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Kim Jong-il, North Korea's "Dear Leader", was in the process of grooming Kim Jong-un as his successor when he died on 17 December 2011.
Immediately after his father's death, the younger Kim was hailed as "the great successor". He was named head of the party, state and army within a fortnight of his father's death.
In January 2016, Mr Kim shot to global headlines again when he oversaw what the regime claimed was an underground hydrogen bomb test - its second nuclear test since he came to power.
Previously, his most high-profile act had been to purge and execute his uncle, Chang Song-thaek, who state media said had been plotting a coup, in December 2013.
Little is still known about the elusive young man who is the youngest son of Kim Jong-il and his late third wife Ko Yong-hui.
Born in 1983 or early 1984, he was initially not thought to be in the frame to take up his father's mantle.
Analysts focused their attention on his half-brother Kim Jong-nam and older full brother Kim Jong-chol.
However Kim Jong-nam's deportation from Japan in May 2001 and middle brother Kim Jong-chol's apparent "unmanliness" improved his chances.
Analysts saw him as the coming man after he was awarded a series of high-profile political posts.
Swiss-educated like his brothers, Kim Jong-un avoided Western influences, returning home when not in school and dining out with the North Korean ambassador.
After his return to Pyongyang, he is known to have attended the Kim Il-sung Military University.
His mother was thought to be Kim Jong-il's favourite wife, and she clearly doted on her son, reportedly calling him the "Morning Star King".
In his 2003 book, I Was Kim Jong-il's Chef, a Japanese man writing under the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto also claimed that Kim Jong-un was his father's favourite.
In August 2010 Kim Jong-il visited China. One South Korean TV station cited a South Korean official as saying Kim Jong-un had accompanied his father on the trip.
Some reports speculated that he had been anointed successor partly because of his resemblance to North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung.
A few North Korea watchers went so far as to say that he may have had plastic surgery to enhance the resemblance, in a country where the deification of the Kim family is at the heart of its grip on power.
Mr Kim made his first public speech as North Korea marked the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Kim Il-sung on 15 April 2012, praising the "military first" doctrine and vowing the time his nation could be threatened was "forever over".
"Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolised by imperialists," he said, adding: "We have to make every effort to reinforce the people's armed forces."
Not much was known of Mr Kim's personal life until television footage of an unidentified woman attending events with him surfaced. In July 2012, state media announced that Mr Kim was married to "Comrade Ri Sol-ju".
Little is know of Ms Ri, but her stylish appearance - short, chic haircut and Western dress - led some analysts to suggest that she was from an upper-class family and that she fits Mr Kim's efforts to project a more relaxed image compared to his predecessors.
Details surrounding the marriage of Mr Kim to Ms Ri remain unclear. Most reports had suggested that Ms Ri may have been a singer who caught Mr Kim's attention during a performance.
Aside from attending official events, the couple's public appearances have included visits to an amusement park and watching a concert featuring Disney characters.
American basketball star Dennis Rodman, who met Mr Kim in 2013 and 2014, told The Guardian newspaper that Mr Kim had a daughter.
In 2012, Mr Kim was appointed marshal - the highest military rank - following a high-level military reshuffle in which army chief Ri Yong-ho was removed.
Since then some of North Korea's actions have elicited condemnation from the international community.
A few months into his leadership, in April 2012, North Korea launched a rocket which it said would put a satellite into orbit. The unsuccessful launch was seen by many as a banned test of long-range missile technology.
This attempt was followed by a successful launch of a satellite into space, using a three-stage rocket, in December 2012. South Korea, Japan and the US said the launch was a disguised missile test, and the UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution condemning the launch and tightening sanctions.
In February 2013, North Korea carried out a third nuclear test, said to be twice as big as the 2009 test. This resulted in fresh sanctions from the UN Security Council.
In April 2013, heightened tension in the peninsula saw North Korea withdraw workers from the Kaesong industrial zone, jointly run with South Korea and the last symbol of inter-Korean co-operation. The zone was reopened in the following September after negotiations.
In January 2016, the regime made an as-yet unproven claim that it had successfully carried out its first underground hydrogen bomb test, triggering a global outcry and fears that the state, which has few allies, had acquired a more advanced nuclear capability than previously known.
The purge of his uncle in late 2013 caused international concern. Mr Chang was vice-chairman of the powerful National Defence Commission who sat at the heart of the country's leadership, and was seen as a major figure in Mr Kim's administration.
In his first public reference to the execution in a message broadcast on 1 January 2014, Mr Kim spoke of the "elimination of factionalist filth". | Kim Jong-un took on the mantle of North Korea's supreme leadership with little political or military experience behind him. |
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And for toddler George there was much fun to be had squirting bubbles at his father - even if he is a future king of Canada and the UK.
Considerable column inches are generated from such offerings. The power of the images is considerable.
The children personify the future of the Canadian monarchy in a country that may, one day, chose a different path.
There's no sign, at the moment, of that being the desire of the majority of Canadians.
George and Charlotte, on display, will not become an everyday occurrence.
William and Kate are determined their children grow up in private and not in public. This party will attract global attention because of its rarity value. | Those who chronicle the lives of the Cambridges now know that balloons are the way to a 16-month-old princess's heart and Charlotte's first public utterance was to use the word "pop". |
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Since 2012, all under-18 offenders have been accommodated separately from adults at the Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre in Bangor, County Down.
However, the CJI said the impact of older children in the centre was "testing the resilience of staff".
It said the "existing regime" needed redesigned to suit 16 and 17-year-olds.
The Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland, Brendan McGuigan, said the centre was facing "significant challenges" in how it addresses the needs of young offenders.
"Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre accommodates some of the most difficult and disturbed children in our society, and in doing so, prevents them from causing mayhem in their communities and in the residential care system," he said.
"It's great we're not keeping under 18-year-olds anywhere else but in the juvenile centre, but some of those - and the increasing number of 17-year-olds - are proving more of a challenge for staff within the centre.
"What we're saying is that you probably need to think about the regime you're currently offering so you can build in a resilience and be able to deal with these older children."
The CJI also called for the Youth Justice Agency, which operates the juvenile justice centre, to work to reduce "inappropriate use" of the facility.
Mr McGuigan said: "Inspectors accept that the juvenile justice centre has and can provide stability in times of crisis, but committing a child to custody should be an action of last resort.
"Significant challenges lie ahead for the centre. We believe maintaining strong leadership is essential to addressing these challenges and meet the needs of a changing population."
The Justice Minister David Ford said the centre was continuing to make progress and that he was pleased that children were receiving "high levels of care and support" during their time in Woodlands. | Changes are needed into how children in prison in Northern Ireland are cared for, a report by the Criminal Justice Inspectorate (CJI) has found. |
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Ryan Pettengell, 41, of King's Lynn, Norfolk, and Umar Balogun, 16, from London, died at Bawsey Pits, near King's Lynn, on 16 July 2013.
Mr Pettengell's partner, Lauren Cole, had swum out to save her boyfriend after seeing him get into trouble.
An inquest jury concluded that Mr Pettengell's death was an accident.
The hearing at Norwich Coroner's Court was told Mr Pettengell was with friends at the flooded quarry during the summer heatwave when he heard Umar was missing.
Mr Pettengell decided to swim out to an island to look for him, despite having broken his wrist a few weeks earlier and Ms Cole warning him not to go into the water.
After he got into difficulty, he called to her to throw him a stick or a log.
Ms Cole said she tried, but it wouldn't float.
She swam out to him, but after struggling to hold on to him, was forced to let go as he began to drag her under.
In a statement read to the inquest, she said: "I saw him swim about halfway and then he began to slow down.
"I grabbed his arm and started to pull him. I was being pulled under and I had to swim back to the side. As I swam back, I could see him going under."
Ms Cole said she saw bubbles on the surface where Mr Pettengell had been.
The inquest heard his body was found about 50m (165ft) from the shore.
Emergency services were at Bawsey Pits searching for Umar when they were alerted to Mr Pettengell's disappearance.
Firefighter Lee Broadhurst, who was responsible for search and recovery, said Mr Pettengell was likely to have been out of his depth.
PC Ryan Williams told the inquest he was there when Mr Pettengell drowned, but could not help because he was not a competent swimmer.
He said Mr Pettengell had told friends he was going to help search for Umar whose body, unbeknown to him, had already been found in a separate lake.
West Norfolk Council has since worked with the site's owners, Sibelco UK, to improve safety, the inquest heard.
Norfolk coroner Jacqueline Lake said she would prepare a report highlighting concerns about safety at the site.
Speaking outside the inquest, Mr Pettengell's best friend Wesley Moule, who was with him the day he died, said: "He was the sort of guy that if he knew someone was in trouble, he would have gone out of his way to help them out."
He said Mr Pettengell was a good swimmer and he thought he was joking when he first appeared to be in trouble.
"As soon as he didn't come back up again we realised that he wasn't and that something was seriously wrong," he said. | The girlfriend of a man who drowned at a Norfolk beauty spot trying to rescue a teenager told how she tried to save him before he disappeared underwater. |
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They say the girl suffocated after lighting a fire to keep warm.
Under an ancient Hindu practice, called chhaupadi, women who have their periods or who have just given birth are seen as impure.
It was banned by the Nepalese government in 2005, but still continues in remote western rural areas.
The body of Roshani Tiruwa was found by her father last weekend in a stone and mud hut in the village of Gajra, in Achham district, 440km (275 miles) west of Kathmandu.
Some communities in remote areas believe that they will suffer a misfortune such as a natural disaster unless menstruating women are secluded. While in isolation they are denied their usual intake of food and are prohibited from drinking milk.
In many cases the huts that menstruating girls and women are banished to are shared with cattle and their excrement and are sometimes some distance from a village.
They can be freezing cold in winter and stiflingly hot in summer. It is thought that many victims of the tradition suffer from mental and physical illnesses in later life.
The chhaupadi rules mean that a menstruating female faces restrictions on where she can sleep, who she can see, where she is allowed to go and who she can touch.
Critics say the government has not done enough to eradicate the practice and that it is has also been slow to prevent child marriages. But officials argue it is difficult to prevent such abuses when they are so deeply ingrained in local culture. | Police in Nepal are investigating the death of a 15-year-old girl who was banished to a poorly-ventilated shed because she was menstruating. |
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Sixteen attractions received a score of more than 90% by VisitScotland's quality assurance assessors. The Royal Yacht Britannia topped the list with a record-breaking score of 96%.
VisitScotland said those which achieved the highest scores offered a "top quality experience to visitors from the moment they enter the premises to the time they leave".
Here is a snapshot of the best that Scotland has to offer.
Hebrides Art is a gallery and coffee shop in Seilebost on the west coast of the Isle of Harris.
Run by artists Lesley and Alisdair Wiseman, it aims to showcase the cream of Hebridean arts and crafts - and serve delicious cakes.
Lesley said: "We don't think of the people who visit our gallery and coffee shop as customers - we think of them as guests and treat them accordingly.
"We really do want everyone that visits to leave feeling they have had a wonderful experience, from the moment they cross the threshold to the moment they leave."
Edinburgh's oldest visitor attraction has been a favourite of tourists in Scotland's capital since 1853.
VisitScotland described it as an "Aladdin's cave" of optical illusions, tricks and puzzles. From an unrivalled vantage point, tourists can also enjoy rooftop views of Edinburgh's Old and New Towns and its castle.
There is a food and drink theme to many of VisitScotland's top-rated attractions.
Corrie Cook School is located in the small village of Craobh Haven, between Oban and Lochgilphead.
VisitScotland said it offers cookery workshops and demonstrations, clay pigeon shooting, fishing and horse-riding.
The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum is home to 5,000 historical artefacts, original manuscripts and pieces of memorabilia.
Among the highlights are Burns' cittern, a fragment of Jean Armour's wedding dress and original manuscripts including Scots Wha Hae and Auld Lang Syne.
A spokeswoman for the National Trust for Scotland, which owns and manages the museum said it strives to give visitors the very best experience possible.
She added: "Our exhibits are chosen from the foremost Burns collection in the world, so this obviously plays a big part in that.
"But we like to think that our creative approach to its presentation, engaging events, excellent scones and warm Ayrshire welcome are important too."
Three hundred years of farming and rural life are on display at this purpose-built museum, which is near East Kilbride.
It is also the site of a 1950s working farm, which is home to animals including Aberdeen Angus cattle, Tamworth pigs, Ayrshire cows, black-faced sheep and two Clydesdale horses.
VisitScotland said there is something different to see each season, from new-born lambs and calves to harvesting and hay-making.
Musselburgh Racecourse is Scotland's only five star visitor attraction racecourse.
The course in East Lothian holds 29 flat and jump meetings each year, including Stobo Castle Ladies Day.
Sarah Montgomery, senior operations and commercial manager, said they were "delighted" to be ranked so highly by VisitScotland.
She added: "Musselburgh is firmly established as one of the UK's most stylish racecourses for racing enthusiasts, families and corporate clients."
The Queen Mother renovated and restored the Castle of Mey after acquiring it in 1952, following the death of her husband, King George VI.
For almost 50 years she spent summers at the castle, which is 15 miles east of Thurso on the north coast of Caithness.
Since the death of the Queen Mother in 2002, the castle, its gardens, animal centre and tearooms have remained popular with visitors to the far north.
It has been rated a five star attraction by VisitScotland every year since 1997.
Seven individual distilleries feature on the list of Scotland's top visitor attractions, as well as the Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh,
They include Auchentoshan Distillery, near Clydebank, Glen Grant Distillery in Rothes, and Glen Ord Distillery in Muir of Ord.
Distilleries producing Glenlivet (Ballindalloch, Moray), Glenfiddich (Dufftown, Moray), Glenmorangie (Tain) and Bowmore on Islay also rate highly. | Whisky distilleries, museums, a castle and a racecourse are among the best visitor experiences in Scotland, according to the national tourism organisation. |
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Last week's decision by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt to sever all ties was like a "death penalty", Mr Erdogan said.
Qatar was accused of aiding terrorist groups and Iran - charges it denied.
Mr Erdogan vowed to help Qatar overcome the effects of the crisis, which he said Saudi Arabia needed to resolve.
Turkey has already flown dairy products, poultry and juice to Doha, which began to arrive on supermarket shelves over the weekend.
Morocco, which has said it will remain neutral in the dispute, announced on Monday evening that it would also send planeloads of food to prevent shortages.
The decision was made "in conformity with Islamic precepts that call for solidarity and mutual aid between Muslim people, notably during this holy month of Ramadan", according to a foreign ministry statement.
On 5 June, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt announced that they were severing air, sea and land links with Qatar. The three Gulf states also ordered their citizens out of Qatar and gave Qataris in their countries 14 days to leave.
The decision caused turmoil in Qatar, an oil- and gas-rich nation that is dependent on imports to meet the basic needs of its population of 2.7 million and is a major international travel hub.
In a speech at a parliamentary meeting in Ankara on Tuesday, Mr Erdogan said the methods employed by Qatar's neighbours were unacceptable.
"A very grave mistake is being made in Qatar, isolating a nation in all areas is inhumane and against Islamic values. It's as if a death penalty decision has been taken for Qatar," he added.
Mr Erdogan dismissed the allegations against Qatar, insisting the emirate had taken "the most decisive stance" against the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
"Victimising Qatar through smear campaigns serves no purpose," he said.
He did not directly criticise Saudi Arabia, but said that as "the elder statesman of the Gulf" Saudi King Salman should "solve this affair and show leadership".
Later, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir insisted that there was "no blockade".
"Qatar is free to go - the ports are open, the airports are open," he said after meeting US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington. "What we have done is we have denied them use of our airspace, and this is our sovereign right."
Mr Jubeir added that Saudi Arabia would send food or medical aid through the King Salman Centre for Humanitarian Aid and Relief if needed.
Mr Tillerson has called for the restrictions to be "eased", but President Donald Trump has expressed his support for them despite Qatar hosting the largest US military base in the Middle East.
"We are stopping the funding of terrorism," he told reporters on Monday. "We are going to starve the beast."
Qatar admits it has backed Islamist groups across the region, including the Muslim Brotherhood. But it denies supporting or funding jihadist groups like IS or al-Qaeda. It also rejects claims that it is too close to Iran, Saudi Arabia's main regional rival.
"We still have no clue what is behind these measures," said Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani during a visit to Paris on Monday.
"Whatever is related to the collective security of the Gulf countries, Qatar is ready to negotiate... but we have the right to react to these accusations that we are interfering in their internal affairs." | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced the isolation of Qatar by several Arab states, describing it as "inhumane and against Islamic values". |
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A total of 38 people were killed by a gunman with links to Islamic State extremists on a beach near Sousse.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, David Cameron urged a fightback, vowing the UK would show "unshakeable resolve" in dealing with extremism.
He stressed the need to reject those who condone the "extremist narrative".
Tributes are continuing to be paid to the British victims, who include three generations of the same family, university graduates and a husband who died trying to shield his wife.
A number of British tourists remain missing, with their relatives continuing to face an agonising wait for news.
None of the dead have been officially identified but the names of some were confirmed by friends and family:
Three Irish people were also killed, along with one Belgian and one German, and Tunisians are also thought to be among the dead. At least 36 people were injured.
The BBC understands the number of British victims - which currently stands at 15 - will rise to at least 30 once the formal identification process is complete.
But it is also understood the process is taking time because of stringent Tunisian regulations, including the local coroner's requirement for medical or dental records.
The UK government also suggested officials were having difficulty identifying British victims as many were not carrying identification and because the injured were being moved between hospitals.
Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Cameron said that as the identities of the dead continued to emerge the full "horror" of events was becoming clear.
"But we will not be cowed," he said. "To our shock and grief we must add another word: resolve. Unshakeable resolve. We will stand up for our way of life.
"So ours must be a full-spectrum response - a response at home and abroad; in the immediate aftermath and far into the future."
He said the Islamic State group used social media as its "primary weapon" and police and security services must have "the tools they need to root out this poison".
Mr Cameron said it was also vital to confront the "poisonous ideology" behind attacks like that carried out in Tunisia.
"We must be stronger at standing up for our values - of peace, democracy, tolerance, freedom," he said.
"We must be more intolerant of intolerance - rejecting anyone whose views condone the Islamist extremist narrative and create the conditions for it to flourish."
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He doesn't say it overtly but this is another message to Muslims here and abroad.
With the knowledge that nearly all the victims on that beach in Tunisia were British, David Cameron says: "We must be more intolerant of intolerance" when it comes to extremist views.
The prime minister calls for a rejection of "anyone whose views condone the Islamist extremist narrative".
That is more direct than his words in a speech 10 days ago, when he criticised some British Muslims whom he said "quietly condoned" the actions of groups like Islamic State - but he's not suggesting any new quick fixes or a change to policy.
There is politics though; he says social media online is the primary weapon of Islamic State and he reminds people of the controversial new interception powers the government wants to give the police and security services, saying they must have them to "root out this poison".
Mr Cameron said the UK had a team of more than 50 consular staff, police officers and experts from the Red Cross on the ground in Sousse.
Detectives from the Met Police are among officers there helping with the investigation into the deadliest single terrorist attack on British people since 52 were killed in the London bombings of 2005.
The Tunisian authorities have said they believe the gunman, 23-year-old Seifeddine Rezgui, had help in carrying out the attack.
They believe the suspected accomplices provided the Kalashnikov assault rifle to Rezgui and helped him get to the scene, interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui told AP.
He said the attacker's father and three friends he lived with in Kairouan, where he studied, had been detained for questioning.
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Holiday firms put on extra flights over the weekend for people wanting to return home. Flights to the country have also been cancelled.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Office has updated its travel advice to warn that further terrorist attacks in Tunisia are possible, and urged people to be vigilant.
The Tunisian government has brought in increased security measures, with army reservists and extra police to be sent to tourist sites. | Britain is "united in shock and grief", the prime minister has said, as it emerged the British death toll in the Tunisian attack will rise above 30. |
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The world champion, who lost out to the German by just 0.078 seconds, is keen to win in Brazil for the first time.
"My main job is done this year, so it's not the most important thing but that's the target," said Hamilton.
"Last year I was strong in the race. I hope to be able to carry that through and see if I can make the difference."
Rosberg's pole was his fifth in a row and he appears to have turned around the qualifying deficit he had to Hamilton in the first part of the season, which saw the Englishman take 11 poles from 12 races, the foundation of his championship-winning campaign.
But Rosberg has turned only one of those pole positions into victory - at the last race in Mexico two weeks ago.
"If there are any cracks anywhere I will try to find them," said Hamilton, who also started second in Brazil last year and spun while trying to make up time to pass his team-mate at the pit stops.
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Hamilton added that he did not believe the change was a result of his relaxing, having tied up the title, saying: "I don't believe there has been a drop in intensity."
Rosberg could not give a reason for the turnaround in qualifying form.
"It was an area I had to work on so I have been working on it through the season, but I don't have a direct explanation of any precise thing that's now different. I'm just happy it's going that way. It's better this way, but I don't know why," he said.
Before the race, following Friday's attacks in Paris, governing body the FIA has organised for the drivers to wear black armbands on their parade lap "as a sign of mourning and tribute to the victims of the Paris tragedy and as a gesture of solidarity with their families and loved ones".
The FIA added in a statement: "A French flag decorated with a black ribbon will be carried on the truck used during the drivers' parade.
"The same flag will be displayed on the world television feed, as will 13/11/2015, the date of the tragedy."
A capacity crowd is expected at the Interlagos track in Sao Paulo, one of F1's most historic venues.
The Brazilian Grand Prix is live across the BBC, with coverage starting on BBC One at 15:20 GMT and the race starting at 16:00.
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Brazilian GP coverage details | Lewis Hamilton said he was still confident of winning the Brazilian Grand Prix despite being beaten to pole by team-mate Nico Rosberg. |
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English Heritage (EH) is calling on members of the public to assess Grade II listed buildings in their area and flag up if they think they are falling into disrepair.
There are 345,000 Grade II listed buildings in England and the body has extended its Heritage at Risk Register to include these types of sites for the first time.
The list already covers Grade II buildings in London and Grade I and Grade II* buildings in the rest of England but the list is expected to increase as Grade II buildings account for 92% of all those listed.
Buildings already identified as "at risk" include the oldest house in Nottingham, a women only lido in Reading and a bomb store in Suffolk.
EH was at the nuclear bomb facility at Barnham to launch the scheme.
John Ette, inspector of monuments for English Heritage, said: "We've always targeted Grade I, Grade II* and scheduled monuments, but this year we're targeting Grade II listed buildings via a series of pilot studies to extend what we're learnt.
"We're working with local authorities, building preservation trusts or owners to look at what we can do with the Grade II ones, so we'll try to do up to 15 pilot studies to see what we can learn."
Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, said: "Grade II buildings are the bulk of the nation's heritage treasury.
"When one of them is lost, it's as though someone has rubbed out a bit of the past - something that made your street or your village special will have gone."
To begin the project, EH has earmarked £250,000 to run the pilot surveys.
Edward Impey, director of heritage protection for English Heritage, said they would choose a diverse range of areas including urban, rural and those with higher economic challenges for the scheme which will run for a year.
EH staff have been redeployed in new Heritage at Risk teams in each of EH's nine local offices to work exclusively on supporting owners, developers, local authorities and volunteers in rescuing buildings so they can be removed from the list.
Mr Impey said: "The point of the list is to catch things early - some Grade II buildings don't exist any more.
"We don't know how many buildings are at risk but our ambition is to assess them all and look at how many are deemed to be at risk.
"The first thing we need to know is their condition on a case-by-case basis."
EH will publish an assessment guide online so people can review a building from the outside and gauge if it is at risk.
He said: "We'll ask them things like: 'Is it occupied, has it got broken windows and plants growing out of the gutters?'."
Once a building is submitted it will be assessed by English Heritage who will work with funding bodies and local authorities and groups to try to put together a restoration programme.
But EH will not be able to fund all of the work - the body has seen its own budget cuts from £30m in 1999 to £12.5m.
And while in the past developers might repair a building knowing they could sell it and recoup their costs, the "conservation deficit" has rocketed during the recession.
From 2007 to 2012 the deficit - which is the shortfall between the cost of repairs and the money an owner could expect to recoup from the market value of a repaired property - increased from £330m to £423m. The average deficit per site rose from £267,000 to £366,000.
But Mr Impey said despite budgets being squeezed he still believed people were interested in saving buildings.
"Its difficult for local authorities because they are very hard pressed and there are fewer conservation staff but that doesn't mean the will isn't there," he said.
"English Heritage funds have diminished too but there are other sources of money and people are very good at raising money.
"The whole thing depends on people's enthusiasm but people in England are very passionate about our historic buildings." | A national public body has announced plans to attempt to save England's Grade II listed buildings from the threat of neglect. |
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The MSP, who is battling against current deputy leader Kezia Dugdale for the job, says he is "confident" he will win the vote.
Ms Dugdale is widely seen as being the favourite to win, but Mr Macintosh said that the momentum was with him.
The result of the ballot will announced next Saturday.
Speaking after an event in Glasgow attended by undecided Scottish Labour members, Mr Macintosh said that his canvas returns still showed that more than 50% of those entitled to vote were yet to make up their minds.
He said that the majority of those who had decided were backing him, adding that "all the switchers" were also moving in his direction.
Ms Dugdale has received 90% of the support from constituency Labour branches who nominated a candidate.
She is also backed by 80% of the local councillors who nominated a leadership candidate, 10 trade union and affiliate groups, and 30 fellow parliamentarians.
But Mr Macintosh said the move to the one-person-one-vote system had helped his campaign.
He claimed Ms Dugdale was the candidate of the party machine, and added: "The good thing for me is that this is not going to be decided by elected representatives, or by the trade unions, it is going to be decided by the members.
"The majority of members are undecided, and whatever switchers there are all going my way. My canvas returns are showing me that I am in the lead and momentum is with my campaign." | The majority of Scottish Labour members remain undecided about who they will elect as the party's new leader, according to contender Ken Macintosh. |
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Speaking to the Andrew Marr Show - in her first major interview since taking office - Mrs May warned Brexit would not be "plain sailing" for the UK.
She said formal EU talks will not begin until 2017, but vowed the process would not be "kicked into the long grass".
Mrs May also ruled out a snap election, saying the UK needs "stability".
The former home secretary became prime minister after David Cameron resigned in the wake of the EU referendum - with the Brexit process likely to dominate the first years of her premiership.
Speaking before travelling to China for the G20 summit, Mrs May said she would not pretend that leaving the union would be "plain sailing", despite positive economic figures in the UK since the referendum.
"We have had some good figures and better figures than some had predicted would be the case. I'm not going to pretend that it's all going to be plain sailing.
"I think we must be prepared for the fact that there may be some difficult times ahead. But what I am is optimistic."
She insisted the country would "make a success" of leaving the EU, saying she was also "optimistic" about new opportunities for Britain outside the EU.
The prime minister said she wanted "an independent Britain, forging our own way in the world".
Ahead of the summit, she met for talks with US President Barack Obama.
Speaking to reporters afterwards, President Obama said the US would "consult closely" with the UK over Brexit negotiations to ensure there were no "adverse effects" in the US-UK trading relationship.
He said: "We're going to do everything we can to make sure that the consequences of the decision don't end up unravelling what is already a very strong and robust economic relationship that can become even stronger in the future."
But President Obama said before that it would be important to work out "what Brexit means for Europe".
He denied suggestions that earlier this year he had threatened to "punish" the UK if it voted to leave the EU when he said the UK would go to the "back of the queue" for trade deals with the US.
He said those comments, made in April, had been in response to suggestions that the effects of Brexit would be "minimal".
In her interview with the BBC, Mrs May said the referendum result had shown voters did not want "free movement to continue in the way that it has done in the past".
She said ministers were looking at "options" for new EU migration controls.
"People also want to see the job opportunities, to see the economic opportunities, and so getting a good deal in trading goods and services is also obviously important for us," she added.
The prime minister said she was "very clear" that she expected the status of British citizens in other EU countries to be guaranteed and would "guarantee the status of EU citizens living here".
Mrs May said the government would not trigger Article 50 - which will begin the formal two-year process of leaving the EU - before the end of this year.
However, she added: "I'm very clear also that the British people don't want the issue of Article 50 being triggered just being kicked into the long grass because they want to know we're getting on with the job of putting Brexit into place and making a success of it."
She said Brexit minister David Davis will make a statement to the Commons this week on work the government has done over the summer.
Asked about Scottish independence, the prime minister questioned whether voters in Scotland supported the prospect of a second referendum on independence.
"I think if you look at some of the results that are now coming out of polling in Scotland, they suggest that the Scottish people don't want there to be a second referendum," she said.
Mrs May said the Scottish government would be "fully involved" and "fully engaged" in the Brexit discussions but a spokesman for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the onus was on Mrs May and her ministers "to show they are serious about engaging positively with a view to safeguarding Scotland's interests".
During the interview, Mrs May also promised a decision on the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant deal this month, saying she was still taking advice on the issue.
"I don't just come in and say, right, this is the position I take. I look at the evidence, I take the advice, I listen to that. That's what I'm still doing."
Mrs May would not be drawn on the issue of grammar schools, saying the government would wait to hear recommendations from Education Secretary Justine Greening.
She told the programme she wanted to give pupils "opportunities in life". | Britain needs to be prepared for some "difficult times" ahead as it leaves the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May has said. |
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The American recorded his first victory since taking charge in October to lift the Swans off the bottom of the table and on to nine points from 13 games.
He said: "I see the win as a turning point in so many ways.
We felt pure ecstasy today
"Sometimes you feel like you need something crazy and maybe this game can be that moment."
Bradley added: "It has been a difficult season and a lot of things have not bounced the right way.
"But we still show up every day with a great mentality and I couldn't be happier for that group."
Swansea had led 3-1 but trailed 4-3 before Fernando Llorente scored twice in stoppage time to earn their second win of the season.
"I have been on both sides of games like that, so I understand how Palace feel," added the former USA coach.
"As far as we are concerned, it was a huge victory and one which the group thoroughly deserves.
"However, when I see the deflection off Jack Cork's head [for Palace's third goal], there is a moment when you think we just need some luck to turn things around.
"In the end the character of the players shone through and I am very happy for them."
Dutch midfielder Leroy Fer, who scored twice in two minutes to give Swansea a 3-1 lead, said: "This result is a good springboard, we have to keep going and moving forward.
"It was heartache for us when Everton equalised late on last week, but we felt pure ecstasy today." | Swansea's dramatic 5-4 win against Crystal Palace can revitalise the Welsh side's Premier League campaign, says manager Bob Bradley. |
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These are the latest images, 36 hours after the disaster which killed at least 50 people. | Fires are still burning at the site of a series of enormous explosions in China's Tianjin port, while emergency teams are still at work. |
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Ministers say the £168m, split between 148 councils, will help to fix some three million potholes by March 2015.
All councils which applied for money will get a share, but extra has been given to those which "demonstrate best practice in highways maintenance".
But the Local Government Association said the sum was "a drop in the ocean".
Pothole fund: Figures by council
The AA welcomed the funding but said more work on road surfaces was needed.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: "Potholes are the bane of all our lives and the funding announced today is an important step in ridding our roads of this menace.
"But it is only one part of a massive programme of investment to get our country up to speed as part of this government's long-term economic plan."
It costs an estimated £53 to fix every pothole, the Department for Transport said.
BBC transport correspondent Richard Westcott said the money would "bring some relief to drivers", but added: "Councils have been saying for years that they need billions, not millions, to really fix our roads."
Councils in London will receive £10m of the latest funding - enough to fix an estimated 188,000 potholes - while £5.1m will go to North Yorkshire, with Cumbria to get £4.8m.
The money must be used to "repair potholes or to ensure that they do not appear in the first place" and councils must publish monthly updates on how many repairs have been carried out.
A "greater share" is being given to those which have "invested in new technology and initiatives".
These include Northamptonshire - which has "set up systems to track pothole repairs in real time" - and Hampshire - where new pothole fixing equipment can be converted to grit roads in icy weather.
The Department for Transport said the money, first announced in Chancellor George Osborne's Budget in March, was "part of the biggest investment in roads since the 1970s".
It said £24bn would be spent on England's strategic road network - meaning motorways and many A-roads maintained by the Highways Agency - from 2010-21.
Local councils are responsible for other roads, and the government said £7.4bn would be "committed to local roads in the next Parliament", along with money from other funds given to councils.
The latest pothole funding is separate from the £183m allocated to English councils in March to repair roads damaged by the winter's severe weather.
An LGA spokesman said: "While we welcome any extra funding, £168m is a drop in the ocean compared to the £12bn backlog in roads maintenance.
"Moreover, we are disappointed to see the government tie this funding to monthly reports on pothole repairs.
"Fixing potholes is a sticking plaster-approach which does nothing to address the fundamental decay of the underlying road infrastructure.
"What we need is a considered, long-term approach to road maintenance not annual announcements of emergency funding."
AA president Edmund King said: "Potholes in the UK have been a long-running scourge that has cost tens of thousands of car owners millions of pounds in repair bills, and councils millions in compensation claims.
"The new government money is very welcome but it will only be truly effective if roads are re-surfaced on time and not just patched up after each winter." | Details of where money set aside to fix potholes in England will be spent have been released by the government - with extra cash going to "model" councils. |
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BBC News NI profiles some of them.
FINE GAEL
Centre-right Fine Gael is the Republic of Ireland's largest political party and is led by Taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny.
Fine Gael came to power in 2011 during Ireland's worst economic crisis in recent memory.
Mr Kenny formed a coalition government with the social-democratic Labour Party and has been campaigning to return to power with the party.
FIANNA FÁIL
Formed by the state's founding father, Éamon de Valera in 1926, Fianna Fail, the centrist party, historically appealed right across all the social divides.
It dominated Irish politics for much of the post-Second World War period.
The party suffered a catastrophic defeat in 2011 after many voters blamed it for the way it handled the economic crisis.
LABOUR
Since 2011, Labour has been in coalition government with Fine Gael.
The Irish Labour Party is a social democratic party, founded in 1912 as part of the trade union movement, with which it maintains organisational links.
For most of the history of the state, it was the third largest party, though it is currently in second position in parliamentary strength.
SINN FÉIN
Although Sinn Féin started building its political base and mandate in Northern Ireland, in recent years the left-wing party has risen to prominence in the Republic of Ireland.
The party has a history going back to 1905, but modern Sinn Féin dates back to 1970.
OTHER PARTIES
There are 13 other political parties contesting seats in the general election. They include the recently formed Renua party and the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit. | The four main political parties in the Republic of Ireland are running candidates in Friday's general election, as are a number of smaller parties. |
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The device broke apart and caused charring to a plug point, wall and carpet, in the pensioner's sheltered housing flat in Troon.
The e-cigarette was bought overseas on holiday and had only been charging for five minutes when it exploded.
Trading standards officials warned people to only buy from trusted sources and follow safety guidelines.
South Ayrshire council said the pensioner heard a loud bang and a whoosh, describing the explosion as being like a Roman candle firework going off in his living room.
He found the device broken apart and heavy charring to his wall, plug point and carpet.
The council said that he had had "a lucky escape".
Mike Newall, head of neighbourhood services at South Ayrshire Council, said: "We charge so many gadgets these days that it's easy to take their safety for granted but as incidents like these show, there is a real and present danger.
"While in the majority of cases charging will be completely safe, it's worth remembering that batteries can and do overheat, and without taking proper care to ensure your device is safe you can run the risk of starting a fire.
"We would recommend buying from a trusted source, always use the charger that comes with your device, and above all use common sense."
The council issued these "top tips for safe charging" | Trading standards officials have issued a warning after an e-cigarette exploded while charging at a pensioner's home. |
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Package holidays, for instance, were up 0.6% between April and May, compared with a fall of 0.4% a year ago.
The fall in the pound since last year's Brexit vote is making itself felt.
Imported goods, particularly, have become more expensive. The cost of games - especially computer games - toys and hobbies shot up by 2.7%.
Prices are also on the rise for clothing, up 0.6% compared with a fall of 0.3% a year ago, with children's clothing seeing the biggest increase.
The ONS also reported higher prices for furniture and household goods.
Shoppers have been used to falling prices in the supermarket aisles in recent years but this trend is now at an end.
Sugar, jams, chocolate, syrups and confectionary all contributed to the latest rise in this category.
With inflation now at its highest rate in nearly four years, the impact of past falls in sterling continue to feed through to households, according to Richard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics: "Food inflation rose by 2.5% according to the latest data, the fastest since 2013. Given the least affluent households spend around 17% of their expenditure on food and drink, rising prices will have a significant impact on their discretionary spending power going forward.
"What's more, real earnings are already shrinking. With inflation expected to accelerate further in the coming months, the backdrop for retailers looks set to become even more challenging."
Electricity bills jumped by 4% and gas bills were also slightly up, reflecting price hikes from some of the big six energy suppliers.
But travel costs were down. Air fares usually go down after Easter, one of the peak holiday periods. Because Easter came later this year, air fares fell back in May, which was a big contributor to the downward effect.
And the prices at the pump also dropped between April and May this year, bringing some relief, at least, to consumers. | The rising cost of foreign holidays, toys and computer games are the main drivers behind this month's jump in inflation. |
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Sophie Taylor, 22, from Llandaff, died when her car crashed into a block of flats at the junction of Meteor Street and Moira Street in Adamsdown on Monday.
A 21-year-old man, who was a passenger in the car, remains in a critical condition.
Police are appealing for witnesses.
They are keen to hear from anyone who may have seen three cars - a black BMW 1 Series, a white BMW 1 Series and a black Vauxhall Corsa - travelling together around Cardiff late on Sunday and the early hours of Monday. | Two men and two women who were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following a car crash in Cardiff have been released on bail. |
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Locks James Gaskell and Will Rowlands, as well as props Jake Cooper-Woolley, Alex Lundberg and Simon McIntyre, have agreed undisclosed-length extensions.
"We're delighted to extend the deals," said director of rugby Dai Young.
"They all deserve their new contracts after impressing again this season."
Young added: "It's been a couple of years of change at Wasps and, with the move of the training ground and playing staff to Coventry next season, we're really pleased another five players have bought into the vision and are enjoying the direction the club is moving in."
Wasps are due to complete their move to Coventry this summer, when they plan to move their current training base from west London, at the Twyford Avenue sports ground in Acton - to Binley Woods, currently the home of Broadstreet RFC.
They have so far continued to remain based in London since first making the Ricoh Arena their matchday home in December 2014.
Wasps backs coach Lee Blackett, who arrived from Rotherham last summer, has also signed a new contract, tying him to the club until at least 2019.
England Saxons tight-head prop Cooper-Woolley has made 68 appearances since signing from Cardiff Blues in 2013.
Gaskell, who has made 44 appearances since signing from Sale in 2014, missed the final few weeks of the season with a foot injury.
Loose-head prop McIntyre also moved from Sale in 2011, since when he has scored five tries in 105 appearances.
Under-20s prop Lundberg signs his first senior contract after spending this season on loan at Bedford, helping them to the Championship play-offs.
Wasps Academy graduate Rowlands spent the early part of the season on loan with Jersey, before returning to make seven Wasps appearances. | Wasps have handed new "long-term" deals to five of their players following the club's achievement in reaching both the European Champions Cup and Premiership semi-finals in 2015-16. |
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Locals discovered the bodies of the deceased, who were believed to be in their 20s, in a public park in Sonipat.
The bodies, which have not been identified, have been sent for post mortem, police say.
Hundreds are killed each year in India for falling in love or marrying against their families' wishes.
Police said the man's legs had been chopped off and put inside the trunk. The woman was found wearing glass bangles, which are traditionally worn by newly-married women.
"It appears they were strangled and dumped here later. They are yet to be identified," senior police officer Praveen Kumar told AFP news agency.
"It seems like a case of honour killing because the woman is wearing wedding bangles but we are not ruling out other motives."
Monday's incident comes days after the state police arrested a man on suspicion of killing his teenage daughter over her relationship with a boy from another caste.
Most parents in India still prefer arranged marriages within their own caste and relationships outside of the caste are frowned upon.
In 2011, India's Supreme Court said those involved in honour killings should face the death penalty. | The naked bodies of a man and woman have been found inside two trunks in India's Haryana state in what police suspect is a case of "honour killing". |
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They hope to fool Scottish corncrakes flying from Africa to spring breeding grounds in the highlands.
Rathlin is in the flight path of the migrating birds, which were once common here, but have all but died out.
There is still a breeding population in Scotland and the RSPB hopes some may return to the County Antrim island.
Corncrake numbers began to decline in Northern Ireland with changes to farming.
Their crek-crek call was a signal that summer was on its way.
But a move from hay to silage hit both habitat and bird numbers.
The corncrake is reluctant to break cover.
That meant silage, which is normally cut from the edge to the middle of the field, posed a big risk as birds sought shelter in the middle of the crop and fell foul of machinery.
RSPB Northern Ireland volunteers have been planting strips of nettles around the edges of fields on the island.
They grow early and will provide cover for calling males from the end of April.
If a male is heard, the farmer will be eligible for a grant to delay the harvesting of his ground.
He will also be encouraged to cut from the centre of the field to the edge, to let the birds escape into the field margins.
Gregory Woulahan, head of reserves with RSPB NI, says ten calling males on the island would be a sustainable population.
"Now that's a lot of birds to get in at any one time. But the RSPB has been leading a project in the Nene Washes in the east of England where we actually reintroduced corncrake.
"That's still to be proven if it works or not.
"And if it does work there is that potential here on Rathlin if we got the right amount of habitat for them."
Rathlin last had a calling male in 2014, but a helicopter landed in the same field and scared it off.
A handful of sightings are reported in Northern Ireland every year. The last one was at Articlave near Coleraine.
There is also a small number of the birds in some places in the Irish Republic, including the islands off the County Donegal coast. | Conservationists are planting nettles on Rathlin Island in an attempt to trick an endangered species into landing and breeding there. |
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Sgt Alexander Blackman, 42, from Taunton, Somerset, has served three years of a life sentence.
Five judges at the Court Martial Appeal Court in London ruled the conviction should be "manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility".
A further hearing will decide what sentence Blackman should serve.
Blackman - who was known as Marine A during the original trial process and fully identified when he was convicted - was not in court to hear the decision.
The marine had a recognised mental illness at the time of the shooting in September 2011, the hearing was told.
His defence team argued that fresh psychiatric evidence, if available at the time, would have provided him with the "partial defence of diminished responsibility".
The panel of judges were urged to overturn the "unsafe" murder conviction.
In Wednesday's ruling, the judges said:
Sgt Blackman's wife, Claire, was greeted by cheering supporters and honking taxi horns on the steps of the court before thanking the "tens of thousands of supporters, especially from the Royal Marines family, who have stood behind us throughout".
Mrs Blackman, who led a campaign alongside author Frederick Forsyth and the Daily Mail, said she was "delighted" with the ruling.
"This is a crucial decision and one which better reflects the circumstances my husband found himself in during that terrible tour in Afghanistan," she said.
Blackman's lawyer, Jonathan Goldberg, said Mrs Blackman and Mr Forsyth were the "the hero and the heroine of this occasion".
After the ruling, Mr Forsyth said: "It's not over yet. We always wanted justice - a very elusive word, much used, seldom achieved.
"It's a two-bladed weapon. Firstly, one blade to get a man who should never have been in prison out of prison, secondly, we go after those people who wrongly and, I think, villainously put him there."
By Jonathan Beale, BBC defence correspondent
Claire Blackman had a tear in her eye and could be heard saying "phew" when the Lord Chief Justice read out his judgement.
She was clearly relieved as Lord Thomas announced that her husband's murder conviction should be quashed and substituted with manslaughter.
When the news was relayed outside the court, there were celebrations.
Veterans, some wearing the green beret of the Royal Marines, cheered, prompted passing traffic to blast their horns.
This popular support has helped fund the appeal against his murder conviction.
Many view Blackman - better known as Marine A - as some kind of victim.
But he's not innocent in the eyes of the law. He's still guilty of manslaughter.
Blackman shot an insurgent who had been seriously injured in an attack by an Apache helicopter, in the chest at close range with a 9mm pistol.
Footage of the 2011 incident was captured on a camera mounted on the helmet of another Royal Marine.
A court martial heard that Blackman used abusive language and said: "There you are. Shuffle off this mortal coil."
He then turned to his comrades and said: "obviously this doesn't go anywhere, fellas. I just broke the Geneva Convention", it was alleged.
During his trial, Blackman, who denied murder, said he believed the victim was already dead and he was taking out his anger on a corpse.
He was convicted of murder in November 2013 and jailed for life.
He lost an appeal in May of the following year, but his 10-year minimum term was reduced to eight years.
The trial was the first time a member of the British armed forces had faced a murder charge in relation to the conflict in Afghanistan, which began in 2001.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "We have fully co-operated with each stage of Sergeant Blackman's case and will continue to provide personal support to the family, as we have done since charges were first brought.
"We respect the court's decision and it would be inappropriate for us to comment further on it."
Panorama, Marine A: The Inside Story will be on BBC One at 22:50 GMT, and available later on iPlayer. | A Royal Marine jailed for shooting an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan has had his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter by an appeal court. |
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The report has projected a boost of nearly 10% in economic output, or £13bn at current prices, if Scotland takes the most ambitious choices and becomes a world leader.
And it said 99% of Scots could be using the internet by 2030.
The report was commissioned by the Scottish Futures Trust.
It also said:
With the Internet of Things being developed - allowing people to control homes, cars and workplaces through electronic communications - there could be as many as 130 million digital devices in Scotland - 26 for the average Scot.
Even without any initiative to make Scotland more ambitious in its digital connections, the Internet of Things is expected to mean 25 million connected devices by 2030.
The report, commissioned from Deloitte by the Scottish Futures Trust, an agency of the Scottish government, also details changes which a full embrace of digital technology could bring to public services.
It says:
The vision of digitally-skilled citizens also applies to education and schooling.
The aim would be to cut down the so-called "digital divide" between those with the computing hardware and skills to use it, and those who have neither.
The Deloitte authors also envisage a reduction of the split in digital access between rural and urban Scotland.
It notes that people living rurally use 20% less data on fixed landlines than those in cities, and 28% less on mobile connections.
While the European Union average for internet access is 81% of people, Scotland lags on 78%.
The report also highlights relatively low uptake by businesses of recent digital options.
It says about 95% of Scottish businesses have internet access, but only 25% use cloud computing technology.
Of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), only 17% use the Next Generation Access (NGA) which is common for large companies.
With a more digital society and economy, it is argued that productivity would rise, boosting total output, jobs and earnings, while making it easier for more businesses to start up.
The report's modelling suggests that a world-leading Scottish digital economy could help create 175,000 more jobs than if the current development rate is retained.
A less ambitious programme to become world class, rather than world-leading, is estimated to mean 120,000 more jobs.
Market data shows there are currently five million digital devices in Scotland, one million of them with mobile connections, yet usage is low by international comparison.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney welcomed the report "which shows the incredible potential of increased digitalisation to Scotland".
He said: "The report outlines that if Scotland were to become a world leader, the nation could not only see a significant increase in GDP, but also the creation of nearly 6,000 new small-medium sized enterprises and small office or home office enterprises." | A vision for making Scotland into a world-leading digital society has been published, predicting 26 times more data use within 15 years. |
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The Met Office said the rain would be slow-moving and intense in some regions, with up to 15mm (0.5in) or more falling in less than an hour.
It warned the heavy showers could cause temporary surface water flooding, leading to travel disruption.
The warning is in place from 12.30 BST to 23:59 Tuesday. | A yellow "be aware" warning for rain has been issued for Wales, with heavy downpours predicted. |
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The source said no decisions had been made but a few hundred troops could be sent.
The Ministry of Defence said it was considering "additional support" but also said no decisions had been made.
Meanwhile Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said Britain will supply ammunition to the Kurdish Peshmerga.
Details of the ammunition have not been announced but BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said it was likely to include bullets for heavy machine guns already sent from the UK. The Peshmerga say they have run out of ammunition for the weapons.
About 300 UK military personnel are currently in the country training Iraqi security forces and Peshmerga fighters.
The Ministry of Defence said the US-led coalition fighting IS had asked Britain to "consider a range of options" to support Iraqi security forces.
It added: "Any additional support will continue to be behind the wire."
At a meeting in Germany on Wednesday, members of the coalition will discuss stepping up the fight against IS. | Britain could send hundreds more troops to Iraq in training roles to boost the fight against so-called Islamic State, a defence source has told the BBC. |
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Snorre Nilsen got the only goal for the side who play in the Isthmian Premier Division, two levels below the Gulls.
"We didn't work hard enough - whether that was fear or complacency, I don't know," Nicholson told BBC Radio Devon.
"There's no reason why that should happen other than maybe a mentality, maybe we got too relaxed."
The loss brought Torquay's four-game unbeaten run to an end and they return to National League action on Tuesday when they visit Macclesfield.
They were without four cup-tied players, including striker Nathan Blissett, for the match.
"They're all available now (for Tuesday) and they'll probably get their places back because they did well in their last game and nobody's really staked a claim," added Nicholson.
"It was bobbly, it was windy - who cares? There's no excuse, it's not good enough.
"It's a poor performance, it's a poor day for us as a club - but let's not get too carried away, we now have to achieve our main aim, which is staying in the league." | Torquay United player-manager Kevin Nicholson says there was "no excuse" for their 1-0 FA Trophy quarter-final defeat at Bognor Regis Town. |
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Steele, 33, finished on 18 under par thanks to a seven-under 65, birdying the last three holes to beat overnight leader Patton Kizzire by a stroke.
Casey, 39, tied for third on 16 under with Americans Michael Kim, Johnson Wagner and Scott Piercy.
Scotland's Martin Laird and American Phil Mickelson finished on 14 under.
We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here. | England's Paul Casey claimed his fourth successive top-four finish without victory as American Brendan Steele won the Safeway Open in California. |
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For the first time since 2005, Saints were not involved in the Grand Final.
But Wilkin says the 2012 season must be judged as a success, purely because of how well the club coped with the
"If we had stayed at Knowsley Road, it wouldn't exist in a number of years' time. That's the simple fact," the forward told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"The club would have financially died a death. Moving to Langtree Park had to be done.
"Everybody who has invested in the club, not just the current board but in the years gone by, really deserves the credit for taking such a tough decision but to take the club into the future and make the club a profitable business.
"Ultimately, if it's not making money, the club we all love - I love to play for, the fans love to support, you love to report on - would not exist, so from that perspective, it's been a fantastically successful year."
St Helens had a good record at Langtree Park in 2012, winning nine and losing four of their 13 Super League fixtures during the regular season, although it was the scene of their
England international Wilkin is confident Saints' new home, which has a capacity of 18,000, will become just as hostile a place for opposing teams to visit as Knowsley Road had once been.
"It takes time," he said. "I don't think it's something you can achieve overnight.
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"You play every team there once, so in the memory banks of every side is one game at Langtree Park.
"We need to build that up over three or four games against a team. All of a sudden, teams have perhaps not won in those four games, and then you start to reap the benefits of home advantage."
A poor start to the campaign as head coach, with Mike Rush and Keiron Cunningham taking control of first team affairs.
The pair guided Saints to third position in Super League and within 80 minutes of the Grand Final.
has already started rebuilding his squad for next season, with Hull FC duo and among their new additions for 2013.
"League form very rarely lies about where you're at and I think Wigan and Warrington had been the best sides all year," continued Wilkin.
"We were probably the third best side and that's something we've got to change. We go into next year full of confidence and with some great recruits.
"We go into every year to win trophy. Not every team can win a trophy and our job is to use the hunger of not winning anything this year to motivate us next season." | Jon Wilkin thinks St Helens will remain a force in Super League after moving to a new stadium earlier this year. |
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Reverend Mike Barnsley of St John's Church in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, said damage caused to his graveyard by the animals has caused "upset and distress".
Some residents claim people are feeding the boar which encourages the animals into towns and villages.
West Dean Parish Council said it has formed an action committee.
Tim Gwilliam, district and parish councillor for Berry Hill, said culls are not working.
He said: "Perhaps it's the tactics that need addressing. We need to put it right.
"There is nothing worse than somebody's grave being turned over. It's horrendous. It's 2017 and we can't allow this to happen."
Rev Barnsley said it is "very upsetting" for families who have visited the graves of their loved ones at St John's to see "this sort of mess".
Despite years of culling, the last count put the number of boar in the region at nearly 1,600 - more than 500 up on the year before.
The target population for the Forestry Commission is 400.
Wild boars were hunted to extinction in England in the 17th century, but 12 years ago about 60 farmed animals were illegally dumped in the Forest of Dean.
The Forestry Commission said six wildlife rangers have been deployed on this season's cull, and details will be released when it finishes later in the spring. | A council has formed a committee to tackle wild boar digging up a graveyard. |
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Larson, seen most recently in Free Fire, will play Victoria Woodhull, a suffragette nominated for President of the United States in 1872.
While Woodhull did not win the presidency, she helped in the fight to give women the vote - achieved some 40 years later.
The film, for Amazon Studios, will be written by Ben Kopit.
Lloyd Braun and Andrew Mittman will also produce Victoria Woodhull, according to Deadline Hollywood.
Larson, who won the best actress Oscar for Room, also appears in monster epic Kong: Skull Island.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Oscar-winner Brie Larson is to star in - and produce - a film about the first female White House candidate. |
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A simple cut to your finger could leave you fighting for your life. Luck will play a bigger role in your future than any doctor could.
The most basic operations - getting an appendix removed or a hip replacement - could become deadly.
Cancer treatments and organ transplants could kill you. Childbirth could once again become a deadly moment in a woman's life.
It's a future without antibiotics.
Sir Alexander Fleming made one of the single greatest contributions to medicine when he discovered antibiotics.
He noticed that mould growing on his culture dishes had created a ring free of bacteria, he'd found penicillin.
It was the stuff of Nobel Prizes, but in 1945 the spectre of resistance was already there.
In his winner's lecture he said: "It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body.
"The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops.
"Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant."
Sir Alexander Fleming's 1945 Nobel Prize lecture
BBC History: Alexander Fleming
This might read like the plot of a science fiction novel - but there is genuine fear that the world is heading into a post-antibiotic era.
The World Health Organization has warned that "many common infections will no longer have a cure and, once again, could kill unabated".
The US Centers of Disease Control has pointed to the emergence of "nightmare bacteria".
And the chief medical officer for England Prof Dame Sally Davies has evoked parallels with the "apocalypse".
Antibiotics kill bacteria, but the bugs are incredibly wily foes. Once you start treating them with a new drug, they find ways of surviving. New drugs are needed, which they then find ways to survive.
As long as new drugs keep coming, resistance is not a problem. But there has not been a new class of antibiotics discovered since the 1980s.
This is now a war, and one we are in severe danger of losing.
Antibiotics are more widely used than you might think and a world without antibiotics would be far more dangerous.
They made deadly infections such as tuberculosis treatable, but their role in healthcare is far wider than that.
Surgery that involves cutting open the body poses massive risks of infection. Courses of antibiotics before and after surgery have enabled doctors to perform operations that would have been deadly before.
Cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy can damage the immune system. A course of antibiotics is prescribed to provide a much-needed boost alongside your body's own defences.
Anyone with an organ transplant faces a lifetime of drugs to suppress the immune system, otherwise it attacks the transplant, so antibiotics are used to protect the body.
"It's a pretty grim future, I think a lot of major surgery would be seriously threatened," said Prof Richard James from the University of Nottingham.
"I used to show students pictures of people being treated for tuberculosis in London - it was just a row of beds outside a hospital, you lived or you died - the only treatment was fresh air."
And this, he says, is what running out of drugs for tuberculosis would look like in the future.
But this is all in the future isn't it?
"My lab is seeing an increasing number of resistant strains year on year," said Prof Neil Woodford, from the Health Protection Agency's antimicrobial resistance unit.
He said most cases were resistant to some drugs, known as multi-drug resistant strains, but there were a few cases of pan-drug resistant strains which no antibiotic can touch.
Prof Woodford said the worst case scenario would "be like the world in the 1920s and 30s".
One of the most famous superbugs around is MRSA and it has been a scourge of hospitals for years.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is resistant to some antibiotics and can cause life threatening complications such as blood poisoning.
Cases soared across hospitals in the Western world, however, the tide has turned.
For example, figures for England and Wales show the number of deaths fell from 1,600 in 2007 to 364 in 2011.
The main weapon was hygiene, which cut down the opportunities for infection to spread.
This shows that if the right steps are taken, the threat of antibiotic resistance and be reduced.
MRSA figures for England and Wales
"You could be gardening and prick your finger on a rose bush, get a bacterial infection and go into hospital and doctors can't do anything to save your life. You live or die based on chance.
"But for many infections that wouldn't happen."
Opportunistic infections - those that often hit the elderly when they are already ill and vulnerable in hospital - are one of the main concerns.
Prof Woodford says the greatest threat in the UK is Enterobacteriaceae - opportunistic bugs that live in the gut such as E. coli and Klebsiella.
They are now the most common form of hospital acquired infection and they show rising levels of resistance.
The number of tests coming back with resistance to carbapenems, one of the most powerful groups of antibiotics, has soared from a handful of cases in 2003 to more than 300 cases by 2010.
It has also raised concerns about the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea which is becoming increasingly difficult to treat.
Around the world, multi-drug resistant and extremely-drug resistant tuberculosis - meaning only a couple of drugs still work - is a growing problem.
Relatively speaking the UK is doing well.
"A world without antibiotics has happened in some countries," says Prof Timothy Walsh, from Cardiff University.
He was part of the team that identified one of the new emerging threats in south Asia - NDM-1.
Bacteria develop antibiotic resistance because they are frisky on a scale that's almost difficult to imagine.
Some bacteria can double in population numbers every 20 minutes - compare that to how long it would take a couple to have four children.
It means mutations, which can nullify drugs, can emerge quickly. But there's more. A bacterium can swap bits of their genetic code with other bacteria, even from different species.
It's called conjugation and is a bit like going for a walk and swapping genes for hair colour with the neighbour's dog - beneficial mutations really can spread in the bacterial world.
This gene gives resistance to carbapenems and has been found in E. coli and Klebsiella.
"Antibiotic resistance in some parts of the world is like a slow tsunami, we've known it's coming for years and we're going to get wet," he said.
New Dehli Metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) is thought to have emerged in India where poor sanitation and antibiotic use have helped resistance spread.
But due to international travel, cases have been detected around the world including in the UK.
This highlights one of the great problems with attempting to prevent an antibiotic catastrophe - how much can one country do?
There are wide differences in how readily antibiotics are used around the world. They are prescription-only drugs in some countries and available over the counter in others.
There are still question about doctors giving antibiotics to patients with viral infections like the common cold - antibiotics do nothing against viruses.
Europe has banned the use of antibiotics to boost the growth of livestock as it can contribute to resistance.
But the practice is common in many parts of the world and there is a similar issue with fish farms.
Prof Laura Piddock, from Birmingham University and the group Antibiotic Action, said: "These are valuable drugs and we need to use them carefully."
Some people have even suggested that antibiotics need to be far more expensive - something more like the price of new cancer drugs - in order for them to be used appropriately.
The doomsday scenario is on the horizon, but that does not mean it will come to pass.
A renewed focus on developing new antibiotics and using the ones that still work effectively would change the picture dramatically.
But if it does happen, the impact on society will be significant.
Prof Piddock said: "Every time we can't treat an infection, a patient spends longer in hospital and there is the economic impact of not being in education or work.
"The consequences are absolutely massive, that's actually something people have not quite grasped." | A terrible future could be on the horizon, a future which rips one of the greatest tools of medicine out of the hands of doctors. |
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The 27-year-old German joined the Terriers from 1860 Munich in June 2016 for a then club record fee of £1.8m.
He made 48 appearances last season and scored the winning spot-kick as the Terriers beat Reading on penalties in the Championship play-off final.
"Christopher was one of our standout players last year," said the Premier League club's head coach David Wagner. | Huddersfield Town defender Christopher Schindler has signed a new three-year deal, with the option of an extra year. |
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Foraging teacher Mark Williams reckons we should eat more weeds.
He is urging shoppers to turn their backs on "tasteless imported Spanish lettuce" and instead head into the wild to fill our salad bowls.
Even in February, he says there are dozens of alternatives to shop-bought greens growing in abundance along the coast, in woodland and even in towns and cities.
And he has drawn up a list of six plants - or are they weeds? - which could grace our dinner plates tonight.
Mr Williams, who lives in Dumfries and Galloway and runs foraging courses, said: "None of them are in any way rare, in fact most are considered weeds.
"People expect foraging to be about looking for (possible rare) things, but it's really just about recognising abundance.
"Throughout the year, I can pick well over 300 different edible wild plants, fungi and seaweed within walking distance of my home in Gatehouse.
"Even in towns and cities, the list is huge."
The forager, who also runs a website offering advice on sourcing wild food safely and responsibly, says: "People worry about poisoning themselves by misidentifying something, but it only takes a tiny bit of effort to learn the few things to avoid.
"More people get ill from eating mass produced commodities than from eating the wrong wild plant.
Mr Williams says: "Provided you follow the first cardinal rule of foraging, nothing can go wrong: never eat anything that you can't identify with 100% confidence, and know is safe to eat."
If you have ever detected the smell of garlic as you wander through woodland in the springtime, it is likely you passed by a crop of wild garlic.
These fragrant, small green leaves are abundant in open, well-established deciduous woodland and shady hedgerows.
They have been at the forefront of a renaissance in wild food in recent years, according to Mr Williams.
He said: "It isn't hard to work out why: it is easy to find, delicious and fairly straightforward to identify.
"In most areas of the UK, there is absolutely no need for anyone who lives anywhere near a park, woodland or shady riverbank to spend a single penny on spring onions between February and July."
Despite its abundance, he urged foragers to pick wild garlic considerately, not clearing large areas.
In the kitchen, wild garlic works well with cheese - in pesto, for example - and it can be used to make excellent soups of sauces.
A note of caution however: although wild garlic is fairly straightforward to identify as it has a distinct smell of garlic, its leaves can be confused with lily of the valley, autumn crocus, daffodils, snowdrops and lords and ladies - all of which are toxic to humans.
Find more information on how to identify wild garlic here.
"If you come across a plant that reminds you of wild garlic, but has narrower leaves and less of a garlic smell, you may have found wild leeks," said Mr Williams.
"These aren't the hulking great Frankenstein leeks you might expect to find in shops and gardens, but something tender and elegant, much more closely resembling spring onions."
Most common in the west of Scotland and the north of England, they start to grow between November and February
They can carpet vast areas and can be found in parks, hedgerows and woods, often in urban and suburban areas.
Mr Williams added: "Be aware that crocuses, snowdrops, daffodils and bluebells grow around the same time and can be mixed through wild leek colonies.
"They are all toxic, but unlikely to do you much harm. If in doubt, wait for the distinctive flowers to appear."
He said wild leeks can be used in place of spring onions, cooked or raw, and are particularly tasty in pesto, hummus, salads and sauces.
Find more information about wild leeks here.
Not very hairy or bitter, this little weed is loathed by gardeners. But they make a very tasty addition to any salad, according to Mr Williams.
"They have overtones of rocket and watercress and come in lovely little garnish sized rosettes," he said.
"Great in a roast beef sandwich or crab salad, or to spice up any salad."
Found in gardens, field edges, flower beds and even window boxes, it is at its best between March and August.
Find out more about similar plants - all varieties of cardamines - here.
Ideal for a winter salad is pink puslane, an easy-to-come-by plant with an earthy beetroot flavour.
It is quite common in damp, shady wood edges, on riverbanks and hedgerows and it available all year round.
Mr Williams said the distinctive leaves often form extensive mats made of many rosettes - between April and June pale pink or white flowers with five petals can help identify it.
He added: "I love to employ its earthy flavour in winter salads with pickled fish, beetroot and elderberry vinegar, though it works well as a mild "bulker" with sharper-tasting leaves in spring.
"When you find a good patch, harvesting is quick and efficient - simply hold the tops of the rosettes and cut off below. It grows back within a few weeks."
Find more information about pink purslane here.
It's a common weed that can be found growing from cracks in pavements, but Mr Williams says chickweed is a "delight to eat - though you may wish to avoid that which grows in dog-walking areas."
He said its mild flavour means it is perfect for bulking out salads of wild leaves.
It can also be found in grass and beds in parks and gardens, on waste ground and under trees in fields.
Identify it by looking for small, white, star-like flowers made up of five deeply notched petals. If in doubt, close inspection will reveal a single line of hairs running down one side of the stem only.
There's more information about chickweed here.
Watercress can be found in mild coastal areas, in shallow slow-flowing streams and ditches, all year round.
Its peppery leaves are well worth harvesting but Mr Williams warned that it really should be cooked before it's eaten.
The plant is prone to infestation by the cyst stage of a parasite when it grows in land containing livestock.
The forager said: "This means if you eat it uncooked, you are at risk of them hatching into liver flukes inside you - which obviously isn't pleasant.
"Fortunately, it also makes fantastic soup or flan filling (I combine it with parmesan) and cooking destroys the parasite."
Care must also be taken that no lethal hemlock water-dropwort is growing through the plant when it is harvested - anyone planning to forage aquatic greens should learn to recognise it first.
For more about wild watercress, click here. | As the price of courgettes rocket, and supermarkets ration your favourite salad leaves, one man believes he has found the solution to our national lettuce crisis. |
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They said their final goodbye and parted at Euston, where he took the westbound Circle Line train and died in the Edgware Road blast.
Mr Downey, whose family hailed from Ireland, was a human resources systems development officer for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
He was survived by his wife, his father, his twin brother Liam, his sisters Mary and Julie and another brother, Shay.
Mr Downey, who was born on 15 March 1971, grew up in Corby, Northamptonshire and met Veronica when they were both teenagers.
They studied business and finance together at Tresham College in Kettering, Northants and married in 1999.
He worked in the payroll department at Corby Borough Council before moving to a similar job at Kensington and Chelsea Council in 2001.
Councillor Merrick Cockell, the leader of the council, said: "He was a very friendly and approachable person and very knowledgeable and skilled at his work.
"Everyone who knew Jon and who worked with him, will miss him enormously."
The Downeys moved to Milton Keynes in 2003 to be closer to London.
Mr Downey was a big fan of Liverpool Football Club and a keen walker.
His widow said: "He was a big joker who enjoyed winding up his friends. He lived life to the full and enjoyed the day for the day.
"Jon was also very cerebral. He was very conscious of those less fortunate that himself. At his funeral, friends were invited to donate money to the NSPCC."
She said: "Jon was a good listener and a good friend to people in need. He was a rock to me when I was going through a difficult time at work."
Mr Downey and his wife were members of the Woodlands Trust and a group of 50 relatives and friends gathered in woodlands near his home and planted trees and shrubs in his memory.
There is a bench at the site with his name on it and another one outside Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall.
His wife said they had planned to move to Ireland before his life was cut short.
Mrs Downey said: "Ironically Jon used to pick up a packet of cigarettes and announce 'These will never kill me'. He was right." | On the morning of 7 July, Jonathan Downey, 34, left his home in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, with his wife Veronica for their daily commute to London. |
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Younger people are leading a trend towards buying products without dairy and gluten in particular.
UK supermarkets are increasingly stocking aisles with wide ranges of the products, from biscuits to bolognaise.
"Consumers are associating 'free from' with a natural form of health in general," said Fraser McKevitt of the consumer research firm.
He said that while only about 5% of the population needed to avoid certain food groups for medical reasons, 54% of households joined the trend in the first three months of this year by buying at least one product from the category.
In recent years, a fashion for "clean eating", paleo, vegan and other diets popularised online has boosted the market for specially manufactured products and encouraged supermarkets as well as specialist stores to stock more of them.
Compared with last year's survey, 3.3 million more people had purchased a "free from" product, said Mr McKevitt.
Households containing people aged under 45 were 20% more likely to buy from these ranges. Sales of "free from" products grew 36% compared with a year earlier, he said.
Kantar monitors shoppers' habits using a sample of 30,000 households.
"The majority of products are bought by people who do not identify as having an intolerance," said Mr McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar.
He said shoppers used the label as a short-cut to identify products they believed would be healthier.
Ursula Philpott, a dietician at Leeds Beckett University, said that for the section of the population that did suffer from allergies and intolerances, the increased availability of these products was very helpful, but most of people did not need to avoid any specific food groups.
"A lot of people will be buying these because they've been sold the idea that gluten or dairy are in some way bad for you and that that's science-based, which for most people just isn't the case," she said.
"If we look at studies over the long term, we know the types of diets that lead to us having longer lives or having less disease states are things like Mediterranean diets, which don't include cutting out lots of things."
Kantar Worldpanel's survey also indicated that sales of "free from" products were higher amongst a more affluent demographic, reflected in higher sales of the products at Waitrose and Sainsbury's, compared with those grocers' market share.
But discounters Aldi and Lidl were also selling significant amounts of these products, said Mr McKevitt.
"Meanwhile, inflation shows no signs of abating. The price of everyday goods is up by 2.3% compared to this time last year, and rising prices cost the average household an additional £21.31 during the past 12 weeks," he added.
"We expect inflation to continue to accelerate, and as a result, we're likely to see consumers looking for cheaper alternatives."
The latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel indicate that prices for butter, fish, tea and skincare have risen in the 12 weeks to 26 March, while categories including crisps, bacon, chocolate and fresh poultry have seen prices fall.
Discount retailers Aldi and Lidl have continued to increase sales by about 15%, whereas Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda saw their sales decline slightly. Iceland has also seen a boost to sales.
Aldi and Lidl now account for 11.7% of the UK grocery market. | More than half of us bought a "free from" product during the last three months, according to Kantar Worldpanel. |
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The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has cleared Birmingham and Liverpool for the final phase of its selection process.
Both cities will now be inspected in August, before the final decision in September.
The DCMS will then forward the bid to the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).
Birmingham and Liverpool were recently inspected to see if their bids were developed enough to be considered, and also if they left a good legacy for their city, region and the UK.
They must submit detailed proposals next month.
Liverpool's bid is a partnership with Manchester, which hosted the games in 2002.
Manchester's two potential venues are the Velodrome, which is the home of British cycling, and the Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground, although this depends on cricket being included in the 2022 games.
The main stadium for Liverpool will be a partnership with Everton FC which is planning to build a new ground at Bramley Moore Dock.
While the Birmingham plan envisages creating creating the UK's largest permanent athletics stadium.
Liverpool Mayor, Joe Anderson, said: "We will work tirelessly in the coming weeks to persuade the government that Liverpool is the right choice to help showcase Britain in a post-Brexit world."
The 2022 Commonwealth Games were stripped from Durban in March. The CGF has said the final decision will take place in the autumn. | Two English cities have overcome a major hurdle in their attempts to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games. |
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Sam Spaven, 26, of Norfolk Road, Bircotes, Doncaster, has been charged with the murder of Richard Pencott, 44, also from Bircotes.
The crash, involving a bicycle and a car, took place on Faraday Close in Harworth, in the north of the county, on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr Spaven was arrested shortly afterwards and has now been remanded. | A man has been charged with murder following the death of a cyclist in Nottinghamshire. |
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Bob Bird, 56, was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice over Mr Sheridan's successful action against the newspaper in 2006.
He was detained at his Glasgow home at 07:30 and released four hours later.
Officers are investigating allegations of perjury and phone hacking as part of the Operation Rubicon probe.
Speaking following his release, Mr Bird said: "I just want to say that I'm very sad, very disappointed that things have come to this.
"I have always done my best to do the right thing throughout the 30/40 years of my journalistic career and I will be denying the charge against me.
"On legal advice I can't say any more at the moment."
By Reevel AldersonHome affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland
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Mr Bird edited the now defunct Scottish edition of the News of the World when it ran allegations about Mr Sheridan's private life.
The former MSP successfully sued the newspaper for defamation in 2006 and was awarded £200,000 damages.
A subsequent police investigation saw Mr Sheridan charged, convicted of perjury and jailed for three years. He was released after serving just over one year of his sentence.
Mr Bird gave evidence at the original defamation trial brought by Mr Sheridan in 2006 and his subsequent perjury trial at the end of 2010.
The journalist was detained at his Glasgow home by officers from the Operation Rubicon probe on Wednesday morning and questioned at Govan Police station, at Helen Street.
In a statement, the Strathclyde force said: "Officers from Operation Rubicon at Strathclyde Police have arrested and charged a 56-year-old man with attempting to pervert the course of justice in 2006 arising from his conduct at the time of the defamation action of Thomas Sheridan v News Group Newspapers Limited.
"A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal in Glasgow, in due course. It would be inappropriate to comment further."
Mr Bird is the third senior News of the World figure to be questioned by Operation Rubicon officers.
Earlier this month, Douglas Wight, a former news editor at the News of the World Scotland, was arrested and charged in connection with the perjury trial of Mr Sheridan.
The 39-year-old was charged with perjury, conspiracy to hack telephones and multiple charges of conspiracy to obtain personal data.
In May, Prime Minister David Cameron's former director of communications Andy Coulson was arrested and charged over evidence he gave at Mr Sheridan's perjury trial.
The former News of the World editor was charged with committing perjury during the trial in 2010.
Following Mr Bird's arrest, Mr Sheridan's solicitor Gordon Dangerfield said "we look forward to the whole truth coming out in court at last". | The former editor at the News of the World Scotland has been charged in connection with the defamation action of former MSP Tommy Sheridan. |
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The former Baywatch star wrote about the Wikileaks founder on her blog.
She said that her relationship with Mr Assange, 45, was "no secret" and that he was "one of my favourite people".
The post comes five months after Ms Anderson, 49, was seen delivering lunch to him at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where Mr Assange has lived for almost five years.
He claimed asylum there in 2012, in order to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Mr Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden over a sex allegation, which he denies.
The actress said that he is being "persecuted" by the US for "exposing them" through his work and worries about whether Sweden would then extradite him across the Atlantic.
Alongside a picture of Mr Assange on her blog, she wrote: "He might be the most famous, most politicised refugee of our time.
"Famous for being persecuted is not a position of power but a position of vulnerability. I am concerned.
"Julian is a human being who is extremely empathetic and cares deeply about the world.
"And because of his work he has made some powerful enemies in a few countries, America especially, by exposing them."
Ms Anderson says she has "faith" that Sweden "will not cave to the US," saying: "This is a good opportunity to show Sweden's strength."
She added: "Julian is trying to free the world by educating it. It is a romantic struggle. I love him for this."
The actress previously referred to him as her "dear friend" and said she would not be surprised if people reduced their connection to "just a sexual relationship".
In February 2016, a UN panel ruled that Mr Assange should be allowed to go free as he had been "arbitrarily detained" and should get compensation.
But the then-Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond called the decision "ridiculous". | Pamela Anderson has talked of her "love" for Julian Assange, calling him "the most famous refugee of our time". |
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The 23-year-old LottoNL-Jumbo rider held off Great Britain's Dan McLay to win by half a bike length.
Team Sky's Ben Swift came third in the 218km stage, the longest of the eight-day race.
Yellow jersey holder Julien Vermote crossed the line in fifth to retain his six-second overall lead.
1. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/LottoNL-Jumbo) 5hrs 28mins 49secs
2. Dan McLay (GB/Great Britain) same time
3. Ben Swift (GB/Team Sky)
4. Carlos Barbero (Spa/Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
5. Julien Vermote (Bel/Etixx Quick-Step)
6. Boy van Poppel (Ned/Trek-Segafredo)
7. Luka Mezgec (SVK/Orica-BikeExchange)
8. Nicolas Vereecken (Bel/An Post-Chain Reaction)
9. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Team Giant-Alpecin)
10. Diego Rubio (Spa/Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
1. Julien Vermote (Bel/Etixx Quick-Step) 18hrs 22mins 04secs
2. Stephen Cummings (GB/Dimension Data) +06secs
3. Ben Swift (GB/Team Sky) +1min 03secs
4. Tony Gallopin (Fra/Lotto Soudal) same time
5. Daniel Martin (Ire/Etixx Quick-Step) +1min 04secs
6. Xandro Meurisse (Bel/Wanty-Groupe Gobert) +1min 08secs
7. Dylan van Baarle (Ned/Cannondale Drapac) +1min 12secs
8. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Team Giant-Alpecin) same time
9. Guillaume Martin (Fra/Wanty-Groupe Gobert)
10. Nicholas Roche (Ire/Team Sky) +1min 16secs | Dutch national champion Dylan Groenewegen won stage four of the Tour of Britain in a sprint finish at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells. |
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Jay Z bought Tidal three years ago and his wife Beyonce and other artists own equity in the company.
Aiming to challenge larger rivals such as Spotify, Tidal offers artists on its platform more control over their music.
Sprint, which is owned by Japan's Softbank, will pay an estimated $200m (£162m) for a 33% stake in the company.
The deal means that Jay Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, will make a return on the initial $56m investment he made when he bought Tidal from Norway's Aspiro in 2015.
Other artists including Madonna, Rihanna, Daft Punk, Kanye West and Jay Z's wife Beyonce are part owners of the service, giving Tidal a star-studded board of directors. It is reported that they will remain part of the company.
The investment could help bolster Tidal in its battle to win ground from Spotify and Apple, which dominate the fast-growing music streaming industry.
Sprint's decision to invest is a sign the mobile operator wants to provide its customers with more content in a highly competitive market. As a result of the deal, Sprint customers would have access to exclusive Tidal content.
Tidal has a 42 million song catalogue and is available in 52 countries, but is currently much less widely used than services from Spotify and Apple. | The American rapper Jay Z is selling a stake in his Tidal music streaming business to the telecoms company, Sprint. |
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A US-led coalition of of Western and Middle Eastern countries began air strikes against the group in Iraq in August 2014 and in Syria a month later.
The UK began striking IS targets in Iraq in September 2014 and extended its involvement to Syria in December 2015.
Russia began carrying out its own air strikes in Syria in September 2015 after a request from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has clung on to power despite more than four years of civil war.
Here we look at where the key countries involved in the conflict stand.
The US air force has carried out the majority of air strikes against IS targets since forming a coalition of Western and regional powers in August 2014.
President Barack Obama is extremely reluctant to send ground troops to fight IS after protracted and unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the US does have about 3,500 troops in Iraq to train the country's armed forces.
The US has also provided weapons and training to "moderate" Syrian rebel groups, and unconfirmed reports suggest US special forces have been fighting alongside anti-IS forces in both Iraq and Syria.
In October US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter signalled a possible shift in the US campaign against IS, telling reporters that US forces were prepared to engage in "direct action on the ground".
Mr Carter did not go into detail about the circumstances under which the US might carry out ground operations against IS, but said: "Once we locate them, no target is beyond our reach."
Regional Sunni power Saudi Arabia is part of US-led military action against IS targets in Syria.
Riyadh also agreed to a US request to provide a base to train moderate Syrian rebel forces.
The kingdom has been a key supporter of the rebels, including hardline Islamist groups, but it has rejected an Iranian accusation that it has directly supported IS.
However, wealthy Saudis have sent donations to the group and some 2,500 Saudi men have travelled to Syria to fight.
The Saudi authorities are concerned that IS will inspire Saudi jihadists to challenge the monarchy's legitimacy and seek to overthrow it.
In July 2014, Riyadh deployed 30,000 troops to beef up security along its border with Iraq, and the following month hosted Iran's deputy foreign minister as the two regional rivals agreed to co-operate.
Jordan, a staunch US ally, said it had joined the US and several Gulf Arab states in carrying out air strikes on IS militants in Syria in September 2014 to "ensure the stability and security" of its borders.
A government spokesman said it took action in order to "pre-empt danger before it arrived in our country", and that he believed the Jordanian public would understand the need to forestall the jihadist group before it became active in Jordan.
IS has threatened to "break down" Jordan's borders and the group enjoys the support of a growing number of people in the kingdom, some of whom staged demonstrations in the southern town of Maan in June 2014. More than 2,000 Jordanian citizens are believed to have travelled to Syria to fight in the past three years.
Before launching the air strikes on IS, the Jordanian military had doubled its military presence along the border with Iraq.
The killing of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh, captured by IS in December 2014, appears to have strengthened the government's resolve to take on the militants, with King Abdullah II saying his death would not be in vain and promising a "severe response".
Regional Shia power Iran has seen IS - which regards Shia Muslims as heretics who should be killed - advance to within 25 miles (40km) of its border.
Although Iran stands on the opposite side of much of the international community over Syria, it has called for co-operation against IS. It has reached out to its rival Saudi Arabia - the leading Sunni power - and turned a blind eye to US actions in Iraq, which it has historically opposed.
Officially Iran denies it has deployed any combat troops in Syria, but in June 2015, the official Irna news agency said at least 400 Iranian and Iran-based Afghan "volunteers" had been killed in the past four years.
In Iraq, the Iranians have played a key role in countering IS. Revolutionary Guards have advised Iraqi security forces, Iranian pilots have carried out air strikes, and Iranian-backed Shia militia have been mobilised.
Iran's growing role in Syria's war
The former Shia-dominated government of Nouri Maliki marginalised Iraq's Sunni community, creating conditions which helped the extremist Sunni IS come to prominence.
When IS overran the northern city of Mosul in June 2014 before moving southwards, Mr Maliki requested US air strikes. However, US President Barack Obama said further military assistance was dependent on an inclusive government being formed.
He nevertheless launched air strikes in August 2014 when thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority became trapped on Mount Sinjar.
In September 2014, Mr Maliki stepped aside and a new Iraqi government was named. The next phase of US assistance will reportedly involve an intensified effort to train, advise and equip the Iraqi military, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Sunni tribesmen willing to turn against IS.
It is not clear how new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will deal with the Shia militiamen who have stopped IS reaching Baghdad. Some have been accused of operating outside of the state's control and carrying out reprisal attacks against Sunnis.
Since the start of the uprising against his rule in March 2011, President Bashar al-Assad has repeatedly warned of the threat of Islamist extremists to Syria and the wider region.
Western powers initially dismissed Mr Assad's portrayal of his opponents as "terrorists", but became increasingly concerned by the rise of IS and al-Qaeda's affiliate, al-Nusra Front.
Although they now acknowledge that IS cannot be beaten without attacking its strongholds in Syria, Western powers still want Mr Assad out of power and are reluctant to co-operate with him.
The Syrian foreign ministry said it was given advance warning of the US-led air strikes on IS targets on its territory in September 2014, stating it supported international efforts at "combating terrorism".
Russia is not part of the US-led coalition but started carrying out air strikes in Syria in September 2015. It has also launched missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea.
President Vladimir Putin says his country is targeting IS strongholds and other militant fighters. However, the US fears Russia is actually targeting opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is a Russian ally.
Russia now believes that a bomb brought down the Russian airliner over Egypt last month, killing more than 200 people, mostly Russian holidaymakers. Sinai Province, an IS-linked Egyptian group, said it had downed the jet.
Russia 'pounding IS' in Syria
The UAE was reported to have offered its air force to attack IS positions in Iraq before it participated in the military action in Syria in September 2014.
It is vehemently opposed to Islamist groups in the region and is believed to have launched air strikes on Islamist-allied militia in Libya from bases in Egypt in August 2014.
However, US officials have told the BBC that the UAE suspended its involvement in the strikes after the Jordanian pilot was captured.
Qatar was another Gulf state to participate in or support the US-led military action against IS in Syria. The emirate is the location of Al Udeid Air Base, a highly-classified US facility from which all attack and surveillance missions in the region are co-ordinated by US Central Command (CentCom).
The Qatari government has been forced to repeatedly deny accusations from Iraq's Shia leaders that it provided financial support to IS. However, wealthy individuals in the emirate are believed to have made donations and the government has given money and weapons to hardline Islamist groups in Syria.
Doha is also believed to have links to the al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate.
Bahrain has also participated in or supported the US-led military action against IS in Syria.
The kingdom hosts the headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, which is responsible for naval forces in the Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean.
Turkey is eager to defeat IS, which has advanced into territory along its borders with Syria and Iraq.
Turkey believes that the deadly bombings in the border town of Suruc, in July 2015, which killed 32 youth activists, and in the capital Ankara in October, which killed nearly 100, were carried out by IS.
Turkish jets have carried out attacks on IS positions in Syria, and the Nato member is allowing US jets to use its southern Incirlik air base.
Turkey v Islamic State v the Kurds
Lebanon has become deeply divided by the conflict in Syria, and has had to deal with an overspill of violence and a huge influx of refugees.
In August 2014, Syria-based IS fighters raided the border town of Arsal, killing and kidnapping dozens of Lebanese security personnel.
Jihadist militants have also carried out a series of deadly bombings in Beirut and elsewhere. They have mostly targeted Iranian facilities and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia Islamist group whose fighters have played a key role in helping turn the tide in President Assad's favour.
Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam has warned that the spread of IS poses "a big test that our destiny depends on". His country's many religious and political factions have been urged to put aside their differences to ensure the group does not establish a foothold.
Egypt, Kuwait, and Oman joined Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon in signing a communique at a meeting in Jeddah that declared their "shared commitment to stand united against the threat posed by all terrorism". They pledged to provide military support and humanitarian aid, and to halt the flow of funds and foreign fighters to IS.
France was part of the US-led coalition targeting IS in Iraq from September 2014. In September 2015 it carried out its first raids on targets in Syria.
President Francois Hollande vowed to intensify strikes against IS after the group said it was behind the deadly attacks in Paris of 13 November 2015.
The UK parliament voted in December 2015 to extend its bombing campaign against IS in Iraq to targets in Syria. The motion to strike targets in Syria was put forward by the Conservative government and opposed by the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Mr Corbyn urged Labour MPs to vote against the strikes but allowed them a free vote, and 67 MPs voted in favour. UK strikes began the night of the vote, with RAF Tornados bombing an IS-controlled Omar oil fields in eastern Syria.
The UK parliament had in 2013 voted against strikes in Syria. It approved British air strikes against IS targets in Iraq in September 2014.
Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands are part of the US-led coalition carrying out strikes in Iraq.
On 4 December 2015, the German parliament backed plans for the country to join the fight against IS in Syria, three weeks after the Paris attacks in November 2015.
Germany previously provided weapons to Kurdish fighters but ruled out air strikes.
New Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed he will withdraw Canadian fighter jets from the air strikes against IS in Iraq and Syria, fulfilling a campaign pledge.
He informed President Obama of his decision hours after winning Canada's general election in October 2015.
Australia is part of the international military coalition targeting IS strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
It launched its first air strikes inside Syria in September. | The lightning rise of Islamic State (IS), the jihadist militant group that has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq since 2014, has sent shockwaves through the Middle East and beyond. |
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Marco Pierre White Jr, 21, pleaded guilty to dishonestly making false representations when he appeared at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court.
District Judge Michael Snow told Pierre White Jr he was "not an honest man".
Pierre White Jr is expected to be sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 8 December.
The Court was told Pierre White Jr asked to borrow his ex-girlfriend's credit card to buy food and requested the card to be unblocked.
The former Celebrity Big Brother housemate, who gave his address as a hotel in Corsham near Bath, then made several unauthorised purchases to the sum of £2,500, including during a visit to an Apple Store.
Prosecutor Robert Chambers said the woman later received an email from her bank about a "high volume of transactions".
When confronted, Pierre White Jr told her he had been accidentally overcharged at a store, the court heard.
He then claimed he needed the card to be unblocked because he had been arrested and needed to pay bail.
The woman accused Pierre White Jr of having a "drug habit" and claimed she had never been in a relationship with him.
But defence barrister Carl Newman said the pair had been in a relationship and she had given Pierre White Jr the card to make purchases in the past.
The judge said Pierre White had been given the card voluntarily but couldn't "suggest he was given permission to go straight to the Apple Store". | The son of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White has admitted dishonestly using his ex-girlfriend's bank card to buy £2,500 worth of goods. |
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No effort was made by the Japanese to shoot down the missile, which was launched early in the morning local time, triggering safety warnings.
The missile broke into three pieces before it landed, local media reported.
On Saturday North Korea fired three short-range missiles into the sea off its eastern coast.
In the latest incident the Japanese government warned people in the missile's flight range to take precautions, but public broadcaster NHK said there was no signs of any damage.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said shortly afterwards the government was doing its utmost to protect people's lives.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga described the latest test as "an unprecedented, grave threat". He said that Japan would take "appropriate steps" in response. | North Korea has fired a missile that flew over northern Japan before crashing into the sea, the Japanese government says. |
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24 February 2016 Last updated at 06:55 GMT
The Carolina Dreamer was released into the sea in May 2015 by schoolchildren from South Carolina with a tracking device.
The class were able to follow the boat's 4,000 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean.
Now they're hoping it might make it back to America from Wales. | A family found a boat washed up on a beach in Wales which had been launched by a school in America. |
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15 July 2016 Last updated at 00:02 BST
For many players, it will be their first experience of augmented reality - tipped to be the next big thing in computing.
Read more - Pokemon Go: Trailblazer that could redefine mobile games | Millions of people are playing Pokemon Go - a mobile game that blends the real world with computer graphics. |
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Derbyshire Constabulary said people living within 100m of Belvoir Crescent in Newhall had been moved to temporary accommodation.
Supt Paul Markham said the substance was discovered at a flat during a search of the premises.
A 55-year-old man has been arrested.
Mr Markham said: "We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this matter and we are hoping that people will not be inconvenienced for too long.
"The evacuation is purely a precaution to ensure everybody's safety and residents will be allowed back home as soon as possible." | More than 200 residents have been evacuated from homes in south Derbyshire after the discovery of what police called a "potentially volatile substance" in a flat. |
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Lesley Cooper was alleged to have called the boy at St Duthus School in Tain a "puppy", whistled at him and told him to "sit".
A General Teaching Council for Scotland panel said three pupil support assistants had "colluded in fabricating a false complaint" against Ms Cooper.
A temporary restriction order on the teacher has been removed.
Highland Council-run St Duthus School caters or pupils with severe, complex and profound additional support needs.
A hearing held into the allegations against Ms Cooper heard claims that she had been frustrated by the behaviour of the boy.
It was alleged the teacher repeatedly acted in an inappropriate manner and used excessive force. It was allegedly that she told the pupil: "You're going to be my puppy".
The panel heard evidence from teaching staff, including the head teacher, and Vivienne Fraser, Fiona Smith and Kirsty Bonthrone, the pupil support assistants (PSAs) who made the complaint.
The PSAs claimed that their input on handling pupils would be overruled leading to the atmosphere between them and teaching staff becoming "tense".
In a newly-released outcome following the hearing, the panel said it rejected the evidence of the PSAs about the alleged conduct of Ms Cooper.
The panel said: "Far from demonstrating that a teacher had acted deplorably in a relation to a young pupil with additional support needs, the panel found that the evidence showed that a group of PSAs mounted a sustained campaign of harassment and vilification against the teaching staff at the school to the extent that it caused the suspension of the Head Teacher and the respondent by Highland Council.
"The panel heard evidence that members of the core group of PSAs were responsible for undermining the teaching plans and instructions of the teachers and that this extended more recently to supply teachers." | A teacher has been cleared of accusations that she mistreated a pupil at a Highland school. |
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Investigators exhumed the remains of 31 men and one woman from a hillside in Zitlala, where turf wars between rival criminal gangs are common.
"The discoveries are terrible" a security spokesperson said, while the search for any additional hidden graves continued in the region.
No arrests have been made so far.
The remains were found in 17 different pits near the village of Pochahuixco between Tuesday and Thursday.
State security spokesman Roberto Alvarez told the AFP news agency the graves had been discovered following an anonymous tip, which led to the discovery of a kidnap victim.
AFP also reported that four heads were found "inside a cooler".
The town lies in the state of Guerrero, which has a very high rate of violent crime, and is also a significant opium producer.
It reported more than 1,800 homicides between January and October this year.
Residents in another town, Tixtla, discovered nine decapitated bodies earlier in the week. Investigators are checking if the remains match the heads discovered in Pochahuixco.
The remains have been sent to the state capital to be identified. | Mexican authorities have discovered 32 bodies and nine heads hidden in mass graves in a southern region plagued by violence from drug cartels. |
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The Swedish honour is typically shared between a pop performer and a classical artist.
The pair will be invited to accept the award - worth 1 million kronor (£88,800) - in Stockholm in August.
The Polar Prize - founded in 1989 to honour exceptional achievements that transcend music genres - is awarded annually.
It is described in Sweden as the "Nobel prize of music" and was established by the late Stikkan Anderson, whose record company released the songs of Swedish supergroup Abba.
Bjork and Morricone will both be presented with their awards by King Carl XVI Gustaf at a gala ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on 31 August.
Bjork, 44, hit the big time with her solo album Debut in 1993 but had previously had success as the lead singer of The Sugarcubes.
She also starred in Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark in 1999, which went on to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, with Bjork winning the best actress award.
"Björk is an untameable force of nature, an artist who marches to nobody's tune but her own," said the prize committee.
Morricone, 82, has composed more than 400 film scores, including The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso and The Mission.
The committee said Morricone's "congenial compositions and arrangements lift our existence to another plain".
Previous winners of the Polar Prize include Pink Floyd, Sir Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Pierre Boulez and Ravi Shankar. | Icelandic singer Bjork and Italian film composer Ennio Morricone have won the 2010 Polar Music prize. |
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The place of worship in Nome, North Dakota, was recently purchased by Craig Cobb, who tried to set up a whites-only enclave in another part of the state.
The blaze was reported on Wednesday afternoon and the structure was razed by the time fire crews arrived after nearly an hour.
Cobb said the fire at the former Zion Lutheran church was "100% arson".
He told WDAY-TV, a Fargo-based news station, that he is offering a reward of $2,000 (£1,600) to anyone with any information related to the incident, which he said was a direct attack on his life.
Local residents said that it appeared Cobb had not yet moved in the 108-year-old building.
He says the gas and electric utilities had not been hooked up, so the fire could not have been accidental.
The blaze occurred on the same day that news of the sale appeared on the front page of the Fargo Forum newspaper.
The North Dakota State Fire Marshal's Office is helping with the investigation.
Cobb told WDAY-TV that he is considering several options about what to do next.
He says he might open a new church called "the President Donald J Trump Church of Rome", not Nome, the town located about 70 miles (112km) southwest of Fargo.
Cobb is one of the best known white supremacists in North America, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups.
In 2011, he began buying run-down properties in the tiny town of Leith, just southwest of Bismarck, North Dakota, with the plan of turning it into an Aryan stronghold.
Three years later he was sentenced to four years of supervised probation for terrorising Leith. | A fire that destroyed a church owned by a well-known white supremacist in a small US town is under investigation. |
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Science journalist Mr Hanlon, who came up with the plans for dinosaur museum Jurassica, died on Tuesday aged 51 after a heart attack.
The museum was to be built in a semi-subterranean artificial cavern in a 40m (132ft) deep quarry in Portland.
The project's trustees said they hoped to carry it on "in some shape or form".
There are plans for robotic swimming plesiosaurs in an aquarium, fossils and interactive displays.
Mr Hanlon had attended a Jurassica board meeting just before he was taken ill.
Richard Edmonds, Jurassic Coast earth science manager, said: "He was the driving force behind this amazing project - we're all reeling with the loss.
"Without his enthusiasm and leadership it's going to be harder still, but the coast needs something like this.
"I'm sure we will get there in some shape or form."
Sam Rose, Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site manager, said: "We hope that Michael's dream and vision lives on.
"His energy and commitment to bring the stories of the Jurassic Coast alive to a huge audience will be sorely missed."
The project has Sir David Attenborough as its patron.
In tribute, Sir David said: "Michael was a great visionary with a wonderful idea to bring the past to life, an idea without parallel."
Sir Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project and a trustee of Jurassica, said: "He had a dream to create something really special.
"I joined him in the journey - as did so many others who had excuses not to get involved, but did - because we felt he was right and the work was something of which Britain would be rightly proud."
The project, which gained charitable status in 2014, was turned down for £16m of Heritage Lottery funding in May.
It is being funded through sponsors and grants.
Previously organisers said they hoped to complete it by 2019 or 2020. | A planned £80m tourist attraction on Dorset's Jurassic Coast faces an uncertain future after the sudden death of its founder, Michael Hanlon. |
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Edwin Mee, 46, used his power to "abuse and bully" nine young women who were based in Croydon. One of them was aged 15, Southwark Crown Court heard.
The Glasgow-born officer, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was convicted of 16 offences.
The judge said Mee's actions had been "demeaning" and "distressing".
The sex assaults were carried out in 2011 and 2012.
Mee began his abuse by spanking women. It escalated to raping a vulnerable recruit.
Most of his victims were from overseas.
In total, the divorced father-of-five was found guilty of two rapes, one count of assault by penetration and 13 sexual assaults.
Judge Alistair McCreath told Mee: "What you did to each one constituted a serious abuse of trust." | An army recruitment sergeant has been jailed for 11 and a half years for raping and assaulting female cadets at Mitcham Barracks in south London. |
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The blue-chip CSI 300 Index dropped 7% while the benchmark Shanghai Composite index fell 6.9%.
The technology-heavy Shenzhen Composite was the worst performer and fell by more than 8%.
Trading had been halted earlier in the day for 15 minutes after the stock market fell by 5%.
But shares continued to fall, leading regulators to end trading early.
Under China's new circuit-breaker mechanism, moves of 7% from the previous session's close trigger a trading suspension for the day.
The measures were introduced in early December after the stock market's turbulent sell-off over the summer. They came into effect for the first time on Monday.
One factor behind the stock market falls was a manufacturing survey that pointed to more bad news for the Chinese economy.
The Caixin/Markit purchasing managers' index (PMI) slipped to 48.2 in December, marking the 10th consecutive month of shrinking factory activity in the sector.
A reading below 50 suggests a contraction in the sector, while anything above 50 suggests growth.
The private PMI survey, which focuses more on small and medium-sized businesses, came after an official survey on Friday, which looked at larger companies, suggested a fifth month of shrinking factory activity.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index closed down 2.7% at 21,327.12.
China's stock market falls on Monday point to "volatile trading for the rest of the year" according to the BBC's Karishma Vaswani.
"Retail investors in the Chinese stock market are often driven by sentiment and tend to follow the crowd. When they hear of some bad news from brokers or their friends, and other people start selling - they start selling too."
Shares in the rest of Asia followed China lower. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed 3.1% lower at 18,450.98 as a stronger yen weighed on shares of major exporters.
The market was also catching up with last week's declines in the US, after being closed for the past two sessions.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.5% at 5,270.50, while South Korea's Kospi index finished down 2.2% at 1,918.76.
A jump in oil prices boosted Australia's energy sector with shares of Woodside Petroleum up 3%.
Brent crude gained 3%, rising as high as $38.40 a barrel, after Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric ignited tensions in the region, raising concerns among investors about oil supplies. | Trading on China's stock markets has been suspended after the market dramatically plunged and triggered a new system meant to limit volatility. |
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Colombine Charnock was a passenger in a Skoda when it collided with four other vehicles and hit the supermarket building in Hungerford on Thursday 8 December.
She died in hospital the next day.
The family of Mrs Charnock, from Buttermere in Wiltshire, said she would be "missed by her many friends".
In a statement, they said Mrs Charnock was known to friends and family as Chris and had previously lived in London where she had been a hospital volunteer.
The family added that they were grateful for the "efficiency, kindness and help of the emergency services" on the night of the incident.
Thames Valley Police said a man in his 80s was driving the car at the time of the collision and that he sustained minor injuries.
No arrests have been made. | The family of an 86-year-old woman who died following a crash in a Tesco car park have paid tribute to their "beloved wife, mother and grandmother". |
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Worker John Anderson, 56, was killed by a "sudden and powerful release of gas" at the Boulby mine early on Friday, owners ICL UK said.
No-one else was hurt and there was no explosion at the 1,400m deep mine.
In April seven workers were injured when after a fire broke out at the mine, which has tunnels deep under the North Sea.
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP Tom Blenkinsop has called for an investigation.
The mine makes potash for fertilisers and employs about 1,100 people about 100 of whom were underground at the time of the incident.
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Mr Anderson, from Easington, had worked at the site for 35 years.
A company spokesman said: "The incident is believed to have involved a gas blowout - a sudden and powerful release of gas.
"Her Majesty's Mines Inspectorate has been informed.
"Company staff will be offering all possible support to the man's family. All other workers in the mine at the time of the incident were safely evacuated."
Mr Blenkinsop said: "The miner who died in the explosion was one of my constituents who lived in East Cleveland.
"We cannot allow this death to go unmarked. Over the last decade and a half, the mine has been a safe working environment, certainly compared to years past where accidents were more frequent.
"However, in the space of just a few months we have seen two tragic incidents. I am concerned that this must not become a pattern.
"Mines legislation requires a full investigation, and I need to be reassured that this will indeed happen.
"I would also want to be reassured that recent redundancies at the mine have not altered day to day working practices to the extent that risk may have been allowed to creep back in."
Mr Blenkinsop said he was intending to meet senior mine management from ICL Ltd and the mine's unions.
Simon Hunter, a safety manager at ICL UK, said the previous incidents were unrelated to what caused the death of Mr Anderson.
He also said any suggestions that job losses had impacted on safety were "misconstrued". | A man has died in an underground accident at a potash mine in East Cleveland - one of Europe's deepest. |
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Hafiz Saeed told the BBC the US was only targeting Jamaat-ud Dawa to win India's backing in Afghanistan.
The US says the self-declared charity is a front for militant group Lashkar-e Taiba and has offered a $10m (£6m) reward for the arrest of Mr Saeed.
The Mumbai attack by Pakistani gunmen left 166 people dead.
Relations between India and Pakistan suffered badly in the aftermath of the three-day assault in the western Indian city.
Speaking to the BBC's Andrew North in the Pakistani city of Lahore, Mr Saeed said the US was targeting his organisation simply to please India.
"America always takes decisions based on Indian dictation. Now it's imposing this new ban because it needs India's help in Afghanistan.
"I had nothing to do with the Mumbai attacks, and Pakistan's courts said all India's evidence against me was just propaganda," he said.
The US last week declared Jamaat-ud Dawa a "foreign terrorist organisation" - a move that freezes any assets it has under US jurisdiction.
Both India and the US say they have extensive evidence that Mr Saeed orchestrated the attacks with the Pakistani government help. India has also repeatedly demanded that he be handed over for trial.
Despite this, Mr Saeed lives openly in Lahore, and it is clear that he has little fear of being arrested in Pakistan, our correspondent says.
But he adds that as long as Mr Saeed remains free, there is little chance of a breakthrough in relations between Pakistan and its longstanding rival India. | The head of a Pakistani charity group whom the US and India accuse of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks has dismissed new US sanctions. |
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The group, Women on Waves, flew the aircraft from Germany to highlight Poland's restrictive laws against terminating pregnancies.
Waiting for the drone on the other side were two Polish women who took the pills, used to induce a miscarriage in the early stages of pregnancy.
Abortion was legal in Poland in the Communist era, but outlawed in most cases in 1993.
It is only permitted in cases of rape or incest, in cases of irreversible foetal malformation, or if the mother's life is at risk.
The drone took off from the town of Frankfurt an der Oder and flew across the River Oder to the Polish border town of Slubice.
"After the drones left, the German police tried to intervene but the drone pilots were able to safely land the drones at the Polish side," Women on Waves said in an online statement.
"The German police confiscated the drone controllers and personal iPads.
"They pressed criminal charges but it is totally unclear on what grounds. The medicines were provided on prescription by a doctor and both Poland and Germany are part of Schengen" - the zone of 26 European countries within which internal borders have been abolished.
Women on Waves has sent abortion boats to countries with strict abortion laws - including Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Poland - sparking protests from anti-abortion groups.
The resurgent Catholic Church supported the move in 1993 to outlaw terminations in most cases, reports the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw.
The latest operation has been described by the conservative Catholic daily Nasz Dziennik as a "drone of death", reported AFP news agency
"During the Nazi occupation Germany proposed destroying Poland by promoting abortion and contraception," the newspaper reportedly wrote.
But Women on Waves argues that Poland's restrictive laws simply drive women into undertaking risky back-street abortions, and that even women who are legally entitled to end their pregnancies are sometimes refused treatment by doctors and hospitals. | Dutch campaigners have used a drone to fly abortion pills into Poland. |
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Simon Hamilton was speaking on Thursday, after further talks aimed at resolving difficulties among the five parties resumed at Stormont.
Chancellor George Osborne has said corporation tax could be devolved if politicians resolve their differences over the budget and welfare reform.
Mr Hamilton said they had a "positive meeting" with Sinn Féin on Thursday.
"There was discussion around what agreement might look like, the sort of issues that we were talking about and where agreement might be reached on it," he told the BBC programme The View.
"It was certainly an advance on what has been happening in terms of the seriousness of discussions over the last couple of weeks.
"It actually has given me and the party some degree of hope that there is a prospect of a deal on these very difficult issues."
His comments come after Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson again warned that Stormont could collapse if there was not a deal on the budget and welfare reform.
Mr Hamilton denied the party was sending out a mixed message.
"We could be on the verge of collapse if we don't redouble our efforts in a way that the two parties have committed to doing today," he said.
Daithí McKay of Sinn Féin said his party would prefer if the talks "were a lot more positive".
"There hasn't been an agreement as yet, we will continue to work constructively to reach agreement, but there's heck of a lot more to do," he said.
He accused the chancellor of "political blackmail" over the deferral of corporation tax.
Meanwhile, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has tabled a paper at the talks calling for the creation of a Peace Investment Fund.
It is proposed the fund should be financed by contributions from the UK, Ireland, European Union and US.
Mr Hamilton, however, claimed his party was behind the move.
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has said the negotiations over the next few days would be crucial.
US envoy Gary Hart has also stressed the need to reach agreement quickly.
On Wednesday, Sinn Féin said it would not agree to the transfer of corporation tax to Northern Ireland "on the basis of implementing Tory policies".
First Minister Peter Robinson has blamed the delay in transferring powers on Sinn Féin and the SDLP's failure to agree a deal on welfare reform.
The Northern Ireland inter-party talks are aimed at reaching agreement on a range of unresolved issues, including disputes over flags, parades, the legacy of the Troubles and welfare reform.
The five main parties have clashed over welfare reform in recent months, with Sinn Féin and the SDLP objecting to many of the cost-cutting measures that have already come into force in England and Wales.
Unionists have argued that Northern Ireland must take difficult decisions to balance its budget, but nationalist and republican MLAs have said that many of the reforms will disproportionately disadvantage some of the most vulnerable people in society. | The DUP finance minister has said there is "some degree of hope" of a prospect of a deal in the cross-party talks. |
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The report will be discussed by Dumfries and Galloway Council's planning, housing and environment committee next week.
The paper took four review teams of 20 staff in total to draw up.
It includes a range of saving levels ranging from 5% to 20% and detailed lists of how they could be achieved.
The report states that the south of Scotland authority is facing "unprecedented reductions in its financial resources".
It then goes on to outline how planning and environment services could take their share of that burden.
The largest single section of the report runs to nearly 300 pages on its own.
Councillors have until Wednesday afternoon to try to digest its contents and then agree their spending priorities in time for the budget-setting process next spring. | A single agenda item in 42 separate sections running to more than 700 pages is to go before councillors trying to make savings. |
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Annette O'Connor claimed she had been injured after a hotel manager directed her where to sit at a table.
A Dublin High Court judge increased her damages award on appeal on Thursday.
The Restaurants Association of Ireland said the case would mean insurance costs will increase for the sector.
The Irish Times reported that Mrs O'Connor claimed she had been directed to a table in the Mullingar Park Hotel in County Westmeath in March 2011, where a leg concealed by a tablecloth constituted a "trap".
The 48-year-old hairdresser, from Santry in Dublin, said she was not given any warning that the leg was hidden before she injured her left knee as she sat down and pulled her chair towards the table.
Adrian Cummins, the chief executive of the Restaurants Association of Ireland, described the case as "bizarre" and said it would result in serious repercussions for hospitality businesses.
He said: "I haven't seen a floating table with no legs in my life - how do you counteract a customer going into a restaurant, hitting their knee off a table and suing you?
"In that case, the woman got 20,000 euros, but the legal costs were about 200,000 euros.
"Insurance premiums will go up for that business, but they'll go up for our entire sector as well because we're now seen as being high-risk.
"Our members are up in arms and they're extremely distressed - they are wondering why we're being targeted and penalised for this."
Mr Cummins said that insurance costs for restaurants can rise by as much as 300% after personal injury claims are made against them.
Many businesses do not have the resources to fight claims in the courts, he added, and insurance rises can mean "close-the-doors time" for them.
"If you're a small business and your insurance cost goes up by 300% you have to cut back in other areas, either by cutting your staff numbers or you have to increase your prices."
Judges in the Republic of Ireland are "not using common sense" in dealing with personal injury claims, Mr Cummins claimed.
He called on the government to take steps to save hospitality businesses from a "claims culture that's spiralling out of control".
"The way that personal injury cases are handled needs to be changed," he added.
"Take it away from the judges and put it through an assessment board - they could make a common-sense deliberation and judgement on it.
"Our government needs to deal with this in a pragmatic way, quickly and efficiently.
"If they don't, businesses will suffer - that's the bottom line." | Irish restaurants and hotels have been "up in arms" since a woman was awarded 20,000 euros (£17,000) after hitting her knee against a table as she sat down to dinner, a trade body has said. |
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But Ecowas leaders meeting in Liberia said the implications of its membership still needed to be considered before Morocco could formally join.
King Mohammed VI was not at the summit because Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been invited.
Morocco's application comes after it rejoined the African Union in January.
Morocco left the continental body in 1984 after it recognised the independence of Western Sahara.
Morocco regards Western Sahara as part of its historic territory and has spent much of the last three decades trying to strengthen ties with Europe at the expense of relations with Africa.
Ivory Coast President Alasanne Ouattara has confirmed that the decision had been agreed in principle but the details still had to be worked out.
Morocco, along with Tunisia which is seeking observer status with the organisation and Mauritania, which wants to return to the body, will be invited to the next meeting of heads of state in Togo in December, a senior Ecowas source told the BBC.
Ecowas is made up of 15 West African nations, none of which shares a border with Morocco.
Members enjoy free trade and movement of people.
King Mohammed VI last week announced he would not be attending the summit in Liberia, because of the presence of Israel's prime minister.
Morocco does not have diplomatic ties with Israel.
Mr Netanyahu addressed West African leaders on Sunday saying: "Israel is coming back to Africa and Africa is coming back to Israel.
"I believe in Africa. I believe in its potential, present and future. It is a continent on the rise."
While in Liberia for the summit, his bodyguards scuffled with those of Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe, according to reports in the Israeli media.
This trip comes nearly a year after Mr Netanyahu was in East Africa as part of his efforts to strengthen ties between the continent and Israel. | West African regional group Ecowas has in principle approved Morocco's membership application despite the country being in North Africa. |
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Twelve people died when a lorry drove through the crowded Breitscheidplatz market.
At least another 48 were injured.
So far five of the dead have been officially identified: the Polish lorry driver who is said to have tried to stop the attacker, a 60-year-old Israeli woman who was visiting Berlin with her husband, an Italian expatriate woman and two Germans from the federal state of Brandenburg who have not yet been named by the authorities.
A German woman from Neuss, near the west German city of Duesseldorf, is believed to be among the dead. Her son, aged 40, is among the injured.
In total, it is believed six Germans died in the attack, although five people remain unidentified, according to German website RP Online.
The 37-year-old Polish lorry driver was found dead in the passenger seat, with both gun and knife wounds.
Investigators quoted by German media say there is evidence that, despite being stabbed, Mr Urban wrestled the driver for the steering wheel.
One official quoted by Bild newspaper said it appeared from the post-mortem examination that the driver had survived up to the attack and was shot dead when the truck came to a halt. No gun has been recovered.
Ariel Zurawski, the owner of the Polish transport company, said he had been asked to identify Mr Urban from photographs.
"His face was swollen and bloodied," he told broadcaster TVN. "It was really clear that he was fighting for his life."
Company manager Lukasz Wasik described Mr Urban as a "good, quiet and honest person" and said he believed he would have defended the lorry "to the end".
Israeli tourist Dalia Elyakim, 60, was confirmed to have been among the dead after her body was identified on Wednesday evening. Her husband Rami was seriously injured.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said he had received the news of Mrs Elyakim's death "with great sadness", the Jerusalem Post newspaper reported.
Mr and Mrs Elyakim, from Herzliya just north of Tel Aviv, were both at the Christmas market when the lorry drove through the crowd.
Mr Elyakim remains in hospital after undergoing surgery.
The Italian expatriate was confirmed by the Italian foreign ministry on Thursday to have been among those killed in the attack.
Ms di Lorenzo's family grew concerned after they lost contact with her on Monday. Her phone and metro pass were later found at the scene in Breitscheidplatz market.
Ms di Lorenzo, 31, from Sulmona near L'Aquila, worked for a transport company in Germany and lived in Berlin.
Her father, Gaetano, earlier told La Repubblica that the family were "waiting for confirmation" and had "no illusions" on her safety.
Ms di Lorenzo's mother and brother have travelled to Germany to try to identify her.
Two Germans from the federal state of Brandenburg - a 32-year-old man from Brandenburg an der Havel and a 53-year-old woman from Dahme-Spreewald - were also among the dead, the state's interior ministry said. | As police continue to hunt for the person behind Monday's attack on a Berlin Christmas market, the names of the first victims have started to emerge. |
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The weather vane, which was given to the MCC in 1926 by the architect of the Lord's Grand Stand, Sir Herbert Baker, has been bent to a 90-degree angle from its original position.
Specialists are working to repair the damage as soon as possible.
This is the second time Father Time has fallen foul of the elements after it was struck by lightning in 1992.
It was also damaged during World War II, when it was wrenched from its original perch after becoming entangled in the steel cable of a barrage balloon before being re-attached to the top of the Grand Stand.
It was moved to its current location at the top of the Mound Stand in 1996.
Following the incident, the Lord's Twitter account tweeted: "I was felled by high winds last night! Ouch!" | Lord's cricket ground's famous Father Time weather vane has been damaged by high winds in London. |
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US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper travelled to North Korea and accompanied the men back, the US has confirmed.
A third US citizen, Jeffrey Fowle, was freed last month and no Americans are now being held in North Korea.
US President Barack Obama said he was "grateful" for their safe return.
He said it was "a wonderful day" for the men and their families.
A plane carrying the two men landed at a military base near Tacoma in Washington state late on Saturday.
Speaking to reporters at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Mr Bae thanked all those who had supported them and helped to bring them home.
"It has been a tremendously difficult time for my family," he said.
The US had accused North Korea of using its citizens as pawns in a diplomatic game. Pyongyang denies the accusations.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he appreciated North Korea's decision to release the men and was relieved they were returning home.
Mr Clapper travelled to North Korea for direct talks with the authorities.
Mr Obama said: "I appreciate the director doing a great job on what was obviously a challenging mission."
Analysis: BBC's Charles Scanlon
The release of the two remaining prisoners will raise hope of some diplomatic progress after a long period of deadlock between Pyongyang and Washington. Their release had been expected - only the timing was in doubt.
The leadership in North Korea would certainly see value in offering an olive branch to the US just before President Barack Obama prepares to sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Washington needs Chinese help in referring a damning human rights report on North Korea to the International Criminal Court. Mr Xi has already gone further than any of his predecessors to show irritation with an old Communist ally.
The direct participation of Mr Clapper will raise eyebrows in the region. The state department is denying a deal was done, and the confrontation over North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes looks as intractable as ever.
The US department of state said in a statement that it "welcomes the release of US citizens Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller from the DPRK [North Korea], where they have been held for two years and seven months, respectively".
It added: "The United States has long called on DPRK authorities to release these individuals on humanitarian grounds. We join their families and friends in welcoming them home."
The son of Kenneth Bae told Reuters: "It's awesome. Couldn't be happier."
One US official told Associated Press news agency that nothing was offered in return for the releases.
The official said that the releases had not changed the US view of North Korea's nuclear programme and that the North should show a serious commitment to denuclearisation and improved human rights.
The US thanked Sweden, which serves as the US protecting power in North Korea, for its efforts in the releases.
Mr Miller, 24, had been sentenced to six years' hard labour in September for what North Korean state media described as "hostile acts".
He had been in custody since 10 April when, according to North Korean sources, he destroyed his tourist visa and demanded asylum.
Mr Bae, 42, had been arrested in November 2012 as he entered the north-eastern port city of Rason, a special economic zone near North Korea's border with China.
He has been described as both a tour operator and Christian missionary. North Korea said he used his tourism business to form groups to overthrow the government.
He was sentenced to 15 years' hard labour in May 2013.
Jeffrey Fowle flew home to the US last month following negotiations.
Mr Fowle, 56, had entered North Korea in April and was detained in early June as he was leaving the country. He was charged with "anti-state" crimes.
He was reported to have left a Bible in the toilet of a restaurant in the northern port city of Chongjin. | Two Americans who were released from detention in North Korea, Matthew Todd Miller and Kenneth Bae, have arrived back in the US. |
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RadioTimes.com voted for the scene from the Cornwall-set drama, where Ross Poldark - played by Aidan Turner - is bathed by wife Demelza, portrayed by Eleanor Tomlinson.
Turner takes the prize for a second year running, following his topless scything scene from series one in 2015.
More than 2,000 people took part in the online poll.
They were asked to choose from a shortlist of 35 clips said to be among the most dramatic, inspiring and emotional TV moments of the year.
RadioTimes.com's biggest TV moments of 2016
1. Aidan Turner in a tin bath (Poldark)
2. The Shelbys are arrested (Peaky Blinders)
3. Tom Hiddleston bares all (The Night Manager)
4. Ross and Elizabeth's controversial bedroom scene (Poldark)
5. Snake attack on baby iguanas (Planet Earth II)
6. Hodor holds the door (Game of Thrones)
7. Ed Balls does Gangnam Style (Strictly Come Dancing)
8. The Brownlee brothers go arm-in-arm to the finish line (Triathlon World Series)
9. Jon Snow is resurrected (Game of Thrones)
10. Andrei and Natasha waltz at the ball (War and Peace)
The moment in Peaky Blinders when the Shelbys were arrested was voted the second biggest moment of the past 12 months, followed by Tom Hiddleston's brief flash of nudity in the Night Manager.
Poldark also featured at number four in the list, for a controversial scene in which Ross Poldark pushed former fiancee Elizabeth onto a bed after she rejected his advances.
The top five was rounded off by a clip from Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth II in which baby iguanas were seen being chased by snakes.
Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls also made the list, for his dance to Psy's Gangnam Style on Strictly Come Dancing.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | A steamy bath scene from the second series of Poldark has topped a poll of the biggest television moments of 2016. |
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But it left interest rates unchanged.
The main US share indexes fell from earlier peaks with the Dow Jones still closing at record high up 96.49 points or 0.45% at 21,709.92.
The wider S&P 500 closed up 0.69 points or 0.03% at 2,477.82 while the tech-focused Nasdaq index ended 10.57 points or 0.16% ahead at 6,422.75.
The Federal Reserve said in its statement on Wednesday that it would start cutting back its $4.5tn balance sheet "relatively soon".
In June it had suggested it would start "this year".
Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial in New York said: "The Fed did the bare minimum today, acknowledging recent economic data and little else.
"Balance sheet reduction will likely be announced at the September meeting and begin soon after.
"The next rate hike, therefore, is not likely to be considered until December."
Earlier shares were boosted as investors welcomed some strong trading updates.
Boeing shares jumped more than 9% after the firm's quarterly profits beat expectations.
The US aerospace giant also said it expects higher profits for the year than previously forecast.
Second quarter earnings have continued to beat analyst expectations.
Shares at AT&T climbed more than 5% on Wednesday, a day after that the telecommunications giant told investors that it had lowered operating costs and was holding onto customers better.
Not all the corporate news was welcomed though.
Ford shares fell 1.8%, after the US carmaker reported nearly flat revenues for the quarter and warned investors that key markets, including North America and Europe, would be less profitable this year than last. | The Federal Reserve signalled it could be ready to start unwinding its stimulus programme sooner than previously expected. |
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The video, which was leaked to US celebrity website TMZ, showed Solange lashing out at Jay Z in a lift after the Met Gala on 5 May.
"Jay and Solange each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred," said a joint statement.
"They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family."
The hotel employee who leaked the footage has been identified and dismissed, it emerged on Thursday.
New York's Standard Hotel said it was "shocked and disappointed" by the leak and said it would it would hand over "all available information to criminal authorities".
The employee was dismissed for "breaching the security policies of the hotel and recording the confidential CCTV video," it added.
The three-minute video shows Solange - herself an R&B singer - enter the lift with Jay Z, Beyonce and their entourage.
She then confronts the rapper, whose wife stands by without interfering.
A bodyguard holds Solange back, although she again tries to kick Jay Z. There is no audio on the recording.
The full statement was released by the family to the Associated Press.
It reads: "As a result of the public release of the elevator security footage from Monday, May 5th, there has been a great deal of speculation about what triggered the unfortunate incident.
"But the most important thing is that our family has worked through it. Jay and Solange each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred.
"They both acknowledge their role in this private matter that has played out in the public. They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family.
"The reports of Solange being intoxicated or displaying erratic behaviour throughout that evening are simply false.
"At the end of the day, families have problems and we're no different. We love each other and above all we are family. We've put this behind us and hope everyone else will do the same." | Jay Z, his wife Beyonce and her sister Solange say they are a "united family" despite a fight seen in a leaked video. |
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An avid drawer of cartoons as a child, he was determined to become a professional cartoonist.
So, aged 19, Mauricio left his small home town and moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, to pursue his dream.
Intending to produce cartoons for a newspaper, he was instead repeatedly turned down. He was told that his work wasn't good enough.
But not a person to be deterred, the young Mauricio came up with a plan - he'd get a different job on a newspaper, while continuing to practise and improve his skills as a cartoonist in his spare time.
His thinking was that once he was more established at a paper, he'd then try again - and again - to get his cartoons accepted.
So despite the sight of blood making him feel faint, in 1954 Mauricio got a job as a crime reporter on one of Brazil's bestselling titles - Folha de Sao Paulo.
"Of course it was not the start I dreamed about, but we can not be picky when we are starting, and I had to do what they allowed me to do," says Mauricio, who is now 80 years old.
He had to wait five years before he got a cartoon accepted.
That first daily comic strip was about a dog who engaged in philosophical conversations. It was popular enough for Mauricio to be able to quit reporting, and become a full-time cartoonist.
Almost six decades later, Mauricio has sold more than one billion comics and books.
A household name in Brazil, his work is also translated and sold around the world.
In addition, his company - Mauricio de Sousa Productions (MSP) - produces animated films and theatre productions, runs a theme park, makes computer games and cuddly toys, and licenses his characters to hundreds of consumer products.
While Mauricio doesn't like to discuss money, he is a multi-millionaire many times over.
He is also a workaholic who still leads the business every day, and has no plans to retire. "I work whenever I'm awake," he says.
Mauricio's most popular cartoon character is a seven-year-old girl called Monica, who appeared for the first time in 1963.
Named after one of his daughters, the fictional Monica is a strong-minded child who leads a gang of friends.
As Monica's adventures gained a loyal readership, Mauricio says that thanks to his mother's advice he made sure that he focused on his business affairs as much as he did on his writing and drawing.
"Something my mother used to advise me was that if I wanted to become a cartoonist I should do my drawing in the morning, and manage the business in the afternoon," he says.
Mauricio also started to hire staff to assist him, and travelled around Brazil to sell his cartoons to other newspapers.
Within three years his cartoons were being published in no less than 400 Brazilian newspapers, and his earnings soared.
Today, Mauricio says that while the comics are his "calling card", most of the company's profits comes from licensed products. His characters can be found on everything from nappies to furniture, clothing, and food items.
It is this business acumen as much as Mauricio's cartoon drawing skills that have seen him compared with the late Walt Disney.
Yet as much as Mauricio has focused on his finances, he has also been honoured for his efforts to use his cartoons - which include no less than 200 different characters - to promote good causes.
Themes he has promoted include protecting the rainforests, anti-smoking, vaccinations, the need for clean water, tackling pollution, and fighting drugs.
This work has seen him receive an award from the Pan American Health Organization, the public health agency that operates in all 35 nations across North and South America.
Mauricio is also the holder of a Brazilian presidential medal of honour, and his Monica cartoon character was named a United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) ambassador in 2007.
The first ever fictional character to be given the title, she was chosen because of her positive influence on children and families.
Looking ahead, Mauricio says that while he has no plans to retire, he has held "occasional meetings" about the issue, "because I do not want all this work to be damaged by bad planning".
In running the company he is helped by two of his 10 children, who hold senior roles.
Eladio Toldeo, a Brazilian business consultant, says that while the eventual leadership transition will need to be handled well, "Mauricio's legacy will remain regardless of who is managing the company" and its 500 employees.
In the meantime, Mauricio says: "Holidays make me restless because I do not like the idea of being three or four days without creating something.
"I need to take as much as I can from my mind, and create books, comic strips and other products for children. It is not a material need, it is something else."
Follow The Boss series editor Will Smale on Twitter @WillSmale1 | For someone who is often called "the Walt Disney of Brazil", Mauricio de Sousa is a very good example of why you shouldn't give up on your dreams after an initial rejection. |
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There were 13 minutes gone when Hurst's low shot from a tight angle went across Barrow goalkeeper Jon Flatt and in off the far post.
Barrow, who came into the match having lost only one of their last five in the league to close in on a play-off place, responded well and had chances for Ross Hannah, Richie Bennett and Moussa Diarra.
But none of them had the beating of Jonathan Maxted, who stood firm in the Guiseley goal to help his side to a fourth win in seven outings.
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Match ends, Guiseley 1, Barrow 0.
Second Half ends, Guiseley 1, Barrow 0.
Ross Hannah (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Guiseley. Michael Rankine replaces Kevan Hurst.
Substitution, Guiseley. Derek Asamoah replaces Jordan Preston.
Substitution, Barrow. Shaun Tuton replaces Liam Hughes.
Substitution, Barrow. Inih Effiong replaces Richard Bennett.
Second Half begins Guiseley 1, Barrow 0.
First Half ends, Guiseley 1, Barrow 0.
Goal! Guiseley 1, Barrow 0. Kevan Hurst (Guiseley).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Kevan Hurst's early goal was enough to give Guiseley a victory at Nethermoor to move them three points clear of the relegation zone. |
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The Hockeyroos started well and went ahead after five minutes when Georgina Morgan netted from a penalty corner.
Emily Smith extended the lead three minutes before the break before Grace Stewart made it 3-0 five minutes into the second half
Sophie Bray and Joie Leigh cut the lead in the final quarter but Danny Kerry's side were unable to level the score.
"We can take a lot of positives from the series," said GB captain Kate Richardson-Walsh. "That was probably our best performance today.
"We've not put in our best displays in the first five games so we can take from this that if we were able to stay level with Australia when not playing our best, hopefully when we are at our best we can beat them.
"The next six months are really busy. We have lots of games so we'll be match ready for the Olympics." | Australia beat Great Britain 3-2 in the final Test in Perth to take their six-game series 2-1. |
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In September, Robert Howard was granted leave to seek a judicial review of the coroner's decision to examine the 1994 disappearance of Arlene Arkinson.
His legal team claimed the move was an attempt to undermine the not guilty verdict returned against him in 2005.
The body of Arlene, who was 15, has never been found.
Howard's lawyers argued that the inquest is being used as a way of reopening issues surrounding the case because the Arkinson family were unhappy with the outcome of the criminal trial.
On Monday, a High Court judge confirmed he had dismissed Howard's application for a judicial review.
Mr Justice Treacy said he would issue a judgment setting out the reasons for his decision on Wednesday.
Life sentence
Arlene, from Castlederg, County Tyrone, vanished after attending a disco in Bundoran, County Donegal.
Howard, 67, who formerly lived near her home, was charged with her murder but acquitted at trial.
The jury did not know that by then he was already serving life for raping and killing 14-year-old Hanna Williams from Deptford, south London.
Her body was found in a cement works in Northfleet, Kent, in March 2002.
Howard's lawyers, who unsuccessfully tried to have reporting restrictions imposed on their judicial review application, pointed out that the coroner's stated purpose was to allow Arlene's death to be registered.
It was argued that this could be achieved through an alternative, High Court procedure with the Presumption of Death Act 2009 coming into effect. | A convicted child killer and rapist has lost his legal challenge to the holding of an inquest into the death of a schoolgirl he was cleared of murdering. |
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The men's four, men's and women's pair and lightweight men's double sculls who triumphed in Serbia will return in Racice, Czech Republic, from 26-28 May.
A total of 50 rowers make up the squad.
"We're excited to be moving on to challenge the best crews in Europe," said British Rowing performance director Sir David Tanner.
"We have a good record in recent European Rowing Championships and I'm confident that the athletes selected will continue this tradition."
Karen Bennett and Holly Norton won the women's pair while Jacob Dawson and Matthew Rossiter triumphed in the men's pair at the first World Cup of the season in Belgrade last weekend.
Peter Chambers and Will Fletcher won the men's double sculls, while Callum McBrierty, Matthew Tarrant, Mohamed Sbihi and William Satch were victorious in the men's four.
In total Britain secured 11 medals, including three silvers and four bronzes.
Women's eight: Caragh McMurtry, Rebecca Chin, Annie Withers, Sara Parfett, Rebecca Shorten, Jo Wratten, Fiona Gammond, Katherine Douglas, Erin Wysocki-Jones (cox)
Women's pair: Karen Bennett, Holly Norton
Women's quadruple scull: Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, Beth Bryan, Holly Nixon, Jessica Leyden
Women's double scull: Georgia Francis, Emily Carmichael
Womne's single scull: Victoria Thornley
Women's reserves: Alice Baatz, Rebecca Girling, Anastasia Chitty
Women's lightweight double scull: Charlotte Booth, Katherine Copeland
Men's eight: Lance Tredell, Thomas Jeffery, Sam Arnot, Cameron Buchan, Tom Ransley, Adam Neill, James Rudkin, Tom Ford, Henry Fieldman (cox)
Men's four: Callum McBrierty, Matthew Tarrant, Mohamed Sbihi, Will Satch
Men's pair: Jacob Dawson, Matt Rossiter
Men's quadruple scull: Jack Beaumont, John Collins, Peter Lambert, Jonny Walton
Men's double scull: Tom Barras, Frazier Christie
Men's reserve: Tim Clarke
Men's lightweight double scull: Peter Chambers, Will Fletcher,
Men's lightweight pair: Joel Cassells, Sam Scrimgeour | Great Britain will take a strong team, that includes the four crews who won World Cup gold last weekend, to the European Championships later in May. |
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At least 1,338 of the iconic animals were killed for their horns in Africa last year.
This is the greatest loss in a single year since an intense wave of poaching began recently.
Since 2008, as many as 5,940 rhinos have been killed although scientists fear that could be an underestimate.
The findings were compiled by researchers from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The losses come despite a drive to fight poaching gangs by strengthening patrols, harnessing satellite technology and boosting intelligence-gathering.
The IUCN blames continuing demand from South East Asia - where rhino horn is wrongly believed to have medicinal properties - fed by increasingly sophisticated international crime networks.
Officials say that amid the killings there are some helpful developments.
Overall, the rate of increase in poaching has fallen slightly and in South Africa, home to the greatest number of rhinos, the numbers killed in a single year fell slightly for the first time since 2008.
Dr Richard Emslie, of the IUCN's African Rhino Specialist Group, told the BBC:
"Any increase in poaching is alarming but there are some positives. When poaching started to escalate in 2008, we saw year after year of exponentially increasingly poaching.
"But over the last couple of years we've seen a decline in the rate of increase."
Dr Emslie described this as "an encouraging trend" and he highlighted how South Africa has managed to reduce the number of rhinos slaughtered from 1,215 in 2014 to 1,175 last year.
But success in one area can lead to further poaching elsewhere and while South Africa can point to a slightly improved picture, other countries have seen sharp increases in losses.
According to the new data, the number of rhinos killed in Namibia has quadrupled in just the last two years while losses in Zimbabwe doubled over the same period.
Dr Emslie described the fight against poaching as like squeezing a balloon.
"If you clamp down on poaching on the one side of the Kruger National Park beside the Mozambique border, then suddenly the balloon pops out a bit the other side and you can get more poaching.
"There's a trend of poaching from different park to different park and also from one country to another so no individual country is safe and all need to be on their guard given the huge threat."
Commenting on the latest figures, Craig Bruce, a rhino specialist at the Zoological Society of London, said: "I think it's a dire situation and despite reports of a decrease in the Kruger National Park, I don't think it's a cause for celebration.
"If we continue with the current rate of losses, then I would estimate that within five to 10 years, all we will have is rhinos in very strictly controlled captivity scenarios and we will basically have lost the species in the wild."
After a previous collapse in rhino numbers during the 1960s, a concerted effort which was backed by determined governments and generous funding saw populations restored.
But this crisis is seen as more serious and therefore harder to tackle because of the sheer aggression and growing sophistication of the poaching gangs, fuelled by the high price for rhino horn on the black market.
Mr Bruce told me that every new technological advance designed to help the conservation effort - including drones, radios and intelligence-gathering - is matched by the poachers.
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"What's frightening is that the same technology that we are able to use, they are also able to use. Shockingly, as much as we're using them to combat the poachers, they're using them to facilitate their poaching.
"They understand intelligence as well as we do. They understand how to threaten people to get information, how to threaten people to keep them quiet so the whole criminal element has just advanced in a way that's unprecedented."
The latest data will reignite long-running debates over the best way to stem the losses.
Ideas range from cutting off the rhinos' horns in order to deny poachers and to flood the market with cheap horn to fitting monitoring devices or even cameras to the animals to help provide warning of attacks.
With the global total of rhinos now only in the region of 25,000, there will be renewed attention in the approach to a major international meeting of the CITES convention, set up to combat the illegal trade in endangered species, in Johannesburg in September.
And the South African government has just announced the logo for the event: an image of a rhino. | The mass slaughter of rhinos has increased for the sixth year in a row, according to grim new figures from international researchers. |
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The machine was among other components and computers the woman wanted to dispose of after her husband died.
Only about 200 of the first-generation Apple computers were made.
The company recognised the value of the old computer and sold it to a private collector for about $200,000 (£131,000).
The recycling centre, called Clean Bay Area, has launched a web and media campaign to track down the woman so she can receive her half of the cash they got for the machine.
It has produced a short video it is asking people to share to see if they can reach the donor.
In a blogpost, Clean Bay Area said the mystery woman had dropped off the boxes of electronics in late April.
It said she had been between 60 and 70 years old, had driven an sports utility vehicle (SUV) and had left the boxes at its Milpitas recycling centre.
The centre is providing no more details of what the woman looked like, but said recycling centre staff would recognise her if they saw her.
"I remember her," said Victor Gichun, a vice-president at the Clean Bay company, who dealt with the woman when she dropped off her boxes.
Mr Gichun said he had asked the woman if she had wanted a receipt but she had said she did not.
As the centre had a backlog of donated items to sort through, the boxes lay undisturbed for a couple of weeks.
When they were sorted, the Milpitas centre's manager spotted the computer under old cables and keyboards and realised what they had been given.
Designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak, the Apple I was the computer company's first product.
It went on sale in July 1976 for $666.66.
The machine had about 4kB of memory.
By way of comparison, the image at the top of this page is more than 42kB in size.
So far, only about 63 of those early machines are believed to have survived to the present day.
To get the cash, the woman just needs to return to the Milpitas donation centre.
"To prove who she is," Mr Gichun told the San Jose Mercury News, "I just need to look at her." | A San Francisco recycling centre is seeking a woman who may have handed over a rare Apple I computer by mistake. |
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Paul Pugh, 34, was in a coma for two months after four men beat him during a night out in Carmarthenshire in 2007.
He has rebuilt his life over eight years, requiring bouts of brain surgery.
Now, a video detailing his story will be shown in schools.
Hundreds of people have already taken Paul's Pledge - a campaign led by Mr Pugh and Dyfed-Powys Police to never condone violent behaviour.
"It's something I needed to do, both for myself - to help me get better - and to try and prevent the same thing happening to anyone else," he said.
"I don't care how many times I have to tell my story, how long it takes to get the message out there, I will dedicate the rest of my life to making people understand that drunkenness is never an excuse for violence."
The documentary starts with the 999 call made after Mr Pugh's assault.
It goes on to show harrowing CCTV footage of Paul on the ground surrounded by his attackers.
"I wanted to tell my story and educate people on how attacks like this devastate lives, but if the message was really going to hit home it had to do more than that, it had to shock people," he said.
"It takes these really chilling images to cut through the bravado and force people to stop and think.
"There's no point in demonising them, as that just makes people think that they're not the sort of person who'd do something like that. The point is anyone could be 'that sort of person' unless they're careful."
Mr Pugh said his next challenge was to carry on with intensive physiotherapy so he can one day lead an independent life again. | A man left with life-changing injuries following an unprovoked drunken attack says he will dedicate the rest of his life to ensuring the same thing does not happen to anyone else. |
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Thousands of children were relocated to Australia and parts of the British Empire up to 1974.
Many experienced "unacceptable depravity", the first hearing in the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales has heard.
One migrant, David Hill, called for perpetrators to be "named and shamed".
Meanwhile the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has apologised and referred itself to the information commissioner after mistakenly sending out confidential information relating to abuse victims.
Mr Hill was 12 when he was sent with his two brothers to the Fairbridge Farm School in Western Australia.
He told the hearing: "We'll never be able to undo the great wrong that was done to these children.
"But what is important to the survivors of sexual abuse is where this inquiry is satisfied with the evidence - name the villains.
"Many of them are beyond the grave and therefore beyond the law.
"But it would bring a great deal of the comfort to the people who as children were victims of these people if they were named and shamed."
Inquiry counsel Henrietta Hill QC said claims of "systematic sexual abuse" in institutions and work environments would be heard throughout the inquiry.
The children, she said, were sent without consent of parents, wrongly told they were orphans, and denied basic details about their family backgrounds during their future lives.
For the government, Samantha Leek QC said: "Child migration is wrong. It should not have been sanctioned or facilitated...
"The lifelong consequences for those involved are a matter of deep and sincere regret."
In 2009, the Australian government apologised for the cruelty shown to the child migrants.
Britain also made an apology in 2010. The apology contained no specific mention of sexual abuse.
The abuse scandal of the British children sent abroad
By BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds
One of the many criticisms levelled at the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual abuse centre on the view that it is too focused on the past.
This investigation dates back to 1945, but some of the child migrants are still alive, and their mistreatment as children is undeniable.
Perhaps, then, this is safe ground for a public inquiry hoping to demonstrate its value following two and a half years of controversy.
The hearings may well be able to establish the wider pattern of sexual abuse, which permeated the institutions abroad which received children.
This has never been attempted by a previous official investigation.
The inquiry panel will also be able to draw conclusions from the sheer length of time it has taken for some of those abused to disclose what happened, something that is likely to be a common theme in the inquiry's work.
However, on a day when this troubled project really started to be making progress, it managed to shoot itself in the foot by leaking sensitive data - not for the first time.
The first phase of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) inquiry is looking at the way organisations have protected children outside the UK.
Between 7,000 and 10,000 children were moved to Australia after World War Two.
They were recruited by religious institutions from both the Anglican and Catholic churches, or charities, including Barnardo's and the Fairbridge Society, with the aim of giving them a better life.
Many, however, went on to suffer physical and sexual abuse in homes and so-called farm schools run by religious orders and charities.
Aswini Weereratne QC, representing the Child Migrants Trust (CMT) support organisation, said this "long overdue inquiry" would hear of a "crushing catalogue of sexual abuse, deprivation, violence and abuse".
Ms Weereratne said the inquiry will hear from 22 former child migrants - their average age was nine when deported and one was aged only three or four years old.
The abuse that some of the children sent abroad were said to have suffered included "torture, rape and slavery", Ms Weereratne said.
Speaking on behalf of former child migrant Oliver Cosgrove, who was sent to Australia in 1941, Imran Khan said: "(It was) a scheme to populate the empire with good, white British stock and which led to the physical, emotional and sexual abuse of countless children, many thousands of miles away from their families."
A £6m family restoration fund was set up to allow the migrants to travel to the UK and ministers are now considering extending it.
The independent inquiry was set up after the death of DJ Jimmy Savile in 2011 when hundreds of people came forward to say he had abused them as children.
The IICSA has apologised after mistakenly sending out confidential information.
People who had registered an interest in attending victims' forums - which are being organised by the inquiry - were sent an email on Monday that revealed the email addresses of others who had registered.
The BBC understands that 90 people were affected.
Nigel O'Mara, an abuse survivor and core participant in the inquiry, told the BBC that "this breach of data is very concerning to survivors as these are the very people we are supposed to trust with the details of our abuse".
The hearings are taking place at the International Dispute Resolution Centre in central London, with the first phase concerning Australia expected to last 10 days. | A former child migrant has called for an inquiry to "name the villains" responsible for the sexual abuse of British children sent overseas. |
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Prosecutors believe the driver, who was killed, was not concentrating just before the coach ploughed into standing traffic and burst into flames.
Another 30 people were hurt in the incident on the A9 motorway, near Stammbach in northern Bavaria.
The coach had been carrying 46 elderly people on a trip to Lake Garda in Italy
It was reduced by the blaze to a metal shell.
The driver of the lorry, which was reportedly carrying mattresses and pillows, escaped unharmed.
At the time, motoring safety expert Hans-Ulrich Sander suggested the fuel line that ran under the bus may have ruptured, prompting the fire to spread quickly.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said rescuers had been delayed by the intensity of the blaze and by "gawpers" driving slowly. | A horrific bus crash on a motorway in southern Germany last month that claimed 18 lives was caused by driver error, an investigation has concluded. |
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Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta were found guilty on all counts earlier this week.
Judge Yogesh Khanna said the case fell in the "rarest of rare category", rejecting pleas for a lighter sentence.
The woman, 23, was attacked on a bus in December and died two weeks later.
By Sanjoy MajumderBBC News, Delhi
Throughout the day the crowd built up steadily outside the court.
Unprecedented security was in place with the road to the court barricaded by police. Inside riot police took up positions as the lawyers were escorted in.
As Judge Yogesh Khanna read out the sentence one of the defendants broke down.
As news of the sentence was relayed outside, the crowd broke into a cheer. "Justice, justice!" they chanted. Others called for the juvenile to be hanged as well.
The parents of the victim - who were present in the courtroom - said they were satisfied with the verdict and justice had been served.
On Friday, Judge Khanna said the attack "shocked the collective conscience" of India, and that "courts cannot turn a blind eye" to such crimes.
"This case definitely falls in the rarest of rare categories and warrants the exemplary punishment of death," he added.
The men were convicted to death by hanging, and one of them, Vinay Sharma, broke down in tears as the verdict was announced.
The father of the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the family was satisfied with the ruling.
"We are very happy. Justice has been delivered," he said in the courtroom, according to the Associated Press news agency.
Earlier, protesters outside the court had demanded that the four men should be hanged.
As they were escorted to the courtroom, the four men shouted to the crowd: "Brothers, save us!"
They all deny the charges and can still appeal against the verdict to the Supreme Court and also ask the president for clemency - a process that could take years.
By Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent
Does the sentence bring closure?
The defence lawyers argued during the trial that their clients had been tortured and some of their confessions - later retracted - had been coerced.
There was unprecedented police security in Delhi on Friday.
The road to the court was barricaded by police, and inside riot police took up positions as the lawyers were escorted in, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in the Indian capital reports.
In August, a teenager who was found guilty of taking part in the rape was sentenced to three years in a reform facility, the maximum term possible because the crime was committed when he was 17. He also denied all the charges.
Another suspect, Ram Singh, was found dead in his cell in March. Prison officials said they believed he hanged himself but his family allege he was murdered.
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The December attack sparked a national debate on the treatment of women.
Tough new laws were introduced in March which allowed the death penalty - carried out very rarely in India - to be handed down in the most serious cases of rape.
Reacting to Friday's verdict, human rights groups said the death penalties would not end violence against women in India and that far-reaching reforms were needed to tackle the endemic problem.
"Sending these four men to the gallows will accomplish nothing except short-term revenge," said Tara Rao, Director of Amnesty International India.
"While the widespread anger over this case is understandable, authorities must avoid using the death penalty as a 'quick-fix' solution."
Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch's South Asia director Meenakshi Ganguly told the BBC: "The punishment of perpetrators is important but equally working together as a society to keep women safe is much, much more important." | An Indian court has sentenced four men to death for the gang rape and murder of a student in the capital Delhi, a case which led to violent protests across India and new laws against rape. |
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Fulwell Acoustic Mirror was built in 1917 to help detect German airships following a series of Zeppelin raids on the North East coast.
Left to deteriorate, it has now been restored after a £68,000 revamp.
Sunderland City councillor John Kelly, said it was an important monument that "told a story" and should not be lost.
The mirror was designed to act as an acoustic early warning system against air raids after a bomb dropped by a Zeppelin over the Wheatsheaf area of Sunderland in April 1916, leaving 22 people dead and more than 100 injured.
It reflected sound detected by a microphone in front of the dish to an operator who could alert the authorities of approaching Zeppelins.
Using sound detection methods learnt in the trenches, it was designed to give a 15-minute warning of approaching enemy airships.
The concrete structure, with its rendered concave dish, is one of only six acoustic mirrors built during World War One still standing.
Mr Kelly said: "Fulwell Acoustic Mirror is a very rare, long lost reminder of the home front in the North East during the First World War.
"The restoration has give the acoustic mirror a new lease of life by preserving it for future generations almost a hundred years after it was build to defend our shores."
The project used specially developed techniques, including the use of diluted sheep droppings to carry out the repair work.
The restoration was a project between the council, Historic England and Limestone Landscape. | A "forgotten" piece of history which protected Sunderland from Zeppelin attacks in World War One has been restored. |
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Track-laying has been completed for the new link between the Borders and Edinburgh.
The operation began at Shawfair station, south-east of the capital, in October.
Engineers have used a specialist rail installation machine to lay the track along the 30-mile route to Tweedbank.
Transport Minister Keith Brown said: "It is a huge honour to put the final piece of track in place and travel on the first train to run into the Borders in almost half a century.
"The reopening of this line offers a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a major economic and social boost for the communities it will serve.
"In just a few short months, trains will be carrying passengers to employment, social and study opportunities, as well as bringing visitors and investors to the communities all along the route."
He added that there would be "few, if any" railway journeys in Europe with such outstanding scenery.
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Network Rail's project director, Hugh Wark, added: "The completion of rail installation is a major milestone for the project and keeps the line on-track to open for passengers in September.
"While we still have a significant amount of infrastructure to complete along the route - from installing signalling to completing the stations - we're confident that this much-anticipated addition to Scotland's railway will be delivered on schedule."
The line is due to open to passenger trains on 6 September.
The Campaign for Borders Rail has welcomed a redesign of the Tweedbank station to accommodate tourist charter trains.
It predicts tourist and leisure travel will be a key aspect of the success of the new railway.
Simon Walton, who chairs the group, said its research and lobbying and the intervention of MSP Claudia Beamish were instrumental in seeing Tweedbank station extended to cope with 12-coach charter trains.
"We were delighted that the minister had the vision to see the massive potential of tourism," he added.
He said he looked forward to a study of "further enhancements" including a turntable to turn steam engines at Tweedbank and hoped to see the line extended at least as far as Hawick.
Do you agree with local MP Michael Moore, who said the opening of the Borders Railway could be an "Olympic moment" for the region? Or do you have concerns that the costs of a railway 30 miles long can be justified? Let us know your views by emailing us on [email protected] or tweeting @BBCSouthScot.
Follow the story throughout the day on our live page. | The longest domestic railway to be built in the UK in more than 100 years has reached a significant milestone. |
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Mark Gilmore, from Belfast, was suspended on full pay in June in connection with an investigation into the awarding of vehicle contracts.
He said he had conducted himself with the honesty and integrity expected of someone in his position.
He voluntarily attended a police station in Belfast last week.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said: "Detectives are preparing a file on a 49-year-old man following inquiries into bribery and misconduct in public office which were initiated by this investigation.
"He voluntarily attended a police station in Belfast last week for interview."
Seven men have been arrested as part of the investigation by the PSNI.
Among those arrested was former PSNI assistant chief constable Duncan McCausland, who has said he "strenuously denies" any wrongdoing.
Police have said files on all seven of those arrested are being prepared for submission to the Public Prosecution Service.
The BBC understands that due to the complexity of the investigation it could be months before the review of those files is completed and the police are in a position to decide whether to bring charges.
Mr Gilmore is from the Shankill Road area of west Belfast and joined the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in 1983, which has since been transformed into the PSNI.
He rose to the role of superintendent, before being seconded to Lancashire Police in 2008.
He became assistant chief constable at West Yorkshire Police five years ago, before being promoted to chief constable last year. | The chief constable of West Yorkshire has been questioned by Northern Ireland police investigating alleged bribery and misconduct in public office. |
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The Welshman said he felt lucky that he did not need surgery on a partially dislocated shoulder suffered in a crash caused by a police bike.
He hopes to use the 2017 Tour de France, from 1-23 July, to recover.
"I always knew I could get back into decent enough shape," Thomas told BBC Wales Sport.
"It was just a case of how good a shape I would be in."
The Team Sky rider was leading his team for the first time in Italy, but pulled out of the event five days after the crash with the injury having taken its toll.
He said: "Mentally it was as tough as it was physically. I took a week off after the crash.
"Where I dislocated my shoulder, a bit of the bone had come away with the cartilage, but luckily I didn't need an operation so I was just trying to get back into the best shape possible.
"I was feeling the best I ever felt in training before the race and doing the best numbers I had ever done before.
"It was tough to take mentally initially, but when you have another goal like the Tour de France it certainly helps to get over that disappointment."
Thomas has competed in seven previous Tour de France races, the first in 2007, but a decade later says he has lost none of his enthusiasm.
"I am as excited now as when I was picked for my first," he said.
"It's always exciting when you get the official nod, especially in a team like Sky, who are looking to win the race overall.
"When you look at the super strong squad that we have got, it's always nice to get picked.
"So I am looking forward to another lap of France. It's the biggest bike race in the world and the one I grew up watching.
"It's so iconic and the first thing you think about cycling. To be a part of it again is massive. But it's going to be tough."
Thomas is hopeful his Team Sky colleague Chris Froome can continue making British cycling history with a fourth Tour title.
"He has got a great chance," Thomas said. "His run up to the race has not been like previous years, but he is still in great shape.
"He has the experience and knows how to win the race and deal with all the outside pressures.
"We all have confidence in him." | Geraint Thomas says it has been "mentally as tough as it was physically" to overcome his crash at the Giro d'Italia in May. |
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Dr Roger Abdelmassih was given a 278-year sentence for assaulting women at his reproductive health clinic in Sao Paulo.
He has always denied the charges, and his lawyers say he will appeal.
Dr Abdelmassih, 66, is well-known in Brazil, and has treated many celebrities from the world of sport, entertainment and politics.
He was arrested in 2009 after being denounced by a former employee.
Thirty-nine women came forward to say he had raped or sexually abused them during medical examinations or when they were in recovery rooms after receiving fertility treatment.
Some said they were abused when they were recovering from sedation.
He says he was never alone with any of his patients, and has suggested that some may have suffered hallucinations brought on by an anaesthetic.
Despite the long sentence, under Brazilian law Dr Abdelmassih will serve a maximum of 30 years. | A prominent Brazilian fertility doctor has been jailed for sexually abusing 39 of his patients. |
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Four blasts hit vehicles in Gaza City just after 06:00 (03:00 GMT). Two people suffered minor injuries.
News agencies said the five cars belonged to members of Hamas and the rival Islamic Jihad militant group.
Supporters of the so-called Islamic State group have threatened Hamas' leadership in Gaza in recent weeks.
The Jerusalem Post quoted one Hamas commander, Abu Hamar, as saying IS was to blame for Sunday's explosions. He called for Hamas to respond.
A video posted online last month by IS supporters in Syria made direct threats against what they called "the tyrants of Hamas" and said they would take over Gaza.
In Gaza, some Salafist groups - who adhere to a strict lifestyle based on that of the earliest followers of Islam - have started to support IS.
They have been blamed by Hamas for a series of explosions in the area. Dozens of Salafists have been arrested in recent weeks. | A series of explosions on Sunday targeted cars belonging to officials in Gaza, including those from the ruling Hamas militant group. |
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And as the glory of Leicester City has proven this past week, there's something magical, and unpredictable, about a great team coming together.
That blend of perfect personnel, timing, skill and downright good luck is almost impossible to create. And yet, when it comes to hiring for a job, it's what businesses the world over constantly try to do.
The recruitment world almost exclusively deals in individuals, despite the fact almost everything we do in the workplace is part of a team effort.
Impressive individuals are plucked from one successful team and implanted in another, like an organ in a new body - a body that could reject it, even if it's needed to survive and grow.
You can hear my interview with Patrick Collison on this week's edition of Tech Tent on the BBC World Service. Listen again or download our podcast here.
This happens in Silicon Valley, where the hiring process is often rigorous but mostly solo, unless you find yourself in a big company after being acquired - a process that often turns bitter when company cultures collide. (Further reading: Nest.)
When Patrick Collison explains, in his hybrid Irish-Californian accent, how he thinks he can fix all this, it seems so blindingly obvious.
He's the co-founder of Stripe, a mobile payments company based in San Francisco's trendy Mission District.
The company's looking to fill a range of new positions, but rather than hire individuals and hope they all hit it off, they're instead inviting teams of 2-5 people to apply all at once.
They call it BYOT - Bring Your Own Team.
"The basic notion that hiring should be oriented around individuals rather than teams is actually a surprising one, when you think about it," Mr Collison told me.
"We're trying to construct teams, yet we're only looking at individuals. That's an odd mismatch."
He calls it an experiment. And if you're the sort of person who feels held back by being bad at job interviews, it'll perhaps be a welcome idea.
Sometimes, the most effective people in teams aren't the best at promoting themselves, he says, or talking about their strengths.
And often, our entire lives are mapped out by how well we perform during 30 minutes of "what makes you right for this role?" and "what is your biggest weakness?" questioning.
Even worse, many people's futures can be dictated by the discriminatory whims of those they're trying to impress. In the tech industry, this problem is an ongoing crisis.
"In general in teams there are some people who are conventionally credentialed who tend to have little difficulty in obtaining jobs," explained Mr Collison.
"There are also some people who are very productive who for whatever reason are from a different educational background, different socio-economic background, different racial background.
"Because they don't 'look' the same, quote, unquote, they have more difficulty getting hired. It's a contributing factor to the lack of diversity that we continue to observe in the technology industry. I don't know how it's going to pan out in our case."
The scheme has been running for just over a week, but Mr Collison said initial data shows some promising trends. It's around a 50/50 gender split - with several husband and wife teams coming forward.
The "winning" team would likely be made up of software engineers, the company said, but it welcomed teams that have designers and project managers as part of the package.
What wouldn't happen, Mr Collison said, is some kind of awkward X-Factor moment - you know, when a group of excited hopefuls turn up together only to have Simon Cowell pick out the only one who can actually sing.
"We will make offers to all or none of the team," Mr Collison said.
"We're not going to put the team members in the position of trying to decide if they will boot one off the island to proceed with this.
"It doesn't feel good, so we're not going to do it."
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook | We achieve more when we work together, that's a given. |
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Cuba is an island in the Caribbean.
It's less than 100 miles away from the United States.
But the two countries have argued for more than 50 years.
Cuba and America were friends until 1959, when two brothers - Fidel and Raul Castro - grabbed power. | This is a tale of two countries - America and Cuba - old enemies that might now become friends. |
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Warwickshire were bowled out for 449, missing out on full batting points.
But after reaching tea on 107-1, Surrey collapsed in the final session.
Patel took 5-61, to follow his first-innings 5-62, as Surrey slumped to 177 all out, before the Bears took five balls to reach 5-0 for a 10-wicket win.
Ian Bell's men claimed the extra half hour to avoid having to come back for the fourth day.
Surrey have now failed to beat Warwickshire in their last eight home meetings.
The visitors climb to the top of Division One for the first time this season with only their second Championship victory of 2016 - and Bell's first since being appointed county captain.
After Keith Barker had earlier cracked 65 in 70 balls with 11 fours, Rory Burns led Surrey's fightback against a daunting 176-run first-innings deficit.
But after his departure for 68, the Surrey batting folded, only Worcestershire old boy Steven Davies (44) and Zafar Ansari (50) making double figures.
Patel's match figures of 10-123 were the best of his first-class career, beating the 10-163 he took in an innings victory over Sussex at Edgbaston in 2011.
With the rest of the current round of Championship games still to be completed, Surrey, who last week put in 28 days' notice to sign Durham duo Scott Borthwick and Mark Stoneman, climb 18 points clear of bottom club Hampshire.
Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart told BBC Radio London:
"Burns and Ansari showed the way. They played tough cricket. Unfortunately, there was then a collapse. The batting is faulty.
"We bowled well. Our bowling is moving in the right direction, but our batting isn't. That is an issue.
"If you are only making scores of 270, and not batting four sessions, you are making it very hard. There are players with talent, but they are not battle-hardened cricketers."
Warwickshire spinner Jeetan Patel told BBC WM:
"It is so hard to win games in this league. Every team is really good. "There is still a long way to go. No-one is talking about being top.
"We went in at tea and the conversation was all about doing the hard yards and then eventually it will pay you back.
"We were lucky when Rory played on, then we got Zafar. All we wanted was a sniff. We knew if we got one wicket we would get two or three." | Warwickshire spinner Jeetan Patel took his second five-wicket haul of the match as the Bears went top of the County Championship by beating Surrey inside three days at Guildford. |
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The Last Ship, a story of unemployed shipbuilders who take over a factory to build a new vessel, opened on 26 October to mixed reviews.
Last month, Sting stepped in to replace leading man Jimmy Nail in a bid to revive flagging ticket sales.
His appearance had a "galvanizing impact", but producers felt attendance would drop when he left, especially during the slow winter period.
News of the closure came after Broadway theatres reported a record-breaking year for attendance and box-office takings in 2014.
A total of 13.1 million people went to see shows in the heart of New York last year, bringing in $1.36bn (£0.89bn).
The Broadway League, which represents producers and theatre owners, said attendance was up 13 percent and box-office takings up 14 percent.
The week ending Sunday 28 December was the biggest Christmas week in history for the theatre district - but the best-attended and highest-grossing period overall was New Year week.
Long-running shows Wicked, The Lion King and The Book of Mormon were among the top-grossing shows, with each pulling in more than $2.2 million (£1.45 million) for the New Year week.
Nearly 20 new shows are scheduled to open on Broadway in 2015, including a musical version of the 2003 Jack Black film School of Rock.
It is written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. | Sting's Broadway musical is to close on 24 January, after just three months. |
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Richard Davies, 41, died of a single gunshot wound to the chest after shooting at officers in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, in October 2015.
A firearms officer told the inquest in Peterborough he shot at the father-of-three fearing he was about to kill.
Jurors heard Mr Davies "wanted to end his life" due to his marriage ending.
Assistant Chief Constable Paul Fullwood from Cambridgeshire Police said thoughts were "with the family of Mr Davies at what must be an extremely distressing time".
ACC Fullwood said: "Our firearms officers have an exceptionally difficult job and they are often faced with extremely dangerous situations when there is a threat to the life of others and themselves.
"No officer wants to take a life and making the decision to shoot someone in a complex and dangerous situation is extremely difficult but something officers in the role know they could be required to do."
The inquest was told Mr Davies had been drinking and tied up his children at the house in Duck Lane before they managed to escape and call 999.
The firearms officer, referred to as I7, said he heard a bang as his police car arrived and saw Mr Davies fire a shot from an upstairs window.
"I believed he had already shot at police and I believed he was about to do it again," I7 told the jury.
"Believing there was an immediate threat, I aimed at the centre of what I could see, which was the middle of his chest, and fired one shot to try and stop him firing again.
Another officer told the hearing that a Taser and baton gun would not have been effective as Mr Davies was inside the property and too far away from them.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said a gun and two knives were found inside the home. | A man who was shot dead by police after taking his children hostage was lawfully killed, an inquest jury has decided. |
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Van Geneugden, who was appointed in April, is preparing for a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Comoros on 10 June.
Banda, who plays for local side Kamuzu Barracks, has captained the Flames for their last three matches.
"His form has dropped and his club aren't playing the style of football I'm looking for," the coach explained.
"I think it will be a strong group that is ready to play the passing game and stick to the game plan.
"We have a strong squad, we selected the players because we think they have the technical skills to give quality to the group."
Striker Chiukepo Msowoya is another notable omission from the 27-man squad, he has failed to score in six months for his South African club Golden Arrows.
Goalkeeper Owen Chaima who plays for Mbeya United in Tanzania, makes a return to the Flames after over a year on the sidelines.
Malawi Squad:
Goalkeepers: Lemani Nthala (Kamuzu Barracks), Charles Swini (HBC Songo, Mozambique), Ernest Kakhobwe (Nyasa Big Bullets), Owen Chaima (Mbeya United, Tanzania)
Defenders: Denis Chembezi (Wizards FC), Stanley Sanudi (Beforward Wanderers), Limbikani Mzava (Golden Arrows, South Africa), Francis Mlimbika (Beforward Wanderers), Pilirani Zonda (Nyasa Big Bullets), Yamikani Fodya (Nyasa Big Bullets), John Lanjesi (Nyasa Big Bullets), Chisomo Mpachika (Silver Strikers)
Midfielders: Simeon Singa (Wizards FC), Chikoti Chirwa (Red Lions), Gerald Phiri Jr (Platinum Stars, South Africa), Levison Maganizo (Wizards FC), Robert Ng'ambi(Platinum Stars, South Africaa), Yamikani Chester(Beforward Wanderers), Dalitso Sailesi (Nyasa Big Bullets), Micium Mhone (Blue Eagles), John Banda (Ferroviario de Nampula, Mozambique), Frank Banda (HBC Songo, Mozambique)
Forwards: Binwell Katinji (Silver Strikers), Innocent Bokosi (Red Lions), Jabulani Linje (Beforward Wanderers), Gabadinho Mhango (Bidvest Wits, South Africa), Richard Mbulu (Costa do Sol, Mozambique) | New Malawi coach Ronny van Geneugden has dropped captain Davie Banda from his first squad. |
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The National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth said it was "an opportune time to restructure".
A spokesman said the equivalent of three full-time jobs out of 34 staff would be lost and a new head of commerce appointed.
The museum opened in 2002 with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the now defunct South West Regional Development Agency.
Richard Doughty, museum director, said: "Despite record-breaking visitor numbers this year and the strongest financial performance ever, we still carry a financial deficit."
Mr Doughty said the entire arts and museums sector in the UK "continues to go through difficult times".
According to the Charity Commission website, the museum had an income of around £2.27m in 2014-15 compared to a spend of around £2.56m. | A £21.5m maritime museum is shedding jobs despite record visitor numbers. |
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The Space Centre in Preston thought it had secured £800,000 in grants, only to find they never existed.
The centre said it is in the process of expanding its premises to handle the demand for care in the region.
Lancashire police confirmed it was investigating allegations involving an ex-employee of the centre.
Alison Shorrock, centre manager, said the staff and people who used the facilities had been left "devastated" by the news.
"I was shocked as we thought the remaining grants were in place, but as we rang them one by one, to our absolute horror, we found out that there was absolutely no funding still to come. They had never heard of us.
"We were running around like children at Christmas because we were so excited at the possibilities that the new centre would bring for all the disabled people, and suddenly to have your hopes and dreams crash to the floor was one of the worst moments of my life."
The centre, on Pedders Lane, now say they need to raise £500,000 to pay off their immediate debtors, including those involved in building an extension to the building.
About 200 groups a month use the centre's facilities, which include multi-sensory areas.
It opened in 1993, with the company securing the building next door in 2011 to expand and build a further sensory room, due to open shortly.
A Lancashire Police spokesperson said: "We have been made aware of a report regarding financial irregularities made in relation to an ex-employee and inquiries are ongoing to establish the full facts." | A Lancashire centre which provides services for disabled people faces possible closure after allegations of "financial irregularities". |
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James Anderson set England on the victory trail by removing Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman inside the first hour in a brilliant spell of swing bowling.
Captain MS Dhoni and Praveen Kumar delayed the inevitable with an entertaining partnership of 75 but Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan mopped up the tail as India were bundled out for 244.
England's victory by an innings and 242 runs gives them an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series and provides emphatic confirmation of their new status as the best team in the world.
India began the day in a hopeless position, still 486 runs adrift of making England bat again after the home side had racked up 710-7 in reply the tourists' 224.
And their predicament worsened when Anderson's first ball of the day was angled across Gambhir, caught his outside edge and was snaffled by Graeme Swann stooping low to his left at second slip.
Dravid played at a full length delivery that moved away off the seam and was caught behind, although replays showed the bat hit his foot and not the ball.
Laxman was out to an almost identical delivery, the ball brilliantly angled in to the batsman and moving away off the seam before taking the outside of the blade.
Suresh Raina looked to be getting on top of Swann as he carted him for two fours in a row, but England's off-spinner responded by firing down a flatter delivery that trapped the left-hander on his crease.
At the other end, Sachin Tendulkar remained unflustered through the mayhem, timing the ball to perfection with eight boundaries and raising the prospect of a defiant century.
But on 40 not out, disaster struck as the Little Master was run out backing up a Dhoni drive. Swann got his hand to the ball and deflected it on to the stumps, with replays confirming the bails were off just before Tendulkar was able to ground his bat.
With the crowd - hundreds of them in fancy dress - singing and dancing in the stands, Kumar got into the party mood by smashing Swann into the stands three times.
He cracked 40 off 18 balls before one slog too many picked out Ravi Bopara at cover to leave India eight down.
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Ishant Sharma was lbw to Broad and Tim Bresnan completed the job when last man Sreesanth was caught in the gully.
Andrew Strauss and his team united in a joyous huddle in the middle before shaking hands with the entire India team as they left the field.
After basking in the glory of third straight thrashing of India, England's minds will turn to inflicting a series whitewash when the fourth Test starts at the Oval on Thursday.
Listen to Jonathan Agnew and Geoff Boycott's review of the final day's play on the TMS podcast. | England demolished India at a delirious Edgbaston to usurp the tourists at the top of the world Test rankings. |
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Alan Hepper, an MOD engineer, was giving evidence at the inquest into the death of 11-year-old Francis Rowntree.
He said there was limited testing on rubber baton rounds before their introduction in July 1970.
Francis, known as Frank by his family, was shot by a soldier with a rubber bullet in west Belfast in April 1972.
He died in hospital two days later.
That same year, accident and emergency doctors at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital had wanted to publish their findings in the British Journal of Surgery, but were told by a scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence that it would not be in the public interest.
The information pointed out that 80% of inpatients hit by the rounds had injuries to their head and neck. It also suggested that Frank Rowntree had been hit from two to three yards.
'Tumbled in the air'
It suggested that soldiers must be made aware of the consequences of using the weapon, that it could kill, blind, or seriously injure some organs.
The tests on potential wounding by the baton rounds had been carried out at the Defence, Science and Technological Laboratory, Porton Down, Wiltshire, by firing them in controlled circumstances at sheep.
The court heard also that tests showed that the batons tumbled in the air and often hit their targets side-on, although they could also hit end on, causing rather more injury or damage.
Mr Hepper, who works at Porton Down, agreed with a barrister for the Rowntree family that the chances of a target being struck end-on increased if a round was fired within 5-6 metres.
It is thought that Frank Rowntree was struck from close range.
Mr Hepper told the inquest that the effect and accuracy of the rubber baton round was tested more after its initial introduction.
'Far too dangerous'
He also said that the amount of gunpowder used was increased twice in a bid to make it more accurate.
A wooden baton round had been tested but quickly deemed to be far "too dangerous" and was never used operationally here.
The rubber baton round was then developed at the request of Army HQ in Northern Ireland to provide an option between small-arms fire and the use of CS gas.
The kind most commonly used by the Army in April 1972 was 15cm long, and fired with 55 grains of gunpowder at a speed of about 160mph.
Mr Hepper showed the court some of the weapons that might have been used to fire such a round during a riot.
The court heard it was most likely that a weapon called a "federal riot gun" would have been used by the Royal Anglian Regiment in April 1972.
At one stage, the weapon was brought to the front of the courtroom for the coroner to see, and then closely examined and handled by barristers and members of the Rowntree family, including Jim Rowntree, the brother of Frank.
It later emerged during cross-examination that in 1971 there were 16,752 baton rounds fired, and in 1972 there were 23,363.
The rounds were designed to simulate a hard blow with a fist or a rigorous blow by a baton, but able to be caused by a soldier from a distance.
It was recognised in the scientific papers at the time that the targets in Northern Ireland would most likely be teenagers and young adults.
By December 1972, Army documents acknowledged that very serious injuries could be caused when rubber baton rounds struck the head or face.
It emerged that an independent report compiled in 1982 observed that some rounds had been tampered with by soldiers in the past, with batteries or coins added to the case with part of the rubber round removed.
There have been allegations that Frank Rowntree was struck with a battery.
Mr Hepper agreed that whilst the testing of the baton rounds followed scientific principles, it was limited, hurried and piecemeal before the initial deployment of the weapon in July 1970. | An inquest has heard that information about serious injuries caused by rubber baton rounds fired by the Army was not made public in the early 1970s. |
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Shares in Taylor Wimpey were 4.7% higher at 193.60p on news it would pay a £300m special dividend in July 2017 and increase its ordinary dividend.
It added the market for new homes remained "very positive" and it was "on track to deliver good progress".
At close, the FTSE 100 index was 16.37 points, or 0.27%, higher at 6,167.77.
Shares in Vodafone climbed 1.5% to 227.00p as investors welcomed the latest results from the mobile phone giant.
Vodafone said its underlying business was now growing for the first time since 2008, and reported a 2.7% increase in full-year earnings to £11.6bn.
On the currency markets, the pound rose sharply in early trade before giving up some of the gains after figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the inflation rate fell to 0.3% in April, down from 0.5% in March.
At midday, the pound was up 0.56% against the dollar at $1.4483, and was also 0.41% higher against the euro at €1.2774. | (Close): Shares in Taylor Wimpey helped to lift the FTSE 100 after the housebuilder announced plans for a special dividend. |
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The 29-year-old former Derby County trainee was part of the Bradford side beaten in the League One play-off final by the Lions at Wembley on 20 May.
Meredith made 220 appearances in five seasons with the Bantams after arriving from York City in June 2012.
The twice-capped Australia international also previously played for Chesterfield and Shrewsbury Town.
The deal, Millwall's first signing since returning to the Championship, is subject to Meredith completing a medical when he returns from holiday next week.
Meredith, who had been offered a new contract by Bradford boss Stuart McCall, scored four times in his five seasons at Valley Parade, the last of which was against Millwall in a 1-1 draw in January.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Promoted Millwall have signed Bradford City left-back James Meredith on a two-year contract, to start on 1 July. |
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Swindon failed to register a shot on target in the first half as keeper Lawrence Vigouroux kept them level.
Robins forward Jon Obika forced a save from Tykes keeper Adam Davies after the break before Fabien Robert's ambitious volley was easily saved.
But Winnall thrashed home Josh Scowen's cross for his ninth goal in six league games to hand new Town manager Luke Williams his first defeat. | Sam Winnall's strike secured a sixth successive League One win for Barnsley. |
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It comes after a decision to expel a pupil who made threats with a knife was allegedly overturned.
GMB, which represents 30 support workers at Saltley School including caretakers and cleaners, said it would send the letter next week.
Teachers voted last week not to teach the unidentified pupil, who is currently not at the school.
"We're writing a letter of no confidence and teachers will be able to sign that before it's sent to the governing body," confirmed GMB spokeswoman Gill Whittaker.
Ms Whittaker said they wanted a new governing body if the pupil was not going to be expelled, one that was "representative of the whole school."
A handful of parents gathered outside the school earlier, to find out what action was going to be taken.
The council said teachers were "working normally" and the pupil in question "was not at the school at the moment".
Head teacher Balwant Bains has declined to comment on the issue.
He has previously said he has "total confidence in the safety of staff and pupils".
Teaching union the NASUWT has said it hopes to have further talks with the school.
Police said they took no further action after an incident on 22 May. | A union has announced it will be sending a letter of no confidence to a Birmingham school's governing body. |