptcies and PTDs since 2005-06: Business Minister Paul Wheelhouse said: "These figures indicate that people are becoming more accustomed to the new insolvency legislation and processes. "We are now seeing the numbers settling down to a more regular pattern following the significant, and expected, drop after the introduction of the new laws. "Compared to the same quarter from two years ago, prior to these changes, the number of people falling into insolvency today is down by more than a third. "This shows those most in need can access the debt relief they require to help them on the road to a fresh financial start - but also that the long term movement is a downward one." Eileen Blackburn, from insolvency trade body R3, said: "This quarterly rise, driven mostly by an increase in bankruptcies, bucks the wider downward trend in Scottish personal insolvencies we've seen in past years. "The number of insolvencies have been falling steadily since their peak in 2012, and this quarter represents a return to more stable levels. "The rise is probably less do with the EU referendum result, which only happened towards the very end of the quarter, and more to do with ongoing difficulties in the Scottish economy and the end of the financial year in March."

Personal insolvency numbers have returned to "relative stability" in Scotland following the introduction last year of new bankruptcy legislation, according to officials.

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The Dow Jones rose 78 points, or 0.44%, to 17,918.62. The wider S&P 500 index was up 11.18 points to 2,099.73, while the tech-focused Nasdaq climbed 36.26 points to 4,859.16. Data from the Institute for Supply Management showed the US services sector, which accounts for two-thirds of the US economy, picked up in June. The US trade deficit however increased by 10% as the stronger dollar led to decreasing exports. Pharmaceutical companies led the market gains. Horizon Pharma climbed 4.7%, while Progenics Pharmaceuticals was up 9.3%. Biotech firms AbbVie and Biogen each rose 2.3% after European regulators approved a new multiple sclerosis drug. Tech firms also had a strong day. Facebook's shares climbed 2.4%. Google's parent company Alphabet was up 0.6%.

(Closed): US stocks shook off early losses to close higher on Wednesday led by gains in tech and health care.

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The 40-year-old, from the South Bank area of Teesside, was discovered on the A66 in the early hours "in a distressed state" with wounds to his groin after the attack. The road, from Greystones Roundabout to Church Lane in Middlesbrough, was shut earlier while searches of the area were carried out. It has now reopened. A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault and later bailed. Cleveland Police said the injured man had been placed in an induced coma in hospital. The force said in a statement: "Police can confirm that the man found this morning on the A66 had wounds to his groin area. "Officers are continuing to investigate and are appealing for anyone with information to contact them."

A man has been found by the side of a road with his penis cut off.

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Lesbos used to get more than 5,000 a day. On Monday there were just four. But with Europe's borders closed, more than 50,000 migrants remain in Greece waiting for a decision about their futures. Angus Crawford visited three sites to find out how they are living. Miracle is sleeping. He cannot tell me anything about the conditions in Moria camp. He is unaware of the smell of raw sewage that hangs around the entrance gate. He does not know about the fighting between migrants that insiders say breaks out on a regular basis. Luckily on Tuesday the tear gas fired by police at young migrants throwing stones never reached him. He does not have to stand in line for hours to get food. Miracle is just 10 months old and is strapped to his mother's back. She tells me her name is Blessing. She says she is Nigerian, a Christian from Kano, and that she left because of the Islamist militants, Boko Haram. I have no way of independently checking her story. But here she is in Moria, once a transit camp for migrants, now since the EU deal with Turkey, a detention centre, run by central government. There are several thousand people inside even though it was never built to house so many. It is another sign of how Greece was simply overwhelmed by the numbers who came, while itself in the middle of an economic crisis. Most of those who arrived before March 20, the start of the EU-Turkey agreement, are free to come and go, but cannot leave the island. Those who came after that date are locked in, waiting for a decision about their asylum claims. Moria's chain link fence, topped with razor wire, snakes on its way up into olive groves. It surrounds a collection of converted shipping containers, large white plastic shelters and small tents. I meet one man who says simply, "in here, I fear for my life". 'A hellish Glastonbury' Five minutes drive away, another camp. There is no razor wire, no police guarding the gate. The first thing I see is an electronic display board. It reads "the camp director wishes you a pleasant and safe stay". There are orderly lines of white UN refugee agency tents. Children run up and down the pathways between them. This is run by the council, for migrants who arrived before the 20th, and for the vulnerable: families with children, pregnant women and the disabled. They can leave the camp, but not Lesbos. One aid worker tells me it is the best camp he has seen. It sits on top of a hill, surrounded on three sides by the Aegean. In the distance lie the ruins of a castle. The facilities may be better and site picturesque, but those who I meet inside tell me it is still in effect an open air waiting room. Amiyah is 19 and from Damascus. The rest of her family are in Germany. But she cannot join them. Abdul, who is 16, complains about the food and says everyone is getting sick. Tareq tells me he had only €50 left after paying a smuggler, but yesterday even that was stolen. The migrant crisis in seven charts The Plaza is an eight storey hotel not far from the centre of Athens. It has three stars and more than 60 rooms. There are more than 140 guests, but none of them have to pay to stay. The hotel was a casualty of the economic crash, going bankrupt in 2010 and closing its doors. But last Friday a group of activists and former workers unlawfully reopened the Plaza, with migrants as guests. The reception is manned by volunteers 24 hours a day and the kitchen turns out food. There are more than 70 children staying here. When we visit there is laughter and singing from the playroom on the first floor. And in a rack by the entrance, yellowing maps of Athens still waiting for the tourists who never came.

There has been a dramatic reduction in the number of migrants arriving in Greece since an agreement between Turkey and the EU came into force.

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Lawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League fixtures is two-time world darts champion Adrian 'Jackpot' Lewis. Lewis, who won the PDC title in 2011 and 2012, will be taking part in the new Champions League of Darts competition, which will be shown on BBC Sport in September. He is a Stoke City fan, and went to his first game at the age of six at the Potters' former home, the Victoria Ground. "My granddad took me and he told me we were going conker picking," Lewis said. "I just remember walking there and seeing everyone wearing the same shirt. "My favourite Stoke player when I was growing up was Paul Peschisolido - I named my goldfish 'Peschi' after him. Now we've got the likes of Bojan Krkic and Xherdan Shaqiri, which shows how far we have come as a club. "If you asked me about how this season has gone for us a month ago, I would have said 'brilliant' but the last four games have not gone to plan. Hopefully we can do a bit better this week." You can hear more of Lewis' tales of following the Potters on Football Focus at 12:10 BST on Saturday on BBC One and the BBC Sport website. A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points. Last weekend, Lawro got seven correct results, including three perfect scores from 10 Premier League matches, to give him a total of 160 points - his joint-highest of the season. He still only drew with comedian Nathan Caton, who also got seven results correct, with three perfect scores. Make your own predictions now, compare them to Lawro and other fans and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game. All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated Lawro's prediction: 0-2 Lewis' prediction: 1-2 Match report Lawro's prediction: 1-2 Lewis' prediction: Newcastle still have a fighting chance of staying up. 0-1 Match report Lawro's prediction: 1-1 Lewis' prediction: 1-1 Match report Lawro's prediction: 0-1 Lewis' prediction: I am hoping Stoke can get the job done here. 1-2 Match report Lawro's prediction: 1-1 Lewis' prediction: Chelsea will want to finish the season on a high. 0-2 Match report Lawro's prediction: 2-0 Lewis' prediction: 2-1 Match report Lawro's prediction: 1-1 Lewis' prediction: Leicester will still be on a high and I can see Everton nicking it. 0-1 Match report Lawro's prediction: 1-1 Lewis's prediction: With Tottenham's disappointment at missing out on the title I can see a draw. 1-1 Match report Lawro's prediction: 2-0 Lewis' prediction: This will be comfortable for Liverpool. 3-0 Match report Lawro's prediction: 2-1 Lewis' prediction: 2-2 Match report Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan. Lawro's best score: 160 points (week 19 v Guy Mowbray and week 36 v Nathan Caton) Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week one v Graeme Swann & week 23 v Ice Cube and Kevin Hart)

BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.

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Thomas Buckett, now 21, fell 15ft (4.5m) through a skylight at Clayton Hall Business and Language College, Staffordshire, in May 2010. He shattered one side of his skull and was in a critical condition for two weeks. A compensation claim launched by his family was thrown out on Monday. Judge Main QC heard Mr Buckett had been left with "a legacy of significant physical, intellectual and behavioural dysfunction" but found that the injuries "arose directly from his own actions". He heard Mr Buckett was part of a group of youths that had earlier broken into the college and engaged in "vandalism, criminal damage and dishonest criminal behaviour", including stealing items from the tuck shop. The judge, sitting at Telford County Court, concluded the group had moved on to explore part of the roof and Mr Buckett had probably jumped down on to the skylight, "thinking it would hold his weight and not with the intention of breaking it". While criticising a Staffordshire County Council risk assessment and saying such a trespass incident should have been foreseen, Judge Main found in favour of the authority and dismissed the claim. The Buckett family has declined to comment. Their solicitors described the judge's ruling as "extremely disappointing". Dianne Yates, partner at Birchall Blackburn Law, said the judge had dismissed legal arguments in respect to the "criminal behaviour", but had not been able to award damages due to case law. "Thomas has suffered life-changing injuries and the family is now looking at how they can ensure he has sufficient care going forward," she said. In a statement, Staffordshire County Council described it as a "terrible incident" that had "a profound and life-changing impact on Thomas and his family". "However, our decision to defend this case was about fairness to the taxpayer," council chief executive John Tradewell said. He said it was not fair for public money to be used for compensation under these circumstances. "The county council will continue to help Thomas access the care and support he needs to live as fulfilling a life as possible." The family was ordered to pay £150,000 costs.

The family of a teenager left with severe head injuries after a roof fall has been ordered to pay £150,000 after losing a compensation claim.

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The 27-year-old Frenchman played 29 times for Leyton Orient in 2016-17, as they were relegated from League Two. He was out of contract, having joined the O's from Portsmouth on an 18-month deal in January 2016. Atangana made his name in England with Havant and Waterlooville, winning their player of the year in his solitary season at Westleigh Park before joining Pompey in 2014. He is the third close-season signing made by Cheltenham boss Gary Johnson - who himself signed a new contract on Friday - after Yeovil midfielder Kevin Dawson and Dover defender Jamie Grimes. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Cheltenham Town have signed midfielder Nigel Atangana on a two-year deal.

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The "fully-guided" tours will take place at weekends, when the specially-built set on the Harewood Estate in Leeds is not being used for filming. They will take in "the familiar haunts of Home Farm, Bob's Cafe and The Woolpack", a spokeswoman said. She added they had been launched as a result of the "incredible success" of the Coronation Street tours. About 850,000 visitors looked around the famous cobbled streets of Weatherfield before the tour was closed to allow redevelopment of the site. Emmerdale moved to the purpose-built set in 1998 after the number of fans visiting its original location, the West Yorkshire village of Esholt, made filming difficult. The new tours will take place on 10 Saturdays in April, July, August and October. The head of ITV North, John Whiston, said the set was "a unique and special place", which the company were "excited to be able to show off to a select number of visitors". Unlike those at Coronation Street, the Emmerdale tours will not offer the chance to see the interior sets, which are housed at studios near Leeds city centre.

Soap fans will be able to take a tour of Emmerdale from April, ITV have announced.

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The England centre, 24, whose deal at Welford Road runs out next summer, is attracting interest from several sides. "We are having some very positive discussions with Manu and and we are very positive about him staying here," Cockerill told BBC Radio Leicester. "Manu is world class. Clearly people are trying to lure him to smaller clubs by offering him huge amounts of money." Reports had suggested Tuilagi had been offered £1.6 million over three years by Worcester Warriors, although Warriors director of rugby Dean Ryan said on Wednesday there was no truth in the claims. Wasps director of rugby Dai Young also said his club have made no move for the England centre, but Saracens, Bristol and Toulouse are also thought to be interested. Samoa-born Tuilagi, who joined Leicester as a youngster and has since won 25 caps for England, has been offered a new deal by the Tigers. "I didn't think other clubs were allowed to speak with him until 1 January, so that surprises me," Cockerill added. "Manu is a sensible lad and I am sure we will come to a sensible conclusion and all indications are that it's the case. "I am confident that Manu will stay. He has a lot of rugby left in him. "He is a good lad. We have looked after him very well and we are confident he will stay a Leicester player."

Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill believes other clubs are offering big money to Manu Tuilagi.

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Celia Castedo told Bolivian media said she had warned that the plane had barely enough fuel to reach the destination in Colombia. Ms Castedo is in Brazil where she is seeking asylum. The crash killed 71 people, including most of the Chapecoense football team. The plane was taking the team to Colombia for the final of a regional tournament when it ran out of fuel, plunging into a mountainside near the city of Medellin. In a leaked tape, the pilot, Miguel Quiroga, can be heard warning of a "total electric failure" and "lack of fuel". In her letter (in Spanish) published in the Bolivian media, Ms Castedo, who worked in air traffic control, said she had no authority to stop the doomed flight, saying that was with Bolivia's civil aviation agency. She said that instead of authorising the flight, she had tried to stop it, accusing unnamed superiors of a cover-up. "I was subjected to harassment and pressure from my superiors... who ordered me to change the content of the report which hours earlier [before the flight] I had presented," she wrote. "Based on a careful examination, I had made five observations, one of the most important of which referred to the fuel economy of the flight, which happened to be equal to the flight time." Bolivia's Public Works Minister, Milton Claros, dismissed Ms Castedo's allegations. "There were no observations made to the flight plan,'' Associated Press quoted him as saying, with the minister accusing Castedo of fabricating the document after the crash to cover-up her own errors. Other Bolivian officials have urged the Brazilian authorities to return her, with one saying Ms Castedo was trying to escape justice. The head of the flight's operator, Gustavo Vargas, has been arrested over the crash. Just six people survived. One of them, crew member Erwin Tumuri, said an initial stop for refuelling in the northern Bolivian city of Cobija had been dropped by the pilot. There was no warning to the crew or the passengers that the plane was facing electrical or fuel problems, Mr Tumuri told Brazil's Globo TV.

A Bolivian aviation official says she was pressured by her bosses into changing a flight report she made for the plane that crashed last week with Brazilian team Chapocoense on board.

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The aim of the scheme was to increase bank lending by up to £70bn. The government changed the rules in January 2014, with this type of funding is no longer used to support mortgage lending. The scheme aimed to bolster the economy, by halting a downward spiral of lending and borrowing that the UK had experienced since the onset of the credit crunch and international banking crisis. Banks and building societies are able to access the funds until the end of January 2015. How does it work? In essence, the Bank of England is letting commercial banks borrow funds from it cheaply, so that the banks then pass this on in the form of cheap loans to firms. What is the point? The point is to encourage the UK's commercial banks to borrow more money, and more cheaply than at present, so they can then in turn lend it to companies who wish to borrow. Is it working? The debate is fierce. Some report banks are still unwilling to lend to business. Others say businesses are unwilling to take on new debt and are paying back loans. Either way, repayments are rising faster than borrowing, leaving the latest "net" lending figure (for the first quarter of 2014) down. So what are the mechanics of FLS? Banks and other lenders approach the Bank of England, if they want. They swap assets they already have, such as loans, with the Bank. It in turn provides them with pieces of paper known as Treasury bills, for a four-year period. The commercial banks are then able to use these bits of paper as top quality backing with which to borrow cash in the wholesale financial markets, from other lenders. With the Treasury's backing, the idea is that they will be able to borrow funds at very cheap rates. How will the taxpayer be protected in this arrangement? The collateral pledged by commercial banks will have to be worth more than the high-grade paper being offered by the Bank of England. So, for every £1 of Treasury bills they borrow, the assets being pledged will have to be worth, say, £1.10 or £1.20. Thus if the value of that asset subsequently falls, the Bank of England will not suffer from the top slice of any loss. What about savers? They have suffered an unforeseen knock-on effect of FLS. The availability of cheap funds from the Bank means that lenders do not need to try so hard to attract funds from the general public, to then lend on to borrowers. That is why it is now almost impossible to find a savings account offering more than 3% interest.

Funding for Lending (FLS), the Bank of England and Treasury scheme, initially to boost bank lending to households and companies, opened for business at the beginning of August 2012.

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - a charity worker accused of security offences - was detained while trying to leave the country with her baby daughter after visiting relatives in April 2016. Her family denies she broke any laws. Her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, who is from London, said his wife's detention was a "stain" on Iran. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, who works for the charity the Thomson Reuters Foundation, has been detained in Iran since her arrest last year. The couple's two-year-old daughter has remained in Iran after the government confiscated her passport, and is being looked after by her grandparents. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family said in September that a Revolutionary Court had handed down the five-year term. She was accused of allegedly plotting to topple the government in Tehran, but the official charges against her were not made public. According to Mr Ratcliffe, his wife's appeal was dismissed in a secret hearing of an Iranian Revolutionary Court on 4 January but only announced on 22 January. In a statement, her husband said the precise charges against her remain secret, but that two new accusations were made at her appeal. One was that she had been head of recruitment for the BBC's Farsi service when it was launched in 2009. Her family say she worked on a BBC training project for youth in Afghanistan and Iran, but never worked for BBC Farsi. The other charge was that she was married to a British spy. Mr Ratcliffe is an accountant. Monique Villa, chief executive of Thomson Reuters Foundation said she is "outraged by this new mockery of justice", and reiterated Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe never worked for BBC Farsi and that her husband "is not a spy but a reputable accountant". "I am fully convinced of Nazanin's innocence," she added. Francesca Unsworth, BBC World Service Group director, said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had briefly worked for charity BBC Media Action in a "junior administrative capacity" but had never worked for BBC Persian. "In any case, to suggest that being employed by BBC Persian is tantamount to 'acting against national security' is patently ludicrous," Ms Unsworth added. Mr Ratcliffe said: "The lack of justice in Nazanin's case continues to be a stain on Iran. The continued attempt to frame Nazanin behind secrets and lies brings shame. "It is a needless waste of a mother and child's life for their own political bargains and economic interests." Iran does not recognize dual nationalities, meaning those detained cannot receive consular assistance. Since her imprisonment, her family have campaigned on her behalf, highlighting her deteriorating health while in jail and her anguish at her separation from her daughter.

A court in Iran has rejected an appeal against a five-year prison sentence given to a woman with dual British and Iranian citizenship.

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He recently arrived at the camp in the northern town of Bentiu having walked 129km (80 miles) alone for four days and nights from Leer, a small town in Unity State, scene of the most recent fighting in the country. He says that fighting between rival forces prompted him to leave his family and flee to the camp. The fear had become too much for him. "At night they would come and start shooting at us and we would disperse," says Kai. "We used to run into the swamp and hide there with only our heads above the water." He cannot remember how many days he spent hiding in the swamps. The family cattle had been stolen, his brother who looked after the herd with him, killed, and his home destroyed. Having sought refuge, he worries about the family he left behind. "I don't know if they are safe, if they are alive or dead because there is ongoing fighting. And now I'm torn between two things - to go to school or to return home to bring my parents." Former Botswana President Festus Mogae, who chairs a commission that monitors the 2015 peace agreement, says the ongoing hostility might trigger an "uncontrolled escalation of violence". Fighting has been reported around Yei in the south-east, Leer in the north, and Nasir in the north-east. As a consequence of the deteriorating security situation, transporting goods by road is severely hampered. And commodity prices have risen as inflation hit 700%. Humanitarian organisations have been forced to rely heavily on air transport, a much more expensive alternative. Planes carrying grain, pulses and vegetable oil fly daily from the capital, Juba, or Gambella in Ethiopia and drop hundreds of tonnes of food stuff on drop zones near camps where people have fled. Even fuel for vehicles and generators is transported by air. The UN children's agency Unicef says the escalating crisis means that they have to increase supplies, staff and security officers. "Malnutrition in Northern Bahr al-Ghazal has gone up threefold and so we have to have three times the amount of supplies to respond to the children's needs," says Mahimbo Mdoe, Unicef's representative in South Sudan. The situation, he says, is "dire" with up to six million children affected. He warns that unless things change, the situation could get worse for civilians, especially women and children, and it would also be harder for humanitarian workers to reach them. In August, the UN Security Council passed a resolution creating a regional Regional Protection Force (RPF) whose mandate would include securing Juba as a neutral ground in the power struggle between President Salva Kiir and his sacked Vice-President Riek Machar. South Sudan's government has agreed to the deployment but with conditions. President Salva Kiir's spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny said that the government would determine "where the troops come from and where the protection force would be based". If, and when an agreement is reached, it will take several more months before the force arrives in South Sudan. The Joint Monitoring Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) estimates that it would take at least three months for contributing countries to prepare and deploy the troops. The commission also says that the peace agreement signed in August 2015 is still on course, even though Mr Machar remains out of the country and government, whereas he was named vice-president under the deal. Find out more about South Sudan: Deputy chairperson Lt Gen Augostino Njoroge said the JMEC has been advised by the regional heads of state to continue working with the government of South Sudan, including newly appointed Vice-President Taban Deng as the representative of Mr Machar's side. "Whatever differences there are within their side, they will be able to solve them and we should not stop implementing the agreement because it has much more," said Gen Njoroge. Mr Machar fled South Sudan for a second time in July, days after fierce fighting broke out between forces loyal to him and those loyal to President Kiir. He is currently in South Africa, and it remains unclear if or when he will be allowed to return to South Sudan. But with no quick solutions in sight, the lives of millions of South Sudanese remain in limbo, and for the hundreds of thousands trapped in camps, all they can do is wait for a lasting agreement. As for Kai, he now has a chance to go to school, but his message to the leaders of this troubled new nation is that they should stop the fighting.

Eleven-year-old Kai Tap sits alone looking pensive as he watches other children sing and play at Eden school inside a civilian protection site run by the United Nations in South Sudan.

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The teenager was walking on the Ancrum Road crossing, near the junction with Ancrum Drive, when she was hit by a black Ford Fiesta at about 17:20 on Monday. She is receiving treatment at Ninewells Hospital. Police Scotland have appealed for witnesses to contact them.

A 15-year-old girl has suffered a serious head injury after being hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing in Dundee.

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Ardit Ferizi from Kosovo pleaded guilty to charges of providing material support to America's enemies, at a court hearing in Virginia. The computer hacker shared the personal data of more than 1,000 American military and government personnel. The jail term imposed by the US court is the maximum sentence for his crime. Ferizi, who was known online as Th3Dir3ctorY, was arrested in Malaysia in October 2015 and extradited to the US in January this year. Speaking after the verdict, US Assistant Attorney General John Carlin described the attack as carrying a very real and dangerous threat to US national security. In a statement in June, the US Department of Justice said the case was the first of its kind and represented "the nexus of the terror and cyber-threats". It said Ferizi handed the list to IS knowing it could incite the group to attack the individuals named in it. Information about the names, email addresses, passwords, locations and phone numbers for about 1,350 military personnel and federal staff came from several servers that Ferizi hacked into. He targeted both machines in US government offices and corporate computers. After he has served his sentence, he will be deported to Kosovo and barred from re-entering the US.

A 21-year-old has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the US after passing details on American military personnel to so-called Islamic State (IS).

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The raiders drove into the Metro Bank branch at Babbage Gate, Oakgrove in Milton Keynes at 04:20 BST, police said. The cash machine was put in a dark 4x4, and the thieves drove off in that vehicle and a white VW Golf. Police are appealing for anyone with mobile phone footage of the raid to get in touch. Ray Cardy, who walked past the bank shortly after the raid, said: "The dumper truck had been driven through the front doors, turned round and smashed the ATM from behind. "The remains of it were on the footpath - the dumper's engine was still running." A Metro Bank spokeswoman declined to reveal how much money had been taken.

Four balaclava-clad men smashed a dumper truck into the front of a bank and escaped with its cash machine.

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The huts, and the luxury items inside, belong to Dairo Antonio Usuga David, better known as Otoniel, one of the most wanted men in Colombia. Currently some 1,200 members of the security forces are chasing the elusive gang leader. That is more than double the 500 who hunted Pablo Escobar, the drug lord who controlled the infamous cocaine cartel of the same name. Otoniel runs the Usuga clan, a drug gang that has its powerbase in the Uraba region of Colombia, but whose network extends across the country and beyond. Members of the gang have been arrested as far away as Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Peru and Spain. The US Department of State describes it as a "heavily armed, extremely violent criminal organisation". It is offering up to $5m (£3.4m) for information leading to Otoniel's arrest. Otoniel has been in charge since his brother, Juan de Dios, was killed on 1 January 2012 when police raided his New Year's Eve party. The gang is first and foremost engaged in drug trafficking, but it has also been accused of extortion, illegal mining, forced disappearances and murder. It is very much a family business. Otoniel's partner, Blanca Senobia Madrid Benjumea, was in charge of the group's finances until her capture last month. His nephew, Harlison Usuga, looked after the drug traffic routes north to Central America and liaised with Mexican drug cartels until he, too, was captured in February. Over the past five years, the security forces have captured a whopping 6,700 members of the group. But its leader has evaded them so far. Last month, they launched a massive and costly operation to catch the elusive gang leader. Sources linked to the operation say $225,000 was spent on tracking down Otoniel in the first 25 days of the hunt. The people tasked with arresting him have been given clear orders from President Juan Manuel Santos and Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon: Do not leave Uraba until you have caught Otoniel and have dismantled the whole clan. So far, the security forces have seized 5.5 tonnes of cocaine, and destroyed a number of coca crops and laboratories that turn leaves into cocaine. But they have yet to find Otoniel. His uncanny ability to dodge the security forces is partly due to his family's close ties to the region. Otoniel was born in Uraba and knows the region like the back of his hand. Most importantly, through threats and intimidation he has gained almost total control over the local community. When he called on locals to down tools to mark his brother's death at the hand of the police, the region came to a standstill for several days. When people in the region hear Otoniel's name mentioned, they react with fear. It is hard for the security forces to gain people's trust here, and it is something they have not yet fully managed. Moreover, Otoniel uses a variety of tricks to evade the police. He has trained dogs to alert him to anyone approaching his hide-outs. Police recently managed to catch one of his guard dogs and have trained him to go after Otoniel's. Oto, as police have called the poacher turned hunter, is well acquainted with his former master's smell and is considered a superb addition to the team tracking him down. The police have come close to Otoniel several times, finding in a number of hide-outs the distinctive orthopaedic mattresses he uses to ease back pain from a herniated disk. They hope their search will soon yield results and that they will be able to send Otoniel to the confines of a high-security jail where he is unlikely to enjoy such comforts.

Widescreen TV sets hooked up to satellite dishes, expensive drinks and perfumes - these are just some of the luxury items Colombian police have found in huts in the otherwise poor rural area of Uraba, in western Colombia.

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Mark Piper is jointly charged with murdering Levi Blu. Levi died in 2013 of internal bleeding. His mother Danielle Cassin is also accused of murder. A woman told a jury at Birmingham Crown Court she saw Mr Piper being violent with his other child, who was five at the time, in 2012. The incident happened in the living room of Mr Piper's Chelmsley Wood home after he banned the youngster from playing on a games console, she said. The witness said Mr Piper swore at his son and dragged him out the room before poking and prodding him in the face by the stairs. "He (the child) was crying," said the woman, who met 31-year-old Mr Piper through a mutual friend. "He punched him in his stomach at the same time on the stairs. It was hard, enough to hurt him. "I have never seen anyone hitting a kid like that. It was rough. It was how you would hit your friends messing about. The little boy was crying. He was really upset." But Paul Lewis QC, defending Mr Piper, wanted to know why the punch was not mentioned in her original police statement. "I was lying (to the police)," she said. "I didn't want to seem like a grass." Mr Lewis questioned how she could be sure about the words Mr Piper had used when she made her police statement months after the incident. He highlighted a message sent by the witness about Piper which said: "He loves all his kids and looks after them well. I just don't understand all this." Levi was found at the flat his parents shared in Nightingale Avenue, Chelmsley Wood, on 20 February 2013. Both Ms Cassin, 27, of Frensham Close, Chelmsley Wood, and Mr Piper, of no fixed abode, deny murder. They also deny causing or allowing the death of Levi and causing him suffering. The trial continues.

A man accused of murdering his 22-month-old son in Birmingham had previously punched his other son in the stomach, a court heard.

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Gary Neville, from Cupar Way, Belfast, raised £930 at a charity fundraising music night he organised last year. He was prosecuted for failing to give the cash to the Neuroblastoma Children's Cancer charity. Oscar Knox, a five-year-old boy from Glengormley, County Antrim, died from the rare and aggressive cancer in May. The child's story captured the attention of the Northern Ireland public as each step of his cancer battle was followed on social networking sites. Neville's solicitor told the court his 33-year-old client was "utterly ashamed" of his actions. The lawyer said he had got into financial difficulty and was under threat of eviction from his home. He added that Neville had written a letter of apology to the the Knox family. Sentencing him to eight months in prison, the judge said it was absolutely shocking he would use circumstances such as a child's death for financial gain. Neville, who is currently in prison for other offences, was told his term will run concurrently with his sentence. The Knox family set up the Oscar Knox Appeal and still use the networking sites to raise awareness and funds for organisations helping children with Neuroblastoma.

A disc jockey has been jailed for eight months for stealing money from a children's cancer charity linked to the Oscar Knox appeal.

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The Conservatives claimed the amount councils are spending on education is at its lowest level for six years. But the Scottish government said the figures being quoted were "inaccurate and misleading". Each council decides for itself just how much to spend on education although some important costs like teachers' pay are set nationally. The Conservatives claimed official government figures said spending on education by councils had fallen to its lowest level for six years. They said councils spent £4.67 billion between them last year - down £140m on the previous year. The government said the Conservatives' figures were wrong as some of the numbers quoted were not directly comparable. Scottish Conservative education spokeswoman Mary Scanlon said: "At a time when the schools budget in England has been protected, these new figures reveal another cut in funding for schools in Scotland. "The cost of this is clear. In England the number of full-time teachers has increased by more than 3,000 between 2010 and 2013. "But in Scotland, over the same period, the numbers have fallen by around 1,000. "This is the price schools are paying for the SNP's failure to take any responsibility for our schools system and undertake the reforms that are necessary to turn it around. "It's not good enough for them to blame others - the cuts to spending and the fall in literacy and numeracy standards is happening on the SNP's watch." But the Scottish government insisted the Conservatives' use of figures is wrong. A Scottish government spokesperson said: "This comparison is completely inaccurate and misleading, as it compares net expenditure in 2014/15 with gross expenditure for past years. Provisional outturn was higher in 2014-15 than it was in 2013-14. "We also know councils are planning to spend 3.3% more on the delivery of education in 2015-16 - the largest increase in six years. "We know spending per pupil is significantly higher in Scotland than England. "Despite Westminster austerity, we remain wholly committed to mitigating the effects of welfare cuts and ensuring our education system is resourced to continue to meet the needs of children, parents, schools and communities." The largest teaching union, the EIS, said education budgets had been under pressure, but had little sympathy for the Conservatives' claims. General secretary Larry Flanagan said: "The damaging age of austerity imposed by the UK government has had a significant detrimental impact on the funding available to public services in Scotland. "Education has not been immune from the downward pressure on Scottish government and local authority budgets, and this had led to serious challenges in our schools owing to declining teacher numbers, lack of school resources and rising class sizes. "The attempt by the Tory party, however, to exploit the impact of an austerity programme which they are imposing seems somewhat hypocritical. "Scottish education needs additional resources but it does not need the type of retrograde policies pursued so disastrously in England by the likes of Michael Gove." Each council decides for itself just how much to spend on education, although some important costs like teachers' pay are set nationally. However, councils receive the overwhelming bulk of their money from the Scottish government. Education is the biggest service councils provide, and the biggest challenge facing councils just now is money. Typically about 80% of each council's budget comes from the Scottish government. Council tax, which makes up most of the rest, has been frozen since 2007. The latest council funding agreement obliged councils to maintain teacher numbers or risk losing money. Some councils objected to this - arguing this amounted to micro-management in their affairs, and claiming there was more to raising attainment in schools than simply maintaining teacher numbers. While the government strongly disputes the Conservatives' use of figures, there is little doubt that some council education budgets are under scrutiny as councils continue to look for savings. In recent months four councils looked at reducing the length of the primary school week, while services such as school libraries have also been under the spotlight. The Scottish government - which currently receives all its money from Westminster - argues it has been trying to do its best for councils in the face of tight funding settlements and believes the council tax freeze has been a help to family budgets. However, critics point out that councils are left with little practical control of the size of their overall budgets.

A row has broken out over claims councils have slashed their education budgets.

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He was unseated as Royal Ascot winner Permian was fatally injured after coming last in the Secretariat Stakes at Arlington on 12 August. Buick, 29, suffered a compression of his T12 vertebrae and he will be assessed again in six weeks. "I have plenty of respect for the injury and I realise how lucky I have been," he said. Buick is one of the leading jockeys in Britain, and a retained rider for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin team. Permian, trained by Mark Johnston, suffered a broken leg and was put down.

Jockey William Buick will be sidelined for at least six weeks after being injured in a fall in the United States.

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The victim alleged that former Senator Wilfred Krichefski carried out the attack with another man. In a 2008 police statement, the victim said he was taken by a member of staff who said: "I have a boy for you, sir." It was the first time details of the allegations against Mr Krichefski have been heard in a public hearing. The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry is hearing evidence of abuse at the home in the 1960s and 1970s. No witnesses gave evidence in person, but statements given to police and the historical redress scheme were read out by the counsel to the inquiry on Friday. In the statement read out at the inquiry, the witness described being taken to a staff room where the abuse by Mr Krichefski and another man allegedly took place. The inquiry heard that the member of staff knocked on the door and said "I have a boy for you, sir", before telling the witness: "You go in and I'll be back to get you later." He said Mr Krichefski then asked: "Do you know why you're here?" The witness said in his statement that he replied: "For being truant." The un-named witness told the police Mr Krichefski went on to say it was because he was "wicked and no-one really cares for you". The boy was threatened with not being allowed to leave the home if he spoke about any of it. He said Mr Krichefski told him: "Do not say anything to anyone, if you carry on being a good boy you will not be here very long." When he was older, he told hospital doctors about the abuse and said he was immediately sectioned and taken to St Saviour's Hospital, where he was told to forget about what he had said. The inquiry continues.

A former Jersey politician raped a boy in the staff room of the Haut de la Garenne children's home, an inquiry into the care system has heard.

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They're not the usual topics for a top 40 chart act, but that's exactly what alt-pop band Everything Everything have been writing about over the past year. "After we'd finished the record, I read the lyrics back and I realised I'd written a horror bible," says frontman Jonathan Higgs. He's not exaggerating. The band's third album, Get To Heaven, is mired in violence and destruction. "I'm going to kill a stranger, so don't you be a stranger," Higgs sings over a menacing electronic pulse on No Reptiles (he's playing a character, he's keen to stress). The lyrics were inspired when the Manchester band took a year off from touring, and Higgs started watching rolling news on a loop. "It all just funnelled into me day after day," he says. "It screwed me up - the violence of that year -and it came out in the music. It became impossible not to talk about it." The story that affected him the most was that of Alan Henning - the Salford taxi driver who was delivering aid to Syria when he was kidnapped, then beheaded, by Islamic State militants. "He was reasonably local to me. An ordinary guy. A taxi driver, for God's sake. And he went out there and he was beheaded by someone else from Britain - Jihadi John. That's what was so shocking. "It really tore me up. It upset me an awful lot. I wanted to badly to understand why this guy had gone there and cut this other guy's head off. Any way I looked at it, I couldn't make sense of it. I tried my hardest and got very embroiled in it." Higgs' confusion and despair poured into a song called To The Blade, which opens the album. "His bow was his anger and his blade was this cursed time," he sings as guitars splutter and strafe beneath him. The lyrics are ugly and Higgs, who suffers from depression, admits the writing of the album affected his mental health. "I knew I was in a dark place," he says. "I was essentially trying to inhabit the minds of the [extremists] that do this stuff and saying 'could I ever do it myself?' "And the answer is yes, maybe I could. And that's a really horrible thing to face." "It's very dodgy ground to even talk about," he adds, "but if you really want to solve this thing, you can't just put it in a box and hide it under the bed and drop bombs on it and hope it goes away." The album offers no solutions, but Higgs wants it to be a call to arms. "Get involved. Don't ignore the things around you. Try to be a good person. It's simple stuff but I'm certain there's a lot of people who, like me, feel helpless and passive and lost in modern life. "I'm really only saying 'do you feel like this, too? Let's talk about it.'" To help disseminate the message, the music provides a hopeful counterpoint to Higgs' bloodthirsty lyrics. The rave chords, syncopated bass lines and soaring guitar figures are a "Trojan horse", he explains, disguising the bubbling "lava of doom" beneath the surface. But he lets slip that the "positive, bright" sound was a condition laid down by the rest of the band, who had grown concerned their singer's world view was unpalatable. When they rejected a song called Pigdog on the grounds it was dripping with self-loathing, Higgs began to agree. "The only way to contain these themes was to do it in a way that tries to escape them and rise above it," he explains. "That's where we met each other, was these pop tunes with horror beneath." The approach enabled the band to smuggle their message onto daytime BBC Radio 1, something the singer is quietly proud of. "Nobody else is doing that," he grins. "And that's something we've actually been pretty successful with in the past, too. "One of our first singles, My Kz Ur Bf, was essentially about an airstrike on innocent people but it was couched in a way that you couldn't really tell unless you listened to what I was saying. And most people couldn't tell because of the way I was singing." Ah yes, that voice. Higgs' vocals are something of an acquired taste. They flit flamboyantly between a raspy alto and the keening siren of his falsetto. One review of the new album called it "almost unlistenable" as a result - although the vast majority of critics awarded it five star ratings. The record was overseen by dance producer Stuart Price, more famous for his work with Madonna and Kylie than edgy art-pop acts like Everything Everything. "We were very worried he was going to pop-ify us or make us bland," Higgs admits. "But he got it. He really understood where we were coming from. He never suggested a softer approach." For all but the last 10 days of recording, Price worked at arm's length - receiving demos over the internet, making a few tweaks, and sending them back to the band. His contribution was a "nous about radio" and "how sound works," Higgs explains. "He can make your record sound like it's exploding out of a speaker rather than passing you by." But the band aren't necessarily aiming for number one singles and festival headline slots. "We're becoming more relaxed. We're aware that the moments we've attempted to make ourselves more palatable are the moments we've had the least success." He's talking specifically about Duet - a delicate, string quartet-assisted love song from their last album. Speaking to the BBC in January 2013, Higgs called it "one of the few proper songs I've written". But a single release failed to make the Top 100 later that year. "I thought that was going to be a huge thing for us but it really wasn't," he muses. "I don't think proper songs is where we should be going. "The bigger things for us are when we were being our weird idiot, idiosyncratic selves. "So that's where we are and that's where we're staying." Get To Heaven is released on Monday, 17 June on Sony RCA.

Ebola, missing airplanes, beheadings, the rise of UKIP.

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Media playback is not supported on this device Sadio Mane scored twice in the space of 138 seconds as second-placed Spurs disappointed at Anfield. "If you start a game like we start then it is very difficult," said Pochettino. "It is difficult to fight for the Premier League if you show that lack of desire to play for a win." Chelsea can extend their lead at the top if they beat Burnley at Turf Moor on Sunday, and Pochettino added: "If Chelsea go 12 points clear, it is a big problem." Spurs have won just twice on the road since 24 September, including defeats at Chelsea and Manchester United in addition to draws at fellow top-six rivals Arsenal and Manchester City. In their past 17 meetings with the other top-six sides away from home, Pochettino's team have won just once. "In the first 45 minutes you saw a team that is not ready to fight for the Premier League," the Argentine told BT Sport. "We are in a position that is up to us. But if you show like today that you cannot cope with the pressure then it is difficult to challenge and fight for the Premier League." Former Liverpool and Spurs midfielder Danny Murphy on Match of the Day "I couldn't believe what I was watching, they had the best defensive record last season and the joint best this year, but they were all over the place. Against the big sides they have played with a back three but they had a back four today, but I think they should have stuck with what they have done against the big sides - play with a three. "It was so unlike Spurs, they do so well at home, but the contrast is amazing. There's a lack of pace, and a different mindset when they go away from home. They have to improve and quickly."

Tottenham showed a "lack of desire" to win the Premier League with their first-half display in the 2-0 loss at Liverpool, says manager Mauricio Pochettino.

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Media playback is not supported on this device The visitors led briefly through Vasil Lobzhanidze's early try, but the Scots raced ahead through Tommy Seymour, a penalty try, Sean Maitland and Stuart Hogg before the break. Hamish Watson extended the lead, battling over soon after half-time. Lobzhanidze bagged a second from a huge Georgian scrum, before Hogg finished off a searing counter-attack. Before the Scottish points deluge, it was the Georgians who opened the scoring. It was a soft one, with Lobzhanidze, the visitors' scrum-half, darting down the blind-side of a scrum where Seymour should have halted him, but didn't. The wing made amends soon after when Hogg dinked a kick behind the Georgian defence for Seymour to run on to. In the foot-race, Seymour beat Lobzhanidze to the touch-down. It was questionable that Seymour got downward pressure on the ball, but the try was given and Scotland went ahead when Laidlaw swept over the conversion from the touchline. The floodgates began to open. Scotland owned possession and territory and got their reward when a rolling maul, destined for the try-line, was hauled to the floor by the Georgian lock, Kote Mikautadze. Scotland got a penalty try, converted by Laidlaw, and Mikautadze got the sin-bin. Merab Kvirikashvili landed a penalty but Scotland motored on regardless. Maitland scored after multiple Scotland phases and Laidlaw added the conversion and a penalty just after. There were 30 minutes gone and Scotland had 91% possession. Media playback is not supported on this device Georgia, living off scraps, put over another penalty to make it 24-11 but Hogg's try stretched the lead again. There was ambition and luck at its heart. There was nothing on for the full-back, so he chanced his arm, dinked a kick over the top and chased like hell. The breaking ball took a vicious bounce away from the covering Alexandre Todua and landed kindly in the onrushing Hogg's hands. Away he went for Scotland's fourth try, once again converted from out wide by Laidlaw. The fifth came early in the second half, Watson coming round the corner of a scrum and blasting his way over. The conversion made it 38-11. It was the belated catalyst for Georgia to get some ball of their own. They scored their second try when shoving Scotland to kingdom come in the scrum. They shunted their hosts over their own line and the dot down for Lobzhanidze was a formality. Georgia's scrum continued to cause a newly disjointed and error-prone Scotland problems. Moray Low was yellow-carded in the midst of this for another buckled scrum. The hosts had a rousing finish, though. Ali Price was only three minutes into his debut when he tapped a penalty and went from deep in his own half. Rory Hughes, another substitute, was on Price's shoulder and he in turn found Hogg who ran in his second and Scotland's sixth. Scotland head coach Vern Cotter: "It was a good first half. We scored three pretty quick tries, and we held the ball so they couldn't access the game as they would have liked. We kept the ball down the other end, and when they gave it back to us, we managed to counter-attack and get points. "In the second half, the game seemed to open up a little, it was a wet ball and it was cold out there, so the transmissions weren't as neat and quick as we'd like. And they were very good over the ball. "But I thought we did things pragmatically, kept them out of it and scored points when we had to. "I think there's been a good shift in the way we approach these games and manage them, and Greig (Laidlaw)'s done a great job in that with his guys around him. And we just keep improving." Scotland: 15-Stuart Hogg, 14-Sean Maitland, 13-Mark Bennett, 12-Alex Dunbar, 11-Tommy Seymour, 10-Finn Russell, 9-Greig Laidlaw (capt); 1-Allan Dell, 2-Ross Ford, 3-Zander Fagerson, 4-Richie Gray, 5-Jonny Gray, 6-Rob Harley, 7-Hamish Watson, 8-Ryan Wilson. Replacements: 16-Fraser Brown, 17-Alex Allan, 18-Moray Low, 19-Grant Gilchrist, 20-John Barclay, 21-Ali Price, 22-Pete Horne, 23-Rory Hughes. Georgia: 15-Merab Kvirikashvili, 14-Giorgi Aptsiauri, 13-Merab Sharikadze, 12-Tamaz Mchedlidze, 11-Sandro Todua, 10-Lasha Malaguradze, 9-Vasil Lobzhanidze; 1-Mikheil Nariashvili, 2-Jaba Bregvadze, 3-Levan Chilachava, 4-Kote Mikautadze, 5-Giorgi Nemsadze, 6-Vito Kolelishvili, 7-Mamuka Gorgodze (capt), 8-Beka Bitsadze. Replacements: 16-Badri Alkhazashvili, 17-Kakha Asieshvili, 18-Dudu Kubriashvili, 19-Lasha Lomidze, 20-Giorgi Tkhilaishvili, 21-Giorgi Begadze, 22-Beka Tsiklauri, 23-Shalva Sutiashvili

Scotland ran in six tries to conclude their trio of autumn internationals with a 43-16 victory over Georgia.

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Murray, 25, who has already secured Rio Olympic qualification, was down in 21st after the fencing round. Strong swimming and run-shoot combined events helped her climb to ninth and reach Sunday's final in Bath. She is joined by Great Britain team-mates Kate French, Freyja Prentice and Francesca Summers. Britain will claim the maximum of two Olympic berths for the women's event if any of the GB athletes - other than Murray - can finish in the top eight in Sunday's final at the University of Bath. "I sometimes struggle to find that spark and have the same adrenalin that I do in the final during qualification," said Murray, who was fourth in the women's team event alongside Mhairi Spence on Wednesday. "Hopefully I can step things up at the weekend," she added. World junior champion Summers, who won Youth Olympic silver in 2014, secured the last automatic qualification place in the first of the combined heats. "I took lots of confidence from winning world junior gold in Mexico," she told BBC Sport. "It's a big step-up in standard, but the target was to reach the final and I'm so happy I've done that." On Saturday Jamie Cooke, Tom Toolis and Joe Choong will compete in the men's final knowing a top-eight finish will attain them a Rio Olympic qualification.

Olympic silver medallist Samantha Murray recovered from a difficult start to remain on course for a first individual European pentathlon title.

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All 42 of its member clubs are expected to take strict disciplinary measures against fans who indulge in anti-social behaviour during matches. The updated guidance, which comes into force immediately, states that home clubs are responsible for "good order and security". Clubs are also urged to step up efforts to identify culprits. Under the previous rules, clubs could argue that they had taken all practical steps to deter misbehaviour inside their stadiums. Now they must been seen to actively pursue cases and take "appropriate" action against the perpetrators. In June, following disorder at the Scottish Cup final, Justice Secretary Michael Matheson called for "a transparent and robust scheme" to prevent and deal with unacceptable conduct. He went on to warn: "The Scottish government is prepared to act if Scottish football isn't." On the rule changes, SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said: "The SPFL and its member clubs are committed to preventing and to addressing unacceptable conduct where it arises, to ensure our stadiums are friendly, welcoming and safe environments where all supporters can enjoy Scottish football. "This ongoing work includes this updated guidance for clubs which sets out the reasonably practicable measures that member clubs can take to address this issue and to identify and sanction those who engage in unacceptable conduct. "It has been fully consulted on with all 42 clubs, the Scottish FA and the Scottish Government and, indeed, dialogue continues with the Government on a number of further measures which will be discussed early this year."

The Scottish Professional Football League has issued new regulations aimed at tackling supporter misconduct.

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Nashat Melhem was tracked down to a mosque in his home town of Arara and killed in a gun battle, police said. The attacks sparked a huge hunt and security alert across the country. Police said Melhem, 29, was the gunman who killed two Israelis at a bar, then the Israeli Arab driver of a taxi who picked him up after the attack. Security camera footage showed a suspect taking an automatic rifle out of his backpack and then firing at least 15 shots at people in the street before fleeing the scene. Alon Bakal, 26, who was a manager at the bar, and Shimon Ruimi, 30, were killed. Taxi driver Amin Shaban died after being found critically injured in the north of the city shortly after the shootings. Melhem's father, Mohammed, identified his son as the suspect and reported him to the police. Mohammed Melhem and several relatives have been arrested in connection with the case. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated security forces, who he said had "worked tirelessly, methodically and professionally to locate and eliminate the terrorist". Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said Melhem was shot dead after opening fire. A witness, Hakim Younis, told Israel's Channel 10 TV he saw a fierce gun battle, the Associated Press news agency reported "I was sitting on my balcony with my cousin... when suddenly shooting began, hundreds of bullets, like in a war," he said. Police have not yet established a motive for the Tel Aviv killings. Israel was already on high alert amid a wave of attacks on Israelis by Palestinians and some Israeli Arabs which have killed 22 Israelis since the beginning of October. During that time 149 Palestinians - more than half said by Israel to be attackers - have been shot dead by security forces or their victims. Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces. One Israeli Arab was also shot dead after carrying out an attack at a bus station in southern Israel in October in which an Israeli soldier was killed.

An Israeli Arab wanted for shooting dead three people in Tel Aviv on 1 January has been killed by security forces in northern Israel.

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I've previously blogged about the strategy's controversial plans to create banning orders for extremist groups. Prime Minister David Cameron wants to go further than create new punitive powers and, like his predecessor Tony Blair, reset the public debate on community cohesion and society's duty in combating all extremism. The government has already introduced two fundamental changes to how it wants to prevent violent extremism. Ministers have already cut funding to Muslim groups whom they suspect of harbouring views that are anathema to a liberal open democracy. Secondly, public bodies including schools and universities are now under a duty to prevent people being drawn into extremism. Mr Cameron now argues that fighting extremism demands a greater response from society by finding ways to intervene before someone has gone down the road that leads to violence - and his plans were first set out in July. He argued that his starting point was that the UK was "a successful, multi-racial, multi-faith democracy" to which Muslims had made a "profound contribution". They and wider society, he said, now need to dismantle the component parts of extremist ideology. This is easier said than done. For instance, the prime minister said he wants the government to work with and use people who understand the true nature of so-called Islamic State to prevent younger people listening to its recruitment sergeants. The government is talking about new specific deradicalisation programmes and "empowering" the UK's Syrians, Iraqis and Kurds to take a lead role in speaking out. How exactly they plan to do this remains unclear - not least because there are very few people who are qualified to carry out deradicalisation work. The recent case of a Blackburn teenager who plotted terrorism on the other side of the world shows how such work can ultimately be in vain. The elephant in the room is, of course, the internet. Ministers are trying to persuade social media companies to spend more of their dotcom millions on crushing extremism. Many of these firms think there is only so much they can do when ISIS recruits continually relaunch themselves online under a new guise. Ministers are talking about social media bans for extremist preachers - but research shows that militants spread the message through innovative ways that are harder to stop. The government wants to create powers to curtail the activity of "extremists", even if they don't break hate laws or incite violence. Ministers argue that these people provide succour to those who want to use violence. One of the plans is to create powers to close "mosques" where extremists meet. Just putting aside the anecdotal evidence that recruitment regularly happens anywhere but the mosque, this idea was in fact first proposed 10 years ago by Tony Blair. And what that tells us is some of these proposals will ultimately come down to a fight over how to define extremism in an open society - and whether a policy aspiration can become clear and workable law. Expect serious legal fireworks in Parliament and in the courts for years to come. Minister say extremists are overpowering normal Muslim voices. The strategy is full of pitfalls. Back in January two ministers, the Muslim peer Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon and the then communities secretary Eric Pickles, wrote to imams in the wake of the Paris attacks. Critics within the community said the letter amounted to an accusation that Muslims were "inherently apart" from British society. The ministers believe the letter was taken the wrong way - not least because it said quite explicitly that Muslim and British values were the same. Today's plan to throw £5m over the next six months at groups prepared to join government in combating militants is likely to face some of the same critics - but it will also be welcomed by many community organisations who are crying out for funding and support to challenge extremism where they find it. David Cameron says he wants a more cohesive society - but that's terribly difficult to define and back-up in policy. For instance, in July he said there would be a review of how immigrants learn English. On the very same day, the Times Education Supplement reported the government's skills agency was cutting funding for language courses that were specifically targeted at integration into the workplace. This government isn't the first to talk about improving community cohesion. Labour began debating this after the 2001 northern riots and the official report that warned that people were living "parallel lives". So the challenge, ultimately, is whether the latest lot of ministers can do any better.

What does the government's counter-extremism strategy really amount to?

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Martin went to the German Occupation Museum to see what life was like for a family living on Guernsey in World War II.

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The Waking the Dragon tower was granted permission by Wrexham council back in February 2011. Businessman Simon Wingett is trying to raise £2.5m to build the bronze sculpture, cultural centre and gardens at Chirk Park. Councillors are expected to grant the extension at a meeting on Tuesday. The 23.5m (77ft)-high dragon with wings spanning 57m (187ft) would stand on top of a 41.5m (147ft) tower at the former colliery site. Mr Wingett has said the sculpture will rival other well-known landmarks such as the Angel of the North, but time is running out on planning permission for the project granted back in 2011. He hopes to raise £1m for the visitor attraction from the public, with the rest of the cash raised through loans from Finance Wales and grants from the Welsh Government. In a report to the council's planning committee, officers say the development would be a "significant tourism draw to the area". Councillors are recommended to approve the extension allowing Mr Wingett five more years to commence building at the site.

A man hoping to build an 224ft-high Welsh dragon tower on the English border will ask councillors for an extra five years to start the project.

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Neither side had amassed more than 215 in an innings in the previous three Tests and India, who lead 2-0, were struggling on 66-3 and 139-6 in Delhi. But Ajinkya Rahane hit 89 not out in half-century partnerships with Virat Kohli (44) and Ravindra Jadeja (24). Recalled fast bowler Kyle Abbott (3-23) and spinner Dane Piedt (4-101) were the only South African wicket takers. Piedt, 25, playing just his second Test, took four of the first five wickets to fall, including that of Kohli whose fluent 70-run stand with Rahane was ended in bizarre fashion. The India captain, who won the toss for a fourth time, smashed a full-blooded sweep into Temba Bavuma at short-leg and after the ball ballooned into the air, wicketkeeper Dane Vilas dived forward to take the catch. That sparked a mini collapse with three wickets falling for three runs before Rahane, who hit two sixes and nine boundaries in his first half century at home, steadied the innings and took India beyond 200. Rahane was helped by Jadeja, whose 59-ball innings was ended by a smart Dean Elgar catch at midwicket off the bowling of Abbott. South African Abbott, who had earlier bowled Cheteshwar Pujara and Wriddhiman Saha, conceded just 23 runs in 17 overs to continue his push to start the four-Test series against England, which begins on 26 December in Durban.

India finished the opening day of the final Test against South Africa on 231-7 - the highest score of the series.

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The Academies Enterprise Trust (AET), which runs Weston Academy, said it made the "sad decision", due to falling pupil numbers. The 56-pupil school was classed as "inadequate" by Ofsted in March. A petition set up by parent George Metcalf, describing closing the school as a "huge waste of resources" attracted more than 500 signatures. The campaign won the backing of the National Secular Society as parents claimed the nearest alternatives were all faith schools. The school was placed in special measures following an Ofsted report in March which criticised leadership and management, pupils' behaviour, the quality of teaching and achievement of pupils. But in May the watchdog reported that teaching and leadership was improving. AET said the school had less than 40 pupils and the Department for Education had confirmed its agreement to closing the school at the end of December. Chief executive Ian Comfort said: "Closing a small school is always a very sad decision to make, and is only taken as a very last resort. "The declining numbers at Weston, however, have been making it increasingly difficult for the school to provide pupils with the quality of education they deserve. I am sure they will all thrive in their new schools and we wish them, and the staff, every success in the future."

An Isle of Wight primary school is to close, despite a parents' campaign to keep it open.

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All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated. Everton v Bournemouth Newcastle v Crystal Palace Stoke v Sunderland Watford v Aston Villa West Brom v West Ham Arsenal v Norwich (17:30 BST)

Match previews for Saturday's six Premier League fixtures, with relegation rivals Newcastle, Norwich and Sunderland all in action.

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The IMF said the mainland should reduce foreign exchange intervention. China's currency is widely seen as undervalued and the country was accused for years of suppressing the yuan in order to boost exports. China says it is trying to manage the yuan's value against other currencies. Analysts say that in reality it is still pegged to the dollar. The IMF also said fiscal stimulus should be China's "first line of defence" in its economic slowdown. It predicted China's growth would stabilise at around 6% by 2017. The IMF also recommended there should be an emphasis on supporting private consumption. China's economy grew by 7% in the first quarter of the year, a large figure by Western standards, but the lowest for the country since the financial crisis of 2009. Last year its growth slowed to its weakest in 24 years, expanding by 7.4% in 2014 down from 7.7% in 2013. Foreign exchange and reform In April, the US Treasury Department said China's currency needed to appreciate further "to bring about the necessary internal rebalancing towards household consumption". It did not label the country as a currency manipulator, however, and said China had made progress, with its "real effective exchange rate appreciating meaningfully over the past six months". But the US said further appreciation was needed to prevent the yuan becoming more undervalued, particularly as the mainland continued to see productivity growth greater than its major trading partners. In its latest economic outlook for the Asia Pacific the IMF said the mainland needed reforms that "reorient the economy away from excessive reliance on real estate, heavy industry, and external demand". It said China should implement "without delay" a blueprint of reforms that was introduced in 2013 - including a clampdown on risky credit activity such as shadow banking. It said the reforms were critical to sustainable growth. In its Thursday report, the IMF forecast an expansion of 5.5% for the wider Asia Pacific region over the next two years. Consumption was the main engine of growth across the region, it said, except in Japan where consumption was not as robust. It said world growth would to pick up modestly to 3.5% in 2015 and to 3.7% in 2016.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said China should continue to provide "greater flexibility" in its exchange rate policy as the country continues to see slower growth.

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Its comment came after similar bunting was removed from Masham in North Yorkshire amid concerns its weight when wet might bend posts. Rad Wagon, who organised the 2,000 miniature knitted jerseys, said they had been "carefully weighed". The council said it had "no fears" it might get heavy and "pull things over". Knitters were asked to contribute to campaigns to decorate the routes of both the Yorkshire stage of the race on 5 and 6 July, and the Cambridge stage on 7 July by knitting tiny jerseys in the Tour de France colours. However, last week bunting was removed from Masham by North Yorkshire County Council over safety concerns. A spokesperson said: "We noticed that the lighting columns were leaning and in the interest of safety we asked for it to be taken down." The bunting was subsequently hung elsewhere in the town. Mr Wagon said he had taken precautions to ensure the miniature jerseys knitted to decorate the streets of Cambridge would not cause any damage. "We have a lot of knitting friends who are also engineers at the university and we have carefully weighed the jerseys when both dry and soaking wet. "We are also using short lengths of twine which means there will not be too many jerseys on each individual line of bunting," he said. All the information had been passed to the contractors employed by the council to hang the bunting and other decorations, Mr Wagon added. Asked whether Cambridgeshire's council might experience similar issues to those in Yorkshire, a spokesman said: "We have no such concerns. "All street furniture being used in Cambridge will have been checked appropriately. "We have no such fears about it getting wet and pulling anything over." The bunting is being hung around the city this week.

Cambridge lampposts are sturdy enough not to buckle under the weight of bunting knitted for the Tour de France, the county council has said.

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West Midlands Police said there was a "sweet irony" to officers using the centre for forced entry training when it had been paid for by money paid into the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) fund. The base in Aston, Birmingham was largely paid for by a £30,000 donation from the fund, police said. Last year West Midlands Police spent £800,000 of POCA cash on projects. The money is mainly used to fund community crime prevention projects and comes from money convicted criminals have been ordered to pay back.

Ill-gotten gains recovered from criminals have paid for a new training centre for police staff.

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Libor - or London inter-bank offered rate - is used by banks to set the cost of lending money to each other. The New York attorney-general, Eric Schneiderman said government bodies and not-for-profit organisations had been defrauded of millions of dollars. The Libor scandal has already cost Barclays $453m. That sum was paid to the US Justice Department, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the UK's Financial Services Authority in 2012. As part of the latest legal settlement, Barclays admitted what had already been firmly established; that some of its dealers rigged Libor rates in a system of mutual back-scratching between 2005 and 2009. Mr Schneiderman said: "There has to be one set of rules for everyone, no matter how rich or how powerful, and that includes big banks and other financial institutions that engage in fraud or impair the fair functioning of financial markets." Other banks that have reached settlements with the US authorities in similar Libor cases include UBS, which paid $1.5bn (£940m), RBS, Deutsche Bank and ICAP. But Mr Schneiderman said Barclays was the first bank to settle cases brought by individual US state authorities. For its part, Barclays said it was "pleased" to have settled this latest legal threat in the US. "We believe this settlement is in the best interests of our shareholders and clients," it said.

Barclays bank has paid a further $100m (£77m) to settle a claim by 44 US states that it rigged the Libor rate system between 2005 and 2009.

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This year's award was won jointly by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian peace activist, and Yemeni pro-democracy campaigner Tawakkol Karman. They were recognised for their "non-violent struggle" for women's safety and for women's rights to participate in peace-building work. Chinese lawyer Liu Xiaobo won in 2010. Each of this year's winners was presented with a gold medal and a diploma. The prize money of $1.5 million (£958,000) will be shared between them. Mrs Sirleaf, 72, is Africa's first elected female head of state and is credited with helping to end Liberia's 14 year civil war. The announcement of her award came days before the country's presidential election. She went on to win a run-off poll last month but her rival boycotted the vote alleging the first round was rigged. The Liberian president told delegates that she was honoured to be following in the footsteps of the Africans who had won the prize before her, including South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Kofi Annan, the Ghana-born former UN secretary-general. Mrs Sirleaf also expressed her "deepest sympathy" for the people of Norway in the wake of the twin attacks carried out by Anders Behring Breivik on 22 July that led to the deaths of 77 people. "On behalf of all the women of Liberia, the women of Africa, and women everywhere in the world who have struggled for peace, justice and equality, I accept with humility the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace," she said. Ms Gbowee, 39, led a peaceful campaign to end Liberia's civil war and oust its ex-President Charles Taylor. She said: "I am humbled and honoured to have been selected and I receive the prize in the name of women who continue to work for peace, equality and justice across the world." "I believe that the prize this year not only recognises our struggle in Liberia and Yemen. "It is in recognition and honour of the struggles of grass roots women in Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire [Ivory Coast], Tunisia, in Palestine and Israel, and in every troubled corner of the world." Ms Karman, a 32-year-old mother of three, founded the organisation Women Journalists Without Chains in 2005 and becomes the first Arab woman to win the prize. 'Freedom and dignity' Addressing the audience in Arabic, she said: "Thank you for the award, which I consider as an honour to me personally, to my country Yemen, to Arab women, to all women of the world, and to all people aspiring to freedom and dignity. Recent Nobel Peace Prize winners "I accept the award on my behalf and on behalf of the Yemeni and Arab revolutionary youth, who are leading today's peaceful struggle against tyranny and corruption with moral courage and political wisdom." Speaking before the presentation at Oslo's City Hall, Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said: "We congratulate this year's winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. "You represent one of the most important motive forces for change in today's world, the struggle for human rights in general and the struggle of women for equality and peace in particular." The Nobel committee received a record 241 nominations for the 2011 prize. The first Nobel peace prize was awarded in 1901 and the award takes its name from the Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been presented to three women at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

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Media playback is not supported on this device The 30-year-old London 2012 gold medallist recorded 8.18m in his final jump to win ahead of Uruguay's Emiliano Lasa (7.96m). Holly Bradshaw set a new British women's pole vault record of 4.80m. There was a minute's silence before the event for the victims of Monday's attack in the city. Twenty-two people were killed and another 116 were injured by a suicide bomber as the crowd left a performance by US singer Ariana Grande at the Manchester Arena. The Great City Games, which is staged in the city centre, was given the go-ahead by council and police on Tuesday. The Great Manchester Run will also go ahead this Sunday and will be covered on BBC One from 12:30-14:30 BST. Friday's competition was the first major event in Manchester since the attack and drew thousands to a sunny Deansgate and Albert Square. The latter, which three days ago hosted a vigil for those who lost their lives in the attack, was the scene for a stellar display from Rutherford. His jump of 8.08m in his second attempt had already ensured victory before his final effort, which saw him extend his lead further. "It's been absolutely amazing to get you all out here in support of us," said Rutherford afterwards. "It's been an incredibly difficult week for everybody and I'm so pleased we can come here and give you something to smile about and enjoy. "Manchester is one of my favourite cities in the world to go to. I love it for the football and I love it for all you guys getting behind us in sport. "It truly is a special place." Media playback is not supported on this device It was a superb evening for Bradshaw, who beat her own personal best before going on to surpass her own British record in the pole vault. Starting at 4.50m, the 25-year-old from Preston cleared at the third attempt to ensure victory over her rivals, with fellow Britons Rachel Gibbons and Sally Peake and Belgium's Chloe Henry all failing to go higher than 4m. She then went on to surpass the mark of 4.71m she set in 2012 before also clearing 4.80m at the first attempt. "It was a bit nerve-wracking at the start," Bradshaw, who was sixth at London 2012 and fifth four years later in Rio, told BBC Sport. "But there were great conditions. Once I got in the zone, to jump 4.72 and then 4.80 I am really chuffed. "Training has been going great. I am in the best shape I have ever been in. I just need to stay healthy, keep sharp and build momentum going into the majors." Media playback is not supported on this device Jonnie Peacock eased to victory in the T44 men's 100m in 10.92 seconds, accelerating to pull well ahead of his three challengers. South Africa's Arnu Fourie was second (11.25secs), with Michail Seitis third (11.39) and Italy's Emanuele di Marino fourth (12.18). "We had a massive shift on technical aspects last year and had just six months to get them right before the Olympics but we improved a lot," Peacock told BBC Sport. "I still have a lot to improve. My first five metres today were terrible." Sophie Kamlish made it a British double in the event with victory in the T44 women's 100m, beating Dutch three-time Paralympic gold medallist Marlou van Rhijn by 0.02secs in a time of 13.24. On the specially laid track on Deansgate, Asha Philip pipped Australian Sally Pearson to the win the women's 100m in a time of 11.48secs. Pearson made up for that disappointment by winning the final race of the evening - the 100m hurdles - in 12.81secs. Another Briton, James Dasaolu, clocked 10.25 to take the men's 100m after 41-year-old Kim Collins, who claimed gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, pulled up with cramp. American Johnny Dutch, who was coaxed out of retirement last year, impressed in the men's 200m hurdles with a time of 22.48secs, comfortably beating a British trio led by Sebastian Rodger (22.89). There was a surprise result in the men's 150m as Greece's Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas claimed a personal best of 15.04secs to see off the challenge of Britain's Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, who also ran a PB of 15.22. Fellow Briton Richard Kilty was third in 15.43.

Britain's Greg Rutherford claimed a resounding long-jump victory at the Great City Games in front of a big crowd in Manchester's Albert Square.

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The Care Inspectorate gave Nithsdale House in Pollokshields, Glasgow, a score of one - the lowest possible - across three areas examined. Weaknesses at Drumpellier Lodge in the city's Bargeddie area were also found. The home received the second lowest rating in three areas examined. The inspections took place in February. An unannounced inspection visit was carried out at Nithsdale House, in Shields Road, Pollokshields, on 21 February. The care home, which is run by Lotus Senior Living Ltd, was given a score of one (unsatisfactory) for its quality of care and support; its quality of environment and its quality of staffing. The home's quality of management and leadership received the second lowest score of two (weak). Inspectors also noted that there had been "very little progress" following an earlier inspection which had already highlighted concerns. A spokesman for the Care Inspectorate said: "We continue to have serious concerns about the quality of care being provided to residents at this service. "Whilst we noted some improvement in some areas following a previous inspection, significant concerns remain over the service's performance in relation to ensuring the health and wellbeing of residents." The spokesman said inspectors had "observed poor practice in relation to administering medication". He added: "We have informed the service of the improvements which it must make to ensure that residents' needs are met and their rights respected. "We will continue to work with them to ensure they improve, but unless we see evidence of significant improvement, we will not hesitate to take further action." An unannounced inspection visit was carried out at Drumpellier Lodge, Coatbridge Road, Bargeddie, on 6 February. The care home, which is run by Clancare Ltd, was given a score of two (weak) for its quality of care and support; its quality of management and leadership and its quality of staffing.Inspectors found that 10 requirements for improvement, made at a previous inspection, were not met. A spokesman for the Care Inspectorate said: "We continue to have concerns about the quality of care and support being provided at this service and are working closely with them to ensure they meet the standards we expect. "We have told the service the areas it must take urgent action on to improve. "If we are not satisfied that improvement is being made we will not hesitate to take further action."

Inspectors have called for major improvements at two privately-run elderly care homes after finding problems during recent visits.

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At a campaign rally, he called the South Carolina senator an "idiot" and then told the crowd to try the number. A Politico reporter called the number on Tuesday, and Mr Graham answered. Mr Graham recently called Mr Trump "a jackass" and condemned the real estate mogul's comments about Senator John McCain. Mr Trump has come under increasing criticism from fellow Republicans and veterans groups after he appeared to disparage Mr McCain's war record. "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured," he said, referring to Mr McCain's time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Recent national polls show Mr Trump with a double-digit lead over his closest Republican rival. However the polling was mostly conducted before the controversial comments about Mr McCain. His rivals are becoming increasingly frustrated as Mr Trump continues to dominate the media coverage of the crowded Republican race. Mr Trump has drawn headlines since he called undocumented Mexican immigrants "rapists" and "criminals" when he launched his campaign in June. "The world is literally falling apart… and all we're talking about is Donald Trump," Mr Graham told CNN on Monday. To question the military record of Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war tortured so brutally that he is unable still to raise his arms above his shoulders, would ordinarily have been suicidal. But Trump is operating under rules of his own making that are perfectly suited to the voracious metabolism of the modern media, and the hyperventilated style of modern campaigning. The more outrageous his remarks, the more coverage and social media comment he generates. And the more coverage he receives, the better his polling numbers seemingly become. Increasingly, notoriety equals popularity amongst a large cohort of Republican voters. Trump: Master of the demolition derby

US presidential candidate Donald Trump has given out the mobile phone number of Senator Lindsey Graham - one of his Republican rivals for the White House.

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Ali, the three-times heavy weight boxing champion, passed away after being admitted to hospital in Phoenix Arizona with a respiratory illness. Fifty-thousand tweets were posted within hours of the news being confirmed in the early hours of Saturday morning. By 08:00 GMT more than 300,000 tweets using the hashtag #MuhammadAli had been posted. This cartoon image of boxing gloves designed with his famous "float like a butterfly sting like a bee" quote in mind has been shared a number of times from various Twitter accounts. Ali, who was known as much for his social conscience as his boxing skills, was outspoken and a staunch civil rights activist. His self belief and showmanship made him an endearing figure across the globe. @Inkquistive tweeted: "I'm so mean I make medicine sick. #RIPMuhammedAli, your charisma will be missed but celebrated for a lifetime." @MegaMilkshake23 tweeted: "I am freaking out right now, Muhammad Ali was a hero and true inspiration to so many, I refuse to forget him. #inspire @carmenblanchard tweeted: "Ali was not afraid to speak his mind, He continuously had his own beliefs and he risked his career to spread a message, Respect. #MuhammedAli In addition to the hundreds of memes quoting the boxing legend, sports stars, celebrities and public figures have also tweeted their reaction to the news. A number of images are also being shared including this one of a DC comics cover. @ifeelglorious tweeted the picture with the words "RIP Champ." At the time of writing it had been retweeted over 350 times. By Rozina Sini

Thousands are posting online tributes to Muhammad Ali who has died at the age of 74.

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The prime minister has said curbs on EU citizens' freedom of movement in the UK would be a red line for her and she has ruled out a points-based system. However, 770,000 EU nationals living in the capital should be eligible for a visa to ensure their future in London, the chamber of commerce said. They make up 15% of London's employees. EU nationals also contribute more than £26bn to London's Gross Value Added - the value of goods and services produced - and they pay direct taxes of about £7bn a year. Their departure from the workforce "would be economically harmful, impacting on various key industries and putting pressure on public funds", the chamber's research suggests. It could particularly hit construction, where foreign workers make up a third of the workforce, and financial services, where they make up a quarter. In that sector there are acute worries post-Brexit about the future of passporting rights - an agreement that allows UK businesses to offer financial services anywhere in the EU and the wider European Economic Area including Norway, Iceland and and Lichtenstein, without the need for licences in individual countries. Although this has yet to be clarified by the government, it is thought EU immigrants will in future have to enter the UK under the same arrangements applicable to non-EU migrants now which imposes minimum salary levels and insists on firm job offers. Research suggests that by 2020, London may have lost access to 160,000 migrant workers, and there would be a loss to economic output of nearly £7bn a year and direct tax contributions of about £2bn. The report recommends: City Hall said the mayor was committed to keeping London open to foreign talent, but he is yet to commit to special immigration measures. Speaking at an event launching the report, Ben Johnson, an adviser to the mayor on business, said the ability to attract foreign workers was vital along with "privileged" access to the single market. He said the priority was to secure the future of the workers here now, although there was no explicit support from him for any of the business proposals. Greater London Authority Conservative group leader Gareth Bacon said: "Now that we have won the war over Brexit and have re-secured the power to govern ourselves, we have a great opportunity to shape our immigration policy in ways that best suit our needs and ambitions. "Whether this should involve special arrangements for London is yet to be determined, but the LCCI proposals are worthy of consideration and make a valuable contribution to that debate."

London needs its own visa system to allow higher levels of migration to avert economic decline post-Brexit, a leading business organisation has said.

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Scotland voted No to independence in 2014 following an often frenzied campaign and a record-breaking turnout of 84.6%. But things have changed since then - most notably the decision by the UK to leave the European Union. So have Scottish voters changed their minds? Ruairidh Forbes was so keen to vote No to independence in 2014 that he delayed moving from Edinburgh to London where he was due to begin a PhD in physics. Ruairidh, from North Berwick, says he was not convinced that the financial security of an independent Scotland could be guaranteed. But now he plans to vote Yes. "I am worried about a decline in science and technology funding in the UK after Brexit," Ruairidh explains. "Independence is our best shot at staying in the EU." Ruairidh is now three years into his doctoral studies and sees the benefits brought to the UK by the £7.6bn received from the EU for scientific research in 2007-13. "The British government relies on EU funding to prop up UK science and technology - I am worried that the sector will collapse once Brexit happens. "This means that we won't be able to take part in visionary research or cutting-edge projects like the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland." "There are no contingency plans being laid at Westminster." Although there is no guarantee that an independent Scotland would become a member of the EU, Ruairidh believes signs suggest that voting for independence is Scotland's best chance to preserve science and technology research. But is he worried that this is also a vote for the SNP, a party that he does not support? "I don't think they are the right party for Scotland - I'm not a nationalist, I see myself as British. "But I believe the independence movement is motivated by social issues and this is a unique opportunity for fairer politics." Hadron Collider: Has it discovered a new particle? "I used to think Scotland had the ability to do well alone," explains Nichola Dadds, who is 50 and lives in Edinburgh. "I voted Yes to independence in 2014 but a lot has changed since then." Nichola wanted to stay in the EU - but now that Britain has decided to leave, she is worried that as a small country Scotland would be marginalised in the European Union. "Much of Scotland's trade is with the UK or non-EU countries like China or the US - if we left the UK, I am not convinced we could get a good trade deal. "I would be concerned about joining the EU as a small country. Look at countries like Ireland and Italy - they have little say in Europe," explains Nichola. "I believe if Scotland became independent from the rest of the UK we would end up beholden to the EU and my thoughts are, 'Better the devil you know,'" Nichola says. Instability caused by the fallout from Brexit is another reason why she changed her mind. "I want to vote for stability and security. We have had enough of referendums - it is time to get used to what is going on instead of causing more disruption." Scotland's trade with UK rises to £50bn Keeping Scotland out of the European Union is Steven Calvert's motivation to change his vote from Yes to No. In 2014 Steven, who lives in Inverness, voted for independence as a protest vote against the Conservative government in Westminster. "I voted yes to escape David Cameron and rule by a party that Scotland did not vote for. "But now I plan to vote No - I want Scotland to be out of the EU and independence could jeopardise that." Steven wants to set up a seafood export business and opposes the fishing regulations that come with EU membership: "People here talk about how the EU has made it hard for small fishermen to make a living. "Big trawlers come in from countries like Spain, and we can't find a place to fish. "I think Scotland leaving the EU gives us the chance for a more sustainable quota, hopefully encouraging restoration of the Scottish fishing industry. That would offer good jobs to young people, especially in rural areas." Reality check: the impact of the EU on farming and fishing Jessica Orr felt ashamed in 2014 that she did not vote for independence. "I'm very sensible and pragmatic - I felt that it was too risky, but all my friends and colleagues voted Yes," she explains. Now she has a second chance, she plans to do things differently. "I feel like after Brexit and President Trump's victory, politics has become really degraded and I've realised how positive the independence idea is. "I'm frustrated that we've been forced to leave the EU despite the fact that Scotland did not vote for it. "Without the EU, I feel like we will be worse off, and I am frustrated about the changes to immigration policies in the UK. "Scots are not represented at Westminster and I feel like Scottish political leaders have more integrity than those in Westminster or the US." By Georgina Rannard, UGC & social news

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she is seeking a second referendum on Scottish independence to take place before Britain leaves the European Union.

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Out Among the Stars comes out in March and features 12 tracks by the American singer, recorded for Columbia Records in 1981 and 1984. It includes duets with Cash's wife June Carter and friend Waylon Jennings. The tracks have never been made public before. They were not released at the time and the singer, who had fallen out of fashion, was later dropped by his record label. The recordings came to light only when John Carter Cash found them, gathering dust in a vault, while he was cataloguing the singer's private archive in 2012. He found hundreds of reels of unreleased live and studio recordings in the vault, including duets with Bob Dylan. It is the fourth posthumous album released since Johnny Cash died in 2003, aged 71. Speaking to the BBC, Carter Cash said: "There is more music to be released that is unheard, there are some great recordings. "But we don't want to release something unless it means something. "It has to be in line with what we believe my father would have wanted released". The unreleased recordings will bolster what is already a lucrative business for the Cash estate. In 2009, he sold more than three million records, reportedly earning more than $8m (£4.9m). But Carter Cash maintained "the world would be a darker place" if the music was not released and it was "worth doing" if fans around the world wanted to hear it. "Do you want to see another Picasso if there's one that nobody has ever seen before?" he asked. "I would say that probably the world would want to see another Picasso. And it's really the same thing. This is a work of art." To date, Johnny Cash sold more than 90 million records. He is best known for songs including Ring of Fire and I Walk the Line and famously performed for inmates in American prisons. "He would sing the songs for the underdogs," said Carter Cash. "He would reach out to people that no one else would reach out to."

Johnny Cash's son, John Carter Cash, has described a new album by his late father as "a great treasure", saying there will be more records released in the future.

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This is not because of panic, but possibly as a way of suppressing it. As one MP put it: "The wise heads will need to tell any hotheads to calm down." The prime minister will meet her internal critics head on. Having phoned over the weekend candidates who were defeated in an election she didn't need to call, she will find that many of those who escaped that fate are cross. But widespread demands for her to go are not expected. Instead, there will be demands for her to consult more, including meeting regularly with the 1922 executive, and to turn Downing Street from a bunker into an open house by broadening her range of staff. However, few MPs expect her position to be strong and stable for the next five years. One senior backbencher told me: "It is inconceivable she will lead the party into the next election. Her authority has been diminished unquestionably." Another said: "Party members have been too bruised by her." "She has bought herself some time", said a senior backbencher, but added: "How she behaves will determine how long she's there." There is a feeling that the party is holding on to nurse for fear of something worse. "There is zero appetite for another election," as one MP put it, and a feeling that, in an early poll, victory wouldn't be guaranteed. Some say Labour's digital campaign and mobilisation of young people was particularly impressive, and another election would give Jeremy Corbyn the opportunity to do what he does best - campaign. Equally, a leadership election could be destabilising ahead of Brexit talks - though it's widely expected one will take place well before 2022. Some kind of arrangement with the DUP is seen as inevitable, but one MP cautioned "the devil is in the detail". One of the reasons the 1922 meeting has been moved forward is so any deal can be discussed before it is sealed. Nonetheless, it is anticipated that the most flexible of arrangements is likely to be put in place; one that would mean there would have to be negotiations with the DUP on an issue-by-issue basis. Theresa May is expected to hear strong criticisms of what one backbencher dubbed "her miserable manifesto". Of course, some individual policies, such as social care - "It went down like a lead balloon" - will be singled out, but the presentation of policy will also be attacked. MPs will say that an effective fourfold lifting of the floor on residential care costs wasn't widely understood. And a campaign which barely mentioned the economy will come under fire. "We didn't dodge a bullet but were winged," said one. "If Labour had a more credible leader we could have been in even bigger difficulties." There has been speculation that there may now be a "softer Brexit", partly because of an influx of Scottish MPs who favour close trading relationships with the EU, but also because of the elevation of Damian Green to First Secretary of State. He is a friend of Mrs May's, a Remainer in the referendum campaign, and he has warned that concessions may have to be made in negotiations. But some senior Tories have told me that they will urge her to stick to her manifesto commitments on Brexit and, for them, controls on immigration and coming out of the single market are "bottom lines". Others will want to insist on the freedom to strike trade deals, so coming out of the customs union is seen as essential. "We must hold our nerve on Brexit," said one. However, another senior backbencher recognised that it would now be inevitable that Parliament would have greater influence over the process. "She will be walking a tightrope", and, while MPs seem to see the necessity, in the words of one former minister, to "shore her up in the short term", if she stumbles, she can fall at any time.

A meeting of the Conservative Party's influential backbench 1922 committee - in effect all Conservative backbenchers - has been brought forward by 24 hours to 17:00 BST on Monday.

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Last month, the 32-year-old left League Two side Luton Town by mutual consent to return home. But the ex-Derry City winger said when his wife, Laura, was diagnosed, everything paled into insignificance. "I called Michael (O'Neill), explained what had happened and told him I wasn't going to be available for the Euros," he said. "When something like that happens, your only thought is for your family." McCourt told the Times that his wife was returning home from a holiday when their life was turned upside down. "The flight landed at Gatwick and was taxiing to the airport when she had a seizure on the bus," McCourt said. "Paramedics were called to the scene and they rang me. "They said they were going to send her to East Surrey Hospital. Naturally, I was very concerned. "Within 48 hours it came back that they had found a brain tumour," he said. The doctors told the couple they needed to operate on the tumour and remove it as soon as possible. Although the tumour was benign, it was growing. The date for the operation was 9 June, the day before Euro 2016 started. McCourt said Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill told him to be there for his wife and 'don't even think about Euros'. "Laura didn't need the attention it would have created if he had said what was really happening," he adds. The operation was successful and Laura has now been given a positive diagnosis. "It was absolutely nerve racking," he said, "but thankfully we were given the best possible news afterwards, which was that everything had been positive. "Laura is now recovering and we're told that in four to six months, please God, she will be completely back to normal."

Ex-Celtic footballer Paddy McCourt has told of his wife's diagnosis with a brain tumour.

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Media playback is not supported on this device In an error-strewn display, the 2012 bronze medallist needed 102 points from his closing dive to reach the final. However, he managed only 50.40 to finish in last place with 403.25 - well short of the personal best of 571.85 he set in Friday's preliminary round. "It's really hard to accept. I've worked so hard," said Daley, 22. "Yesterday I scored the highest score ever in an Olympic Games. Today it wasn't meant to be. That's what diving does sometimes. "I truly am heartbroken because I feel like I am in the peak physical condition and I could have won." British Diving performance director Alexei Evangulov had said Daley was "in the best shape and best form of his career" before the Olympics. Daley, who won a bronze medal in the 10m synchronised platform with Dan Goodfellow, suggested he would compete again in Tokyo in 2020. "I'm so happy with how GB have done, so proud to be part of it and I wanted to be able to stand on top of that podium, so it will be another four years' hard work," he said. Media playback is not supported on this device China's Chen Aisen, 20, claimed his second gold of the Games by winning the final, which took place later on Saturday. Chen, who also won the 10m synchro alongside Lin Yue, scored 585.30 points to finish ahead of Mexico's German Sanchez (532.70) and defending champion David Boudia of the United States (525.25). Media playback is not supported on this device Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.

Britain's Tom Daley said he was "heartbroken" after a shock semi-final elimination in the Olympic 10m platform diving competition.

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The draft document now in the public domain had a very limited circulation. Members of Labour's National Executive that I have spoken to hadn't seen it. Most - though not all - shadow cabinet members were shown only the sections which related to their policy areas - to prevent leaks. And certainly the leak of a complete version of a draft manifesto before it has been formally discussed is unprecedented. Sources close to Jeremy Corbyn say "100%" they did not leak it and were shocked around 20:00 BST on Wednesday to find out it had leaked. And sources close to both the party leader and the Unite leader Len McCluskey are trying to point the finger at the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson. They say this is all about 9 June. If an impression of chaos around Mr Corbyn is created now, and Labour fails to get 30% of the vote on polling day, it will give his deputy a reason, or excuse, to call for the leader's resignation. But Mr Watson has categorically denied leaking the manifesto - and his allies say it would have been mad to do so. They see this as an attempt to damage his reputation as he wouldn't want Labour to perform badly at the forthcoming election. And they say the Labour leader's office had accepted that they hadn't leaked, because the version of the manifesto that Tom Watson had in his possession wasn't the version that made its way to the papers. And sources at the Daily Mirror have made it clear to the BBC that Mr Watson was not the source of the leak. Other Labour sources are pointing out that union officials saw a draft on Wednesday but Labour now hopes that the debate will move on to substance rather than the internal soap opera.

It's not just Labour's policies that have been exposed by the leaks of the manifesto - it's the level of distrust at the very top of the Labour Party.

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They've kicked up a stink with their council, who've decided to use the liquid to kill weeds around the city. It's all part of a trial to get rid of the unwanted plants without using strong chemicals, which some people think aren't environmentally friendly. But many locals say they're not happy with the unpleasant pong the trial's creating. They've started a campaign and also say they don't think vinegar is strong enough to kill the weeds. Bristol City Council say they'll continue with their trial, but will keeping track of feedback from the people who live there.

People living in Bristol have complained about a vinegary whiff in the air.

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Dale Merza, 20, is charged with misdemeanour hazing after the alleged attack last October on Andrew Seely, 19, at Central Michigan University. Mr Seely, who was sleeping at the time of the incident, sought medical treatment for serous facial swelling. The accused could get 93 days in jail and a $1,000 (£800) fine if convicted. Mr Merza's legal representative told the Detroit Free Press his client, who was charged on Friday in Isabella County District Court, was innocent. "This case has been blown way out of proportion by the individual's family members, who were not present and don't have any of the facts," lawyer Bruce Leach told the newspaper. It is an induction ritual meted out typically to new members of the US college men and women's social clubs known as fraternities and sororities, but also to military recruits. The practice can include physical violence, sexual coercion, forced alcohol consumption, or degrading and dangerous "pranks" such as forcing people to eat vile food mixtures or consume large amounts of water. It is illegal in most US states, amounting usually to a misdemeanour charge, unless there are serious injuries. There has been a nationwide crackdown on hazing after high-profile deaths including that of Florida A&M University drumming student Robert Champion. Why is hazing so common? Mr Seely was targeted at an off-campus fraternity house, Alpha Chi Rho, which was sanctioned in 2011 for hazing incidents. His mother, Teresa Seely, wrote about the alleged hazing in a viral Facebook post in March, saying: "He could have been killed." The accounting student only told his family what had happened months afterwards. He blamed the incident for his decision to leave the college. The teenager's father, Paul Seely, told CBS News his son could have been killed if the peanut butter had entered his mouth. The Seely family said their son had made known to other members of the fraternity that he had a severe peanut allergy, for which he carries medication. The National Fraternity of Alphi Chi Rho condemned the incident, saying it did not condone such behaviour. "Alpha Chi Rho is appalled and upset by the actions taken by individuals against Andrew Seely," said its statement.

A US student has been charged with smearing peanut butter in the face of an undergraduate who has a potentially deadly allergy.

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A general said clouds were limiting the ability of drones and other aircraft to provide cover, adding that troops would secure areas they had already entered. IS militants are putting up fierce resistance, using snipers and large numbers of suicide bombers. A BBC correspondent says that although progress is slow, it is steady. Mosul, which was captured by IS in June 2014, is the jihadist group's last major urban stronghold in Iraq. About 50,000 Iraqi security forces personnel, soldiers, police, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and Shia militiamen are involved in the offensive. In the first two weeks of the operation, they advanced rapidly from the east and south-east, seizing outlying towns and villages despite strong resistance. On 1 November, special forces and army units entered the eastern outskirts of the city at two points and were able to establish footholds there. Two weeks later, progress towards the centre is slow, reports the BBC's Richard Galpin in Irbil. IS has not shown any sign of weakening, our correspondent adds, and is using snipers and large numbers of suicide bombers to pin down troops in densely populated areas where manoeuvring armoured vehicles is not easy. The militants are also reported to be using civilians as human shields. And forces advancing from the north and south have still not entered the city. Our correspondent says that unless there is a sudden collapse in the resistance now being put up by IS, the battle for Mosul is likely to continue for weeks. The UN has warned that in areas retaken by Iraqi forces, civilian infrastructure such as water and power plants, schools and hospitals are damaged and medical services are often unavailable. Families are going hungry due to lost livelihoods, disrupted food production and supply, and food prices are rising at markets, it said. Many people are being forced to drink untreated water from wells, while children are going unvaccinated and are unable to go to school. Almost 59,000 people have been displaced by the fighting, about 26,000 of them children. More than 40,000 have found shelter in formal camps, while 13,000 others have been taken in by host communities or are living in public facilities. As many as one million people could be at risk in the combat zone itself.

Iraqi forces have paused their advance into Mosul due to poor weather, a month after launching an offensive to retake the city from so-called Islamic State.

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Labour's new leader said he wanted the weekly sessions to be less "theatrical" and Mr Cameron agreed there should be more focus on "substantial issues". Mr Corbyn asked about housing, tax credits and mental health service cuts. The BBC's Norman Smith said it was much calmer than normal but the PM had not been put under any real pressure. Speaking to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg later on Wednesday, Mr Corbyn insisted he would not campaign for the UK to leave the European Union, while vowing to fight any moves towards a more free-market relationship. Mr Corbyn was cheered by Labour MPs as he got to his feet at his first PMQs, before launching into a lengthy pre-amble in which he thanked supporters for his Labour leadership victory, vowed to make PMQs less "theatrical" and explained his decision to crowd source his questions. He said: "I thought at my first PMQs, I would do it in a slightly different way... So I sent out an email to thousands of people and asked them what questions they would like to put to the prime minister and I received 40,000 replies." The prime minster congratulated Mr Corbyn on his "resounding victory" in the Labour leadership contest and welcomed him to the frontbench. Mr Cameron, who began his own career as opposition leader in 2005 promising to end "Punch and Judy" politics, then said "no one would be more delighted than me" if PMQs could become a "genuine exercise in asking questions and answering questions". Mr Corbyn's first question "from a woman called Marie" was on the "chronic lack of affordable housing" and "the extortionate rents charged by some private sector landlords" - something the new Labour leader has said will be his top priority. Mr Cameron said the government had delivered more affordable homes but recognised "much more needs to be done". Before Mr Corbyn began his second question, on job losses at housing associations, he thanked the prime minister "for his commitment that we are going to do Prime Minister's Questions in a more adult way than it's been done in the past". He then asked about "absolutely shameful" cuts to tax credits voted through by MPs on Tuesday, on behalf of "Paul," and about cuts to mental health services, prompted by a question from "Gail". BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg's verdict As promised, it was different. A parliamentary revolution in beige, Jeremy Corbyn's new leader's navy suit, no where to be seen. It wasn't so much Jeremy Corbyn's questions to the prime minister but Gail, Marie, Steven, and Angela's questions. What's also different? Camp Corbyn and David Cameron's team are both happy with the outcome of the crucial half hour of PMQs, the new Labour leader's first ever outing at the despatch box. Read Laura's full analysis Mr Cameron struck a consensual tone in his replies, agreeing that more needed to be done to improve mental health services, and paused to scold Labour MPs who were jeering him over his claim that the lowest paid would be £20 a week better off next year thanks to an increase in the minimum wage. "I thought this was the new Question Time. I'm not sure the message has fully got home," he told them. The prime minister took a couple of swipes at the new Labour leader when answering questions from backbenchers, as noise levels in the chamber returned to normal levels, although Tory MPs still appeared to be following instructions to avoid triumphalism. In response to a question on Northern Ireland from DUP MP Nigel Dodds, Mr Cameron paid tribute to former Conservative MPs Airey Neave and Ian Gow, who were murdered by Republican terrorists. He did not directly refer to controversy over Mr Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell's previous comments on Northern Ireland, but said: "I have a simple view, which is the terrorism we faced was wrong, it was unjustifiable, the death and the killing was wrong. It was never justified and people who seek to justify it should be ashamed of themselves." He held back from attacking Mr Corbyn over his much-criticised decision not to sing the national anthem at a service to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, saying in response to a question from a Tory MP that the St Paul's Cathedral event had been "a reminder of how proud we should be of our armed forces, then, today and always." Minutes before the session began Labour sources confirmed that their leader, who believes in the abolition of the monarchy, would join in with the anthem at future official engagements. Labour denied that Mr Corbyn's new approach - asking six different questions rather than pushing the prime minister on a single point - gave Mr Cameron an easy ride. "The questions were very direct and they demanded clear answers," a Labour source said. Asked about policy differences that appear to have emerged between Mr Corbyn and his front bench, on welfare cuts and Europe, a Labour source said "lots of listening" would be done and some policies would be reviewed under the new leadership.

Jeremy Corbyn asked David Cameron questions emailed to him from the public as he tried what he called "a different" style for his debut PMQs.

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Yanic Wildschut put the Latics in front but the U's levelled shortly after through Alex Gilbey's 25-yard strike. Wigan swiftly restored their lead with Ryan Colclough's calm finish, but Colchester negated the winger's effort with Elliot Lee's curling shot. George Moncur converted a penalty after he was fouled to make it 3-2, but Grigg's injury-time goal earned a draw. Wigan manager Gary Caldwell told BBC Radio Manchester: Media playback is not supported on this device "That wasn't good enough. When you squander as many chances as we did then you have to be aware that the opposition are going to come back into the game. "Second half the performance was nowhere near what we expect. I warned the players that you show your superiority on the scoreboard. "We'll have to work hard to put it right next week."

Will Grigg's late strike secured a point for Wigan at bottom club Colchester in a thrilling encounter.

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