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Summarize the following article: The 35-year-old, who retired from international cricket last year after more than 400 appearances in all formats, featured six times for Middlesex in the competition in 2016. McCullum averaged 33 for the county last season, with a highest score of 87, and will return in July. "It was an easy decision to return to the home of cricket," he said. Before retiring in February, McCullum played 101 Tests, 260 one-day internationals and 71 T20 games for the Kiwis, scoring more than 14,000 runs in the process. He also hit 398 sixes for New Zealand in all forms of the game - 107 in Tests, 200 in ODIs and 91 in T20 - and 1,552 fours "Brendon had a hugely positive influence on the club in 2016 and I'm sure he will have a similar impact this summer," said director of cricket Angus Fraser. "With Brendon on board and the other exciting players we have, watching Middlesex play T20 cricket in 2017 should be an exciting and enjoyable experience."

Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum is to rejoin Middlesex for nine 2017 T20 Blast group matches.

Summarize the following article: Will Bragg produced a characteristically solid 119 not out to take the game away from Essex. He shared century stands with both Mark Wallace (40) and Chris Cooke (59). Earlier, Timm van der Gugten completed a maiden five-wicket haul in the Championship as Essex were bowled out for 313 in their first innings. Bragg's innings was his second hundred of the season in addition to three half-centuries, and he was 10 short of his career-best at the close. Veteran seamer David Masters, with 2-64, was the visitors' chief threat with the ball, but Essex could face a demanding target against a team who are yet to win this season. Glamorgan batsman Will Bragg told BBC Wales Sport: "Things went our way and we built hundred partnerships for the second and third wicket, but if we can get a few more runs in the morning, we can go hard at them for maybe two and a half sessions, it could be a good end to the game. "If you get a personal best, you have to get a round of drinks in, so I'll have to see how much money I've got in the bank! "We've had a tricky four or five weeks where we haven't hit our straps in the batting and bowling at the same time, but this game we've dug deep and we're in a strong position."

Glamorgan enjoyed an impressive day with the bat as they built up a 242-run lead over leaders Essex going into the final day in Cardiff.

Summarize the following article: The Fire Service said that while some blazes on Friday were accidental, others were started deliberately. Fire commander Kieran Doherty said one fire on a hill at Ardmore was spread over a mile. "You have to attack it from both sides, and a lot of personnel need to be deployed - we always have to be very vigilant for risk to life and property," he said. "If the wind changes, a fire can turn on its head very quickly."

There were 40 gorse fires in Counties Tyrone and Londonderry in a single day.

Summarize the following article: A friend of 16-year-old Morgan Huelin told a court he tried to call 999 as he lay unconscious the morning after a house party. The friend asked four others to help move him outside, Jersey Youth Court heard. The five teenagers deny perverting the course of justice in connection with Morgan's death. The friend, who can't be named for legal reasons, is the first of the boys to take to the stand. He had been friends with Mr Huelin at school, but more recently he'd distanced himself as Mr Huelin's drug taking "escalated". But after the party that night Mr Huelin asked if he could stay over and he didn't feel he could say no. The friend said he found Mr Huelin asleep in the garage the next day. He told the court: "I knew he'd been taking drugs. I didn't want my parents finding him in the state he was in." He asked his friends who were asleep in the house for help moving him down the road. "I said to them, we needed to get him away from my parents, we needed to wake him up around the corner." When asked by Advocate Mike Preston if he tried to call for help, he said he had used a friend's phone to dial 999, but it wouldn't connect. After being asked why he didn't tell his parents, the teenager said: "I thought 999 was the safest way to deal with Morgan. I thought he would wake up, I didn't know it was so serious." Magistrate Bridget Shaw dismissed a request from the defence to throw out the case. The trial continues.

A Jersey teenager's drug taking "escalated" before his death, a court has heard.

Summarize the following article: Melissa Priestley, 33, worked at HMP Low Newton in Durham, the prison where serial killer Rose West is held. Priestley will be sentenced next month after appearing at Durham Crown Court to admit misconduct in public office. An investigation began following a tip-off, before letters to Priestley were found in the prisoner's cell. Investigators also found messages on Priestley's mobile phone which corroborated the relationship, the CPS said. John Dilworth, of the CPS North East, said: "For people to have confidence in the Criminal Justice System, they need to know that the law applies equally to all of those involved in the delivery of justice. "The relationship between Melissa Priestley and the prisoner, over whom she had a professional duty of care, was wholly inappropriate. "I would like to praise the swift actions of the prison authorities and police, once the initial reports of this relationship were received. "Through their diligence vital evidence was preserved, assisting greatly in the Crown's preparation of a robust case against Melissa Priestley." Priestley was bailed pending a sentencing hearing on a date yet to be set.

A prison officer at a women's jail has admitted having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.

Summarize the following article: Ross Nicholson, 37, admitted killing Brian Martin, 34, last November at a flat in Knightswood, Glasgow. Mr Martin was attacked with a knife and a broken table leg. He had a bag pulled over his head and his hands tied. At the High Court in Glasgow, Mr Martin was described as a "quiet person" who was "not confrontational". He had lived in the same block of flat as Nicholson, and they were friends despite only knowing each other a few months. The court heard Mr Martin was last seen alive in the early hours of 5 November on CCTV going into the lift with Nicholson. Mr Martin's sister Kelly Martin repeatedly tried contacting her brother that day. Advocate depute Bernard Ablett said: "On each occasion, Nicholson answered the phone. She found this strange." Nicholson meantime lied to other people where Mr Martin was. A visitor later turned up at Mr Martin's door and found Nicholson inside the flat who claimed - through the letterbox - that his friend was not in. On 7 November, Ms Martin alerted the police. The court heard she had again tried texting her brother and received "read receipts". But, when she called, the phone appeared to be turned off. Officers went to Mr Martin's flat where they found his body. He had suffered multiple injuries - three of the major blood vessels in his neck had been severed. He also had a number of stab wounds, including one so forceful it had gone through his skull. Thomas Ross, defending, said Nicholson "deeply regrets the pain and distress" he caused Mr Martin's family. Jailing Nicholson for life, Lady Scott told him: "This was a sustained and brutal murder."

A man who brutally murdered his friend and left his body tied up under a pile of cushions and rubbish, has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years.

Summarize the following article: A Kenyan contingent of the African Union force in Somalia was attacked by al-Shabab militants in el-Ade, in the south of the country. Kenya has not said how many soldiers died, but al-Shabab puts the figure at more than 100. The army has asked people to be patient while it investigates what happened. In 1998 more than 200 people died when al-Qaeda attacked the US embassy in Kenya's capital, in one of the first operations launched by the jihadist group. Kenya's Chief of Defence Forces Gen Samson Mwathe told journalists in Nairobi to imagine the damage that "three of those in that small defensive position" can cause. The comparison with the 1998 embassy bombing suggests this could be one of the deadliest attacks to have occurred in the history of Kenya's army. By comparing last Friday's attack with the embassy bombing, he is trying to prepare the country psychologically for what could be a large loss of life. The general's comments would have caused considerable anxiety to the relatives and friends of the soldiers whose fate remains unknown. They have been flocking to the information and counselling centres established in three barracks across the country, but they have been provided with minimal information. The questions on everyone's lips are: "How many soldiers died?", and "Where are the survivors?". The armed forces chief said that given the size of the explosion, DNA tests may be required for the identification of some of those who died. But while Kenyans wait for answers, Gen Mwathe said that people should "exercise patience and support out families" as an investigation is carried out. Last week, an al-Shabab official told the BBC that its fighters had attacked the base after morning prayers, starting with a car bomb before storming the facility. "We took control of the base after one hour of fierce fighting," he said. Al-Shabab was ousted from the capital, Mogadishu, in August 2011, but still has a presence in large areas of southern Somalia and often stages attacks across the country. Kenyan sent troops into Somalia to help the government battle al-Shabab in 2011.

Explosives three times as powerful as the bomb used in the 1998 US embassy attack in Nairobi were used against Kenyan troops last week, the army says.

Summarize the following article: Media playback is not supported on this device Davis took charge this winter after Mark Robinson's departure, with Luke Wright appointed captain. "It is a good opportunity for young players to put their hands up," Davis told BBC Sussex. "We are at a stage now where we want to develop a new team moving forward and there are a lot of places to play for." Robinson left Hove to become head coach of England women in November after seeing Sussex's five-year stay in the top flight end. Davis, who has been on the club's coaching staff since 2005, is keen to give opportunities to young players. "If you do play in the second team, score the runs and get the wickets to force your way into the first team," said the 42-year-old. "You put your performances forward and show us what you can do and hopefully everyone will get an opportunity this year. "I have a vision for the club. I want us to be in a position where we can compete for the first division [title], not just stay up." All-rounder Wright has taken on the captaincy from Ireland international Ed Joyce, who spent three and a half years in the role. "In one way I'm taking on the squad at their most vulnerable - when we have just gone down with a lot of young guys who have not had the results they wanted to personally," said Wright. "With a fresh coach in Mark, we had similar ideas of where we wanted to make a move. "It is the first year in a three-year plan we have got. "We want results straight away but with the things we are trying to put in place, we know it will make us a better squad going forward - to be more ready for the first division and white-ball cricket as well. "With the financial restraints we have in place, we need to blood guys coming through and get the standards up." Sussex go into the new campaign without bowler Matt Hobden, who died aged 22 in January. Wright, who has made over 100 appearances for England in Twenty20 and one-day cricket, hopes the squad can use the seamer's death as a unifying force. "It is horrendous and something I went through with Tom Maynard as well," said the 31-year-old. "It is not something that just goes away. Even reporting back for day one of pre-season you miss him. He is not there. "His locker is still there and it is something that will be with us for the rest of our lives. "It is something we need to manage for the guys. It is tough. We have got some things we are going to dedicate to him this year. "There are still going to be days when you have your ups and downs but it is something which can bring us all together." Sussex begin the County Championship Division Two campaign at Northamptonshire on Sunday.

Sussex head coach Mark Davis says the playing squad have "a new slate" following relegation from Division One of the County Championship last season.

Summarize the following article: O'Flaherty finished behind English duo Gemma Steel and Jenny Spink in Dublin. Defending women's champion Fionnuala McCormack was a late withdrawal from Sunday's race because of a hip niggle. Mullingar's Mark Christie won the men's race in a respectable 29 minutes and 30 seconds, leaving him ahead of England's Graham Rush (29.41) and Irish Olympic athlete Mick Clohisey (29.44). The event also doubled up as the Irish championship for the 10km road race distance so O'Flaherty and Christie lifted the national titles. As the Irish men packed well with Sergiu Ciobanu fourth in 30:20 and Kevin Dooney (30:38) sixth, the home nation pipped England by 40 seconds in the team match, which was decided by the aggregate times of the four scorers in both races. Ireland's combined time was three hours, 15 minutes and 29 seconds and the team element gave the event added excitement even after the first three had crossed the line in both races. The team success earned the Irish the Sean Kyle Cup, competed for in memory of the highly respected Ballymena & Antrim coach, who died in November 2015. Kyle formed a remarkable coaching partnership at the club with his wife, the three-time Olympian Maeve Kyle and event organiser Gareth Turnbull came up with the idea last year of marking the Ballymena & Antrim stalwart's contribution to the sport by staging the team event. Newcastle athlete O'Flaherty stayed with former European Cross Country champion Steel and Spink for the opening 5km in the Phoenix Park before the English duo broke clear. Steel crossed the line in 34:15 which left her nine seconds ahead of Spink, with Rio Olympics steeplechase competitor O'Flaherty a further 14 seconds back in third. The women's top six was completed by three more Irish athletes as Claire McCarthy (34:47) was followed by Laura O'Shaughnessy [35:04] and City of Derry's Catherine Whoriskey (35:55). McCormack was forced to withdraw because of injury on Sunday morning. With a series of races, including junior events, taking place, over 8,000 runners were in action at the Phoenix Park.

County Down athlete Kerry O'Flaherty's third place at the Great Ireland Run helped Ireland clinch the team honours.

Summarize the following article: The event, one of the largest in the of its kind in Europe, starts on 4 June. Organisers said that in 2014 there had been safety issues on the A685 when people arrived too early with trailers. Restrictions will be put in place to reduce roadside parking, but there will be spaces provided for traditional bowtop caravans and horse grazing. Dr Robin Hooper, chief executive of Eden District Council, said: "People arriving too early with trailers are not respecting the fair and are disrupting the outlying communities around Appleby. "So please, plan your journey well and use the stopping places provided."

Gypsies and travellers planning to attend the Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria have been warned not to arrive before it begins.

Summarize the following article: The 52-year-old, from Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, seemed to be fit and healthy all her life and took part in numerous sports, including squash and running. Ms Macfarlane was diagnosed last year with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, (HCM), which is an inherited condition. Her diagnosis came almost 20 years after a brief episode of irregular heart rhythm in her 30s, the cause of which was not found. "In hindsight it absolutely frightened me that I had run and played squash and I had this time-bomb inside me," she told BBC Scotland. According to new research from the British Heart Foundation, more than 50,000 Scots are thought to be carrying a faulty gene that puts them at high risk of heart disease. The majority of those affected are undiagnosed and unaware that they may be at risk of a sudden heart attack. Each week in the UK about 12 seemingly healthy people aged 35 or under are victims of sudden cardiac death with no explanation. Ms Macfarlane says she had first noticed irregular heart beats and palpitations when she was in her 30s but nothing was found. "Then in my mid-40s I started getting more severe palpitations, light-headedness and I passed out a couple of times," she says. "I was referred back to the cardiology department at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, who did various tests and echo scans, ultrasounds, a treadmill test and they could not find anything at all. "There was certainly nothing lifestyle related like blocked arteries or anything so it was a bit of a mystery." Ms Macfarlane says she was "starting to feel like I was some kind of hypochondriac" but doctors persevered with their tests. Eventually she was fitted with a reveal monitor, which was implanted into her body for two years. "For 18 months it didn't pick up anything," she says. "Then in the last six months it picked up what's called tachycardia, which is a very fast heart beat. "They were able to analyse this and see that it was something a bit sinister." Another episode of fainting last June led to an MRI scan which showed that the wall of her left ventricle, which is the lower chamber of the heart, was thickened. That suggested the possibility of an inherited heart condition. She was sent for a gene test which gave the positive result. Ms Macfarlane says that her father had died of a heart condition but doctors could not tell from his notes whether he had carried the faulty gene. They also tested Ms MacFarlane's son and her brother to see if they had the gene. Both tested negative. As a result of her diagnosis, Ms Macfarlane was fitted with a cardiac defibrillator. She says: "That gave me a complete new lease of life because I had lost all my confidence, knowing that I had the condition that could possibly lead to sudden cardiac death. "The cardiac defibrillator constantly monitors my heart and if the rhythm goes off or my heart stops for any reason it will kick in and I am extremely lucky to have that."

Helga Macfarlane says she is "horrified" to think that she was unknowingly living with a faulty gene that put her at high risk of coronary heart disease or sudden death.

Summarize the following article: I've known him a long time. I first met him when we played a Davis Cup tie probably nine, 10 years ago. You spend a week together in the build-up and since then I've seen him a lot at various events. He used to have a reputation of maybe not working that hard but every time I have been on the court with him, he has been fantastic. He's a natural competitor. Once you get him on the match court, he always tries his best and gives his best effort and I really respect that. Away from the court, he's a pretty relaxed guy. He doesn't take himself too seriously and he likes to have a good time, but when he's playing, he's focused. He's a very talented player. I haven't spoken to him loads about his tennis. He has a team around him that is doing such a fantastic job. If he keeps doing what he's doing, who knows where he could end up? It's exciting to see how good he is going to be. We still don't know what his limit is. Media playback is not supported on this device It's a really promising time to be part of British tennis. A number of players are close to the top of their game and that's really good. I definitely think that having a number of different players, with different personalities and backgrounds and playing styles, is really positive. I hope it keeps going that way. A lot of kids might watch tennis and hate watching me. But some might love watching Johanna Konta, or Dan, or Kyle Edmund or Heather Watson. The more choice there is, the more role models people have to look up to and that is a really positive thing. There was a moment of panic when I went over on my ankle during my match against Andrey Rublev. You don't know how bad it is until you get up and you're also a bit shocked about going over. Once I got up and started moving around, it was still a bit concerning because it was sore. I'm walking around on it fine now - it's sore, but it's OK. For now, it's all about icing it and keeping it elevated. I had an ice bath after the game and I'll be keeping it cool for the next few days. It's all good. Facing Rublev did give me a few flashbacks to when I was first starting out. I played Rafael Nadal when I was 19 at the 2007 Australian Open. Going out for the first time against one of the top players does influence the way you play. I expected Rublev to come out going for his shots, because he had nothing to lose. He got off to a pretty quick start but once I settled down, I played some good stuff. He's a good player though and definitely one to watch in the future.

I'm really happy and excited for Dan Evans, who is getting closer and closer to the top of the game.

Summarize the following article: The latest salvo between Nato allies came in a German government briefing to Spiegel magazine that accuses the alliance's supreme commander (American Gen Philip Breedlove) of disseminating "dangerous propaganda" on the extent of Russian military involvement, trying to undermine a diplomatic solution to the war. The Kremlin has denied its forces are directly involved in combat, but the latest estimate by US Lt Gen Ben Hodges, commander of the US Army in Europe, says 12,000 Russian troops are operating inside the neighbouring country. As the conflict there has worn, on this intervention has become increasingly hard to hide, growing bigger, with more advanced weapons, and capturing more territory for the nominal "separatist army". The evidence of the Kremlin's direct military involvement can be gleaned from many different types of sources: For those distrustful of the Pentagon or Western intelligence agencies, you can set their information entirely aside. Indeed, there may be some reasons (such as not wanting the diplomatic damage involved in directly labelling the Russian moves an invasion) why Western leaders may have held back when describing the Kremlin's action. Sustaining the operation in Ukraine and on its borders has, however, required the mobilisation of units across the breadth of Russia, according to a new assessment by Dr Igor Sutyagin, of the Royal United Services Institute. He believes 90,000 troops were required in late 2014 to provide deployments around Ukraine, inside its eastern (rebel held) districts and in Crimea. This effort has been so great, he argues, that, "it is obvious that there insufficient resources... to sustain military operations at the current level for over a year". This intervention evolved in several phases: A journalist from the Russian newspaper Kommersant met several young Russian soldiers in Debaltseve who told him they had come from the same mechanised infantry unit after commanders appealed for volunteers. "Their commanders did not oppose their going," the journalist reported, "on the contrary, they welcomed their enthusiasm, explaining to the soldiers why it was necessary for them to go to those very areas to protect their homeland." Another Russian paper, Novaya Gazeta, interviewed a badly burned tank crewman in Donetsk hospital who said he had been serving with the 5th Independent Tank Brigade in Siberia when ordered on "exercises", which all the soldiers involved had understood meant they were deploying to eastern Ukraine. Since last August, when the scale of this increased considerably, the Russian Soldiers' Mothers Committee and other human rights groups have published details of dead soldiers being returned for burial in Russia. Open Russia, a group funded by Kremlin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has compiled evidence of 276 Russian soldiers killed there up to late January. Dr Sutyagin says this is a considerable underestimate and the total is nearer to 800. During the August fighting, entire Russian units were sent across, a necessity perhaps in view of the crisis faced by separatist forces, but one that produced some tell-tale evidence. Ten paratroopers from the 331st Guards Airborne Regiment, usually based at Kostroma in Russia, for example, were captured together by the Ukrainian military inside their country. And in Pskov, home of another airborne unit, several corpses were returned together for burial. When Russian forces drew down a couple of months later, I was told by a senior Nato official that as few as 1,000 remained in eastern Ukraine. It was then, evidence suggests, that the Russian army determined a change in the way it would use force across the border, forming composite units of volunteers that would be exercised together so they attained the necessary military slickness, but would come from a variety of garrisons and units so their identity would be harder to prove. There could be another reason for the use of smaller detachments from far flung units across Russia. Dr Sutyagin says it "appears to indicate a shortage of badly needed manpower". Recent Russian reporting makes clear the direct involvement of its combat troops in February's battle for Debaltsevo, something Nato did not even allege at the time. Indeed much of the Nato or US analysis, however critical German backers of a diplomatic solution may have been of it, may have erred on the side of conservatism. At a meeting with journalists in London last month, for example, the US ambassador to Nato, Doug Lute, said the Russian military had committed specialists to help crew advanced weapons such as anti-aircraft missiles or electronic warfare gear, and "an alternative chain of command". That Russian officers are providing the brains as well as co-ordination behind the Donetsk and Luhansk separatist forces became clearer last November, when Lt Gen Alexander Lentsov, deputy commander of Moscow's ground forces, appeared in eastern Ukraine. He has subsequently been appointed to the committee trying to uphold the latest ceasefire. As for whether this command structure was actually relying on Russian combat units, Lt Gen Lute would not go that far, saying the Russian military in the east of Ukraine was "not a force in the sense of being an entity". But reporting from the Russian side of the front suggests that during the fight for Debaltseve, Lt Gen Lentsov won the battle with three battalion groups made up almost entirely of troops originally from units across the border in Russia. In the Novaya Gazeta interview with wounded tank man Dorzhi Batomunkuev, he said his group, from the 5th Tank Brigade, had been combined with detachments of men from other Russian army combat units during three months of training at a camp near Kuzminsky, close to the Ukrainian border. The battalion, equipped with 31 T72 tanks, had crossed into Ukraine early in February before taking part in the Debaltseve battle. The men who had actually joined locally, in the breakaway areas of eastern Ukraine, had made up less than 10% of the unit, he said. Other reports suggest the local men, as well as some Cossack volunteers from Russia, make up the public face of the separatist forces, manning checkpoints and so on, while the composite Russian army units, equipped with the latest tanks and artillery, are employed for offensive action. Of course trying to differentiate between these forces (genuine locals, Russians who have come individually to fight alongside them, and trained units of serving Russian army soldiers) is not easy for reporters on the ground - or even it seems for Nato countries with their considerable intelligence resources. Lt Gen Lute, for example, noted late last month the presence of "hundreds" of Russian army troops in Ukraine. Now, Lt Gen Hodges has raised that figure to thousands. "If you don't believe Russia is directly involved in Ukraine now, you'll never believe it," he said. Did the US assessment change dramatically in less than a fortnight? It's possible. But it's also the case that Nato military people I've spoken to have been notably more hawkish on their estimation of the Kremlin role than politicians or diplomats (Lt Gen Lute is something of a hybrid, having previously served as a US Army general and in the White House). US political authorities have also sought to minimise the gap between their public statements and assessments by Germany and others determined to avoid confrontation with Russia. President Barack Obama and his team have long sought to avoid painting themselves into a corner over Ukraine, for example by labelling the Russian action "an invasion", something that might suggest tougher action was needed against President Vladimir Putin. But the odd thing is that the most compelling evidence that his army is bearing the brunt of the fighting against the Ukrainian government is now coming from Russian reporters or the mothers of dead soldiers rather than the West.

Western arguments about how to counter President Vladimir Putin's support for east Ukraine separatists are leading to clashes over the question of how deeply involved Russia's military is in the conflict.

Summarize the following article: David Marks, of Marks Barfield, revealed during a briefing with councillors that private funding for the i360 tower had been pulled. But he said he was confident the £38m project will still go ahead. Brighton and Hove City Council said its £15m loan offer still stood. The scheme also has a £3m enterprise loan. The investors pulled their funding in the summer of 2012 but the information has only just emerged. Mr Marks, who also helped to design the London Eye, said the investors had been "very reluctant to pull out". He added: "The reasons they said had much more to do with the market and investor sentiment in their funds than the project, which is resilient and financially viable." He said he was currently in discussions with other investors and that he and his wife Julia had invested their own money into the project. Mr Marks added: "We care deeply about this project. "We believe it's iconic in scale and design and it'll raise the profile of the city. We think it'll do a lot of good things for the city, it'll create jobs, it'll bring in visitors, it'll help more people stay overnight and it'll be a fantastic thing for the city. "We will do this, this will happen." Chairman of the economic development and culture committee, councillor Geoffrey Bowden, said he had confidence in Mr Marks. But Brighton developer Mike Holland, who has previously expressed a wish to buy the nearby ruined West Pier, said the project did not have a hope of being realised. He said: "Let's be honest about it, Nelson has more chance of getting his eye back than David Marks does of finding backing for this scheme. "Let's stop talking about it, let's all stop being silly and let's get on and do something else. Let's tidy the seafront up. "We either look for somebody to come along and rebuild in the old style or new style, or whatever, or we just take the thing away and we just tidy the railings and let the traders get on." The developers believe the tower will attract up to 670,000 visitors a year.

Investors have withdrawn £15m from a project to build a 600ft (183m) viewing platform on Brighton seafront, according to the scheme's architect.

Summarize the following article: In a blog post, Steve Whitmire said he still felt "at the top of his game". He said he was "devastated to have failed in my duty to my hero" - a reference to late Muppets creator Jim Henson. Whitmire took over as Kermit's handler and voice actor after Henson died in 1990. No reason has been given for the 57-year-old puppeteer's sacking. In a statement, the Disney-owned Muppet Studios thanked Whitmore for his "tremendous contributions" and wished him well "in his future endeavours". In his post, Whitmire said he had "remained silent the last nine months in hopes that the Disney company might reverse their course". He attributed the change of casting to "two stated issues" and "concerns" raised by executives at The Muppets Studio, without elaborating further. "I feel that I am at the top of my game, and I want all of you who love the Muppets to know that I would never consider abandoning Kermit or any of the others because to do so would be to forsake the assignment entrusted to me by Jim Henson, my friend and mentor, but even more, my hero," he wrote. He said the Muppets were not "just a job, or a career, or even a passion" but "a calling, an urgent, undeniable, impossible to resist way of life". He told fans: "I am sorry if I have disappointed any of you at any point. I am devastated to have failed in my duty to my hero." Though Whitmire's open letter to his "dear friends" has been reprinted in various outlets, his original blog post no longer appears to be accessible. Whitmire has worked with the Muppets since 1978 and also provided the voice of Sesame Street's Ernie, of Bert and Ernie fame. Matt Vogel, a seasoned Muppet performer who used to assist Whitmire while he was playing Ernie, will take over as Kermit from next week. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected].

The man who has provided the voice of Kermit the Frog since 1990 has said he is "devastated" at losing the role.

Summarize the following article: The latest annual report by the German domestic intelligence agency confirms a decline in the membership of "right-wing extremist" parties over the last few years. However, it also reports a growing neo-Nazi scene, and evidence of widespread racist and anti-Muslim sentiments means that an upsurge in support for such parties cannot be ruled out. Who are the main players? Germany's biggest far-right party is the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany - The People's Union (NPD). The party, which was founded in 1964, promotes a racial kind of nationalism and calls for Germany's borders in 1937 to be reinstated. In its annual report for 2011, published on 18 July 2012, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution says the NPD "strives to overcome the current political system in Germany". However, in 2003 a government-led attempt to ban the party failed. Another player, the German People's Union, merged with the NPD in 2011. A right-wing populist party, the Republikaner, was represented in three state legislatures in the nineties but is no longer a significant force at state or national level. A more recent addition to the far-right political landscape is the anti-Muslim Pro Movement, which started in Cologne in 1996 and has spread beyond the city since 2005. The intelligence agency report says the Pro Movement's North Rhine-Westphalia branch aims to "restrict rights guaranteed by the constitution, such as religious freedom". How have they fared in recent elections? Germany's voting system is based on proportional representation but parties must obtain at least 5% of the vote in order to win any seats in state or national elections. The NPD has managed to do just that in two east German states in recent years. In Saxony it won 9.2% in 2004 and 5.6% in 2009. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern it won 7.3% in 2006 and 6.0% in 2011. Other parties, such as the Republikaner and Pro Movement parties, have scored less than 2% in recent state elections. The combined far-right vote in the 2009 federal election was just 2%. The NPD, which obtained 1.5%, achieved markedly better results in the former East Germany than in the former West Germany. Why is the NPD stronger in the east? Media commentators believe the high level of support for the NPD in parts of the east is the result of a widespread feeling of injustice combined with the presence of a significant base of loyal voters in some areas. Some analysts have also argued that the accession of East Germany to the West in 1990 was underpinned by racial ideas about the German nation. It may thus have fostered a racial sense of national identity among the new citizens, as advocated by the NPD. Why are there more neo-Nazis? Political parties are merely one manifestation of a wider far-right scene in Germany. The latest intelligence agency report records a fall in the membership of "right-wing extremist" parties from 14,200 to 7,300 between 2007 and 2011. But it notes an increase in the number of "neo-Nazis" from 4,400 to 6,000 in the same period. The intelligence agency attributes the rise to the "action-oriented nature" of the neo-Nazi scene, which it says appeals in particular to young right-wing extremists. A nail bomb attack and a series of murders carried out between 2000 and 2007 have been attributed to a neo-Nazi group which was only uncovered in November 2011. The intelligence agency warns that "comparable radicalisation processes" among other groups "cannot be ruled out" and that the number of right-wing extremists ready to use violence has gone up from 9,500 in 2010 to 9,800 in 2011. Are far-right parties doomed? The intelligence agency report records an overall fall in the number of people linked with right-wing extremism from 31,000 to 22,400 between 2007 and 2011. The main driver behind this development is the fall in the membership of far-right parties. However, a study published in 2011 by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation suggests that "widespread" racist and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe are no less common in Germany than in countries such as France, Italy or the Netherlands. There is thus a greater potential for German far-right parties to succeed at the ballot box than recent election results and party membership figures might suggest. On the other hand, there is renewed debate in Germany about the possibility of banning the NPD, and there is currently no far-right contender likely to match or surpass that party's electoral appeal in the short term. BBC Monitoring selects and translates news from radio, television, press, news agencies and the internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages. It is based in Caversham, UK, and has several bureaux abroad. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here

While far-right or right-wing populist parties have won seats in national parliaments in countries such as France, Italy and the Netherlands, no similar breakthrough has occurred in Germany despite a relatively favourable electoral system.

Summarize the following article: Sinn Féin repeated its call for a border poll on Monday after Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she will seek a new referendum on independence for her part of the UK. But Theresa May told MPs that Northern Ireland's political parties should focus on talks to restore Stormont. Nigel Dodds of the Democratic Unionist Party said a poll would be "divisive". He argued that Sinn Féin's demand for a referendum on Irish unity "as soon as possible" fell outside the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said a vote was justified because the UK's withdrawal from the EU would be "a disaster for the people of Ireland". But speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mrs May said: "What we should all be focusing on is bringing the parties together to ensure that we can continue to see the devolved administration in Northern Ireland working in the interests of the people." Mr Dodds said the prime minister had been clear that the "circumstances have not been met" for a vote on the Irish border. "The collapse of devolution by Sinn Féin has caused enough uncertainty and division in Northern Ireland without that being further compounded through a border poll," he added. Talks between the Stormont parties are continuing with a view to restoring a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive. The negotiations are taking place after the Northern Ireland Assembly election earlier this month, which saw an end to the unionist majority at Stormont. Sinn Féin now holds just one seat fewer than the DUP. The parties are halfway through the three-week period they have to form a new executive. Another election can be called if the talks fail, and ultimately power could return to the UK parliament at Westminster. Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader Colum Eastwood said it was "unfortunate" that a round table meeting involving all the parties was cancelled at the last minute. He said the decision had possibly been taken "at the behest of the DUP". He told reporters at Stormont that it would have been the first time during the current process that all the parties had met together.

It is not right to have an Irish border poll at this stage, the prime minister has said.

Summarize the following article: The DUP health, enterprise and social development ministers quit on Thursday amid the deepening political crisis. Under Stormont rules, the roles could be offered to other executive parties. But Mr Robinson said: "I don't plan to allow ministries to go to Sinn Féin and the SDLP." The crisis was sparked by the murder of a former IRA man last month. The killing of Kevin McGuigan Sr caused a political row after Northern Ireland's police chief said members of the IRA had a role in the murder, and that the organisation still existed. But he added that it was committed to politics and is not engaged in terrorism. Sinn Féin said the IRA had "gone away". But the Ulster Unionist Party said Sinn Féin's denial that the IRA existed caused a breakdown in trust and it left its government role. The DUP then resigned its ministerial posts after the party failed to secure enough support for an adjournment of the assembly. Mr Robinson told BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Politics he did not think Sinn Féin should have "any additional ministries". He said: "Why should they be rewarded for the bad behaviour that has brought around this set of circumstances?" He said there were "all sorts" of tactics that the DUP could use. But he did not specify which course of action the party would take. In one possible scenario, the DUP could re-nominate their ministers within seven days and then they could resign again. Mr Robinson himself did not technically resign as first minister, but did "step aside". Arlene Foster remains as finance minister and has become acting first minister. That means there is no early election and the Stormont executive officially remains up and running, although it is in a fragile state. Mr Robinson said: "Our objective was not to bring down the assembly and wreck the institutions. "Our objective was to ensure that we wouldn't do business as usual while the issues that were outstanding, including dealing with paramilitaries, were negotiated." The government is calling the Northern Ireland parties to talks again on Monday. Prime Minister David Cameron said: "I want to see the politicians of Northern Ireland... working out how to make these institutions work." But Mr Robinson said the talks had to "take place in the proper atmosphere" and that his party was talking to the government to see how the negotiations would be set up. "I'm hoping that we will get the right basis on which talks can take place. I'm not sure, but I hope that we can. "If we can, then I think three, four or five weeks should be more than sufficient for us to deal with all of the necessary issues."

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson has said he will not allow Northern Ireland Executive ministries left vacant by his party's resignations to go to nationalists.

Summarize the following article: Twin brothers Matt and Luke Goss performed at a sold-out O2 Arena in London on Saturday. They told fans they hoped their comeback show would be the "first of many concerts". The band, who hit number one with I Owe You Nothing, last played live exactly 28 years earlier at Wembley Stadium. And they ended their comeback show with an encore of their signature song When Will I Be Famous? But the third member of the original Bros line-up, bassist Craig Logan, did not make an appearance as he announced last year that he had no interest in returning to the stage. Addressing fans on stage, Matt said: "We've always had to push a little bit harder than everybody else in some ways but do you know why we've been able to continue to do that? "It's because of you guys and that's the only reason." He added: "We would love for this to be the first of many, many concerts." A video posted on the O2 Arena's official Twitter account shows the boyband opening the show with I Owe You Nothing. End of Twitter post by @jaimieleer Singer Matt later performed a tribute to the late George Michael by singing his hit Freedom - and drummer Luke paid his own homage to Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, by wearing the grunge band's T-shirt, three months after Cornell's death. Bros enjoyed major success during the 1980s and inspired teenage fans - famously dubbed Brosettes - to wear bottle caps on their bootlaces during the height of their fame. But Logan left the band in 1989 and the twins called it a day in 1992 after a run of 12 Top 40 hits. And many of the original Brosettes were out in force at the O2, tweeting their appreciation for the comeback show, saying it was "incredible" and "worth the wait".

Eighties boy band Bros have returned to the stage for the first time in nearly 30 years and thanked fans for supporting their comeback.

Summarize the following article: The UK government has applied for the county's new potatoes and the "Ayrshire earlies" brand to be granted Protected Geographical Indicator (PGI) status by Brussels. The proposal was put forward by a growers' group based in Girvan. If successful, Ayrshire new potatoes would join more than 70 UK food and drink products with PGI status. These include Arbroath smokies and Stornoway black pudding. Only three other types of potato in the UK, including the Jersey Royal, already have the status. In November, applications were also lodged for Dundee cake and Forfar bridies to be protected. The Ayrshire application went through a Scottish government consultation last year, without objections being lodged. The application cites evidence of commercial potato farming in Ayrshire as far back as 1793. The sandy soil and milder weather made it ideal for early sowing and early harvests, with potatoes typically getting to market within seven days of harvesting. Farmers traditionally used seaweed from Ayrshire beaches as fertiliser, and manure from local dairy farms. From 1859, they adopted growing practices learned in Jersey. The following year, the trade was helped by a rail link from Girvan to Glasgow. In 1918, records show a peak of potato farming in the county, with 11,400 acres under potatoes. The protected status application says that in 1951, the main occupation in the town of Maybole was in South Ayrshire early potatoes - planted in February, and harvested from early May until the end of July.

Ayrshire new potatoes are in line to have their identity protected under European law.

Summarize the following article: The My Life, My Death, My Choice campaign has handed in a 2,500 signature petition to the Scottish Parliament. The group claimed support for a change in the law was at an all-time high. But opponents of the bill said supporters of assisted suicide were losing the battle of public opinion. Sheila Duffy of My Life, My Death, My Choice, said: "The petition handover today demonstrates the level of support there is for the bill across Scotland. "As our campaign has progressed it has become increasingly clear that public support for a change in the law is at an all-time high and this issue is very much something that needs to be looked at closely." My Life, My Death, My Choice was launched on the back of a poll that suggested that 69% of Scots wanted the Assisted Suicide bill to become law. The group's petition in favour of the bill is the latest stage in a campaign that began at the start of the year. Ms Duffy said: "Over the last few months we have spoken to people across Scotland, people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds, from across the political spectrum, of different social and ethnic groups and of different religious beliefs. "They have all told us the same thing: they want to have this choice should they ever find themselves in this intolerable position. "We want to ensure that people are provided with appropriate information to make their own, individual, choices and, in certain limited circumstances, given assistance to end their life." But a spokesman for the umbrella group Care not Killing said that the petition showed "only a fraction of 1% of the population backs the idea - hardly a groundswell of support". He added: "Allied to this, their own recent poll showed fewer people - 4% less - support the concept now than when they launched a similar bill in 2010, the last time MSPs discussed assisted suicide. "The current law we have is clear and right. Through its blanket prohibition of assisted suicide it provides a strong disincentive to abuse and exploitation whilst allowing prosecutors and judges discretion in hard cases." The Green MSP Patrick Harvie will take the legislation forward after the public consultation finishes on Friday. A previous attempt by Ms MacDonald to pass a right-to-die bill was voted down by MSPs in 2010.

Campaigners have urged MSPs to pass the Assisted Suicide Bill which was introduced to Holyrood by the late MSP Margo Macdonald.

Summarize the following article: Mexico international Vela, 27, broke the deadlock from the penalty spot after Gabi had tripped Yuri Berchiche. Vela was then brought down in the area by Angel Correa which allowed Willian Jose to double the lead. Atletico are fourth in the table with 21 points from 11 games. Leaders Real Madrid have 24 points from 10 games and are at home to lowly Leganes on Sunday (11:00 GMT). Second-placed Barcelona, who have 22 points, are away to third-placed Sevilla on Sunday (19:45 GMT). Match ends, Real Sociedad 2, Atlético de Madrid 0. Second Half ends, Real Sociedad 2, Atlético de Madrid 0. Foul by Asier Illarramendi (Real Sociedad). Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt blocked. Sergio Canales (Real Sociedad) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Thomas Partey (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Juanmi (Real Sociedad) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Thomas Partey (Atlético de Madrid). Fernando Torres (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. David Zurutuza (Real Sociedad) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Fernando Torres (Atlético de Madrid). Substitution, Real Sociedad. Juanmi replaces Willian José. Corner, Real Sociedad. Conceded by Filipe Luis. Attempt missed. Yannick Carrasco (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the right. Attempt saved. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Thomas Partey. Foul by Willian José (Real Sociedad). Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Raúl Navas (Real Sociedad) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid). Corner, Atlético de Madrid. Conceded by Asier Illarramendi. Corner, Atlético de Madrid. Conceded by Raúl Navas. Foul by David Zurutuza (Real Sociedad). Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Offside, Atlético de Madrid. Ángel Correa tries a through ball, but Filipe Luis is caught offside. Substitution, Real Sociedad. David Concha replaces Carlos Vela. Asier Illarramendi (Real Sociedad) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Yannick Carrasco (Atlético de Madrid). Sergio Canales (Real Sociedad) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Sergio Canales (Real Sociedad). Koke (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Willian José (Real Sociedad). Thomas Partey (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Yannick Carrasco (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann. Goal! Real Sociedad 2, Atlético de Madrid 0. Willian José (Real Sociedad) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal. Penalty Real Sociedad. Carlos Vela draws a foul in the penalty area. Penalty conceded by Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) after a foul in the penalty area. Substitution, Real Sociedad. Sergio Canales replaces Xabi Prieto. Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Thomas Partey replaces Gabi. Foul by Asier Illarramendi (Real Sociedad). Gabi (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Atletico Madrid missed a chance to go top of La Liga as former Arsenal forward Carlos Vela inspired Real Sociedad to a third straight league win.

Summarize the following article: BBC London has found 94% of hospitals in the capital contain asbestos. About 1,000 people have died from mesothelioma since 2011 in London, seven of which were doctors and nurses. The Unite union and a leading lawyer in asbestos claims both say the figure is increasing, but the Health and Safety Executive said hospitals were safe. White asbestos, the type used in hospitals to protect piping, has been deemed safe as long as it is not disturbed. But Jerry Swain, acting national instructor for Unite's construction centre, and lawyer Isobel Lovett, who has dealt with asbestos cases for 17 years, have both described the number of people who are developing mesothemelioma as a "ticking time bomb". Source: Doctor Peter Szlosarek, consultant oncologist at Barts Hospital who is studying mesothemelioma "White asbestos in hospitals is still a danger - there's no safe form of asbestos," said Ms Lovett. "There's no safe level of dust to which you can be exposed. All asbestos dust, once breathed in, presents a hazard." She added that while the source of white asbestos remains in hospitals, there was always a danger that someone could inadvertently disturb it in some way and release the dangerous fibres. Mr Swain added: "It's very hard to imagine a killer being safe. Asbestos is a known killer, people are dying from it. The only safe asbestos is asbestos that's been removed. "If we're going to leave asbestos in places, we have to be aware that we are taking a conscious decision and that people will die." He said a plan was needed to eradicate it because some workers may be unaware of the dangers. Juliet Cohen, whose husband Andrew Lawson was an anaesthetist and specialised in intensive care medicine and chronic pain management, claimed he was exposed to asbestos walking through the underground tunnels linking hospital buildings at Guys and St Thomas Hospital when he trained there between 1976-82. He died in 2014, seven years after being diagnosed with mesothemelioma. "At the time there was asbestos lagging in poor repair in these underground tunnels linking hospital buildings," she said. "It means that every single person walking through was exposed on a daily basis. The risks of asbestos were well known at the time, that is something that is completely indefensible." She said her husband was contacted "on a daily basis" by doctors and nurses who were concerned about their exposure. Ms Cohen added that all the health trusts knew about the dangers of asbestos. "They simply failed to take enough action to remove the risk for people who work there," she added. The hospital said the asbestos in the basement area which Dr Lawson was exposed to was removed in the 1990s. The government has not yet responded to the BBC's requests for a comment.

The number of people who could contract cancer from asbestos poisoning in London's hospitals is a "ticking time bomb", it has been claimed.

Summarize the following article: Colin Bell, 45, of Raven Court, Ruislip, London, taught at Westcliff High School for Girls until his arrest. He also faced four charges related to indecent images of children, one of which he admitted. The Crown Prosecution Service decided not to proceed with the remaining three counts. He was given an absolute discharge at Basildon Crown Court. Mr Bell was arrested in August 2015 and in June the following year was charged with four counts related to indecent images of children and three of sexual touching of a girl under 18. More news from Essex He was acquitted of all the sexual assault charges by a jury on 31 March. Immediately after the trial he admitted one count of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child, after four indecent images were found on a DVD, a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokeswoman said. "We considered this plea and took into account remarks by the judge regarding the remaining charges and the likely sentence they would attract. "We decided to accept the guilty plea and offer no evidence on the other charges. "The judge sentenced Mr Bell to an absolute discharge," she added. Although an absolute discharge means no further action will be taken against Mr Bell, he will have a criminal record.

A former teacher at an all girls school in Essex has been acquitted of sexually touching a girl under 18 years of age.

Summarize the following article: Miyuki Harwood, 62, failed to return from a solo hike on 21 August and fellow hikers alerted authorities. Foot, helicopter and drone searches had failed to find her but she was finally located near Courtright reservoir in Fresno County on Saturday. Rescuers said she had suffered broken bones but was conscious and "very grateful" to be found. California Highway Patrol flight officer Rusty Hotchkiss told reporters: "She was really at the end of the time period when we thought she could survive." He said Ms Harwood had heard nearby rescuers on Saturday morning. "She heard them talking, she heard voices and she grabbed a whistle she had with her. That alerted the rescuers to find her," Mr Hotchkiss said. He said she had crawled for two days down to the creek. Ms Harwood, from Orangevale in California's Sacramento County, has been taken to hospital for treatment. She had reportedly had no food and had been drinking water from the creek using a water filter. The rescue effort had been hampered by smoke from a wildfire in the Kings Canyon National Park.

An American hiker missing for nine days in California's rugged Sierra Nevada has been found alive.

Summarize the following article: During the raids on 7-8 May and 8-9 May 1941 more than 400 people were killed in the East Yorkshire port. In all 1,200 were killed, 3,000 injured and more than 150,000 were made homeless by German raids on the city. A service has been held at Holy Trinity Church and a book about the attacks has been launched. The book written by a local author, mixes fact and fiction with any profits going to the Hull People's Memorial fund. Hull suffered numerous air raids because it was a port, easy to find, and German aircraft flew over it to reach other targets such as Sheffield, Liverpool or Manchester. Alan Bingham, of the Hull People's Memorial, said: "I think it is extremely important to remember the people who lived through the blitz and who survived. "They have lived through the nightmares for the rest of their lives. Some of the sights they have seen must have been truly horrendous." Source: A North-East Coast Town - T Geraghty The Rev Canon Dr Neal Barnes, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, said: "The city was really traumatised and we wanted to help the people to remember." The service in the church included popular songs from WW2 to "get into the mood that helped Hull get through those dark days", he added. Other events and exhibitions to mark the blitz are being held over the weekend.

The heaviest bombing raids on Hull during World War Two are being commemorated in a series of events in the city.

Summarize the following article: On Wednesday, the UUP announced the names of two new MLAs, Adrian Cochrane-Watson and Neil Somerville. They are replacing the party's two new MPs, Danny Kinahan and Tom Elliott. On Thursday night, the SDLP will pick a replacement MLA for its party leader. Dr Alasdair McDonnell is resigning from the assembly on Sunday to concentrate on his role as an MP. It is thought the Belfast councillor Claire Hanna will get his job as a South Belfast MLA. Stormont's co-option system was introduced because holding a by-election could change the party political balance within a six-member constituency. That would happen if an MLA belonging to a smaller party within a particular constituency stepped down, and a subsequent by-election was won by the dominant party within that seat. The system also avoids the expense of by-elections. Current co-optees include Sinn Féin's Rosaleen McCorley, Chris Hazzard, Bronwyn McGahan, Maeve McLaughlin and Ian Milne. The party also used the system to bring Megan Fearon, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Declan McAleer, Conor Murphy and Alex Maskey to the assembly. The SDLP have co-opted Sean Rogers and Fearghal McKinney, the DUP have done the same with Gary Middleton, while the late independent MLA David McClarty was succeeded by Clare Sugden. Sometimes co-opted MLAs are referred to as unelected politicians, but that is now becoming less straightforward. Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy was elected as an MLA before handing his seat over to Megan Fearon. Now he has been co-opted back in to the assembly to succeed Mickey Brady, who succeeded him as Newry and Armagh MP. Similarly, Alex Maskey was originally elected in South Belfast, but now sits as a co-opted West Belfast MLA. When Willie Hay, now Lord Hay, stepped down as an MLA and Stormont speaker, the DUP first replaced him with Maurice Devenney. But shortly afterwards, they had to make a double co-option, with Gary Middleton stepping in to Mr Devenney's shoes.

Once the new Ulster Unionist and SDLP MLAs take their places in the Stormont chamber, 17 of the 108 MLAs will have benefited from the co-option process, which avoids the need to hold by-elections.

Summarize the following article: He was a driving force behind creating the European Central Bank and the single currency. Mr Tietmeyer ran Germany's central bank from 1993 until his retirement in 1999. He was a staunch proponent of keeping prices and currencies stable, as well as safeguarding the independence of central banks from political interference. "Hans Tietmeyer was an outstanding president, whose actions always followed clear and consistent lines aimed at maintaining monetary stability," Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann said in a statement. Mr Tietmeyer's tough stance on the economy made him a target of the leftwing extremist Red Army Faction, which claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on him in 1988. He survived the attack after the assailant's gun jammed. Born on August 18, 1931, Mr Tietmeyer was one of eleven children and grew up in the small town of Metelen. A devout Catholic, he once considered entering the priesthood, before going on to earn a doctorate in economics and social science. Mr Tietmeyer began his career as a junior official in the German economics ministry and rose through the ranks to become deputy finance minister under former chancellor Helmut Kohl. He joined the Bundesbank executive board in 1990 and ran it during a critical period following German reunification. Mr Tietmeyer notably opposed the German government in 1997 over its plans to revalue the country's gold reserves to plug a budget shortfall. The way he ran the Bundesbank and his approach to budgetary discipline influenced the model for the ECB, which sets limits for government deficits. "Germany and Europe have much to thank Hans Tietmeyer for," former ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet once said in a speech. "He was resolute in ensuring that the euro would be a stable currency."

A key architect of the euro and a former Bundesbank president, Hans Tietmeyer, has died aged 85.

Summarize the following article: Media playback is not supported on this device But few of those tales have been more remarkable than that of Brighton & Hove Albion, whose promotion to the top flight was confirmed with victory over Wigan on Monday. BBC Sport speaks to pundits, players and manager Chris Hughton about the Premier League newcomers who, just 20 years ago, were battling to stay in the Football League. It took until the very last day of the 1996-97 season before Brighton could breathe easy, as a 1-1 draw with Hereford secured their league status. Despite the result, Brighton's former owners went ahead with the sale of their old Goldstone Ground, leaving the club to share Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium for two seasons. The club then moved back to Brighton, playing at the Withdean Stadium - a site not originally built for football - before finally switching to their current Amex Stadium home in 2011 under the ownership of Tony Bloom. "What happened on Monday is just the sensational fulfilment of so many people's dreams," said BBC pundit Mark Clemmit. "The one name I keep thinking about is Dick Knight, who sort of galvanised everybody in 1997, because don't forget not only did they nearly go out of the league, but they lost their stadium then as well. "The owners at the time kind of pulled it from under the club, and have never ever been forgiven by the supporters. "It was Dick Knight who picked it up by the bootstraps, plus several others that accompanied him - but he was the majority shareholder." Brighton had looked destined to complete their journey from bottom to top 12 months ago, but a 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough on the final day of the regular season meant they missed out on goal difference. Further disappointment was to follow, as their hopes of reaching the Premier League were dashed with a 3-1 aggregate loss to Sheffield Wednesday in the play-off semi-finals. It was not an unfamiliar feeling for Seagulls fans, who had suffered defeat at the same stage in both 2013 and 2014. "I'm incredibly proud of the way they've bounced back - but there are no surprises," Hughton, 58, told BBC Sussex. "We've got a group of lads that are capable of doing it, but being capable of doing it and doing it are two different things. "They've been good all season. They've bounced back, they've shown a really good determination and a real desire to want to win as many games as possible." Brighton captain Bruno added: "It's been five years now for me and it's been hard because we were really close to getting promoted for three seasons. "Last season was tough for us and we were really close - but this season we've been outstanding." Hughton is no stranger to the Premier League, having guided Newcastle to Championship promotion in 2010, then led Norwich to an 11th-place finish in the top flight in the 2012-13 season. The former Republic of Ireland defender has turned Brighton into one of the defensively strongest sides in the Championship since taking over in December 2014, keeping 47 clean sheets in 111 league games in charge. "When you look at where Chris has been, he's done really well everywhere he's gone," said former Republic team-mate pundit Mark Lawrenson, now a BBC pundit. "Because he's quiet, people sort of assume that he's a nice bloke and that people can ride roughshod over him - but you can't. "There's a real steely determination in there and I think as he's gone from job to job he's embraced the way football's changed." Hughton's success comes despite only taking his first managerial role in 2009, when he replaced Alan Shearer as Newcastle boss. "I think a lot of people, for a long time, had him marked down as an assistant or a coach," added Clemmit. "He's already won one title with Newcastle United, he's got another team promoted, and then in his other two full seasons in the Championship he took Birmingham to the play-offs and he took Brighton to the play-offs. "Even during the celebrations yesterday, you could see he was containing it. He was modest enough not to get involved in the players' celebrations, one eye on getting the title over the line. "There'd be some justice as well in that, wouldn't there? Norwich, one of the teams that dismissed him, that didn't see the merits of letting him have a proper long-term go, is where he could secure the title on Friday." The bond Hughton has helped to create at Brighton this year has been tested by adversity off the field. In November, French winger Anthony Knockaert's father died, prompting at least 10 of his team-mates and Hughton to travel to France to offer support at the funeral. The 25-year-old has responded in sterling fashion on the field, contributing 15 goals on his way to being crowned Championship Player of the Year. "It has been the best thing I have seen in football, to come all the way from England to the funeral," he said in December. "It means a lot for me and my family and I will never forget it." Brighton have also dealt with the absence of defender Connor Goldson, who had heart surgery after routine cardiac screening discovered a defect in December. "Obviously there have been things the whole season that have brought us even closer together, but we're a close group anyway no matter what happens," the 24-year-old told BBC Sussex. "That's why we're always here for each other. Obviously things happen in life, and what happened with Anthony's dad was a sad moment for him. "With me this year, obviously I wasn't needed, but we all pulled together, we're all a team. "We're all a team of friends and that's what gets us to where we are." While securing the Championship title with victory at Carrow Road on Friday is the immediate aim, Hughton and Bloom can now start preparing for life in the top tier. While some teams might look to splash the cash in pursuit of Premier League survival, Hughton appears to favour a more cautious approach. "The only way to do it is to recruit sensibly, to not put the club in a position where you're going well above your means," he told BBC Radio 5 live. "There is a huge gap between what you need to pay for players in the Championship and the fees that are demanded for Premier League players. "What we've got to do is to try to make sure that we get that balance right." Now, only four months from starting their Premier League campaign, 20 years on from being on the brink of disaster, where do the club go from here? "The great thing for them is that because of the new training ground, and because of the actual ground, they are ready and set up for the Premier League," said Lawrenson, a former Brighton player. "So if they can just survive, in inverted commas, that first season in the Premier League, I do think they're a club that will push on from there."

The story of a team rising from the bottom tier of England's Football League to the top is an increasingly familiar one, with Hull, Swansea and Bournemouth among the most recent examples.

Summarize the following article: The push will include smartcards that monitor attendance and offer incentives for families to send their daughters to school. It will also deploy satellite broadband to improve connectivity in rural areas. Putting girls through school is increasingly seen as one of the best long-term ways to end poverty. International Development Minister Nick Hurd said: "It is only through making use of the latest technological innovations that we will reach every girl. "Already in Kenya, thanks to UK-funded attendance monitoring software, satellite broadband connectivity and interactive learning platforms, we have seen attendance increase by 15% in schools we work with." The iMlango programme is currently working in more than 200 schools in Kenya and includes: The money will be mainly spent in sub-Saharan Africa in countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria, Malawi and Rwanda but will also fund work in Afghanistan, Myanmar, also known as Burma, and Nepal. The investment was announced at the first Girls' Education Forum in London. Julia Gillard, chair of the charity Global Partnership for Education, said: "Investing in girls and women isn't just morally right, it is essential for the development of families, communities and countries. "When we educate girls, we see reduced child deaths, healthier children and mothers, fewer child marriages and faster economic growth." It is estimated that 63 million girls around the world are out of school, with over half of these in sub-Saharan Africa.

The UK's Department for International Development has announced £100m of funding to help 175,000 of the world's poorest girls get an education.

Summarize the following article: With one last chance to make a pitch to the American public that he should be trusted with the presidency, the Republican nominee had to make efforts to expand his base of support. He had to find a way to distance himself from the allegation that he has a history of sexual harassment. He had to position himself as the change candidate - just days after a Fox poll showed that Hillary Clinton, whose party has held the presidency for eight years, was beating him on the question of who would "change the country for the better". Instead, after roughly half an hour of something resembling an actual policy debate about the Supreme Court, gun rights, abortion and even immigration, the old Donald Trump - the one who constantly interrupted his opponent, sparred with the moderator and lashed out at enemies real and perceived - emerged. He called Mrs Clinton a liar and a "nasty woman". He said the women accusing him of sexual harassment bordering on assault were either attention-seekers or Clinton campaign stooges. He said the media were "poisoning the minds" of the public. And, most notably, he refused to say whether he would accept the results of the election if he loses. Mrs Clinton had her own moments where she was put on the defensive - on her emails, on the Clinton Foundation and on embarrassing details revealed in the Wikileaks hack. The difference, however, is that Mrs Clinton largely kept her poise and successfully changed the topic back to subjects where she was more comfortable. It was, in fact, a master class in parry-and-strike debate strategy. The key takeaway from this debate, however - the headline that Americans will wake up to read in the morning - will certainly be Mr Trump's refusal to back way from his "rigged" election claims. That was what Mr Trump wanted to say, but it isn't something the American people - or American democracy - needed to hear. Mrs Clinton's skill at deflecting attacks and baiting Mr Trump into unhelpful answers first was on display when moderator Chris Wallace brought up a line from one of her Wall Street speeches - revealed in the Wikileaks hack - that she endorsed a hemispheric free-trade and open-immigration zone. After saying she was only talking about an open energy market - an assertion that seems somewhat questionable - she tried to turn the question into a discussion of whether Mr Trump would denounce the Russian government, which US officials have said is behind the cyber-attack. Mr Trump actually called Mrs Clinton out on her attempted "great pivot" - but then he went on to get bogged down on the Russian issue. He said he'd never met Mr Putin (although he boasted during a primary debate that he had talked with him in a television green room), and said that Mrs Clinton was a liar and the real Russian "puppet". Oh, and this all came up when the debate topic was supposed to be immigration. For more analysis, follow Anthony on Twitter and Facebook Mrs Clinton's next chance to pull a rhetorical switch-a-roo came during the economic portion of the debate. After a discussion of their tax proposals - and a predictable exchange of allegations over who's cutting and who's raising them too much - Mr Trump went after Mrs Clinton on her past support of trade deals. When she waffled a bit, he tried to tag her with a line he used in an earlier debate with some success. Why didn't Mrs Clinton enact her economic reforms over her 30 years in the public sphere? Mr Trump asked. "You were very much involved in every aspect of this country," he said. "And you do have experience. I say the one thing you have over me is experience, but it's bad experience, because what you've done has turned out badly." The problem with reusing attack lines is that sometimes your opponent prepares a defence - and Mrs Clinton had a scathing response ready to fly. She said that while she was defending children's rights in the 1970s, Mr Trump was defending himself against charges he engaged in housing discrimination against African-Americans. When Mrs Clinton was speaking out for women's rights as first lady in the 1990s, Mr Trump was taunting a beauty contest winner about her weight. And when she was in the White House situation room watching the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, Mr Trump was hosting a television reality show. "I'm happy to compare my 30 years of experience, what I've done for this country, trying to help in every way I could, especially kids and families get ahead and stay ahead, with your 30 years," she said. "I'll let the American people make that decision." It was a scripted set-piece, yes, but it drew blood. Quick on the heels of the exchange about experience came the question Mr Trump had to expect - but didn't appear ready for. What did he think of all the women who had come forward since the last debate to allege that, when it came to sexual harassment, Mr Trump's actions matched his candid words in that recently revealed recording? The Republican nominee's response was that the women were either attention-seekers or Clinton campaign stooges and that the allegations have been "largely debunked" - which, when you think about it, isn't exactly a blanket denial. In the last debate, Mrs Clinton appeared to hold back a bit in her condemnation of Mr Trump on the topic. This time - perhaps inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama's well-received speech condemning Mr Trump last week - was much sharper. "Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger," she said. "He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like. So we now know what Donald thinks and what he says and how he acts toward women. That's who Donald is." Mr Trump's response, that no one respects women more than he does, was met by laughter in the debate hall and the nearby media hall. Mrs Clinton brushed off his efforts to turn the topic to her private email server. He may have lost this election even without the live-mic revelation two weeks ago, but it's becoming increasingly clear his campaign has been irreparably wounded by it. During the presidential "fitness" portion of the debate, Wallace had some pointed questions for Mrs Clinton, as well. He asked her to defend the Clinton Foundation against allegations it was a pay-to-play organisation that granted insider access to the state department in exchange for big-money donations. Mrs Clinton responded by defending the foundation's actions - noting its high ratings from non-profit watchdogs and its global health efforts. Mr Trump called it a "criminal enterprise" - but then Mrs Clinton was able to push the conversation to Mr Trump's foundation, which has had its own share of controversies. She noted that Mr Trump had used foundation money to purchase a six-foot portrait of himself. "Who does that?" she asked. Mr Trump tried to defend himself, but Wallace wouldn't let him off the hook, asking him why he used charitable money to settle a fine levied on his Florida resort. The Republican's response was only that the money had gone to charity. An exchange on the Clinton Foundation could have been - perhaps should have been - a winning moment for Mr Trump. Instead, it was another opportunity for Mrs Clinton to knock him off his stride. Mr Trump was already largely sunk at this point in the debate. Mrs Clinton had managed to dodge his most dangerous attacks and goaded him into the kind of badgering behaviour that had garnered him negative reviews after the first debate. He needed a clear victory and, at the absolute best, he had fought Mrs Clinton to a draw. Then he was asked whether, despite his talk of rigged voting at his rallies this week, he'd follow his running mate's lead and pledge to accept the results of the election. "I will look at it at the time," he said. "I'm not looking at anything now." It was a comment that will launch a thousand headlines and dominate discussion in the days ahead. It was also just the start of a full-spectrum tirade by Mr Trump against a media that "poisoned the minds of voters" and Mrs Clinton, who he said should have been prohibited from even running for the presidency. Mrs Clinton's response was that the Republican's remarks were "horrifying". She then deftly expanded her response to paint Mr Trump as a man who cries "rigged" whenever he faces a situation he doesn't like - whether it's the FBI decision not to prosecute her for her email server, his loss in the Iowa caucuses earlier this year, the lawsuit against his eponymous for-profit university or even his reality TV show's defeat at the Emmy Awards. ("Should have gotten it," Mr Trump piped in.) "He's talking down our democracy," she concluded. "And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position." Talking to Republican officeholders in the media spin room after the debate, their discomfort with Mr Trump's statement was palpable. Some explained it away as a tongue-in-cheek joke. Others said it was simply Mr Trump not wanting to consider defeat before Election Day. The reality, however, is Republican politicians owe their positions - past, current and future - to the people's vote, and they rely on the legitimacy granted by opponents who concede when defeated. Mr Trump has called American democracy into question - and when he shakes that particular tree, it's impossible to determine who might get crushed by falling branches. Polls suggest Mrs Clinton is ahead nationally and in key battleground states. Who is ahead in the polls? 48% Hillary Clinton 44% Donald Trump Last updated November 8, 2016

This may have been the debate Donald Trump wanted, but it wasn't the one he needed.

Summarize the following article: The grenade was found during the night near buildings housing 170 people in the town of Villingen-Schwenningen. Its pin had been pulled out but the explosives failed to detonate. Justice Minister Heiko Maas said it was a new level of "hate and violence". There were 1,005 attacks on refugee homes in Germany last year - five times more than in 2014. Some of the migrants at the Villingen-Schwenningen hostel were evacuated while bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion. Police spokesman Thomas Kalmbach said it was "just luck" no-one was hurt. Officers said the grenade still contained its explosives but it was not clear whether it still had a detonator. Mr Maas said he was summoning his regional state counterparts to crack down on hate crime. "Grenades are already flying towards refugee homes. We can't wait until there is someone dead," he said. News of the grenade incident came as new figures showed five times more attacks were carried out on migrant hostels in Germany last year than in 2014. The total for 2015 was 1,005, compared with 199 in 2014, the police report said. Far-right activists are suspected in 90% of the cases. Last year a record 1.1 million people sought asylum in Germany - many from war-torn Syria. Many local authorities have struggled to house them. Germany is expanding its list of safe countries of return, hoping to curb the influx. The governing coalition plans to declare Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia safe countries of origin, making it easier to send migrants back, said Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel. Last year Germany did the same for several Balkan nations - including Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo - to cut the large numbers of migrants claiming asylum. Very few of their applications are granted. The police say the biggest rise in attacks on migrant hostels last year was registered in the mainly industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia. State Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger said "investigators have noticed a marked increase in aggressive language" towards migrants on the internet. Most of the thousands of migrants arriving daily on Greek islands hope to get asylum in Germany. Migrant crisis: Who does the EU send back? A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.

Unidentified attackers threw a live hand grenade at a migrant hostel in south-western Germany, officials say.

Summarize the following article: The Galway man served as GAA president between 1997 and 2000 after winning an All-Ireland senior hurling medal and an All-Star during his playing days. McDonagh helped Galway win the National League title in 1975 and earned his All-Star a year later. After captaining Galway during their All-Ireland final defeat in 1979, he won a Liam McCarthy medal a year later. McDonagh didn't start in the 1980 All-Ireland Final win over Limerick but he memorably led the rendition of the West's Awake on the steps of the Hogan Stand following Galway's emotional triumph. His GAA presidency saw him leading the calls for the removal of the controversial Rule 21, which barred members of the British security forces from playing gaelic games. The rule was eventually abolished a year after his presidential term concluded. Current GAA president Aogan O Fearghail led the association in paying tribute to the Galway man. "It was with great sadness that we learnt of Joe's passing last night and I know that sentiment is shared by so many throughout the wider GAA family," said the GAA president. "Joe was held in extremely high regard and his company was enjoyed by so many over the course of his long involvement with the GAA in so many different capacities, not least as president from 1997 to 2000. "He and his tenure left an indelible mark on Cumann Lúthchleas Gael and his passion for our games and activities was only matched by his passion for the Irish language." McDonagh's passing comes two weeks after the death of his predecessor as GAA president Jack Boothman.

Former GAA president and ex-Galway hurling star Joe McDonagh has died after a short illness at the age of 63.

Summarize the following article: The standards commissioner received nine complaints in the past year, down from 14 in 2015-16 and 53 in 2014-15. But Douglas Bain said the drop was "due in a very large part to lack of public confidence in the complaints process and in the Assembly". "No right-minded person could seriously believe" it was because politicians were "behaving better", he added. Mr Bain, the first Northern Ireland Assembly Commissioner for Standards, told the BBC there were a number of a problems with the complaints process at Stormont. He said the system was not transparent and he was forbidden by law from revealing details of the complaints, even if admissible. The dominance of party politics was also an issue at Stormont when it came to complaints, he said. "In every other jurisdiction in the UK which have equivalent processes, they leave their party politics at the door of the committee room," he said. "That simply doesn't happen here". The commissioner's main function is to investigate complaints that Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) have broken the code of conduct and to report his findings to the committee on standards and privileges. Mr Bain said the controversial petition of concern - a Stormont mechanism intended to protect one community from legislation that would favour another but which has been used as an effective veto - had "been used in relation to conduct matters". "Even when they (the committee) agree a finding by me that the MLA has breached the provisions of the code of the conduct, it is up to the Assembly to decide on any sanctions," said Mr Bain. "On two occasions, a petition of concern has been put down, which has prevented the imposition of any sanction on someone who has been found by an independent investigation and the committee to have breached the provisions of the code. "The public simply cannot have confidence in a system that operates like that." He said little or no action had been taken on last year's recommendations and he called for urgent action on these main issues: The latest figures are contained in the standards watchdog's annual report - Mr Bain's fifth and final review of his work. The Office of Commissioner was established in 2012 and his five-year term in office ends in September. When asked if he would recommend his job to anyone, he said it was "interesting" and "challenging". "But it is frustrating when the public are prevented from getting the system they are entitled to by the way some parties react to the issues," he added.

The number of complaints about the conduct of Assembly members has fallen to its lowest level in five years.

Summarize the following article: The firm is India's largest overseas corporate investor, but has been caught up in a five-year tax battle. The issue relates to Vodafone's 2007 takeover of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa's Indian mobile unit. Vodafone said a move to retrospectively tax overseas mergers would go against court decisions and legal protections given to investors. As a result it said it had served the Indian government with a "notice of dispute" in a first step toward international arbitration. And it argued that the new Indian tax legislation was an attempt to bypass a ruling by the country's Supreme Court in January that Vodafone was not liable for taxes and penalties of up to $4.4bn (£2.8bn) To retroactively tax overseas mergers would "countermand" the court verdict and "violates international legal protections granted to Vodafone and other international investors in India", Vodafone added in a statement. The notice was served by Vodafone's Dutch subsidiary.

Vodafone has threatened to take India to international arbitration over planned retrospective tax legislation.

Summarize the following article: The Ibrox side lost 2-1 on aggregate to crash out in the first qualifier. Their part-time opponents, who are ranked 440th by Uefa, secured their first win in European competition. "We need to apologise to our fans because they gave us support and loyalty, they don't deserve this," Caixinha told Rangers TV. "I assume all the responsibility." Kenny Miller's winner in the first leg in Glasgow had put Rangers 1-0 ahead going into the match in Luxembourg. And up until Tuesday night Progres, who finished fourth in Luxembourg's top flight last season [21 points behind champions F91 Dudelange], had not won any of their 13 games in Europe. But it is the side who are only two places below Prestatyn Town of Wales in Uefa rankings - and from a town with a population of 3,000 - who progress to the second qualifying round. Progres had chances before Emmanuel Francoise netted at the near post in the second half, scoring his side's second ever goal in European competition. The second came from a Sebastian Thill free-kick that evaded everyone in the box and curled in at the far post. At 0-0, Rangers had hit the bar through Niko Kranjcar's header and at 2-0 Josh Windass and Kenny Miller also saw efforts come back off the bar. The defeat goes down as one of the worst results in the club's history. "We could not do what we were here to do - win the game," Caixinha added. "It's something that happens once in a lifetime - it happens to us today. "For the second goal we knew we could not commit unnecessary fouls and we did, but as I said, I assume all the responsibility and the disappointment." The Portuguese manager, who has overseen a significant summer rebuild added: "I'm always a positive guy, I never give up. It's a strong moment that we are living and we need to face it, we need all our character, personality and strength. "I believe in this process, I believe in the players and the work we are going to do. "It's a strong lesson that we need to learn from now on, and we need to focus on the positives regarding the future. We need to keep working harder and looking forward." For Progres, this was the greatest result in their history. Head coach Paolo Amodio told BBC Scotland: "It's a great event, amazing. I cannot believe that we won 2-0 against Rangers. It's not possible. "We made history and I can't believe it. It's incredible."

Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha apologised to the club's fans for his side's Europa League embarrassment by Luxembourg's Progres Niederkorn.

Summarize the following article: 28 December 2016 Last updated at 17:00 GMT A tribute to his parents, the film features in the BBC One Christmas schedule and is directed by Essex-based animator Roger Mainwood. Mr Mainwood, who lives near Colchester, also worked as an animator on The Snowman, Where the Wind Blows and Father Christmas. "As director it's a bit like conducting an orchestra... to bring the best out of everyone," he said. "We all felt it was such an important thing to get right as it's such a personal story for Raymond, we just couldn't mess up on this one." Ethel & Ernest is on BBC One at 19:30 on 28 December and can be viewed on the iPlayer afterwards.

Award-winning actors Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn star in Ethel & Ernest, an animated film based on Raymond Briggs' 1998 graphic-novel.

Summarize the following article: Many of those who died were killed by roadside bombs or in clashes with insurgents while on patrol. Others died as a result of accidents, so-called "friendly fire" strikes, suicide or natural causes. The six-year British military mission came to an end in April 2009. The names and details of all the servicemen and women who died are included in the page below. Tap here for the interactive facewall Causes of death classed as "Other" include servicemen who died from natural causes, heatstroke, as a result of an accident and a soldier killed while clearing cluster bombs. Photos courtesy of the Ministry of Defence

The UK lost 179 servicemen and women during the campaign that followed the invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003.

Summarize the following article: The Bombay High Court ruled in favour of Shell's Indian unit, which was accused of under-pricing shares transferred to its parent firm by $2.5bn (£1.6bn) in February 2013. Officials wanted tax on the interest that the firm would have earned. But the Indian court ruled that the stock transfers were not taxable. [The tax department] "clearly exceeded its jurisdiction", said Shell's India lawyer Mukesh Butani in a statement, referring to the country's share transfer provisions, which exempt taxation. The ruling is a significant victory for Shell and other international companies operating in Asia's third largest economy, that have been targeted in tax disputes. A series of high-profile tax claims on big international firms recently including IBM, Nokia Oyi, HSBC and AT&T has put negative attention on India's tax authorities and dented the country's reputation as a destination for foreign investment. "This is a positive outcome which should provide a further boost to the Indian government's initiatives to improve the country's investment climate," Shell's Indian unit said in a statement on Wednesday. In October, an Indian court also ruled in favour of the biggest foreign corporate investor in India, Vodafone, which was involved in a similar transfer pricing battle with a local tax department. Forget the complexities of this case and look at the bigger picture. Multinationals in India often complain that tax authorities seem out to get them with rulings that are - at best - unpredictable. And that has done nothing to help India's reputation as a friendly place for foreign firms at a time when it desperately needs overseas investment - both for expertise in key industries and the cash. Narendra Modi's new government has pledged to end the "tax terrorism" that is scaring companies away. The courts are independent of the government and this case dates back years. But, this Shell victory, on the back of a similar win by Vodafone, will be keenly watched by dozens of other multinationals involved in similar battles, including HSBC and AT&T.

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has won a long-running court battle against Indian authorities over a tax dispute involving billions of dollars.

Summarize the following article: Starting on 26 January, Timeline will be broadcast live between 19:30 and 20:00 each Thursday on BBC Two Scotland. It will be jointly presented by the BBC's Glenn Campbell and Shereen Nanjiani. The head of news at BBC Scotland, Gary Smith, said Timeline would be "the weekly centrepiece of a new engagement with our audience". He added that the public would help shape the agenda of the programme which is to have a distinctive online and social media presence. Explaining the choice of programme name, Mr Smith said: "A timeline is our go-to for information, for news, for what we care about. "It's how we find out what's interesting and relevant to our lives. "A timeline connects people. It brings them together to share stories, experience and opinions. It connects young and old, the ordinary that can become exceptional. "Timeline is a programme that will do just that."

BBC Scotland has announced details of a new weekly current affairs programme.

Summarize the following article: Rain meant play began at 16:00 BST, with the visitors 62-3 and trailing the hosts' first-innings total by 274 runs. Tim Murtagh quickly removed Liam Dawson, with the Hampshire batsman caught at gully by Sam Robson for 23. The away side edged to 100-4 with Jimmy Adams 47 not out, before bad light brought play to an end at 17:05 BST.

Middlesex's push for victory against Hampshire was dented as poor weather meant just 17 overs were bowled on day three at Merchant Taylors' School.

Summarize the following article: Lee Fowler's close-range finish and a penalty from Connor Jennings gave Wrexham a commanding 2-0 half-time advantage. Kayden Jackson hit the post as Wrexham continued to press after the break but were unable to add to their lead. Wrexham are now sixth in the table and only behind Gateshead, in the final play-off spot, by two points. Manager Gary Mills told BBC Radio Wales: "We've played well today and in the second half I thought we were outsanding. "It was an excellent performance. It's never easy coming here, we know that, and I think it's the first time I've won here actually and it feels good."

Wrexham beat Welling to move within touching distance of the National League play-offs.

Summarize the following article: The 18-month-old girl fell from a window on Ryland House in Great Hampton Row in Hockley, Birmingham, on Monday. "Unfortunately, it quickly became apparent that nothing could be done to save her," said West Midlands Ambulance Service. The death is being treated as unexplained and a post-mortem examination is due to take place, said West Midlands Police. Latest updates and reaction Birmingham City Council confirmed the tower block is owned by the authority and the girl was not known to social services. A spokesman declined to comment further while police investigate. A shop owner, who wanted to remain anonymous, said he heard screaming and at first thought it was a fight, until he came out and learnt of the tragedy. "People are very, very sad - they are feeling it very bad. I don't know the family, they might have been new to the area," he said. He described the area as a mix of Jamaican and Somali communities and added they were "close" and had "a good relationship with each other". Hockley is a district north-west of the city centre with a number of high-rise flats.

A toddler has died after falling from the seventh floor of a block of flats.

Summarize the following article: Five-month-old twins and their 17-month-old brother were airlifted to Cork University Hospital on Tuesday evening. The twins, a boy and a girl, are suffering from moderate burns, their brother has less serious injuries. Their burns were sustained when a petrol canister accidentally exploded at about 18:30 BST. The canister was brought into the family home on Tuesday evening and Gardaí are investigating the cause of the fire. Police and paramedics treated the children at the scene at the family home in Drinagh, near Drimoleague. The Shannon coast guard helicopter later airlifted the children, accompanied by their parents, to hospital in Cork touching down at about 19:50 BST. The siblings are understood to have injuries to their bodies. One of the twins is being treated in the hospital's intensive care unit. All three children are expected to make a full recovery.

Three young children are being treated for burns in Cork after a petrol canister exploded in their home.

Summarize the following article: The body of Kelda Henderson, 36, was recovered at a Fife quarry where she had failed to surface. Emergency services were alerted to the incident at Prestonhill Quarry in Inverkeithing at about 21:20 on Sunday. Her body was recovered at 10:30 on Monday. The head teacher of George Heriot's in Edinburgh paid tribute to the mother-of-one. Cameron Wyllie, the school's principal, in a letter to parents, said: "Kelda was an immensely talented, compassionate and vibrant person who loved teaching drama, and who has inspired a love of her subject in many young people over the years. "Those of us at school are very shocked. I know you will all include her son Josh, and her parents, in your thoughts." Police inquiries are currently ongoing to confirm the full circumstances surrounding the incident. Insp Ian Stephen, of Police Scotland, said: "This is a tragic incident and our thoughts are with Kelda's family and friends as they come to terms with this terrible loss. "We are supporting Kelda's family at this time through specially-trained officers. "Inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances surrounding this incident. I would like to thank the officers, public and partner agencies who assisted with our search." In August 2014, Cameron Lancaster, 18, from Burntisland, died at the same quarry while John McKay, 18, from Kirkcaldy, also lost his life there in June 2015. Last August, a diving training club - Forth Diver Training - was launched at the site by two ex-forces diving instructors to provide diver training courses. The charity project was formed after the diving community, who have used the site for many years, was invited to work alongside Fife Council and the emergency services to look at ways of improving water safety awareness.

A woman who was killed during a diving accident was an Edinburgh school drama teacher.

Summarize the following article: The language is no doubt typical of an increasingly partisan media in India and Pakistan these days, but many believe there is a ring of truth to it. India on Thursday announced it had carried out "surgical strikes" on militants' "launching pads" on the Pakistani side of the disputed region of Kashmir, inflicting "significant casualties". Viewpoint: Border 'strikes' will not trigger war Military officials told Indian media that their troops had crossed into the Pakistan-controlled side of Kashmir and carried out strikes. The announcement sent alarm bells ringing not only through the two nuclear-armed neighbours, but also the rest of the world. The so-called "surgical strikes" on the Pakistan-controlled side of Kashmir seemed to take the conflict to an unprecedented level - since no cross-border air or ground action has taken place in the region since the 1999 Kargil war. Pakistan's military has rubbished India's claim, saying all that happened was the usual cross-border fire involving mortars and small arms in which two Pakistani soldiers were killed. Given that the Pakistani authorities have an interest in controlling the flow of "unwanted" information coming out of the region, the BBC sought to verify details by speaking to local contacts in areas said to have been hit by the conflict. All the areas were along the Line of Control (LoC) dividing the Indian and Pakistani controlled sides of Kashmir. A police officer in the Poonch region told the BBC's Aurangzeb Jarral that Indian artillery targeted some Pakistani military posts across the Buttal region, and two Pakistani soldiers were killed. In the Bhimber, Leepa and Neelum valley regions, several eyewitnesses reported cross-border shelling - but, crucially, none said they saw any aerial or ground incursions by Indian troops. That is not to say people weren't worried. Of all the affected areas, Neelum valley was the most tense. It is a crescent shaped, thin, long valley hemmed in by mountains on both sides - and nearly all of it is exposed to potential firing from the Indian side. The local administration ordered the schools and markets in some areas to close for the day, and traffic on the main road connecting the valley to the rest of the country was regulated - because most parts of the road lie within striking range of Indian guns. But the Indian fire did not hit either the road or the villages and towns. Instead, their fire was mostly directed at the Pakistani posts and some militant camps - especially one at Dodhanyal - where infiltration from the Pakistani side has continued in recent months, locals said. Similar camps in Leepa valley and in the Samahni area of Bhimber were also hit. But some of the camps were unmanned at the time of firing. The only incident of border incursion by Indians was reported by locals in Goi area of Tatta Pani in Kotli region, which straddles the LoC, on Thursday afternoon, It involved a lone Indian soldier who apparently strayed into a Pakistani village and was arrested. A witness from the area told the BBC a "panicked" Indian soldier entered a house to seek shelter. The residents of the house informed a Pakistani post nearby who raided the house and captured the soldier. He was wearing Indian army uniform, and was carrying a shoulder bag, locals said. It is not clear why the soldier was in "panic" as locals did not report any border hostilities in the area. But locals say it is not the first time Indian soldiers have entered the area. While India has fenced most of the LoC, some border areas across the mountains are not fenced, and residents say Indian soldiers from a nearby post have been using water from the same spring as the local villagers. The view in Pakistan is that Indian PM Narendra Modi came to power on the back of his anti-Pakistan rhetoric. As a result, he is now under pressure from Hindu nationalists among his supporters who are pushing for revenge. The pressure is further increased due to an extremely competitive media landscape, where outlets vie for ratings by drumming up war hysteria, experts say. Many believe that, since both India and Pakistan have nuclear arsenals, the warmongering is just posturing to pander to Mr Modi's constituency. However some circles do point out that in the medium term, India may persist in holding Pakistan to account more than it has done in the past. These analysts expect increased hostilities along the LoC in coming weeks and months, along with aggressive diplomatic moves.

"'Surgical' farce blows up in India's face", reads the top headline of Friday morning's Express Tribune newspaper.

Summarize the following article: PSNI Craigavon has even mocked up a wanted poster with one of their own officers, jokingly claiming he is charged with the heinous crime of stealing hair gel. Det Insp Jon Burrows is obviously not wanted for stealing hair gel, but is "leading the charge" against suspects who are wanted on bench warrants. Bench warrants are issued when someone fails to appear at court. Dubbed "Operation Relentless", the idea is to share pictures of offenders with Facebook followers in a bid to locate the missing suspects. PSNI Craigavon explained: "Sometimes this is a first time failure to appear, sometimes they know what verdict is coming and do a runner. Either way, they're now wanted! "If that is you, consider yourself on notice. We are coming for you." From Monday 20 February anyone who still has an active bench warrant against them will be "fair game" for having their face and details shared online, the PSNI say. The police have said until then they will be "knocking doors, phoning suspects, speaking to solicitors and following any other leads we have". A final warning shot comes from the team behind the Facebook page: "The clue is in the name. We will be Relentless. Give it up."

The PSNI has announced it will post Wild West-style pictures of suspects who fail to appear in court on its Facebook page.

Summarize the following article: The Blues stunned the visitors with a Rhys Patchell try after 43 seconds, but Montpellier hit back with three tries in 18 minutes to take a firm grip. Josh Navidi and Lloyd Williams crossed either side of half-time before Alex Cuthbert's try put the Blues in front. Navidi's second put the result beyond doubt, but Charles Geli's late try gave the French a bonus point. The victory moves the Blues level on points at the top of Pool Three with Harlequins, who are expected to beat bottom club Calvisano on Saturday. Montpellier would have returned home with two bonus points after Demetri Catrakilis' conversion brought them within seven points, but Patchell snatched it from them with the last kick of the game when he landed his second penalty. It was a night to remember for Patchell, who was forced to move from fly-half to full-back moments before kick-off after Dan Fish injured his thigh in the warm-up. He immediately shrugged off the disappointment of missing out on a rare start in his favoured position to give the Blues a perfect start with the game's first try, which he converted. But Montpellier then looked a class apart as they showed precision and power to score three slick tries through prop Jamie Mackintosh and wings Timoci Nagusa and Julien Malzieu to open a 13-point advantage. The Blues regrouped and clawed their way back into the match with two tries either side of half-time through flanker Navidi, converted again by Patchell, and then scrum-half Williams. Moments before the home side's third try, Montpellier lost hooker Bismarck Du Plessis to the sin bin, and replacement lock Robins Tchale-Watchou soon followed to reduce the French to 13 men. They survived without conceding a point, but then gifted the Blues a fourth try when a loose pass allowed Cuthbert to intercept and the Wales wing had enough pace to run from his own half to score. Patchell stretched the advantage with another penalty and then Navidi's second score gave the Blues enough breathing space to mean Geli's late try did not prove too costly. Cardiff Blues head coach Danny Wilson said: "It was a huge squad, both financially and physically, we were up against. "We dug deep, and to score five tries and play the way we did is a great win. "We've got a bit to work on in terms of what we are conceding - we seem to like to make it exciting here for some reason - but it's really pleasing to get a win." Cardiff Blues: Rhys Patchell; Alex Cuthbert, Rey Lee-Lo, Gavin Evans, Tom James; Rhys Patchell, Lloyd Williams (capt); Sam Hobbs, Kristian Dacey, Tau Filise, Jarrad Hoeata, James Down, Macauley Cook, Josh Navidi, Josh Turnbull. Replacements: Ethan Lewis, Gethin Jenkins, Craig Mitchell, Scott Andrews, Cam Dolan, Tavis Knoyle, Aled Summerhill, Garyn Smith. Montpellier: Benjamin Fall; Timoci Nagusa, Anthony Tuitavke, Robert Ebersohn, Julien Malzieu; Benjamin Lucas, Benoit Paillaugue; Jamie Mackintosh, Bismarck Du Plessis, Pat Cilliers, Jacques Du Plessis, Paul Willemse, Wiaan Liebenberg, Antoine Battut (capt), Akapusi Qera. Replacements: Charles Geli, Mikheil Nariashvili, Nicolas Mas, Robins Tchale-Watchou, Fulgence Ouedraogo, Cameron Wright, Demetri Catrakilis, Anthony Floch. Referee: Peter Fitzgibbon (Ireland). Touch judges: Leo Colgan (Ireland), Paul Haycock (Ireland). Citing commissioner: Dave Guyan (England). Media playback is not supported on this device

Cardiff Blues staged a rousing comeback for a bonus-point win over Montpellier in the European Challenge Cup.

Summarize the following article: The World Health Organization has added 'snakebite' to its list of neglected tropical diseases, but what is the real scale of the problem it faces against such a vicious venom? Snake venom is made up of several hundred proteins which all have a slightly different toxic effect on the human body. One snake's poison may not be like another's, even if they are from the same species. But, on the whole, there are two main ways snakes make us suffer - by attacking the circulatory system (ie. the blood) and/or the nervous system. Haemotoxic venom goes for the bloodstream. It can trigger lots of tiny blood clots and then when the venom punches holes in blood vessels causing them to leak, there is nothing left to stem the flow and the patient bleeds to death. Other venoms can increase blood pressure, decrease blood pressure, prevent bleeding or create it. They are all bad news. Neurotoxic venom tends to act more quickly, attacking the nervous system and stopping nerve signals getting through to the muscles. This means paralysis, starting at the head, moving down the body until, if untreated, the diaphragm is paralysed and the patient can't breathe. A classic sign of this is ptosis, when people can't keep their eyes open. Around the area of the bite, necrosis can set in. That happens when the venom destroys nearby muscles, tissues and cells. Long-term, this can lead to amputations, the loss of the use of a limb or the need for multiple skin grafts. Snakes get closer to humans and cause more damage and more deaths than any other venomous animal, including spiders, scorpions and jellyfish. That's because venomous snakes are found across large swathes of the planet, typically in rural, tropical areas, like sub-Saharan Africa and south-east Asia. But they also live in Australia and North America. Since snakes lurk on the ground, often camouflaged and unseen, farmers, rural workers and many young children can easily disturb them and get bitten. Each year, up to five million people worldwide are estimated to be bitten by snakes. Out of those, around 100,000 die and 400,000 are left disabled or disfigured by their injuries. But the numbers could be even larger - because many of the worst-affected countries don't keep data on snakebites and research into this problem is scarce. Anti-venoms. These life-saving antidotes to snake bites are made by extracting venom from snakes then injecting it diluted into sheep or horses, which build up antibodies against it. These antibodies are then separated from the animal's blood and used to make anti-venom - but there's a problem. Anti-venoms are expensive and only produced in limited quantities. Few ordinary people can afford them and governments and health officials have shown little interest in training medical personnel to diagnose and treat venomous snake bites. Anti-venoms which have been proven to be safe and effective are rare - and one of the best is running out. So now the race is on to make another one. Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are busy collecting venom from deadly snakes in order to develop a new generation anti-venom treatment against the bite of every dangerous snake in sub-Saharan Africa, where snake bites kill about 30,000 people each year. But experts are still unsure whether a single, universal anti-venom (which targets many types of venom from different snakes) is better than separate anti-venoms which target specific snake species in specific regions. Both are probably worth having. Snake venom is a white or yellow-coloured liquid which is produced in glands behind the snake's eyes and is pumped down a duct to the fangs when it bites down on something or someone. The fangs acts like a hypodermic needle, injecting the venom quickly and efficiently into the unsuspecting victim. Snakes with fangs at the front of their mouths are most dangerous - such as the cobra, puff adder, viper, rattlesnake and mamba, for example. The venom produced by the snake's ancient ancestor was relatively simple. But research suggests that it has diversified over time and now venoms are more complex and more toxic than ever before. Venoms can vary, even within snake species and within the same country, causing different effects on the body and responding differently to the same anti-venom. It does, apart from when you don't know you've been bitten. Snakes called kraits, which live in south Asia, have a painless bite. They are known for slithering into homes when the inhabitants are asleep, usually on beds on the floor. The victim might be disturbed a little but is likely to go back to sleep, and in the morning they wake up paralysed - or not at all. For most other snakes, there's the pain felt from the initial bite, as the fangs sink into the skin, and then the pain created by the venom as it starts to work - causing inflammation, clotting the blood, causing skin cells to self-destruct. There are plenty of myths about how to deal with being bitten by a snake, so don't be fooled. There is no evidence at all that sucking out venom from a snakebite with the mouth or using any other suction device helps. In fact, experts say it could hasten the venom's passage into the bloodstream. Cutting out the venom is not recommended either because it could make the wound much worse. In some countries, especially in remote areas where health services are scarce, natural remedies are often used to try to treat the bites but this only delays how long it takes to get to hospital. After a bite, victims should not move the affected limb unless they have to, keep their heart rate as low as possible until they reach hospital and receive the appropriate anti-venom treatment, ideally as quickly as possible.

Snake venom is deadly, with as many as 100,000 people worldwide dying each year from snake bites.

Summarize the following article: The controversial post-study work route will be abolished and only "trusted" sponsors will be able to offer courses below degree level to adults. And measures to ensure students return home following their studies will be introduced under the Home Office plans. The proposals are part of a crackdown on abuses of the student visa system. The majority of migrants from outside the UK are students - last year they accounted for two thirds of the visas issued under the points-based system. The government wants to reduce these numbers as it tries to fulfil its pledge to cut net migration from 200,000 to under 100,000 by 2015. Immigration Minister Damian Green said: "I believe attracting talented students from abroad is vital to the UK but we must be more selective about who can come here and how long they can stay. "People imagine students to be those who come here for a few years to study at university and then go home - that is not always the case. "Too many students coming to study at below degree level have been coming here to live and work, rather than studying. We need to stop this abuse. "Today's proposals follow a major review of the system, and are aimed at a more selective system and, crucially, reducing the numbers to meet our target of reducing net migration to sustainable levels." But the Institute for Public Policy Research said cutting the numbers of foreign students would have a limited effect on net migration levels. Associate director Sarah Mulley said: "Foreign students contribute a huge amount to the UK education sector and to the wider economy. "It is right to clamp down on abuse of the visa system but these proposals are driven primarily by the government's objective of reducing net migration by more than half. "In its efforts to meet this objective, the government risks causing significant harm to a highly-successful export sector at a time when the economy is still vulnerable."

Students from outside the European Union will be forced to go home after completing courses under plans to scrap visas which allow them to seek work.

Summarize the following article: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is creating the job as part of a restructure after the departure of managing director Paul Downton. Vaughan, 40, said he was "more than open" to the role. Stewart, who played a record 133 Tests, said: "If the ECB want to speak to me, of course I'll speak to them." But the Surrey director of cricket, 52, added that the ECB would have to seek permission from his county first. "You'd be silly not to listen," said Stewart. "That's not just me, that's anyone involved in the game who feels they can make a difference at the top level." Vaughan won more Tests - 26 - than any other England captain and scored 5,719 Test runs at an average of 41.44. "I am certainly one of the few who would have the phone ready to have a conversation, whether in this role, another role, or a forward-thinking visionary trying to move English cricket forward," he said. Downton, 58, left his post on Wednesday, a month after England were knocked out of the World Cup in the group stages. He was also involved in the sacking of former England captain Kevin Pietersen in February 2014. Downton's departure came on the day Wisden editor Lawrence Booth accused the ECB of having "repeatedly lost touch", citing its handling of the Pietersen affair, concerns with the decline of the Test and one-day sides, and a fall in grassroots participation. ECB chief executive Tom Harrison said Downton's departure was about being "accountable for reaching the standards we aspire to". He added that the new role would have "a clear focus on delivering a world-class performance environment for all formats". Vaughan, a fan of Harrison, said: "English cricket has to look deeper than just removing one person. Structurally the game has to change. Removing Paul Downton is not going to turn it around overnight." Former England bowler Steve Harmison backed Vaughan to come up with a plan that would ensure England "are a massive force in world cricket". But ex-England all-rounder Derek Pringle said the role of guiding England's fortunes had become "a bit of a poisoned chalice".

Former England captains Michael Vaughan and Alec Stewart say they are interested in becoming the country's new director of cricket.

Summarize the following article: Last year, it said it would use underground cables instead of pylons between Anglesey and the mainland. It has since confirmed three miles (5km) of underground cables with no pylons between Gaerwen and Bangor. The local AM said it would not affect plans for other pylons across the area. The National Grid said it could refine its proposals further following more technical considerations and it would provide extra information later this year. Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he was "frustrated" the company was not listening to people and considering alternatives. But National Grid senior project manager Gareth Williams said the revision affecting the Menai Strait followed a public consultation which showed it was a "valued landscape and tourist destination".

The National Grid has said it was trying to protect the Menai Strait's beauty by keeping connections to Anglesey's planned Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station away from the coast.

Summarize the following article: The 35-year-old ex-Celtic and Scotland striker leaves the West Lothian club one off the bottom of the Championship, with 12 points from 17 games. He led Livi to victory in the Challenge Cup final last season and avoided relegation on the last day. Capped six times, Burchill joined the club as a player-coach in July 2013 after spells in Cyprus and Thailand. A statement from the club says Burchill will "serve out the remaining period of his contract on gardening leave". Victories over Cowdenbeath, Falkirk, Raith Rovers and Queen of the South in the final month of last season saw them climb out of the bottom two on the final day of the campaign. Plans for this term were hampered by a signing embargo that ran from April until mid-June because of club ownership issues. Livingston drew 1-1 with Dumbarton on Saturday, conceding an 89th-minute equaliser to remain in the relegation play-off spot, four points ahead of bottom club Alloa. They visit St Mirren on Boxing Day, with the Paisley side three points better off.

Livingston have parted company with manager Mark Burchill after a year in the job.

Summarize the following article: The Cambridge student's murder outside Cairo earlier this year has shone a light on Egypt's human rights record. Egyptian police and prosecutors are expected to share initial findings of their investigation, which has faced strong Italian criticism. Regeni, 28, disappeared on his way to meet a friend on 25 January. His body, mutilated and showing signs of torture, was found in a ditch on 3 February. Giulio Regeni murder: Family in Italy expects Egypt answers Body of Italian student found in Egypt The BBC's Julian Miglierini in Rome says the case has strained the relationship between Egypt and Italy, and expectations for the meeting in Rome on Thursday morning are running high. Our correspondent says that there is a feeling in Italy that the Egyptian authorities are not moving fast enough in their investigation into the murder. His family and the Italian government have been unsatisfied by the several contradicting accounts given by the Egyptian authorities of what may have happened to the Cambridge University student after he went missing. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has said Italy would not settle for what he called a "convenient truth". "We owe that to Giulio, his friends, his mother, father, his little sister - and we owe it to all of us. We hope and we think Egypt can co-operate with our magistrates." Many in Italy think that Regeni could have been targeted by the Egyptian intelligence services because of his research on trade unions and activism. But Cairo investigators have suggested that he was kidnapped and killed by a criminal gang, possibly posing as members of Egyptian police. At the meeting in Rome, Egyptian investigators are expected to deliver evidence such as phone taps, CCTV footage and forensic analyses which could help the Italian team carrying out a parallel inquiry. Regeni's mother, Paola Deffendi, recently told a Rome news conference that she and her husband had strong doubts about what the Egyptian authorities had said so far about the circumstances surrounding his murder. Cairo deputy prosecutor Mostafa Soliman and another official are on Thursday due to be joined by police officers, including one from the Giza area where the young student's body was found. Regeni, 28, disappeared on 25 January, the fifth anniversary of the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak, while there was a heavy police presence in Cairo. His body was found a week later in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo, showing signs of severe torture. Egypt's initial autopsy report said Regeni had been hit on the back of the head with a sharp instrument. Much of the evidence of torture came to light in a second autopsy by Italian doctors. Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Mr Regeni had suffered "something inhuman". As a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, Regeni was carrying out research on trade unions and labour rights in Egypt, a sensitive topic in recent years. Rumours about possible involvement of Egypt's security services in the killing have been reported by the Italian press, activists and opposition groups. Cairo investigators have suggested that Mr Regeni was kidnapped and killed by a criminal gang posing as members of Egyptian police. Police then said they had killed all five members of the alleged gang in a raid and recovered some of Mr Regeni's personal belongings. Mr Regeni's family say they are adamant their son was killed by Egyptian authorities and that the criminal gang theory is a cover up.

Egyptian officials are briefing Italian counterparts in Rome on the progress of an investigation into the torture and murder of student Giulio Regeni.

Summarize the following article: Last week, Pistorius began serving a five year prison sentence for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp, although he could be out in 10 months. The double-amputee Olympic sprinter was cleared of murder. "The appeal on conviction is based on the question of law," the national prosecuting spokesman said. Pistorius' family have said that he will not appeal. The athlete was also given a three-year suspended sentence for firing a gun in a restaurant. "The prosecutors are now preparing the necessary papers in order to be able to file within the next few days," Nathi Mncube from the National Prosecuting Authority said in a statement. Pistorius was charged by the prosecution with the pre-meditated murder of Ms Steenkamp, a model and law graduate. He was acquitted of this and the lesser murder charge of dolus eventualis. In South African law, this charge - also known as common-law murder - applies if the accused knew they might kill someone but still went ahead with their course of action. The BBC's Pumza Fihlani, who followed the athlete's trial, says the prosecution's grounds for appeal may lie with how the judge interpreted dolus eventualis. The judge's critics have argued that dolus eventualis includes the possibility of meaning to kill one person and ending up killing another, our correspondent says. Pistorius says he shot dead Ms Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year by mistake, fearing there was an intruder in the house. On Sunday, Ms Steenkamp's mother June would not say whether the family would support a state appeal. "All we have ever said is that we want to know the truth. We owe it to Reeva," she told the Times newspaper. She was interviewed ahead of the publication next month of her book, Reeva: A Mother's Story. In the book she describes her daughter's boyfriend as "pathetic", "moody", "gun-toting" and "possessive" and rejects his version of events. "There is no doubt in our minds that something went horribly wrong, something upset her so terribly that she hid behind a locked door with two mobile phones," she writes. Inside Oscar Pistorius's home 1 2 3 5 4 Mr Pistorius said he and Ms Steenkamp had dinner at about 19:00 before going to bed at 21:00. He said he woke in the early hours, spoke briefly to his girlfriend and got up to close the sliding door and curtains. Judge Thokozile Masipa questioned the reliability of several witnesses who said they heard screams and gunshots between about 03:12 and 03:17, saying most had 'got facts wrong'. Mr Pistorius said he heard the bathroom window sliding open and believed that an intruder, or intruders, had entered the bathroom through a window which was not fitted with burglar bars. Mr Pistorius said he grabbed his firearm and told Ms Steenkamp, who he thought was still in bed, to call the police. The judge said it made no sense that Ms Steenkamp did not hear him scream 'Get out' or call the police, as she had her mobile phone with her. Mr Pistorius could see the bathroom window was open and toilet door closed. He said he did not know whether the intruders were outside on a ladder or in the toilet. He had his firearm in front of him, he heard a movement inside the toilet and thought whoever was inside was coming out to attack him. 'Before I knew it, I had fired four shots at the door,' he said. The judge said she did not accept that Mr Pistorius fired the gun by accident or before he knew what was happening. She said he had armed himself with a lethal weapon and clearly wanted to use it. The other question, she said, was why he fired not one, but four shots before he ran back to the room to try to find Ms Steenkamp. Mr Pistorius said he went back to the bedroom and noticed that Ms Steenkamp was not there. Mr Pistorius said this was when he realised she could have been in the toilet and rushed back to the bathroom. Mr Pistorius said he screamed for help and went back to the bathroom where he found the toilet was locked. He returned to the bedroom, pulled on his prosthetic legs and turned on the lights before bashing in the toilet door with a cricket bat. When the door panel broke, he found the key and unlocked the door and found Ms Steenkamp slumped on the floor with her head on the toilet bowl. He then carried her downstairs, where he was met by neighbours. 3D animation of the apartment

South African prosecutors say they are going to appeal against the conviction and sentence given to athlete Oscar Pistorius for killing his girlfriend.

Summarize the following article: Michelle Mellotte, 61, took the money from Michael McGrory in February 2010, saying it would be repaid that summer. But it was only returned after police began an investigation the next year. The former doctor in Ederney now faces being struck off the medical register. The judge told her there was little the courts could do to punish her more than the public humiliation of exposing the "significant breach of trust". She admitted fraud by abuse of her role. The judge told her the offence warranted a 12 month custodial sentence, but it would be suspended for two years given the exceptional circumstances of the case. The court, sitting in Downpatrick, was told that the victim, Michael McGrory, was suffering from Alzheimer's and the GP was aware of his deteriorating mental and physical health when she asked him for the loan. She went to his home to "ask him for a favour" to help her out of her financial difficulties and he agreed to sign a cheque for £10,000 in the presence of his home help with an endorsement that it would be paid back in the summer of 2010. The home help confronted the GP a year later when the money was not repaid, but she told her "not to worry about it". The money was returned to Mr McGrory, who died in 2012, after the police began to investigate the doctor's conduct. The judge said the GP was not motivated by greed and the money was not spent on a lavish lifestyle, but was rather a result of her financial mismanagement. He said he had received many testimonials and it was clear Dr Mellotte was dedicated to her patients, and had cared for many people in a compassionate and selfless way. He said she not only looked after their medical needs but also helped their housing and financial needs, giving people money who were in arrears for rent, and regularly buying groceries for patients. The judge said the GP did not see anything wrong with this approach, which he described as not only "unorthodox but inappropriate". He said she was dedicated to her patients but was less interested in the financial aspects of her practice, and described her practical financial management as "inept". The court was told that the doctor suffered from a history of depressive illness and was in significant financial difficulty and pressure from her bank at the time. The judge said the offence did not start out as one of dishonesty and the money was used to repay other individuals, including another patient she owed money to. He said that Dr Mellotte had cared for many people in a compassionate and selfless way for four decades but her career had come to an end in a "publicly inauspicious way". He said this was a "significant punishment in its own right" and that it was right that the significant breach of trust in the doctor-patient relationship had been publicly exposed in this way.

A Fermanagh GP who dishonestly exploited and took advantage of a vulnerable elderly patient when she failed to repay a £10,000 loan has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Summarize the following article: Osamu Suzuki, who has led the company for nearly forty years, will stay on as chairman. Japan's fourth biggest car company will also cut executive pay and 2015 bonuses. Last month it said it found "discrepancies" in its fuel emissions testing but denied cheating. Toshihiro Suzuki, the company's president and son of Osamu Suzuki, said on Wednesday that the changes were intended to regain customers' trust. "This latest incident occurred because of problems within the company which had continued for a long time, including an R&D division which was not transparent enough," he said. "We are making these changes today to try to regain the trust of our customers, and to rebuild Team Suzuki." Osamu Honda, the company's executive vice president and chief technical officer will also retire. The management changes will take effect on 29 June subject to shareholder approval at Suzuki's annual general meeting. The firm also said it was taking preventative measures such as strengthening training for its engineers, improving testing technology and promoting the use of a whistle-blowing system. Suzuki said in May that its emission and fuel efficiency testing method for 16 models was not in line with official regulations. In a statement, it said the problems dated back to 2010 and about 2.1 million vehicles were affected, though the issues did not apply to Suzuki-branded vehicles sold outside Japan. Earlier, this month, authorities raided the company's headquarters as part of an investigation into the tests. The latest changes at Suzuki come after its smaller Japanese rival Mitsubishi Motors admitted it had been falsifying fuel efficiency tests for 25 years. In May, Mitsubishi announced that its president, Tetsuro Aikawa, would step down. The company also entered into a strategic alliance with Nissan, which will take a 34% stake in Mitsubishi, subject to regulatory approval. German carmaker Volkswagen has also admitted cheating emissions tests in the US.

Suzuki said its chief executive will step down this month as the Japanese carmaker faces a probe into its use of improper fuel emissions tests.

Summarize the following article: Robert Buzalski drank vodka liqueur before setting off for Edzell with Krysztof Birula and another man. A court heard Buzalski's hire car left the road during bad weather conditions and plunged down an embankment into a river bed. Mr Birula suffered a broken back in the crash and had to be cut free from the vehicle by firefighters. Buzalski had denied causing serious injury to Mr Birula by dangerous driving. A jury at Forfar Sheriff Court found the 36-year-old of Ruthvenfield Road, Perth, guilty of the charge. The crash took place on 24 August 2013 on a farm road from Cornes Cottage to Dalbog Farm, near Edzell. Mr Birula was unable to travel to court to give evidence but a statement taken from him recounting the events was read to the court. The statement read: "Buzalski was driving normally, he did not drive fast. "Suddenly Marcin Kopij told Buzalski: 'Watch out, we're being drawn off the road'. "I fell off the seat and I think I hit my head. I said to Buzalski that I could not move an arm or leg. "The next thing I remember is waking up in hospital." Giving evidence in his own defence Buzalski, who suffered four broken ribs in the incident, said: "I think about it every day, it's very hard. "I ask myself every evening, why did it have to happen?" Sheriff Pino di Emidio deferred sentence until April for social work background reports and released Buzalski on bail.

A man whose car plunged into an Angus gorge leaving his friend paralysed has been convicted of dangerous driving.

Summarize the following article: It is the third time in four days a Ferrari has been fastest, as the teams reached one-third distance in their preparations for the 2015 season. Sauber's Marcus Ericsson was second ahead of Lewis Hamilton, whose Mercedes team completed by far the most mileage. McLaren had another tough day, still struggling with their new Honda engine. Jenson Button did only 35 laps and was 6.8 seconds off the pace as he was hit initially by a problem with oil levels and then was forced to abandon the day's running following a fuel-pump failure. McLaren posted 79 laps over four days - compared to more than 500 by Mercedes. But director of engineering Matt Morris insisted the team had had a positive test as they bedded in their relationship with Honda. "We have had a number of problems," Morris said. "We have had some operational issues - all of us working together as a team for the first time - things you take for granted when you have been with an engine supplier for many years. "You drop the ball sometimes, like saying getting oil levels wrong and all these sorts of things. We have had a few issues like that. "We have also had some minor electrical issues, which resulted in a lot of downtime but have actually been relatively easy to fix. "The main thing is that we have not been burning bodywork or blowing up engines. "I am pretty happy that we are going to come out of this test with no major issues to resolve." Hamilton had a harmless spin at the chicane in the morning but still managed 117 laps as Mercedes completed an impressive overall distance of 1,419 miles in four days. Hamilton told his team over the car radio: "Well done, guys. Great first week back." On his spin he said: "It was a bit damp, I was the first on slicks, so I just had a spin. "But reliability has been pretty special this week. It's one of our highest weeks of mileage. "The car feels very similar to last year. It's very difficult to pick out any differences, really." Lotus also had an encouraging final day as they completed their first test with a Mercedes engine, after switching from Renault last year. Media playback is not supported on this device The team, who slipped from fourth to eighth in the championship last season, had initially not planned to be at this test with their new car, but ended up ahead of schedule and ran for two and a half days. Frenchman Romain Grosjean was sixth fastest and his day was ended by an engine problem, but the team said they were confident the car was a major advance on last year. "It's a shame it's ended early," said trackside operations director Alan Permane. 'It's been going really well, especially as a week ago we did not even expect to be here. "The car is most definitely a big step forward over last year, even though we are still short of a lot of parts so it's not very representative. "It's surprising we were running as quickly as we were given that. It's very encouraging - in fact, Romain was just saying that the car feels a lot like the 2013 car. He's a lot happier.'" The second test is at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya from 19-22 February. 1 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:20.841 2 Marcus Ericsson (Swe) Sauber-Ferrari 1:22.019 3 Lewis Hamilton (GB) Mercedes 1:22.172 4 Max Verstappen (Ned) Toro Rosso-Renault 1:22.553 5 Felipe Massa (Brz) Williams-Mercedes 1:23.116 6 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Lotus-Mercedes 1:23.802 7 Daniil Kvyat (Rus) Red Bull-Renault 1:23.975 8 Jenson Button (GB) McLaren-Honda 1:27.660

Kimi Raikkonen completed a successful first pre-season test for Ferrari by setting the pace on the final day at Spain's Jerez track.

Summarize the following article: The 24-year-old Englishman has not played for the Scottish Premiership side since being sent off in a 2-1 win over Hamilton Academical in February. Reckord, who signed for the Scottish Premiership club in October 2014, made 21 appearances this season but was due to be out of contract this summer. He played 48 times for County, all but two of them being starts. The Premiership club stated: "Ross County Football Club would like to thank Jamie Reckord and wish him well on what we know will be a successful next step in his career." Reckord, who was an England youth international, started his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers. He had loan spells with Northampton Town, Scunthorpe United, Coventry City, Plymouth Argyle and Swindon Town before being released in summer 2014 having only made two appearances for Wolves.

Left-back Jamie Reckord has been released early from his contract by Ross County.

Summarize the following article: The government insisted it did not have a "targeted killing" policy, but was clearly willing to use lethal force overseas for counter-terrorism, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said. Two UK citizens were killed in Syria last year by an RAF drone. The government says it takes "lawful action" over direct threats to the UK. Reyaad Khan, a British member of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, was targeted and killed by an RAF drone in Syria last August. Ruhul Amin, 26, from Aberdeen, also died in the strike. When is it legal to kill your own citizens? Drone strikes: Do they actually work? Informing Parliament of the death, Prime Minister David Cameron said Mr Khan, 21, from Cardiff, had been plotting "barbaric" attacks on UK soil. The British military was not authorised by Parliament to engage in military action inside Syria at that stage - but the strike was justified as an "act of self-defence", Mr Cameron said. But that position is not justified under international law, and later statements justified the killing in the context of the armed conflict in Iraq. The committee said it accepted that the drone strike had been part of the armed conflict against IS in Iraq and Syria, and therefore covered by the Law of War. But there were contradictions and inconsistencies in the government's explanation of its policy on drone strikes, the committee added. It said the government's policy on using lethal force abroad outside of armed conflict, and the legal basis for that, must be clarified. The MPs and peers said international law permitting self-defence did not extend to using force "pre-emptively against a threat which is more remote, such as plans which have been merely discussed but which lack the necessary intent or capability to make them imminent". Committee chairman and Labour MP Harriet Harman said the legal justification for the drone strike on Khan was "confused and confusing". She called for the UK government to lead the way internationally by defining a clear legal basis for action, and to make sure that those who made decisions were held accountable. "As the world faces the grey area between terrorism and war, there needs to be a new international consensus on when it is acceptable for a state to take a life outside of armed conflict," she said. "Our government has said they're going to be targeting people in other parts of the world, but there's no independent scrutiny afterwards," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. New technology and the rise of a force like IS had changed the traditional models of war, she added. Clarification on drones was needed because the UK should abide by the rule of law, said Ms Harman, adding that those who killed people in strikes could later be open to a murder charge. That risk and the opaque legal basis for drone strikes was an increasing cause of concern for military staff, especially as there were a number of investigations under way into soldiers' actions, said Col Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan. "Many British troops feel they don't necessarily have the protection," he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. Clarity on the law and scrutiny of drone strikes were "important", he said, but added that the information used to scrutinise operations might be incomplete due to intelligence restrictions. I was hitting different targets - vehicles, compounds or individuals, such as the Taliban. You can pull in any number of intelligence feeds to build up a target picture. There are experts who assess that piece of intelligence for their reliability - image analysts or linguists - and then you build the target in your mind. When it comes to striking, you abide by the rules of engagement. [They] change depending on where you are and the type of threat you face. Everything is dictated by the enemy on the ground and what that enemy does. If it presents a threat, then the situation will change. The whole process is checked at every stage and it goes through lawyers. It's a robust process and always leans against carrying out a strike for the fear of collateral damage. You're not thinking about taking a life, you're thinking about getting the sums right, getting your commands right, focusing on the target, what you think the weapon will do to the target. During your first couple of times you do think about killing someone. But after that you just want to get it right, so you don't think about that. No [I don't feel uncomfortable about what I did]. Ultimately it's my conscience, and my name on the bomb. I would never engage a target unless I was 100%. Everything possible [is done to avoid civilian casualties]. We try and avoid any compound damage whatsoever. No, never, never [do I think about what I did and the lives I took]. Listen to his account in full on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Strikes also fuelled resentment in the targeted country, said Jennifer Gibson, a human rights lawyer from Reprieve who represents families of drone strike victims. She said: "If the UK is going to go down this road of engaging in targeted strikes, much like the US, there has to from the outset be a clear policy that sets out the legal framework within which these strikes are going to be taken and proper accountability mechanisms." The committee also wants the government to set out its legal basis for assisting other nations, such as the US, in strikes against IS. The US says it is in a global armed conflict with IS, so the Law of War applies and lethal force can be used anywhere in the world. On Monday, a US strike in Iraq killed Abu Wahib, a senior Islamic State leader in Anbar province, and three other IS jihadists. A UK government spokesman said: "Where we identify a direct and imminent threat to the UK we will take lawful action to address it and report to Parliament after we have done so. "Such actions are only to be carried out as a last resort when all other options have been exhausted, and we would always do so in accordance with international humanitarian law."

The legal case for using drone strikes outside of armed conflict needs "urgent clarification" from ministers, a cross-party parliamentary committee has said.

Summarize the following article: The US-based writer, who uses the pen name Xi Nuo, says he has published the book online to challenge China and that the men should not be held responsible. "Why doesn't the government come to New York and sue us?" he said. The men, who went missing in recent months, are now in detention in China. Some analysts believe the book their publishing house was set to print, titled Xi Jinping and His Lovers, may have angered the Chinese government and be behind their disappearance and detention. Allegations that two of the men were taken to China against their will and in an extra-judicial process sparked global concern. Chinese officials deny this, saying they went to China voluntarily. Gui Minhai, co-owner of the publishing business Mighty Current, and its affiliated Causeway Bay Bookstore, was last seen at his holiday home in Thailand on 17 October, around the time three of his employees also went missing. He turned up in early January on Chinese state TV in tears, saying he had returned to China to take responsibility for a fatal car accident that happened more than a decade ago - although some suspect his statement may have been made under duress. In late December, Lee Bo, also known as Paul Lee, vanished in Hong Kong, only to turn up mysteriously in mainland China, apparently without his travel document. His suspected abduction from Hong Kong, a city where mainland Chinese officials have no legal authority, caused an international outcry. The BBC has also uncovered details of the lucrative and prolific underground world of gossipy pulp books about the Chinese leadership, which caters almost exclusively to a mainland audience, much to the displeasure of Chinese authorities. Mighty Current publishing house disappearances 1. Lui Bo, General Manager, goes missing in Shenzhen, 15 October 2. Cheung Jiping, business manager, 32, goes missing in Dongguan, 15 October 3. Gui Minhai, co-owner, 51, goes missing in Thailand, 17 October 4. Lam Wingkei, manager, 60, last seen in Hong Kong, 23 October 5. Lee Bo, shareholder, 65, goes missing in Hong Kong, 30 December Before he disappeared, Lee Bo told me that he believed his colleagues had been detained to prevent the publication of a particularly sensitive book. But some experts say that one book, no matter how incendiary, is unlikely to be the reason for their detention. Industry insiders believe the Hong Kong "banned book" publishing industry is being sent a warning. Xi Nuo says that his book Xi Jinping and His Lovers was finished in 2014, but Mr Gui decided against publishing it after a visit from a Chinese government agent. The book also has another author, a man believed to have penned much of the work and who is not being named for safety reasons. Xi Nuo says he has now decided to publish the book to challenge the Chinese authorities. "I decided to publish this book. I want to tell the Chinese authorities and Xi Jinping, the president of China, that you are wrong. Completely wrong. You better release the five guys. Let them go back home, " Xi Nuo said. Written in simple and almost vulgar language, the book is ambiguously styled as a work of fiction about true life figures and describes purported affairs of Xi Jinping, as well as alleged incidents in his two marriages. Excerpt from Xi Jinping and His Lovers "Outside the door Lingling shouts: 'Big brother Xi please help me, I'm in the kitchen cooking dumplings.' Xi Jinping hurriedly runs out, enters the kitchen and embraces Ke Lingling saying 'My father will be back soon, my father is about to be rehabilitated.' Lingling quickly pushes him away saying 'Aiyo, the way you embraced me, others would tease us.' " But this work is not unique. A review of the books distributed by Mighty Current reveals many titles that claim to lay bare the private lives of China's top leadership. They include: Xi Jinping's Clan, Fire in Xi Jinping's Backyard and even The Eight Loves of the General Secretary. Even though many would regard them as poorly researched, the provocative nature of these works has aroused China's ire. The disappearances are "rooted in efforts by the Communist Party to purge the 'banned books' market in Hong Kong", says veteran journalist and writer Ching Cheong. A Chinese government directive issued in 2013 and renewed annually, called "Sweeping the source", explicitly targets the Hong Kong publishing industry. It aims to stop "counter-revolutionary"' publishing activities, including preventing such works from entering the mainland. So, how did these books become so popular? According to Bao Pu, founder of the New Century Press, an independent Hong Kong publishing house, the market for gossipy Chinese political books exploded in 1995. That was the year Beijing Communist Party chief Chen Xitong was sacked after a major corruption scandal. Some of the banned books on sale in Hong Kong Secret Files of Leaders (above): A book that details the alleged affairs of national leaders Jiang Zemin Wins Big Against Xi Jinping: The book details the alleged rivalry at the very top of Chinese politics between Xi Jinping and Jiang Zemin. "Before, political books were very serious. But as a result of Chen Xitong, the trend of Chinese political scandals producing quickie books started," says Mr Bao. The mid-1990s coincided with a rise in overseas travel among newly wealthy mainlanders, who often transited through Hong Kong. He estimates the market for "quickie" books - poorly researched books written speedily - reached an apex in 2013, with the downfall of the charismatic Chongqing Communist Party chief Bo Xilai providing much material. He believes 150 books on that subject alone were written in one year, with Mr Gui's publishing house accounting for half of the market. It is difficult to know the true size of the market but insiders say Mighty Current was one of the top three publishing houses specialising in these books. Bei Ling, director of the Independent Chinese PEN, a group promoting freedom of expression, says Mighty Current published about five books each month, or 50 books a year, accounting for a third of the market. One writer who has worked with Mr Gui since 2012 said each book takes about a month to write. The writer is not usually paid until the book sells. For each book sold, he receives a payment of $3, or about 15% of the selling price. On some books, he makes nothing but a bestseller can yield a big payout. The most he has ever made on one book was about $35,000, for several weeks of work. I was also told that the distribution side of the Causeway Bay Bookstore business turned a healthy profit. Almost all the readers come from mainland China, hungry for a peek inside China's secretive politics, according to Mr Bao. Hong Kong is a semi-autonomous Chinese city that enjoys freedom of speech and press. These gossipy books are banned in China, but entirely legal in Hong Kong. Last year, nearly 46 million Chinese tourists, or more than six times the local population, visited Hong Kong. For some of them, the dingy first-floor bookstore in Causeway Bay is an important stop. Mr Gui and his business partner Lee Bo were prolific writers themselves and worked with authors based in Hong Kong, North America and Europe. Many of them are Chinese dissidents living in countries where they are not yet fluent in the language. Writing is seen as a legitimate means of making a living as they adapt to a new environment. Many, but not all, of these books criticise the senior Chinese leadership. In fact, one of Lee Bo's recent books on President Xi Jinping was highly regarded and not at all derogatory. Ching Cheong believes one of the reasons the leadership is so eager to shut down the entire market is that political factions regularly leak information to publishers like Mr Gui to embarrass their rivals. A faction loyal to former president Jiang Zemin is said to be feuding with the power base of the current president. Mr Ching says the book market in Hong Kong has become an extension of elite politics. If so, it has become a very dangerous high-stakes game as Mr Gui, who is a Swedish citizen and Mr Lee, who holds a British passport, has transformed it from a "domestic" clampdown to an international affair. Additional reporting by the BBC's Grace Tsoi.

A Chinese writer has told the BBC he is the co-author of a provocative book about China's leader Xi Jinping, that some believe sparked the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers.

Summarize the following article: The baby is believed to have suffocated at a holiday house in Saint-Pee-sur-Nivelle near the Spanish border, the BBC's Hugh Schofield said. The family involved were believed to be a British couple and their two sons, aged five months and three, he said. The father got up early on Saturday and returned to the bedroom later to find the baby dead, prosecutors told AFP. According to French media reports, an autopsy is due to be carried out in the next few days at Bordeaux. A spokeswoman for the UK Foreign Office said: "We are in contact with local authorities following the arrest of a British national in the south of France."

A British mother has been arrested in south-west France over the death of a five-month-old baby.

Summarize the following article: First-period goals from Abbie Russell and Sorcha Clarke set UCD on their way to victory at Queen's. Deidre Duke's fine reverse stick finish made it 3-0 before Katie Mullan added the fourth. Hermes-Monkstown are a point behind UCD after beating third-placed Cork Harlequins 4-3 while Ulster Elks lost 1-0 to Railway Union to remain bottom. Monkstown have a game in hand on UCD with the two sides still to play each other as well. The league's top scorer Anna O'Flanagan helped herself to two more goals with Nikki Evans and Ellen Curran also finding the net for Monkstown. Railway Union moved above Pegasus and into fifth place after Niamh Carey scored the only goal of the game at Jordanstown as the Dublin side beat Ulster Elks 1-0. The Elks remain rooted to the bottom of the table and a point behind Pembroke Wanderers, who lost 3-0 to Loreto. The team that finishes last will be relegated to their provincial league next season while the side that finishes ninth must face a promotion/relegation play-off. The result also sees Loreto strengthen their grip on fourth place and the final place in the play-offs. In Friday night's game a Chloe Brown goal from a penalty corner in the final minute was enough to give Ards a 1-0 win over Belfast Harlequins that keeps alive their outside chances of making the top four. There was just the one rearranged game in the men's IHL as Monkstown beat Railway Union 3-2, which leaves a five-point gap between Railway and Instonians at the bottom of the table, but the Belfast side have two games in hand.

Pegasus' hopes of reaching the Irish Hockey League play-offs were dented after they lost 4-0 to leaders UCD.

Summarize the following article: A family member told the BBC the 71-year-old from South Shields was on a "once in a life time holiday". Her husband John, 72, has been released from hospital. Their two daughters and son are now travelling to India. Investigations are under way to discover what caused the train, which was carrying 37 Britons on the Kalka to Shimla mountain line, to derail. Some reports suggest the specially-chartered train was going too fast. Great Rail Journeys, the York-based tour company which organised the trip, earlier said the families of those killed had been informed. Representatives from the company are due to meet survivors. Mrs Nichols's niece Andrea Davison told the BBC she was grandmother to five children and great-grandmother to two children. She was also volunteer for the Samaritans. Three carriages of the four-carriage train came off the rails shortly after leaving Kalka railway station at 13:20 local time, a rail official told the BBC. Onboard were 36 passengers and a tour manager on day three of a 13-day trip. Confirming the deaths of two British nationals on Saturday, Foreign Office minister for Asia Hugo Swire said he was "deeply saddened". Local police said nine people were injured, including six Britons. Three people - two passengers and the tour guide - are still in hospital with what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries, Great Rail Journeys said. Chief executive Peter Liney thanked the Foreign Office for its assistance, and said a group of passengers were now in a hotel in the nearby city of Chandigarh. An emergency response team from the company, including a counsellor, had landed in Delhi and was on its way to Chandigarh, expected to arrive about 17:30 local time, he said. "A number of the passengers have chosen to move on from the hotel in Chandigarh and have gone to Shimla, where Great Rail Journeys will ensure that an experienced tour manager is made available," he added. The new tour manager would arrive in Shimla on Monday, he said. Dinesh Kumar, divisional railway manager of Northern Railways, told the Times of India the cause of the incident was not immediately clear and an inquiry had been ordered. BBC India correspondent Sanjoy Majumder said consensus among survivors was that the train was going "too fast", especially on the sharp bends. Passenger David Carding from Norwich, said: "Obviously we were totally shocked and couldn't understand at first what was going on. "One lady was brought alongside our carriage, and one of the other passengers attended to her, and she had really severe head and facial injuries." The picturesque Kalka-Shimla mountain railway is a Unesco world heritage site and tourist attraction, often called the toy train line. It was opened in 1903 to connect Shimla, the summer capital of British India, with the northern plains. The railway climbs more than 4,000ft (1,200m) through the Himalayan foothills, and is famous for its many bridges, tunnels and panoramic views.

One of the two British tourists killed after a train derailed in northern India has been named as Joan Nichols.

Summarize the following article: Mauger, a former New Zealand back, will leave the role following Saturday's Premiership game against Northampton. O'Connor, who won three Premierships as a Tigers coach, will take over in early April, subject to being issued a visa. Mauger had been in charge since the long-serving Richard Cockerill was sacked as director of rugby in January. O'Connor, 46, worked under Cockerill between 2010 and 2013, before leaving to take the top job at Leinster and subsequently going to work for Queensland Reds and Tonga. The switch has been announced just a day after the Premiership's fifth-placed side edged out Exeter in the Anglo-Welsh Cup final to claim the club's first silverware in four years. "We're delighted that Matt O'Connor has accepted an offer to return to Welford Road," said Tigers chairman Peter Tom. "The club has conducted an exhaustive search to find the right person. "One of the most significant factors in our deliberations was experience of the Premiership and what it takes to win the competition. "Matt has that experience as head coach during a successful period. The team also topped the try-scoring figures in the Premiership four times in that five-year period with Matt in charge of the attack." Leicester wing Telusa Veainu expressed his surprise, tweeting: "With 5 games to go, really?? We don't know how good we've got it! #biggerpicture #gutted." Analysis - 'A big hit returns' Chris Jones, BBC Radio 5 live's rugby reporter "The management situation at Welford Road over the past few seasons has been a confusing one. "O'Connor was a big hit as head coach at the club, winning two Premiership titles working under Richard Cockerill, before leaving to became the main man at Leinster in 2013. "Then Aaron Mauger came in to much fanfare, before a clash of philosophies with Cockerill led to the latter's sacking. "Now O'Connor has returned to take full charge of team affairs, with Mauger moving on. "O'Connor will head up the coaching, with the club changing the structure of the organisation in the absence of a director of rugby figure." Former Australia Test centre O'Connor worked as assistant coach with Brumbies and Australia 'A' before first arriving in Leicester in the summer of 2008 In his first stint at the club, working with Cockerill, the Tigers won the Premiership in 2009, 2010 and 2013, the Anglo-Welsh Cup in 2012 and reached the 2009 European Cup Final. Since leaving Welford Road in 2013, O'Connor has worked with Leinster, who he led to the Pro12 title in his first season, Queensland Reds and Tonga. Former All Blacks centre Mauger had been back at Welford Road as head coach since the start of 2015-16 season. "While preparing to welcome Matt, we are also disappointed to lose Aaron," added Tom. "Matt's strengths are in his work with players on the training pitch and we are making changes to our organisational structure to enable him to focus solely on the success of the team. "Matt has a good record in the Premiership and had a lot of success in his previous spell here," said club captain Tom Youngs. "At the same time, it is disappointing that Mage is leaving the club. He's a good man and a good rugby man."

Former Australia international Matt O'Connor is to return to Leicester Tigers in the role of head coach, replacing Aaron Mauger.

Summarize the following article: Chief executive Richard Burnett said drivers faced "a desperate situation", with gangs of migrants, some of them armed, trying to board vehicles. "Things are beginning to boil over," he added. The Home Office said security had been stepped up in recent days. In the early hours of Saturday, about 150 migrants tried to storm the Channel Tunnel terminal at Calais, entering restricted areas and causing disruption to services. The situation at the port has escalated in recent weeks with about 3,000 people from countries including Eritrea, Syria and Afghanistan setting up camp nearby. Wildcats strikes by French ferry workers have compounded the problem, causing long queues of lorries to build up at the terminal and leaving them vulnerable to attempts by migrants to stow away on board. Mr Burnett reiterated the RHA's call for action from the French military to boost security and help struggling drivers. "Put yourself in their situation - you are on your own trying to get through and you've got 20 migrants around your truck trying to get on, and you're on your own trying to get them off," he said. "They are intimidating, some of them have metal bars, knives and, in one incident, a gun was pointed at a trucker." He added: "Somebody is going to get killed." Eurotunnel increased security on Saturday night following the earlier disruption, and a full service was able to run. Operation Stack - in which lorries are forced to queue on the M20 in Kent while awaiting an opportunity to cross the Channel - has also been lifted. On Saturday, Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, visited Calais and held a meeting with deputy mayor, Philippe Mignonet to discuss the crisis. Mr Mignonet wants the UK to introduce ID cards and employment controls in an effort to deter migrants. Mr Vaz said the UK and France must work together to find a solution, and called for much more to be done to stop people arriving "in the EU itself" via countries like Greece and Turkey. Home Secretary Theresa May and her French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve agreed this week to increase the joint intervention fund to improve security in at the ferry port and Channel Tunnel terminal. A Home Office spokesman said: "Law and order in and around Calais is the responsibility of the French authorities, but the UK continues to work with its French counterparts to strengthen the security of the border to stop illegal immigrants entering the UK."

Somebody is going to get killed unless action is taken to protect lorry drivers caught up in the growing migrant crisis at Calais, the Road Haulage Association is warning.

Summarize the following article: Phantom limb pain, as it is called, is thought to affect around 60% of amputees. With loss of limbs among military casualties a feature of recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, attention has once again focused on how to best treat the problem. Experts from Imperial College London, writing in The Lancet medical journal, say the type of injuries caused by today's improvised explosive devices and the Great War's artillery munitions are similar in many ways. Both result in musculoskeletal trauma and nerve injuries which tend to damage upper and lower limbs. Researchers delved into medical journal archives to find out how approaches to amputations and the treatment of the chronic pain they can cause has changed over the past 100 years. Between 1914 and 1918, gunshot wounds and damage from explosions resulted in large-scale amputations in field hospitals near the Western Front. Although 41,000 amputees survived the war, out of seven million British soldiers deployed, medical archives suggest many were left in unspeakable pain. Writing in The Lancet in 1916, Marmaduke Sheild, a senior consulting surgeon at hospitals treating military casualties in London and Exeter, said that post-amputation pain was "a source of intolerable suffering [to his amputee patients], and of despair to those who fit them with artificial limbs". He called for surgeons not to use the guillotine method, which involved cutting straight through the limb quickly, because it left the nerves exposed and would be likely to cause stump pain and require more surgery. Another surgeon recommended a two-stage amputation, with surgeons back in Britain performing a second procedure to reduce pain. Reports in The Lancet from that time suggest that doctors were frustrated by the lack of progress being made in amputees' treatment. Stump pain was preventing soldiers from returning to work and normal life. Even though medical professionals put all their efforts into sharing techniques and experiences to help the injured servicemen, there was little mention of phantom limb pain, although it had been identified around 50 years earlier. Historian Dr Emily Mayhew, from Imperial College London, who led the research, says 50% of the men who had amputations during World War One ended up returning to hospital for further treatment. She suggests this figure is similar to the current percentage of amputees who experience post-amputation pain. "After three years or so they often say the pain is starting to come back," says Dr Mayhew. "This can be pain in the actual stump that is left over or a phantom pain, which is a very odd sensation of the limb still being there, or the limb in pain still being there. "It's a bit like when your feet get very cold and feel numb, except that there is nothing there." Phantom limb pain is now understood to be a consequence of how the nervous system adapts to damage nerves and the loss of a limb. However, this knowledge doesn't make it any easier to manage. Nowadays, surgeons try to remove as little of the limb as possible in a process called debridement. They concentrate on stopping the bleeding, taking away the minimum of damaged tissue and tidying up the injured area as much as possible. Pain medicine specialists, rehabilitation experts and physical therapists then all get involved in treating the patient and lessening any post-amputation pain. Yet, Professor Andrew Rice, from the department of pain research at Imperial College London, says, treatments are far from effective. "In the last century, there have been significant advances in our understanding of how the brain and nervous system respond to amputation and nerve injury, in the rehabilitation process and prosthesis technology; but in terms of our therapies for chronic pain that can follow an amputation, really we've not advanced much since the First World War." But the Great War did give rise to new physiotherapy techniques and is seen as instrumental in the move to create lighter and more flexible artificial limbs. Hospitals were set up around the country specifically to help solders who had lost limbs, such as Erskine Hospital in Renfrewshire and Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton, London. Dr Mayhew adds: "There was an extraordinary gathering of medical expertise at the time of the First World War. It was the greatest coming together of the medical profession, who were all dedicated to the wounded." Now, Centres for Blast Injury Studies, like the one at Imperial College London, bring together scientists and medics to try to understand the damage to humans caused by all kinds of weaponry, such as a small piece of shrapnel or an explosive device. The aim is to understand the impact of these forces at a molecular level, so that the cause of something as miserable as phantom limb pain can finally be unlocked for good.

In the century since World War One, doctors still haven't worked out how to treat the pain commonly felt after a limb is removed.

Summarize the following article: The education minister has written to councils advising them head teachers should instead exercise discretion. Pupils are allowed to have up to 10 days away, but schools are judged on absenteeism rates. Campaign group Parents Want a Say said the advice was a "terrific result". Nearly 2,000 people signed a petition after hundreds of parents were fined over term-time holidays. In his letter to councils on Wednesday, Huw Lewis said he was concerned some councils were advising "head teachers should not exercise their discretion and should instead refuse all requests for term-time absence as a matter of course", regardless of the circumstances. "This is contrary to the regulations which allow a margin of discretion for the school in such matters so that each request can be considered fairly and on its merits," the minister wrote. A BBC Wales Freedom of Information request in 2015 found wide variations in policy of imposing fines. While Cardiff council issued 370 fixed penalty notices between January and May, 10 other councils did not issue any. After receiving the petition in December, petitions committee chairman, William Powell AM, wrote to Mr Lewis saying some parents may have been dealt with unfairly and unlawfully. He welcomed the minister's response, saying some councils had been "engaging in a cynical game of 'pass the parcel' on this issue". "It is clear that the minister's intention, contrary to what applies in England, is for the discretion of individual head teachers to be respected," Mr Powell said. "The Minister's response to the petitioners, in the light of compelling evidence received, is, in my view, a victory for common sense." Craig Langman, chairman of campaign group Parents Want a Say, said it was a "terrific result" for parents in Wales. "We hope this will encourage Westminster to reconsider its position on the policy in England," he added.

Campaigners who petitioned against parents being fined for taking term-time holidays are claiming a victory after it was agreed a blanket ban breached regulations.

Summarize the following article: David Cameron has boasted that the deal he secured in Brussels with the 27 other European leaders is legally binding, and cannot be reversed. He believes the promises in the deal have legal force, and that will be incorporated into EU law as part of treaty agreements in the future. But in his first interview since announcing his decision to campaign to leave the European Union, the man who is responsible for the English legal system, Michael Gove, suggests that European judges could throw out the changes that Mr Cameron fought so hard to achieve. And he urges voters to realise that the European Court still "stands above every nation state". He believes nothing in the deal will change that. Given his role, and his closeness to the prime minister, Mr Gove's views have considerable significance in the early days of this fraught campaign. With his customary sharp politeness, Mr Gove explained repeatedly how Mr Cameron's assertion that the deal can't be unpicked is essentially wrong. He carefully stepped around making that direct accusation, saying instead: "There are two things which are true. "The first thing is the prime minister is right: this is an agreement between 28 nations and all have agreed that they will abide by it. "But above those nations sits the European Court of Justice." But clearly, he, as now one of the senior members of the Vote Leave campaign, is disappointed that the prime minister's negotiations did not achieve his original aim of "full-on treaty change" and wants to highlight what he believes are the limitations of what's been achieved. Mr Gove's comments will be catnip for Eurosceptics who've already been arguing that Mr Cameron's deal is hardly worth the paper it's written on. For David Cameron, maintaining the sense that the deal he's achieved can and will improve the UK's relationship with the rest of the European Union in a meaningful way is a vital part of his campaign. It's one thing Tories from different parts, different generations of the party, disagreeing. It's quite another when it is two who have shared political hopes, ambition, and even family holidays. Michael Gove praised Mr Cameron's generosity in allowing ministers to disagree publicly. But politics has moved into a phase when friendships and loyalties will be tested like never before. There'll be more of Mr Gove's interview here throughout the day on BBC News.

So it begins - not just rivals, but political friends of the closest kind, making strong but completely contradictory claims in the referendum campaign.

Summarize the following article: Player Marc Bartra had to have an operation after breaking a bone in his wrist. No other players were hurt. Dortmund police said the vehicle was targeted deliberately but said it's too early to know whether it was a terrorist attack. The match against Monaco has been delayed until 5.45pm (UK time) on Wednesday 12 April. Dortmund Police said there will be extra security and more police officers at the delayed match to make sure people are safe. Click here for advice if anything in the news upsets you. Fans at the 80,000-seater Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, who had already arrived for the match, were told to stay there until it was safe to leave. The stadium was later evacuated safely and police thanked the fans for their co-operation. Borrusia Dormund and their fans used social media to help find the thousands of Monaco supporters, who had travelled to Germany for the match, a place to stay for the night.

Three explosions have hit a bus carrying the German football team, Borussia Dortmund, to a Champions League match at their home stadium.

Summarize the following article: The rapper says the strict anti-narcotics laws introduced in the 1980s unfairly targeted minorities. In the four-minute video, he also argues that "young men like me who hustled became the sole villain, and drug addicts lack moral fortitude". Jay Z, who was born Shawn Carter, has frequently rapped about his past as a crack dealer. In the illustrated film, the 45-year-old musician suggests punishment of drug dealers is hypocritical given that states such as Colorado have legalised marijuana. He points out white businessmen are profiting off the decriminalised cannabis trade, while black men with jail records are barred from participating in the industry. "Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African-Americans have been going to prison for?" he says. He also blames the sharp rise in the US prison population on mandatory minimum sentences. The video goes through the history of the drug war, and how it has "disproportionately come to lock away blacks and Latinos". Jay Z has rapped in many of his songs about his own drug-dealing past in New York City's Brooklyn borough.

Jay Z has declared the decades-long US war on drugs an "epic fail", in a short film he wrote and narrated.

Summarize the following article: The Gulf state has made little progress on improving migrant workers' rights, despite promises to do so, according to the rights group Amnesty International. Qatar disputes the claims and says improvements have been made. Here, we speak to three construction workers who have worked on sites in Qatar recently. They describe the conditions there as "pathetic" and "oppressive". "I came to Qatar from Kenya last June to work on the construction sites here. I got the work through an agency. I was paid $350 (£223) a month when I got here, which was a lot less than I was promised. I also spent a lot to get here - over $1,000. I worked at sites building government schools near [the capital] Doha from June to November last year. There are a lot of infrastructure projects going on here, alongside the World Cup venues. The main site that I worked on was not a good environment. The majority of the workers are uneducated, and the companies take advantage of them, so they cannot negotiate. They just become helpers and are badly paid. Many just end up accepting it, as they cannot go back to their home countries, because they are supporting their families. I am sending money back to my family. They are all looking to me, but I can't tell them what it is like here, or they would tell me to come home. When I arrived, I was told that I would be working as an electrician, even though I am not trained, which is dangerous. I got an electric shock on the site once, but thankfully I was OK. Conditions on the sites are very bad. You work all day out in the open in extreme heat. You start at 04:00 and work all day. There is no cold drinking water on the site, just hot water. It is very oppressive. No-one will listen if you complain. We once went on strike because we weren't paid for a month. We were eventually paid, but the management didn't care about our complaints. Life in Qatar is very expensive. The accommodation is provided through the company, but food and general living expenses make it hard to save anything. I try to send home what I can. As for the accommodation, I would describe the conditions as pathetic. In the first place I stayed, Al Khor, there were 10 people to one small room, with five bunk beds and nowhere to put anything. The toilets were outside. It was all very inadequate and uncomfortable. You also have to hand over your passport on arrival, so you can't leave. You feel trapped, like a prisoner. I am now staying in a place called Industrial - where most of the migrant workers live. The hygiene here is very poor. There are five to a room, which is a bit better, but it is not hygienic. I now work in a mall in sales after being allowed to leave my job at the construction sites. It is a bit better, but still not great. Life is very hard here. I would like to see the lives of migrant workers here change. It's just a sacrifice now. There need to be improvements made to safety, salaries and accommodation." "I am a truck driver working on the site of a new port project near Doha. I came here from Ghana a year and a half ago. Honestly speaking, we are suffering badly at the hands of our employers, especially in the summer time, as it is now. It is 40-50C here during the day, but there is no air conditioning in our vehicles, and we are breathing sandy air. At times the dust and sand flows in the air like snow. There is nobody to fight for us. For almost two months now, my company has refused to pay our salaries. Our company is killing us because they don't want to give us the little reward we deserve. My salary of $550 a month is very low for a driver like me. We have no days off to rest. This not only applies to me - it is the same with every worker at my company. I start at 05:00 and work until 19:00, with two hours of transportation to the site and back each day. Qatar has a labour office, but if you report your company, they will definitely send you back to your country. So everyone is too scared to report any problems. I'm an orphan from a poor home. I couldn't finish my secondary school education. I have been living in cabins in camps, separated by plywood. Almost all of the workers staying in these camps, are poor and come from countries in Africa and Asia, like Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. We all experience the same problems. About 15-20% of the workers here have achieved some quality of living standard, with a good salary, due to their educational background, or they have been able to get work through good foreign companies. But for the rest of us, the payment of salaries is a real headache. How I wish I could save enough money to leave here to get to Europe or the US. That's my ambition, because in Ghana, even graduates don't have work, so imagine how hard it is for people like me who had to drop out of school." "I worked on one of the World Cup sites in Doha at the end of March. I left after two weeks, because the conditions were an absolute disgrace. I work as a pipe fitter and supervisor and have been on construction sites all over the world. These were the worst conditions I've ever seen on any site. Most of the workers at the site where I worked were Indian. They are treated very badly, and the conditions in which they live and work are terrible. There is no drinking water available, there is no air conditioning in their cabins - and this was in 45C heat. They have filthy sanitation, and the food is dished out like in the Oliver Twist movie. However, what's even worse is the on-site safety, or lack of it. It does not exist, and my friends and I, who went to work there together, were horrified at the risks taken every day on the site. We were told that before we started there, one Indian worker had been killed. The site was run totally by Indians, and they were treating their own people very, very badly. But the upper management did not seem to care. They were just turning a blind all to it all. We were told by English managers that if we didn't like it to leave, so we did. There were also other Brits, along with myself, who were treated just as badly. We were paid a lot more than the Indian workers - they were on about $50 a week, and we were on closer to $33 an hour - but we were still ripped off because we left early."

Working and housing conditions of the 1.5 million migrant workers constructing buildings in Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup have been heavily criticised.

Summarize the following article: According to leaks, the game is set during the Victorian era with players getting to travel on stagecoaches from the time. An insider told gaming website Kotaku that the game will be out next year on PS4, Xbox One and PC. The game's developer Ubisoft said: "It is always unfortunate when internal assets, not intended for public consumption, are leaked." It's not been a good month for the video game developer. Ubisoft has apologised after the latest Assassin's Creed was plagued with bugs and unexpected technical issues. The French firm said it was providing the upcoming Dead Kings expansion pack for free to fix problems on Assassin's Creed Unity. The leak shows a video with an assassin climbing up a tower and looking out over what looks like Victorian London. It then shows some of the game's side activities; gambling in a pub and street-racing with carriages. It seems the game's task is to kill a man named Roderick Bulmer, who has been trafficking young children for the assassins' ancestral enemies. Ubisoft told PC Gamer: "While we certainly welcome anticipation for all of our upcoming titles, we're disappointed for our fans, and our development team, that this conceptual asset is now public. "The team in our Quebec studio has been hard at work on the particular game in question for the past few years, and we're excited to officially unveil what the studio has been working on at a later date. "In the meantime, our number one priority is enhancing the experience of Assassin's Creed Unity for players." Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

Next year's Assassin's Creed will be set in London.

Summarize the following article: The youngster, who cannot be named, initially said the incident happened on Saturday 22 March 2014. But in a later interview, he said he had "made up" that part and it had actually happened on a Tuesday. Liam's mother Rachel Fee and partner Nyomi Fee deny murdering Liam and blaming his death on another child. They are alleged to have killed Liam at a house near Glenrothes in Fife. The mother, 31, and her partner, 28, are originally from Ryton, Tyne and Wear. They also deny a catalogue of allegations that they wilfully neglected Liam and two other boys in their care by making them stand under cold showers, shut one in a dark room full of snakes and put a cage of live rats on another's head. The jury at the High Court in Livingston has been shown various pre-recorded interviews with the child the couple are alleged to have wrongly blamed. The trial heard last week that the boy told a police officer and social worker he had "strangled" Liam - but that the two-year-old was still sitting up and watching television afterwards. The boy could be seen putting his hand to his face, over his mouth, before telling the interviewers he had used just one hand. But in a later video played to the jury on day six of the trial, the boy said he "made up" the part about the incident happening on the Saturday. "It was Tuesday," he told the interviewers. He was later asked: "Do you understand what happened to Liam? How do you know that?" The boy replied: "Cos I did it." "You did it on the Tuesday?" the questioners continued. "Yes," the boy replied, adding: "Put my hand over his mouth." The jury also heard claims Rachel had been shouting at the boy on the day of Liam's death. "Can you remember what she was shouting at you about on that Saturday night?" asked the interviewer. "It was all my fault," the boy replied, adding: "Liam, it was all my fault." The youngster also told how the accused took him to a "snake house" in the town where they lived where there was a big snake called Hunter. He said: "Hunter is very... he's very big and he eats kids. So that's why most of the time he's in his cage locked up." The court was again closed to the public as the recordings were played to the jurors. The murder charge alleges the couple assaulted Liam at a house in Fife on various occasions between 15 March and 22 March 2014. The pair deny all the charges against them. The trial, before Lord Burns, continues.

A young boy who said he "strangled" toddler Liam Fee on the day he died changed his claim in a subsequent interview, a murder trial has heard.

Summarize the following article: Mr Trump plans to visit Portrush in 2019, according to the Belfast Telegraph. No, the president hasn't bought a caravan in the seaside resort. Instead the DUP's Ian Paisley says Mr Trump plans to take up his invitation to attend the Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush. At a traditional St Patrick's Day event in Washington DC on Thursday, the president described Royal Portrush as "a great, great course". The paper says that Mr Trump could also travel down the County Antrim coast to Carrickfergus to visit the Andrew Jackson Cottage. The Irish News and News Letter focus on the list of non-domestic beneficiaries of the controversial RHI scheme. Both papers publish the full list. The News Letter says one farmer has been paid almost £660,000 in less than four years under the scheme. Paul Hobson, a Dungannon poultry farmer who supplies Moy Park, has 13 wood pellet heating systems at his facility. When all costs are factored in, the paper says that Mr Hobson has made £80,000 in profit from using the boilers. He says the improved conditions in his sheds have seen "quite an upturn in the return from my chickens" and his site and been audited by Ofgem and given a clean bill of health. The Irish News says that £27m has already been paid out to 400 companies and organisations, with chicken and turkey farmers prominent on the list. Michael Petticrew, director of Ballyclare-based lorry dealer Dennison Commercials which received £343,734 in subsidy payments, tells the paper that getting involved in the scheme was "not without risk". "We now have 11 boilers and instead of burning tens of thousands of litres of oil from overseas we're burning wood pellets grown here in Northern Ireland," he says. Another list featured prominently in The Irish News is one detailing St Patrick's Day events in Northern Ireland. Parades are being held in Belfast, Londonderry, Downpatrick, Armagh and Newry. The Belfast Telegraph says the world is going green as landmarks across the globe are transformed for St Patrick's Day. It also talks to ex-pats living in London, Australia and South Africa about how they celebrate the day. The paper also says pupils from Methody and Belfast Inst will not be staging their traditional processions from their school gates to the Kingspan stadium for the Schools' Cup rugby final. The Telegraph's Jim McDowell says the "colourful pupil parades" have been banished to history "on the advice of the police, Ulster rugby's overlords and with the spectre of the Parades Commission hanging over them". Meanwhile, Ulster Unionist councillor Jim Rodgers says a delivery company's offer to pay for a "hangover cure" for customers on Saturday "trivialises" binge drinking. The company is to give £13 credit to customers who have an entertaining story of "mischief and woe". The papers also report on the case of three County Armagh businessmen given suspended sentences for supplying bogus electricity-saving devices described as "little more than pieces of plastic". The News Letter quotes Richard Knipe of Trading Standards, who says: "The laws of physics would have to be rewritten for these devices to have worked in the manner claimed by the defendants." In a final twist on St Patrick's Day, the Irish News features a call from a University College Cork academic for the festivities to be extended into 18 March, a day to celebrate the saint's "long-forgotten" wife Sheelah. The paper says folklorist Shane Lehane came across "Mrs St Patrick" while scouring Irish newspapers from before the Great Famine. Further evidence was found in old texts which showed that Ireland's national day of celebrations spilled over into a second day. Plans may already be afoot in Belfast Holyland area...

The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme makes its return to the front pages on Friday, joined by another source of controversy - President Donald Trump.

Summarize the following article: The Massandra winery near Yalta is Ukrainian government property, but new managers took over after Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014. Massandra began auctioning about 13,000 vintage wines on Tuesday, some dating back to 1935 and the Soviet war years. The firm's website says foreign collectors have shown intense interest. "Collectors worldwide were eagerly awaiting the sale and the winery's phone lines have been ringing non-stop," a Massandra statement said (in Russian). Massandra says some of the "pearls" of Crimean wine are on sale, including madeira from Koktebel and Alushta, which is no longer produced. A 1944 muscat produced just after the liberation of Yalta by Soviet troops is also on sale. A spokesman for Ukraine's agriculture ministry, Olexander Liev, warned Massandra staff that they would be held "criminally responsible for the illegal sale of Ukrainian national heritage". "We are sure that respected international and Russian collectors recognise that they risk having international sanctions applied to them for illegal economic activities," he said. EU countries, the US and some other Western nations are boycotting trade with Crimea under international sanctions imposed on Russia when it seized the peninsula. In March 2014 a majority voted to join Russia in a controversial Crimean referendum, held after Russian special forces and local militants had seized Ukrainian military installations. In September this year Russian President Vladimir Putin and Italy's ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi toured the Massandra winery and allegedly drank a 240-year-old sherry there. Ukrainian prosecutors accused the winery's new pro-Russian director Yanina Pavlenko of illegally uncorking a bottle of 1775 Jerez de la Frontera worth more than $90,000 (£58,000). In the new Massandra statement, Ms Pavlenko said wines had been carefully selected for auction "in order not to undermine the value of the collection at all". Massandra also plans to put wines on sale on the internet soon.

The Ukrainian government has condemned a Crimean auction of vintage wines as illegal and warned foreign buyers that international sanctions are in force.

Summarize the following article: The white female rhea, nicknamed Snowflake, was spotted in North Boarhunt. It is thought she escaped from a private collection. Police, the fire service and members of a specialist team from Sparsholt College helped catch the bird. She is being kept at the college while she waits to be reunited with her owner. A man spotted the bird at 12:30 BST on Thursday in his garden. Chris Mitchell, centre manager at Sparsholt College, said: "Working with animals, we're accustomed to unusual conversations involving out of the ordinary situations. "However it did catch me slightly off guard when we had a call from the Hampshire police control room declaring that there was a large bird in a front garden in North Boarhunt and could the college assist."

A large bird native to South America has been captured in a garden in Hampshire after fleeing from its owner.

Summarize the following article: The Bairns move a point closer to leaders Rangers but there was precious little for the fans to cheer. A drab first half passed without a single shot on target by either team. After the interval Falkirk's Bob McHugh had a shot saved by Queens goalkeeper Robbie Thomson and home keeper Danny Rogers had only one effort to save. While Falkirk boss Peter Houston may view the game as part of their recovery after that hammering in Dingwall and Queens counterpart James Fowler will be grateful of the point, the match was mostly forgettable. There were only two chances of note in the first 45 minutes. Media playback is not supported on this device In the 36th minute Will Vaulks fired a shot from the edge of the box that was bravely blocked by Queens defender Andy Dowie. McHugh gathered the loose ball but his hooked half-volley flew wide. Five minutes later Vaulks too missed the target as he sent a shot across the face of the Queens goal. In the 50th minute, McHugh ought to have opened the scoring from seven yards after skilful build-up play by Aaron Muirhead, but he tried to place his shot when one-on-one with Thomson and the visiting goalkeeper made an impressive save. Throughout the second half Houston tried to jolt his team out of their mediocrity by making three substitutions. He sent on Blair Alston for McHugh, striker Lee Miller for John Baird and Mark Kerr for Tom Taiwo, while Fowler replaced Alex Harris with Mark Millar. Yet it was hard to see where a goal would come from. Rogers was called upon for the first time with 20 minutes remaining when he had to rush back to his goal to tip over the bar a speculative cross-come-shot by Lewis Kidd, who had worked a one-two with Gary Oliver down the right wing. And he was given a fright when Kidd flashed in a superb cross from the right touchline that fizzed across the six-yard line just ahead of his despairing team-mates. Three shots in the final 10 minutes summed up the match - Falkirk the more ambitious of the two teams but lacking in guile. First Kerr screwed a shot wide from 18 yards when he had time to pick his spot. Kerr's effort was followed by Muirhead's shots which rolled to within a few yards of the corner flag on either side of Thomson's untroubled goal.

Falkirk recovered from Tuesday's 7-0 League Cup mauling by Ross County to earn a point in a dismal Championship match against Queen of the South.

Summarize the following article: Emergency services were called out to the Burnmouth harbour area at about 20:30 on Tuesday. The coastguard had received reports the man was missing and Eyemouth inshore and offshore lifeboats were launched and onshore searches also carried out. Police said the pensioner was found on the shoreline and subsequently pronounced dead at the scene. His family has been informed and a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal. The RNLI said it had been called out after the kayaker was reported as "overdue" having left Burnmouth earlier in the day. Its inshore lifeboat carried out a thorough search of the coastline from Eyemouth to Burnmouth, while the all-weather lifeboat searched further offshore. Local coastguard teams also started a shore-based search. The crew of the inshore lifeboat found the man and his kayak onshore about 400 metres north of Burnmouth. Attempts were made to revive him and he was transferred to a stretcher and taken by the inshore lifeboat to the harbour where the Scottish Ambulance Service was waiting, but he failed to survive. The RNLI said the thoughts of everyone at its Eyemouth station were with the family.

A 77-year-old kayaker has died after failing to return from a journey off south-east Scotland.

Summarize the following article: The boy is said to be in a critical but stable condition after being hit in Gabriel Street, Saffron Walden, Essex. One neighbour told BBC Essex she believed the boy had been "dragged quite a way" across the road. An Essex Police spokesman said: "Police believe the driver was a learner and there were L-plates on the vehicle." For more on this and other stories, visit BBC Local Live: Essex The driver of the car, a Renault Megane, and a passenger have been voluntarily interviewed by police. Inquiries are continuing. Officers want to speak to any children accompanying the boy at the time of the accident, which happened shortly before 17:15 GMT on Wednesday. It is understood the occupants of the house have had to move out due to structural damage. Neighbour Kim Harris told BBC Essex: "I heard acceleration, tyres screeching and then a crash, bang. It made the house shake. "I noticed the car first, then noticed the boy a couple of yards away. He was scooped and handed to the parents as they came running out. "It was mayhem, there was lots of people shouting and screaming. He'd been dragged, I think, quite a way."

A five-year-old boy suffered life-threatening injuries when a suspected learner driver ran him over before smashing into a house.

Summarize the following article: 15 December 2016 Last updated at 14:01 GMT EDF's construction director Rob Jordan said one million tonnes of earth has been moved so far, but it'll be at least two years before construction starts on the new nuclear reactors. Some people living near to the site say the disruption is unbearable.

The new man in charge of building Hinkley Point C in Somerset says work is in full swing and the project will be delivered on time and on budget.

Summarize the following article: Dolphins are one of Aberdeen's biggest tourist attractions, with the city regarded as being among the best places in Europe to spot them. Volunteers from RSPB Scotland's Dolphinwatch expect thousands of visitors to try to catch a glimpse of the spectacular sea antics over the summer. The Dolphinwatch project was pioneered in 2013. The team will be at Torry Battery from 11:00 to 18:00 every Thursday to Sunday until 16 August. Dolphinwatch team member Helen Hiley said: "Aberdeen is such a fantastic place to see dolphins and it's amazing to have a wildlife spectacle like this so close to a city centre. "You often get great views of them feeding and playing at the harbour entrance." Amateur photographer David McCulloch, who took a recent dramatic shot which has proved popular on social media, described the experience of capturing the image as "out of this world".

Aberdeen's annual Dolphinwatch project is getting under way.

Summarize the following article: There would be no "celebrations and parties while the Okinawan people are in mourning", the military said. The restrictions will run until 24 June. Kenneth Shinzato, 32, was arrested on 19 May but has not yet been charged. Many Okinawans resent the US base and the incident has reignited tension. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raised the woman's death with US President Barack Obama ahead of the recent G7 summit in Japan. The Okinawa facility, home to some 30,000 US troops, has banned them from visiting clubs and bars and drinking alcohol off-base. Festivals and concerts at the base have been postponed. Marine Corps commander in Japan Lt Gen Lawrence Nicholson said at a news conference: "We should not be out shooting fireworks... If we really believe we are part of the Okinawan community, then we too must be in mourning. And we do." He said: "There are no words in the English language that can adequately convey our level of shock, pain and grief at the loss of life of this innocent victim. "My request to the Okinawa people is simple: please do not allow this terrible act of violence to drive a wedge between our two communities." The ban also applies to military families and civilians employed by the military. Kenneth Shinzato, a US military worker in Okinawa, was arrested on suspicion of dumping a woman's body. The body of the 20-year-old woman, missing since April, was found at a location he gave. Police say the man admitted abandoning the body. They also suspect he killed her but have not charged him with this yet. A suspect can be held for 21 days before charges must be brought. In 2013, US troops throughout Japan were placed under a night-time curfew after two US sailors pleaded guilty to the rape of a Japanese woman on Okinawa. In 1995, the rape of a 12-year-old girl on Okinawa by US servicemen prompted mass protests. The Okinawa base houses about half of all US troops in Japan. There are plans to relocate part of it - the Futenma air base - to a less-populated area of the island, but many Okinawans want the air base removed altogether.

The US military base on Japan's island of Okinawa has imposed a midnight curfew and a ban on alcohol after the arrest of an ex-Marine suspected of killing a Japanese woman.

Summarize the following article: Tahir Alam was banned under new powers after the Secretary of State considered evidence in a government inquiry, the Department for Education said. "Extremism has no place in our schools," a spokeswoman said. Mr Alam, the former head of governors for Park View Education Trust, denies any wrongdoing and will appeal. It was alleged last year in an anonymous letter that extremists had tried to take over several schools in Birmingham to advance radical interpretations of Islam. Although the provenance of the so-called Trojan Horse letter has never been established, a government inquiry led by former counter-terrorism chief Peter Clarke - one of a several separate inquiries carried out - found "sustained action carried out by a number of associated individuals to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist ethos into a few schools in Birmingham". Under the ban, Mr Alam is prohibited from holding governor roles in all independent schools, academies, free schools, and maintained schools. The Department for Education said: "We will investigate any allegations [of extremism] and will not hesitate to take action against individuals who put children at risk by exposing them to radicalisation or extremist views." Mr Alam called the ban an "abuse of authority" and described the allegations made in the reports as "completely false". He said he had worked as a volunteer for 20 years helping to transform failing schools into "excellent schools". "All of the activities that the school did in relation to accommodating the needs of the children from these communities, predominately Muslim communities, were done within the parameters of the law and the accommodation that we made in respect of religious needs, of course, were voluntary, they were never mandatory, they were never required," he said. "So we were simply responding to the communities that we were serving." The Trojan Horse inquiries were so named following allegations that Muslim groups were behind attempts to undermine certain head teachers and take over a number of schools in Birmingham. Correction 8 September 2015: This report has been amended to clarify the results of investigations into the claims of the so-called Trojan Horse letter.

The former chairman of the Birmingham education trust at the centre of the "Trojan Horse" inquiry has been banned from any involvement in schools.

Summarize the following article: Six cameras and a mobile detection unit were brought in at the beginning of June to catch drivers illegally using the bus lanes. The vast majority of erroneous ones are from the cameras in Donegall Square East. Incorrect penalty charge notices will be cancelled and refunds provided. Transport Minister Danny Kennedy said: "To find out that there has been a fault with the system is unacceptable." "This mistake will not impact the scheme. "The ambition of the scheme is not to raise money, but to keep the traffic in Belfast moving." he added. More than 6000 tickets have been issued in total since the scheme began. Money raised from fines goes towards an audio visual scheme on buses, to help the visually impaired and hard of hearing. NSL, the company that operates the scheme on behalf of the Department for Regional Development, said the error "was a time-based one, in which camera processor timing settings were incorrect". An audit of log files between 22 June, when the first fines were imposed, and 21 July had found 118 penalty charge notices (PCNs) were issued in error, NSL said. A further 612 fines given while the camera settings were incorrect were also cancelled, the company said. "All those motorists affected have been identified and they should already have received - or will soon receive - a letter from Transport Northern Ireland to explain what has happened, to let them know that their PCN has been cancelled or refunded," a spokesperson said. "We want to offer our sincere apologies for any distress this may have caused them. "We have identified what went wrong with the system and have taken measures to ensure this does not happen again." Mr Kennedy said he was setting up an independent technical audit of the arrangements for issuing the penalties. An external review of the response to the problems, including the role of his department and NSL, would also take place, he said. "I have sought and been given assurance by NSL and their contractors Zenco that this matter has now been thoroughly investigated and that the cause of the timing issue has been identified and resolved," he said. "Going forward, NSL has given a strong assurance that there will be no further recurrences of the fault. "NSL has put in place a number of measures, including checks on all video clips of potential contraventions to be carried out by both NSL and Zenco, and the provision of a daily status report to my department on the outcome of these checks." The cameras use number-plate recognition technology, and it is anticipated that more than 10,000 drivers a year will be caught. Penalties of £90 are reduced to £45 if paid within 14 days. Motorists who believe a penalty has been wrongly issued are able to appeal. The fixed cameras are positioned at: The mobile detection unit is monitoring main roads into the city including the Shore Road, Lisburn Road and Ormeau Road.

More than 700 fines handed to motorists using Belfast bus lanes have been cancelled because of a "timing issue" with detection cameras.

Summarize the following article: The runway at Glasgow airport has been resurfaced using the latest asphalt technology. But there's been minimal disruption because they've been doing it piece by piece in the middle of the night. The airport must be ready to reopen at 06:00. So at just after 23:00 a convoy drives onto the darkened runway. First comes traffic management with 600 traffic cones to enforce a strict one way system. Then the specialist vehicles: planers, pavers, rollers, sweepers and a gaggle of repurposed fire engines whose high platforms now carry huge floodlights. Night becomes day again. Almost 200 workers have to be able to see what they're doing. This is the only runway at one of Scotland's busiest airports but within a few minutes it looks like a motorway construction project. Glasgow handles almost 100,000 aircraft movements a year. With the trend in the airline industry towards higher capacity, heavier aircraft, that means the runway takes a pounding every day. This project is making it fit for the next decade. If it looks like a meticulously organised operation that is because it has been well over three years in the planning. Since last November, night by night, 120m at a time, this small army has been lifting off the runway's surface and laying a new, hi-tech one. Other work has also been taking place overnight, including replacing more than 200 runway and taxiway lights. Most of it has been done with minimal disruption, indeed without passengers noticing. The occasional delayed flight has missed the night time deadline and been diverted to an alternative airport. But the airport's operations director is Mark Johnston says the plan has been to do the work at a time when it would least affect traffic. That's why it has been taking place through the winter: "We have to notify the airlines far in advance of doing the works," he says. "We effectively take the runway at eleven o'clock at night and hand it back at five in the morning." It has meant hundreds of variables have been taken into consideration. One example: the air ambulance normally based here has to decamp to Prestwick when the diggers move in. It's taken place night by night, but not every night. Before the new surface can be laid, the key science is meteorology. If it's too cold or too wet, everything has to be postponed. On the night I join them, the forecast is good and the first asphalt has been laid before midnight. Kevin Berry, the airfields operation director of the principal contractor VolkerFitzpatrick, has been checking the weather forecast since lunchtime. "We're checking the weather at twelve o'clock, we're checking the weather at four o'clock, half past six, half past nine," he explains, "And then we go. "And we don't go until we've got the material batched and ready to come." It is no ordinary material. It's called Marshall asphalt, the surface of choice for civil and military runways. Mixed with the bitumen are stones that have been ground down almost to the size of grains of sand. Anything larger would not make the grade. Pebbles and high speed aircraft do not mix. Marshall asphalt was first created before WW2 but project manager Roy Thomson says the particular mix they are using at Glasgow has a 21st Century edge. "We've tried to develop an asphalt that's capable of modern day fatigues and runway loadings, looking forward to the future. "Glasgow Airport will have a polymer modified asphalt which will be the first runway in Scotland to adopt that material." Polymers are long chain molecules of the kind found in plastics and our own DNA. Their use here will result in a runway that will perform better at extreme temperatures. It will resist rutting, cracking and fatigue and will last longer. The clock ticks relentlessly towards 05:00. Some of the machines have an otherworldly look to them as they lay the new surface in a carefully coordinated ballet. In a way it's comforting when I spot some workers with spades ready to do the detailed stuff. While the work has been taking place here a laboratory in Airdrie has been testing a sample of the mortar used to seat the new runway lights. The mortar must not only have set, but have hardened enough to withstand aircraft landing on it as soon as the runway reopens. Word comes back that it meets the standard. Elsewhere things are getting groovy. The new asphalt is a smooth as it is high tech. But a specialist team must cut grooves in the pristine surface to let rain drain off and allow planes to catch a grip. In another couple of nights the whole project will be complete. About 52,000 sq m of new surface will have been put in place. By 05:00 on this particular morning everything was on schedule. The new surface swept, the entire runway minutely inspected. At 06:00 the first flight - to Amsterdam - took off. No-one on board - and few in the whole of Scotland - could have had any idea about what had been going on overnight.

A major civil engineering project has been taking place since last November while most of Scotland was asleep.

Summarize the following article: Media playback is not supported on this device The Blues became champions of England for a sixth time - with two games to spare - thanks to Michy Batshuayi's late goal in a 1-0 win at West Brom. Conte's side face Arsenal in the FA Cup final on 27 May. "For me to win in my first season in England, I am really proud of the achievement," he told BBC Sport. "My players showed me great professionalism, commitment, work-rate and will to try to win this league. "We have two games to celebrate, then we try to make this season from great to fantastic." Conte, who took charge at Chelsea after leaving Italy at the end of Euro 2016, says switching to a three-man defence in the wake of a 3-0 defeat by Arsenal in September was pivotal to the Blues' season. Chelsea were eighth, eight points behind leaders Manchester City after that loss at Emirates Stadium. A 13-match winning streak followed, and they are now 10 points clear of their nearest challengers with two games remaining. Media playback is not supported on this device "It was very frustrating for me because at the end of the Arsenal game I didn't see anything from my work or my ideas on football," said Conte. "But in this moment I found the strength to change and take responsibility and find a system for the players. "It was a key moment in the season because every single player found in this system the best for him. "When you arrive after a bad season and the team has arrived at 10th in the league it means there are a lot of problems. "To find the right solution quickly isn't easy and for this I want to thank my players because they trusted in the new work, my philosophy, video analysis to see mistakes and they showed the right attitude and behaviour." Conte apologised after arriving late to his post-match news conference, explaining his players had showered him with beer and champagne and that "my suit is a disaster". He revealed he had cut his lip as he celebrated Batshuayi's winner, but that it was not the first time he had been injured as a result of his joyful exuberance. "In these moments, anything can happen," he said. "I hurt my lip during the Euros as well and they had to put a stitch in it after we scored against Belgium. "Simone Zaza gave me a header - I don't think it was on purpose. I'm not sure if this was a header or a punch but I am ready to repeat this." The conference came to an abrupt end when players Diego Costa, John Terry and David Luiz arrived and, impatient to start their celebrations, ushered him away. This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser Captain Gary Cahill said the players always believed they could mount a title charge despite finishing 10th last season, 31 points adrift of champions Leicester. "We felt confident in the dressing room all season," he said. "We deserved it over the season. We worked very hard and have been the better team. "It is fantastic to wrap it up with a couple of games to go. It is very difficult in this league." Fellow defender David Luiz says the chance to land his first Premier League title was one of the reasons he returned to the club from Paris St-Germain in a £34m move in August. "When I decided to come back here I dreamed to win the Premier League. I am very happy because my dream came true," he said. "Conte works with passion every day. He deserves it because he is working hard every day." The Chelsea boss' influence on his side was also acknowledged by West Brom counterpart Tony Pulis. "They're worthy champions," he said. "They had a poor start, and Conte had to change things. "He's made it his team. Italian teams are tactically organised and well run. "He changed their shape and they've been superb from that moment onwards." Media playback is not supported on this device This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser BBC analyst and former Tottenham and Newcastle midfielder Jermaine Jenas believes Conte deserves the credit for turning the club around, highlighting his conversion of Victor Moses from a fringe midfielder to first-choice wing-back. "They lost their way last season, they were unrecognisable. He has come in and reinvigorated them," Jenas said. "What I like about Conte is he gave Moses a chance and trusted him. He has made him a better player and a Premier League champion."

Chelsea need to win the FA Cup to turn a "great season" into a "fantastic" one after clinching the Premier League title, says manager Antonio Conte.

Summarize the following article: The 27-year-old did not play in round five of the Premier League in Exeter on Thursday in the hope of being fit to play in the three-day tournament. Van Gerwen, the PDC world champion and world number one, was hoping to win a third successive UK title in Minehead. His withdrawal means that one player who reaches the third round will receive a bye to round four. As a result of Van Gerwen's injury, Dave Chisnall played two Premier League fixtures in Exeter, while the Dutchman will now play twice in Manchester on 23 March. This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser

Michael van Gerwen will miss the UK Open, which starts on Friday, after failing to recover from a back injury.

Summarize the following article: The 30-year-old is unlikely to feature against Oyonnax on Sunday but could play a part in the following two games. Payne suffered a fractured foot in Ireland's World Cup win over Romania. Payne replaces the de-registered Peter Nelson, whose season is over after he suffered a broken foot in last month's Pro12 game against Edinburgh. After this weekend's rearranged game in France, Ulster travel to face Saracens at Allianz Park on Saturday 16 January, then host Oyonnax at Kingspan Stadium on 23 January. The suggestion that the Irish-qualified Kiwi may play again at some point over the upcoming three-game segment of European pool games will come as a boost to Ireland coach Joe Schmidt, with the start of the Six Nations just one month away. Payne played in Ireland's opening two games at the World Cup in September and scored a try on his tournament debut against Canada. After sustaining his foot injury in the pool match with Romania, Payne was ruled out of the side which went on to defeat France the day before the game. The 10-times capped back was part of Ireland's 2015 Six Nations triumph, having formed a formidable centre partnership with Robbie Henshaw, who is currently nursing a hand injury. Ulster head coach Neil Doak this week effectively ruled out the prospect of Payne making a return this weekend, but both he and fellow centre Darren Cave are likely to come into the reckoning for the away game with pool leaders Saracens. Craig Gilroy is understood to have recovered from a facial injury and is set to be involved in the Ulster line-up, which will be announced on Friday. Stuart Olding, who has been out since last March with a cruciate ligament injury, is also close to returning. It appears, however, that prop Wiehahn Herbst may not be fit for the trip to Oyonnax while full-back Louis Ludik and wing Rory Scholes are also understood to be doubtful for the game. After a disappointing opening European defeat by Saracens, impressive back-to-back wins over Toulouse have put Ulster back in contention for a place in the knockout stages but they may need three closing victories to secure their last-eight berth.

Centre Jared Payne appears set for an imminent return to action after being named as an additional player in Ulster's European Champions Cup squad.

Summarize the following article: The 30-year-old Harlequins player aggravated an existing shoulder problem at Worcester last Sunday and has been ruled out of Saturday's Premiership game against Sale. "I'm seeing a specialist on Monday and will know more after that," he said. "It's all up in the air at the moment and it's hard to know where I stand." Eddie Jones' side have a number of injury worries going into the tournament, where their first game is against France on 4 February. "Chris will see a specialist early next week to determine the best course of action for his recovery; either an extended period of rest and rehabilitation, or an operation," said the club in a statement. Billy and Mako Vunipola have been ruled out with knee injuries, while Joe Launchbury has a calf problem and will be unavailable for Les Bleus' visit to Twickenham. James Haskell and George Kruis are doubts with a foot injury and fractured cheekbone respectively. And current skipper Dylan Hartley will need to prove his fitness after serving a six-week suspension.

England flanker and former captain Chris Robshaw could miss the Six Nations because of a shoulder injury and is to see a specialist next week.

Summarize the following article: The 38-year-old was arrested after the incident on Friday at 16:00 BST in the penthouse restaurant of the Meridian Tower, Swansea. South Wales Police confirmed he was on bail but being held in a secure unit and was being assessed. A Taser was used to subdue him at the Grape and Olive following a two-hour stand off. Supt Andy Kingdom said: "An incident of this nature is almost unheard of in this area and it has shocked local people and the wider community. "It is, of course, an isolated incident and whilst people will be talking about it for a long time, they should not live in fear as offences involving a firearm are extremely rare. "We have police officers who are specially trained to deal with these situations, and I would like to commend my officers, but also those innocent people caught up in the incident, for the bravery and cooperation they showed throughout. "I would also like to reiterate my appreciation to those who may have been affected by disruptions while the incident was ongoing." Nobody was seriously injured in the incident, which began in the busy restaurant on Friday afternoon. Staff quickly emptied the restaurant, helping some customers down the stairs, and armed police surrounded the 90m (300ft) building. Spanish football team Villarreal were staying opposite the building in the Marriott hotel ahead of their pre-season friendly against Swansea City on Saturday.

A man has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act following an alleged armed siege in Wales' tallest building.

Summarize the following article: The TMZ website quoted his manager as saying he died on Wednesday morning in hospital in New York. Murphy starred on comedian Dave Chappelle's show and also appeared in films including Jungle Fever, Night at the Museum and Lottery Ticket. He also co-wrote and appeared in some of his brother's films. In a statement to Hollywood Reporter, the Murphy family said their "hearts are heavy with the loss today of our son, brother, father, uncle and friend Charlie". "Charlie filled our family with love and laughter and there won't be a day that goes by that his presence will not be missed. Thank you for the outpouring of condolences and prayers," the statement said. Charlie Murphy arrived in Hollywood after working as a bodyguard for Eddie at the beginning of his career. He has said that he was so fond of Eddie and found him so funny that he would not hesitate to confront people who did not laugh during his appearances. Other comedians and actors have been paying tribute on social media.

US comedian Charlie Murphy, the older brother of actor Eddie Murphy, has died of leukaemia at the age of 57.

Summarize the following article: Media playback is unsupported on your device 23 February 2015 Last updated at 20:58 GMT Inside Out on BBC 1 examines Mr Blunkett's 45-year political career, which started in his home city of Sheffield when he was in his 20s. The Sheffield Brightside MP, who is due to retire at the general election in May, became a city councillor at the age of 22. He said he turned to politics to fight what he saw as a "lack of fairness, lack of justice and lack of concern" for working people. He went on to be a controversial home secretary and a victim of the phone-hacking scandal.

On the verge of the retirement of David Blunkett, former PM Tony Blair has told the BBC he could have been a prime minster "for sure".

Summarize the following article: The event on Royal Deeside is seen as the biggest in the Highland Games calendar, and is always on the first Saturday in September. This year it is helping to raise funds for residents affected when the River Dee burst its banks in December. It happened as Storm Frank battered Scotland. Jim Wood, Secretary of Braemar Royal Highland Society, said the Gathering was a "great spectacle" that was "known the world over". It was his first year in the role, and he said bringing together the infrastructure for one day of the year was a "daunting task". He said the money raised would go to help residents in the village of Ballater. "Storm Frank devastated the village of Ballater," he said. "If you had seen the arena on New Year's morning, it was more like a curling pond than it was like you see it today. "A huge amount of work from our groundsmen has gone in to making it look like that." Queen Victoria first attended Braemar in 1848 and since then it has been regularly visited by the reigning monarch and other members of the royal family. The Queen first attended the Braemar event as a seven-year-old child in 1933. She has attended virtually every year since coming to the throne in 1952. Last year's event marked the 200th anniversary of the society which runs it.

The Queen and other members of the royal family have joined thousands of spectators at the annual Braemar Gathering.

Summarize the following article: Media playback is not supported on this device It is the blue-riband race of the most prestigious meeting in the sport - but only once has a female jockey ridden in it, and that was more than a generation ago. Back in 1984, Linda Sheedy did not reach the finish on board 500-1 outsider Foxbury, so Devon-based Lizzie Kelly is determined to smash through another glass ceiling. Not that she goes along with the idea that women have it tougher in the saddle than their male counterparts. "A lot of the time I don't think girls push themselves to the extent that I was willing to push myself," she told BBC Points West. "I wanted to dress like a male jockey, with all the right gear and everything, and you've got to really strive to achieve just as much as they are. "I had to do more to fit in, and look right, look the same as all the lads." The 23-year-old rides Tea For Two in the big race on Friday and while she is comfortable with being viewed as a trailblazer in sport, it certainly is not something the conditional jockey burdens herself with. "If anything I do is good for women in racing or women in sport, I always think that's a good thing, but it's a total by-product," added Kelly, who has been part of BBC Radio 5 live's commentary team at the festival. "I'm selfish, I'm doing it for me, I'm not doing it for females in general - I'm doing it because this is what I've worked towards and dreamed about since I was a kid. "It's great if people look at me and think 'I can do better than her' - go on then, come on, let's do it, because why not?" Such a comment is typical of Kelly's go-getter personality - and she has already made racing history, by guiding Tea for Two to victory in the Kauto Star Novice Chase at Kempton in December 2015 to become the first female jockey to win a Grade One jumps race in Britain. "When I left university I just thought, I don't want to sit in an office from now until retirement," she said. "I was 21, and I just felt that I could sit in an office for 20 years in 20 years time, and that was the push. "I thought you have to take your chances while they're still there, and I'd have regretted not giving it a go in later life if I hadn't." Aside from the overriding gender theme, which Kelly accepts as a big talking point ahead of race day, it is a family team that surrounds Tea For Two. The eight-year-old is trained by her stepfather Nick Williams in the village of George Nympton, near Barnstaple, and co-owned by mother Jane Williams, who says her daughter wasted no time getting into the saddle. "She was so young that she was riding in the arena, they had letters on each corner of the arena, and she didn't actually know what the letters were, she was that young she couldn't read," said Jane. "She hasn't been given anything - she rides for us and we run a business, and if we don't get the success then we won't be here in years to come. "It's not a gift, she's earned it and I feel very proud that somebody can be that dedicated that they actually make it work." Described as being "a jockey for the big occasion" by her step-dad, Jane says she is more worried about her horse's mentality on the day than that of her jockey. "The horse is exceptionally temperamental - he likes going to Exeter, but I'm not sure he particularly likes going to Cheltenham," she added. "We've got to get there - it is a concern because he will have a lot of stage fright that day I suspect, because the festival is completely different to any other race meeting." Though Kelly and her family are proud to be making history at Cheltenham, they are looking to do far more than just make up the numbers. Tea For Two is a 66-1 chance with most bookmakers - but Jane Williams is surprised that the odds are so long and is targeting a place. "First of all we've got to get round, just jump round - if I came fifth or sixth I'd be absolutely over the moon." The final word goes to Lizzie herself; how will she feel waking up on Friday morning? "You think I'm going to sleep?" she responds. "It's our first Gold Cup, it's his [Tea For Two's] first Gold Cup, my first Gold Cup, mum's first Gold Cup - so I think the only way I can try to feel is excited." Interviews by Damian Derrick, BBC Points West

If the Cheltenham Festival is 'the Olympics of horse racing', then the Gold Cup is the equivalent of the 100m finals.

Summarize the following article: A document uncovered by Harvard's student newspaper included ratings of the attractiveness of female players as well as sexually explicit comments. University President Drew Faust called the behaviour "appalling". The team, currently in first place in the Ivy League, will forfeit the rest of its games this season. In what reports indicate may be a yearly tradition, male soccer players at Harvard circulated documents with pictures of their female counterparts, rating their attractiveness from one to 10 and giving reasons for their decisions. They also noted which sexual position they thought the women in question would prefer. Until recently, the Harvard Crimson newspaper reports, documents from 2012 were publicly accessible through a former team's Google Group. Ms Faust said an investigation had found that the practice had continued to the current season. She wrote that she "was deeply distressed to learn that the appalling actions of the 2012 men's soccer team were not isolated to one year or the actions of a few individuals". Ms Faust added in a statement: "The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard's view that both the team's behaviour and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community." The discovery of sexually explicit comments made by male Harvard athletes is at the milder end of what has been dubbed US college "rape culture". Banners regularly appear at the beginning of the academic year bearing slogans such as: "Rowdy and fun. Hope your baby girl is ready for a good time". Studies have found that members of US college fraternities are three times more likely to commit rape than other male students while members of sororities were 74% more likely to experience sexual assault. Past scandals include an email sent around one fraternity entitled "Luring your rapebait" and fraternity members chanting "No means yes". The most recent case involved a Stanford University swimming champion who sexually assaulted an unconscious female student before being jailed for six months - a term condemned by many as too short. Will Stanford sexual assault case silence future victims? BBC Pop Up: Fraternity culture and stopping college rape Last week after the original story came out, the female players in question said they were "appalled that female athletes who are told to feel empowered and proud of their abilities are so regularly reduced to a physical appearance". In an opinion piece published in the Crimson, they said: "More than anything, we are frustrated that this is a reality that all women have faced in the past and will continue to face throughout their lives." The university's director of athletics, Robert Scalise, said: "It's very disappointing and disturbing that people are doing this. "Any time a member of our community says things about other people who are in our community that are disparaging, it takes away from the potential for creating the kind of learning environment that we'd like to have here at Harvard." The men's soccer coach Pieter Lehrer wrote in a statement to the Crimson that the team was "beyond disappointed that our season has ended in this way, but we respect the decision made by our administration".

Harvard University has suspended its men's soccer team after players made sexual comments about members of the women's team.

Summarize the following article: The 40-seat "Bio-Bus", which runs on biomethane gas generated from sewage and food waste, was trialled at weekends earlier in the year. The gas generated from the annual waste of about five people can power the bus for up to 300km (186 miles). Operator First West of England will initially run a service between Cribbs Causeway and Stockwood. To mark the launch, those people who could prove they lived within 400m of the route were offered a free day of travel on the bus. The biomethane gas is generated at Bristol sewage treatment works in Avonmouth, which is run by GENeco, a subsidiary of Wessex Water. James Freeman, of First West of England, said: "We're delighted to have the BioBus in service, and hope that as many people as possible try it out for themselves. "We're really optimistic that this form of gas propulsion can play a significant part in meeting the future transport needs of our area." A total of 17 million cubic metres of biomethane, enough to power 8,300 homes, is generated annually at the plant through a process known as anaerobic digestion.

The UK's first bus powered entirely by human and food waste has gone into full service in Bristol after testing.

Summarize the following article: The tombstone was found near skeletal remains thought to belong to the person named on its inscription, making the discovery unique. Archaeologists behind the dig in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, said they believed it marked the grave of a 27-year-old woman called Bodica. The bodies of three children were also found in the "family burial plot". Neil Holbrook, of Cotswold Archaeology, translated the Roman inscription on the tombstone, which reads: "To the spirit of the departed Bodica [or Bodicaca], wife, lived for 27 years." Mr Holbrook said: "The unique aspect is that you can put a name to the person who lies beneath the tombstone." "What's weird is that the inscription only fills half of the panel, so there's a space left below it. "You can see horizontal marking-out lines, so I guess what they were going to do was come back later when her husband died and add his name to the inscription," Mr Holbrook added. He added that the skeletal remains, including the skull, were being excavated from beneath the headstone. Mr Holbrook has suggested the name Bodica was of Celtic origin. "Perhaps Bodica is a local Gloucestershire girl who's married an incoming Roman or Gaul from France and has adopted this very Roman way of death," he said. He said making the "good quality" headstone must have cost "quite a lot of money" at the time. The headstone's detailed carved pediment - or triangular top section - was particularly interesting, he said. "Looking at the pediment, those little 'teeth' which we could see from the back are decorative swirls. "It looks like a draping of a cloth or sheet, so in many ways the decoration is really fine." About 300 to 400 Roman tombstones have been discovered in the UK, with the tombstone being the tenth found in Cirencester. The stone, which is made of Cotswold limestone, was partially cleaned up on-site by the team, but will be taken away for further inspection. Mr Holbrook said it was "amazing" the tombstone had survived. "When they built the garage in the 1960s they scraped across the top of the stone to put a beam in. "If they'd gone a couple of inches lower they'd have smashed it to smithereens." Roman tombstones were often taken away and smashed up to be re-used in buildings in Cirencester in the Medieval period. "This stone might have fallen over quite quickly, and was covered over, and that's why it escaped the stone robbers," Mr Holbrook said. A total of 55 Roman graves have been found during the dig at St James Place. A further 70 graves were discovered on the same site of the former Bridges Garage on Tetbury Road and a bronze cockerel figurine was found in 2011. Cirencester, or Corinium as it was known, was the largest town in Roman Britain after London.

A "unique" Roman headstone is the first of its kind unearthed in the UK, experts believe.

Summarize the following article: It said the situation had been worsened by more than two months of political unrest in the south of the country. A blockade has severely hit the import of key goods by land from India. The blockade is led by ethnic communities angered by Nepal's recently promulgated new constitution. The Madhesi communities say the new constitution does not represent them properly. Why is Nepal's new constitution controversial? Fuel crisis threatens Nepal's forests The government accuses India of deliberately worsening the embargo, but India denies this. The blockade is being enforced while Nepal is still recovering from powerful earthquakes earlier this year which left up to 9,000 people dead. In a stark warning, Unicef says supplies of vaccines and antibiotics in the country are now critically low - and the fear is that children could be the worst hit. More than 200,000 families affected by the earthquakes are still living in temporary shelters at an altitude above 1,500m (4,920 ft) where weather conditions will be harshest this winter. "The risks of hypothermia and malnutrition, and the shortfall in life-saving medicines and vaccines, could be a potentially deadly combination for children this winter," Unicef Executive Director Anthony Lake said in a media statement. "During my recent visit to Nepal, I witnessed first-hand the precarious living conditions of many of the earthquake survivors. They could now be facing a new disaster - without adequate food, protection from the cold, or healthcare." There are also fears that the rising dependence on firewood - triggered by the fuel crisis - is increasing indoor pollution, which in turn could lead to a rise in pneumonia cases. Last year more than 800,000 children under five suffered from the condition in Nepal, Unicef says, and about 5,000 died. Already stocks of the inoculation against tuberculosis have run out completely in regional medical centres. The blockade along the border with India began in September. Around 60% of Nepal's medicine is imported from India, along with large amounts of fuel, food and other supplies.

Shortages of fuel, food, medicines and vaccines are putting more than three million infants at risk of death or disease as winter begins in Nepal, the UN children's fund (Unicef) has warned.