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The British Team Sky rider, who started the day 23 seconds adrift of Australian race leader Michael Matthews, ended it leading Alberto Contador by 15 seconds.
Matthews dropped away on a hilly stage before the 15km ascent to the summit finish at La Madone d'Utelle.
A fascintating final 5km saw Contador and Thomas both attack but Katusha's Ilnur Zakarin won the race to the line.
"Thankfully I had the legs and I was able to respond to Contador's attacks," said Thomas.
"I'm disappointed not to win the stage, but to gain a little time on Richie and Contador was really good.
"It's by no means finished. Contador is a pretty good bike rider and Richie and Zakarin too. They have won huge races so there's still a hell of a long way to go."
Thomas had six team-mates helping him on the final climb but only Sergio Henao was around to chase down Contador when the two-time winner of Paris-Nice attacked with 5km remaining.
Zakarin and defending champion Richie Porte, who won the title as a Team Sky rider but now races for BMC, followed to make it a quintet of riders out front and the Australian made his own victory bid in the final kilometre.
However, Thomas' late burst looked to have been enough, but the Welshman was pipped on the line, with Contador one second adrift in third.
Britain's Simon Yates was sixth on the stage to move up to eighth overall, 44 seconds behind Thomas.
Sunday's seventh and final stage is a 141km race which starts and finishes in Nice. It features six categorised climbs, including the famed Col d'Eze, before a descent into town.
Unlike the Tour de France, the final day is not a processional stage, so Contador and Thomas' other rivals will be expected to attack from the start.
Meanwhile, in Italy, Britain's Steven Cummings won stage four of Tirreno-Adriatico. The Dimension Data rider rode clear in the final 3km to win by 13 seconds from Team Sky's Salvatore Puccio.
The 'Race of the Two Seas' is led by Czech rider Zdenek Stybar and finishes on Tuesday.
Stage six result:
1. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha) 4hrs 45mins 11secs
2. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) Same time
3. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff) +1sec
4. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC Racing) +7secs
5. Sergio Henao (Col/Team Sky) +10secs
6. Simon Yates (GB/Orica GreenEdge) +20secs
7. Mario Costa (Por/Lampre) +31secs
8. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R) Same time
9. Jon Izagirre (Spa/Movistar)
10. Tony Gallopin (Fra/Lotto)
General classification after stage six:
1. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) 24hrs 10mins 26secs
2. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff) +15secs
3. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha) +20secs
4. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC Racing) +21secs
5. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Giant) +32secs
6. Jon Izagirre (Spa/Movistar) +37secs
7. Sergio Henao (Col/Team Sky) +39secs
8. Simon Yates (GB/Orica GreenEdge) +44secs
9. Tony Gallopin (Fra/Lotto) +51secs
10. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R) +1min 00secs | Geraint Thomas moved into the lead of Paris-Nice after finishing second on Saturday's penultimate stage. | 35795336 |
Just a week after retaining his Olympic title in Rio, Briton Murray, 29, lost in an hour and 34 minutes to 27-year-old Croat Cilic.
World number two Murray was attempting to secure his third Cincinnati Masters title, after wins in 2008 and 2011.
Victory brought Cilic his first title of 2016 and third since 2014's US Open.
"I'm very proud of this week," said Murray, who flew directly to Cincinnati from Rio. "Obviously today didn't go how I would have wanted. I certainly didn't expect to get to the final when I got here.
"It was a very, very positive week. I'm looking forward to a few days' rest."
Murray, whose 50th win of the year had come in the semi-final against Milos Raonic, was broken twice in the first set and, despite breaking back, fell behind.
The second set was a close affair, with Murray broken only in game 11, after saving four break points, and Cilic serving out the match.
It was Cilic's third win in 14 attempts against Murray, who will now look to repeat his 2012 US Open title when the year's final Grand Slam starts on 29 August.
Murray's previous defeat came against world number one Novak Djokovic in the final of the French Open in June.
Following that he won the Aegon Championships and Wimbledon before his gruelling four-hour victory over Juan Martin del Potro in the Olympic final.
Find out how to get into tennis in our special guide. | Olympic champion Andy Murray's career-best unbeaten run ended at 22 matches with a 6-4 7-5 defeat by Marin Cilic in the Cincinnati Masters final. | 37150965 |
Growing up in a Rio favela in the 1970s, Ms Assis started working as a nanny when she was just nine, and later found employment as a washerwoman and cleaning lady.
In a country where 43% of people are of mixed race and 8% are black, Zica - like millions of other Brazilians - has African or "afro" hair.
But as a younger woman, she felt she had to straighten it if she wanted to get work.
"The afro hair was considered sloppy and dirty, so I had to straighten my hair to get a job as a nanny," says Ms Assis, now 54.
"I never got used to it, I wanted my curls and my identity back."
After an unsuccessful search for a haircare professional who could help her keep her curls but make them more manageable, and in the absence of any specific products to buy - Ms Assis decided she would do something about it herself.
So aged 21 she entered a hairdressing school with the aim of understanding her hair structure, and developing a treatment that would give her the curls she had always dreamed of.
"I liked my hair when it was wet, because it became more malleable, and the curls were well defined," says Ms Assis. "That was the result I wanted with my product."
It took her 10 years and many mistakes until she found the perfect formula.
"My brother Rogerio who later became my partner was my guinea pig; I used his hair to test the products," she says. "In one of the attempts he became completely bald. I got some holes in my hair as well."
Ms Assis realized that she had finally succeeded when a neighbour complimented her hair and asked what she was using.
"That was when I knew I had got it right. I always got praised for my smile, my happiness... but never for my hair."
Ms Assis officially launched her haircare product in 1993, calling it Super Relaxante.
But rather than just selling it by the bottle, she decided to open a hair salon called Beleza Natural, where trained staff could apply the treatment for customers.
Today Beleza Natural has 33 salons and 11 kiosks across five Brazilian states with 130,000 customers a month, and Super Relaxante is a well-known brand.
It also sells a number of other haircare products, such as shampoos, conditioners and gels.
To help launch the business Ms Assis brought in three partners; her brother Rogerio, her husband Jair Conde and her friend Leila Velez.
None of them had any previous experience of running a start-up company. Her brother and Ms Velez worked at a branch of fast-food chain McDonald's, while her husband was a taxi driver.
To raise some funds to help the business get off the ground Mr Conde sold his Volkswagen Beetle taxi, the only thing of value that any of them owned.
With money too tight to pay for any advertising, the partners came up with a guerrilla marketing idea. They started to glue homemade posters inside the buses that passed by their neighbourhood.
This attracted the first customers, and then thanks to positive word-of-mouth, it was only a few weeks before a long line of women would start queuing outside the salon every day, up to two hours before it opened.
With staff often having to work until midnight to be able to keep up with the demand, the business had to move to a bigger premises, and in 1995 Beleza Natural opened its second shop.
By 2005 the company had five salons, and in order to maintain quality and speed of service, it put in place an assembly line system inspired by Rogerio Assis's and Leila Velez's time at McDonalds. This sees a Beleza Natural employee being responsible for one specific step of the five-step treatment.
The firm then gained both investment and advise from global entrepreneurship support organisation Endeavor. The help from Endeavor, a not-for-profit social enterprise based in New York, enabled Beleza Natural to greatly increase the speed of its expansion.
Further investment followed in 2013 from the Bermuda-based fund GP Investments. Today Beleza Natural has 4,000 employees, most of whom are young women from the shantytowns.
For 90% of these women it is the first time they have had a formal job. Strikingly, more than two out of every three of its employees was previously a Beleza Natural customer.
Walter Sabino Junior, founder of Hi Partners Capital & Work, a Brazilian investment fund that aims to spot the country's best new start-ups, says that the secret of Ms Assis's success is "passion and market demand".
"She invested with passion in area where no-one looked, and offers a quality service. That is crucial for any business to work."
Although the Brazilian economy is currently struggling, Ms Assis predicts that the business will grow by 13% this year.
She says that a major part of the company's success is that the four founders are all from the same lower income demographic as most of its customers.
"We see ourselves in our clients because we all come from the same reality," she says.
"We belong to a low income class, and we know what they want. We are aware of the problems that our clients face - struggling with their own hair, low self-esteem, and the issues it can cause in personal and professional life."
In 2013 Ms Assis was named by Forbes magazine as one of the 10 most powerful businesswomen in Brazil. After going to college to gain a business degree she now makes time to lecture on entrepreneurship, both in her home country, and abroad. | Zica Assis could never have imagined that her decision to stop straightening her hair would see her move from the poverty of a Rio de Janeiro favela or shantytown, to being the owner of a multi-million dollar business. | 35932532 |
Boris Johnson has said the number of officers will rise by almost 1,200 by 2015, compared with October 2011.
But Metropolitan Police figures, which are published on the mayor's website, suggest the total rise will be just 56.
London Assembly Labour member Joanne McCartney said: "The mayor's figures are misleading."
The mayor said he had used "the relevant comparison".
The mayor's figures show the total number of officers in London's boroughs are expected to rise from 18,103 in October 2011 to 19,285 in 2015 - an increase of 1,182 officers.
However, police figures which are published on the mayor's website, show there were 19,229 officers in October 2011, meaning the increase in police numbers would be just 56.
Ms McCartney said: "We know that 2,208 police officers have been lost already and now it looks like Boris's plans for the future of the Metropolitan Police are based on dodgy stats.
"They either know that these figures are wrong and are deliberately misleading the public, or they are not capable of understanding the police force they are in charge of."
Mr Johnson said: "The relevant comparison is between the budgeted figures for 2011 and the budgeted figures for 2015, and if you look at both of those columns you will see there is a substantial improvement in numbers."
London Assembly Green Party member Jenny Jones said: "The figures are definitely misleading as they give the impression there are more police on the street and in some cases there are fewer officers on the street.
"I don't know if the fudge was accidental or intentional but either way it is totally unacceptable."
The Labour group has now asked the UK Statistics Authority to investigate the figures. | London's mayor has been accused of using misleading figures for the number of police officers in the capital's boroughs. | 21461623 |
David Norris, 64, from Milton Keynes, died at the scene when his plane crashed at Aston Rowant Nature Reserve at 14:35 on 15 January.
He had flown from Turweston Aerodrome in north Buckinghamshire.
An inquest into his death will be held on 1 February. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said it was investigating the incident. | A pilot killed when his light aircraft crashed in Oxfordshire has been named. | 38747107 |
It said it was strengthening its controversial US-made Thaad missile defence system after the North's test of a nuclear bomb at the weekend.
The South has carried out live-fire exercises in response to the test.
The US has warned that any threat to itself or its allies will be met with a "massive military response".
The North says it tested a hydrogen bomb that can fit on to a long-range missile.
Pyongyang has repeatedly defied UN sanctions and international pressure by developing nuclear weapons and testing missiles, and the provocations have only intensified.
In the past two months it has conducted intercontinental ballistic missile tests, sending one over mainland Japan into the Pacific Ocean. It has also threatened to fire missiles towards the US Pacific territory of Guam.
The United Nations Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting later on Monday to discuss its response.
Ahead of that meeting, South Korea and Japan's leaders had agreed to push for a stronger UN resolution on North Korea, said a South Korean presidential palace spokesman.
The Security Council last imposed sanctions in August, targeting North Korean exports.
Chang Kyung-soo, a defence ministry official, told parliament: "We have continued to see signs of possibly more ballistic missile launches. We also forecast North Korea could fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)."
No timeframe was given for any launches but this Saturday, the anniversary of the foundation of the North's regime, or 10 October, the establishment of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, were possible dates.
The ministry also told parliament the US would seek to deploy a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to seas off the peninsula.
It said it would temporarily deploy four more launchers of the US Thaad (Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence) missile defence system to join the two already at the site in Seongju, south of Seoul.
Both China and Russia are strongly opposed to the Thaad deployment.
The South's Defence Minister Song Young-moo said it was now presumed the North had reduced its nuclear warhead in size to below 500kg (1,100lbs), and would be able to fit one on an ICBM.
The ministry said there would be more live-fire drills in the South this month, involving Taurus air-to-surface missiles mounted on F-15 jets.
Monday's drills simulated the targeting of the Punggye-ri nuclear site in Kilju County, where North Korea carried out its bomb test.
South Korea and the US had also agreed "in principle" to revise current guidelines so that the South could double the maximum payload of its ballistic missiles, Yonhap also reported.
On Sunday, seismologists started picking up readings of an earth tremor in the area where North Korea had conducted nuclear tests before.
The US Geological Survey put the tremor at 6.3 magnitude.
North Korea later confirmed its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, detonating what it said was a hydrogen bomb that could be loaded on to a long-range missile.
Pyongyang then released pictures of leader Kim Jong-un with what state media said was a new type of hydrogen bomb.
Officials in China said they were carrying out emergency radiation testing along the border with North Korea.
The nuclear test prompted an angry response from US President Donald Trump who denounced the test as "hostile" and "dangerous", and called the North a "rogue nation".
He added that the US was considering stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea, which relies on China for about 90% of its foreign trade.
US Defence Secretary James Mattis later told reporters that while the US would respond to any threat "with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming", although they were "not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea".
A White House statement also said that Washington would defend itself and its allies "using the full range of diplomatic, conventional, and nuclear capabilities at our disposal".
South Korean President Moon Jae-in called the test an "absurd strategic mistake" and urged for the "strongest possible" response, including new UN Security Council sanctions to "completely isolate" the country.
China said on Monday that it had lodged a diplomatic protest with North Korea over the test.
Both China and Russia said any solution to the crisis could only come through talks.
Estimations of the power of the tested device have varied widely, from 50 kilotons to 120 kilotons. A 50kt device would be about three times the size of the bomb that struck Hiroshima in 1945.
Hydrogen bombs are many times more powerful than an atomic bomb. They use fusion - the merging of atoms - to unleash huge amounts of energy, whereas atomic bombs use nuclear fission, or the splitting of atoms.
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Tens of thousands of candidates will sit the exam on Thursday.
One of the two question papers was replaced last week amid concern about a possible leak.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) said it would be inappropriate to provide more details of what may have happened now. It appears the problem did not arise within the agency itself.
The organisation said it had secure processes in place for producing, printing and delivering exam papers.
It is possible the problem may have arisen after the paper was printed and delivered to schools and exam centres.
A spokesman for the SQA said the issue was an "isolated and external" factor and there did not appear to have been a failure in its own processes.
He said: "The whole examination process relies on the integrity and professional responsibility of those involved in the development and delivery of the qualifications, including those teachers, subject specialists and education professionals who work with SQA.
"Confidentiality clauses are applied to everyone who is closely associated with the production of exam papers.
"The security and confidentiality of our exam materials is of the utmost importance.
"We have secure processes in place for producing question papers, from initial development through to printing, delivery and storage.
"We do not believe this potential issue arose as a result of these systems and processes, but was an isolated and external factor."
The SQA is seeking to reassure candidates that they should not be concerned about the changes and it said Thursday's exam would be up to standard.
The potential problem was identified a number of weeks ago although the replacement paper was only sent out last week.
The SQA said: "We took precautionary action after a potential issue involving one of our Higher English papers was identified a number of weeks ago.
"We go to great lengths to create a bank of content which can be used. This process is completed many months before the exam diet is due to start.
"Because our processes were in place, we were able to adjust the paper quickly."
Chief invigilators at each school and exam centre have been given clear instructions to ensure candidates sit the correct paper.
The SQA said the invigilators are highly experienced and familiar with the strict processes for dealing with such issues.
The spokesman added: "We want to reassure candidates, parents and schools that all our exams, including this Higher English paper, are subject to the same rigorous standards of scrutiny to ensure candidates are able to display their knowledge and understanding."
Exam papers are expected to include a range of questions of varying degrees of difficulty which cover the whole range of the syllabus in each subject.
Inevitably, in a subject like English fewer answers are simply right or wrong like they might be in science or maths. Markers look for evidence of a candidate's understanding of the subject.
Teachers and councils - which run state schools - have not been given any information about just what the problem may actually have been and how it happened.
The Scottish Association for the Teaching of English welcomed the prompt action by the SQA.
A spokesman added: "English and Literacy are especially difficult subjects to assess with examinations, and it will be essential that any changes to examination questions will be clearly communicated and moderated when exam scripts are marked.
"It is essential that markers are properly informed of the standards, and that any oddities arising from this episode are taken into account before students receive their results."
A spokesman for the largest teachers union, the EIS, said the SQA should make as much information public as possible.
He said: "It is important that information relating to how the issue arose is shared with all concerned, so that similar incidents can be avoided in the future." | Scotland's exams agency is reviewing what led to this year's Higher English exam being changed at short notice. | 36205625 |
The hosts looked to be in serious trouble in the seventh minute when striker Lee Novak saw red for a two-footed challenge on Stuart Sinclair.
Rovers midfielder Chris Lines was unable to capitalise on some nervous goalkeeping from Ben Amos, while Ricky Holmes almost fired Charlton in front at the other end with a spectacular long range effort that flew inches over.
Despite their numerical disadvantage, it was the Addicks who broke the deadlock seven minutes before the break as Bauer met a Holmes free-kick to head past Rovers goalkeeper Adam Smith from close range.
Liam Sercombe, Lee Brown and Ollie Clarke all produced efforts on goal early in the second half as Bristol Rovers upped the tempo following a lacklustre opening period.
Sercombe was then denied by a fine reaction stop by Amos in the 55th minute, but the goalkeeper was less impressive when he tipped over Tom Broadbent's speculative 35-yard attempt.
Jake Forster-Caskey made a crucial block to prevent Lines testing Amos once again.
Bauer almost added a second in identical circumstances to the opener when he was again picked out by Holmes' 75th-minute free-kick, this time instead having to settle for a corner.
But his earlier effort ultimately proved decisive as Charlton held on for a deserved three points.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Charlton Athletic 1, Bristol Rovers 0.
Second Half ends, Charlton Athletic 1, Bristol Rovers 0.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Andrew Crofts replaces Ricky Holmes.
Attempt saved. Liam Sercombe (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Stuart Sinclair.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Chris Solly.
Tom Nichols (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Karlan Ahearne-Grant replaces Tarique Fosu-Henry.
Delay in match Ahmed Kashi (Charlton Athletic) because of an injury.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Jay Dasilva.
Delay in match Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic) because of an injury.
Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Jay Dasilva (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Tarique Fosu-Henry (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Tom Broadbent.
Foul by Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers).
Jay Dasilva (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Liam Sercombe (Bristol Rovers).
Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Patrick Bauer.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Jake Forster-Caskey.
Attempt blocked. Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Tony Watt replaces Billy Clarke.
Attempt missed. Tom Nichols (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Jake Forster-Caskey (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Tom Nichols (Bristol Rovers).
Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rory Gaffney (Bristol Rovers).
Jason Pearce (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Rory Gaffney replaces Ellis Harrison.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Ryan Broom replaces Ollie Clarke.
Foul by Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers).
(Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Patrick Bauer.
Attempt missed. Billy Clarke (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Jay Dasilva. | Patrick Bauer's first-half header gave 10-man Charlton a winning start to the new League One campaign as they edged out Bristol Rovers 1-0 at The Valley. | 40760929 |
20 January 2016 Last updated at 07:11 GMT
It is all around us, it can be found in our homes, buildings and is used to make car parts, household appliances and even knives and forks.
The UK has a rich history of steel production but over the past few months many British steel workers have been told they might be losing their jobs.
Jenny looks into why the steel industry in the UK is in trouble. | Steel is and important and useful metal. | 35354109 |
The visually-impaired athlete completed the 750m swim, 20km bike run and 5km run in one hour 14 minutes 53 seconds.
There were silvers for Ryan Taylor (PT2) and Kerry Large (PT4), ahead of debutant Ruth Wilson, who took bronze.
In another World Series Event in Yokohama, Japan, Mark Conway claimed bronze in the PT1 event.
The Series next heads to Strathclyde Park in Glasgow on 4-5 June as athletes continue to fight for ranking points ahead of the sport's Paralympic debut in Rio in September.
The World Triathlon Series: Yokohama highlights will be broadcast on BBC2 at 14:00 BST and then on the BBC Sport iPlayer. | Melissa Reid and her guide Hazel Smith have claimed PT5 gold in the ITU World Paratriathlon Event Series in Aguilas, Portugal. | 36296683 |
Canon Jonathan Draper, who is currently Canon Theologian at York Minster, will succeed Jonathan Meyrick, in the position.
Canon Draper said he hoped to make the cathedral more accessible to people in the city.
He also said he supported the Occupy Exeter protest movement and wanted to be involved in its debates and discussions.
Canon Draper was born in Boston in the US and studied at Durham University.
He was ordained in 1983 and served in Manchester, Putney and York. He also worked as a lecturer in theology at the University of Oxford.
Canon Draper said he was "very excited about coming to Exeter - to a beautiful cathedral, a vibrant city, and a county with many riches to explore".
"I am also really pleased to be coming to a city with a Premiership rugby team and a county with such fantastic countryside to walk in."
Canon Draper said he supported the Occupy Exeter protest movement which set up a tent community on Cathedral Green in mid-November.
"I think they're taking the right approach, there's no need for confrontation or getting heavy handed.
"The issues they raise are really important to us as a society and I think we need to take them seriously.
"We also need to help them to find ways to move on and to make the protest and the debate they've generated a bit more fruitful.
"It is my hope that the cathedral will continue to be able to offer spiritual sustenance and be a place where the great issues of our time can be thoughtfully and creatively addressed."
Canon Draper is expected to be in position by Easter. | The 70th dean of Exeter cathedral in Devon has been appointed. | 16198848 |
The 24-year-old Belgian midfielder, who rejoined the Saddlers for a third time last summer, has played 20 times for the League One club this season.
"It's a fantastic signing," said Walsall boss Jon Whitney. "He's an important player. He's the type of person you can build your team around."
Cuvelier is currently sidelined until April, having not played since 14 February because of a calf injury.
Young defender Kory Roberts, 19, and his fellow teenager midfielder, Jordon Sangha, also 19, have also signed new deals, which tie them to the Banks's Stadium until 2019. | Florent Cuvelier has signed a one-year contract extension with Walsall. | 39382836 |
Scottish Water said an increase in household charges was being limited to 1.6% for all council tax bands.
This means the average Scottish Water household charge in 2017/18 will be £357 - less than £1 a day.
The current average charge of £389 in England and Wales is £32 higher than in Scotland.
Charges for 2017/18 in England and Wales have yet to be announced.
Scottish Water has promised that by 2021 household charges overall will have fallen in real terms.
The company plans to invest £3.5bn in projects across Scotland between 2015 and 2021.
It said the six-year investment would be made in water treatment works, pipes and networks - providing customers with improved service, enhancing the environment and supporting jobs in the Scottish economy.
Ongoing projects include:
Chief executive Douglas Millican said: "Scottish Water customers continue to enjoy the benefits of one of the UK's best value water and waste water services.
"The quality of drinking water received by our customers has never been higher, while we've continued to achieve excellent customer satisfaction results.
"We are firmly focused on meeting our customers' expectations of us. That's why we're building on the significant improvements we've made to water services by providing value for money, stability and certainty in charge levels.
"By 2021, we expect to deliver further improvements to drinking water quality and environmental performance while at the same time ensuring that overall household charges have fallen further in real terms." | Household water charges in Scotland are set to rise by an average of £6 a year but will remain among the lowest in Britain. | 38568943 |
The study, by Imperial College London, calculated such eating habits could prevent 7.8 million premature deaths each year.
The team also identified specific fruit and veg that reduced the risk of cancer and heart disease.
The analysis showed even small amounts had a health boon, but more is even better.
A portion counts as 80g (3oz) of fruit or veg - the equivalent of a small banana, a pear or three heaped teaspoons of spinach or peas.
The conclusions were made by pooling data on 95 separate studies, involving two million people's eating habits.
Lower risks of cancer were linked to eating:
Lower risks of heart disease and strokes were linked to eating:
The results, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, also assessed the risk of dying before your time.
Compared with eating no fruit or veg a day, it showed:
The researchers do not know if eating even more fruit and veg would have even greater health benefits as there is little evidence out there to review.
Dr Dagfinn Aune, one of the researchers, said: "Fruit and vegetables have been shown to reduce cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and to boost the health of our blood vessels and immune system.
"This may be due to the complex network of nutrients they hold.
"For instance, they contain many antioxidants, which may reduce DNA damage and lead to a reduction in cancer risk."
However, many people struggle to even eat the five a day (400g) recommended by the World Health Organization.
In the UK, only about one in three people eats enough.
Dr Aune said the findings did not mean the five-a-day message needed to change.
He told the BBC: "There are many different considerations if changing policy, it's not just the health effects - is it feasible?
"But our findings are quite clear in that they do support five a day, but there are even some further benefits for higher intakes."
Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said: "The five-a-day target is the foundation of a healthy balanced diet and is an achievable way to help prevent a number of diseases.
"Whilst consuming more than five portions of fruit and vegetables a day may be desirable... adding pressure to consume more fruit and vegetables creates an unrealistic expectation."
Not all of the 95 studies that were analysed fully accounted for other aspects of lifestyle, such as exercise levels, that could also play a role in prolonging lives.
However, Dr Aune said the conclusions were "quite robust".
Follow James on Twitter. | Eating loads of fruit and vegetables - 10 portions a day - may give us longer lives, say researchers. | 39057146 |
It says partial "notspots", where there is coverage from some but not all mobile networks, affect a fifth of the UK.
The plan being put forward would see people transferred to rival networks when they lose signal on theirs.
But experts aren't convinced it'll work.
At Newsbeat we admit we're finding it a bit difficult to get our heads around the various maps.
Is your brain melting looking at the next few images?
Matthew Howett, an analyst with research firm Ovum, told Newsbeat they are useful but only "to a point".
He said: "It's generally quite impossible to get relevant info from these maps.
"In reality lots of other factors affect signal, such as what your house is made from, distance from the mast and how many other users are trying to use their phones at one time."
This next one may clarify things for you.
It's the coverage map by the regulator Ofcom, the people in charge of keeping the phone companies in check. The pink areas are where coverage is most patchy.
No clearer?
Maybe it's a phone signal map issue?
This map is about broadband delivery.
So if these maps are leaving your head swimming what should you do before choosing a phone network or broadband provider?
Matthew Howett says the only way you can find out if a network will work for you is to try it.
Matthew says if you don't get coverage many networks will now let you out of your contract if you're still in your cooling off period.
All the operators say they are investing in their networks and offering more rural coverage.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | The government says it wants to make phone operators share coverage to cut out so-called notspots - areas where there's no signal. | 29914002 |
The decision follows pressure from campaigners, who accused the company of dragging its heels over providing financial aid.
Benetton was one of several fashion brands linked to the Rana Plaza complex.
It has not said how much it will pay.
More than one million people signed a petition on the campaigning website Avaaz urging the Italian company to pay into the Rana Plaza Trust Fund, or face embarrassing protests during next week's Milan fashion week.
The nine-storey factory collapsed in Dhaka on 23 April 2013, after warnings from workers and local journalists that it was unsafe.
Benetton said it was working with a "globally-recognised third party" to establish how much it should pay out to survivors and families of the dead.
Walmart, Primark and Matalan were among the other well-known brands who made clothes there.
The fund is being organised by the UN's International Labour Organisation. It has raised $21m (£13.6m) to date but needs another $9m (£5.8m) to meet its compensation commitments.
Benetton said its contribution would be a "second step" in its efforts to help the victims.
It has already established its own support programme in partnership with Brac, a Bangladeshi development organisation.
Those campaigning on behalf of victims of the Rana Plaza disaster have welcomed the firm's decision, but have urged bosses to confirm the amount they intend to pay.
Jyrki Raina, general secretary of the union IndustriALL, said: "Now, it's time for Benetton to show us the colour of their money.
"We call on them to do what's morally right and compensate with compassion." | Fashion retailer Benetton says it will contribute to an international compensation fund for victims of a factory collapse that killed 1,138 people in Bangladesh. | 31554570 |
Shakespeare's Globe and the Royal Opera House are among the contributors to the Shakespeare Lives portal.
The channel will also host live content on Saturday, marking the actual date of William Shakespeare's 1616 demise.
Tony Hall, the BBC's director general, said the initiative was "another step towards an open BBC".
"Co-curated" by the BBC and the British Council, the Shakespeare Lives site will host content from the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the British Film Institute (BFI) and other arts organisations.
Offerings include the RSC's production of Richard II starring David Tennant, available to view online from 22:30 BST on Saturday, and Sir Ian McKellen discussing the challenges of interpreting Shakespeare for theatre, TV and cinema.
The Shakespeare Day Live programme kicks off on Friday with a live broadcast of a commemorative concert in the Stratford-upon-Avon church where the Bard was baptised and buried.
The line-up continues on Saturday with live broadcasts from Stratford-upon-Avon and in Birmingham, as well as from Shakespeare's Globe and the Royal Opera House in London.
Other programmes, available on demand, include Simon Russell Beale and Adrian Lester talking about "Being Hamlet", and a short film about young Londoners, featuring Ralph Fiennes, that only uses Shakespeare's words.
"This weekend we're experimenting live with digital formats like never before," said Lord Hall. "For the first time, the BBC will be showcasing the great talent we have in our leading cultural institutions on BBC iPlayer."
The initiative follows a speech Lord Hall gave last year, in which he pledged the BBC would act like "a curator, bringing the best from Britain's great cultural institutions and thinkers to everyone." | The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death will be marked on the BBC iPlayer by a digital pop-up channel showcasing content from outside the corporation. | 36070966 |
The entrepreneur and philanthropist founded the Kwik Save supermarket chain in 1965 before amassing a fortune in excess of £1bn.
In 2011, Mr Gubay was honoured by the Pope for his charity work.
His firm The Derwent Group said: "It is with the greatest sadness that we have to announce the death of our founder.
"Our thoughts are with his wife Carmel, his children and grandchildren," added a spokesman.
In 2011, Albert Gubay revealed to the BBC that, as a young businessman, he had made a divine pact.
"One Saturday, I didn't know where the next penny was coming from and I lay on my bed and I had this conversation with God," he said.
"I said 'God, help me and whatever I make over the years of my life, when I die, half will go to the church.'"
Since then, profits from his business empire have been distributed each year to charitable causes.
Half of his money, from his £1bn fund, goes to causes identified by the Roman Catholic Church, with the other half going to good causes selected at the discretion of the trustees.
In recognition of his generosity, he was awarded a Papal Knighthood - the highest award a Roman Catholic lay person can receive.
Mr Gubay was born in 1928 in Rhyl to an Irish mother and Iraqi Jewish father.
He began his business career in North Wales selling sweets during rationing in the aftermath of World War Two.
He went on to launch several successful business including the Total Fitness empire and acquiring property developments in Liverpool and Manchester.
One venture, the Mount Murray Country Club on the Isle of Man was badly damaged and subsequently closed down after a fire in 2013.
Mr Gubay amassed a fortune in excess of £1bn, a number he argued was "so great it does not mean anything".
"I know some people who don't want to give anything away," he told the BBC.
"I don't know what for because there comes a time you can't grab on to it so you might as well try to do some good with it." | Billionaire Albert Gubay, who once made a "pact with God" to leave his fortune to the church and other charities, has died at his home in Cheshire, aged 87. | 35242798 |
He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire that seeing those reports would give him peace of mind.
The director of public prosecutions (DPP) announced in April that 86-year-old Lord Janner would not be charged because of his dementia.
The Labour politician has denied any wrongdoing.
DPP Alison Saunders said Lord Janner's dementia was so severe that he could "play no part in a trial".
The alleged victim interviewed by the programme was not one of the cases being considered by Ms Saunders for potential prosecution.
He described as a "typical whitewash" the decision not to prosecute the former MP.
Speaking about the tests for dementia, he said: "We need to see when those reports were taken and be able to look at the dates and the conclusions and be able to test it".
The BBC cannot verify his version of events.
Leicestershire Police have confirmed that they have taken a statement from the man.
In the past, Lord Janner has strongly denied claims that he perpetrated child abuse, and more recently, the 86-year-old's family said he was "entirely innocent of any wrongdoing".
His alleged victim spoke to Victoria Derbyshire anonymously, and asked to be referred to as 'David'.
Now 50, he claims to have been abused by Lord Janner when he was a child.
At the time 'David' felt he had nobody to turn to as his family had broken down, and he became withdrawn.
"I didn't trust anybody. I was probably ashamed," he said. "Deep down I knew it was wrong and I didn't want to talk about it."
As an adult, 'David' said he has suffered severe depression and extreme anxiety.
He said he decided to approach the police in January 2007, after his marriage collapsed.
He claims that officers were initially dismissive but he decided to contact them again in March of this year after a police appeal for anyone claiming abuse to come forward.
This time, he said, things were different: "I wanted my story to be heard and I really felt that they were taking it seriously."
He feels that being able to see the medical reviews which led Ms Saunders to decide against prosecution would be a comfort to him and others alleging abuse.
"The reason she [DPP Alison Saunders] said it wasn't in the public interest is because four medicals experts said he'd got severe dementia so he was not fit to plead," he said.
"If we saw those reports and we knew who the medical experts were it would probably make her decision more understandable."
"People with dementia may not be able to plead, but the victims and survivors are not getting any justice," he claimed.
Watch Victoria Derbyshire weekdays from 09:15-11:00 BST on BBC Two and BBC News Channel. Follow the programme on Facebook and Twitter, and find all our content online. | A man who claims he was abused by ex-MP Lord Janner has called for the release of medical reports which prompted the decision not to prosecute him. | 32694625 |
Snap Map lets people search for places such as schools and see videos and pictures posted by children inside.
It also lets people locate their "friends" on a map that is accurate enough to determine where people live.
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, stressed to the BBC that location sharing was an opt-in feature.
Snap Map was launched on Wednesday and was promoted as a "new way to explore the world".
Video clips and photos that members have posted publicly can be discovered on the map, while members who have chosen to share their location can also be seen on the map by those they have added as "friends".
However, members can add people they have never met to their friends list too.
A message to parents posted by St Peter's Academy in Staffordshire warned that the location-sharing feature lets people "locate exactly where you are, which building you are in and exact whereabouts within the building".
One parent described the update as "dangerous" while another said she could not find the setting to disable it.
People have expressed concern online that the app could be used for stalking or working out exactly where somebody lives.
"If you zoom right in on this new Snapchat map thing it literally tells you where everyone lives? Like exact addresses - bit creepy no?" wrote one user called Leanne.
"This new Snapchat update is awful. An invitation for stalkers, kidnappers, burglars and relationship trust issues," suggested Jade.
Snap told the BBC that accurate location information was necessary to allow friends to use the service to meet, for example at a restaurant or crowded festival, and said points of interest on the map, such as schools, were provided by third-party mapping service Mapbox.
Concerned parents could find out more information on its Privacy Center website, a spokesman told the BBC.
"With Snap Map, location sharing is off by default for all users and is completely optional. Snapchatters can choose exactly who they want to share their location with, if at all, and can change that setting at any time," a Snap spokesman said.
"It's also not possible to share your location with someone who isn't already your friend on Snapchat, and the majority of interactions on Snapchat take place between close friends." | An update to Snapchat that shows publicly posted images on a searchable map has raised safety concerns among parents. | 40382876 |
Sharrouf left Sydney in 2013 to join the so-called Islamic State. His wife Tara Nettleton and their five young children followed.
Photos of their son holding a Syrian soldier's severed head made headlines after they were published last year.
Sharrouf is believed to have been killed in a drone strike in June 2015.
Ms Nettleton died in September after complications from surgery for pre-existing appendicitis, reports say.
According to the reports, Tara Nettleton's mother Karen was only recently informed.
Karen Nettleton's lawyer said she was desperate to get her five grandchildren and one great-grandchild out of Syria, and was pleading for the Australian Government to help bring them home.
"On my own behalf and on her behalf, I request [they] do everything that they possibly can to get those children away from danger and to get them out and bring them home," her lawyer Charles Waterstreet told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
"Tara was a very young girl when she married, [and] now the grandchildren and a young baby are left without anyone to look after them."
Sharrouf's teenage daughter, 14, married his friend Mohamed Elomar, also reportedly killed. She is now believed to be the mother of a baby girl.
Speaking to Australian media on Thursday, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton described the case as "a very complicated mess".
"Ultimately the government's clear objective is to keep the Australian public safe, and we'd have to look at the individual circumstances to see what kids may have been through, what they've been exposed to, whether or not later in life they'd pose a threat," he said. | The wife of notorious Australian Islamic State militant Khaled Sharrouf has died in Syria, her mother says. | 35547138 |
The 20-year-old gave Scandinavia its second consecutive win and her country's third victory in the history of the competition with her song, Only Teardops.
Punctuated by drumming and a tin whistle, her entry stood out from the crowd of ballads, Europop and dance hits that tried to emulate last year's winning song.
Its simple melody was fitting for a year when the host nation, Sweden, decided to bring the annual music fest back to its roots.
The contest had gained a reputation for becoming increasingly expensive to host - the 2011 contest in Dusseldorf cost a reported 46m euros (£39m; $59m), while Azerbaijan spent a rumoured £60m to put on its show.
And with a host of countries including Portugal, Poland and Luxembourg pulling out of the contest in recent years citing financial difficulties, this year had to be austerity Eurovision.
The first sign of scaling back was holding the contest in Malmo instead of bigger cities such as Stockholm or Gothenburg.
In 2001, almost 38,000 people gathered at Copenhagen's Parken Stadium for that year's contest - the largest audience the event had hosted.
Malmo Arena housed 10,500 fans.
Organisers also decided to take the contest back to being a TV show, rather than the elaborate stage circus it had become.
Numerous acts performed parts of their songs with their back to the audience so they could get their close-up on the camera circling them.
Swedish TV broadcaster SVT also chose the running order to make the show "more exciting" and even decided on the order the votes would be revealed to create more tension - although it was clear half-way through that Denmark would be the clear winner.
At the winner's press conference afterwards, de Forest maintained she didn't think she would win, despite being the favourite.
"Of course I believed in the song, but that's the exciting thing about Eurovision - you don't know what's going to happen. I was surprised and shocked when it happened," she said.
Austerity Eurovision was also plain to see on stage. With countries having to pay for their own pyrotechnics or other gimmicks, many of the performances were simply staged with just the artist and their backing singers or dancers.
Even de Forest was barefoot and wearing an "eco-friendly" dress in her effort to go back to basics, although she did employ the use of some pyrotechnics and falling glitter.
The only real show-stopper moments were the Moldovan entry rising up on a plinth while wearing a huge skirt that was projected with images of lighting, and Belarus's act emerging from a giant glitter ball.
Despite her best efforts, the UK's Bonnie Tyler finished in 19th place with 23 points, thanks to meagre scores from Sweden, Slovenia, Switzerland, Romania, Spain and Malta - with Ireland's generous seven points helping to keep her out of the bottom five.
It was a better score than last year when Engelbert Humperdinck finished second from last for the UK, but it had been hoped Tyler's years in the industry and her European fans would help win votes.
They obviously didn't pick up the phone.
Her downfall, perhaps, was that although she may have been a chart-topper in her day, that day was 30 years ago. And Eurovision is now, it seems, a young person's game.
A large proportion of the performers were victors or contestants in their native country's TV talent shows and were, on the whole, under 30.
And despite securing the coveted final performance slot, Ireland's Ryan Dolan finished an unexpected and disappointing last, with only Cyprus, Sweden and the UK rewarding him five points between them.
So what for Denmark next year? The head of the delegation said they were looking at venues and that there were five possible locations the contest could be held at - hinting it could continue to stay on a smaller scale.
With Sweden having now set the ball in motion, the Eurovision Song Contest could soon become a stripped-back Eurovision Song Show. | Emmelie de Forest triumphed for Denmark in a year when the Eurovision Song Contest went back to basics. | 22585436 |
Widnes, who were not consulted about Wigan's initial cancellation, will now visit the Warriors on Sunday, 2 July.
Friday's game will begin at the original start time of 20:00 GMT.
The Rugby Football League will investigate Wigan for a potential breach of operational rules.
Unlike Wigan, Widnes have an artificial surface at their ground which is unaffected by the Storm Doris weather.
Following the deterioration of the surface at the DW Stadium on Thursday because of Storm Doris, the Warriors and fellow tenants Championship football side Wigan Athletic concluded that of the back-to-back home fixtures on Friday and Saturday, the Latics' match against Nottingham Forest would be more difficult to rearrange than the Widnes fixture.
However, the decision to publicise the postponement was done without consultation with Widnes or the RFL.
The RFL spoke with the clubs late on Thursday, stating the rescheduling of the match was down to them, and the decision was publicised on Friday that the game would go ahead, with a reversal of the schedule and reduced prices for fans.
"Having requested and received compensation from Wigan Warriors to help mitigate the commercial loss, the club felt that it should make a gesture to both sets of supporters," Widnes chief executive James Rule said.
Under the RFL tier 1-4 rules, which include Super League, it states: "Matches shall only be postponed in accordance with the Operational Rules and the Match Day Operations Manual."
Any postponement requires a pitch inspection by RFL personnel, usually the appointed Match Commissioner.
The hasty rescheduling of the game comes less than a week after Super League champions Wigan won the World Club Challenge against NRL counterparts Cronulla Sharks.
Head coach Shaun Wane has named the same squad for a third week in a row after victories in their opening two matches of the season.
Denis Betts has brought Jack Buchanan and Jordan Johnstone into the Widnes squad for Tom Gilmore and Ted Chapelhow.
His Vikings side won twice at the DW Stadium in 2016, but were beaten at home.
Wigan: Bateman, Burgess, Clubb, Escare, Farrell, Flower, Gelling, Gildart, Isa, Leuluai, Marshall, Nuuausala, O'Loughlin, Powell, Sutton, Tautai, Tierney, J Tomkins, Williams.
Widnes: Armstrong, Bridge, Buchanan, Burke, Cahill, J Chapelhow, Craven, Dudson, Hanbury, Heremaia, Houston, Johnstone, Leuluai, Marsh, Olbison, Runciman, Thompson, White, Whitley.
Referee: James Child. | Wigan Warriors' "home" Super League fixture against Widnes has been switched to the Vikings' Select Security Stadium - 17 hours after Wigan postponed the game. | 39078441 |
Carmarthen Park, which opened in 1900, will be turned into a training and competition venue for cyclists.
Carmarthenshire council agreed on Monday to give £286,000 to the project, after Sport Wales pledged £296,000.
The local authority hopes it will increase interest in cycling and bring high class racing to the area.
With an original grandstand, bandstand and lodge, it has been used for a wide range of sports, eisteddfodau, circuses and concerts.
The investment will see the track upgraded and improved safety fencing put in.
The council's executive board member Meryl Gravell told Monday's meeting that "cycling was on the up" in the county and across Wales and the project was "worthy of support". | A £580,000 investment will see one of Wales' oldest outdoor velodromes turned into a regional centre of excellence. | 34964261 |
Many of the cases involve allegations of collusion.
The investigations were suspended in September 2011 after a report by Criminal Justice Inspection (CJI) said the office's operational independence had been lowered.
Another CJI report published on Wednesday said substantial progress has been made and recommends the resumption of historical investigations.
The 2011 report was commissioned by the ombudsman at the time, Al Hutchinson.
He did so after the BBC revealed in April that year that his chief executive, Sam Pollock, had resigned and made strong criticisms of the office.
This included an allegation that the relationship between the office and the police had been compromised.
Al Hutchinson denied the claim and asked inspectors to conduct an urgent review. The verdict was not what he had hoped for.
The inspection report said there had been a lowering of operational independence in the way the office of the Police Ombudsman conducted investigations into historical cases.
Inspectors said a number of reports by the office of the ombudsman into historical events had been altered before publication to reduce criticism of the police and called for such investigations to be suspended until its criticisms were addressed.
The findings were hugely damaging because the requirement for independence is a statutory one.
The report also said the ombudsman had lost the confidence of his senior staff and described the way the office functioned as fractured, inconsistent and dysfunctional.
As inspection reports go, it was as bad as they come.
It was the third highly critical report in a matter of months and further serious failings about the investigation of historical cases were exposed in a BBC Spotlight programme in October 2011.
Political and public criticism led to Al Hutchinson retiring early last year.
The person now doing the job is Dr Michael Maguire, who was in charge of Criminal Justice Inspection when it produced its withering assessment of the way the office of the ombudsman functioned in 2011.
Inspectors went back to the office to assess progress in November last year, accompanied by members of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.
Having highlighted the problems, and recommending how they should be fixed, it would have been hugely embarrassing for Mr Maguire if this report had been negative.
But his successor as the head of Criminal Justice Inspection, Brendan McGuigan, said the office of the ombudsman is ready to re-start historical investigations.
"My recommendation that the Police Ombudsman recommences this important work as soon as is practical to do so, is based on the findings of a rigorous independent, impartial follow-up review," he said.
A follow-up CJI report published on Wednesday said new structures and processes have been put in place, and substantial progress has been made.
Since Al Hutchinson left, the number of investigators working for the office's historical directorate has more than doubled from 19 to 40. The office has also been allocated an additional £12m of funding for a six-year period to complete its work on historical cases.
The inspection report does not say operational independence has been fully restored. Brendan McGuigan said it will only be able to assess this after a number of historical reports are published.
Dr Maguire has welcomed the CJI findings and said he is confident his office can investigate matters from the past in a way that would be "both independent and to the highest standard".
The ombudsman said his office will now resume investigations of historical matters.
There are more than 150 such cases involving allegations of police involvement in criminality during the period 1968-1998.
In a statement, Michael Maguire said members of the public across the community "have made a series of complaints to us of a grave and exceptional nature about incidents during this period".
Michael Maguire said his office expects to complete two "complex" cases, some of which involve more than 20 linked cases, and six "stand alone" cases each year.
The question is, will there be enough time and money to complete all of the cases? Previous experience suggests there may not.
A report entitled Operation Ballast published by the first Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan in January 2007, which exposed collusion between members of Special Branch and the UVF in north Belfast, took more than four years to complete, and cost several million pounds.
Having stated that he is confident his office can now investigate historical events, Michael Maguire may yet find it will not have the necessary finances to complete the task. | The Police Ombudsman is to resume investigations into more than 150 historical events where former RUC officers stand accused of criminal activity and misconduct. | 21151194 |
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The out-of-favour Norwich striker kept his side top of Group F with two matches remaining as they look to reach their first European Championship.
"The onus is on Hungary to win their last two games," O'Neill told BBC Radio 5 live.
"It puts you through the mill."
Northern Ireland will qualify for their first major championship since 1986 if they beat Greece at home or Finland away - or draw with both sides.
Hungary, who are four points behind them, host the Faroe Islands and then travel to Greece.
"We're in a great position," said O'Neill. "If you offered us a four-point gap over third place with two games to go, of course we'd have taken that."
O'Neill's men knew victory on Monday would secure qualification, but a mistake from goalkeeper Michael McGovern gifted Hungary the lead with about 16 minutes left.
The hosts' Chris Baird was then sent off for two bookable offences in the same phase of play, before Lafferty's injury-time equaliser was met with scenes of jubilation at Windsor Park.
"I've never seen a player booked twice in one incident and I don't agree with it," said O'Neill.
"There's no doubt he should be booked for the second tackle but he doesn't know he's been booked for the first instance. If he knows he's being booked for the first he won't make the second tackle.
"I can't pretend I know the rules well enough to say if it's legitimate or not but I think it's a very, very harsh decision.
"For a player to be sent off like that could have cost us a place at the finals."
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Lafferty last played for Norwich in January, spending spent the latter part of last season on loan at Rizespor in Turkey, where he scored two league goals.
Yet his equaliser on Monday was his seventh goal in eight games for Northern Ireland.
Lafferty will now however have to sit out their home match against Greece because of suspension after a booking for a late tackle.
The 27-year-old, who has had a knee injury this season, told Sky Sports: "My yellow card was stupid, I was too eager. It was the right decision, my own stupidity.
"We have two games left and we need one more push. The fans came here for a party but the champagne is on ice.
"The squad are willing to fight to the end. This team doesn't know when to stop working."
O'Neill added: "We were going to take Kyle off at 0-0. His race looked run, his lack of football is well documented and he was shattered. When they scored we had to keep him on."
Former Northern Ireland defender Gerry Taggart on BBC Radio 5 live: "We just do not do things the easy way. It was an amazing last 10 minutes. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong, but Kyle Lafferty's goal is invaluable.
"Greece are going to pick a point up between now and the end of the campaign, they have to. It opens it all up. This is a three-team tournament to qualify. But the pressure is on Hungary, they know they have to win their two games and hope Northern Ireland don't win.
"The problem with Kyle Lafferty over the last few years is maybe off the pitch was taking up too much of his time. Once managers and clubs work you out like that, they will give you a few chances and then come down on you.
"Look at Kyle's career - for whatever reason clubs haven't been able to make him concentrate solely on what happens on the pitch. Maybe this is his time."
BBC Radio 5 live presenter Mark Chapman: "Goalkeeper Mike McGovern felt as though he could not join in the celebrations after his mistake. He was heading towards the changing room but the subs and the backroom staff made sure he did not leave the pitch."
Alistair Bruce Ball, commentator for BBC Radio 5 live in Belfast: "Had Northern Ireland lost that game it was right in Hungary's hands, with the two games they have left. That was a big goal for Northern Ireland." | Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill described Monday's 1-1 draw with Hungary as "pure theatre" after Kyle Lafferty's late leveller left them two points from Euro 2016 qualification. | 34178620 |
The 64-year-old, named locally as George Laird, was fatally injured at the Norbord plant in Cowie.
He was taken to Forth Valley Royal Hospital following the incident on Wednesday afternoon but died overnight.
A spokesman for Police Scotland said that a joint investigation with the Health and Safety Executive was under way.
He added: "Police in Stirling were called to an industrial site off Station Road in Cowie at 5.40pm on Wednesday July 13 after a man sustained serious burns as a result of a work-related incident.
"The 64-year-old was transferred by ambulance to hospital, where he has since passed away.
"A joint investigation between the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Police Scotland will be carried out in order to establish the full set of circumstances."
Karl Morris, managing director of Norbord Europe, said: "Safety is Norbord's top priority and we are deeply saddened by this incident.
"We express our profound sympathy to the family at this very difficult time.
"We are co-operating fully with Police Scotland and the HSE on their joint investigation to ascertain the cause of the accident." | A worker has died after sustaining serious burns at a chipboard factory in Stirlingshire. | 36798827 |
That's what American Idol contestant Jackie "Jax" Cole, one of the final eight women on the long-running show, hoped anyway.
But it backfired a bit.
After performing her jazz version of ain't No Mountain High Enough, Jennifer Lopez was scathing about her singing, saying it "didn't work". But hey - she liked #TheDress and it got the judges talking.
Harry Connick Jr also criticised the 18-year-old's performance, although and Keith Urban liked it. Watch the track on YouTube.
But host Ryan Seacrest wasn't interested in letting them talk about her version of Marvin Gaye's classic track. He wanted to talk about #TheDress - obvs.
"Is this the dress that broke the internet?" he asked.
"I see blue and black," he said pointing at the dress while comparing it to a photo of #TheDress on his phone.
"What do you see in your monitors? In this [pointing to the phone picture] I see white and gold."
Lopez agreed with him but fellow singers Harry Connick Jr and Nicole Kidman's other half, country singer Keith Urban, saw something completely different.
"It's red and pink," said Urban.
"I see a hot guy holding a cell phone," shouted Connick Jr, as Seacrest ushered New Jersey native Jax off the stage.
This week's American Idol episodes aired on Wednesday and Thursday nights in America and was filmed in Detroit.
Aretha Franklin sang on Wednesday night in her hometown in Michigan.
This week's shows featured the remaining men and women contestants.
American Idol has discovered stars such as Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Jennifer Hudson.
Simon Cowell left the judging panel in 2010 after eight years.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | If you want to make an impact on a TV talent show, wear #TheDress. | 31761794 |
This followed a three-day standoff between the soldiers and militants near the town of Pampore on Wednesday.
An army spokesman said the building was searched and weapons were recovered.
Indian-administered Kashmir has seen a wave of deadly unrest since a popular separatist leader was killed by the security forces in July.
On Monday, militants had entered an empty government building near Pampore town on the outskirts of the main city of Srinagar.
Troops, paramilitary soldiers and police surrounded the building while firing rockets, flame throwers and grenades, reports said. The militants fired back with automatic weapons and hurled grenades.
Major-General Ashok Narula of the Indian army described the operation as "tricky" and said the fighting was protracted because "the building was huge and we didn't want collateral damage".
Another building in the same compound was targeted by militants in February when the resulting gun battle left nine people dead.
The latest fighting comes after an attack on an Indian army base killed 18 soldiers last month. India blamed the attack on Pakistan, which denied the claim.
The nuclear-armed neighbours have accused each other of increasing hostilities along their de-facto border in Kashmir since last month's attack.
Later in September, India said it had retaliated by carrying out "surgical strikes" against suspected militants along the de-facto border.
Pakistan denied that India had carried out any strikes and said two of its soldiers were killed in unprovoked cross-border shelling. | The Indian army says two armed militants who had taken up positions in a government building in Indian-administered Kashmir have been killed. | 37640397 |
The Environment Department say the proposals could reduce fees for those buying a family or second-hand car.
The changes were made after a high-profile campaign from the Guernsey Motor Trades Association and a public protest involving 400 people.
The department had hoped to raise £4m but estimates that will fall by £1.6m.
Its report suggested the funding shortfall may "impact" on the overall transport strategy, which includes paid parking, an 18-month trial of a free bus service and a review of taxi services, with the money raised due to balance the investments made.
The department suggests that reducing funding towards a new bus depot or scaling back plans for pedestrian and cycling infrastructure improvements could offset the loss of income.
The registration charges are due to apply when vehicles are purchased or imported into the island with the main changes to the width and emission charges and a discount of up to 80% for second-hand cars imported into the island.
The proposals would see width duty being charged on vehicles wider than 1801mm, a rise from 1751mm; with staggered fees rising from £600 to £2,400 for those 1901mm and over.
The lowest band for CO2 emissions has been divided, with vehicles with engines rated with emissions between 121g/km and 130g/km carrying a £200 fee; rising to £3,200 for those rated 256g/km and bigger.
The plans for commercial vehicles remain unchanged, with only the emissions charge applying but with a £2,000 cap.
The proposals are due to be debated in January's States meeting and come into force from 1 March.
Correction 2 January 2015: This story has been amended to clarify the amount of money the department hoped to raise was £4m, not £2m as previous stated. | Revised plans to introduce charges for Guernsey motorists based on the width and CO2 emissions of vehicles have been released. | 30643286 |
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The Bridgend-bred player was part of Great Britain's initial 25-man training squad for the Games but damaged the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee playing for GB Royals last week.
"I still can't believe it to be honest. I went from such a high to rock bottom in the blink of an eye," said Morgan.
GB coach Simon Amor will finalise his 12-strong squad on July 19. | Wales Sevens wing Luke Morgan will miss the Rio Olympics after suffering a knee injury. | 36815505 |
Chief executive Katrina Percy resigned on Tuesday following pressure over the way Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust investigated patient deaths.
Ms Percy's salary is quoted in the trust's annual report as between £180,000 and £190,000.
Sara Ryan said: "It is a scandal... it doesn't happen in the real world."
An NHS England-commissioned probe found 272 of the 722 deaths over the last four years at the trust were dealt with properly.
In June, the trust accepted responsibility for the death of Ms Ryan's 18-year-old son Connor Sparrowhawk, who drowned in a bath at Slade House in Oxford.
Southern admitted it caused the death of Connor, who had suffered an epileptic seizure before he died in July 2013, and offered his family £80,000 compensation.
Talking about Ms Percy's new job, Ms Ryan said: "This is public money that is paying for this ridiculously over-inflated salary.
"She failed as a chief executive. How she could possibly keep the same salary?"
Gail Hanrahan, from the Oxfordshire Family Support Network, said people were "really angry".
She added: "It's typical NHS culture, just shifting the deck chairs.
"There seems to be no consequences for her after years of documented failure... nothing surprises me anymore with what the trust do.
"They seem to go against everything that makes sense to everybody.
"It makes you wonder what you have to do to get sacked from a high powered NHS job."
Rob Greig, the former Department of Health director for learning disabilities, said the salary was not appropriate for an advisory role.
"Any reputable job evaluation process would not conclude that those two jobs merited the same salary."
The trust's chairman Tim Smart described the job as an "alternative role working with local GP leaders providing strategic advice on the transformation of local health services".
"There is vital work that needs to be done for which she is ideally suited," he said. | An NHS trust's decision to move its boss to a new role with the same salary is a "scandal", according to the mother of a teenager who died under its watch. | 37229739 |
The accident, which also involved a motorbike, happened near Bell Common tunnel, between J26 for Waltham Abbey and J27 for the M11 at 15:15 BST.
The carriageway was closed between J25 and J27 but has since reopened.
The injured driver was airlifted to hospital. At 21:58 BST the Highways Agency reported there were still long delays in the area. | The driver of a lorry has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash on the M25 in Essex. | 33027847 |
Yvonne Hegarty, a special needs teaching assistant, described the abuse she received on a fake Facebook account as "horrendous".
Maureen Curoe, 42, was sentenced at Coleraine Magistrates' Court to four months in jail.
Curoe, of Pilot Street, Belfast, was released on bail ahead of an appeal.
Ms Hegarty said an initial post on Facebook in February 2013 related to her partner, Adrian.
Several months later, a Facebook profile was set-up under the name Gillian Morgan, which contained nothing but photographs of Yvonne Hegarty, her family and friends.
She told the BBC's Talkback programme: "Below nearly every photograph was a status saying: 'This is an alcoholic, this is a drug abuser, look at her with her pupils out drinking, she shouldn't have those children in her arms.'
"It was just endless. It was an absolute assassination of my character throughout my community.
"The police were notified at that time. A few weeks later I got death threats to my phone, again I went to the police and non-molestation orders were served."
Despite having a "great circle of friends and fantastic family" and receiving "fantastic support" from the community, Yvonne did worry that people would believe what was being written.
"There were times when I thought, well somebody's going to think there's something about this that's correct and real because here we have someone who is continually writing 50 posts a day about me and someone going to say 'well there must be something absolutely behind that'," she said.
"No-one would ever realise that there isn't actually anything behind it.
"It's just a completely vindictive person who obviously has so little in her life and became so consumed with mine that that was her occupation. I do believe her jealously became her weakness."
It also impacted on Ms Hegarty on a professional level.
"It was awful when she started to write that I had taken my disabled pupils out drinking. I have a good relationship with most of my pupils and their parents," she said.
"Then she started to contact parents from the school to tell them I was a drink and drug abuser. I had parents meet me in the street and in Asda to tell me she had contacted them privately by Facebook messenger.
"At one point she was writing so much stuff about me that we had to close down the school website for a week."
Ms Hegarty did not have a Facebook account but believes Curoe took photographs off the profiles of her family and friends.
She had little joy when she contacted Facebook about the fake Facebook profile.
"Adrian and I spent a lot of money contacting Facebook by phone and email and then we did it via solicitors and nothing, no response, to this very day posts that she wrote are still on her fake Facebook account," she said.
When Curoe was sentenced to four months in jail, Yvonne Hegarty said she was shocked and relieved.
"I just thought this has really ended. Everybody who was in the court will know and will have seen my reaction, it was just complete shock," she said.
"Words can't really explain the impact it had on my life.
"I think I used to be a lot more bubbly and outgoing than I am... I'm not really a social butterfly as I used to be.
"I know I've done nothing wrong and my community knows I've done nothing wrong." | A Coleraine woman who was trolled online by her partner's ex-girlfriend has spoken out about the impact the abuse had on her. | 39934417 |
Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom said the two nations have chosen to swim rather than sink together, AFP news agency reports.
He met his Egyptian counterpart Kamel Amr after Egypt opposed Ethiopia's plans for a hydroelectric dam.
Egypt is worried that the dam will reduce the water supply vital for its 84 million people.
Last week, Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi said he did not want war but he would not allow Egypt's water supply to be endangered by the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Mr Morsi said he was keeping "all options open".
Previous statements about the dam had been made "in the heat of the moment", Mr Amr said, at a joint press conference with Mr Tedros in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, AFP reports.
"We are embarking on a period of mutual cooperation," Mr Amr is quoted by Bloomberg news agency as saying.
"We're looking to the future and I think the future will be very good for both of us."
In a joint statement, Mr Amr and Mr Tedros said that relations between Egypt and Ethiopia remained "brotherly" and talks to assess the impact of the dam would continue.
"We have two options, either to swim or sink together. I think Ethiopia chooses, and so does Egypt, to swim together," Mr Tedros said, AFP reports.
Mr Amr said Sudan would also be involved in the talks.
"[We agreed to] ask for further studies to ascertain the effects of the dam, not only the safety of the dam, the environmental effects, but also the effects of the dam on the downstream countries," he added, AFP reports.
Ethiopia's parliament ratified a controversial treaty last week to replace colonial-era agreements that gave Egypt and Sudan the biggest share of the Nile's water.
The treaty had earlier been signed by five other Nile-basin countries - Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Burundi.
It is intended to replace the 1929 treaty written by Britain that awarded Egypt veto power over any project involving the Nile by upstream countries.
Ethiopia says the $4.7bn (£3.1bn) dam will eventually provide 6,000 megawatts of power.
Egypt was apparently caught by surprise when Ethiopia started diverting the Blue Nile - a tributary of the Nile - last month.
Addis Ababa says the river will be slightly diverted but will then be able to follow its natural course.
Mr Morsi said Egypt had no objection to projects in Nile basin states "on condition that those projects do not affect or damage Egypt's legal and historical rights".
Earlier this month Egyptian politicians were inadvertently heard on live TV proposing military action over the dam. | Ethiopia and Egypt have agreed to hold further talks to quell tensions over the building of a new dam on the Blue Nile, their foreign ministers say. | 22951276 |
The hosts had Patrick Ah Van sin-binned early on before Widnes' Aaron Heremaia and Wakefield's Scott Moore saw red.
Anthony Tupou crossed as Wakefield led at the break, but Charly Runciman and Eamon O'Carroll touched down to bring the Vikings level at 10-10.
Widnes led with Rhys Hanbury's try but Craig Hall's last-gasp score won it.
The victory was Wakefield's sixth in Super League this season and moved them up to seventh in the table, level on points with sixth-placed Widnes, who are winless in six league games.
In a tense opening 40 minutes, Ah Van was yellow-carded early on for a fierce tackle which dislocated the shoulder of Wakefield's Ashley Gibson.
Moore was sent off for a high tackle on Ah Van following his return to the field, while Heremaia was dismissed for his reaction in the brawl that followed.
Widnes also had Lloyd White sent to the sin bin, while Stefan Marsh saw yellow for a trip on Jacob Miller before Hall's match-winning score and Liam Finn's fifth successful kick at goal.
Widnes head coach Denis Betts: "It was the worst refereeing performance I've seen in 30 years. We had a legitimate try from Chris Houston from a bomb disallowed near the end and there was nothing wrong with it.
"We did enough to win the game because we were in control but I'm really disappointed for my players.
"I can understand Wakefield's elation but thought we deserved something out of the game."
Wakefield head coach Chris Chester: "It was a crazy game and I've not been in one before like it with two sent off and three sin-binned.
"But we had a real never-say-die-attitude despite being shot to bits in terms of interchanges.
"It was a real back to the wall effort and we won it with a special play from Craig Hall in the end and a great conversion from Liam Finn. It was a fantastic performance by our guys."
Widnes: Hanbury; Thompson, Ah Van, Runciman, Marsh; Mellor, Heremaia; Dudson, White, O'Carroll, Dean, Houston, Cahill.
Replacements: Sa, Manuokafoa, Leuluai, Whitley.
Wakefield: Jowitt; Jones-Bishop, Gibson, Hall, Johnstone; Miller, Finn; Scruton, Moore, Arona, Kirmond, Ashurst, Topou.
Replacements: Annakin, Simon, Howarth, Yates.
Attendance: 4,398
Referee: Joe Cobb | Wakefield converted a late try to beat Widnes in a bad-tempered Super League game which saw three players sin-binned and both teams have a man sent off. | 36142104 |
Mr Cairns addressed AMs in the Senedd on Wednesday - the first time he has since being promoted to the UK cabinet.
He told them "the people of Wales and the UK have spoken" and it was time to act on their instructions.
On 23 June voters across the UK opted to leave the EU.
A majority in Wales voted to leave, despite Mr Cairns and First Minister Carwyn Jones campaigning to remain.
"We need to show strong leadership and instil confidence in businesses and investors," Mr Cairns said.
"Talking negatively doesn't help anyone.
"I am hugely impressed by the response from the business community in Wales. Phrases such as 'business as usual' and 're-birth of businesses' came out of a recent briefing session I held.
"We are leaving the institution of the EU, not turning our backs on our friends, neighbours and trading partners in Europe.
"I am optimistic about our future and of the Wales and Britain we must create outside the European Union."
Following an increase in the number of racist hate crimes reported to police in the wake of the result, Mr Cairns said: "I want to ensure that the values which British society holds dear - the values of tolerance, of openness, of unity - are not seen as casualties of this referendum."
The Welsh secretary has had the right to address the assembly since the inception of the institution, although this will be abolished in the Wales Bill which is currently passing through Parliament. | Welsh politicians need to accept the result of the EU referendum and work together to ensure prosperity, Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns has said. | 36717764 |
The SLTA warned there "obvious concerns" about longer drinking time and pressure on the emergency services.
The Scottish Professional Football League has confirmed the match will kick off at Ibrox at 12:15 on 31 December.
Police Scotland said the time and date was the "best option".
The move was agreed after discussions between police, football authorities and broadcasters.
The SLTA said it was "outrageous" that no other bodies were consulted.
The group said "the whole of Glasgow, the rest of the country, its residents and businesses would be affected".
It has now called for the game to be played on 2 or 3 January, when all those involved "can be focused on controlling fans before, during and after this often volatile game".
Chief executive Paul Waterson said: "Our pubs and bars will as always have a responsibility of controlling drinking within their premises, but who is going to control unsupervised home drinking and drinking in the street, particularly on a day such as Hogmanay?"
He added: "Have those involved in this decision taken into account the fact that Police Scotland reported that the number of calls concerning domestic abuse cases almost doubled on the day the teams met in their Scottish Cup semi-final match earlier this year?
"Does no-one remember Police Scotland's campaign last year during the festive season to reduce the number of domestic incidents during the festive period, 'a time when domestic violence is at it's highest'?
"It would seem not, as both issues will now be drawn together by the staging of a Rangers v Celtic game on Hogmanay."
Police made one arrest at Celtic Park on 10 September during the first Old Firm league clash for four years.
But banners and effigies apparently displayed by Celtic fans caused controversy, as did damage to the stadium toilets in the away supporters' section of the ground.
Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins, Police Scotland's strategic lead on football, said when the fixture was announced: "The time and date of the next Old Firm fixture was decided after discussions between ourselves, football authorities and broadcasters.
"We believe this is the best option in terms of the needs of the interested parties and minimising the wider community impact.
"Planning has already started in terms of the policing of the fixture and again will involve a multi-agency partnership approach." | The Scottish Licensed Trade Association (SLTA) has said the decision to play the next Rangers v Celtic league game on Hogmanay is "senseless". | 37443506 |
A 36 year old man and a 50 year old woman were arrested in the operation on Friday.
Approximately 143kg of the drug was seized.
A 46 year old man was arrested in a follow up operation. | Herbal Cannabis with an estimated value of €2.8 million has been seized in County Cavan in a joint operation by Gardaí and the Irish Revenue's Customs Service. | 38349129 |
Tests in the fitness room showers at Walton-on-the-Naze Lifestyles proved positive for legionella bacteria.
The customer, who had used the fitness room and shower facilities, fell ill on 18 November.
Tendring District Council said its fitness room showers would be closed until the bacteria was eradicated.
The council said it did not know whether the customer was still in hospital.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been informed.
Lynda McWilliams, the council's member for leisure health and wellbeing, said: "As soon as we were contacted by Public Health England, the showers used by the customer were closed down and test samples taken.
"All the necessary bodies were informed while we awaited the results of the tests which were carried out at an independent laboratory.
"The council's corporate health and safety advisor is currently working to find and eliminate the source of the bacteria."
This will involve dismantling and disinfecting the shower heads, flushing the system and taking more samples. | A visitor to a council-owned leisure centre was hospitalised after contracting Legionnaires' Disease, it has emerged. | 38170633 |
Madagascar's government chartered a plane to evacuate her and 85 other women.
The youngest of her four children, whom she left behind when he was six years old, played a key role in her evacuation, tracking her down via a welfare agency that rescues "slave maids", she says.
Ms Baholiarisoa says she was trapped in "a living hell" after being duped into going to Lebanon.
A recruiting agency had promised her a nursing job for three years, with a salary of $800 (£486) a month.
Ms Baholiarisoa says she thought it would give her a chance to save money, which she could send to her children.
But her dream was shattered the minute she touched down in Beirut.
"It was a trap, because as soon as I got there they took away my papers and said my contract didn't mean anything," Ms Baholiarisoa says.
"They said, 'Abeline, this is null and void.' For the next 15 years they shattered my life and the lives of my children."
Ms Baholiarisoa says she was put to work as a maid with another Malagasy woman in the house of a rich couple with newborn triplets.
"We didn't have time to eat or sleep - night and day. We didn't even have time to clean ourselves.
"I worked 24 hours a day and received $160 a month. From this, I had to pay the lady of the house money for my food because they only gave us a quarter of a loaf of bread and some bits of fruit each day."
Ms Baholiarisoa says she ran away from her first job after seven months and her second job after two years.
But with no papers and no way to return home she was forced to accept maid jobs for 12 more years.
Fabienne Marie Ange - a social worker with Madagascar's Union of Qualified Domestic Workers (SPDTS), which specialises in helping "slave maids" - says many of them are so traumatised that they do not even know where they are.
"Sometimes in Lebanon the boss gives them drugs to keep them strong. They have to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week and they don't eat properly. It has an effect on their mental [health]," Ms Ange says.
Ms Baholiarisoa says she refused her employer's attempts to give her pills for "stress", but she knew of people who ended up with an "empty brain" after taking them.
"You become like a beast, like an animal made for work," she says.
Some women are forced to work in Lebanon's clubs and streets as prostitutes, while some maids sell their bodies on the side just to pay for food, Ms Ange says.
According to SPDTS President Noro Randimbiarison, some of the women have died in mysterious circumstances in Lebanon.
When their bodies were eventually returned to Madagascar, it was discovered that several of them had missing organs.
"Some families decided to open the coffin and found that the girl didn't have eyes, her eyes had been replaced by doll's eyes, or they didn't have a tongue or intestines or the heart. This really happens. It's real," says Ms Randimbiarison.
Medical reports on the cause of death are vague - and some families have been told that the women committed suicide by jumping off tall buildings, she says.
Ms Baholiarisoa claims women were pushed from windows, sometimes to cripple them just enough so they could not run away; others disappear, fuelling suspicion that they were killed.
"We have no idea how many women have died out there or have gone mad because if you ask a boss where is his maid they say she ran off with someone and it's over," she says.
"Where is the proof that she's run off and they haven't buried her in the courtyard? We don't have any proof."
Madagascar's Minister of Population Nadine Ramaroson, the only government minister tackling the issue, says "a very organised network" involving senior government officials and businessmen emerged in the 1990s to engage in human trafficking.
Government officials provide fraudulent work permits, travel and identity document for around $5,000 per trafficked woman, social workers say.
Ms Ramaroson says the government is trying to break the criminal networks, but it is not easy.
While one job agency flew 300 women to Jordan last month with the government's approval, 43 women bound for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were stopped from boarding planes.
Ms Ramaroson said all were recruited from remote rural areas with high illiteracy and poverty levels. Some 16-year-old girls were given forged identity papers showing their age as 21.
She said their contracts stated they would work in top institutions "when these girls don't even know what electricity is".
Ms Baholiarisoa considers herself lucky. Given up for dead by her older children, her youngest child - now an adult - contacted SPDTS to help trace his mother.
They picked up one of her many calls for repatriation at the consulate in Beirut, she says.
Ms Baholiarisoa now helps SPDTS track down other women trying to escape Lebanon and to prevent other women from being duped into taking jobs in the Middle East.
"If the madam at SPDTS hadn't taken me in with open arms I don't know what I would have done," she says.
"It pains me that these girls are leaving because I know what awaits them, especially the beautiful ones."
From the plane load of women rescued in March, Ms Baholiarisoa is the only one with a job.
Some of the women have returned to discover husbands remarried and children adopted.
Others, like Ms Baholiarisoa, have to rebuild relationships after much hurt and loss. | Forced to work as a "slave maid" for wealthy families in Lebanon for 15 years, Abeline Baholiarisoa - a 59-year-old woman from Madagascar - finally achieved her freedom in March. | 14507719 |
Taha Hussain, 21, from Slough is on trial accused of nine counts of disseminating terror documents via smart phone apps including WhatsApp.
The Old Bailey heard he became increasingly extreme in the two years before his arrest in August last year.
The defendant denies all the charges against him.
Mr Hussain is also charged with one count of encouraging terrorism through posts on Twitter.
When police seized his mobile phone, they found the black flag of IS on his screen saver and his PIN number was 9117 - in apparent homage to the 9/11 and 7/7 terror attacks, the court heard.
Prosecutor Mark Paltenghi told jurors on Thursday: "It may be that this is a combination of the dates of two of the most significant acts of terrorism this century - the attacks upon the Twin Towers in New York and other targets in America on September 11, 2001, and part of the date of the London bombings on July 7, 2005."
Over 11 months, Mr Hussain is accused of distributing YouTube videos and audio files on topics including Charlie Hebdo and bombings in Britain and the US as well as a copy of an IS magazine.
Mr Paltenghi said: "In essence, it is alleged that when all this material was sent it was done with the intention that it would be understood by its recipients as a direct or indirect encouragement to the commission, instigation or preparation of acts of terrorism."
The trial continues. | A radicalised man shared terrorist propaganda using a mobile phone emblazoned with the black flag of the Islamic State group, a court heard. | 40613064 |
"Today, we move on," said Comcast chairman Brian L Roberts.
"We structured this deal so that if the government didn't agree, we could walk away."
In March last year, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) launched an antitrust probe into the deal.
"The companies' decision to abandon this deal is the best outcome for American consumers," said Attorney General Eric Holder in a statement.
"This is a victory not only for the Department of Justice, but also for providers of content and streaming services who work to bring innovative products to consumers across America and around the world."
The deal was also being scrutinised by the Federal Communications Commission, and had been criticised by some politicians and various consumer and industry groups.
Shares in Comcast declined slightly on the news, whereas Time Warner Cable's were up slightly.
Comcast and Time Warner Cable are the two biggest cable companies, as well as two of the largest broadband providers, in the US.
Comcast had argued that they served different markets and a merger would not reduce competition for consumers.
The company operates mainly around Washington DC, Chicago, Boston and its home town of Philadelphia, whereas Time Warner Cable's subscribers are mainly grouped around its New York headquarters, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and Dallas.
While the move is a blow for Comcast, with the industry experiencing a decrease in subscribers and video customers, cable companies are likely to keep merging as costs rise for shows, sports programmes and film rights.
However, the collapse of this deal has knock-on effects for other players in the US industry.
Charter Communications, the fourth largest cable operator in the US, will no longer acquire some of the Time Warner Cable markets that Comcast was planning to divest.
Charter had previously tried to buy Time Warner Cable in a hostile takeover in January 2014.
When Comcast first announced its intention to merge with Time Warner last year, the move was met with a largely negative outcry from a crucial contingent: subscribers of both cable companies.
The Federal Communications Commission - one of the regulators tasked with approving the deal - received more than 100,000 public comments on the merger, many of which were from individuals concerned about the impact it could have on prices and quality of service.
The two firms are notorious for a perceived poor handling of customer service complaints.
Last summer, a customer service call with Comcast, in which customer Ryan Block tried to cancel his internet service, went viral - which many took as a symptom of widespread customer frustration with US telecommunications providers.
Even in Comcast's home city of Philadelphia, sentiment against the firm has soured.
In December, the city published a report on Comcast's offerings in which the most common words among subscribers who were surveyed about their customer experience were "terrible", "better", "poor", "horrible", "awful", "lacking", "bad" and "horrendous".
Although Comcast has disputed the Philadelphia report - and chalked up Mr Block's viral call to the power of the internet - the widespread customer complaints couldn't have helped the firm in its negotiations with the government.
Certainly, that public sentiment influenced US politicians. This week, six US Senators wrote a letter to regulators arguing against the merger.
But with increasing number of consumers "cutting the cord" and foregoing cable subscriptions entirely in favour of internet streaming options, the question is whether or not the US cable industry, as it is currently structured, can survive.
That would leave very little to complain about. | US cable giant Comcast has abandoned its planned $45bn (£30bn) purchase of Time Warner Cable after failing to convince regulators the deal would not harm competition. | 32444383 |
Andrew Bedford, 27, from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, was last seen at 18:20 BST on Friday, 28 September 1990 at Factory Bank, off Great Whyte, Ramsey.
Three people were arrested in connection but no-one was charged.
Police say they now believe he was shot dead later that Friday. The cold case investigation has now officially become a murder inquiry, officers said.
Mr Bedford was last seen eating a takeaway in a light blue Ford Cortina car.
Despite extensive searches involving police helicopters and divers, a nationwide poster campaign and a Crimestoppers reconstruction no trace of Mr Bedford was found.
A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Police said: "It was always known murder was a strong possibility but his body was never found."
However, detectives believe he was killed with a shotgun sometime during the evening of 28 September at a garage called Mongrel Cars, which no longer exists, in Ramsey.
Three people arrested on 30 September 1990 on suspicion of murdering Mr Bedford were released without charge.
Det Insp Ian Simmons from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: "Having reviewed the circumstances of Andrew's disappearance and given nearly 25 years have passed, we are now confident he is dead and was murdered.
"A team of detectives... is devoted to the cold case and we want to speak to anyone who has any information about Mr Bedford's disappearance and death."
The prime suspect for the shooting is now dead, "but others who were involved have never been brought to justice", the spokesman added.
When Mr Bedford was last seen he was wearing overalls, a khaki jumper, jeans and trainers. He was described as 5ft 8in (1.72m), medium build with mousey blond, curly, shoulder-length hair and had a number of tattoos. | An investigation into the disappearance of a man almost 25 years ago is now being treated as murder. | 32231070 |
The claim: The Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts include an extra £10bn each year from 2019-20 for public spending as a result of leaving the EU - this could be spent on the NHS.
Reality Check verdict: If the UK manages to stop completely its contributions to the EU budget in 2019-20 then there may be some extra money to spend on other things - but in that same year the OBR is predicting that the government will have to borrow an extra £14.7bn as a result of the Brexit vote.
What they are talking about is the amount of money saved if the UK stops making contributions to the EU budget.
The £32bn is what you get if you add up the figures for the net contribution to the EU budget in 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22, contained in Chart 2.26 of the OBR report accompanying the Autumn Statement.
Change Britain would perhaps have been better off using a slightly less "buried" figure, which is to be found in table 4.27.
That table gives the amount of domestic spending that the OBR assumes could be done if the government abruptly stopped making any contributions to the EU budget. Over three years, those figures add up to £40bn.
There are several things to say about this figure before describing it as a Brexit dividend.
The first is that the reason it is of relatively little interest to the OBR is that the independent forecasting group assumes that if that money stops being sent to Brussels it will be spent elsewhere by the government, which means that it makes almost no difference when forecasting future borrowing.
But clearly, for the population as a whole, the idea of having an extra £13bn spent on the NHS in 2019-20 is of much greater interest. Is that possible?
Not all of that money can be spent on the NHS because the government has promised that groups such as universities and scientific researchers who currently receive money from the EU will continue to do so, at least until we leave the EU, with continuing funding at least until projects already under way are finished.
Also, some of the money that the UK contributes to the EU budget that is spent on, for example, supporting poorer regions of Europe, counts as part of the government's spending on international development.
The government is committed to spending 0.7% of national income each year on international development - if we didn't do so via the EU budget we'd have to spend it elsewhere.
But what makes this figure the most difficult is that it assumes that the UK will leave the EU at the end of March 2019, at which point all contributions to the EU budget will immediately stop.
We've looked at the chances of this happening before and it turns out that there are two areas in which there may have to be further spending.
The first is that there are things that the UK is committed to funding that will not be completed when the UK leaves. These include things like scientific projects and infrastructure projects - there is likely to have to be a sort of divorce settlement agreed to fund them. There are also likely to have to be continuing payments to fund a share of the pensions for EU civil servants.
The other area where there may be payments is if the UK wants to continue to participate in any parts of the EU. Some countries contribute to the EU budget in order to gain preferential access to the single market. We (and the OBR) don't know if the government is prepared to do that.
And there are other programmes such as EU funding for research or the European Investment Bank that the UK might want to continue its involvement with, which would also involve making financial contributions.
Finally, thinking of £13bn in 2019-20 as a "Brexit dividend" is a bit difficult when the OBR is predicting that in that year the government will have to borrow an extra £14.7bn just as a result of the vote to leave the EU.
If the government were committed to using any money saved from the EU budget to reduce borrowing then you could say it would cut the amount of extra borrowing needed as a result of Brexit - but actually Change Britain is calling for it to be spent on "our priorities - the most important of which is the NHS".
Find other Reality Checks here | A campaign group called Change Britain, led by Leave supporters, has claimed that: "Buried deep in the Office for Budget Responsibility Economic and Fiscal Outlook yesterday was the £32bn 'Brexit dividend' that the UK will receive when it leaves the EU." | 38105103 |
The route, which runs from St Bees Head in Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, was devised in 1973 by fell walker and author Alfred Wainwright.
Campaigners say the walk should be included alongside the 15 designated National Trails, which include the Pennine Way and the Cleveland Way.
Wainwright Society chairman Eric Robson said the walk was a "wonderful route".
The campaign has been backed by Richmond MP Rishi Sunak and BBC presenter Julia Bradbury.
Walkers want the path to have the same prominence and national funding as the existing National Trails, which are looked after by Natural England and Natural Resources Wales.
Mr Sunak said: "The Coast to Coast runs right through the heart of the Richmond constituency and some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK.
"Hundreds of businesses depend on it and official recognition would bring a real boost for the economy of the area.
"This is a walk that was rated as the second best walk in the world in a survey of expert opinion carried out by Country Walking magazine a few years ago and yet it has no official status. This is a real anomaly." | A campaign for the 190-mile Coast to Coast walk to be given official National Trail status has begun. | 35984255 |
Cafodd y perfformiwr o'r Rhyl ei gwobrwyo yng nghategori'r Actores Orau mewn Rôl Gefnogol mewn Sioe Gerdd am ei rhan yn Show Boat.
Gwobrau Olivier yw prif wobrau byd y sioeau cerdd a'r theatrau yn y DU.
Yn y blynyddoedd diweddar, mae Ms Trehearn wedi perfformio ar lwyfannau'r West End mewn sioeau fel Diary of a Teenage Girl, Floyd Collins a City of Angels.
Mae hi hefyd wedi ymddangos ar y teledu, gan gynnwys yn nrama Dim ond y Gwir ar S4C.
Ms Trehearn oedd enillydd cystadleuaeth Wawffactor 'nôl yn 2005. | Roedd y Gymraes, Rebecca Trehearn, ymhlith enillwyr Gwobrau Olivier nos Sul. | 39551762 |
Researchers examined the aftermath of same-sex sporting events and found that men spent longer talking, touching or embracing their opponents than women.
These efforts to patch things up ensure the males can then co-operate more successfully in the future.
The authors believe that this trait has been carried down through the years.
Researchers have long been puzzled by the abilities of male chimpanzees, who constantly bicker and fight, to put aside their differences and co-operate and work together in struggles for territory with other groups.
Studies showed that male and female chimps acted differently in the aftermath of fights, with males much more inclined to engage in reconciliation behaviours.
Psychologists wondered if the same habits were true for humans - and decided to analyse high-level, same sex sporting competitions for these reconciliation traits.
The team looked at recordings of tennis, table tennis, badminton and boxing involving men and women from 44 countries.
They focused on what happened in the aftermath of these events in terms of physical contacts, such as handshakes and embraces, between opponents.
In society generally, data indicates that physical contact between women is equal to or more frequent than it is among males.
But across the four sports observed, men spent significantly more time touching than females, in what the authors term "post-conflict affiliation".
"What you'll see is that many times females brush their fingers against each other," said lead author Prof Joyce Benenson from Emmanuel College and Harvard University.
"You're expected by the sport to do something but it's so frosty. However, with the males even with a handshake you can see the warmth, the tightness of it.
"I expected this would be the least strong in boxing, because you try to kill the other person, but it's the strongest in this sport, there really is this sense of love for your opponent which is beyond my understanding."
The authors conclude that men in these sports are doing exactly what the male chimpanzees are doing - investing more time in patching up their differences so that they can potentially work together down the line.
The authors recognise that there may be limitations to their study, but they believe their work fits in with other research such as the finding that after divorce, men tend to more easily form peaceful relationships with their former wives' new spouses than vice versa.
Prof Benenson believe that overall, her new work shows that these reconciliation abilities are an "evolved sex difference that still operates today".
"It's the idea that you can have a mechanism that allows you to go from that tremendous competition to beat others to being able to form groups and create human society.
"Really men have done that in business, in religion, in education and the military - they form these relationships where they are willing to die for each other in some cases."
These traits have been, and continue to be, to the detriment of women in the workplace, Prof Benenson believes.
She argues that in family settings, women are able to fight and make up in the same way as men, but in the office environment the same incentives don't seem to be there.
She says that if childcare could be more closely incorporated into work, and women were able to share this with their female colleagues, they might be able to see them more as family members and this might help them achieve the same level of co-operation with competitors as men do.
Other researchers say that this is an "impressive" study.
"That men are more likely to reconcile after a conflict supports other studies showing that male-male relationships are generally different than female-female relationships," said Prof Robert Deaner from Grand Valley State University, who wasn't involved in the work.
"A woman's relationship with another woman is often gravely damaged if one woman achieves greater status than the other or somehow outdoes her.
"Men, by contrast, seem to better tolerate these kinds of ups and downs, which may be why men seem better than women at maintaining large same-sex social networks."
The study has been published in the journal Current Biology.
Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathBBC and on Facebook. | Men's historical dominance of the workplace may, in part, be because of their ability to reconcile with enemies after conflict, a new study suggests. | 36969103 |
Loughries Primary School, just outside Newtownards in County Down, has 75 pupils.
It became an integrated school on 1 September following approval from former education minister John O'Dowd in 2015.
It is the 65th such school in Northern Ireland.
Originally opened in 1842, it is the oldest surviving school in the Newtownards area.
The decision to transform was taken following a ballot in favour of integration by the parents of its pupils.
Children from Protestant, Catholic and a variety of other backgrounds are taught together in integrated schools.
About 22,000 pupils - 7% of the school population - are educated in them.
The first integrated school, Lagan College in Belfast, opened in 1981 and there are now 45 primary schools and 20 post-primary schools across Northern Ireland.
They educate around 22,000 pupils, approximately 7% of the school population.
Any new integrated school must attract 30% of its pupils from the minority community in the area where the school is situated.
However, the growth of the sector has stalled in recent years.
A review of integrated education, also commissioned by Mr O'Dowd earlier this year, is due for completion imminently. | A ceremony is to be held on Friday to mark the creation of the newest integrated school in Northern Ireland. | 37512515 |
More than 375,000 people signed the petition to bring home Iceberg - an Argentine mastiff - from Denmark, where she faced being put down.
Iceberg's owner, Giuseppe Perna, had not realised the breed was considered dangerous under Danish law.
Danish authorities bowed to pressure and now say they will amend the law.
Arrangements are now being made to return Iceberg home to Italy, campaigner Rinaldo Sidoli told the BBC.
He said he had the guarantee of Denmark's environment ministry that the dog was safe.
"I am very happy because we put the pressure on. I thank the Danish ambassador to Italy, who met me on 26 June and listened to the proposals from myself and more than 375,000 signatories.
"Giuseppe must be able to embrace his friend again."
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Mr Perna took Iceberg with him when he accepted a job as a chef in Denmark, gaining the correct documentation to take the dog through the border.
But when Iceberg had a fight with another dog and was seized by police, her status as an illegal dangerous dog came to light and authorities said she would have to be put down.
As well as Mr Sidoli's petition, Italian animal rights' organisation Enpa led a drive to save the dog, urging supporters to lobby the Danish embassy. Italian pop singer Noemi joined a protest outside the Danish embassy in Rome.
Italy's foreign minister also added his voice to those demanding Iceberg's return.
Mr Perna told the BBC he was waiting to collect the dog and they would both now move back to Italy.
Not only has Iceberg been saved, but the campaign seems to have prompted a change in the law.
Danish Environment Minister Esben Lunde Larsen says he will propose legislation allowing dog owners who brought their animals to Denmark in good faith to be given the option of returning them to their home countries, rather than being put down.
The amendment will go to parliament after the seasonal recess. | An Italian campaigner has told the BBC he is "very happy" after launching a petition which helped save a dog's life. | 40454802 |
Chic were responsible for some of Disco's most enduring hits: Le Freak, Everybody Dance, We Are Family and Good Times to name but a few.
And Nile Rodgers is confident he can recreate the dancefloor magic with the band's new track I'll Be There, their first single in 23 years.
"This is real disco," Rodgers tells the BBC. "This is our form of disco, which never sounded like Giorgio Moroder, never sounded like the Village People, never sounded like anyone else. Chic's disco was uniquely ours."
I'll Be There is the first track from the band's forthcoming album, It's About Time, which Rodgers is currently piecing together from a box of "lost Chic tapes" - featuring the original members of the band, of whom Rodgers is the only surviving member.
"I'm rather proud of it," says the musician. "It's music that no one's ever heard before. I wanted to make sure that the music we used was all original stuff, even though there was a riff that we had played before, I just wrote a song on top of it."
The single is a tribute to Rodgers' producing and song-writing partner, Bernard Edwards, who died in 1996 shortly after Chic came off stage from a gig in Japan.
In fact, the whole album is written as if he was "having a conversation with Bernard".
"Trying to explain that 'life has gone on and you woke up 20 years later and this is what the world is like,'" says Rodgers. "'So you have to view it through my lens and I have to view it through your lens.'"
Rodgers says writing the album was "emotional", but also "refreshing".
"I was purging, I was cleansing and I was having dialogue."
Unsurprisingly, given its title It's About Time, the album's "deep hidden meaning that every Chic song has" - is the passing of the years.
"Every song is about time. And time-travelling. Time defines everything - the quality of our relationships, the style of music that we're doing," says Rodgers.
And the 62-year-old is only too aware of how precious time can be. Back in 2010 he was told he had "extremely aggressive cancer" and, while he is now in remission, he has vowed to devote as much of the time he has left as possible to making music.
There's been no shortage of artists queuing up to share the studio with him. Having helped Daft Punk create one of 2013's biggest tracks, the Grammy Award-winning Get Lucky, he's since teamed up with artists including Disclosure, Sam Smith and Avicii.
He says he's assembled a mind-blowing team to record the vocals on a four-part harmony song called Queen. Elton John, Miley Cyrus, Chaka Khan and Janelle Monae will feature on the "pretty lullaby", which we can expect to sound "like Crosby, Stills and Nash meets Chic".
The guest list includes some lesser-known names, too.
Rodgers has just written a track with Dutch producer Nicky Romero and Nervo - an Australian DJ and songwriting duo who are twin sisters - which is "absurd! So good it's crazy".
He calls another new song, with Irish-born, Manchester-based DJ and producer Krystal Klear and Steely Dan's Michael McDonald, 63, "ridiculous".
"With any composer, it's the stuff that you're working on right now that you like the most," admits the musician.
"I'm really proud of those tracks. And in the scope of [the album] it makes sense. You have a track that I wrote with Krystal Klear - Declan [Lennon] was like 20 years old - and Michael is probably older than me, but you hear it and it all makes sense."
Scheduled for a July release, the album should also feature "some stuff recorded in Sweden at Abba's studio Polar", which shut its doors in 2004 but counts Chic as "the official last band" to have graced its mixing desk.
Having produced stars from Sister Sledge to Duran Duran and been a regular at legendary New York club Studio 54, Rodgers is rarely short of an anecdote, but with such fascinating stories the name-dropping never feels ungracious.
There's the time he dreamt up the Diana Ross hit I'm Coming Out, after coming face-to face-with several transvestites dressed as the star in a nightclub toilet.
Or when he turned Bowie's Let's Dance from a folk song into the classic 1980s chart-topper.
He also revels in telling the story of how Elton John booked Chic for his annual Oscars party last month, then joined them on stage.
"Elton is awesome. I've played with Elton 20 times but I've never played with him in Chic - he was killing it. It was like, 'you should be in my band forever!' He was perfect."
The story that accompanies Rodgers' new single I'll Be There is tinged with sadness though.
"I have a lyric that says, 'I don't want to live in the past but it's a nice place to visit, and if you come along, I'll be there.'
"I'll be there are the first words that I said to Bernard when I actually realised that he was dead. My brain wouldn't accept the reality. I was screaming at him, I was shaking him.
"At that moment I broke down crying and said: 'Okay, I'll be there for you in death, the way you were there for me in life.'
"Now that's not to sound like this is a morbid dark song," he laughs. "This is a disco song and it's real happy."
Because of the track's "deep hidden meaning" Rodgers wanted to be sure he did something special to mark its release. As a self-confessed "science guy", he picked this Friday, 20 March, as the release date - coinciding with the vernal equinox, when we're set to have a partial solar eclipse.
The release even has its own hashtag, #CHIClipse. That night the band will also kick off their tour with the first of two dates at London's Roundhouse.
"I don't know what day any of my records came out, ever, but I'll remember this one for the rest of my life. Because people on their way to work in the morning, all of a sudden it's going to get dark! It's like, 'woah! What's going on?'.
"I wanted to do something that's memorable."
Chic featuring Nile Rodgers start a UK tour at London's Roundhouse on 20 March, and play the British Summer Time festival in Hyde Park with Kylie and Grace Jones on 21 June. | As a producer he's worked with artists as diverse as David Bowie, Disclosure, Madonna and Daft Punk, but now Chic's Nile Rodgers has his sights set on another hit record of his own. | 31923237 |
South West Trains services were delayed by the power failure near Feltham at about 07:30 GMT.
Commuters were later told at 09:30 that further delays were being caused by the "awkward" swan.
South West Trains apologised on Twitter and said the bird had been rather tricky to remove despite the train driver's "best efforts".
Network Rail has directed customers to its website, explaining how leaf mulch can cause problems with signalling.
Many commuters vented their frustrations on social media.
Phil Young tweeted: "After 2 hrs stuck on @SW_Trains outside Twickenham cos of power failure, now stuck at Staines cos of a swan on the bridge! #greatworkexcuses"
Geoffrey Ganda tweeted: "I waited 2 hours at Reading for a SW train in the cold. Are there any compensations? The prices go up each year but same problems." | Rail services between Berkshire and London have been disrupted by leaves, a power cut and a swan on the line. | 37895403 |
David Cameron made the announcement at the G7 in Bavaria ahead of a meeting with the Iraqi prime minister on 8 June.
Mr Cameron told reporters that terror activity by IS was "the biggest threat" G7 leaders had to address.
Most of the extra personnel would be involved in training Iraqi soldiers to deal with explosive devices, he added. | The UK is to send an extra 125 military trainers to Iraq to help in the battle against Islamic State, the PM has said. | 33041218 |
Conor Bull, 19, from Stranraer, walked free from court in 2014 after judge Lord Burns decided not to jail him.
However, he was brought back to court after breaching the order imposed as a direct alternative to a jail sentence.
Lord Burns said there was now no option to a jail term and remanded him in custody with his sentence deferred.
Bull raped the schoolgirl in December 2013 and later boasted of what he had done to a friend.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that Bull - as part of the court order imposed on him - was told not to use mobile phones or access social media or have contact with girls under the age of 15.
Defence counsel Simon Gilbride told the court: "Mr Bull has admitted he had use of mobile phones and had access to social media.
"However, he disputes using Snapchat to regularly contact young girls."
The court heard that this was the second time Bull had breached the order.
He appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh on 15 July and admitted a breach of the order. Then on 28 July - less than two weeks after the court appearance - he again breached it.
Lord Burns said: "I said if there were a breach I would have no option, but a custodial sentence. I am bound to impose a custodial sentence."
He told Bull: "Conor Bull you have given me no option but to find you in breach. You accept you are in breach for the second time."
He also ordered a report to assess the risk he posed.
Bull was remanded in custody and sentence deferred until 2 November at the High Court in Aberdeen.
In 2014, Bull admitted the rape and Lord Burns placed him on a community payback order and told him to perform 101 hours unpaid work.
At the time Lord Burns said: "The public interest does not require a custodial sentence." | A teenager who was spared jail after admitting raping a 12-year-old girl has been remanded in custody after breaching his community payback order. | 37584366 |
The bird, named Bud, was found with a damaged wing on Mull last August and rescued by the Scottish SPCA.
The charity worked with Raptor World and the RSPB to help it overcome the injury and a subsequent leg break.
Bud was freed on 13 March - the first time the Scottish SPCA has returned an injured golden eagle to the wild.
Colin Seddon, manager at the charity's National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Clackmannanshire, said the juvenile golden eagle had been found by a farmer on Mull.
"Bud was found to have soft tissue damage to his wing which took a long time to heal and unfortunately once he had fully recovered he broke his right leg in a freak accident," he said.
"The break was repaired by a vet using an external fixator and as the healing process was very long Bud was kept with us over winter.
"We had to carefully choose the best time and place to release Bud and following discussions with David Sexton of the RSPB and Stewart Millar from Raptor World, we decided to take him back to a location close to where he was found."
Mr Seddon said they had to wait for a "reasonable weather window" to release Bud.
"We didn't want to release him in a period of heavy rain as he may not have been able to hunt," he said.
"We also had to avoid strong winds because, as an inexperienced flyer, Bud would have been blown away from the release site where support food and monitoring is being provided by the RSPB."
Mr Seddon added: "Bud is the first ever golden eagle we've been able to release back into the wild and everyone involved is extremely pleased with the outcome.
"It is rare for us to rescue golden eagles as there are so few of them in Scotland and because they tend to live in remote areas they often die before they are found if they become sick or injured." | A golden eagle that was found injured on the Isle of Mull has been released back into the wild after almost eight months of care by an animal charity. | 31984362 |
Like it was for many who grew up in the town of Port Talbot, the dystopian mesh of pipes, turrets, chimneys and constant smoke was considered a viable career prospect and, for some, a certainty - a safe bet.
One particular memory that stands out is of a former comprehensive school teacher, who, when I was 14 or 15, asked what type of career I was considering.
Growing up in the 1980s and early 90s it was hard to avoid things like television, music, and video games. On top of that I was an avid reader and film junkie, so I was being honest when I said I would like to work in the media, possibly in writing or film.
The teacher, who shall remain nameless, told me while it was nice to have dreams, maybe I should consider something more realistic, like a trade or industry.
He meant the steel works.
Call it single-mindedness, but I knew a life in the steel works was not for me.
Art and English were the subjects I enjoyed most at school. I was good at them. True, they were the only things I was good at, but I thought it important to play to my strengths.
And I did.
I was the first in my family to go to university, an opportunity afforded to me by the hard work of my parents.
I say hard because that is what it was.
We were by no means poor, but we were not well-off either, and the introduction of student tuition fees in 1998 did not make things any easier.
My mother was a civil servant and my father, like almost every other man in my family, worked in the steel works.
Some of my earliest memories of my father are of him coming home in the early, still dark hours of the morning, having worked yet another exhausting 12-hour night shift.
And while he always had time for my mother, my sister and myself before we went to work and school, the tiredness in his eyes convinced me I wanted nothing to do with overnight shift work.
But for my father, and others like him in the late 70s and early 80s, shift work and sweating it out for 12 hours in a hot, smoke-filled and - yes - dangerous steel mill was the norm.
And so it was with the works. For anyone who has grown up or lived in Port Talbot for a significant amount of time, the works are nothing out of the ordinary.
Those driving by on the M4, or just passing through on their way to Bridgend or Neath, are prone to think it a monstrosity - an ugly, nightmarish blot on the south Wales horizon.
But, for those living there, the works are part of the furniture, a towering constant that can be seen from almost every other point in the town.
And for my father it has been just that - a constant.
Like many in the town, for him the steel works meant a job for life. But, as the current workforce recently discovered, nothing is certain and their livelihoods, once again, are in danger.
In January it was announced 750 jobs were to go at the Port Talbot plant and 300 more elsewhere. Workers have discovered over the course of this week exactly who will be leaving.
It is another sobering blow to an already struggling industry, and one which my father has seen before.
Winning an engineering apprenticeship after he left school, he first started work in the Port Talbot plant when he was 17.
Now 56, and retired, he remembers what it was like on his first day.
It was 1976 when, at 17 years old, David Burgess first stepped foot into Port Talbot steel works.
"First day, I started as an apprentice," he tells me, and the "first couple of weeks were inductions, learning the safety aspects, being told what to expect.
"We didn't see much of the plant for the first 18 months to two years."
It was common practice then, he explains, for people his age to take up a trade.
"Apprenticeships were probably the main thing for school-leavers at the time unless you went to college, but during that era most people went into apprenticeships after school."
In those days the steel works were overseen by British Steel, and there were "probably 11,000 to 12,000 people working there at the time," he remembers.
But then, as now, the threat of redundancy and unemployment soon made itself known.
"We were just coming into the first Slimline (British Steel's restructuring of the workforce), so things started changing - there were massive job losses at the time," he says.
My father recalls how his apprenticeship lasted four years, from 1976 to 1980, "but for the first couple of years, because of Slimline, I was under threat of notice.
"We didn't know whether we would have a job after our apprenticeship, so it was pretty grim."
Not that it was all bad. There were good times too.
Chief among them was the role he played in a special project for Cardiff.
"When we were apprentices," he tells me, "we made the rugby posts in the training centre in Port Talbot for the old Cardiff Arms Park."
That would be good enough in itself but my father, along with his fellow apprentices, were taken to the ground to see the posts installed.
There they were given a tour before my father was given the honour of being the first person to kick a rugby ball over the new posts.
A feat later emulated by the likes of Welsh rugby greats Steve Fenwick and Paul Thorburn.
"I do have happy memories of the place," he says, though he is quick to add the threat of job cuts in his early days loomed like a long shadow over a very uncertain future.
But, luckily, the threat abated and job security was on the cards.
"Once we got over Slimline and got established," he explains, "then you looked at it as a job for life."
And it was, for him and many more in the town.
But while livelihoods were safe and secure, the threat to their actual lives was something that never went away and was something they were warned about early on.
The steel works is "a very dangerous place," he says. "Huge machinery, molten metals, different gasses. But safety is paramount and always has been.
"When we did our apprenticeship induction, we were told one in three or one in four of us would lose a part of the body - which was the nature of that time."
Something my father would find out for himself.
"I was working, taking a brake assembly off a crane," he remembers, "bringing it down off the crane, putting it on the floor. I started to work on it and it toppled over. A loose brake shoe flipped up, clipped me and took the top of my finger straight off."
Not that my father is bitter.
"It [health and safety] is a bit better now," he says, "but accidents do happen and people do get injured."
But, like many in Port Talbot, my father's concerns are not with what happened in the past but with what is happening now.
"At this moment in time," he says, "with the recent job losses that have been announced, when these job cuts have been finalised and people have lost their jobs or been made redundant, or taken voluntary [retirement], the next 12 months are going to be very sticky [for people], and to see what Tata decide to do with Port Talbot."
Everyone seems to be in agreement - the next 12 months are a crucial time for those who rely on the steel works for their income and their security.
With the latest round of job cuts announced, my father is keen to stress his confidence in the workforce of the town.
"The workforce of Port Talbot is highly skilled," he says. "They will work their socks off to make a success of that place.
"But cheap, imported steel is being dumped, and the cost of energy to run the steel works is phenomenal.
"Without some help from the government, or funds provided so they can build their own power station and be self-sufficient, then the steel works and the industry in south Wales cannot sustain itself for much longer."
Looking further into the future, he is hopeful the steel works will "find a way of staying open", but adds it will be a "death knell" for south Wales if it closes.
"To me, this is the last part big part of British manufacturing, there's nothing else.
"It's not only the steel works that will have a huge impact on people's lives - it's the small subsidiary engineering firms, suppliers to the works that are going to lose their trade.
"This will have a big, big impact on south Wales."
Harry Thomas
My grandfather, Harry Thomas, turned 80 years old last year. Port Talbot has been the only home he has ever known and he still lives in the same house he was born in.
Growing up he witnessed the town and surrounding areas change time and time again, keeping pace with the industrial age and expanding in size and reach year on year.
During his childhood he watched as sand dunes, fields and farmland made way for roads, motorways, factories and retail.
He remembers it all and he can recall, when he was just a boy, looking out from the town's Aberavon Beach and seeing the German Luftwaffe bombing the nearby city of Swansea, the smoke and flames rising up from the bay.
Not many years later, despite the end of World War Two, young men from all over Britain were still subject to national service.
And so it was for my grandfather who, at 18, found himself in Army fatigues, being shipped off to Egypt for two years to help guard the Suez Canal.
Two years beneath a punishing Egyptian sun can seem like a long time but, after his service was completed, it was time to return home.
But coming home meant you had to make a living.
"In 1956 I'd just come out of the Army, so I'd be 21," he says.
"Everything rolled around the steel works. So if you wanted a job you went there."
He was not alone in his thinking, he recalls.
"A lot of boys come out [of the Army], like myself, and you went to the steel works.
"You were more or less guaranteed a job - there was plenty of work everywhere."
Thinking back to his first day, he remembers how men were picked for where they worked.
"So many boys there you knew - it was just like a pool of men - and the foreman would come along and say 'we want you in that department' or 'so many in that department', and you'd stay there."
Despite an abundance of work there were also a lot of people in need of it, and not everyone could be guaranteed employment every day.
"Sometimes, perhaps, you went there on a Monday and they'd keep you there until Friday," he says. "But the rest they didn't want would go back in the pool."
Not that my grandfather struggled when it came to finding work. Initially working in the blast furnace, it was not that long before he found himself operating cranes down by the docks on Aberavon Beach.
"The jobs we were doing were on the engineering side," he recalls, "but what they wanted were trainee crane drivers - so we thought we'd have a go at that.
From there, he tells me, it was more or less plain sailing.
"Once we'd passed our test, well, that was it. It was a promotion line all the way then."
Not that sitting high up in a crane was considered a safe job - the threat of physical danger never went away. Whether working in the blast furnace or operating the cranes in the harbour, safety was always paramount.
"Trouble wherever you go," he says of his time there. "So many moving parts, belts in the stock yard - the cranes themselves. There's danger and you've got to beware."
And when it came to the cranes, there were some who just could not do it.
"I admire these boys, some of who have gone up and said 'sorry, not for me'. But then there were others, like myself, who said 'I'll have a go'. But I do admire someone who says 'no, not for me'."
Luckily for my grandfather it was for him, and he enjoyed a career in the steel works that lasted 40 years until his retirement.
But he knows, as much as anyone, steel workers today cannot rely on that level of security when it comes to their employment and income.
The announcement in January that more jobs were to go have left many in the town fearing for their mortgages, their children's well-being and future security, for steady income, and even food on the table.
Jobs, like the town itself, he reminds me, were a lot different during his day.
"Port Talbot then, well, everything was open - not like today, where everything is half shut.
"I know the cost of living has gone up, but things seemed a lot better then."
Asked why, my grandfather is quick to acknowledge the steel works as the town's life blood.
"No steel works, no Port Talbot," he says firmly. "It was the jewel in the crown."
Nevertheless, and despite the latest threat, he continues to remain hopeful.
"At the moment it's looking rough," he says, "but there have always been disputes.
"I've always thought there's so much investment going on [in the works] they're not going to get rid of Port Talbot.
"They might prune it," he adds, "but they're not going to get rid of it."
I wonder if my grandfather's confidence is more a hopeful wish than the long-term reality the town is facing, but he is adamant in his stance that the works will survive.
"You're not [just] closing the steel works, you're closing Port Talbot.
"But I think, at the end of the day, they will be OK."
He realises times are difficult but notes the steel works is still going, and that its heart, no matter how black it might look from a distance, is still pumping life into the town he has spent his entire life in.
"They could turn around and say 'that's it'," he says finally, "but they haven't, so there could still be light at the end of the tunnel."
David Morley
David Morley, 64 years old and retired, is my mother's uncle. In 1969 he was 18 years old and taking his first steps into Port Talbot steel works. Looking back now, he remembers his first day was not the best.
"It was very traumatic," he says, "because you went into an environment which was pretty harsh - at the time.
"I remember I had on a green suit and I was walking up the cast house floor when I saw my brother-in-law [my grandfather] in the crane, and that eased me a bit."
Not that the steel works was the only option.
"You could get a job in there, practically anywhere in the works," he recalls, "but they were also building BP (oil refinery) in Llandarcy."
Both sites had the potential for a lifetime of employment and job security but, on this occasion, family made the final decision.
"It was a matter of one or the other but I decided on the steel works because my father had worked there, my family were working in there - that was the basic pull."
And from then on it only got better - with one exception.
"I started off labouring," my uncle remembers, "and then went to the furnace, which didn't take me long to realise I didn't want to do."
Asked why, he explains he didn't like the environment: "Too dirty, too hot."
Instead he opted for a job in the gas cleaning plant, which had its advantages in terms of career progression.
"The workforce in that part of the plant was old," he remembers, "so I knew it wouldn't take me long to work up to a higher job."
It was a bet that paid off as, after just two short years, he had secured the top job in that department.
And other roles would follow, proving a life in the steel works was not just a job but a career, if that was what you wanted.
Whether it was under British Steel, Corus or Tata ownership, being part of the Port Talbot plant's workforce seemed like the safest bet in town.
But as my uncle points out, and as my father and grandfather saw themselves, over the years that workforce changed.
"There were about 19,000 when I started there and then they reduced," he says. "When the unions had the power in the 70s they didn't use what they had the right way - they used it for the wrong things."
Job losses and redundancies were not the only things ushering in change, though.
"Automation came in," he recalls, "which frightened a lot of people. People didn't like screens, didn't want them. A lot of people were really worried about it.
"There were quite a few who just didn't want to know, didn't want change."
Change, especially technological change, is inevitable, some would argue, and it would seem Port Talbot steel works is no more immune to it than any other industry.
"The workforce has changed dramatically," my uncle adds, "but for the better."
Asked about current owners Tata, he is quick to defend them and their management of the works.
"Tata, in fairness, have spent a lot of money in there. They want it to be successful, they don't want it to close."
But the threat of closure, no matter how far away the possibility might seem, is something on the minds of many in the town.
Asked what can be done, it seems there are no easy answers. But those who have worked there, like my uncle, say they know where to start.
"Tata want to build a power plant so [the works] can be self-sufficient. And they want a bit of help, but the government is not coming over with any help.
"It should be sustaining the steel industry. The mines have gone, the steel will go - [after that] I don't know what's there for youngsters.
"It's not just the steel works," he adds. "You thought the police was a job for life, the fire service was a job for life. There's no guarantee anything is safe now the way things have been cut."
Not that he thinks the fate of the steel works is sealed.
"I wouldn't say there's no future there because there can be a future - if the government can help them a little bit. That's all they're [Tata and the workers] asking for is a level playing field."
And if the government do not help?
"If they're on their own," he says, "then Tata are not going to sustain a £1m a day loss. So this [job announcement] might just be the start."
And if the steel works ever closes?
"It will be like other places where the mines have gone," he says gravely. "Children will move away - they're bound to look for work elsewhere.
"Personally, if I had children at that age I would encourage them to go abroad, the way things are going, this country's on the decline.
Asked what the people of Port Talbot will do without the works, without the lifeblood it supplies, he says: "People get by, they always do".
"I've been lucky," he adds, "I've always worked. My family's always worked. But I don't know how people manage when they're not working.
"It must be hard," he stresses, "especially if you want to work. If you want to work and you can't get work that's terrible."
Looking forward, he points out it is not just Port Talbot that will suffer should the steel works go the way of the mines.
Agreeing with others in my family, he says if the works were to close it would have a "massive impact" on south Wales.
"Not just on Port Talbot but on outlying communities as well," he says, "because people from everywhere are coming here - Neath, Maesteg, Porthcawl, not just this town."
Asked for a final thought, my uncle poses a question instead.
"If the government can get their act together, they can keep it [the steel works]," he says. "There's a lot of money there, investment still to be had.
"Why," he asks, "why can't they do it?" | The steel works could easily have been for me. | 35640961 |
Around 100 others were wounded in the explosion, which may have been caused by a female suicide attacker from the Islamic State group, officials say.
Kobane has seen heavy fighting between IS militants and Kurdish fighters.
It was retaken by the Kurds from IS forces earlier this year.
Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said initial findings suggested the attack was the work of IS.
"Turkey has taken and will continue to take all necessary measures against Islamic State," Mr Davutoglu told a news conference in Ankara, according to Reuters.
"Measures on our border with Syria... will be increased," he added.
The Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) is reported to have had at least 300 members staying at the Amara Culture Centre in Suruc, where the explosion happened.
The young people had been planning to travel to Kobane to help with rebuilding the town.
A video released on social media apparently showed the moment of the blast, at a news conference taking place in the centre's garden.
In the video, a group of young people are chanting slogans while holding the federation's flags and a large banner with the words: "We defended it together, we are building it together."
Then an explosion rips through the assembled youngsters.
Graphic images of the aftermath show bodies littering the ground, with the red flags being used to cover them.
The district governor of Suruc, Abdullah Ciftci, said: "The fact that it is a suicide attack increases the possibility that IS is responsible.
"We think the attacker was a woman.
"Preliminary findings show that she was acting on her own," he told BBC Turkish.
A local journalist, Faruk Baran, told BBC Turkish that there was panic in Suruc after the attack, with shopkeepers closing up for fear of a second attack.
Suruc residents had feared that they could be IS's next target ever since the attack on the pro-Kurdish party's election rally in Diyarbakir on 5 June, he said.
Suruc houses many refugees who have fled the fighting in Kobane.
IS overran the Syrian town in September last year, but it was retaken by Kurdish forces in January.
In June Kobane once more came under assault from IS, with hundreds dead, but the militants were driven out again.
Kobane: Inside the town devastated by fight against IS
The suicide bomb attack on the Amara Cultural Centre is one of the bloodiest suicide attacks in Turkey in years.
Suruc is a small Kurdish-majority city just a 15-minute drive from the border with Kobane. Kurdish activists in Suruc played a vital role during the siege of Kobane, sending food and medicine to the YPG Kurdish fighters to bolster their supplies. Many journalists and foreign fighters who wanted to go to Kobane went to Suruc and from there were sent on.
At the time of the attack, 300 young activists were preparing to make a statement and cross the border into Kobane to help to rebuild the city.
Local Kurdish politicians in Suruc blame the Islamic State (IS) group for the attack. IS suffered a heavy loss and defeat in Kobane earlier this year. Also last month the YPG captured Tal Abyad, one of the most important IS border crossings with Turkey. Kurds believe the militant group wants to take revenge on civilian Kurds inside Turkey.
In June it was reported to have carried out numerous attacks on Turkey's pro-Kurdish Party, HDP, during the run-up to the Turkish parliamentary elections, but IS never said it was responsible.
The group is believed to have many sympathisers inside Turkey and they could carry out attacks against additional targets.
Who are the Kurds? | A bomb attack in the Turkish town of Suruc has killed at least 30 people during a meeting of young activists to discuss the reconstruction of the neighbouring Syrian town of Kobane. | 33593615 |
The fossil animal, which retains impressions of feathers, is dated to be about 160 million years old.
Scientists have given it the name Aurornis, which means "dawn bird".
The significance of the find, they tell Nature magazine, is that it helps simplify not only our understanding for how birds emerged from dinosaurs but also for how powered flight originated.
Aurornis xui, to give it its full name, is preserved in a shale slab pulled from the famous fossil beds of Liaoning Province.
About 50cm tail to beak, the animal has very primitive skeletal features that put it right at the base of the avialans - the group that includes birds and their close relatives since the divergence from other dinosaur lineages.
Pascal Godefroit from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is the lead author on the paper that describes Aurornis.
His Nature publication also reports details of an across-the-board re-analysis of how the many bird-like creatures living in Jurassic and Cretaceous times were related to each other.
This was done by comparing the detail in the shape of their bones.
The major consequence of this phylogenetic re-assessment is that it restores one of the most famous fossils ever found to the bird line.
Archaeopteryx, dubbed "the first true bird" when first identified in the 19th Century, was shunted recently into a pool of non-avian but bird-looking dinosaurs as a result of the many exquisite feathered creatures emerging in Liaoning. The skeletal features seen in these new specimens had appeared to make Archaeopteryx less pivotal.
However, this demotion caused some consternation because Archaeopteryx, which lived roughly 150 million years ago, could clearly fly; and by re-classifying the animal it had implied also that powered flight must have evolved at least twice - once on the real line to birds and again in this parallel pool of dinosaurs that merely shared some bird features.
But the re-analysis conducted following the discovery of Aurornis has once again simplified the picture.
"Previous phylogenetic investigations were based on maybe only 200 morphological characteristics. Here, we recognise almost 1,500 characteristics," explained Dr Godefroit.
"So it's a much bigger and more robust analysis, and according to this new investigation Archaeopteryx is again considered an ancestor of birds and the new creature we describe is also a basal bird; and in fact it is even more primitive than Archaeopteryx," he told BBC News.
As well as placing Archaeopteryx at one of the earliest points of divergence within the avialans, the study also re-shuffles the Troodontidae, a family of bird-like dinosaurs. Dr Godefroit and colleagues now consider these to be a sister group of the avialans.
"What we're arguing over here is actually very small, esoteric features of the anatomy," commented Dr Paul Barrett from the Natural History Museum, London, UK.
"We're looking at a nexus of animals around bird origins - birds themselves and a bunch of dinosaurs that are almost, but not quite, birds.
"There is a really grey, wobbly line between the two. Just one or two changes across a huge body of data can make the difference between an animal being on one side of this bird-dinosaur divide or the other.
Dr Barrett said the fossils now being unearthed were providing fascinating insights into the emergence of the bird line and the evolutionary "experimentation" that preceded it: "The beginnings of the bird line is all about fine-tuning parts of their anatomy - of their wings, of their hips, of their chest muscles and shoulder girdles, and so on - to make them flight-ready," he told BBC News.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | What may be the earliest creature yet discovered on the evolutionary line to birds has been unearthed in China. | 22695914 |
Maxine Showers, 42, was found in Hinton Street, Fairfield, Liverpool at about 08:00 BST on 28 September.
A post-mortem examination found the mother-of-three died as a result of blunt-force trauma to the head.
Michael Williams, 29, of Hinton Street, Fairfield was remanded by magistrates to appear before the city's crown court on 19 October. | A man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was discovered in an alleyway, police have said. | 34441414 |
The Wales international, 29, collapsed after being replaced during the League 1 game at London Skolars on Sunday.
The married father of five-month-old twins was treated at the ground before being taken to the Royal Free Hospital.
"He was the life and soul in the dressing room, a natural leader, a true professional and irreplaceable," read a Keighley Cougars statement.
Jones, from Halifax, was injured in the fourth minute of the game at the New River Stadium and was treated by the match doctor and paramedics at the ground.
London Ambulance Service said they were called "to a patient in cardiac arrest" at the ground at 15:10 BST and "extensive efforts were made to resuscitate him."
The contest was abandoned in the 16th minute with Keighley 12-6 ahead.
"It is always devastating when someone so young dies in these circumstances," said Rugby Football League chief operating officer Ralph Rimmer.
"Danny was a popular and talented player, having played at the highest level with Wales and for more than 12 seasons for Keighley Cougars and Halifax."
Jones scored in excess of 1000 points in 150 appearances for Keighley and won 12 caps for Wales, making his debut against Italy in Wrexham in 2010.
His final international appearance was in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, against Cook Islands in Neath.
Rimmer added: "The rugby league community will mourn his loss and I wish to extend our deepest sympathies to Danny's family and friends at this incredibly sad time.
"The family, friends and team mates of Danny are currently, and will continue to be, supported by the RFL Benevolent Fund and Sporting Chance.
"We would ask that the privacy of the Jones family, players and Keighley Cougars staff be respected."
BBC Super League Show presenter Tanya Arnold said: "Such sad news about Danny Jones, thoughts with all those close to him at such a difficult time."
England international Chris Hill also paid tribute to Jones on Twitter. "Such sad news about Danny Jones," he said. "Played against him a few times always a top competitor; thoughts go to all his friends and family."
Wales Rugby League chairman Brian Juliff said: "Everyone at Wales Rugby League is very shocked to hear of Danny's sudden passing. Our condolences go out to his family, friends and colleagues at this sad time."
The sport's players' association, League 13, said in a statement: "Our deepest sympathy and condolences go to the family of Danny Jones tonight." | Keighley Cougars rugby league player Danny Jones has died after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during a game. | 32575741 |
Emergency services attended the house at Llwydcoed near Aberdare, Cynon Valley, at 0530 BST on Monday.
South Wales Police said they were not speculating on the cause of death but there were no suspicious circumstances.
Cable, who left the Stereophonics in 2003, had hosted his rock show on BBC Radio Wales on Saturday.
South Wales Police confirmed they were investigating the sudden death of a 40-year-old man at an address in Llwydcoed.
A post mortem examination is due to be carried out later this week.
Floral tributes have been left outside his home.
It is understood Cable had been drinking at a local pub, where his car was left overnight, and had had some friends over at his house on Sunday night.
It is also believed a number of bottles of alcohol were removed from the property by investigators.
His death comes just two days after Cable's former band Stereophonics played at Cardiff City Stadium.
Stereophonics lead singer Kelly Jones, back home for a family funeral, told BBC Wales they had only been speaking in the past few days and he could not believe what had happened.
The band were formed in Cwmaman near Aberdare in 1992 by school friends Kelly and Richard Jones along with Cable, who was four years older.
A star who stayed close to home
Tributes to 'well loved' drummer
In Pictures: Drummer Stuart Cable
Within five years they were rising stars, supporting bands such as the Rolling Stones and U2.
Cable, who said he was planning to leave the band before he was sacked in September 2003, said he had no regrets.
He later formed a new group called Killing for Company, who were due to play at the Download festival Donington Park on Saturday.
The band's new album is due for release to coincide with it.
A simple tribute message on their website says "you will be missed".
Among other tributes from the music and entertainment industries, Mike Peters, lead singer with The Alarm, said Cable's band had only recently played with them and his death was a "real shock" and a "real tragedy".
His mother Mabel, 79, told Wales Online she had worried when he travelled all over the world.
"He is now settled down and then this has happens," she said. "It has not sunk in yet."
His manager John Brand said Cable had been looking forward to his performance at Download, and "really excited about drumming his way back to the top".
He said: "He will be remembered for his big heart and booming voice, his bonhomie and his compassion for those less fortunate than himself.
"I will always remember him as a loyal friend. Someone I shared many of the best and often the funniest times in my life."
Cable's autobiography, Demons and Cocktails, was released in 2009.
The autobiography shed light on tensions which eventually led to the drummer's departure.
Cable revealed the split was mainly sparked off by Kelly Jones' desire to produce the band's third album.
There were also said to be tensions in the band about Cable's burgeoning career as a presenter.
Cable hosted his own TV show, Cable TV, and radio show, Cable Rock, for BBC Wales.
He has also been involved in a variety of other projects.
In March 2002, he took part in a BBC Wales social action campaign urging young men to look out for the warning signs of testicular cancer.
In autumn 2007 Cable quit the BBC to launch a Cardiff-based branch of rock station XFM, which closed after six months on air.
He was also a presenter for the Birmingham-based commercial radio station Kerrang!
But he returned back at BBC Radio Wales with his Saturday rock show in April.
BBC Radio Wales producer and friend of Cable, Darren Broome - who worked with Cable on his final show on Saturday - said: "He was a warm-hearted person who loved Aberdare and the Cynon valley and chose to live there.
"He was a huge personality. I feel very numb. He was so passionate about music."
Mr Broome said the musician was "a scream" to work with.
"It was the best two hours, playing good music in the company of Stuart Cable," he said.
"He was a total, total music fan and inspiration to performers and so proud of his home town. A diamond geezer, a top dude."
Steve Austins, editor of Radio Wales said: "We are all profoundly shocked and saddened at the news of Stuart's death. He was an extraordinary man.
"He was well loved by both colleagues and listeners and he will be deeply missed. Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family and friends at this difficult time."
Tributes were being emailed by fans and musicians alike to BBC Wales
One fan, Ian Gravell, said: "I met Stuart with my son (a keen drummer at the time) after watching Scarlets at Stradey a few years ago. Despite him being with friends, Stuart took the time to chat to my son about his drumming and what he should do to improve. This is a tragic event for Wales."
Fans can leave a tribute by emailing [email protected]. | Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable has been found dead at his home in south Wales. | 10253098 |
There had been calls for more funding for council-run social care in England, amid concerns that limits to care were leaving patients stuck in hospitals.
But predictions of "looming chaos" were rejected by the chancellor.
Philip Hammond said a previously-announced NHS funding commitment was in line with what its leaders had wanted.
Cuts in social care funding in England have been blamed for a sharp increase in the number of patients stuck in hospital beds because care cannot be arranged elsewhere.
One suggestion for the Autumn Statement was for local authorities to be allowed to raise more from council tax.
The chancellor did not offer new resources either for the NHS or social care when outlining the Treasury's plans, only confirming that ministers would be sticking with departmental spending announced last year.
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Speaking in the debate following his statement, Mr Hammond referred to an extra £10bn in money for the NHS by 2020-21.
However, that figure that has been questioned by MPs on the Commons health committee and the King's Fund think tank among others.
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services said there would be increasing delays in the NHS and growing gaps in the care market this winter, adding that the government "has plainly ignored a wide range of respected voices".
The Royal College of Physicians president, Prof Jane Dacre, said amid "growing waiting lists, underfunding of social care, and growing numbers of emergency departments closing their doors the decision not to even mention or increase funding is alarming".
The Local Government Association said it was unacceptable that the "crisis" in social care funding had not been addressed, and the NHS Confederation, which represents health service providers, said the government had "missed a golden opportunity to ease the strain on the NHS".
Former pensions minister Ros Altmann also said the "chancellor has missed an opportunity to really signal that the government cares about the social care crisis".
In his response to the Autumn Statement, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said local authorities were at a "tipping point" with social care services, adding "You can't cut social care without also hitting the NHS".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will visit a hospital in the Midlands later to highlight the party's argument that the government is not helping the NHS during an intense financial squeeze. | Health and social care leaders have condemned the chancellor's Autumn Statement as a missed opportunity to announce new investment. | 38087747 |
When was the last time you bought a magazine?
The answer is likely to depend on whether you prefer reading about Theresa May or Taylor Swift.
Magazine sales have generally been falling since the day the inventor of the internet said: "Hey, why don't I invent the internet?"
But the latest ABC figures, released this week, show that sales of certain titles are actually going up.
News and current affairs magazines are becoming more popular - but celebrity, gossip and fashion publications are still struggling.
It's a trend that Sarah Penny, editor of Fashion Monitor, puts down to the news agenda.
"I think that we can all agree that the past 18 months have been pretty tumultuous within current affairs," she says.
"With the likes of Brexit and Trump's election, the unsettled nature of society drives readers to seek out factual news and understand the effects on the economy for themselves from reputable titles that have an authoritative voice."
The titles that seem to be benefiting from this Trump bump include The Economist and The Spectator.
Between January and June this year both sold more per issue than they did in the same period in 2016.
Take a look at some celebrity, gossip and fashion titles, and the opposite is true.
Also losing sales: Star (down 14.3%) Vanity Fair (10%), Marie Claire (6%), OK! (3.5%) and Vogue (3%).
In the early noughties Heat magazine was an absolute bible for showbiz news junkies looking for their fix of Big Brother and Britney Spears.
But these days it's more about Kylie and Kendall - and they tend to use Instagram rather than ink to connect with their fans.
"Gossip and celebrity tittle-tattle is rarely something that requires detailed analysis - so it's best suited to bite-sized content that zips around on social media," says Ian Burrell, media columnist for the i paper and The Drum.
"Once it's out there, it's quickly shared and readers move on to the next morsel. No-one wants to wait a week to read about it in a print magazine."
Penny adds: "With the competition from digital media, vlogs, blogs and podcasts, readers are finding that their thirst for the content covered in the celebrity weeklies can be satisfied elsewhere for free and with ease online."
The way some quality newspapers and magazines have been able to survive in recent years is by introducing paywalls on their online content.
Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, wrote this week: "A big change is taking place in the market. There's now too much writing online, and in an era of fake news, where you get your analysis from has never been more important."
"As newspapers and magazines are finding out, if you can publish writing that is consistently and significantly better than what can be found online, people will pay."
But many editors are struggling to strike the right balance between physical and digital content.
They are faced with the choice of either posting all their articles online for free so the magazine stays relevant, or charging readers money to protect the financial future of the brand.
Earlier this week - Vogue marked its 125th anniversary issue with a new interview and photo shoot with Jennifer Lawrence - one of the top film stars in the world.
Sounds like a good read, right? But the whole interview was also posted online by the magazine, removing any incentive for a fan to buy a paper copy.
"When you have major free news sites - such as Mail Online, The Sun and the Daily Mirror - pumping out celebrity and entertainment words, video and entire photo shoots around the clock, it's hard to see how a magazine is going to find it easy to charge readers for something that's likely to be offering stale news and limited pictures," Burrell says.
"At best, a celeb mag will be bought as a treat for the reader, which makes it a dispensable purchase in comparison to the high-quality news analysis publication providing information that its readers regard as valuable and essential."
Both Private Eye and The Spectator are seeing their circulation levels reach record highs - albeit aided by the way subscribers of both formats are counted twice - a trend they probably didn't predict when they launched their websites.
But as Burrell points out: "Many readers are hungry for a deeper understanding of the fast-moving changes in global news and politics rather than seeking to escape from it by burying their heads in celebrity gossip and entertainment stories."
Serious times call for serious journalism, and an extraordinarily frantic news agenda over the past year - with Brexit, Trump, a snap election, terror attacks and Grenfell Tower - has driven sales boosts for upmarket titles.
This is because their intelligent take on events is a unique selling point. Whereas general-interest daily news has been turned into an almost universally available commodity by the internet, specialist journalism - from the unforgiving wit of Private Eye to the proud wonkery of Prospect - is still a service people value and think they can't get elsewhere.
The internet is full of celebrity drivel, so print magazines who focus on the rich and famous will need to find something unique if they are to retain paying audiences.
That something is what editors are paid to conjure up.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Print sales have been declining for several years as readers find their content online - but now, something unusual is happening. | 40897967 |
Cerberus paid £205m for the portfolio, called Project Rathlin, which had a face value of £1.4bn.
The portfolio is understood to include the defaulted loan relating to the 16-acre Sirocco Works site in east Belfast.
Another of the loans is understood to relate to the planned Royal Exchange project in Belfast city centre.
In a statement to the Stock Exchange, Ulster Bank's parent company RBS said this would be the "final material transaction" in Northern Ireland for its internal "bad bank".
That represents a significant milestone for Ulster Bank in Northern Ireland as it means it has now got rid of all the large boomtime property loans that it no longer wants.
Previous transactions saw it sell loans to Cerberus, Davidson Kempner and Bank of Ireland.
In other cases the bank oversaw the agreed sale of properties by some major borrowers.
The deal also cements the dominant position of Cerberus in the Northern Ireland commercial property market.
As well as its previous purchase of Ulster Bank loans, Cerberus bought the entire Northern Ireland loan portfolio of the Irish government's National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
Cerberus is now rapidly working through the Nama portfolio.
Two major borrowers are known to have have refinanced their Cerberus loans, while a number of other borrowers have also been put into administration or receivership. | The US investment fund Cerberus has agreed to buy another portfolio of property loans from Ulster Bank. | 32894769 |
The Scottish government acted after an inquiry into a serious Clostridium difficile (C. diff) outbreak.
Regulations have been put before Holyrood which would let Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) inspectors close wards to protect patients.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said the powers would be "a last resort".
A review of care at Vale of Leven Hospital in West Dunbartonshire found that C. diff was a factor in the deaths of 34 out of 143 patients who tested positive for the infection in 2007 and 2008.
Lord MacLean said NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had "badly let down" patients, with the board apologising unreservedly for its "terrible failure".
The new system, announced by the government in 2015 and now set to go before MSPs, would see inspectors have the power to intervene and shut wards down in response to safety concerns ranging from cleanliness to staffing levels.
Ms Robison said Scotland had a "very robust scrutiny and inspection regime", with HIS carrying out almost 100 inspections each year.
She said: "Protecting patient safety is of critical importance and that is why we want to go further and give HIS the powers to close hospital wards if they consider it necessary.
"Let me be clear that this would only ever be used as a last resort, and in the majority of cases we would expect HIS to work with health boards to put in place improvements on wards first.
"But on the very rare occasions that inspectors have concerns about the safety of patients on a ward, they should have the powers to take firm and direct action."
The OECD has recommended stronger scrutiny of Scotland's health system amid fears HIS could "mark its own homework", calling for better arrangements for dealing with mistakes and poor performance. | Inspectors could be given powers to close hospital wards to new patients from April, if the move is approved by MSPs. | 35569905 |
FHM was launched in 1985 under the title For Him Magazine. Zoo was launched in 2004.
An online statement from publisher Bauer Media read: "Unfortunately it's true and it has been announced today the intention to suspend publication of FHM."
The statement added that it had been "an absolute joy producing the magazine over the years".
"Thank you for all your support, we will keep you updated with developments over the coming weeks."
During the 1990s, FHM dominated the men's market and was published in 27 countries, including Pakistan and India.
It claimed that its annual poll of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World "helped propel the careers of many well-known actresses, musicians and models".
The magazine industry has been particularly vulnerable to online competition, and "lads' magazines" have been struggling to hold on to their readers.
In the last 10 years, FHM's circulation has fallen from about 500,000 to below 100,000. In the last 12 months, rivals Nuts and Loaded have both closed their doors.
The publishers said: "Men's media habits have continually moved towards mobile and social." However, it did not specifically blame the online market for its closure.
It said that FHM and Zoo had a combined digital audience of more than five million. | UK men's magazines FHM and Zoo have said they are halting publication. | 34845063 |
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) is due to begin work this autumn with a budget of £3.6m and will carry out about 30 reviews a year.
The MPs' report also calls for a single public inquiry into historical cases of avoidable harm in the health service.
The government says it has made legal provisions for HSIB's independence.
The cross-party Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) has been examining the work of the new body, which will sit within NHS Improvement (a body which oversees NHS Trusts) - a move which has been controversial.
A chief investigator will be appointed soon.
The aim is to model the "no blame" approach taken to investigating air accidents.
The hope is this will enable NHS staff, patients and their families to raise awareness about serious risks to safe care, and allow hospitals and other providers to learn from mistakes.
But patients' organisations have warned that this "safe space" should not be prioritised above guaranteeing openness and honesty with patients.
And the PACAC report warns the organisation will fail without new legislation.
Committee chairman Bernard Jenkin MP said: "We have consistently called for primary legislation to make HSIB fully independent, and to create a credible 'safe space' which will enable the NHS to properly learn from past mistakes.
"The secretary of state's decision to set HSIB up as an NHS quango as a permanent response to our recommendations was both disappointing and would be unacceptable.
"But the prospect of a secure legislative base will enable HSIB to emulate the successful air, marine and rail investigation branches.
"Were the present non-statutory arrangement to be regarded as permanent it would be an intolerable compromise."
Ministers have made no commitment to legislation, but say they will review how HSIB is working after two years.
Scandals at Mid Staffs and Southern Health Trust have highlighted failings in how the NHS responds to patients' complaints and deaths.
The MPs say the HSIB should be "an exemplar of high quality clinical investigations", with local NHS providers still carrying out the bulk of inquiries.
But the report warns there will be limits to what it can achieve, within its budget and remit.
The MPs also recommend that a single public inquiry selects and reviews historical cases of failings in the health service.
They say: "This should be seen in the context of other wide-reaching inquiries in recent years, such as the public inquiry into historic child sexual abuse, the inquiry into the Hillsborough disaster, and the Savile inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday.
"The purpose of this single public inquiry would be to provide closure to those affected by patient safety incidents, which cannot otherwise be obtained."
Patient safety campaigners at the charity Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) questioned whether the no-blame approach was the right one.
Its chief executive Peter Walsh said: "We believe that both PACAC and the government are wrong to prioritise the creation of a so-called 'safe space' for health professionals above guaranteeing openness and honesty with patients or their families about their own treatment.
"This would undermine public confidence in HSIB and run against the principle of the newly created duty of candour.
"Of course we do want to see protection of staff who do the right thing, but most health professionals would agree that denying patients access to the truth is no way to do that."
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "The new independent HSIB will carry out investigations and share its findings to improve patient safety.
"We agree that the independence of the branch will be essential to its success, which is why we made explicit legal provisions for its independence when we set it up." | A new organisation designed to make the NHS in England safer must have its independence guaranteed in law, a committee of MPs says. | 36428478 |
No-one would have imagined that the UK would have endured two terror attacks within two weeks, when Theresa May called the general election back in April.
After a second pause in campaigning on Sunday by most of the parties, as a mark of respect for victims of the London attack, the battle for votes commenced once more on Monday morning.
But can you imagine trying to sum up this election campaign as a piece of art?
If the answer is no, then spare a thought for Cornelia Parker - the renowned conceptual artist who has been given the task of doing precisely that.
She's been travelling to different parts of the UK throughout the campaign, hoping to get some inspiration to help her create a unique piece representing the election.
On Monday, she was on a one-day visit to Northern Ireland, going on a Belfast bus tour as well as seeing Stormont's Parliament Buildings.
"I spent two hours in a cab going round all the murals and getting a great history from the taxi driver," said Ms Parker.
She said she hopes that her trip to Belfast will help inform her final piece.
"I'm so worried about the UK falling apart, and just living in England rather than in the UK. This election is taking in so many dimensions," she said.
"I feel I am a concerned citizen, I'm increasingly politically minded and I do think people should vote rather than just abstain - more than ever, grassroots need to be heard."
Although Ms Parker joked that she can't sway politically left or right, she said she hoped her piece would encapsulate the electoral mood music.
"Somehow it's got to have all the multi-facets I've seen. What I'm trying to do is cover something that's more intimate and more about mood and anxiety," she said.
Ms Parker admitted she's under a bit of pressure, but hopes that the public will be pleased with her final piece.
If you fancy checking it out - it's set to go on display in the House of Commons collection in mid-September.
There haven't been many Northern Ireland hustings in this election campaign - but on Monday, the candidates standing in North Belfast faced scrutiny on BBC's Talkback programme, which came live from the Crumlin Road Gaol.
This constituency will be closely watched on election night, with DUP incumbent Nigel Dodds facing a challenge for his seat in the form of Sinn Féin newcomer John Finucane.
While the show focused on terrorism and the parties' approaches to Brexit talks - it was an issue unrelated to Westminster that caused the biggest clash.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that does not allow same-sex marriage.
The DUP has used a veto known as the petition of concern - which requires the proposal to achieve a cross-community majority - to block marriage equality legislation at Stormont five times.
When asked by presenter William Crawley if the DUP would change its stance on the issue, Mr Dodds said they wouldn't take a decision until devolution was restored.
He added that the party alone does not have the magic number of MLAs needed - 30 - to enact a petition of concern and would need other parties to sign it too.
A heated exchange then ensued between Mr Dodds and the SDLP candidate Martin McAuley, which you can listen back to here.
You can also find a full list of candidates standing in all 18 constituencies in Northern Ireland in Thursday's general election here.
As we approach the final countdown to polling day, the first of Northern Ireland's leaders debates will be televised on Monday night.
With full campaigning back in force following Sunday's brief suspension, the UTV leaders' debate will still take place, having been pre-recorded on Monday afternoon.
It was confirmed last week that DUP leader Arlene Foster wouldn't be taking part, but the party will be represented by its Westminster leader, Nigel Dodds.
You can watch the UTV leaders' debate on UTV from 21:00.
Elsewhere on the campaign trail on Monday...
BBC News NI's Campaign Catch-up will keep you across the general election trail with a daily dose of the main stories, the minor ones and the lighter moments in the run up to polling day on Thursday 8 June.
Hear more on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra at 17:40 each weekday. | For both the political parties and voters, this election campaign has been strange. | 40160305 |
Daly, who plays for Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League, was taken to hospital after the side's 2-0 defeat by Seattle Reign.
The televised game at Houston's Compass Stadium was played in high humidity, with temperatures reaching over 32C.
The league said in a statement that it would review start times for its games.
Daly, who has been released from hospital, described the experience as "frightening".
"Everyone who knows me knows I'm a player who will give everything and those conditions are not safe to play at your maximum," she said.
The National Women's Soccer League said it had worked with Houston Dash on scheduling before the season started in an attempt to avoid the heat.
"The safety of our players is always our top priority and, due to the high temperature in Houston, we implemented water breaks to provide additional opportunities to help the players stay hydrated," it added.
"We will immediately review these measures to prevent this situation from occurring in the future." | England forward Rachel Daly has been treated for heat exhaustion after collapsing at the end of a match in the United States on Saturday. | 40075500 |
Manned checkpoints, rising street bollards and crash-proof barricades are among the measures proposed.
It follows advice from MI5 and counter-terrorism police.
A Corporation of London report said they "had identified that the area was highly sensitive to... a hostile vehicle-borne security threat".
The advice comes in the wake of the Berlin Christmas market terror attack on Monday in which Tunisian Anis Amri, drove a lorry at shoppers, killing 12 and injuring 49 people.
The ring of steel is believed to be the best way to protect the heart of London's financial district.
London's first ring of steel was a response to IRA bombs in the Baltic Exchange in Bishopsgate in 1992.
It would be the first time since the late 1990s that manned checkpoints were used.
Such checkpoints were phased out after the IRA announced a ceasefire in 1994.
The new protective ring will border Liverpool Street, the Bank of England and Fenchurch Street - an area which is home to some of the capital's newest and most recognisable skyscrapers.
"This eastern section of the City of London is especially of importance in as much as there are going to be a number of major landmarks developed around the area that could be of interest," the report said.
The new plan would be subject to a consultation but could be fully implemented by 2022.
Will Geddes, founder of International Corporate Protection said: "Although we've seen of late 'lo-fi type' attacks, like the Berlin Christmas market where a lorry that was hijacked and driven into a crowded area, we cannot discount the type of attack that will... include a large truck packed with explosives" | A new "ring of steel" costing £5m has been proposed to protect the skyscrapers in London's "Square Mile" from terrorist attack. | 38418877 |
Thai energy drinks firm Carabao has signed a three-year deal as sponsors of the competition won in 2016-17 by Manchester United.
All 48 League One and League Two clubs will be in the 13:00 BST draw, plus 22 of the 24 Championship teams. Hull City and Middlesbrough will not feature after finishing 18th and 19th in the Premier League this season.
Ties will be played on 8 and 9 August.
Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey will be joined by ex-Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder Emmanuel Petit and Brian Davidson, the British ambassador to Thailand, for the draw in the capital Bangkok.
Jose Mourinho's United side beat Southampton 3-2 in February's final thanks to a late Zlatan Ibrahimovic goal.
The 2018 final will be at Wembley on Sunday, 25 February. | The EFL Cup first-round draw will take place on Friday - in Thailand. | 40249237 |
Toner made his senior Leinster debut in January 2006 and has chalked up 187 appearances, scoring three tries.
His Ireland debut came in the 20-10 win over Samoa in November 2010 and Toner has won 42 caps.
"There's a huge amount of talent coming through at Leinster and it is a really exciting time to be involved with the province," said the 30-year-old.
Toner was part of the Six Nations winning sides of 2014 and 2015 and has collected three Heineken Cups, an Amlin Cup and three Pro12 league titles with Leinster.
He added: "I am delighted to have re-signed with the IRFU and Leinster.
"There is a real opportunity to be successful at both provincial and national level over the coming years and I look forward to playing a part in helping to achieve that success." | Devin Toner has signed a three-year IRFU contract which will see the lock remain at Leinster until at least 2020. | 38170725 |
Northern Ireland cap McPake has been out since suffering a fractured kneecap against Dundee United in January 2016.
The 32-year-old made a comeback in the under-20s in December but did not progress as hoped.
"He's still a wee bit away but we are right behind him and we have good medical staff here," said Hartley.
"James has had a little tidy-up on his knee.
"We will probably not see James till next season, hopefully pre-season. He has been working hard, but we just felt for this last little part he needed that little tidy-up.
"It's been difficult, he has been out nearly 18 months. It has been mentally [difficult] more than anything, but he is getting through it. He's a strong character and it will be good to see him back.
"He's got a coaching staff that are going to support him and he's got good team-mates also." | Dundee defender James McPake has had further surgery on his injured knee but manager Paul Hartley is hopeful he will be fit for pre-season. | 39283897 |
"Manorial rights", dating back to the Middle Ages, can give holders powers to hunt, shoot and fish or even dig for minerals on other people's land.
The Commons Justice Committee heard that some homeowners had bought property unaware that they were not entitled to the full land rights.
Compensation could be offered if the titles were scrapped, the MPs said.
A 2002 law required holders of manorial rights to register their claims before October 2013. Around 90,000 claims were made in the year before the deadline.
The MPs said people across the country discovered for the first time that their properties were subject to rights owned by a third party - the holder of the lord of the manor title.
Source: Land Registry
"House owners were astonished to find manorial rights registered on their properties, and worried that this would affect them when selling the house or getting a mortgage," said the Liberal Democrat MP Alan Beith, who chairs the committee.
"The lack of understanding of such rights, and the way the registration process was carried out and communicated, has led to understandable concerns and anxieties. We have had numerous representations, both from MPs on their constituents' behalf, and from individual members of the public affected by registrations on their properties."
"They all called for either the abolition of these rights or a review of the law."
The MPs heard how some of the powers, particularly mining rights over rural land, could be of "considerable and real value to the rights holders".
In Welwyn Garden City, around 500 households in the Handside area were told Lord Salisbury had registered claims to manorial rights over their properties.
The householders had been reassured there was "no intention for the rights to be exercised", the committee heard.
On Anglesey, a Cheshire businessman, Stephen Hayes, who bought the title of Lord of the Manor of Treffos in 1992, registered claims on around 4,000 properties in 2013.
After protests from residents and "considerable local public pressure", Mr Hayes agreed to drop all his original rights claims, the committee's report said.
Some manorial rights were "impossible to exercise and of no practical significance", the MPs said.
The committee said the Law Commission, the body which scrutinises existing legislation, should assess whether some or all of the rights should be abolished and consider whether compensation could be offered to title holders. | The Law Commission should consider axing ancient rights claimed by "lords of the manor", an MPs' report has said. | 30191274 |
It falls upon the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton's White House quest and the debate over the future direction of the Labour Party in Britain.
Even freshman politicians, like Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who was three years shy of heading to Washington when the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled in Baghdad's Firdos Square in April 2003, have been touched by its gloom.
Seeking to follow his brother into the White House, it was inevitable that Jeb Bush would be quizzed about the decision to go to war.
What's been surprising, astonishing even, is his fumbling response. After all, he and his team must surely have war-gamed such a predictable line of inquiry.
Over the course of four days earlier this month, he came up with four different iterations of his policy.
To start with, he told an interviewer on Fox News that he would have authorised the invasion, and then added buoyantly: "So just for the news flash to the world, if they're trying to find places where there's big space between me and my brother, this might not be one of them."
By the end of the week, he had flip-flopped, that cardinal sin of candidates seeking the presidency. "I would not have engaged," he now ventured, prompting much ridicule in the press. "I would not have gone into Iraq."
More unexpectedly, every Republican candidate is being pressed on whether they, as president, would have invaded Iraq.
Interrogated on the war question, again on Fox News, Mr Rubio offered what sounded like a reasonable formulation - that presidents never get the luxury of making decisions with the benefit of hindsight.
Yet that did not prevent him from getting a torrid grilling from host Chris Wallace, which damaged his campaign.
Even as the world is being buffeted by a geopolitical superstorm, with wars in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya and elsewhere, the prime question for Republicans has been a historical hypothetical.
With the race stuck in a sort of time warp, a war that started 12 years ago has become a litmus test of their foreign policy credentials.
Jeb Bush (11 May): "I would have. And so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got."
Jeb Bush (12 May): "I interpreted the question wrong, I guess. I was talking about, given what people knew then, would you have done it, rather than knowing what we know now. And knowing what we know now, you know, clearly there were mistakes." But would he have invaded? "I don't know what that decision would've been."
Jeb Bush (13 May): "What we want to be focusing on are what are the lessons learned… I think the focus should be on that, on the future."
Jeb Bush (14 May): "If we're all supposed to answer hypothetical questions - knowing what we know now, what would you have done - I would have not engaged. I would not have gone into Iraq."
For Mrs Clinton, Iraq was a much larger problem in 2008 than it is today. Back then, Barack Obama, an anti-war candidate, hammered her for voting in the Senate to authorise military action.
In her 2012 memoir, Hard Choices, she sought to cauterise the wound by admitting she had erred. "I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had," she wrote.
"And I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple."
To this day, though, there's lingering mistrust over her support for the war, especially on the left of the party. It amplifies the criticism that she sails with the prevailing political winds, which in October 2002, when the Senate voted, were at the back of George W Bush (29 of the 50 Senate Democrats voted for the war).
It also suggests that her instincts are hawkish - far more interventionist than Mr Obama's, and far more interventionist than America's war-weary electorate.
Writing about her "Iraq dilemma" in the New Yorker, John Cassidy noted: "Based on her history, some analysts suspect that she remains, at heart, a neo-liberal interventionist, a la Tony Blair."
That the words "a la Tony Blair" have become journalistic shorthand for a disputed foreign policy is indicative of how the Iraq war still impacts on Labour politics in Britain.
Though it would be ridiculous to argue that the 2003 invasion frames the leadership context - each of the four contenders supported the decision to go to war - it does contribute to the subtext.
The war makes it harder for those with a Blairite agenda, like Liz Kendall, to make their case, for the simple reason that Blairism and Iraq have become conjoined.
When many Labour party members think of their former leader, they recall his kinship with George W Bush rather than his affinity with the British electorate, which gave him three consecutive general election victories.
His last victory came in 2005, by which time it was clear there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But the post-war mess in the country contributed to Labour jettisoning his successful electoral formula, targeted at Middle England, and moving leftwards.
Andy Burnham: "If we are asking about what Labour is for now then it's about the Âaspiration of people being able to pass on what they've worked so hard for... I'm not tangled up in the Blair/Brown stuff. I'm free of that."
Liz Kendall: "The major problem we have got is that, fundamentally, people did not trust us on the economy. Above all, we have not set out a compelling vision for the future. I am a moderniser true to our values."
Mary Creagh: "I want to earn back the trust that Middle England has lost in the Labour Party. We forgot the hard-learned lessons of our last three election victories; that to win elections a party needs to offer hope."
Yvette Cooper: "We can't repeat the narrow approach of the last five years. But nor should we think the answer is to swallow the Tory manifesto instead."
Mr Blair's toxicity partly explained why David Miliband, his former policy director and protege, lost the Labour leadership in 2010, and also why his brother Ed, a devout Brownite, steered the party away from New Labour.
Andy Burnham, the frontrunner in the present contest, used to describe himself as a Blairite but has distanced himself from the former leader over the past five years.
Writing in the Guardian last week, Jonathan Freedland argued that Labour needed to get over its Blair problem. Needless to say, the Blair problem is a catch-all that includes Iraq.
Not insignificantly perhaps, the British parties that have fared best in recent years, the Conservatives, the Scottish Nationalist Party and UKIP, have been largely untroubled by the politics of Iraq.
When will the shadow of Iraq be lifted? Not any time soon it seems, especially when the conflict in the country is set to intensify rather than abate.
It is also worth remembering that Vietnam continued to shape presidential politics more than three decades after that last American chopper took off from the US embassy's rooftop in Saigon.
Bill Clinton ran into problems in 1992 over allegations of draft dodging. Mr Bush's decision to serve with the Texan Air National Guard during the Vietnam War dogged him both in 2000 and 2004.
That year's Democratic presidential nominee, John Kerry, a recipient of the Purple Heart, was unfairly criticised - or "swiftboated" to use the neologism spawned by the controversy - over his service and anti-war activity following his return home.
The reason why the Vietnam syndrome no longer looms as large is not purely generational (Mr Obama was aged six at the time of the 1968 Tet Offensive). It is also because Iraq has displaced Vietnam in the national psyche.
Maybe this electoral cycle will be the last time the Iraq question will be asked with quite so much urgency and insistence.
But as the repercussions of that war continue to be felt, not just in Iraq but globally as well because of America's post-Iraq military wariness, it looks set to remain relevant for many years to come. | On both sides of the Atlantic, the Iraq war continues to cast a diffuse shadow from which politicians are struggling to escape. | 32883317 |
David Higgins, 76, taught at the school for vulnerable boys in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
He pleaded not guilty to 19 charges alleging indecent assault against two boys, during a hearing at Bury Magistrates' Court.
Mr Higgins is expected to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 10 June.
He was arrested as part of a police investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse at the school between 1969 and its closure in 1995. | A former teacher at the Knowl View school in Rochdale has denied allegations that he molested pupils there more than 40 years ago. | 36286979 |
The fly-half and prop Allan Dell only learned of their selections on the team bus after Scotland's tumultuous 24-19 win over Australia in Sydney.
"Nobody really wants to go on tour just to make up the numbers," said Russell.
"Everyone is going there pushing for positions. The three stand-offs are there just now, so it'll be tough."
Welsh quartet Cory Hill, Kristian Dacey, Tomas Francis and Gareth Davies have also been added to Warren Gatland's squad.
Russell and Dell had heard Lions' rumours before the Test against Australia but didn't know if they were true.
South Africa-born Dell, 25, came off the bench in Australia to win his 10th cap, while stand-off Russell, 24, was magnificent at the Allianz Stadium, scoring a try and kicking three conversions.
"I'm so happy, I'm just lost for words," was all Dell could manage.
The pair will leave for New Zealand on Sunday with Russell saying that he will have a big job on his hands to learn the game plan as quickly as possible.
"I have to get up to speed," he said. "I'm looking forward to meeting up with everyone and getting to know the guys."
"We've just come off the back of a big win and I'm celebrating that, but I'm pretty tired from the game, so it hasn't really sunk in.
"I'm just going to try to take it in my stride."
After the thrilling victory against the Wallabies, head coach Gregor Townsend said that Russell had probably played his greatest ever game.
"Everybody played amazingly," responded Russell. "It makes it easier for me when everybody else does their job. It was a tough game, especially defensively, but it went all right, so happy with that."
Russell was a contender for Gatland's original squad but missed out to Dan Biggar of Wales, with Johnny Sexton and Owen Farrell the other number 10s on Lions duty.
He didn't harbour any frustration, however.
"You find out the Lions squad that's travelling and after that you just focus on Scotland," he said. "I haven't thought too much about it.
"That's just sport for you, that's the team that Gatland picked. There would have been a few boys who would have been disappointed but you have to go with these things, you have to move on to the next thing quickly. It was tough, but you get on with it."
Russell wore a protective plaster under his right eye against the Wallabies and suffered a blow to a previous cut during the game.
"A couple of stitches and it'll be fine. I got an elbow in it today," he explained. "I'm good to go. It was awesome to beat Australia anywhere but to beat them here is amazing.
"We had grit and determination to come away with a win. After the game it was nice to think that we'd done them on their own soil. You could say revenge, but to do them over here makes it more satisfying after the last couple of games." | Finn Russell aims to force himself into the Test reckoning in New Zealand following his late call to the British and Irish Lions squad. | 40312451 |
The Preston-based team confirmed the split on Wednesday morning.
The Fermanagh rider was scheduled to ride Honda Superbike and Supersport machinery at the lsle of Man event.
The 28-year-old finished third in a Superbike race and took a fifth place in the team's colours at the recent North West 200.
The Great Hatfield-based rider will compete for Ryan Farquhar's KMR team in the Lightweight TT for Supertwins at the TT and is expected to continue to campaign the East Coast Construction BMW he rode at the North West in the 1000cc races.
Earlier this week Jackson Racing announced that Josh Brookes would race the Supersport machine previously earmarked for the injured John McGuinness.
The Lancashire outfit are confident of having another Supersport rider on the grid and are preparing their Superbike machine in case a suitable rider may become available.
Johnston's best TT finish to date is a third place in the 2015 Superstock race. | Lee Johnston has parted company with his Jackson Racing Team just three days before practice for the Isle of Man TT is scheduled to begin. | 40029029 |
The former Scottish first minster will star in Alex Salmond Unleashed during the annual arts festival in August.
Promoters for the show say it will feature invited guests, music and comedy.
And they have promised "a bit of light-hearted banter and a few behind the scenes revelations about his time in power".
Mr Salmond told the National newspaper: "I have always fancied a spot at the Edinburgh Fringe and this is going to be lots of fun.
"Obviously in the show there will be lots about politics but the emphasis will be very much on the lighter side.
"Among the invited guests there is already plenty of excitement and quite a few surprises. I suspect some people might be taken aback at the range of friends whom I invite along.
"I can confirm that the President of the United States will not be appearing in person but he may well feature in quite a few of the stories I tell about recent political events."
The hour-long event will run for two weeks at the city's Assembly Rooms from 13 August.
Mr Salmond, the former SNP leader, lost his Gordon seat in the general election in June.
It has been reported that former SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, who also lost her seat in the election, will be one of the producers of the show. | Alex Salmond is to host his own show during a two-week stint at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. | 40567597 |
Mark Keary said pupils cannot access Twitter or Facebook on Bethnal Green Academy computers.
"Police have advised us there is no evidence radicalisation took place at the academy," he said.
Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, flew from London to Turkey on Tuesday.
UK police officers have gone to Turkey but their role has not been confirmed.
The girls were all studying for their GCSEs at the east London school, which reopened on Monday after half term.
The head teacher said the school was "shocked and saddened" by the girls' disappearance.
"This situation follows the earlier disappearance of a student in December of last year," he said.
"The police spoke to the student's friends at that time and, further to this, they indicated there was no evidence the girls were at risk of being radicalised or absconding."
Mr Keary said it was business as usual for the 1,200 pupils and staff, although "a full programme of briefing sessions" with police and counter-radicalisation groups was available.
"The priority for all of us is the safe return of the girls," he added.
The girls boarded a Turkish Airlines flight from Gatwick, and would have needed a visa for Turkey and a passport.
It has emerged that Shamima used the passport of her 17-year-old sister Aklima to travel.
Security services have been criticised after it emerged that, before leaving the UK, Shamima sent a Twitter message to Aqsa Mahmood, who left Glasgow for Syria in 2013 to marry an Islamic State fighter.
According to a lawyer for Ms Mahmood's family, her Twitter account has been "monitored" by police since she left Britain.
He said authorities should have seen Shamima's message and taken action before she and her two friends followed.
Their families have made appeals for them to come home.
Another of Shamima's sisters, Renu Begum, said she hoped her sister had gone to Syria to bring back the girl who had gone there from Bethnal Green Academy in December.
Ms Begum said Shamima and her friends were "young" and "vulnerable" and if anyone had tried to persuade them to go to Syria it was a "cruel and evil" thing to do.
Amira's father, Abase Hussen, said: "The message we have for Amira is to get back home.
"We miss you. We cannot stop crying. Please think twice. Don't go to Syria."
In an appeal to Kadiza, her sister, Halima Khanom, said: "Find the courage in your heart to contact us and let us know that you are safe and you are OK.
"That is all we ask of you." | There is no evidence that three girls, thought to be heading to Syria to join Islamic State, were radicalised at school, their principal has said. | 31589762 |
Michael Gash put the Bees ahead and John Akinde added a second from the spot after Ryan Dickson fouled him.
Matt Dolan fired in a low shot to get the Glovers back in the game but Akinde nodded in to restore the two-goal lead.
Yeovil hit back though Nathan Smith's close-range header and levelled when Francois Zoko blasted home with 15 minutes left, before Cornick struck late on to complete the comeback. | Harry Cornick's injury-time goal gave Yeovil Town a thrilling win at Barnet. | 36118338 |
U's winger Brennan Dickenson drilled wide early on before the hosts took a 13th-minute lead when George Elokobi picked up possession 25 yards out and curled a superb shot over stranded Wycombe goalkeeper Jamal Blackman.
Colchester keeper Sam Walker twice denied Wycombe's Paris Cowan-Hall while Alex Jakubiak's low cross-shot flashed across the six-yard box as the Chairboys pushed for an equaliser.
Wycombe striker Adebayo Akinfenwa blasted over at the second attempt from close range just before half-time after his first effort was blocked.
Walker saved Akinfenwa's weak close-range header just after half-time and Elokobi made an acrobatic goal-line clearance to deny Cowan-Hall while at the other end, Blackman pushed Kurtis Guthrie's low attempt around the post midway through the second half.
Michael Harriman nodded Guthrie's header off the line and Wycombe defender Joe Jacobson was sent off with two minutes remaining after being shown a second yellow card as Colchester claimed victory.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Colchester United 1, Wycombe Wanderers 0.
Second Half ends, Colchester United 1, Wycombe Wanderers 0.
Attempt blocked. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Owen Garvan.
Foul by Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United).
Max Müller (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
George Elokobi (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Second yellow card to Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) for a bad foul.
Tarique Fosu-Henry (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Kurtis Guthrie.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Sam Wood replaces Marcus Bean.
Attempt blocked. Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) header from very close range is blocked.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Max Müller.
Foul by Owen Garvan (Colchester United).
Marcus Bean (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Colchester United. Tarique Fosu-Henry replaces Sean Murray.
Attempt saved. Sean Murray (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Drey Wright (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Colchester United. Drey Wright replaces Chris Porter.
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Richard Brindley (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Owen Garvan (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Richard Brindley (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers).
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Jamal Blackman.
Attempt saved. Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Marcus Bean (Wycombe Wanderers).
Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Brennan Dickenson.
Attempt blocked. Owen Garvan (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Garry Thompson replaces Alex Jakubiak.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Max Müller.
Chris Porter (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Colchester moved into the League Two play-off places with a 1-0 win over Wycombe. | 38964958 |
The row came about because Oracle reneged on a contractual agreement to continue making software that ran on high-end Itanium chips.
The court battle over the contract was settled in 2012 but the damages HPE was due have only now been agreed.
Oracle said it would appeal against the court's decision.
HP was split into two in 2015 with HPE taking over the running of its servers and services business.
In court, HPE argued that although the 2012 legal judgement meant Oracle had resumed making software for the powerful chips, its business had suffered harm. It argued that Oracle took the decision in 2011 to stop supporting Itanium in a bid to get customers to move to hardware made by Sun - a hardware firm owned by Oracle.
Oracle said that its decision in 2011 was driven by a realisation that Itanium was coming to the end of its life. It also argued that the contract it signed never obliged it to keep producing software in perpetuity.
Intel stopped making Itanium chips in late 2012 and many companies that used servers built around them have now moved to more powerful processors.
The jury in the case agreed with HPE and said it was due compensation for lost sales caused by Oracle's actions.
Oracle said its appeal would seek to overturn the original decision that it breached the contract and to get the damages dismissed.
The damages decision comes a month after Oracle lost a court case against Google that centred on the Java programming language. Oracle sought $9bn (£6.8bn) damages in that case. | Electronics firm Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has been awarded $3bn (£2.26bn) in damages in a legal dispute with software giant Oracle. | 36682598 |
The annual rate slowed to 7.6% compared with 7.9% in the year to January, the ONS said.
Price increases were particularly strong in the East and South West of England, where the ONS index reached a record high.
Scotland remained the weakest part of the country, with prices falling by 0.8% over the 12 month period.
The average cost of a house or flat is now £283,658, according to the ONS. | Growth in UK house prices slowed in the year to February, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). | 36023858 |
Last year, over 2,000 people took part in the event.
The A4086 Pen y Gwryd road was closed during races.
The sold-out event included a lake swim in Llyn Padarn, cycling over Llanberis pass and along the Ogwen Valley, and a run through Padarn Country Park. | Gwynedd council warned of a road closure with over 1,200 people in Llanberis for the two-day Slateman Triathlon. | 36349211 |
Burton will be promoted to the second tier for the first time if Walsall fail to beat Fleetwood on Monday.
Lucas Akins met Mark Duffy's cross to put Burton ahead with a tap-in finish.
Cody McDonald levelled with a header from a Bradley Dack corner and the Gills piled pressure on Burton before Naylor headed in a Duffy corner.
Gillingham, who are two points adrift of sixth-placed Barnsley after the Tykes drew 2-2 with already-relegated Colchester, suffered an early double blow with Bradley Garmston and Aaron Morris forced off injured inside 16 minutes.
Still, the Gills made it difficult for Nigel Clough's Burton side, with McDonald and Dominic Samuel particularly menacing, but Burton survived a number of scares before Naylor won it. | Tom Naylor's injury-time winner put Burton on the brink of promotion to the Championship and damaged Gillingham's play-off hopes. | 36118220 |
The 2016 Global Nutrition Report said 44% of countries were now experiencing "very serious levels" of both under-nutrition and obesity.
It means one in three people suffers from malnutrition in some form, according to the study of 129 countries.
Being malnourished is "the new normal", the report's authors said.
Malnutrition has traditionally been associated with children who are starving, have stunted growth and are prone to infection.
These are still major problems, but progress has been made in this area.
The report's authors instead highlighted the "staggering global challenge" posed by rising obesity.
The increase is happening in every region of the world and in nearly every country, they said.
Hundreds of millions of people are malnourished because they are overweight, as well as having too much sugar, salt or cholesterol in their blood, the report said.
Professor Corinna Hawkes, who co-chaired the research, said the study was "redefining what the world thinks of as being malnourished".
"Malnutrition literally means bad nutrition - that's anyone who isn't adequately nourished.
"You have outcomes like you are too thin, you're not growing fast enough… or it could mean that you're overweight or you have high blood sugar, which leads to diabetes," she said.
While many countries are on course to meet targets to reduce stunted growth and the number of underweight children, very few are making progress on tackling obesity and associated illnesses such as heart disease.
In fact, the report says, the number of children under five who are overweight is fast approaching the number who are underweight.
Co-chairman Lawrence Haddad said: "We now live in a world where being malnourished is the new normal.
"It is a world that we must all claim as totally unacceptable."
The report calls for more money and political commitment to address the problem. It says for every $1 (70p) spent on proven nutrition programmes, $16 (£11.25) worth of benefits ensue. | Malnutrition is sweeping the world, fuelled by obesity as well as starvation, new research has suggested. | 36518770 |
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The search giant said it had spent two years developing the new version of the app, which features video content from the BBC and other partners. | Google has refreshed its Earth app and website, adding detailed 3D imagery and new "tours" that give people a guided look at exotic locations. | 39629250 |
Ms Cooper gained 18,832 votes, increasing her majority from 3,244 to 6,373.
Conservative candidate Paul White came second with 12,479 votes.
Burnley's Liberal Democrat stalwart Gordon Birtwistle lost out for a second time, after being defeated by Ms Cooper in 2015. He gained 6,046 votes. The turnout was 62.3%.
Ms Cooper said: "I'm absolutely thrilled and hugely honoured. My majority has increased twofold. That is amazing.
"Hopefully I've proved to [the people of Burnley] I'm committed to standing up for them and being a strong voice for them in Westminster... I also know that people have liked the Labour manifesto, a strong and powerful manifesto, and people have wanted to back that."
The Conservatives failed to gain its target seats of Blackpool South, Lancaster and Fleetwood, Hyndburn or Chorley. They were all held by Labour.
Labour targeted seats in Blackpool North and Cleveleys, Pendle, South Ribble, Rossendale and Darwen and Morecambe and Lunesdale but the Conservatives held these seats.
In Lancashire, not a single seat has changed hands following the 2015 election result.
A hung parliament is going to make Brexit extremely difficult, the Conservative MP for Fylde said.
"If we've a coalition of chaos the ability to deliver Brexit will be nigh on impossible," Mark Menzies said.
Ribble Valley Conservative MP Nigel Evans, lamenting his party's overall performance in the general election, said: "A number of senior Tories lost their seats...it's a tragedy you can put down to our manifesto."
Graham Jones, who was elected MP for Hyndburn with an increased majority of 5,815, said: "I never get complacent but do appreciate the fact that I've won for a third term and I thank the people of Haslingden and Hyndburn for electing me.
"My promise is a simple promise, I'll work hard."
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Enter a postcode or seat name | Labour's Julie Cooper has held her seat in Burnley, the Liberal Democrats' top target in the North West. | 40206316 |
Teenager Conor Chaplin deservedly broke the deadlock for Pompey, ghosting past Fraser Franks before beating goalkeeper Jesse Joronen at his near post.
But the visitors battled hard and got their reward when Williams glanced home a header from Charlie Lee's long throw in the dying seconds.
Portsmouth dominated and will rue two missed chances from Gary Roberts.
Pompey would have gone top on goals scored had they won, after Plymouth Argyle lost 1-0 at Oxford United.
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Portsmouth manager Paul Cook told BBC Radio Solent:
"We've played 14 games, lost one, just keep going. Unfortunately today we couldn't hold the lead.
"We're just huffing and puffing, we just don't look at it. It's a lot more effort, rather than quality.
"We'll just go back to the training ground, look at the DVDs like you do, and just keep working hard." | Stevenage substitute Brett Williams scored a stoppage-time leveller to keep Portsmouth off the top of League Two. | 34513006 |
Latest figures show 254 people in the UK have died - up from 112 last week.
But overall flu activity appears to be going down.
It comes after Professor David Salisbury, the government's head of immunisation, suggested ministers should take charge of the flu jabs programme from GPs.
But doctors rejected the suggestion, saying it could make matters worse.
Of those who have died, 195 were infected with the H1N1 swine flu virus.
Four in five were among people from an "at risk" group - but many had not received their jab this season.
Experts said the majority of newly-confirmed deaths probably took place over a six-week period, rather than in the last seven days, as there has been a backlog in the recording process over the Christmas and New Year holiday period.
Overall, the latest figures, published by the Health Protection Agency, indicate that flu activity across the UK is now past its peak.
In the past week the number of GP consultations in England has fallen to 66.5 per 100,000 - down from 108.4 per 100,000 the previous week. The rest of the UK also reported falls.
Meanwhile, the number of patients in intensive care has fallen - they are now half what they were at the peak.
Professor John Watson, head of the respiratory diseases department at the HPA, said: "Our latest flu report suggests levels of flu are declining across the UK, but nonetheless flu is still circulating in the community and the message remains that people in an at-risk group should get the seasonal flu vaccine - it's not too late to protect yourself from flu this season."
Professor Salisbury revealed his desire to see central government take control of ordering and supplying flu vaccination in an interview with the BBC News website.
He said there was a "pretty compelling" case for the move after the problems this winter.
GPs ran out of seasonal flu jabs earlier this month, forcing ministers to turn to stockpiles of the old swine flu vaccine - which does not offer protection against all the strains of flu circulating this winter.
Most vaccines, including the entire childhood immunisation programme, are ordered by the Department of Health for the whole of the UK.
The system used means all vaccines that are sent out to GPs can be tracked and the government knows how many doses are left in the system.
Flu is one of the few exceptions, with GPs in England ordering jabs direct from manufacturers and similar systems operating elsewhere in the UK.
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Prof Salisbury, who is leading a review into the issue, said this was a "historic hangover" that now needed looking at.
Professor Salisbury said: "Certainly this winter we have seen an unsatisfactory position. That is a situation that we don't want to see happen again.
"We compare that with the routine childhood immunisation programme where we have not had to suspend part of the programme because of shortage of vaccine for at least a decade. This argues that we do need to look very carefully at whether flu vaccine supply can be done on a more dependable basis."
He suggested as an interim measure the government could purchase an emergency stockpile next year.
However, he has yet to open talks with doctors. He said he would be doing that in the near future before making final recommendations to ministers.
But the suggestion has caused some surprise coming just a day after the government unveiled a bill paving the way for GPs to be given more power - they will get control of much of the NHS budget from 2013.
Dr Richard Vautrey, deputy chairman of the British Medical Association's GPs' committee, said: "I don't think a wholesale change like this would work. The flu programme is complex and intense as we have a lot of people coming for immunisation at once.
"That does not happen with childhood vaccines and so I am not sure a central system could cope with the volume of vaccine GPs need almost all at once.
"What we need is for an emergency stock to be held, perhaps regionally, in case doctors do run out." | The death toll from this winter's flu outbreak is continuing to rise as a row erupts over who should manage the vaccination campaign in the future. | 12238404 |
Abdul Raheem, 40, was arrested in December after police found he had used the name Ray Abdul Raheem Edmundson for five years.
Raheem, of Coleshill Road, Birmingham, was jailed for a year in March 2009 after admitting terrorism offences.
He was released under an order that required him to notify police of any changes to his personal details.
However, the trial at at Birmingham Crown Court found him guilty of failing to comply with the order.
Assistant Chief Constable Gareth Cann, who heads the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, said the orders helped police manage people who had served a sentence for terrorism offences and are now out of prison.
"We will seek the prosecution of convicted terrorists who break their conditions in order to keep the public safe," he added. | A convicted terrorist who changed his name without informing the police has been jailed for 15 months. | 40612859 |
The naked body of Ashley Olsen was found last week in her flat, shocking friends and the local community who described her as "kind" and "gentle".
More lab results are needed to determine the time of the 35-year-old's death, prosecutors said.
When she was found, she had bruises and scratches on her neck.
Her Italian boyfriend said he had not heard from her and he later found her in her apartment.
Olsen was from Summer Haven, Florida, and had been living in Florence for three years.
"While we mourn her passing we place our trust fully in the Italian authorities to investigate this tragic episode,'' Olsen's friends wrote in English-language newspaper The Florentine, calling her death "horrific" and "unimaginable".
"We wait to hear what they discover, and pray that justice will be swiftly served to whoever his responsible."
Italian police hope DNA traces collected in the apartment will help find the killer.
One line of enquiry could be that she met up with a man the night of her death.
Witnesses and CCTV footage show her meeting up with a man after leaving the nightclub where she was last seen, Agence France-Presse reports.
Prosecutors have not said whether drugs were found in the apartment. | An American woman living in Florence was strangled to death with an object like a rope or cord, an Italian prosecutor has said. | 35299365 |
The world number 45 went down 3-6 6-2 3-6 in one hour and 37 minutes to his Portuguese opponent, who is ranked nine places below him.
Edmund, 22, also lost in the first round of the Rogers Cup this month.
British women's number one Johanna Konta, 26, has received a bye into the second round, where she will face either Oceane Dodin or Kiki Bertens.
Men's top seed Rafael Nadal will be the new world number one from next Monday after Roger Federer withdrew from the tournament with a back injury. | British number two Kyle Edmund is out of the Cincinnati Masters after a first-round loss to Joao Sousa. | 40930807 |
The trust temporarily halted the booking of routine inpatient appointments at the hospital due to a nursing shortage and vomiting bug.
The move affected non-urgent procedures, but day procedures, urgent cases and cancer surgery went ahead.
More than ten beds remain closed due to ongoing staffing pressures, but the trust said the situation was improving.
"We will now proceed to book routine inpatient treatments," the trust said in a statement.
"Like all other level one acute hospitals, Altnagelvin faces challenges on a daily basis.
"The number of postponed routine inpatient operations have also declined in recent weeks."
It said that out of 271 scheduled inpatient operations due to take place in the week commencing 2 August, 244 went ahead as planned with 27 postponed.
"The Western Trust apologises for the inconvenience this may have caused to any patient who has had their routine procedure postponed. These will be re-appointed," it said.
All procedures at the hospital's Day Case Unit, all urgent cases and all cancer surgery continue to take place.
All wards that were closed due to infection control issues have now reopened, it said.
The spokesperson continued: "The Western Trust is delighted to confirm that 118 student nurses have been offered full-time permanent employment at the Western Trust.
"All candidates have accepted the offer of employment pending successful completion of the training programme and are currently progressing through the recruitment stages. Their posts will commence in September 2017.
"We wish to pay tribute to our clinical and nursing staff working at the hospital and would also like to thank the public for their patience and understanding during this time." | The Western Trust has apologised to patients who had routine procedures postponed at Altnagelvin hospital. | 40898139 |
Ipswich Town's Tyrone Mings made the promise to two people on Twitter after his number changed from 15 to three.
The 21-year-old responded to one tweet by saying: "I'll get one made up and sent to you mate."
In March 2013, Mings gave away two match tickets after a fan commented about being "skint".
Ipswich Town's new squad numbers for the 2014-15 season were announced by the Championship club on Monday.
Tom Pullen, 18, from Mersea Island, Essex, had recently bought the club's new shirt and had "Mings" and "15" printed on the back.
After one of his friends commented about Mings' change of number on Twitter, the footballer replied: "I'll buy him a new one."
Mr Pullen said: "Tyrone made a great gesture. It's a great feeling, it just shows what a great community club Ipswich Town is.
"It's brilliant to see the interaction between the Town players and fans.
"I'd like to say thank you to Tyrone, and wish every success to him and the team this season."
Another fan told he would be receiving a new shirt was Glenn Parker, 26, an Ipswich Town season ticket holder for 19 years.
Mr Parker, from Mendlesham Green, Suffolk, tweeted a photograph of his shirt.
He said: "It was my decision to put 'Mings 15' on my shirt before waiting for the club to announce squad numbers so it was very generous of him to offer to replace my shirt if he did change his number." | A footballer has been praised for a "great gesture" after pledging to buy new shirts for fans who had his old squad number printed on their new kits. | 28416351 |
Castlebrooke Investments has properties on 12 acres between Royal Avenue and the Cathedral Quarter, a project formerly known as Royal Exchange.
The company plans to submit a refreshed planning application, including a new proposal for an office building.
It intends to begin by refurbishing Garfield Street and the Northern Bank building on Waring Street.
The Royal Exchange scheme was first proposed in 2006 and granted planning permission, but it stalled because of the property crash.
Last year, it was sold by the Cerberus investment fund which had control of the loans underlying the properties.
Castlebrooke said the project will represent an overall investment of approximately £400m when fully developed, with the construction alone set to cost in excess of £250m.
A spokesman said: "This is the start of a process to revitalise a site which has been badly in need of regeneration for some time.
"We intend to implement the scheme in a way that protects the important heritage of the area by starting with the refurbishment of Garfield Street and the Northern Bank on Waring Street."
The design team for the scheme include Chapman Taylor, the architects whose schemes include MediaCity in Salford.
Royal Exchange has previously been proposed as a possible site for a John Lewis department store.
However, the retailer has only ever expressed an interest in opening a store at the Sprucefield retail park near Lisburn.
Castlebrooke will hold public consultation events at The Mac Belfast on 14, 27 and 28 February. | A firm which owns a large part of central Belfast is to submit new plans for the regeneration of the area. | 38888068 |
The 27-year-old former England youth international, who left Sunderland at the end of last season, has previously had spells with Chelsea and Everton.
"Brooke is a really exciting addition," Royals boss Kelly Chambers said.
"She is a goal scoring player who definitely adds to my attacking options and fits well into our style of play." | Women's Super League One side Reading have signed former Sunderland midfielder Brooke Chaplen on an 18-month deal. | 38809253 |
The 23-year-old Switzerland international, who has 46 caps, has signed a five-year contract to become the Potters' ninth summer recruit.
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"He's a dynamic and explosive player who will bring something different," said Stoke boss Mark Hughes.
The club's previous record signing was striker Peter Crouch, whom they paid Tottenham £10m for in 2011.
A month after Stoke pulled out of a move for Shaqiri, the player was at the Britannia Stadium on Sunday as the Potters lost 1-0 to Liverpool.
A Basel youth team product, he joined Inter Milan from German champions Bayern Munich in January, scoring three goals in 20 games for the Italians.
Shaqiri has scored 17 times for his country.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Stoke City have completed the signing of Inter Milan winger Xherdan Shaqiri for a club-record fee of £12m. | 33847333 |