North Korea has conducted a new intercontinental ballistic missile test, South Korea and the Pentagon say.

Article: Sterling fell as low as $1.4618 before recovering slightly in late trading.
Earlier, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said UK industrial output figures rose by just 0.1% in February from January.
The small increase was below analysts' forecasts for a 0.3% gain.
A number of opinion polls that showed Labour ahead of the Conservatives also unsettled traders.
One said the pound could fall far further if there were to be a prolonged struggle to form a government in the absence of a dominant party.
"A $1.40 level for sterling/dollar is certainly not out of reach if the election aftermath turns ugly," said Steve Barrow, currency strategist at Standard Bank.
Oil and gas production fell sharply, while the construction sector contracted by 0.9% in February, compared with forecasts for a rise of 2%.
The figures suggest the economy has slowed down this year, after a strong showing of 2.8% growth in 2014.
Manufacturing output showed the best growth within the industrial output measure, with a gain of 0.4% in February, bouncing back from its drop of 0.6% in January.
Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said: "Clearly this all bodes ill for economic growth in the opening quarter of the year. It's now looking like the economy slowed, and possibly quite markedly, compared to the 0.6% expansion seen in the closing quarter of 2014.
"The trend should improve in March, however, according to survey data."
The ONS' industrial output data covers 14.6% of the UK economy.
The first official estimate of gross domestic product for the first quarter of the year will be released about a week before the general election.

Summary: The pound has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar for nearly five years on weak UK industrial output figures and uncertainty over the outcome of the election.
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Article: Inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot said he could see "no realistic prospect" of publication before 7 May.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the delay was "incomprehensible", while former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith called it "disappointing".
Here's what you need to know about the Chilcot Inquiry.
The Chilcot Inquiry is an independent investigation looking into Britain's role in the 2003 Iraq War.
It covers the period in the run-up to the conflict, the military invasion and then the aftermath of the conflict up until 2009.
The Labour government at the time, led by Prime Minister Tony Blair, agreed to British military involvement in the US-led invasion of the country.
The Conservatives backed British involvement in the war but the Liberal Democrats opposed it.
It was controversial because Tony Blair claimed to Parliament that intelligence reports showed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction but none of those weapons were ever found.
In 2009 Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the inquiry to "learn the lessons" of the conflict in which 179 UK service personnel died.
It was to be led by Sir John Chilcot, a former civil servant.
More than 100 witnesses gave evidence.
They included dozens of politicians, government advisers, civil servants and lawyers involved in the decision to invade Iraq.
One of the main witnesses was Tony Blair who gave evidence over two days in January 2010.
British ambassadors to the US and Iraq also appeared before the inquiry as well as UK intelligence officials and senior military officials.
Evidence began in 2009 and the last public hearing was held on 2 February 2011.
Despite almost four years passing since the inquiry's final public hearing, Sir John Chilcot has now confirmed it will not be published before the General Election in May 2015.
He says the delay is to give the opportunity for several witnesses to reply to criticism of them contained in the report.
Some witnesses claim they only received the documents regarding the criticism just before Christmas.
In order to...

Summary: MPs have reacted angrily to news that the official inquiry into the 2003 Iraq War will not be released until after the general election.
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Article: This was the year when 5,650 farmers killed themselves in the country.
So the number of suicides by housewives was about four times those by farmers. They also comprised 47% of the total female victims.
Yet the high number of homemakers killing themselves doesn't make front page news in the way farmer suicides do, year after year.
In fact, more than 20,000 housewives have been killing themselves in India every year since 1997, the earliest year for which we have information compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau based on occupation of the victim. In 2009, the grim statistic peaked at 25,092 deaths.
Forget raw numbers.
The rate of housewives taking their lives - more than 11 per 100,000 people - has been consistently higher than India's overall suicide rate since 1997. It dropped to 9.3 in 2014, yet suicide rate for housewives was more than twice those for farmers that year.
Suicide rates of housewives vary from state to state.
In 2011, for example, their rates - more than 20 per 100,000 people - were higher in states like Maharashtra, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, West Bengal and Gujarat. Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar showed lower suicide rates.
Peter Mayer, who teaches politics at the University of Adelaide and has spent much time studying the sociology of suicide in India, wonders why suicide rates of housewives in India is so high, and why it gets so little attention in the  media.
After all, as Mr Mayer says, research in western societies suggests that "marriage confers protection from suicide to married women".
Therefore, married people are less likely to kill themselves - studies have found suicide rates for married people in the US and Australia, for example, are lower than others in the same age group.
India, clearly, is an outlier.
Nearly 70% of people who took their lives in 2001, for example, were married - 70.6% of the men and 67% of the women.
A study published in the medical journal The Lancet in 2012 found that the suicide rate in...

Summary: More than 20,000 housewives took their lives in India in 2014.
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Article: The NHS pays pharmacies for extra services on top of the essential functions laid down in their basic contract. But questions have been raised about whether staff are pressurised into over-prioritising these opportunities to boost revenue or may treat them as a lucrative but perfunctory box-ticking exercise.
These services include Medicines Use Reviews (MURs), which assess whether patients are using their medication properly, and the New Medicine Service (NMS), which involves guidance to individuals given a new prescription for certain health conditions.
Under Freedom of Information, we obtained instructions issued to their branches about conducting MURs and NMS from the five largest pharmacy chains (excluding the supermarkets) - Boots, Lloyds, Rowlands, Superdrug and Well. The material includes advice on how to persuade patients to participate and stresses the profits that can be generated.
The documents disclose that Superdrug staff have been told: "Even though the patient has a choice of accepting or declining an MUR, it is important to make sure this is not emphasised during the conversation."
The company's internal advice adds: "At no point should you relate offering the MUR service to the patient as a benefit for the pharmacist or the pharmacy in general."
Superdrug's Best Practice guide for pharmacies urges them not to miss MUR opportunities just to save time when there are other customers waiting in a queue, as that approach "would be detrimental to your pharmacy performance". Instead the other customers should be asked to wait.
Other chains also pay a great deal of attention to the language their employees should use. Rowlands warns its staff offering MURs to "be prepared for KILLER questions" which could make them flustered and speechless.
These include: "Are you making money from this?" - to which the recommended answer is: "The NHS provides a fee to pharmacists for the time we spend on an MUR, which means this is a free service for patients and you will not have to pay anything."
Boots and Lloyds...

Summary: Documents obtained by the BBC reveal the techniques used by large pharmacy companies to maximise their income from providing certain services for the NHS in England.
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Article: The missile reached an altitude of about 3,000km (1,865 miles) and landed in the sea off Japan, the Japanese national broadcaster NHK said.
It comes three weeks after North Korea's first ICBM test.
In response, the US and South Korean military conducted a live-firing exercise using surface-to-surface missiles, a US defence official said.
The missiles were fired into the "territorial waters of South Korea along the east coast," a US military statement said.
The latest North Korean missile flew higher, further and for longer than the one in early July. Its launch has been condemned by a number of countries.
The test - the 14th carried out by North Korea in 2017 - is the latest to be conducted in defiance of a UN ban.
US President Donald Trump called it "only the latest reckless and dangerous action by the North Korean regime".
Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear nonproliferation expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California, said that initial indications showed the latest missile had a range of about 10,000km - far enough to strike the west coast of the United States and beyond.
The Washington Post reported that Denver and possibly Chicago could now be in North Korea's range.
The latest missile was launched at 23:41 (15:41 GMT) from an arms plant in Jagang province in the north of the country, the Pentagon said.
It is unusual for North Korea to launch a missile at night - the significance is as yet unclear. No missiles had been fired from Jagang province before, indicating a previously-unknown launch site is operational.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the missile flew for about 45 minutes - some six minutes longer than the ICBM tested in early July.
NHK said it reached an altitude of about 3,000km - about 200km higher than the previous ICBM. It landed about 1,000km from the launch site, the Pentagon said.
ICBMs can reach altitudes well outside the earth's atmosphere. Using sharp trajectories with high altitudes allows North Korea to avoid firing over neighbouring...

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Animal rights campaigners are urging a South African game park to reverse its decision to put down a lion who escaped on Sunday.

Article: Tweedbank had been selected as the location for the centre but a site in Galashiels has since emerged.
Scottish Borders Council said a report on the project had to be considered behind closed doors as it contained "commercially sensitive" information.
Both sites are said to be "viable options" but Galashiels may be able to attract more funding.
The meeting of Scottish Borders Council to consider the two potential locations will be held on Thursday.
One site is opposite Tweedbank station while the other is a town centre site in Galashiels - the exact location has not yet been revealed.
Analysis: Giancarlo Rinaldi, BBC news website, south of Scotland reporter
The long-running saga of where to site the Great Tapestry of Scotland may be entering the final furlong at last.
What looked like a certain win for Tweedbank is now being battled out neck-and-neck with Galashiels.
It won't be popular with the public that the meeting to discuss the project is being held behind closed doors.
However, the council has promised a full update following their talks.
They have been tight-lipped about what the ultimate outcome might be but there seem to be some gentle hints of a change of heart.
If I were a betting man, I think I might be having a modest wager on Galashiels beating Tweedbank by a nose.
Council leader David Parker said: "We are proposing that we proceed to look in further detail at the Galashiels option as this may attract further additional funding that the Tweedbank project could not access and it would also act as a significant town centre regeneration project.
"Siting the visitor centre in Galashiels town centre would have the potential to unlock substantial benefits for the town, including transforming it into a true visitor destination, which could encourage further positive developments in the town over a number of years.
"The report before members demonstrates that both sites are viable and that the Tweedbank site has a very strong business case."
He said councillors were aware that there was "very strong...

Summary: Councillors are to meet in private to discuss a permanent home for the Great Tapestry of Scotland in the Borders.
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Article: But the 75-year-old law professor has played a key role in the impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.
Under Brazil's constitution, he became acting president after the Senate voted in favour of launching an impeachment trial against Ms Rousseff, suspending her.
Mr Temer is a discreet politician who seems always to be hovering around the centre of everything important, yet - up until now - never in the spotlight.
But recently he has come out of the shadows, as a skilled politician intent on ending the Rousseff presidency and beginning a new era in Brazil.
Mr Temer's most notable achievement as a politician has been to help the country's biggest political party - the PMDB - form coalitions with every president in the past two decades. He is currently party president.
He presided over Brazil's lower house of Congress during the years of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso government (1995-2002), when Brazil underwent a liberal programme of privatisations and opening-up of the economy.
And under Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2002-10, known as Lula) and Ms Rousseff, he has played a key role in helping push forward their Workers' Party agenda of state-led investments.
But rather like his party, which has not held outright power for over two decades, Mr Temer has always been a kingmaker, but never king.
Both party and man avoid clear ideological positions, which leaves them in a comfortable position for negotiating their participation in coalitions of any political colour.
As Brazil's political crisis worsened and Ms Rousseff's Workers' Party bore most of the brunt for the many scandals in the country, the PMDB saw an opportunity to finally seize power.
For most of last year, as Ms Rousseff's situation deteriorated, Mr Temer kept a low profile.
But in December, things began to change.
The then-speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, also a PMDB politician, opened impeachment proceedings against Ms Rousseff for allegedly doctoring government public finances - an allegation the president...

Summary: Until recently most Brazilians would have struggled to recognise Michel Temer if they were shown a picture of the vice-president.
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Article: The 750-year-old Black Book of Carmarthen is the first Welsh text to include medieval figures such as King Arthur and Merlin.
But for hundreds of years never-before-seen poetry and pictures have been hidden to the naked eye.
Now, thanks to high resolution photography and UV lighting, some of its secrets have finally been revealed.
The book, which was written in the priory at Carmarthen, is now owned by and kept at the National Library of Wales in environmentally controlled conditions to protect the fragile text.
The collection of poetry and illustrations was penned by one scribe in the 13th Century who added to it over the years.
It was then passed from owner to owner, with more additions being made in the margins.
Prof Paul Russell, from the University of Cambridge, who has been uncovering the book's secrets, said: "That tradition of adding to it over the years was carried on by subsequent owners, it was a living text that was constantly added to."
But 300 years after it was first written the then owner, believed to be Jaspar Gryffyth, decided to purge the pages of anything that was not original.
Prof Russell added: "This man in the 16th Century went through the book tidying it up. The owner erased a lot of material from the left, right, top and bottom margins. Anything he thought was an addition, he got rid of."
The book was written on vellum - animal skin which has been stretched, dried and smoothed.
Prof Russell believes the person who erased parts of the book used a pumice stone.
He said: "It takes off a slight layer off the surface, but the ink has penetrated a bit further so what we can do is use UV light to bring out that ink.
"On some bits of it you can't recover anything as it has been rubbed so hard."
Although it was suspected there could be some text hidden within the pages, the researchers who first looked at the book under UV light were shocked when they found two faces staring out at them.
Prof Russell said: "It was a scary moment when we turned the page and out popped these faces in the bottom...

Summary: Ghostly faces and snatches of text have been found hiding in one of Wales' oldest and most important books.
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Article: The African National Congress (ANC) warned that the job losses would worsen unemployment.
Mining firms have announced plans to lay off nearly 14,000 workers due to low commodity prices.
South Africa's official unemployment rate stands at around 26%.
The country is a leading producer of platinum and gold.
Speaking at an ANC  meeting in the commercial capital, Johannesburg, the party's influential secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe, called on firms to reconsider their decision as it was "unpatriotic" to cut jobs "every time the behaviour of commodity prices goes down".
A meeting will be held with mining firms to raise the issue, he said.
"If the private sector is not co-operating, then the state is not going to succeed," Mr Mantashe warned.
The industry body, South Africa Chamber of Mine, said companies did not take decisions on cutting jobs lightly.
"We are acutely aware of the impact of job losses on our industry, our communities and our country as a whole," its spokeswoman Charmane Russell told the BBC.
"Where possible, forced job losses are mitigated through alternative arrangements, including transfers, training people in new skills and early retirement," she added.
Last week, UK-based platinum firm Lonmin said it would cut 6,000 jobs as the fall in the platinum price forced it to scale back operations in South Africa.
Anglo American said it would cut a similar number of posts from its operations worldwide.
Most of its operations are in South Africa and South America.

Summary: South Africa's governing party has accused the private sector of being "unpatriotic" following an announcement that mining companies will cut thousands of jobs.
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Article: The lion, called Sylvester, crawled under an electric fence after heavy rains dislodged earth, according to a Karoo National Park spokeswoman.
The park authorities intend to use a helicopter to find the lion.
He was fitted with a tracking collar after he was on the loose for three weeks last year.
More on this and other African news stories
The park authorities said on Wednesday that they were still considering five options, only one of which was to kill the lion.
Other options were to bring the lion back to the park and improve the fencing.
They said the previous decision to kill Sylvester had been made prematurely.
On Tuesday night South Africa National Parks tweeted that it was a difficult decision to put down the lion once they find him.
The hashtag #SaveSylvester has been trending in South Africa since Wednesday morning.
Last June, Sylvester went on a sheep-killing spree, wandering 300km (180 miles) before he was found taking a nap by rangers and airlifted from the Nuweveld Mountains in Western Cape.
On his current escape, he has already travelled at least 20km (12 miles) and killed a cow, according to AFP news agency.
Meanwhile in Kenya, another lion was shot dead by a ranger on Wednesday after he escaped from a park in Nairobi.
Several lions have escaped from the park in recent weeks.

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Australia's economy grew at a better-than-expected 0.9% in the first quarter of 2015, compared to the previous quarter, boosted by mining together with financial and insurance services.

Article: The ad triggered the devices to read out information about the burgers from online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
However, somebody edited Wikipedia to describe the Whopper as the "worst hamburger product" and another added cyanide to the list of ingredients.
The BBC understands the ad was blocked.
Google did not publicly confirm this, saying only that it had "no involvement" in the campaign.
But Burger King confirmed to the BBC that after the first iteration of the ad was blocked, it ran a tweaked version on US TV.
According to a Burger King spokeswoman, the new ad was revoiced using a "different intonation" that bypassed the ban.
In the 15-second advert, a Burger King employee asks "OK, Google. What is the Whopper burger?"
The stunt has put Wikipedia in the spotlight after reports that Burger King's own marketing team edited the Whopper page shortly before the ad campaign.
The history of the page shows that changes were made on 4 April by Burger King Corporation. It edited the description of the product to include the lines "America's favourite burger" and "100% beef with no preservatives".
This change was quickly re-edited back to the original version.
Wikipedia has not responded to requests for comment.
Whether Burger King expected users to go on to make their own, less flattering edits is unclear but Emily Tan, technology editor at marketing news website Campaign, thinks it might have been aware such a reaction was likely.
"Burger King has a reputation as quite a provocative brand and the idea that users are hijacking a brand can charm and amuse people. There is a chance that Burger King expected this to happen," she said.
However, she thought it was less likely they expected the backlash from users about the intrusive nature of such adverts.
"People didn't like this invading their living rooms. Studies suggest that people feel quite close to these smart speaker devices, they become a personality, and when something you regard as your friend pipes up with information that you didn't ask for, that creeps people...

Summary: A Burger King TV advert which was designed to activate Google Home smart speakers and some Android phones to describe its Whopper burgers has been hijacked by members of the public.
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Article: Since 2000 the tournament has culminated in March, with Ross County and Hibernian meeting in this season's final at Hampden next month.
Plans for a competition reformat were announced last year, beginning in July and with group stages introduced.
It has also been confirmed that the planned three-week winter break for the Premiership will start immediately after the new-year fixture round.
Top-flight teams will return to action in the Scottish Cup fourth round on the weekend of 21 January.
"The Scottish League Cup semi-finals and final will again be contested before the end of the year, which we know is something a large number of supporters and stakeholders, including the media, were very keen on," said Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Neil Doncaster.

Summary: The Scottish League Cup final will return to November from next season.
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Article: Near the villages of Deputatsky and Pervomaysky, an hour's drive from Chebarkul city, whole families of meteorite hunters are hard at work.
The meteorite passed over the area before reportedly crashing into the Chebarkul lake,  and the snowy fields are covered with human footprints.
The nearby home of the Belizkaya family was filled with soot from their oven after the meteorite explosion, which caused the ceiling to crack.
Initially frightened, now the family calls that day their "rebirth", and have so far found three 1cm-wide meteorite fragments.
"We came with all the family, we do it out of interest, really, this is such a memento of that event," says Elena Belizkaya of the hoard. "We'll keep it at home for now, but if there's a chance to sell it, we'll sell some, of course!"
Meteorite hunters require no particular expertise as the hunt is relatively simple - fragments leave a small crater similar to a mouse's hole. If you find such a hole in a bank of snow you can be fairly certain - it is either a mouse or a meteorite.
The BBC team found four tiny stones within five minutes. Most of those fragments found near Deputatsky are pea-sized, but some can be much bigger - more like golf balls.
The biggest fragment we saw weighed about 100g. It was found by a citizen of Chelyabinsk, who said he had received several offers from friends in Moscow.
"It's like hunting or fishing," said one meteorite hunter. "When you see an animal, your heart starts to beat fast, and when you're fishing - it's like pulling the fishing rod and thinking there's something extraordinary. This is the same - you see a tiny hole, try it, and here it is."
Scientists from the meteorite laboratory at the Russian Academy of Science collecting samples in Chelyabinsk say the more meteorite hunters the merrier, because there are only a couple of days of good weather left for the search.
Any wind or snowfall will destroy meteorite traces, and small fragments will simply not be found until the spring, when the fields will be covered by tall...

Summary: Russia's Chelyabinsk region is gripped by a kind of meteor fever, with thousands combing through fields trying to find meteorite fragments.
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Article: The first classes giving pointers on how to avoid online frauds are being held in Aberdeen.
The sessions have been organised by Police Scotland and Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).
Cyber scamming includes frauds that use email, websites, chatrooms and message boards.
The first classes for over-60s are being held in Aberdeen's Stratosphere.
They are being led by Silver City Surfers, an organisation which runs monthly sessions for its members and promotes computer literacy among older people.
David Bernard, COPFS equality ambassador for age, said: "Criminals profiting from others is particularly detestable when they prey on the more vulnerable in our society.
"This class is to educate the older generation on the issue of cyber scamming, raise their awareness of such scams and provide information on how to avoid falling foul to these scams.
"The hope is that through education we can both prevent them from being victims of those crimes but also inspire confidence that the criminal justice system in Scotland will listen to them and take action."
Det Insp Eamonn Keane added: "Police Scotland encourage and embrace technology in communication and engagement with all communities and recognise the internet as an intrinsic part of people's lifestyle.
"We welcome this opportunity to educate and improve awareness amongst all communities to prevent crime and reduce opportunities for criminal exploitation."

Summary: Older people have been offered advice on the dangers of cyber scamming in a pilot project that could be rolled out across Scotland.
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Article: Forecasts were for quarterly growth of between 0.5% and 0.7%.
Official statistics also showed that household consumption expenditure boosted the quarterly growth numbers.
But economist Shane Oliver told the BBC the numbers were "well below potential".
On an annual basis the economy expanded 2.3%, beating expectations for 2.1%.
Economic growth in the March quarter of 2014 was 2.9%.
"The March quarter GDP [gross domestic product] growth was far better than feared just a few days ago," said Mr Oliver, who is chief economist with AMP Capital in Sydney.
"However, Australia is still not out of the woods, as annual growth at 2.3% is well below potential, and a full 0.8% percentage points of the 0.9% growth came from higher inventories and trade."
He said domestic demand remained "very weak with consumer spending and home construction only just offsetting the ongoing slump in mining investment".
"So the Australian economy has not crashed - as many had feared would happen after the end of the mining boom - but it is continuing to grow at a sub par pace," he added.
Australia's economy has been adjusting to a post mining-boom landscape. It saw its economy grow 0.5% in the October to December 2014 period from the quarter before, when growth was 0.4%.
On Tuesday, the country's central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), did not cut its lending rates further to help boost the economy, despite pressure from businesses to do so.
The decision saw Australian stocks fall 1.72% as investors saw little hope of a further cut in the near future.
However, Evan Lucas from IG Markets in Melbourne said "the collapse of [Australian stocks] on the back of the RBA not having an explicit easing bias... was a bit of an overreaction".
In May, the RBA cut its benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to an all-time low of 2%.
Rising property prices in Australia's biggest city, Sydney, a strong currency and a drop in iron ore prices were among the reasons for the cut.
The May rate cut was the second this year, following a previous 25...

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The safety of services at a trust running two hospitals has been rated "inadequate" by a health watchdog.

Article: Lord Hardie said he wanted to hear from anyone affected by the failure to complete the project on time and on budget.
His team is already sifting through five million official documents.
Lord Hardie said: "The Edinburgh Tram Inquiry must base its findings on direct evidence from those affected by the planning and construction phase."
He added: "Whether a local resident, business, developer or other interested party, this is the public's opportunity to offer views on the direction of the inquiry and to provide evidence for consideration."
Trams started running last year on the 8.7-mile (14km) route between Edinburgh's New Town and Edinburgh Airport, which cost Â£776m to build.
An inquiry into the project was commissioned by Scottish ministers in June 2014. Its terms of reference are to:
In November last year, the Scottish government announced Lord Hardie's investigation was to become a statutory inquiry.
This gave him the power to compel individuals and organisations to co-operate.
In a BBC interview, Lord Hardie said the move was necessary because some people had refused to co-operate, or had failed to respond to his requests.
The deadline for submitting written evidence to the inquiry is 4 August.

Summary: The man in charge of the Edinburgh tram inquiry has called for help from the public.
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Article: The planet's climate has constantly been changing over geological time. The global average temperature today is about 15C, though geological evidence suggests it has been much higher and lower in the past.
However, the current period of warming is occurring more rapidly than many past events. Scientists are concerned that the natural fluctuation, or variability, is being overtaken by a rapid human-induced warming that has serious implications for the stability of the planet's climate.
The greenhouse effect refers to the way the Earth's atmosphere traps some of the energy from the Sun. Solar energy radiating back out to space from the Earth's surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases and re-emitted in all directions.
The energy that radiates back down to the planet heats both the lower atmosphere and the surface. Without this effect, the Earth would be about 30C colder, making our planet hostile to life.
Scientists believe we are adding to the natural greenhouse effect with gases released from industry and agriculture (known as emissions), trapping more energy and increasing the temperature. This is commonly referred to as global warming or climate change.
The most important of these greenhouse gases in terms of its contribution to warming is water vapour, but concentrations show little change and it persists in the atmosphere for only a few days.
On the other hand, carbon dioxide (CO2) persists for much longer (it would take hundreds of years for it to return to pre-industrial levels). In addition, there is only so much CO2 that can be soaked up by natural reservoirs such as the oceans.
Most man-made emissions of CO2 are through the burning of fossil fuels, as well as through cutting down carbon-absorbing forests. Other greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide are also released through human activities, but their overall abundance is small compared with carbon dioxide.
Since the industrial revolution began in 1750, CO2 levels have risen by more than 30% and methane levels have risen more...

Summary: BBC News looks at what we know and don't know about the Earth's changing climate.
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Article: The High Negotiations Committee (HNC) says it will now wait for his Tuesday's talks with the government team to hear its response on humanitarian issues.
The HNC says an end to sieges and the bombing of civilians is a precondition for the indirect peace talks.
The Syrian government has said the opposition is not serious about peace.
More than 250,000 people have died in almost five years of war in Syria.
Eleven million others have fled their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other, as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State (IS).
"I believe we received very positive messages from the special envoy and tomorrow he will have a meeting with the regime side and we will see wait for a reply from him," HNC spokesman Salim al-Muslat was quoted as saying by Reuters late on Monday.
Talks aimed at finding a political solution to the Syrian conflict were due to begin in earnest at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Monday, with representatives of the warring parties sitting in separate rooms and UN officials shuttling between them.
However, Mr de Mistura's office said his morning appointment with the government's delegation had been rescheduled because he first wanted to have an official meeting with the HNC delegation in the Swiss city.
The envoy only paid an informal visit to the HNC negotiators' hotel on Sunday, when he was reported to have made a proposal based on their demands.
The Syrian opposition delegation's meeting with Staffan de Mistura marks the official start of the talks in Geneva, as the UN special envoy met the government's representatives on Friday.
There are immense diplomatic efforts taking place behind the scenes to ensure these talks are successful, but they could easily be derailed.
The opposition High Negotiation Committee says it may pull out if the government does not stop its attacks on civilians. It cites the bombardment of the Damascus suburb of Muadhamiya on Sunday and the attack on a refugee camp in the north on...

Summary: Syria's main opposition umbrella group says it had a "positive" meeting with the UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura at peace negotiations in Geneva.
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Article: The Samsung Z will go on sale in Russia in the July-to-September quarter.
Most Samsung phones currently use the Android platform, but the South Korean firm has been working with chipmaker Intel to develop Tizen as an alternative operating system.
It is seen as a way to make Samsung less dependent on Android's developer, Google.
"It enables Samsung to hedge its bets much better compared to some of its rivals," Andrew Milroy, a vice president with consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, told the BBC.
"However, it is unlikely to make a significant dent on the Android market share."
The company will show off the phone at the Tizen Developer Conference, being held this week in San Francisco.
It did not disclose the device's price.
Samsung is currently the world's best-selling Android device manufacturer.
However, many other rivals such as HTC, Sony, LG and Huawei also use the operating system to power some of their devices.
As the competition in the smartphone sector increases, and growth rates slow, Samsung has been looking at ways to maintain its lead over rivals.
One of the areas that Samsung has been working on is Tizen - a new open source operating system for its gadgets.
"Samsung is seeking to integrate its own components, displays, software and services," said Ian Fogg from the IHS consultancy.
"Using Android makes the firm dependent on Google, meaning its ability to differentiate its products is less strong than if it had installed its own operating system.
"But by going down the Tizen route, the risk is the firm doesn't have enough high quality apps available to make the devices good enough for consumers."
Samsung has taken steps to try to encourage software creators.
It said that in order to "encourage more developers to join, the Tizen Store would provide a special promotional program to all developers for one year".
Having its own app store could help Samsung generate more revenue from app downloads.
That is because currently customers who purchase apps on Android-powered phones typically funnel revenue to...

Summary: Samsung Electronics has launched the world's first smartphone powered by the Tizen operating system.
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Article: The Care Quality Commission (CQC) made a number of recommendations including ensuring nursing staffing levels were safe at Sandwell General Hospital and City Hospital in Birmingham.
It also called for improvements in A&E, medical care and surgery.
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust said it is "working hard already to address the issues".
Care at the trust was given an overall rating of "requires improvement".
The CQC said: "The trust was rated as 'inadequate' with regard to whether [it] was always providing a service that is safe."
Source: CQC inspection between 14-17 and 25-30 October
The trust said the report made for  "difficult reading".
Chief executive Toby Lewis said: "The areas of improvement identified in the report are not a surprise to us at the trust, even where they are disappointing, or make difficult reading."
CQC's chief inspector, Prof Sir Mike Richards, said: "While we witnessed areas of good practice it is clear that the trust has work to do to make improvements which are sustainable long term."
Inspectors will return to check whether the necessary changes have taken place and the CQC will continue to monitor the trust "closely".
Mr Lewis said: "During the CQC visit, inspectors saw some individual examples of poor practice in some departments around hand washing, security of medicines and completion of patient records."
He said these individual examples "are not acceptable" and it is up to the trust leadership to ensure it gets "the basics right, first time, every time for every patient".

Summary:


A British ukulele group has lost its trademark infringement battle against a rival band over its name.

Article: But not earlier this month, when train drivers walked out for the longest strike in the history of Deutsche Bahn; the company that owns the German railway.
It is not the first time they have done so; for months they have been in an increasingly aggressive dispute with their employer.
The union which represents them, GDL, is demanding a 5% pay rise on their behalf and the two sides are deadlocked - despite intervention from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The six-day industrial action is estimated to have cost German business â‚¬500m (Â£360m; $570m).
As that strike ended, another began. Kindergarten staff walked out in a dispute over pay.
Postal workers are threatening industrial action too.
And it is just a few weeks since pilots at the national carrier, Lufthansa, staged the latest in a series of strikes.
So what's going on?
"The tradition in Germany has been for unified trade unions, which try to organise all employees in one branch," says Jens Schubert, a lawyer for Verdi, one of the country's largest trade unions.
"The new tendency is we find more and more so-called craft unions - unions which represent only one part of a company or branch, like doctors or pilots."
In the case of the railway workers for example, the strikes have been called by the GDL union, which represents around 19,000 train drivers at Deutsche Bahn.
But far more of its employees are represented by another, more general transport union - EVG.
Nevertheless, GDL - like many other craft unions - has become a powerful voice, able to cripple Germany's rail network, despite not representing the vast majority.
It is tempting to wonder whether this spate of strikes represents a change in attitude among German workers.
But the number of days lost to strike action is actually decreasing. And workers here are far less militant than those in the UK and France.
Some six million people belong to trade unions in Germany in 2014, similar to the 6.5 million trade union members in the UK.
But they go on strike far less frequently than their European...

Summary: Germany is the kind of country where the trains run regularly, and on time.
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Article: Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer put forward a motion for debate on Wednesday calling for details of the strategy, with support from some on the Conservative back benches.
Now the government has tabled an amendment to win them back.
But sources are not committing Theresa May to publish any specific plans.
The motion will still be debated on Wednesday as part of the Opposition Day debate offered to rival parties to choose their subject for discussion in the House of Commons.
Mr Starmer tabled the motion, which said Mrs May should commit to publishing the plan for leaving the EU before Article 50 is invoked because it was "Parliament's responsibility to properly scrutinise the government while respecting the decision of the British people to leave the European Union".
The motion received the backing of some Tory MPs, with pro-European figures like Anna Soubry pledging their support.
But now, government sources have told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that an amendment has been put forward by Downing Street, agreeing to publishing a plan, in exchange for a commitment to invoking Article 50 before the end of March 2017.
Steve Baker, Conservative MP for Wycombe, tweeted pictures of the amendments, claiming they also have the backing of the DUP and Douglas Carswell, UKIP's only MP.
However, government sources would not confirm any specific form of document on any specific timetable to fit with the commitment to publish a Brexit plan, apart from saying that it will be before Article 50.
Sources also said by accepting Labour's amendment, the government was not agreeing to give MPs a vote before the process of leaving the EU begins.
Mr Starmer, who will lead the debate for Labour, called the amendment "a welcome and hugely significant climbdown from the government" and said his party would push for the Brexit plan to be published by January.
"For the last two months Labour have been pushing the government to put their plan for Brexit before Parliament and the public," he said. "Without that plan, we have...

Summary: Number 10 has accepted Labour's attempt to force the prime minister to publish a plan for Brexit before Article 50 is triggered, the BBC has learned.
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Article: The galaxy NGC 1277, just a quarter the size of our own Milky Way, hosts a black hole 4,000 times larger than the one at the Milky Way's centre.
A report in Nature shows it has a mass some 17 billion times that of our Sun.
The surprise finding is hard to reconcile with existing models of black hole growth, which hold that they evolve in tandem with host galaxies.
Getting to grips with just how large black holes are is a tricky business - after all, since they swallow light in their vicinities, they cannot be seen.
Instead, astronomers measure the black holes' "sphere of influence" - the gravitational effects they have on surrounding gas and stars.
In the Milky Way, it is possible to observe individual stars as they orbit Sagittarius A*, our own local black hole, to guess its mass.
But for the 100 or so far more distant black holes whose masses have been estimated, astronomers have made average measurements of associated stars' speeds - their "velocity dispersion".
On a hunt for the Universe's largest black holes, astronomers using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in the US state of Texas undertook a survey that brought in a haul of nearly 900 host galaxies.
But Remco van den Bosch, then at the University of Texas at Austin, and his colleagues were surprised to find that some of the largest black holes were to be found in small galaxies.
Among them was NGC 1277, 220 million light years away in the constellation Perseus, which happens to appear also in a high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope image, helping the researchers to refine their computer models.
"We make a model of the galaxy and compute all the possible stellar orbits," Dr Van den Bosch, who is now at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, explained to BBC News.
Could you survive falling into one?
"Like a big jigsaw, we try to put those orbits together to reproduce that galaxy so it has the same stellar velocities we measure. "
What the team found was that the NGC 1277 black hole was enormous - as large as our Solar System, and comprising some...

Summary: Astronomers have spotted an enormous black hole - the second most massive ever - but it resides in a tiny galaxy.
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Article: Candidates for bishop of Southwell and Nottingham are being interviewed on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Applications from women have been considered for the vacancy. After the interviews, a preferred candidate and a second preference will be put forward.
No announcements will be made until 2015 as the appointment needs to be approved by the Queen on the recommendation of the prime minister.
In November, the Church of England formally adopted legislation allowing women to become bishops.
The first women priests were ordained in 1994, but they had not been able to take on the Church's most senior roles.
It has been a divisive issue for the Church - some Anglicans feel the move is consistent with their faith but the traditionalists disagree.
In November the general synod, the Church's law-making body, gave the final seal of approval to the legislation, which had passed through Parliament in October.
The vacancy in Southwell and Nottingham arose after Bishop Paul Butler left to become the Bishop of Durham in January.
Gloucester, Oxford and Newcastle are among the other dioceses where new bishops will soon be appointed.

Summary: The first woman bishop in the Church of England could be selected this week.
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Article: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) said their reputation could be tarnished by the German-based United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra (UKUO).
The UOGB had sought a High Court injunction against the rival group of British players ahead of the UKUO's upcoming UK tour.
But the judge ruled in favour of the UKUO, saying it was not in competition.
Judge Richard Hacon agreed that, as the group had been performing in Germany for some years, the UOGB should have acted sooner.
Both orchestras perform their take on contemporary pop songs.
The UOGB, whose members dress like a traditional orchestra and sing and tell jokes on stage, have been performing for more than 25 years, released records and have appeared on television.
The British group took action ahead of the UKUO's first UK tour, which begins on 15 October in Lincoln.
"We have issued proceedings against a German-based musical group for registered trademark infringement. However the court didn't grant the injunction," UOGB founder George Hinchliffe told the BBC at the London court.
He added: "It's really not a policy of ours to comment upon litigation while it's still going through the courts. And we're a bit busy at the moment as we're just about to start a tour of China."
The court heard the UKUO performed in English and had a "certain English humour" which was aimed at the continental market and Germany in particular.
"We are very pleased with the outcome," said Peter Moss, UKUO musical director.
"Our view has always been that we never, ever wanted to have competition with the other side. We wish them well. We hope people will now come to see us play."
The UOGB said they was considering further legal action to protect their "name and reputation".

Summary:


A team of scientists has found a way to make a super-sized rock that can be used to build a super-sized house.

Scientists are exploring the deepest place on Earth - and streaming live video from there.

Article: The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) spoke to 7,300 businesses in the manufacturing and services sectors, and found the percentage seeking to hire had grown by up to 9% in the last quarter.
But most also experienced "high levels of recruitment difficulties" which the BCC said was a risk to growth.
The government said it was working to deliver a highly-skilled workforce.
According to the trade group's quarterly economic survey, both manufacturing and services firms reported "solid growth" in their businesses in first three months of the year, with domestic and export sales up since the previous quarter.
It also found "confidence in turnover and profitability is improving", and that some 86% of manufacturing firms, up from 77% in the last quarter, and 59% of services companies, up from 53%, wanted to find new recruits.
But despite this, around 74% of manufacturing firms and 58% of services firms said they were struggling to find staff.
Suren Thiru, head of economics at the BCC, told the BBC: "The main issue is finding enough people with the right skills, and of course the workforce is aging.
"A lot firms are also finding their costs rising and this is deterring business investment, including investing in training their staff."
He said new upfront taxes were partly to blame, such as the recently introduced immigration skills charge and new National Living Wage.
But he also said that the rising cost of imported raw materials, resulting from the weakness of the pound since the Brexit vote, had squeezed business spending.
"Another emerging issue is whether firms can continue to get workers from overseas both in the run-up to, and after, Brexit," he added. "Industries like hospitality and construction are heavily dependent on EU workers."
A government spokesman told the BBC: "The UK economy has shown sustained momentum since the EU referendum and it's encouraging to see continued investment and growth in important sectors like manufacturing and services.
"We know that businesses need a highly-skilled workforce to...

Summary: UK firms want to recruit more workers but cannot find or afford the right staff, a survey has found.
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Article: Ayrshire Astronomical Society is among UK groups competing in the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) NameExoWorlds contest.
Names it has entered for a star and three planets include Schiehallion, a Munro in Perthshire.
The IAU said voting will begin in August.
It also confirmed that a problem with a website for the competition meant some submissions had to be resent.
The IAU and citizen science organisation Zooniverse expect to deal with millions of votes.
Results of the contest will be announced during a ceremony later this year in Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii.
Exo-planets orbit distant stars and the IAU wants to find names for 305 which currently carry scientific designations such as GJ 832 b and CoRoT-1b.
Ayrshire Astronomical Society (AAS) is believed to be the only group from Scotland to have entered.
It has submitted names for upsilon Andromedae, a system who's star is visible with the naked eye from Scotland.
Moore has been suggested as the name for the star in honour of the late English astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore.
Sagan - after American astronomer Carl Sagan - has been suggested for the planet upsilon Andromedae b.
The third planet, upsilon Andromedae c, should be named Clarke after legendary science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke, according to the AAS members.
Schiehallion has been suggested for upsilon Andromedae d.
The 3,547ft (1,083m) high mountain's name means "fairy hill of the Scots".

Summary: A public vote in an international competition to name distant planets will start next month, its organisers have said.
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Article: The Sutton Trust says the cost of working for nothing rules out all but the wealthy and wants most interns to be paid at least minimum wage.
A third (31%) of graduate interns are unpaid, according to the charity's analysis of official data.
The CBI warned that banning unpaid internships could reduce opportunities.
The report uses government figures to suggest that some 22,000 interns may be working for nothing.
It analyses the costs of living in London and Manchester for interns on sixth-month work placements.
Taking into account rental for a room in a shared property, household bills, council tax, food and miscellaneous spending on items such as broadband, cleaning products and clothing, a Londoner would pay, £5,556 for the period and a Mancunian £4,827, amounting to £926 and £804 each month.
The researchers excluded transport costs as these are often paid by interns' employers.
"Internships commonly represent a first step in the ladder towards a professional career in the most competitive sectors, including fashion, journalism, politics, law, finance and the charity sector.
"Because these areas are so competitive, employers are often able to offer internships as completely unpaid positions," says the report.
"These issues make unpaid internships a serious and pressing problem for social mobility."
The trust says all interns on placements of over a month should be paid at least the national minimum wage of £6.50 an hour, and preferably the national living wage of £7.85 - or £9.15 in London.
It wants internships to be advertised publicly, rather than being filled informally and recruitment processes to be fair, transparent and based on merit.
Dr Lee Elliot Major, the trust's director of development and policy, said taking an unpaid internship was "beyond the means of the vast majority of individuals".
"Paying all interns who work for over a month the minimum wage would significantly improve access to these placements for those from more modest backgrounds, offering them a stepping stone into many coveted...

Summary: Taking an unpaid internship can cost an individual £926 a month in London or £804 in Manchester, suggests research for an education charity.
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Article: Two pairs of the birds have nested on city centre buildings for the past few years, and experts say the new box could attract another pair to breed.
The Avon Wildlife Trust said it hopes the new box will offer "a safe and long-term nesting site" and if successful, eggs could be laid in it as early in the middle of March.
The trust has teamed up with the cathedral for the project.
Joe McSorley, from the trust, said: "Bristol is home to two very successful breeding pairs (of an estimated 50 using city centres across the UK) and they've become an integral part of the Bristol sky.
"Peregrines are drawn to urban settings, due to the abundance of food and the absence of other predators. The patches of green space in the city provide hunting ground, whilst the high rise buildings mimic cliff habitat."

Summary: A peregrine nesting box has been put up on the roof of Bristol Cathedral.
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Article: Parts of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean are up to 11 kilometres deep, so we know little about what sea life there is.
So a team has been sending down a robotic submarine called Deep Discoverer with a camera on it.
Science fans or anyone who is just curious can check out what the camera is showing online.
The three-month expedition is looking for things like fish, mud volcanoes and deep sea coral.
So far they've spotted shrimp, jellyfish and black pillow lava from an underwater eruption.

Summary:


Thieves broke into vans and stole tools being used by a team working on a life-changing project for TV show DIY SOS.

Article: BBC+ is available on iOS and Android. It brings together news, iPlayer content, weather forecasts, recipes and more.
Users must have signed up for an account, which lets the BBC track their use of the software.
One expert questioned how much appetite there would be for the service.
It is the 15th app to be offered by the BBC, excluding those launched by its commercial arm BBC Worldwide.
"This follows a growing trend to have a super app which is a one-stop destination for a broad range of content and services," said Paolo Pescatore, from the CCS Insight consultancy.
"But the BBC, like others, needs to be very careful it does not overwhelm its customers with too many apps.
"Research has shown that there is growing 'app-athy' amongst consumers who can't cope with the sheer number of apps they end up with on their phones.
"The danger is that they use an app once and never return to it as it gets buried amongst other apps already installed - that is terrible for long-term consumer engagement."
The BBC recently announced one of its other apps - BBC Newsbeat - would soon close, and its youth-focused content would be rolled into the main BBC News app.
That decision was made, in part, because it had not attracted as many users as hoped.
"Audiences... are telling us that, online, BBC News is the brand," said BBC head of news James Harding at the time.
When people first use BBC+, it asks them to choose at least three topics from a list of more than 50 options.
Examples include:
The app then creates a scrollable "at a glance" feed and the option to click through to specific themed pages.
Once the user has flicked through all the options, they are presented with a page saying: "You're up to date!".
At present, the app appears low down in Apple's App Store and Google Play when searched for, but over time this should improve.
Many users had already signed up to have a myBBC account ahead of the new app's launch.
The feature allows the broadcaster to target its content and make it a smoother experience for users to move from...

Summary: The BBC has launched a new app that presents a selection of the broadcaster's online content chosen to appeal to each user's interests.
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Article: The new Civil Sheriff Appeal Court will hear appeals on civil cases from local courts which are typically less serious than those escalated to the Court of Session.
The move is part of a series of Scottish government reforms to ensure cases are heard in the right courts.
A similar appeal court for criminal cases was opened in September 2015.
The Criminal Sheriff Appeal Court ran into trouble after some solicitors vowed to boycott it over levels of legal aid fees.
A Sheriff Personal Injury Court and a Scottish Sentencing Council have also been set up in a bid to speed up the Scottish justice system.
Community safety and legal affairs minister Paul Wheelhouse said the changes would help "reduce unnecessary delays".
He said: "We want to create a modern justice system that is fair, accessible and efficient and meets the needs of the people of Scotland. These reforms are a key part of our aims.
"The new Civil Sheriff Appeal Court will ensure that civil appeals are heard swiftly and efficiently at the appropriate level, reducing the number of such cases that require to be dealt with in the Court of Session."
Routine appeals from small claims and summary cases will be heard by a single sheriff at local courts, while more serious appeals requiring a bench of three appeal sheriffs will sit in Edinburgh.
The announcement was made on the same day Lord Carloway was officially installed as Lord President of the Court of Session, Scotland's most senior judge.

Summary: A new appeal court to examine disputed civil cases from Scotland's sheriff courts has been set up.
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Article: Markus Eichhorn, from the University of Nottingham, said Britain's large deer population was damaging natural habitats and hurting bird numbers.
He argued hunting deer for venison would help to reverse a decline in the number of ground-nesting birds including the nightingale.
Animal rights group, Animal Aid, said the move would be "highly unethical".
Dr Eichorn led a team of academics commissioned by the government to study the causes behind the decline of woodland birds such as the nightingale, marsh tit, willow tit and lesser-spotted woodpecker.
All four birds are on the RSPB's red list and have suffered a "severe" decline in their breeding populations in the past 25 years.
In that time it is believed the population of the UK's deer has risen from about one million to about two million.
Comparing 40 woodland areas in England, the team found in areas of dense deer populations there was 68% less foliage near the ground compared with areas with fewer deer.
Dr Eichhorn said deer populations were at "extraordinarily high levels" due to the absence of large predators, among other reasons.
"We should not think of it in terms of a cull. We already eat venison in Britain but a large proportion of that is farmed meat.
"We [should] start eating wild-caught, free range British venison given that it's abundant and wildly available."
A spokeswoman for Animal Aid, an animal rights groups, said deer should be treated with respect.
She said: "It is humans that have caused deer populations to increase and these majestic animals should not be forced to pay for our mistakes with their lives."
Animals rights group PETA said: "Ecological harmony will never be achieved through the barrel of a gun."
Sources: RSPCA, The Deer Initiative

Summary: Wild deer should be hunted for meat to increase the UK's woodland bird population, an ecology expert suggests.
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Article: The Dumfries and Galloway authority switched from a single bin to a multi-bin system in Wigtownshire last year.
In April it was flagged up that the costs had proved much higher than initially anticipated.
However, an exact figure will not be put on that increase until later this year.
A council statement said: "The household waste and recycling collection service in the Wigtown area is a new service and both the operations and financial costs are under review.
"The outcome of this review will be first presented to members in autumn.
"The review process will help inform the future schemes to be rolled out over the rest of Dumfries and Galloway."
Dumfries and Galloway Council used to run a single wheelie-bin system thanks to an Eco Deco plant which separated waste so householders did not have to.
New regulations prompted the council to move to the multi-bin system with five new recycling containers issued.

Summary: A council has said the scale of a "significant increase" in the cost of a new multi-bin waste collection system will not be revealed until the autumn.
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Article: Builders working on the BBC programme were targeted while helping with the project in West Bromwich. Show bosses said three vans have been hit in the past week.
Volunteers are transforming the family home of a mother who died from cancer.
Presenter Nick Knowles tweeted on Wednesday to say he was "really disappointed" by the thefts.
The programme is extending the home of Sandra Chambers, who has looked after her two grandchildren since the death of their mother Crystal in October 2015.
See more stories from across Birmingham and the Black Country here
Show bosses said two vans - a Peugeot and a Ford -  were broken into on Wednesday morning and tools taken.
On Thursday a Mercedes Sprinter was also broken into, but nothing was stolen. The thefts have been reported to West Midlands Police.
End of Twitter post  by @MrNickKnowles
Mr Knowles' tweet prompted a local Peugeot dealership to get in touch and he later thanked them for their help, as well as another person who gave Â£30 to cover repairs.
The project to extend the house is being completed by the DIY SOS team and an army of volunteers, including local tradespeople and neighbours, in a nine-day build.

Summary:


A Conservative MP who faced deselection by his own party has blamed a "vicious smear campaign" against him following revelations about his private life.

Article: The spacecraft - model numbers five and six - went up on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana.
Galileo is now finally moving towards full deployment after years of delay.
The European Space Agency, which is building the system on behalf of the EU, expects to have a 26-satellite constellation in orbit by 2017.
To that end, it has just ordered three big Ariane-5 rockets at a cost of half a billion euros.
Europe's premier launch vehicle can loft four spacecraft at a time, and this should allow for six to eight satellites to be put in space every 12 months from now on.
"Every spacecraft is, after in-orbit commissioning, put into operation, and is broadcasting a navigation signal that is a valid signal for users with a combined Galileo/GPS receiver; and there are already receivers on the market that have this capability. So, you have to see the service as being increased one by one," explained Esa Galileo project manager, Javier Benedicto.
Friday's Soyuz lift-off occurred on schedule at precisely at 09:27:11 local time (13:27 BST; 14:27 CEST).
The "instant launch window" was required to get the satellites into just the right part of the sky demanded by the network's multi-plane configuration.
The latest platforms, dubbed "Doresa" and "Milena" in a public competition, are somewhat different to their four predecessors, which were used to validate the Galileo technology in orbit.
Formally described as the first Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites, they have been produced by a new manufacturing consortium, comprising the German outfit OHB System and the UK firm SSTL.
This pair have been contracted to supply the next 20 spacecraft as well.
SSTL's role is to integrate all the Galileo system components inside a satellite.
"It's been a high-volume operation," said SSTL director John Paffett, "and we're now turning out a payload every six weeks.  By the middle of next year, all our payloads will have shipped to OHB, and it won't be long after that that all the finished satellites will have been handed over to...

Summary: Europe has launched the next two satellites in the Galileo network - its version of the American Global Positioning System (GPS).
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Article: Jane Christie's daughter Sarah Ewart had to decide whether to travel to Great Britain for a legal termination.
Justice Minister David Ford has recommended a change in the law.
However, First Minister Peter Robinson said draft guidelines to be published soon provided a better way forward.
At present abortion is only permitted under law in Northern Ireland to save a woman's life, or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.
The issue of fatal foetal abnormality came to public attention when Sarah Ewart contacted the Nolan Show to highlight the choice she faced - of either carrying her baby until it died in her womb or travelling to Great Britain where she could access a legal termination.
Mrs Christie told the Nolan Show on Friday that she and her daughter had met Mr Robinson and other DUP members on a number of occasions.
She said she had believed that they were in favour of changing the law in these "exceptional circumstances".
"He said he had a difficult job with some of his party members, but that he understood and he was prepared to help," she said.
"We were being led to believe we were going to get the help, by a number [of people] in the party."
Amnesty International described Mr Robinson's latest comments as "disingenuous".
"Peter Robinson knows full well that any new guidance from the Department of Health on the existing law cannot address a glaring gap in that law," said spokeswoman Grainne Teggart.
The issue of fatal foetal abnormality has been examined by health and justice officials over the past 18 months, following the publicity surrounding Sarah Ewart's case.
Mr Ford had put forward his plan for legislation in such cases following consultation on reforming Northern Ireland's abortion law.
Draft guidelines on abortion law, released by the Department of Health in 2013, stated: "Foetal abnormality is not recognised as grounds for termination of pregnancy in Northern Ireland."
Mrs Christie said she also attended a meeting with Mr Robinson that was attended...

Summary: The mother of a woman who faced carrying her baby until it died in her womb has said she is devastated by the DUP leader's comments that attempts to change the abortion law are doomed.
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Article: The mountains are similar in size to the Rockies in Canada and America.
The probe has also captured its moon Charon and small moon Hydra.
On Wednesday, scientists unveiled the first pictures taken by the probe during its historic flyby of the dwarf planet.
The spacecraft sped past Pluto on Tuesday, getting as close as 12,500km and grabbing lots of data.
The Pluto fly-by - as it happened
Mission scientist John Spencer says that the first close-up image of Pluto's surface showed an environment that had been resurfaced by some geological process - such as volcanism - within the last 100 million years.
"We have not found a single impact crater on this image. This means it must be a very young surface," he said.
This same image shows mountains at the edge of the heart-like region that are up to 11,000ft (3,300m) high.
Scientists have named the heart-shaped region Clyde Tombaugh, after the astronomer who discovered it in 1930.
New, close-up images of Charon have also been captured.
They've revealed a crevasse, 4-6 miles deep.
"Originally I thought Charon might have an ancient terrain covered in craters... it just blew our socks off when we had the new image," said Dr Cathy Olkin.
"Going from the north-east to the south-west is a series of troughs and cliffs...they extend about 600 miles across the [moon]."
The first well resolved picture of Pluto's small moon Hydra reveals a body with a surface mostly made of water-ice.
Scientists have also come up with a good estimate for its size: 43km by 33km.
The snap contains only a few pixels because the moon is so small and distant.
New Horizons took the shot from a distance of 400,000 miles (650,000km).
The amazing pictures were sent back to Earth on Wednesday.
They are a much higher resolution than anything we have seen so far.
The mission team has told New Horizons this week to send down only some of the data it carries.
Part of the reason is so that the probe can continue observing Pluto from its night side.
Scientists want to keep looking at it for about two more full...

Summary: Images captured by the New Horizons space probe have revealed huge mountains made of ice on Pluto.
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Article: One force, West Mercia, saw the equivalent of more than five call-outs a day to homes in 2014-15, the Howard League for Penal Reform found.
It said children were being wrongly "criminalised" because staff often called the police over minor incidents.
But the Independent Children's Homes Association said homes were "rigorously inspected" and staff well-trained.
The majority of children legally defined as "looked after" in England and Wales are placed in foster care, but in 2014, some 5,220 were living in residential care homes.
The Howard League's findings included:
The report also highlighted Department for Education figures which show a 13 to 15-year-old in a home is almost 20 times more likely to have contact with police than a child living with their family.
Taken together, the Howard League said it was clear children living in children's homes were "being criminalised at excessively high rates".
Staff are calling police too frequently, often over minor incidents that would never come to officers' attention if they happened in family homes, the charity said.
"There appears to be a 'tipping point' around the age of 13, at which time these children lose society's sympathy and, rather than being helped, they are pushed into the criminal justice system," the report added.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League, said: "They are wonderful young people who have had a really bad start in life.
"Private companies, charities and local authorities that are paid a fortune by the taxpayer should give these children what they need and deserve."
The report also said:
Figures from different forces are not directly comparable because some include call-outs for missing or absent children, while others only relate to reports of criminal behaviour.
Children's homes are also not evenly distributed across the country, and West Mercia Police pointed out that its area contained more than any other force in England.
It said in a statement: "We work closely with partner agencies and each reported incident is carefully...

Summary: Police in England and Wales are being called to children's homes thousands of times a year, according to figures.
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Article: Jack Lopresti said a letter sent to party members calling for a new candidate was part of an "attempt to destroy my character and reputation".
The Filton and Bradley Stoke MP left his wife for fellow MP Andrea Jenkyns, who gave birth to their son in March.
Mr Lopresti was reselected at a meeting on Friday evening.
An anonymous letter sent to Conservative Party members in the constituency earlier this month said there were "many of us who feel very strongly that Mr Lopresti is not representing our constituency in a very good way".
It added there were "several excellent people" who should be given the chance to become the prospective parliamentary candidate.
The local party has reacted to the letter by writing to party members assuring that "appropriate legal action" would be taken if the writer was identified.
He was first elected in 2010 and re-elected with a near-10,000 majority five years later.
In November last year, it was reported he had become engaged to Ms Jenkyns â€” who ousted former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls to become MP for Morley and Outwood in 2015. Their son, Clifford George, was born in March.
"For the last month my family and I have been subject to a vicious smear campaign with racist overtones," he said.
"Since the day after my son Clifford was born, my office has been bombarded with bogus calls from people purporting to be national journalists and with dark threats of illegally taped conversations. This has deeply upset my staff.
"I have had many messages of support from party members and lots of constituents, and I am sure that this recent attempt to destroy my character and reputation has been orchestrated by a small handful of people.
"I can only think that this is as a result of personal choices I have made in my private life, which some may not have approved.
"I love my fiancee Andrea and am extremely proud of my young son Clifford and nobody will ever be able to change that."

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A driver stopped for using his mobile phone told police he was trying to find the new Sam Smith song on YouTube.

Article: A study of cheetahs has shown that instead, the animal uses incredible acceleration and rapid changes in speed when hunting.
The animals get this acceleration by exerting nearly five times more power than that of famed sprinter Usain Bolt during his record-breaking 100m run.
The results are published in the journal Nature.
The findings amazed the scientist who led the research, Prof Alan Wilson of the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield, UK.
"They are remarkable athletes - not just in terms of their speed, but also with their ability to accelerate and manoeuvre in capturing the prey," he told BBC News.
The top speed for a cheetah is often quoted is 65mph (105km/h) - a result measured in 1965 and published in the Journal of Zoology three decades later by a scientist in Kenya. He was timing the run of a semi-domesticated cheetah running in a straight line on a firm dirt track.
But a well-fed zoo cheetah is not accustomed to running very fast - it does not need to. As a result, few measurements of zoo cheetahs found speeds greater than that of a greyhound, about 40mph (64km/h).
So for years, researchers wondered whether cheetahs might run much faster than 65mph in the wild in order to capture prey.
Prof Wilson and his team at the college's Structure and Motion Laboratory decided to find out by following five animals in the wild for a year using tracking collars fitted with movement detectors and GPS systems.
They found that the cheetahs did indeed run very fast at times - close to 60mph - but only occasionally. On most hunts they attained about 30 to 35 mph but they were accelerating and changing direction much more rapidly than has been seen in any other land animal.
They found that cheetahs could increase their speed by nearly 7mph (10km/h) in a single stride.
"They've arranged to have a low gear so they can accelerate very rapidly up to their top speed," said Prof Wilson.
Short bursts of speed can be quantified in power per kilogramme of the animal's weight. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt exerted 25 W/kg...

Summary: The fastest animal on land rarely uses its top speed to capture prey, according to a new analysis.
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Article: They are angry about moves by the British government to ban the use of the leafy substance from this July.
Last year, the UK government decided - against some expert advice - to treat khat as a class C drug to "protect vulnerable members of our communities".
It is traditionally used by Ethiopian, Kenyan, Somali and Yemeni communities.
The mildly narcotic leaf - a herbal stimulant - is already banned in most of Europe and in a number of other countries, including the US and Canada.
The MPs say that the British move will force almost two million people out of jobs in Meru, which is one of Kenya's 47 counties and lies to the north-east of Mt Kenya.
It is not clear how many British nationals own farms in Meru.
But the MPs say they have about a quarter of the farmland in Meru, including wheat and barley farms.
Florence Kajuju, one of the MPs behind the motion, said the government had the right to compulsorily buy property for later public use.
The arable land in Meru owned by UK farmers should be made available to locals as areas used to grow khat could not be used for other crops, she said.
"If they cannot allow us to access their market then they should also then be willing to let go of tracts of land that could be occupied by the Meru people," Ms Kajuju told the BBC.
She said Kenyans were used to fighting for their rights as they had had to do so to gain independence from Britain.
Correspondents say even if the motion was passed by MPs it is unlikely the government would implement it given its policy of accommodating foreign investors.
Source: www.talktofrank.com
Ms Kajuju travelled to the UK last year to appeal for the ban not to be enforced, saying it was important that the British government was not duped by a misinformation campaign.
Khat was not only of economic importance but of cultural significance to many Africans, she said.
Last year, the UK's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) said there was "insufficient evidence" that khat caused health problems although regular users suffered...

Summary: A group of Kenyan MPs have said they will table a motion in parliament for British farmers to be ejected from the khat-growing Meru region.
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Article: Inverness Caledonian Thistle face Falkirk in their historic game at Hampden in Glasgow on Saturday.
Caley Jags supporters have been uploading pictures to Twitter of a dog called Harris and a puppet in their team's colours.
Another fan, clad all in blue, tweeted his support from a city roundabout.
The countdown to the Hampden final has already seen statues in the city draped with Caley Thistle scarves.
Supporters' colourful efforts come amid hopes within the team that reaching the final will attract new followers.
The average attendance at Caledonian Stadium has been 3,700 during a season when the team finished a best-ever third in the Scottish Premiership.
Manager John Hughes told BBC Sport Scotland: "We had an open day the other day for the schoolkids and it was great to see them all in Inverness strips. I never saw any Celtic or Rangers strips.
"If we can give them pride in Inverness and get all these schoolkids to go and support their local team then we are certainly playing our part."
Caley Thistle was formed as the result of a 1994 amalgamation of Caledonian and Inverness Thistle that is still opposed by some elements of their former supporters.

Summary: Football fans have been finding increasingly unusual ways of marking the build-up to their club's first ever appearance in a Scottish Cup Final.
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Article: The impoverished west African country of 1.6 million is plagued by corruption and cocaine trafficking.
It is the first election since a coup in 2012, after which the EU and others suspended aid donations.
With a history of coups, no elected leader has served a full term since independence from Portugal in 1974.
A BBC reporter in the capital Bissau said turnout appeared to be high as he saw large queues at polling stations.
There were 13 candidates for president and 15 parties fielding candidates for parliament.
Among the presidential hopefuls are political heavyweights such as former Finance Minister Jose Mario Vaz, and Abel Incada, a member of the Party for Social Renewal (PRS) of former President Kumba Yala, who died last week.
The dark horse, however, could be 50-year-old independent candidate Paulo Gomes, an unusual proposition in a political landscape hitherto dominated by political grandees who made their names during the war of independence.
A gifted economist who has spent most of his life working abroad, including as the leader of the World Bank's sub-Saharan Africa division, he believes he has the know-how to begin to turn around the country's fortunes.
The west African nation has stagnated since 2012, under the rule of a transitional government backed by its all-powerful military.
With few resources other than cashew nuts and fish, South American drug cartels have turned the country into a cocaine trafficking hub.
The money that generates has corrupted many of the country's public institutions, particularly its armed forces.
A year ago, the US charged 2012 coup leader Antonio Indjai with drug trafficking and seeking to sell surface-to-air missiles to Colombia's FARC rebels, to shoot down US patrol helicopters. He has not been extradited.
Polling was monitored by 550 international observers and a presidential runoff is scheduled for 18 May if no candidate emerges as the clear winner.
The country is ranked 177th out of 187 in the UN's human development index, with two-thirds of the population living...

Summary: Voting has ended in presidential and parliamentary elections in Guinea-Bissau with no reported problems or incidents.
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Article: The motorist received a Â£100 fine and three points on their licence.
Dorset Police said when the driver was stopped he said: "I was trying to find that new Sam Smith song on You tube because I didn't have it on my phone."
The singer has released the song Writing's On The Wall as the theme to the new James Bond film Spectre.
Officers were carrying out checks on traffic offences on Thursday and stopped vehicles which had no insurance as well as others breaking the speed limit.
Spectre sees Daniel Craig return as British spy James Bond, aka 007, in a globe-trotting blockbuster named after a sinister criminal syndicate.
Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, French actress Lea Seydoux and Italy's Monica Bellucci also appear in the 24th official entry in the long-running series.

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Hospitals with A&E departments around Bristol are back on black alert for the second time in a month amid "severe pressure" on services.

Article: Europe's top four domestic leagues are to be guaranteed four places each in the group stage from 2018-19.
The European Professional Football Leagues body is accusing Uefa of breaching the terms of the deal that governs European club competitions.
And Doncaster warned of a "harmful fragmentation of the game".
The current top four leagues in Uefa's rankings are Spain, Germany, England and Italy.
Uefa, which controls the Champions League, says the Europa League winners will also qualify for the Champions League group stage under the new system.
The champions route, which Celtic used to qualify for this season's group stage, will be reduced from five to four teams.
The EPFL say the reforms were "without the support and consensus" from domestic leagues.
Doncaster, who attended the EPFL meeting in Amsterdam said: "Notwithstanding the welcome retention of a route to the Champions League for the SPFL Premiership winners, we absolutely share the EPFL's disappointment about the regressive and protectionist direction of travel for the world's most prestigious club competition.
"There needs to be a far stronger balance between sporting merit and commercial pressures, otherwise we risk an inexorable slide towards an NFL-style closed-shop system.
"We know that many of our counterparts in other countries share our concerns about the nature of the decision-making process and the lack of consultation with European leagues.
"Uefa has a duty to act on behalf of the entire game, not just a few, select clubs and leagues and it must take that duty far more seriously if it is not to risk presiding over a harmful fragmentation of the game.
"We will continue to be robust and forthright when required in fighting to protect the best interests of Scottish football on this issue, with today a strong demonstration that the majority of other European leagues share our view."
The EPFL board earlier stated: "This decision will have a detrimental impact on domestic competitions and will lead to an exponential growth in the financial and...

Summary: Champions League changes are "regressive and protectionist", says Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Neil Doncaster.
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Article: The change was agreed by swimming's world body Fina last week, prompting Vitaly Mutko, Russia's former sports minister, to ask: "What is the point?"
He also suggested that the Russian Swimming Federation will still refer to the sport by the previous name.
An online petition also had nearly 9,000 signatures on Thursday morning.
Mutko added: "To keep the name synchronised swimming is our right, and if the [Russian Swimming] Federation itself, the coaches will want it, we will do it."
But Fina's executive chairman Cornel Marculescu said the decision will stand.
"Nothing changes, only the name, I don't see any great difficulty with that," he said. "I understand the commentary of Mr Mutko but it's no problem, we talk about the same sport anyhow."
Fina's congress voted to change the name to attract a wider audience to a sport that has recently expanded to include male competitors, and Marculescu says it will give the sport "another dimension".
However, an online petition on Change.org states that "the name change will be more of a deterrent to males than a calling card".

Summary: Synchronised swimming will now be known as artistic swimming, despite an online campaign and protests from Russia's deputy prime minister.
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Article: The focus is on the great crested newt, a species classified as endangered under European law.
Natural England, a government body in charge of protecting wildlife, is in the process of putting forward new proposals.
These would make the current licensing system "more flexible and strategic".
It would mean that councils and developers no longer have to move individual great crested newts as long as they protect the biggest colonies and most important habitats.
The consultation will end on 7 April.
If there are ponds on a building site it is illegal to send the bulldozers in until experts have confirmed that there are no great crested newts.
This can be expensive and lead to lengthy delays for major building projects. Great crested newts are protected under the European Habitats Directive so a formal survey by licensed ecologists needs to be carried out.
This can only be done between mid-March and mid-June when great crested newts are in the water breeding.
Torches are shone in to the ponds at night to try to spot them and water plants have to be examined by hand for eggs.
If even a small number are found, then Natural England (NE) the government body that looks after wildlife in England must grant a licence to move the animals.
They can only be fenced, trapped and relocated in spring and summer as they hibernate during winter.
This can cost from £5,000 to £10,000 for even a small project. The fencing alone costs £5-£6 per meter and there is labour on top. This costs business tens of millions of pounds a year.
Now Natural England is proposing a new strategy. Its consultation document says, "our proposals shift the focus away from protecting animals on development sites and towards improving populations in the wider local area".
The benchmark will not be individual newts, it will be whatever is necessary to "maintain the conservation status" of the animals.
Great crested newts may not have to be moved if it would not "contribute to the long term prospects of the local population."
If a significant colony is...

Summary: A government consultation on whether to change the rules governing how contractors deal with protected species when developing sites ends this week.
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Article: Almost 64,000 fines have been issued since the law changed in September 2013, a rise of about 70%, according to local authority data.
More than three-quarters of councils, 118, responded to a BBC survey.
Schools minister Nick Gibb said fewer pupils were now missing lessons.
The ban has drawn opposition from parents, with hundreds of thousands signing petitions against the new rules and calling for the government to take action against holiday companies who raise their prices at peak times.
Parents are fined Â£60 per parent per child per period of absence, which rises to Â£120 if not paid within 21 days.
Campaigner Stewart Sutherland was himself fined for taking his three children out of school for five days.
Mr Sutherland told BBC News that he and his wife work shifts and find it difficult to get time off.
"Once the regulations came into force it became just a block ban, rather than schools and local councils considering each case individually.
"It's now becoming the case that family holidays are just for the rich because so many working people either can't afford it or can't get the time off outside school terms.
"Family holidays are just as important to children as school. A happy child will get their work done better.
"This shouldn't be treated the same as persistent truancy."
BBC researchers contacted all 152 councils in England and received full responses from 118 - 78% of the total.
Overall the figures suggest that in England parents received at least 63,837 fines in the academic year to July 2014, compared with 37,650 fines in the previous 12 months.
The number of fines appears to have been highest in Lancashire, with 3,106 over the year - up from 1,125 the year before.
In Kent, there were 2,973 fines in the year to July, but the rise was less steep, up from 2,868 in 2012-13.
Some fines will have been for truancy or repeated poor attendance, but most were for parents who took children on holiday during term time.
From last September new regulations have meant that school heads can no longer grant 10...

Summary: The number of parental fines in England for children's poor school attendance has risen sharply since the government ban on term-time holidays was introduced, BBC research suggests.
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Article: Some operations have been cancelled and extra staff drafted in to deal with a surge of patients over the weekend.
The Bristol Royal Infirmary, Southmead Hospital and Weston General hospitals are affected.
More beds are being opened but people are urged not to go to A&E unless they have a "life-threatening" condition.
Instead they are urged to go to minor injury units, chemists and GP surgeries, or to call the NHS on 111.
A black alert, the highest level, means hospital services are unable to cope with demand. The three hospitals were last on black alert earlier this month.
The number of people in hospital for more than two weeks is much higher than usual, said an NHS spokesman.
A surge of patients during last week's cold snap has added to pressure.
The black alert is likely to stay in place for days. Extra ambulance staff are being used to transfer patients into hospital, to prevent ambulances queuing and district nurses are being deployed to hospitals, to help find community beds for patients well enough to leave.
Bristol GP Peter Goyder said an increase in hospital admissions together with "a higher number of very ill patients who need to stay in hospital for longer" had contributed to the situation.
Analysis of the most recent figures suggests hospitals in England are struggling to meet the four-hour target for treating or admitting 95% of patients.
Three hospitals in Cornwall also went on black alert this month, as did two in Somerset.

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