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Bruce Cordwell, 20, of no fixed address, admitted sexually grooming her through social media in November 2015.
Cordwell had nothing to do with the 15-year-old's death at the hands of Stephen Beadman.
In July, Beadman was jailed for 35 years, while his friend Luke Harlow was given a 12-year-sentence for grooming and sexual activity with Kayleigh.
Leicester Crown Court heard how Cordwell contacted her through social media between 10 and 13 November.
He admitted a charge of attempting to arrange to meet a child following sexual grooming.
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On 15 November, Kayleigh - from Measham - was raped and killed by Beadman, after chatting with Luke Harlow on Facebook for two weeks.
The judge in their trial said the case highlighted "the dangers to which young users of social media are exposed".
Cordwell is due to be sentenced on 9 February. | A man has pleaded guilty to attempting to meet schoolgirl Kayleigh Haywood for sex days before her rape and murder. | 38689582 |
Greybull Capital has become the new owner of Tata Steel's Long products business safeguarding 4,000 jobs at the huge plant in the town.
Workers have had to take pay cuts and reductions in their pensions.
Community union said the name showed there was "the chance of a brighter future for steelmaking in the UK".
A ceremony took place at the site at 11:30 BST to unveil the new British Steel logo.
Greybull, the UK-based investment firm, bought the business last month for a nominal £1 fee and is to plough up to £400m into the plant.
Peter Hogg, the commercial director of British Steel, said some customers were "really, really excited" by the resurrection of the British Steel brand.
He said the pay cut was one in a series of measures that allowed the company to return to profit over the last two months.
Bimlendra Jha, chief executive of Tata Steel UK, said he hoped the business would continue to improve and paid tribute to a "dedicated and hard working" workforce.
Martin Foster, Unite's convenor in Scunthorpe, said: "British Steel's first day of trading marks the beginning of a new chapter not only for Scunthorpe, but UK steelmaking.
"It should not be forgotten, though, that today would not have been possible if it had not been for the sacrifices the workforce has made as part of the firm's transformation plan. For many it has involved tough choices about pay and their jobs."
Roy Rickhuss, Community union's general secretary, added: "British Steel is built on firm foundations with a skilled, experienced and dedicated workforce determined to make a success of the business."
The Long Products business employs 4,800 people - 4,400 in the UK and 400 in France.
It includes the Scunthorpe plant, which makes steel for the rail and construction sectors, two mills in Teesside, an engineering workshop in Workington, a design consultancy in York, and associated distribution facilities, as well as a rail mill in northern France.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid said he believed "there really is a viable, sustainable future for world-class steelmaking in this country".
Greybull describes itself as "a family office which makes long-term investments in private companies".
The London-based firm is run by financiers Marc and Nathaniel Meyohas and Richard Perlhagen.
Tata Steel is assessing bids for the rest of its UK business including its Welsh site at Port Talbot. | The return of the British Steel brand marks a "new chapter" in the industry after completion of the sale of Tata's steelworks at Scunthorpe, unions said. | 36424415 |
The boy was waiting for a bus near Manchester Art Gallery when he was sprayed with a lit aerosol on 1 November.
The cadet, who had been selling poppies for the Royal British Legion, suffered singed hair and reddening of the face.
Police said they are keeping an "open mind" as to the motive.
Det Insp Liam Boden said the man, who was captured on CCTV, was "seen in the vicinity of the attack and we believe he may have crucial information".
"This attack has prompted worldwide media interest and there has been a lot of speculation about possible motive.
"I want to be clear that we are still keeping an open mind about what motivated the offender."
He said the "very serious incident left a courageous young man shocked and upset and we need to find the offender, so I would urge anyone who has information to come forward".
His attacker, who walked off, was described as black or Asian, average height and wearing a dark hooded top. | Police have released an image of a key witness they want to speak to about an attack on a 15-year-old Army cadet who had been selling poppies in Manchester. | 29967971 |
Dutchman Mac-Intisch, 26, from SC Cambuur, Pereira, 24, from Epernay Champagne and de Freitas, 22, from Monaco, have all signed two-year deals.
New Vale boss Bruno Ribeiro has now made five signings inside three days.
Defender Kjell Knops was followed in by striker Rigino Cicilia from Roda JC.
Pereira began his career on the books at French top-flight side Socheaux before moving to Reims in 2012.
De Freitas started out at Monaco before making his professional debut while on loan at Portuguese second division club Varzim in January 2016.
Frenchmen Pereira and De Freitas have options for a further 12 months on their deals.
Amsterdam-born Mac-Intisch, the second Dutch defender to arrive in Burslem following Knops, came through the youth system at Ajax before getting his chance at Dutch second-tier sides Haarlem and Telstar.
Bruno Ribeiro has been working hard on strengthening his depleted squad since taking over on 20 June.
After a number of players opted not to renew their deals on reduced terms, Ribeiro was faced with having only 10 contracted players for 2016-17 season.
But his recruitment drive has helped ease the situation, BBC Radio Stoke having reported that the Portuguese boss is set to announce more new arrivals over the next few days.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Port Vale have made three signings in a day, having brought in former Ajax youth defender Calvin Mac-Intisch, along with French midfielders Quentin Pereira and Anthony de Freitas. | 36688420 |
Like everyone else who watched that game, he could see the Black Cats are going to struggle massively with the squad they have got.
I know all about Moyes' strengths in man-management, coaching and tactics from playing under him at Preston and Everton, but I also know the kind of players he needs to build a team that can do what he demands.
At the moment, his squad looks a long way off that.
What happens - or doesn't happen - to change that before the transfer window closes on 31 August holds the key to how Sunderland's season is going to turn out.
I think he needs to sign six or seven players who can have an instant impact otherwise I fear for the Black Cats, even with a manager as good as Moyes in charge.
People have compared Moyes' task at the Stadium of Light to the one he faced when he arrived at Everton in 2002 and quickly stabilised them, but this is a much bigger job.
When he took over the Toffees, they were a much better side than Sunderland are now, with miles more experience in their squad.
Moyes had players with character such as Duncan Ferguson, David Weir, Alan Stubbs and Lee Carsley, who were still the backbone of the team when I joined in 2003. They were vocal in the dressing room and organised us on the pitch.
Compare that with the lack of experience that Moyes had to call upon for Sunday's game, when Jermain Defoe and John O'Shea were the only members of his starting line-up to have started more than 100 top-flight games.
O'Shea was the only talker in that team that faced Boro and they lost that when he went off injured after 37 minutes.
I realise that Lee Cattermole, who is exactly the kind of on-pitch leader Sunderland were missing, is out injured at the moment.
It is the same for Jan Kirchhoff, another key performer last season.
But I still think the first two games of the season will have been an eye-opener for Moyes, particularly with the lack of experience in the players he had left to choose from.
With their lack of significant signings so far this summer since Moyes took charge, you might accuse Sunderland of standing still. In many respects, however, they have gone backwards from the position they were in at the end of last season.
The centre-back pairing of Lamine Kone and Younes Kaboul, which helped them stay up under Sam Allardyce, is no more. Kaboul has joined Watford and Kone seems intent on leaving too.
On top of that, they are without two loan players - right-back DeAndre Yedlin and midfielder Yann M'Vila - who also played a big part in their run to safety.
Those four players all featured in 10 of Sunderland's final 11 games, when Sunderland's only defeat came at the hands of champions Leicester. Kaboul only missed the last match of the season because Premier League safety was assured.
After that run, everyone expected them to kick on this season, but the uncertainty around the club following Allardyce's exit means that has not happened.
So, Moyes has come into a situation where he is pretty much starting from scratch with his defence and is also short of fit midfielders, especially creative ones.
He has always been willing to give young players a chance when they are good enough, but at his previous clubs they have fitted in around an established core in his team.
At Sunderland, he has been forced into playing inexperienced players such as Donald Love, 21, and Lynden Gooch, 20, when ideally he would introduce them at different times into a settled team.
What makes things worse is that there is no continuity anywhere in the Black Cats side.
Sunderland played the same team in seven consecutive matches during that 11-match run at the end of last season but, out of those 11 players, only three - Vito Mannone, Patrick van Aanholt and Defoe - started against Boro.
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Sunderland have lost their first two games of the season but there is still a week and a half until the transfer window shuts and I am convinced Moyes will act to plug some of the gaps in his squad.
He has been linked with a couple of promising Championship defenders - Brighton's Lewis Dunk and Barnsley's Alfie Mawson - which does not surprise me, because he always looks to bring in players for further down the line.
But I am not sure either are the short-term answer. Right now he needs people with Premier League knowhow who can go straight into the team and make an instant impact.
That is not guaranteed with any new signing, whatever their background, but Sunderland simply have to take a chance.
If there is no major recruitment and the Black Cats stick with the limited squad they have got, then Moyes will be right - and they will be in for another season of struggle.
Kevin Kilbane was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan. | I am surprised Sunderland manager David Moyes warned fans to expect a relegation battle after his side's defeat by Middlesbrough - but I can understand why. | 37145739 |
Two of the four candidates leading in the polls occupy the political extremes - the far-right Marine Le Pen and hard-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The victory of either would place a question mark over France's continued membership of the EU in its present form. Were it to leave, could the EU survive the exit of one of its founding fathers?
And Thursday's fatal assault on a policeman by a Paris gunman - just the latest in a spate of attacks that has plagued the country - has only heightened the febrile atmosphere.
After the Brexit vote in the UK and election of US President Donald Trump, could France be the next nation to deal a blow to politics as usual?
The unpopular President François Hollande, a Socialist, is not seeking a second term - the first French president to opt out in modern history.
There are 11 candidates and the race is wide open. None looks likely to win more than 50% in the first round of voting on 23 April, so a run-off on 7 May seems assured.
French politics has historically been dominated by parties of the left and centre-right, but this model could be shattered this time around.
The Socialist candidate, Benoît Hamon, is seen as out of the running. His conservative rival, Republicans' candidate François Fillon, has had to battle to stay in the race after he was plunged into a judicial inquiry over "fake jobs".
If you believe the opinion polls there are two front-runners, far-right National Front leader Ms Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron.
Ms Le Pen took over the leadership of the FN from her father in 2011 and has worked hard to "detoxify" the party from its extreme past.
Mr Macron, a 39-year-old ex-investment banker, was economy minister under President Hollande but resigned in 2016 to fight for the presidency as head of his En Marche! (On the move) party. Not only has he never been an MP - he has never stood for election.
The early favourite was Mr Fillon, but his hopes were dented by allegations that he paid his wife public money for work she did not do. He is now under formal investigation, blaming a political conspiracy, but he is not out of the race and his team is still confident of making the second round.
A surprise package in the election is far-left stalwart Mr Mélenchon, whose witty charisma has attracted new supporters.
A 65-year-old former Socialist minister who left the party in 2008, he now leads La France Insoumise (Unbowed France) and has used hologram technology to address separate rallies simultaneously.
French election 2017: Who are the candidates?
One of the overriding issues facing French voters is unemployment, which stands at almost 10% and is the eighth highest among the 28 EU member states. One in four under-25s is unemployed.
The French economy has made a slow recovery from the 2008 financial crisis and all the leading candidates say deep changes are needed.
Economic challenges facing next president
The International Monetary Fund estimates that it will be hard to get unemployment down much below 8.5%, and highlights France's "deep-rooted structural rigidities".
It's also high on the agenda, with the voting taking place three days after the Paris shooting and five days after two men were detained in Marseille on suspicion of plotting an attack.
More than 230 people have died in terror attacks since January 2015 and France remains under a state of emergency. Officials fear more of the hundreds of young French Muslims who have travelled to Syria and Iraq may return to commit new atrocities.
As French voters cast their ballots at 67,000 polling stations across the land, 50,000 police will try to ensure they are safe, and further elite units are on alert.
Many predict attacks linked to Islamists will give a boost to the chances of the right, and particularly Ms Le Pen, who has vowed to suspend all legal immigration and give jobs, welfare, housing and school provision to French nationals before foreigners.
In fact, intelligence services work on the assumption the attackers are deliberately pursuing a Le Pen victory, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris - because that could tip the country into chaos.
Far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon kicked off his campaign by appearing at rallies in Lyon and Paris and creating a social media buzz.
He and Ms Le Pen are the masters of social media - she has 1.38 million followers on Twitter, he has 300,000 YouTube subscribers.
The phenomenon of fake news has also made an appearance, with an Algerian news organisation picking up a spoof story that Ms Le Pen planned to build a wall around France and make Algeria pay for it.
That's what an investigating judge is hoping to find out.
Satirical weekly Le Canard Enchainé says his wife Penelope was paid €831,400 (£710,000; $900,000) for work as a parliamentary assistant that she did not carry out. One report suggested she did not even have a parliamentary pass or a work email.
She is also said to have pocketed €100,000 for writing just a handful of articles for a literary review owned by a billionaire friend of the family.
Mr Fillon insists everything was above board and says the investigation against him is a "political assassination" designed to deny French voters the choice of a centre-right candidate.
Ms Le Pen is fighting to appeal to the centre and left of French politics after working to move the party away from the image of her father, who has been repeatedly convicted for hate speech and describing the Holocaust as a "detail of history".
But she still has a far-right platform. She wants to allocate public services to French citizens ahead of foreigners and has vowed to suspend all legal immigration.
The FN also has close ties with other European parties such as Austria's far-right Freedom Party that mainstream right-wing parties want nothing to do with. | The world is watching to see if France becomes the next major country to challenge liberal values and the political establishment. | 39130072 |
The 31-year-old previously spent nine years at Bootham Crescent and was named clubman of the year three times.
Amari Morgan-Smith has also joined the Minstermen on loan until May.
The 27-year-old forward, also at Cheltenham, has made 25 appearances for the League Two side this campaign, scoring twice.
Parslow helped York to the victory in the FA Trophy Final at Wembley and promotion to the EFL in May 2012.
He moved to Whaddon Road in 2015, playing 50 games as he helped them win the 2015-16 National League title.
His last appearance for Cheltenham was in a Boxing Day match against Barnet. | Welsh defender Daniel Parslow has rejoined National League York City on loan from League Two Cheltenham Town until the end of the season. | 38599880 |
Jordan Thomas, 22, was shot twice in the chest on Derek Dooley Way, Sheffield, on 21 December 2014.
Drug dealer Jama Ahmed, 26, of Broomhall Place, Sheffield, was jailed last month for life for his murder.
Mohammed Ali, 29, Jamal Ali, 26, Saeed Hussein, 26, and Ahmed Warsame, 27, may hold vital information, police said.
Detectives believe all four men, who were living in Sheffield at the time of the shooting, were involved including "a number" of others.
Jama Ahmed was sentenced to a minimum of 36 years for murder and the attempted murder of Neshaun Ferguson, the driver of the car, who was also shot.
Det Ch Insp Victoria Short, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "One man has been held to account for what happened to Jordan, but there are a number of other people who we believe were involved who are evading arrest.
"Jordan was killed by the actions of a group of people working together. Jordan's family were left utterly devastated when Jordan was killed in a pre-planned attack.
"It is our duty to get justice for them, and we continue to search for the other people involved.
"If you've seen them, or know where they are, you should call police and not approach them directly."
Ms Short said people had "gained the courage to come forward with information" after Ahmed's conviction.
"It's fair to say there was a fear of coming forward around what happened to Jordan, but we've certainly seen that people are now increasingly coming forward to help the police since Ahmed was found guilty and jailed for his involvement." | Images have been released of four men being sought by police over the death of a Sheffield man who was shot while in a car at traffic lights in the city. | 35151453 |
The incident happened near Petterden at about 15:00.
The northbound carriageway of the A90 was closed to allow police investigations to take place.
Police Scotland said the man's next of kin had been informed but no further details would be released until he had been formally identified.
Officers have appealed for witnesses to come forward. | A male pedestrian has died after he was involved in a collision with a lorry on the A90 north of Dundee. | 37710442 |
Notts edged a tight first half lacking clear-cut chances, but Arsenal led when Oshoala profited from a poor backpass to run through and slot home.
Gunners goalkeeper Emma Byrne was then sent off for bringing down Ellen White.
But Oshoala's shot sealed the win after a mistake by goalkeeper Megan Walsh.
The victory means Arsenal still have a remote chance of winning the league on goal difference.
But they would need to win all of their remaining four Women's Super League games and hope unbeaten leaders Man City lose all three of theirs - as well as overturning a goal difference of 18.
However, Arsenal are only two points behind second-placed Chelsea giving the Gunners a much more realistic chance to play in Europe next season.
The Blues - who thrashed Birmingham earlier on Sunday - have played a game less, but still have to meet Manchester City.
Arsenal defender Casey Stoney:
"It was a great result and pleasing when you go down to ten. If I'm honest it was probably one of our poorest performances of the season.
"It was more their errors than our creativity but having said that, you'll take three points here and it means we've beaten them four times this season.
"We've played in games this season where we have dominated and ended up losing so it was a reverse of that today and we were clinical when we needed to be.
"We'll keep fighting for the Champions League and keep trying to win games. We're relying on other teams to do us a favour but whilst were still up there, we'll keep going."
Notts manager Rick Passmoor:
"It's disappointing because you can legislate for individual errors and that's what it was.
"We were on top for long periods and they were hitting us on the counter attack, which they looked very dangerous on. However, I'm really pleased with everything apart from them two sloppy mistakes.
"It's good to see that we are performing again, it's good to see that we are putting a marker down but we need to take that into the next five games."
Match ends, Notts County Ladies 0, Arsenal Ladies 2.
Second Half ends, Notts County Ladies 0, Arsenal Ladies 2.
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Sari van Veenendaal.
Attempt saved. Jessica Clarke (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Fern Whelan (Notts County Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Hand ball by Asisat Oshoala (Arsenal Ladies).
Attempt saved. Danielle Carter (Arsenal Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Vicky Losada (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Dominique Janssen.
Attempt blocked. Angharad James (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Aivi Luik (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Arsenal Ladies. Dominique Janssen replaces Emma Mitchell.
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Josephine Henning.
Attempt saved. Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Laura Bassett (Notts County Ladies).
Asisat Oshoala (Arsenal Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Aivi Luik (Notts County Ladies) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.
Emma Mitchell (Arsenal Ladies) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jessica Clarke (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Emma Mitchell (Arsenal Ladies).
Attempt missed. Rachel Williams (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Arsenal Ladies. Kelly Smith replaces Daniëlle van de Donk.
Jo Potter (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vicky Losada (Arsenal Ladies).
Goal! Notts County Ladies 0, Arsenal Ladies 2. Asisat Oshoala (Arsenal Ladies) with an attempt from very close range to the centre of the goal following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Jo Potter.
Corner, Arsenal Ladies. Conceded by Megan Walsh.
Attempt saved. Danielle Carter (Arsenal Ladies) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Danielle Buet (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Notts County Ladies. Taome Oliver replaces Ellen White because of an injury.
Substitution, Arsenal Ladies. Sari van Veenendaal replaces Katie McCabe.
Emma Byrne (Arsenal Ladies) is shown the red card.
Ellen White (Notts County Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Emma Byrne (Arsenal Ladies).
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Casey Stoney.
Attempt blocked. Jessica Clarke (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jessica Clarke (Notts County Ladies) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Danielle Carter (Arsenal Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Angharad James (Notts County Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Notts County Ladies. Conceded by Josephine Henning. | Asisat Oshoala's double saw Arsenal Ladies beat Notts County to boost their chances of securing Champions League football next season, despite having only 10 players for the last half hour. | 37146951 |
The jets - due to be disbanded last March - are to be kept in service until "at least" March 2017 to continue air strikes, he said on a visit to Iraq.
Mr Fallon said the air campaign against the IS group was making progress.
UK jets had pushed militants out of key towns and would maintain "essential precision firepower," he said.
Tornados began carrying out missions in Iraq last September as part of US-led air strikes against IS, an extremist group which has seized control of parts of Iraq and Syria.
The squadron of Tornado GR4 fighter bombers - Number 12 Squadron - was due to be disbanded last year and replaced with a squadron of Typhoon air defence fighters.
But, following initial air strikes, Prime Minister David Cameron announced the Tornados would continue in their specialist ground-attack role until March 2016.
Mr Fallon said this second reprieve for the eight bombers - which are based in Cyprus - would ensure the RAF retained "the essential precision firepower, intelligence and surveillance" capabilities needed for operations against IS, also known as Isil.
He denied the extension had come about because there were no other RAF aircraft capable of flying the missions.
Tornados had "proved their worth" in Iraq, he told the BBC, adding they had completed about 30% of the coalition's surveillance missions, as well as carrying out air strikes.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner
The announcement on Britain's ageing but effective squadron of RAF Tornado bombers has been carefully planned.
Mr Fallon announced it in Baghdad, from where he is keen to give the message that slowly but surely Iraqi forces are starting to push back the jihadists and retake territory.
He denied that Britain's contribution - of under 5% of the coalition's air strikes - was making only a negligible difference. He said the Tornados' combination of precision-guided weapons and hi-tech surveillance pods made them vital.
The painful truth for the coalition though is that for more than a year now IS has been able to hold on to most of the huge areas it has occupied in Iraq and Syria, something al-Qaeda never achieved.
It is earning estimated oil revenues of $40m a month and replenishing its ranks of recruits faster than they are being killed off.
This, admitted the defence secretary, will be a long fight.
Jonathan Beale: The UK's gap between rhetoric and reality
Speaking earlier in Baghdad, where he met Iraqi officials, he said Iraq needed British help with air support, training and equipment, but not with ground troops.
"RAF Tornados have carried out hundreds of strikes, helping Iraqi forces push back Isil from the Kurdish region and out of key towns such as Tikrit and Bayji," he said.
"We want to ensure we maintain this crucial operational tempo and so we will extend the lifetime of Number 12 Squadron for a further year to March 2017."
Source: The RAF
The GR4s operating out of Cyprus are equipped with precision-guided Paveway bombs and Brimstone missiles.
They can also be fitted with Raptor reconnaissance pods for carrying out surveillance and intelligence-gathering missions.
Together with the RAF's unmanned Reaper drones they have flown more than 1,100 combat missions over Iraq and carried out more than 250 air strikes.
They have also carried out surveillance missions over Syria but Parliament has not approved air strikes there. | The RAF Tornado mission against Islamic State militants in Iraq is to be extended by an extra year, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said. | 33762564 |
But new figures from the NHS showed that the cancer mortality rate for all forms of the disease fell by 11% over the decade to 2015.
The mortality rate for breast cancer - the most commonly diagnosed cancer for women - fell by 21%
Lung cancer death rates were down by 15.1% and there was a 16.4% decrease for bowel cancer.
A total of 16,011 deaths in 2015 were caused by cancer, with the report noting that "although the rate of deaths due to cancer has decreased over this period, the actual number of deaths due to cancer has not".
This is thought to be due to the increase in older age groups within the population and the fact that cancer is a relatively common disease among the elderly.
Cancer mortality rates have fallen by 14% among men over the last 10 years. The decrease in the mortality rate for females was lower at 6%.
Five types of cancer accounted for more than half of all cancer deaths in 2015:
Deaths from liver cancer were up from 320 in 2005, with the mortality rate increasing by 45.6% in males and by 68.6% for females.
"The increase in the mortality rate of liver cancer over the last 10 years by 52% reflects the increase in incidence of this type of cancer," the report said.
"Survival from liver cancer is poor in most cases. The main risk factors for liver cancer are alcohol and infection with hepatitis B and C."
The figures also showed that the incidence of cancer is 31% higher in the most deprived parts of Scotland compared to the most affluent communities.
And mortality rates are almost two thirds (64%) higher in the worst-off areas than they are in the least deprived parts of Scotland.
But the report said: "There are variations in this pattern when looking at specific types of cancer.
"For example, while lung cancer incidence and mortality rates are higher in the most deprived areas of Scotland, incidence and mortality rates of malignant melanoma of the skin are higher in the least deprived areas of Scotland."
Gregor McNie, Cancer Research UK's senior public affairs manager in Scotland, said: "These figures reflect that cancer is a stark reality for so many families in Scotland as increasing numbers of people die from the disease.
"But more people are surviving cancer and this is partly due to earlier detection of the disease.
"Treatment is more likely to be successful when cancer is found at an early stage, so people shouldn't hesitate to visit their GP if they notice any unusual or persistent changes in their body.
"Four in 10 cancers could be prevented and people can stack the odds against getting cancer in the first place by giving up smoking, being more active, drinking less alcohol and maintaining a healthy weight."
Trisha Hatt, from Macmillan Cancer Support, said: "Although the rate of death due to cancer has decreased, the actual number of deaths has not because more people are being diagnosed with cancer.
"Too often people are missing out on the right support and we want to make sure everyone with incurable cancer is offered an advance care plan outlining how and where they would like to be cared for at the end of life." | Death rates from liver cancer increased by 52% in the last 10 years, with the disease killing 572 Scots last year. | 37761862 |
Pope Francis spoke as he returned from the Philippines, where he met former street children abandoned by parents unable to afford to care for them.
Standing firm against artificial birth control, he said new life was "part of the sacrament of marriage".
But he said population experts advised three children per family.
Pope Francis raised eyebrows last week when, in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris, he said it was wrong to provoke others by insulting their religion.
He told journalists that his assistant could expect a punch if he ''cursed his mother''. At the same time, the Pope defended freedom of expression.
Speaking to journalists while heading back to Rome from the Philippines on Monday, Pope Francis was asked what he would say to families who had more children than they could afford because the Church forbids artificial contraception.
He replied with an unexpected turn of phrase: "Some people think that - excuse my expression here - that in order to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits."
"No. Parenthood is about being responsible. This is clear."
The Pope said he knew many ways allowed by the Catholic Church that could ensure families only had as many children as they wished.
He cited the case of one woman he had met who had had seven children by Caesarean section and was expecting her eighth - a pregnancy he said was irresponsible.
"She said, 'I trust in God.' But God gave us the means to be responsible," the Pope said.
But he added that for the poorest, a child was a treasure for its mother and father.
To a separate question, the Pope said that most importantly, no outside institution should impose its views on families.
Progressive, Western ideas about birth control and gay rights were increasingly being imposed by groups, institutions or nations there, often as a condition for development aid, he said.
"Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised," the Pope said.
During his trip to the Philippines the Pope defended traditional Vatican teaching, which opposes artificial contraception.
On Sunday, an estimated six million people attended an outdoor mass he celebrated in the capital, Manila. | Good Roman Catholics do not need to breed like "rabbits", the Pope has said, but should practise "responsible" parenting instead. | 30890989 |
She tumbled backwards over her cape as she sang Living For Love, her new single.
Video and still pictures show the 56-year-old momentarily on her back before she recovers to finish the song.
She hit the ground "with a loud thwacking noise" and the room "fell silent" according to Newsbeat reporters who were just metres away.
As the singer got up again, she got tangled in her cloak and "looked furious".
It's the talk of Twitter with "Madonna" and the hashtag #shefellover trending top worldwide.
It appears the star lost her balance after a dancer in goat horns tugged at her ruby-lined cape.
Madonna later posted on her Instagram saying "my beautiful cape was tied too tight! But nothing can stop me and love really lifted me up! Thanks for your good wishes! I'm fine!"
There is a clear pause in the song, so at least we all now know she was singing live.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Madonna fell down some steps on stage during a live performance at the Brit Awards. | 31630801 |
George Osborne said that he would not give the go-ahead until the markets had calmed, saying that "now is not the right time".
He said he still supported encouraging wider share ownership in Britain.
The taxpayer still owns just under 10% of the bank.
The sale of the final part of the government's stake in Lloyds was a general election pledge made by Prime Minister David Cameron.
It was expected to raise £2bn, making it one of the largest privatisations since the 1980s when BT and British Gas were sold, raising £3.9bn and £5.6bn respectively.
Mr Osborne announced the details of the Lloyds sale to hundreds of thousands of small investors last October.
It was thought the sale would take place in the spring.
But since then Lloyds' share price has fallen and the trading environment for banks has become tougher.
Low interest rates also make profits harder to come by across the sector.
In October, Lloyds share price was 78p, above the 74p considered to be the "in price" the government paid to rescue the bank during the financial crisis - when it used billions of pounds of tax-payers money to shore up the financial system.
That share price is now down at 64p, so the government would be selling the shares to the public at a considerable loss.
Mr Osborne told BBC News that his "principal concern" in deciding to postpone the sale was turbulence in the financial markets, despite "hundreds of thousands" of private investors being "interested".
"I want to create a share owning democracy and I want to give the British people a chance to buy shares in Lloyds bank, a bank that they had to bail out. It is also my responsibility to make sure we have a secure and sound economy and with these turbulent financial markets it wouldn't be right to have the Lloyds share sale now," he said.
"There will be a sale of shares [in] Lloyds but only when the time is right for people.
"We need those markets to calm down, and then we can proceed with the sale. We've got hundreds of thousands of people interested in buying these shares, I want to sell them the shares, but it wouldn't be right to undertake that sale when frankly things are pretty turbulent out there on the stock markets and the global financial markets."
September 2008: Lloyds takes on collapsed bank HBOS
October 2008: Labour government reveals it has bailed out Lloyds, taking a stake of 43%
April 2010: Lloyds announces a profit for the first time since the crisis
September 2013: Coalition government starts return of the bank to the private sector, selling part of its stake to major institutional investors
October 2015: Conservative government says it will sell its final stake in Lloyds with shares offered to private investors
January 2016: Chancellor George Osborne says the sale is being delayed owing to turbulent markets
On Wednesday, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced billions of pounds of new provisions to pay for fines and legal actions connected to the financial crisis.
Its share price has also fallen.
The government owns 73% of RBS and just under 10% of Lloyds. It does not look like it will be selling either stake any time soon.
Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "This will be a big disappointment for the hundreds of thousands of investors who had queued up for a chunk of Lloyds, but taking a big loss on selling shares when markets are low was always going to be a bridge too far for the chancellor.
"The timetable for the share sale has always been vague being 'spring' of 2016. The government are looking to obtain a good price for the remaining 10% of the Lloyds Banking Group they own and timing to get the best value around issues such as the Budget, financial and tax year end and Lloyd's own financial calendar was always going to be tricky.
"Market volatility in recent months has seen UK stock market values fall by around 20% since the April 2015 high, so its understandable that the share sale is being delayed."
This decision comes after sales of publicly-owned assets, including Royal Mail and Eurostar, raised more money for the government in 2015 than any other year in history, according to new analysis by the Press Association.
A total of £26.4bn was made through privatisations, beating by almost £6m the previous record set in 1987. | The chancellor has postponed the sale of the government's final stake in Lloyds Banking Group, saying the global turmoil in the markets and slowing growth had sparked the delay. | 35429472 |
Six people on three bikes targeted Fraser Hart in Brent Cross Shopping Centre at 10:15 GMT.
The pillion passengers got off the bikes and smashed the windows, leaving with jewellery. BBC London understands the haul was worth up to £2m.
The bikes were found abandoned near a golf course.
No-one was injured in the raid but an elderly man was treated for shock at the scene.
The raid happened 15 minutes after the centre opened to shoppers for the day.
Eyewitness Claire Smalley said: "We looked out and we saw six men, two on each bike, pull up outside Fraser Hart and then they pulled out an axe and they were getting into Fraser Hart and telling everyone to stay back."
Sue Bangs from Hertfordshire, who was in John Lewis at the time, said: "It was very frightening. I could not believe it was happening.
"All the shops suddenly put down their shutters and we were locked in for a while. My heart was pounding."
Witnesses said the robbers appeared to have targeted Cartier and Rolex watches in the shop along with some other jewellery. The area of the shop that was targeted has been sealed off.
Flying squad detectives have taken over the investigation, Scotland Yard said.
Police believe the bikes pulled up at the entrance next to New Look where the pillion passengers got off and ran towards the ground-floor jewellers and broke the display windows.
They then ran back to the waiting motorbikes and fled towards Hendon Central.
Police said they found the bikes about 15 minutes later on Ashley Walk in Mill Hill.
The suspects were dressed in dark clothing and were wearing crash helmets with the visors down.
Det Supt Mark Strugnell said: "We are appealing to anyone who may have seen the sequence of events at the shopping centre, which had only just opened its doors to its first shoppers only moments before, and to anyone who may have seen the three motorbikes being driven from Brent Cross to Mill Hill." | Robbers armed with axes and bats rode motorbikes into an indoor shopping centre in north London and raided a jewellery store. | 20219127 |
The controversial Viking Energy project has been delayed by a series of challenges.
Judges announced last year there was insufficient reason to stop the 103-turbine wind farm, which would be one of the biggest in Scotland.
The protest group Sustainable Shetland then took the case to the Supreme Court.
Alan Bryce, chairman of Viking Energy, said he was "delighted" that the Supreme Court had endorsed the planning consent.
He said: "We can now concentrate on developing what would be one of the world's most productive wind farms, to generate renewable energy and significant income for the Shetland community."
Sustainable Shetland said it was "naturally very disappointed" the appeal was unsuccessful.
A statement said: "We are keenly aware that it will be distressing for our many members and supporters who enabled us to challenge the Scottish ministers' planning consent.
"Our opposition to the wind farm - and its dire implications for the Shetland community and environment - remains undiminished.
"What we do next as far as that is concerned depends to a certain extent on a properly considered reading of the judgement."
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing granted consent for the scheme in 2012.
The 370MW wind farm is aimed at powering more than 175,000 homes despite Shetland having a population of about 22,000.
It has been estimated the wind farm could bring about £30m annual income for the local community.
Protesters claim the development is too big and would be a blight on the landscape.
Supporters have argued it would create jobs and help meet renewable energy targets. | An appeal against plans to build a major wind farm in Shetland has been dismissed by the Supreme Court. | 31154837 |
Carl Cope, 47, was admitted to Walsall Manor Hospital with chest pains. Eleven hospital workers have been suspended following the incident.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and the ambulance service have confirmed they are investigating.
Paul Cope said he had never known his brother to go to the doctors.
Mr Cope said: "It's a massive shock, it's heartbreaking - I'd argued with him that morning [he went into hospital] about his dog.
"He had just talked about chest pains, I've never known him go to the doctors or the hospital.
"He'd phoned the paramedics and gone to hospital but never came back out."
The trust confirmed seven staff members, including nurses and porters, had been suspended and West Midlands Ambulance service said four members of ambulance staff had been suspended.
They have been suspended over claims they did not rush to help Mr Cope on the site of Walsall Manor Hospital on 23 June.
A spokesman from the ambulance service has said the investigation is expected to be completed within the next two weeks. | The brother of a man whose death outside an A&E has prompted a hospital investigation said news of the death came as a "massive shock". | 18771140 |
The man's green Thruxton bike was involved in a collision with a red Honda Civic on the A85 at Lix Toll at about 12:30 on Sunday.
The 53 year old was flown to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow by air ambulance, where he is in a serious condition.
The road between Crianlarich and Lochearnhead was closed for five hours.
The motorbike was travelling on the eastbound carriageway while the car was driving in the opposite direction.
The female driver of the car and her male passenger were not injured in the crash.
Sgt David Ross of the road policing unit in Stirling said: "Our inquiries into this incident are ongoing and as part of this effort we are appealing to members of the public - I would ask anyone who was travelling on the A85 and who saw these vehicles to please get in touch with police." | Police have appealed for witnesses after a motorcyclist was seriously injured in a crash near Loch Tay. | 34044110 |
In early trade, the FTSE 100 was 5.51 points lower at 6,815.28. Anglo American shares fell 2.1% while BHP Billiton dropped 1.9%.
Mining shares have been hit as prices of commodities have come under pressure from a recent strengthening in the value of the US dollar.
Morrisons fell 2.4% after Goldman Sachs cuts its rating on the firm to "sell".
Banking shares were having a better day, with HSBC up 1.4% and Barclays rising 0.5%.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.2% against the dollar to $1.3103 but rose 0.2% against the euro to €1.1757. | (Open): The UK's benchmark share index opened lower as shares in mining companies continued to slide. | 37228721 |
Gen Joseph Dunford, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the comments while visiting China.
He was responding to remarks by a top Trump aide ruling out military action over North Korea's nuclear programme.
Tensions have flared between the US and North Korea after Pyongyang made advances in its missile testing.
Mr Trump has warned the North that it faces "fire and fury", while Pyongyang has threatened to strike the American territory of Guam.
But the sharp rhetoric of last week has since softened, with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un putting the Guam plans on hold - a move praised by President Trump.
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Chief White House strategist Steve Bannon said on Wednesday there could be no military solution to the stand-off.
"Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that 10 million people in Seoul don't die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don't know what you're talking about, there's no military solution here, they got us," he told The American Prospect.
Gen Dunford agreed a military solution would be "horrific" but went on to say "what's unimaginable to me is not a military option".
"What is unimaginable is allowing [North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un] to develop ballistic missiles with a nuclear warhead that can threaten the United States and continue to threaten the region."
He said President Trump "has told us to develop credible, viable military options, and that's exactly what we're doing".
A senior Chinese military official who met Gen Dunford told him that military action should be ruled out and that "dialogue" was the only option, the Chinese defence ministry said.
China is the North's only major ally. The US has criticised China for not doing enough to rein it in, but Beijing says it has begun halting iron, iron ore and seafood imports from North Korea, in line with new UN sanctions. | A military response to North Korea would be "horrific" but remains an option, the top military adviser to US President Donald Trump says. | 40959785 |
Arthur Jones, 73, was missing for more than six weeks before his body was found in a remote area near Chania.
More than 300 people were in St Mary's Church in Denbigh for the service while hundreds more listened outside
A keen biker, his coffin was carried in a hearse mounted on a motorcycle side-car.
His own Army-style motorcycle and side-car were parked at the church,
More than 100 bikers, many of them in their leathers, also attended the funeral.
Mr Jones was last seen on 19 June, two days after he had arrived in Crete.
A Facebook campaign to Find Arthur attracted support from over 3,000 people and Prime Minister David Cameron also pledged to do "everything he can" to help find Mr Jones.
His body was found on 3 August close to the Chania resort where he had been staying.
An inquest was adjourned into his death on Monday.
Mourners heard how former soldier Mr Jones had helped train more than 7,000 Army cadets over the years and played an active role in his local community.
Leading the tributes was his son Jeff, who went out to Crete to look for his father.
The Reverend Jonathan Smith, Rector of Denbigh, said Mr Jones was popular in the community, had many friends and was known for his charity work and was a mainstay of the annual Remembrance Day parade.
He is also survived by his three daughters and eight grandchildren. | Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of a Denbighshire man who died while on a walking holiday on the Greek island of Crete. | 28798049 |
An LGO report describes a "worrying trend" of councils putting an increasing number of homeless families into bed and breakfast accommodation.
Complaints to the ombudsman have risen by 14% in two years, it said.
The Local Government Association said councils did a good job "in difficult circumstances."
The LGO said it decided to publish a number of individual stories to bring attention to the issue.
They include the case of "Bruce" - a 16-year-old who spent six months living in a tent because he refused his council's offer of bed and breakfast accommodation.
Another example is "Kim" - who lived with her young daughter in "unsuitable" bed and breakfast accommodation for 24 weeks - 18 weeks longer than the legal limit.
There is also a story of a family of five allocated a single room to live in for five months.
The ombudsman said there had been an increase in the number of homeless people in the UK, and with it an increase in the pressure on council homelessness services.
In 2012/13, 53,540 households were accepted as being homeless, compared with 44,160 the previous year, the report said.
On 31 March 2013, there were 4,500 households in bed and breakfast accommodation compared with 2,310 on the same date in 2011.
But the government said extra money had been provided to councils to ensure that they continued to operate "one of the best support networks in the world".
Housing Minister Kris Hopkins said "Homelessness remains lower than in 27 of the last 30 years.
"The vast majority of councils are housing families effectively, but a minority need to raise their game".
The government said recent figures showed a huge variation in the way councils help homeless people, with only 15 councils accounting for nearly 80% of all families living in bed and breakfast accommodation for more than six weeks.
Earlier this year, a £1.9 million fund was launched - with help for seven of these councils to find better ways to meet the housing needs of vulnerable families.
The LGO said the use of bed and breakfast accommodation often led to families and young people living in cramped conditions and sharing facilities with adults who may have significant problems - for example with alcohol and drugs.
Councils have a legal duty to arrange accommodation when they have reason to believe that an applicant may be homeless and in priority need.
But bed and breakfast accommodation is deemed unsuitable for families with dependent children, including pregnant women.
Councils can place families in bed and breakfast accommodation if there is no alternative, for a maximum of six weeks.
The LGO said councils complained that pressures on local authority finances were having a major impact on their ability to provide suitable housing.
Cllr Mike Jones, Chairman of the LGA's Environment and Housing Board, said:"Councils are doing a good job tackling homelessness under increasingly difficult circumstances.
"Since 2009 the use of temporary accommodation has fallen by 11%, despite the number of people approved for homelessness assistance rising by almost a third.
"The use of Bed and Breakfast accommodation is an option of last resort but with council housing waiting lists standing at 1.8 million, local authorities often have little choice but to use temporary accommodation.
"The outdated control of councils' borrowing limits is contributing to this problem. This report highlights why the Government must, as a matter of urgency, lift the borrowing cap which is preventing councils from building up to an additional 60,000 new homes over the next five years." | There has been a sharp increase in complaints about accommodation offered to the homeless in England, the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has said. | 24542145 |
Matthew Hitchman, 17, from the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was on a month-long school trek.
On Sunday he fell off the raft and attempts to rescue him "proved impossible", the school said.
The group from the school had just completed a trek to the Northern Andes when the accident happened.
The pupils had been working on a community project to provide sustainable tourism income in a remote area of Ecuador.
In a statement the school headmaster Philip Wayne said: "Matthew will be sadly missed by all who knew him.
"He was a caring, friendly and well-liked student who was highly regarded by his teachers and fellow pupils."
The school said it had focused on the "safe and compassionate return of 11 boys to the UK without one of their team mates, supporting our staff and students and giving the best possible care we can offer to a devastated family".
A spokesman for World Challenge, which organised the trek, said: "A full independent review is already under way."
He said the firm had suspended white water rafting in all destinations until the completion of the review.
It has been organising educational expeditions for 30 years and claimed that since 2003 more than 6,500 students had completed expeditions to Ecuador. | A sixth-form pupil on a school trip to Ecuador has fallen from an inflatable white water raft and died. | 40880438 |
Marcin Pawlow was found with wounds to his hip, thigh and shoulder on Central Drive in the early hours of Wednesday.
The 30-year-old from Poland was taken to hospital, where he died.
Lancashire Police said they wanted to speak to Wojcieh Sylwester Sobisz, 36, from Poland, in connection with Mr Pawlow's death.
Mr Sobisz, who police have not released a picture of, is described as about 6ft (1.8m) tall and of muscular build with a shaved head.
A police spokesman said the Polish national was believed to have travelled from Blackpool to the Midlands on the evening after Mr Pawlow's death and should not be approached.
He added six Blackpool men - aged 31, 32, 33, 34, 45 and 52 - who were arrested on suspicion of murder have all now been released without charge. | A man officers want to speak to about the death of a man found with stab wounds in Blackpool has been identified by police. | 35190494 |
The bunkers, built around Jersey during the occupation of the Channel Islands, are listed buildings run by volunteers.
Tony Pike, from the Channel Islands Occupation Society, said the damage had caused "lasting scars" and the graffiti risked offending visiting tourists.
The States of Jersey Police has launched an investigation into the graffiti.
Mr Pike said the vandalism had been ongoing for a number of weeks, with swastikas being daubed on sites at Les Landes and Batterie Moltke in the parish of St Ouen, and Strongpoint Corbiere in St Brelade.
"These sites are visited by a wide array of the public, and German tourists, and it's the last thing we'd want them to be confronted with."
He added that some of the other damage, in particular the harm caused by a fire lit at the gun emplacement at Batterie Moltke, were "lasting scars" as replacing original parts of the structures would detract from their historical value.
Jersey's occupation era fortifications are said to be some of the best preserved collection of German defences from Adolf Hitler's Atlantic Wall strategy, and formed part of his plans to make the island "an impregnable fortress".
Mr Pike said the persistent vandalism was "completely ridiculous" and stressed the fortifications were "tangible reminders of the past, and lessons to be learnt for the future".
Honorary Police Centenier for St Ouen, Clive Murphy, said the remote locations of the bunkers made it difficult to pinpoint the crimes, and appealed to the public to report any suspicious incidents as soon as possible.
States of Jersey Police also confirmed they would be making checks on the fortifications. | German World War Two bunkers have been repeatedly damaged and defaced with swastikas. | 40580007 |
The drawing room chandelier is said to have been found in 1945, abandoned in a street in northern Germany.
However, a report by Holocaust research organisation the Simon Wiesenthal Centre casts doubt on its provenance.
The Scottish government is now making inquiries with the National Trust for Scotland, which owns Bute House.
The four-storey Georgian house at 6 Charlotte Square, in the heart of Edinburgh, was acquired by the Treasury in 1966 from the Bute family in lieu of death duties.
It passed to the National Trust for Scotland and since 1999 has been the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland.
According to a 2012 Scottish government guidebook, the elaborate drawing room chandelier was found in the German town of Cleves by English interior designer Felix Harbord who helped Lady Bute with the decoration of her family homes.
It said: "One day he came upon this chandelier abandoned in one of the streets of Cleves and had it packed in empty munitions boxes, which he addressed to No 6 Charlotte Square.
"With the help of Edinburgh antique dealers, Lady Bute traced suitable replacements for the missing pieces of glass and successfully assembled and installed the light fitting in the Drawing Room at Bute House."
However, it has emerged that a 2008 report by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre is sceptical about the account, suggesting it may have been "looted from the British collecting point at Schloss Celle, or it may be an object looted from legitimate German ownership".
By the late summer of 1945, all the looted works of art that had been retrieved in the British zone of occupation were transferred to a permanent collecting point at Schloss Celle, near Brunswick.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said it would try to clarify the previous ownership of the chandelier.
She said: "The Simon Wiesenthal Centre report raises questions over how the Bute House drawing room chandelier came to be brought to Scotland and into the ownership of the Bute family.
"We will discuss this with the National Trust for Scotland, which owns the property and most of the fittings, including the chandelier, to clarify if information on the provenance of the chandelier is contained in the trust's archives."
The National Trust for Scotland said the chandelier and the contents of the property were gifted some 50 years ago.
It said it was unclear how much information could be gained on the provenance of the chandelier.
A statement said: "We will pursue this with the Bute House trustees, who have been legally responsible for the supervision of the property since 1966."
The issue of looted artworks and antiquities has come under scrutiny in Scotland after Glasgow City Council last week agreed to pay compensation to the legitimate owners of a tapestry which is part of the Burrell Collection.
The tapestry had been acquired by Sir William Burrell in 1938, just before the outbreak of World War Two. | An inquiry has begun into whether a chandelier in the first minister's official residence was looted by Nazis during World War Two. | 33951568 |
But there were question marks over whether the show would produce the headlines of previous years, and so it proved.
Three themes emerged from this extravaganza in the desert.
Airlines are pausing for breath in the pace at which they are placing aircraft orders, defence cheque books are being opened again after years of budget cuts, and the Dubai show underlines a shift in the centre of gravity for the aerospace and defence industry.
Two years ago, the Dubai show generated announcements for civil aircraft orders worth $206bn (£135bn).
Fast-growing Emirates Airline, Eithad and Qatar Airways were the biggest customers, but there were also orders from the Gulf burgeoning budget airline carriers.
This time, Asian airlines provided some of the bigger news of the week.
On Monday, India's Jet Airways said it would buy 75 Boeing 737MAX aircraft worth $8bn, though this was really confirmation of a previous announcement.
The biggest single all-new order was from Vietnamese low cost carrier Vietjet, which is buying 30 Airbus A321s in a deal worth $3.6bn at list prices.
Airlines typically get discounts for bulk-buys and negotiations seem to have gone down to the wire, with Airbus delaying a formal announcement several times.
Did Vietjet get better terms because the show had been quiet? The deal was a "win-win" for both sides said Vietjet chief executive Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao.
There were other orders, but nothing to compare, say, with Boeing's haul of $101bn worth of deals unveiled two years ago.
"I think everyone's more than adequately ordered," says Richard Aboulafia, vice president at US-based aerospace consultancy Teal Group. "The Gulf carriers are still expanding, but the existing orders will do the job."
One constraint on new orders is that the production lines of Airbus and Boeing are full for years to come. Analysts at IHS Global Insight estimate that there is a backlog of 750 aircraft from Gulf airlines alone.
As Boeing Commercial Airplanes president Raymand Conner said, airlines may now have to wait for deliveries so long into future, with unknown economic and geo-political uncertainties, that a slowdown in the order pace was inevitable.
There were no orders for Airbus' super-jumbo, the A380, whose wings are made in the UK. Doubts about the aircraft's future refuse to go away, despite Airbus saying it fully committed to production.
However, there were, at least, positive noises from potential customers. Emirates reiterated its interest in a re-engineered A380 to make it more fuel efficient and possibly longer, or "stretched" to carry more passengers.
Turkish Airlines' chief investment officer Ahmet Bolat also said his company was very interested in buying a new A380 variant, although any order would certainly not match the 140 aircraft that Emirates has in the air or ready for future delivery.
However, Airbus is highly unlikely to commit to the €2bn ($2.1bn; £1.4bn)-plus development cost of a new A380 without firm promises of a big order.
Meanwhile, announcements and news about defence deals came thick and fast - something of a surprise given the sensitivity of doing arms business in the Middle East.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia, fighting in both Yemen against Houthi rebels and as part of the US-led coalition against so-called Islamic State, opened their chequebooks.
Among UAE orders was a $1.27bn deal for an upgraded Saab surveillance system, while Lockheed Martin secured a contract to service fighter jet target and radar systems.
Among other orders publicly disclosed, was one from Lebanon, for an undisclosed price, aircraft from Embraer Defense & Security. And Boeing disclosed that it is in "serious conversation" with five potential customers for its Maritime Surveillance Aircraft, a long-range spying plane.
With oil revenues falling, there was doubt among analysts about whether Middle East states would be big buyers at the Dubai show.
But the worsening security situation in the region has encouraged states to spend, especially on urgent operational requirements, said IHS analyst Ben Moores.
The US had a huge defence presence with all the major firms on show, plus a string of high level officials and military top brass.
But there is frustration that defence firms, trying to adjust to falling revenues in the US and Europe, could be selling more in the Middle East and beyond if Washington would speed up regulatory approval for exports.
During a press conference, US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said she would look at how to speed up clearance of sales overseas.
The US estimates that exports in the 12 months to the end of September were $47bn, against $34.2bn in the previous 12 months.
But Boeing was among several companies to warn that some orders were going elsewhere because of US approval delays. It is causing "a lot of concerns" and "frustration" for companies and potential buyers, said Jeff Kohler, an executive at Boeing's defence division.
One theme to emerge strongly from recent commercial and defence spending by Gulf states is how they are using the deals to put down manufacturing and engineering roots, helping to diversify the economies away from oil and tourism.
Saudi Arabian Airlines said it is building a one million square metre aircraft repair and overhaul facility at Jeddah airport after announcing a tie-up with Deutsche Technik, the world's biggest aircraft maintenance group.
Meanwhile, Abu Dhabi-based Strata announced that it was building an R&D operation, becoming not just a company that builds parts for others, but one that is developing new manufacturing technologies.
Strata, which is part of investment giant Mubadala, already makes wing parts for Airbus and components for Boeing.
The move will promote technological development within the aerospace industry and the UAE's manufacturing sector as a whole, said Strata chief executive, Badr Al Olama.
They are baby-steps against the size of manufacturing investment outside the Gulf, but underline the ambition. That's why the airshow held a Futures Day, in which 3,000 UAE university and college students attended a series of events to promote careers in aerospace.
The UAE even has its own space programme (you couldn't miss it at the show) to send an unmanned mission to Mars by 2021.
A vanity project? May be, but it will suck in technology and expertise.
And it all began when the UAE decided, years ago, that aviation was key to its economic growth - and is why Dubai now holds arguably the most significant airshow in the world. | The Dubai Airshow was bigger, brasher and - with more fighter jet displays - louder than the previous event in 2013. | 34790049 |
Both defenders missed Monday's defeat at Cardiff, centre-back Mills suffering with a quad problem, while full-back Traore is nursing an ankle knock.
Reading manager Jaap Stam will wait to make a fitness decision on centre-back Paul McShane (hamstring).
Joey van den Berg (hamstring) remains out of contention for the Royals, who start the day in third place.
Reading, six points behind second-placed Newcastle United, must win to keep alive their automatic promotion hopes alive, while Forest start the day just a point clear of trouble.
They are a place above Blackburn Rovers, who face Wolves at Molineux, and two points behind 20th-placed Birmingham City, who do not play until Sunday, when Harry Redknapp takes charge of his first game against Aston Villa
Reading manager Jaap Stam told BBC Radio Berkshire:
"The opponents we're facing now, they're desperate to do well against us. That goes for Forest and for Wigan next week.
"At home, Forest are going to want to get a result, we know that and we need a result as well.
"So, it's going to be an interesting game and a very sharp game as well as they need to give everything to get that result.
"But I like playing in these games as it ensures everyone needs to work very hard and everyone is willing to do that." | Relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest may have Matt Mills and Armand Traore back to face high-flying Reading. | 39604661 |
The marker at Battle Abbey had denoted the "official" location of the last Anglo-Saxon monarch's death, since the 1980s.
But, a new study of the grounds show an area slightly to the east was where Harold fell, English Heritage said.
Some historians dispute their account.
Battle Abbey was founded by William the Conqueror on the site of 1066 battlefield, according to English Heritage.
Historical accounts have claimed the abbey church, which was demolished in the 16th Century, had an altar where Harold fell.
But, a new study of its layout showed the original was further east than first thought, English Heritage said.
Roy Porter, from English Heritage, said: "Working out the position of that altar was key and since the 19th century, our understanding of the layout of the church has improved dramatically."
Author Nick Austin, who has previously advanced the theory that King Harold was defeated by William the Conqueror two miles away in Crowhurst, said he "totally disagreed" with moving the stone.
"The foundations haven't moved and the church hasn't moved," he said.
"New analysis of the Chronicle of Battle Abbey proves beyond doubt that the abbey was not the original battlefield.
The site of the battle has been much-debated, with Mr Austin not the only historian to reject English Heritage's version of events.
In December 2013, Channel 4's Time Team programme claimed Harold fell on the site of what is now a mini roundabout on the A2100. | A stone marking the site of King Harold's death at the Battle of Hastings has been moved to mark the 950th anniversary of his demise - to a spot about 20 ft (6m) away. | 36784485 |
Thousands of athletes of all abilities took part in the new day-long event around St James' Park.
Paralympic athletes David Weir and Richard Whitehead also took part in the race which finished outside Buckingham Palace.
The Bupa Westminster Mile featured more than 30 races.
Farah said: "I am very happy to be part of this new event taking place on the most famous mile in the world, following the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics in London.
"Such an event inclusive of all age groups and abilities, is a great legacy from the (Olympic) games and an inspiration to all."
Lisa Dobriskey - who in 2009 broke the four minute barrier to move second behind Kelly Holmes on the British all time ranking list for a 1500m race - also took part.
The event was organised by the London Marathon in partnership with Westminster City Council.
London Marathon race director Hugh Brasher said: "Britain has an amazing heritage in the mile, with Sir Roger Bannister being the first person to run under four minutes and more latterly the 1980s world record holders Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram.
"We believe that this exciting new event can carry on the great work that London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games did to inspire a generation." | Double Olympic gold medal winner Mo Farah fired the starting pistol on a series of one-mile races in Westminster. | 22673116 |
Convicted rapist Derry Flynn McCann, 28, launched a two-hour assault "within sight" of his victim's front door in Hackney, east London, on 13 January.
He later married his partner having "recently" been released from prison.
McCann, of Hackney, pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court to three counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and one count of robbery.
Honorary Recorder Martyn Zeidman told the rapist he had carried out a "terrible" crime and faced a "very, very long time" in prison.
According to police, McCann beat, raped and humiliated the woman during the attack, then took photos of her and stole her mobile phone.
Detectives believe he had been following another woman but lost sight of her so began stalking his victim, eventually pulling her into undergrowth in Victoria Park.
It is understood the teenage McCann was jailed in 2006 for carrying out another prolonged rape.
Kate Bex, prosecuting, told the court McCann played "mind games" with the woman, taunting her by asking what she thought he would do next.
She said: "It was about midnight, just a little after, and the victim was walking a short distance home having been out to an art gallery, socialising with friends.
"She was almost within sight of her own front door when she skirted round the side of the park on her usual route home."
Andrew Held of the Crown Prosecution Service said: "This was a terrifying, violent and prolonged attack involving rapes committed by a man intent on inflicting fear and psychological suffering.
"I would like to thank McCann's victim for her courage in helping bring this prosecution and hope his conviction provides some sense of justice for her."
McCann will be sentenced on 28 April. | A groom has admitted a "sustained and systematic" rape hours before he was due to marry his pregnant partner. | 39138826 |
Courts had given the government until Monday 24 April to set out draft guidelines to tackle illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution.
But late last week, ministers lodged an application to delay their release until after the general election.
They argued that publication would fall foul of election "purdah" rules.
These limit government announcements with political implications during the election period.
But on Thursday, the High Court ordered the draft plans to be published on 9 May, five days after the local elections, but long before the general election on 8 June.
The date for publication of the final document remains unchanged on 31 July.
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During the hearing, government barrister James Eadie QC told Mr Justice Garnham that publication would drop a "controversial bomb" into the mix of local and national elections.
The new strategy was requested last year, after a court ruled that existing measures to tackle air pollution proposed by the government did not meet the requirements of law.
But the High Court decided that purdah was a convention only and did not override legal obligations to clean up the air. Additionally, the impact on public health would exempt it from the purdah rules anyway.
Thursday's decision is the latest development in a long-running legal action brought against the government by a group of environmental lawyers, ClientEarth. The campaigners began proceedings after the UK breached EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the air.
These limits were introduced by EU law in 1999 and were to have been achieved by 2010. Some 37 out of 43 regions in the UK have been in breach over levels of NO2, one of several nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollutants.
Diesel vehicles are a key source of NOx emissions, and NO2 has been linked to a range of respiratory illnesses. Around 40,000 people are estimated to die prematurely every year in the UK because of poor air quality.
Reacting to the ruling on Thursday, James Thornton, ClientEarth's chief executive, said: "ClientEarth is delighted with Justice Garnham's decision.
"The judge listened to the government's claims that it needed to delay taking care of public health, but he rejected them vigorously and is keeping the government to the deadline of releasing the final plan on 31 July."
The government could yet appeal the ruling, which might effectively delay the process anyway.
Mr Thornton said: "I would urge them not to appeal. I would say: 'get to work'. Enough dither, enough delay, clean up the air."
Representing the government, Mr Eadie QC said the application had been brought with considerable reluctance and was not "some sort of guise or demonstration of lack of commitment to improving air quality".
In April 2015, ClientEarth won a Supreme Court ruling against the government over air pollution levels.
That judgment ordered ministers to come up with a plan to bring down air pollution to within legal limits as soon as possible.
But ClientEarth was dissatisfied with those proposals, and took the government to the High Court in a judicial review, which it won.
London's Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, said: "I am pleased that the government will now have to face its responsibilities sooner rather than later.
"Ministers were dragged kicking and screaming to face the huge scale of this health crisis, but rather than take immediate action to protect the public they deliberately used the election as a smokescreen to hold back their plan."
He added: "I hope that after this appalling delay, this Government delivers a strong plan to finally get a grip on this issue and urgently introduces a diesel scrappage fund to rid our streets of the dirtiest cars."
Follow Paul on Twitter. | The UK Government has lost a court bid to delay publication of its air pollution strategy, and must now release it before the June election. | 39737981 |
27 March 2016 Last updated at 16:47 BST
He explained how he made the show's main character Berk in a BBC documentary in 1989. | The Bristol animator and co-creator of the 1980s children's TV series Trap Door has died of cancer at the age of 60. | 35907099 |
The former environment minister demanded the secret ballot by Tory members in South Suffolk after the association's committee voted not to re-adopt him as a candidate.
Mr Yeo promised his "unqualified support" to his successor.
The result of the count comes three days after fellow Tory MP Anne McIntosh was deselected.
David Cameron had backed Mr Yeo, saying he would be a "great loss".
The 68-year-old, an MP since 1983, was cleared last year of breaking parliamentary rules on lobbying.
He stood aside temporarily as chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Committee while an investigation was carried out following a newspaper story.
Mr Yeo returned to the role, but the executive committee of the South Suffolk Conservative Association voted in December against re-adopting him as a candidate.
Reports suggest this reflected frustration among some members that he had not devoted enough time to the constituency while the standards inquiry was going on.
But Mr Yeo, who said he was proud of his career and happy to be judged on his record, challenged the committee's verdict.
This led to a postal vote by the association's 600 members, which was counted on Monday afternoon at Conservative headquarters in London.
Party sources said there had been an 82% turnout in the ballot, but refused to give details of the margin of defeat.
After the result was announced, Mr Yeo said the vote had been "on a knife edge".
On his disagreements with activists, he told BBC Radio 4's PM: "There were a number of individual issues where I took a very strong view on principle and will continue to do so."
Mr Yeo, who is in favour of the UK remaining in the European Union and a strong believer in climate change, said some of his opinions were "not widely supported".
He said: "It has been a privilege to serve as MP for South Suffolk since 1983. I will continue to work for all my constituents until the general election next year.
"I am immensely grateful to all those Conservative Party members who voted for me to continue as their MP.
"I now ask them all to campaign for my successor with the same loyalty and dedication they have shown to me. I will give my full and unqualified support to whoever is chosen as the candidate here in South Suffolk. I wish him or her every success."
Mr Yeo also served as a minister in the Home Office, Foreign Office and Department of Health in John Major and Margaret Thatcher's governments in the 1980s and 1990s.
He won the Suffolk South seat with an 8,689 majority at the last general election.
Toby Kramers, chairman of South Suffolk Conservative Association, said: "This has been a difficult time for the association. Our priority now is to work together for success in the European elections later this year."
A Conservative spokesman said selection for the South Suffolk constituency, which was created in 1983 as a result of boundary changes, would "be opened in due course".
For Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Ashworth said the vote was "a blow to David Cameron's credibility" after he expressed his support for the MP.
Last week, Ms McIntosh lost a vote of confidence among Conservative members in Thirsk and Malton, following a long-running dispute with constituency officials.
She insisted she still planned to run again for Parliament at the 2015 general election as an independent.
Reacting to the spate of de-selections, Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan tweeted that they were a recognition by activists that "there's a better candidate out there". | Senior Conservative MP Tim Yeo has lost his fight against being deselected by party activists. | 26015369 |
Residents in Strathfoyle believe the problem has been caused by waste left behind at the former Brickkiln site in Maydown.
The issue was raised at a meeting of Derry City and Strabane District Council on Thursday.
Brickkiln said they no longer have responsibility for the site and could not comment.
The administrator for the site, Keenan C F, has yet to respond to the claims.
Ralph Dixon has lived in Strathfoyle all his life.
"When I come up the back roads there you would see them running about down past Brickkiln," he said.
"There's hundreds of them, hundreds. The rubbish is a big cause of the problem and now that it's closed down it's going to make it even worse.
"Children as well, everybody is talking about it. It's a health hazard of course it is, vermin, it's a disgrace."
Another resident said some children are too scared to play outside because of the rats.
DUP MLA Gary Middleton said he had video evidence of the infestation.
"The residents are very upset, there's huge amounts of rubbish left there as a result of the closure of Brickkiln several months ago," he said.
"That rubbish has not been treated and obviously that has now resulted in a rat infestation which is causing a major health hazard.
"It is deeply concerning and it is a situation which is getting worse by the day. Nothing has been done about it, NIEA need to step up.
"The council have responsibility as well for ensuring that whoever looks after the city's waste look after it in a responsible manner."
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan, who lives in the area, said the scale of the problem was being exaggerated.
"I live in Strathfoyle and I think the media coverage of this to date has not been helpful or particularly accurate," he said.
"The estate or the village is not overrun with rats. There is a problem and I have taken action to resolve.
"As soon as this issue was brought to my attention on Wednesday we contacted the administrator of the site and they have now contacted a pest control company to deal with the problem." | Some residents of a housing estate in Londonderry have said urgent action is needed to tackle a rat infestation. | 34356249 |
Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne completed only 40 laps - just 11 more than team-mate Fernando Alonso on Monday.
With a quarter of pre-season testing gone, McLaren have completed 69 slow laps. Mercedes have done more than 300.
Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari was fastest on Tuesday, from Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes and Max Verstappen's Red Bull.
Vandoorne finished the day 10th fastest of 11 drivers and 4.6 seconds off the pace.
Honda has introduced a new engine layout for this season, following the design philosophy used by Mercedes since the start of the turbo hybrid formula in 2014.
Honda F1 engine boss Yusuke Hasegawa said at the launch of the McLaren car last Friday that he believed the Japanese company could match by the start of the season the power levels achieved by Mercedes at the end of 2016. Mercedes are understood to have made another step since then.
But the technology involved is complicated and Honda has so far not managed to make the engine work in the car.
On Monday, Alonso's problem was caused by a new oil-tank design that was not scavenging the oil effectively.
Vandoorne completed 29 laps on Tuesday morning before another engine problem kept him in the pits for several hours.
He returned to the track for the final hour but did just 11 laps. One was enough to move him off the bottom of the time sheets.
Honda has not yet said what the problem was with the engine Vandoorne used on Tuesday.
"We would have liked to put in more laps," Vandoorne said. "Hopefully overnight we can analyse what went wrong and come back with a reliable car tomorrow.
"This was my first day of testing, Fernando didn't get many laps in yesterday, so tomorrow and after tomorrow are going to be important days for us."
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While McLaren toiled, Mercedes and Ferrari continued their impressive starts to their 2017 campaigns at Spain's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Hamilton was fastest in the morning, when he completed 66 laps - the length of the Spanish Grand Prix.
Team-mate Valtteri Bottas took over the car in the afternoon and completed the first full race-simulation run of the winter.
But it was Raikkonen who set the pace, with a lap in one minute 20.960 seconds - 0.023secs quicker than Hamilton.
Raikkonen was using the 'soft' tyre when he set his lap and Hamilton the faster super-soft. But Hamilton lost 0.3secs in the last sector of the lap compared to his best time on the soft tyre, which suggests he could have gone faster.
It is in any case unwise to use headline lap times in testing as a guide to form as it is impossible to know the fuel loads of the cars, how hard the engines are being pushed or the specification they are running in.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen was third fastest, ahead of the Haas of Kevin Magnussen.
Williams rookie Lance Stroll had a difficult start to his 2017 campaign, spinning at Turn Nine after just 12 laps.
The 18-year-old Canadian damaged the front wing and that ended his running for the day as Williams needed to send back to their factory in Oxfordshire for replacements, which will not arrive in Spain until Wednesday morning.
"It is unfortunate," he said. "One front wing, a spin, a little winglet [damaged], but that is Formula 1. The car is very complex. There is not a lot of room for error.
"I'm just getting to grips with the car. A little spin. I drove back to the paddock. Sometimes these things happen, but no, not a dent in the confidence."
Day two times:
1 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:20.960 *
2 Lewis Hamilton (GB) Mercedes 1:20.983 **
3 Max Verstappen (Ned) Red Bull 1:22.200 *
4 Kevin Magnussen (Den) Haas 1:22.204 **
5 Esteban Ocon (Fra) Force India 1:22.509 **
6 Daniil Kvyat (Rus) Toro Rosso 1:22.956 *
7 Valtteri Bottas (Fin) Mercedes 1:22.986 *
8 Jolyon Palmer (GB) Renault 1:24.139 *
9 Antonio Giovinazzi (Ita) Sauber 1:24.671 *
10 Stoffel Vandoorne (Bel) McLaren 1:25.600 *
11 Lance Stroll (Can) Williams 1:26.040 ***
*time set on soft tyres
**time set on supersoft tyres
***time set on medium tyres | McLaren have suffered a dire start to pre-season testing, with a second consecutive day hit by major problems with Honda's new engine. | 39121254 |
The two are thought to be the Chinese dissidents, Jiang Yefei and Dong Guangping, who had fled to Thailand with their families.
The pair had previously been in jail in China for criticising the communist government.
Both were in detention in Thailand for illegally entering the country.
The UN Refugee Agency said: "This action by Thailand is clearly a serious disappointment and underscores the long-standing gap in Thai domestic law concerning ensuring appropriate treatment of persons with international protection need."
According to the rights group Amnesty International, Mr Jiang was detained for two brief periods in 2008 after complaining about the official response to the earthquake in Sichuan province that year.
He fled to Thailand shortly afterwards with his wife.
Mr Dong was released in February this year after spending 10 months in jail in China for taking part in an event to remember people killed following protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989.
He arrived in Thailand with his wife and daughter in September.
Both Chinese dissidents, who were due to be settled in a third country by the UN, were recently fined for breaking Thai immigration rules.
Amnesty International said that while the two were in jail and waiting to be resettled abroad, their fines were paid by someone not known to either man. It appears they were then transferred to an immigration detention centre before being deported over the weekend.
Amnesty believes the two men have been returned to China and are "at risk of torture and other ill treatment".
Three other people are thought to have been deported with the two dissidents.
There is speculation that one of them is Hong Kong-based publisher Gui Minhai, who has not been heard from since arriving last month in the Thai resort of Pattaya, where he owns a holiday home.
Mr Gui had published books that were critical of the Chinese government.
Thailand faced criticism earlier this year when it sent back to China more than 100 Uighur Muslims, who had been detained as part of a larger group the previous year.
Many Uighurs complain of repression in the Chinese region of Xinjiang where they live, and at least some of those who arrived in Thailand had been trying to get to Turkey.
Thailand is currently governed by the military, which took power in a coup last year. | The United Nations has criticised Thailand for deporting two people who had been given refugee status by the organisation. | 34849363 |
Maxine Benson, 33, attacked 18-year-old Alfie Stone after claiming either he or his older brother had eaten her food.
Mr Stone was stabbed in the heart outside the Tesco Express in High Road, Ickenham, west London, on 9 November last year.
Benson was found guilty of murder after a trial at the Old Bailey.
The court heard Benson was filmed on CCTV wielding the knife. Passers-by rushed to give the victim first aid but he died hours later.
A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as blood loss and a stab wound to the heart.
Steven Hawgood, 29, and his girlfriend, Corinne Cripps, 28, were cleared of murder.
However, the jury is continuing their deliberations regarding an alternative charge of manslaughter.
Benson, of no fixed address, was remanded in custody ahead of a sentencing hearing. | A woman who stabbed a teenager to death in a row over a pasta meal outside a supermarket has been found guilty of murder. | 36139685 |
Significant gains in the marginal "killing fields" helped the party to a comfortable majority.
In a night of upheaval, seats previously considered Labour and Lib Dem strongholds turned blue as results trickled in.
Several high-profile names including Ed Balls and Vince Cable lost their seats.
Failure to win key marginals, combined with Labour losses in Scotland, prompted Ed Miliband to stand down.
Meanwhile, Nick Clegg resigned as Liberal Democrat leader after his party suffered heavy losses and UKIP leader Nigel Farage also stood down.
Of its top 20 target marginal seats, the Conservative Party claimed 11.
The picture that emerged from the exit poll just after 22:00 BST on 7 May predicted the Conservatives would gain 316 seats, but as results were confirmed they exceeded earlier predictions.
Their majority was secured when Geoffrey Clifton-Brown held The Cotswolds to clinch the 326 seats needed to win with a handful of constituencies left to declare
Notable Conservative wins
The party has kept control of a number of marginal seats and taken several others from their former coalition partners and Labour.
"My aim remains simple - to govern on the basis of governing for everyone in our United Kingdom," David Cameron said following re-election in his Witney constituency.
Key events during the night
Mr Miliband, who retained his seat in Doncaster North, announced his resignation on Friday after what he had described as a "very disappointing and difficult... for the Labour party".
He said he took "absolute and total responsibility" for the party's defeat.
Some of the party's safest seats fell in Scotland, with swings of about 30%, with election campaign chief Douglas Alexander and Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy both being ousted.
Labour did make gains in areas of London, taking Ealing Central, Acton and Ilford North from the Conservatives, and kept control of constituencies in the Midlands, the North West and the North East.
Despite this, Labour won 232 seats.
Nick Clegg's resignation followed a disastrous night at the polls for his party, which saw cabinet ministers Danny Alexander, Simon Hughes, Ed Davey and Lynne Featherstone lose their seats, along with former party leader Charles Kennedy.
Announcing his decision to step down he said the result, which left his party with just eight MPs, had been "the most crushing blow to the Liberal Democrats since our party was founded".
The party has lost more than £100,000 in election deposits, where its candidates pulled in less than 5% of the vote, the Press Association reported.
The Greens, whose leader Natalie Bennett failed to win the seat of Holborn and St Pancras, lost a similar amount in deposits.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage came second in South Thanet, losing to Conservative Craig Mackinlay.
Following the defeat, Mr Farage announced he was stepping down as party leader, despite his party taking more than 14% of votes in England.
However, he said he had not ruled out standing in the party leadership race when it takes place September.
In Essex, UKIP held on to its Clacton MP Douglas Carswell, who fought off competition albeit with a reduced majority from last October's by-election.
But the party's other MP, Mark Reckless, lost his Rochester and Strood seat to the Conservatives. | The Conservatives have emerged as the dominant force in English politics after a string of surprising wins in key constituencies. | 32638386 |
The search giant consolidated 60 privacy policies into one single agreement in March.
The EU expressed concern over the legality and impact of the change.
France's information commission, the CNIL, said it was not yet "totally satisfied" with Google's explanation of the amendments.
"We want to untangle the precise way that specific personal data is being used for individual services, and examine what the benefit for the consumer really is," CNIL president Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin said.
Google spokesman Anthony House said its privacy policy "respected the requirements of European data protection law".
"The meeting will give us [the] chance to put things into context and explain the broader actions we are taking to protect our users' privacy," he said.
Under the new policy, Google is able to pool the data collected on users across its services, including YouTube, Gmail and its social network Google+.
This data is used for various reasons, including powering the network's targeted advertising system.
Google has already provided a 94-page response to a CNIL questionnaire on the new policy.
The meeting, scheduled for next week, will more closely examine the implications of the policy for users.
The French authorities are acting on behalf of the EU, and the decision is likely to apply to all 27 member states.
The review could lead to financial penalties or administrative sanctions, but it is not clear whether they would be imposed collectively or if individual states would seek their own fines.
The CNIL can impose fines of up to 300,000 euros (£240,000). | France's data protection watchdog has set up a meeting with Google to closely examine its controversial privacy policy. | 18102789 |
A first-half strike from James Craigen was the difference, finishing off a free-flowing Falkirk attack.
Falkirk hit the woodwork twice in the second-half as they searched in vain for a second goal.
Ayr United played well in patches, but lacked a cutting edge, with Falkirk closing the gap on the three teams directly above them.
A hail storm created horrendous conditions for the players and fans in the early stages, but the Falkirk players soon gave their large travelling support a goal to cheer.
John Baird back-heeled into the path of James Craigen who fired a pass out wide to Aaron Muirhead. The right-back galloped up the flank before delivering a low cross right to the penalty spot, and Craigan was there to fire home first time into the bottom corner to give Falkirk the lead.
With the experienced midfield duo of Mark Kerr and John Rankin controlling the centre of the pitch Falkirk created another chance. This time the shot from Craig Sibbald was comfortably held by Ayr keeper Greg Fleming.
Ayr United had plenty of the ball but struggled to create clear-cut chances. A couple of crosses from their full-backs Nicky Devlin and Paddy Boyle flashed across goal but there were no takers.
In the second-half Falkirk twice hit the post. The first was a looping shot from John Baird, the second was a poked shot from Craigen.
There were shouts for an Ayr United penalty when David McCracken appeared to tug the jersey of Ayr sub Andy O'Connell but the referee waved away the protests.
A late cross from Devlin found Gary Harkins in the box but he failed to get a shot on target as Falkirk held out for all three points.
Falkirk manager Peter Houston: "I think we started the game well, we created more chances than Ayr United. We hit the inside of the post twice in the second-half.
"The last 10 minutes were always going to be hairy, Ayr throwing everything at us. But to be honest I don't remember Danny Rogers making many saves.
"I'm not saying we can win the league, I'm not saying we can't win the league either. But if we're in the play-offs the other teams there won't like facing us."
Ayr United manager Ian McCall: "I'm not sure we did enough to win but I certainly don't think we deserved to lose.
"In the second-half we penned Falkirk in for long periods. We played well ourselves and got down the sides.
"The linesman has told me he's seen it (the penalty shout), the player almost pulled off his jersey. I thought the directive at the start of the season was to clamp down on that. The referee felt that both players were pulling. To everyone in the stadium it looked like a clear penalty and we didn't get it, but that happens."
Match ends, Ayr United 0, Falkirk 1.
Second Half ends, Ayr United 0, Falkirk 1.
Patrick Boyle (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Patrick Boyle (Ayr United).
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Falkirk. Nathan Austin replaces Lee Miller.
Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces John Baird.
Lee Miller (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Patrick Boyle.
Attempt blocked. Paul Cairney (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luca Gasparotto (Falkirk).
Attempt saved. Andy O'Connell (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Michael Rose.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Paul Cairney.
Substitution, Ayr United. Michael Rose replaces Robbie Crawford.
Foul by Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United).
Luca Gasparotto (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Lee Miller (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Danny Rogers.
Attempt missed. Robbie Crawford (Ayr United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United).
Luke Leahy (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Andy O'Connell (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David McCracken (Falkirk).
Attempt missed. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Scott McKenna (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Craigen (Falkirk).
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Patrick Boyle.
James Craigen (Falkirk) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box.
Attempt missed. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Falkirk. Myles Hippolyte replaces Craig Sibbald.
Scott McKenna (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Baird (Falkirk).
Gary Harkins (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gary Harkins (Ayr United).
James Craigen (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Paul Cairney (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Craigen (Falkirk). | Falkirk ended a run of four games without a win with a deserved victory at Ayr United. | 37960076 |
22 September 2015 Last updated at 11:47 BST
The squad belted out a traditional Welsh song called 'Down by the Sea', or 'Lawr Ar Lan y M??r' in Welsh.
The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, who is also the Vice Royal Patron of the Welsh Rugby Union, was at the ceremony, and seemed to enjoy the performance.
Although the Duke joked that he was glad Wales "played rugby better than they sing".
The squad have travelled to London in the build up to Saturday's game against England at Twickenham. | Some of the stars of Wales' Rugby World Cup squad have been singing in front of Prince William at a special welcome ceremony for the tournament. | 34325286 |
Average debt is at the highest level seen since the summer of 2013, insurer Aviva said, having risen by £4,000 in six months.
Aviva's research covers debt, excluding mortgages, during the latter months of 2015.
It follows figures from the Bank of England which showed consumer borrowing leapt ahead of Christmas.
Charities say that, for some individuals, a reliance on credit could become more problematic were interest rates to rise.
Increased borrowing can, however, be a sign of confidence in an improving economy.
The Aviva report suggested that families were saving £105 a month on average, with the typical family savings pot totalling £3,150.
"The alarming levels of rising household debt, along with a recent reduction in income and savings levels, paints an uncertain picture for the family purse in 2016," said Louise Colley, managing director of protection at Aviva.
"With the possibility that the Bank of England could raise interest rates this year, families who have grown accustomed to cheaper credit - particularly those who have spent heavily over the Christmas period - need to ensure they are still fully prepared to manage debt repayments, as well as other monthly outgoings, should rates go up," she said. | Family debt has risen to an average of £13,520 owing to the availability of cheap credit, a report suggests. | 35300433 |
He was invited to Hampden to provide an insight into his work at Brentford and the club's decision to close its academy and implement a B-team model.
Rowan, who previously worked for Stenhousemuir, Celtic and the SFA before moving south, is Brentford's head of football operations and he delivered a stark reminder of the difficult choices facing clubs.
After reviewing their academy, Brentford decided the probability of producing first-team players and fighting off other higher profile clubs was too big a risk for an investment of millions of pounds per year.
The context of his presentation made the content more relevant. The SFA is conducting a performance review, with the working group drawing up a list of potential proposals to be implemented by the incoming performance director.
They include reducing the number of fully-funded elite academies in Scotland - to focus resources on the very best players in the country - and encouraging development pathways for academy graduates to spend time on loan at lower league clubs, who would no longer run their own academies, for first-team experience.
Brentford are owned by Matthew Benham, whose Smartodds company provides statistical analysis that underpins the model at Brentford and his other club, FC Midtjylland in Denmark, so there has always been a focus on eschewing the traditional for innovative thinking.
The video clip of Pitt was from the film Moneyball, about statistical analysis in baseball - although Rowan reiterated that Brentford only use statistics as a tool during the decision-making process rather than to ultimately make the decisions.
The Jobs clip was about Apple's decision to focus their concentration on a small range of innovative developments rather than trying to do everything.
"It's maximising your resources on as little an amount of people as possible," Rowan said.
"A lot of football clubs have a hierarchy of first team and academy. I disagree with that and believe that, like in business, to maximise the potential in your assets you need to give them the best resources.
"We sign players on two or three-year contracts in that elite age group, from 17 to 21, where there aren't so many variables or influential factors.
"We're looking at players who have fallen out the system from Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester United, Man City, because it's inevitable they will make a few mistakes, that's the difficulty of recruitment - it's very hard to predict development."
Brentford calculated they would gain an advantage by closing their academy and signing players who don't make it through the academies at elite clubs, but have the ability to progress.
The current B-team squad also has youth internationals from Denmark and Greece aiming to break through.
For the Scottish game, there are interesting considerations, not least because some clubs may have to decide about the worth of maintaining their academy if it is no longer among the elite group - most likely to be no more than 16 - or if running a development set-up and taking or borrowing players from other academies may be a better scenario.
"With this new club academy concept, [I would say to Scottish clubs] not to think that if you're not defined as elite that life is over with developing players, you need to think differently," Rowan said.
"It's ridiculous the amount of academies in this country. Germany have double the amount but have nearly 16 times the population of Scotland.
"You shouldn't always be scripted by a governing body. If you want to be a successful business or football club, you need to build it your own way, after considering what is sustainable, worthwhile and achievable within your environment.
"People might say you're not fulfilling your commitment to your community, but academies are elitist. They're like private schools, where the best kids gets in.
"Brentford's stadium is on the street alongside houses. That's our community, not the kids who travel two hours to train with the academy.
"Invest more in your community programmes, like walking football, that keep people fit and active.
"Our community department incorporate football for all, regardless of race, weight, size, background, age. Our responsibility now is to improve the connection with the elite part of the club."
Brentford's B-team has played under-23 teams from Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United, and the B teams of Bayern Munich and Valencia. They will also face Rangers in January.
The idea is to push the players in their development and prepare them for first-team football. They have played in front of attendances of 1,000 at home games, and the experience is designed to mimic, as much as possible, the conditions faced by first-team players.
There is also a "non-negotiable" pathway to the first-team, with a certain number of B-team players having to train with the first-team, and be involved with the match-day squad. The aim is to promote at least one player to the first team by the end of the season.
"A few clubs have asked us about it, one in Scotland," Rowan said. "You get people who are sceptical and people who think it's innovative and brave." | There were contributions from Brad Pitt and Steve Jobs, but Robert Rowan's presentation to the Scottish Football Association's annual convention would have made its impact without them. | 38178077 |
The top-flight side spurned several chances, with Tope Obadeyi missing an open goal. Kris Boyd also should have taken a clear opportunity.
Falkirk, who finished second in the Championship, were short of their best.
They saved their best to the end with Vaulks drilling past Jamie MacDonald.
Kilmarnock had been adamant that they would be a forceful presence. The away dressing room reverberated to loud, uplifting music before kick-off, while the players ended their warm-up with a team huddle in front of the away fans.
Manager Lee Clark would have calculated that emotion had to carry a bearing in the game, and he ensured his players were fired up for the occasion.
That sharpened intent was initially intimidating to Falkirk, who spent the opening spell defending in their own half.
Even when the home players were in possession, they were hounded by their opponents.
The result was some scrambled minds, but goalkeeper Danny Rogers was alert enough to react when a Gary Dicker cross was deflected, sending the ball in an arc towards his net. The Falkirk goalkeeper reached up to claw the ball away from underneath the bar.
Kilmarnock's assertiveness renewed their self-confidence. Their play still lacked a cutting edge, though, and that flaw was highlighted as Falkirk eventually rediscovered their poise.
The home side created a handful of chances towards half-time, even though they were all spurned.
Blair Alston could at least point out that he was on the edge of the area when the ball dropped to him, but his effort was tame.
John Baird, too, had an excuse when the MacDonald spilled Bob McHugh's shot, since the rebound flew towards Baird at an awkward height and he had to skew his body to make contact, before sending his effort over the bar.
The game seemed ragged and improvised, but Falkirk had the wherewithal to be precise at times.
Whenever the opportunity arose, Baird or McHugh peeled out between the centre-backs and full-backs, their sprightliness and quick feet taking advantage of some cumbersome defending. McHugh was frustrated when he skipped infield and could only curl his effort wide of the far post.
Exertion alone seemed to bind the two sides together. Quality was not a prominent influence, but sheer bloody mindedness could still be the deciding factor across the two legs.
Instinct as well as training must have left Craig Sibbald stationed in the goal-line at a Kilmarnock corner kick, and he was in the right place to head Boyd's chipped shot away from underneath the bar.
Boyd's guile was evident, though, and he lifted a ball over the top of the Falkirk defence to send Obadeyi clear. A heavy touch took him past Rogers but left him at a tight angle, and he could only send the ball into the side-netting with the goal unguarded.
Frustration and tension seemed bound together. As the game rolled back and forth, Boyd could only steer a header straight at Rogers from the back post, while team-mates hollered at him for not sending the ball back into the six-yard box.
The only moment of quick, incisive passing was still to come, though, with Luke Leahy sliding the ball to Sibbald from a quick free-kick routine, and he pulled it back for Vaulks to score.
Match ends, Falkirk 1, Kilmarnock 0.
Second Half ends, Falkirk 1, Kilmarnock 0.
Goal! Falkirk 1, Kilmarnock 0. Will Vaulks (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal.
Luke Leahy (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Greg Kiltie (Kilmarnock).
Attempt missed. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Robert McHugh (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Jamie MacDonald.
Attempt saved. Will Vaulks (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Will Vaulks (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock).
Attempt blocked. Will Vaulks (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Mark O'Hara.
Substitution, Falkirk. Myles Hippolyte replaces John Baird.
Attempt saved. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Aaron Muirhead.
Foul by Robert McHugh (Falkirk).
Lee Ashcroft (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Mark Kerr (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mark Kerr (Falkirk).
Mark O'Hara (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. John Baird (Falkirk) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Tope Obadeyi (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mark Kerr (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tope Obadeyi (Kilmarnock).
Foul by Paul Watson (Falkirk).
Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Craig Slater (Kilmarnock).
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Gary Dicker.
Substitution, Falkirk. Scott Shepherd replaces Blair Alston.
Attempt missed. Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Aaron Muirhead.
Attempt missed. Tope Obadeyi (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Craig Slater (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Craig Sibbald.
Attempt blocked. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by David McCracken. | Will Vaulks scored in stoppage time as Falkirk delivered another late show to take a lead into the second leg of the Premiership play-off final against Kilmarnock. | 36294231 |
On Friday morning, people across Northern Ireland should be able to witness a deep partial eclipse of the sun, a rare phenomenon which occurs when the moon moves across the sky in front of the sun, blocking its light.
While most of us will be watching from our back gardens or as we travel to work, one local astronomer has gone in search of something more than just the bog-standard partial solar obscurity.
Eclipse-hunter Terry Moseley has made his way to the Faroe Islands where he hopes to see a total eclipse, a perfect alignment of moon and sun.
Terry travels the globe in search of what he describes as the "transformational" experience of witnessing totality, and his trip to the Faroes will be his fifth encounter with the dark side.
The current president of the Irish Astronomical Association, Terry is leading a group of astronomers to the islands in the North Atlantic, and will act as the eclipse advisor on the tour.
Despite having had an interest in astronomy for over 50 years, it wasn't until 1999 when he caught his first total eclipse, in Bulgaria. For him, it was an experience like no other.
"I have to admit that when I saw it, it blew my mind," Terry said, speaking from Torshavn, the Faroe capital.
"It is almost indescribable and no video or any words I could say can do it justice. It is literally day turning to night in the middle of the day. It looks as if an angry God has punched a hole in the sky.
"From the moment of first contact - when the moon takes that first bite of the sun - that's when you know it's actually happening and the tension really mounts.
"For the last few seconds it's indescribable. Everybody is just going crazy, some people go into a trance and can hardly believe what they're seeing, others laugh, cry, shout, dance around in glee and ecstasy - it really is almost a spiritual experience."
Terry will watch the eclipse from a school in the village of Eide on the north-west tip of Eysturoy, the second-largest of the Faroes, and will explain to the pupils there what they can expect to see.
There is no guarantee he will have a perfect view, but he is hoping for a clear day.
"Even if it is cloudy, the sky darkens dramatically and the temperature drops. It's almost scary," he explained.
"The sky will get fairly dark, it will almost be like mid-twilight. There will be a drop in temperature and some animals may react as if it is twilight - birds will go to roost and cows and sheep will lie down."
Terry has also trekked to Turkey, China and Australia in search of eclipses, and with a long wait until 2090 for the next total eclipse visible on the island of Ireland, he has already started planning the journey to the United States for his next.
"It really is an experience that you can become addicted to," he said. "Each one is different, though, and that's part of the beauty.
"But you never forget your first time. The first total eclipse makes an indelible imprint on you because you've never seen it before.
"There are some fairly accessible ones coming up over the next few years. In August 2017 there will be one that crosses the US diagonally from Oregon to South Carolina.
"I'd say to people to put that at the top of their bucket list and go and do it." | It should be one of the most spectacular astronomical sights we will ever get to see - as long as the clouds stay away. | 31976463 |
Watling played Victoria Waterfield in 40 episodes between 1967 and 1968, most of which were wiped after transmission.
Her father was the actor Jack Watling, who appeared alongside her in two Doctor Who adventures.
Her brother Giles Watling, Conservative MP for Clacton, said she would be "sorely missed".
"She was a lovely, lovely girl, bubbly and vibrant," he said of his sibling.
Born in Loughton in Essex in 1948, Watling made her first TV appearance as a child in William Tell.
She went on to appear in a TV version of HG Wells' The Invisible Man and played Alice Liddell in a Wednesday Play by Dennis Potter about author Lewis Carroll.
Watling made her first appearance in Doctor Who in the second part of 1967 serial The Evil of the Daleks, the only episode of that adventure that still exists.
She went on to appear in six more serials, only two of which - The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Enemy of the World - still exist in their entirety.
After Doctor Who, Watling appeared in The Newcomers, Rising Damp and World War II drama Danger UXB.
In 1993 she reprised her companion role for a Children in Need short called Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time.
Earlier this week it was announced that Jodie Whittaker will be the first female Doctor when Peter Capaldi relinquishes the role at Christmas.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Actress Deborah Watling, who played one of Patrick Troughton's companions in the early years of Doctor Who, has died at the age of 69. | 40684318 |
The baby ape, which is yet to be named or sexed, was born at Twycross Zoo to 19-year-old female Cheka.
Bonobos, which share 98% of their DNA with humans, are endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The Leicestershire zoo said captive breeding programmes are tricky because of the apes' "promiscuous" nature.
Cheka already has a daughter, nine-year-old female Gemena, who lives at Leipzig Zoo in Germany, and a son, Winton, five. They were born as part of a European Endangered Species Programme.
Dr Charlotte Macdonald, from the zoo, said bonobos use sex as a "powerful communication tool" to establish social hierarchies and remove tension from aggressive situations.
"With so much promiscuous behaviour going on they need to be carefully managed to keep their genetic lines healthy," she said.
The zoo is a part of a UN initiative to ensure the long-term survival of chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orang-utans and their habitats in Africa and Asia.
Bonobos, which are often mistaken for chimpanzees, are poached for their bush meat and threatened by commercial logging and expansive agriculture in their native Congo, the zoo said.
The great apes, which are as closely related to humans as chimpanzees, were recently found to be communicating with one another in the wild in ways previously thought to be uniquely human. | A rare bonobo has been born at the only zoo in the UK to successfully breed them. | 33809579 |
The Black and Whites, who beat Warrington to lift the Challenge Cup on 27 August, went ahead when Mahe Fonua touched down in the right-hand corner.
But Saints led at half-time with tries from Owens and Matty Fleming.
Vea went over twice and Owens got his second, with Sika Manu's try little consolation for the visitors.
Saints stay fourth in the table, six points clear of Dragons in the final play-off place.
Shaun Michaels almost brought about a nervy finish for the hosts, but he was pushed out into touch by Adam Swift before being able to get the ball down.
Vea and Owens' second tries then sealed victory for Saints.
Hull FC, who rested several players from the side that won the Challenge Cup at Wembley for the first time, will lose top spot if Warrington beat Catalans on Saturday.
St Helens: Lomax; Owens, Peyroux, Fleming, Swift; Turner, Fages; Walmsley, Roby, Richards, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Greenwood, Wilkin.
Replacements: Amor, Vea, Ashworth, Knowles.
Hull FC: Shaul; Michaels, Fonua, Talanoa, Naughton; Pryce, Abdull; Bowden, Washbrook, Green, Manu, Hadley, Thompson.
Replacements: Downs, Watts, Paleaaesina, Pritchard. | Two tries from Atelea Vea and Jack Owens helped St Helens boost their chances of a Super League play-off place by beating leaders Hull FC. | 37221930 |
Anderson is the first recruit brought in by new boss Justin Edinburgh, who took over on Monday with the club 16th in the League One table.
The 21-year-old joined Palace from non-league Barton Rovers in January 2015, but has yet to play a first-team game.
He had previous loan spells with Doncaster and Bolton and could make his Cobblers debut at MK Dons on Saturday.
"I felt we needed a striker who could stretch defences and worry them with speed and movement, and Keshi can do that," said Edinburgh.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | Northampton Town have signed Crystal Palace striker Keshi Anderson on loan until the end of the season. | 38268347 |
In a head-to-head debate in Cardiff, the first minister warned an EU exit would have "devastating consequences".
The UKIP leader claimed being in the EU had left the first minister "impotent" over the fate of the steel industry.
Mr Farage said British people should "reclaim their birthright" while Mr Jones said Wales and the UK should not "surrender" their role in the world.
In an event staged by the Institute of Welsh Affairs, the UKIP leader began by asking if British people wanted to "regain our independence as a nation state" or if they were happy to be a "subordinate member of the club".
Mr Farage claimed it was "scaremongering" to say trade would cease and jobs would be lost following a British exit from the EU.
The first minister replied by saying membership of both unions - the UK and the EU - was vital to Welsh prosperity.
Claiming 200,000 jobs in Wales relied on EU trade, Mr Jones said "pulling up the drawbridge" would have "devastating consequences".
On the issue of immigration, Mr Farage said "the biggest benefit" of leaving the EU would be the UK's ability to set up an Australian-style points system to accept people based on their skills, lack of criminal convictions and ability to speak English and integrate.
However, Mr Jones dismissed the suggestion EU membership had "anything to do" with immigration, saying if the UK was not a member, France would simply allow refugees camped at Calais to pass through.
"Would it be in our interest to turn our backs on our European partners, or isn't it better to work together to find a European solution to what is a European challenge," he asked.
Eluned Parrott, Welsh Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Europe, said "neither person came out of this shouting match particularly well", claiming hers was the only UK party united in favour of EU membership.
"Carwyn Jones was right to be arguing the importance of the UK remaining in the EU," she said.
"Yet, his views are in stark contrast to his party in London, where [Labour leader] Jeremy Corbyn remains ambivalent on this major issue."
Plaid Cymru AM Elin Jones was critical of Mr Jones, tweeting: "Well, for the case for Wales staying in EU, that was a set-back. Mustn't be repeated. #IWADebate."
Before the event, a spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives dismissed it as having the feel of a "rather gaudy PR spectacle", saying Mr Jones had failed to invite rival party leaders to debate Welsh issues under his control.
A referendum on whether the UK should remain within the EU or leave is set to be held before the end of 2017.
On Sunday, Prime Minister David Cameron suggested the vote could be held as early as this summer. | Carwyn Jones and Nigel Farage have disputed the likely impact on jobs in Wales if the UK left the EU. | 35288599 |
They were taken offline for two months last May while extra sea defences were installed after a review into Japan's Fukushima disaster highlighted risks.
Barrie Botley, of Kent Against a Radioactive Environment, said not enough details were given at the time.
EDF said it had ensured that everyone knew about what was happening.
A massive earthquake and tsunami which led to the nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima reactor in 2011 prompted new research into the flood risk at Dungeness.
The review concluded that there was "a theoretical but plausible scenario in an extremely rare case where water could have got on to the site, potentially up to waist height", the BBC understands.
EDF issued a statement last May saying Unit 21 was offline for "planned refuelling" and Unit 22 for "improvements to flood defences for extreme events".
It said both units were expected to be returned to service that month.
Mr Botley said that did not make clear that both reactors were completely out of action,
"They betrayed us all and I think it's absolutely disgusting. They're supposed to be very open nowadays and they're not," he said.
But Martin Pearson, station director at Dungeness B, said: "The language we've used is language we've used for 30 years.
"If there's more of an interest from the public, and that is seen as a very positive move, then we'll need to review some of the language that we use."
EDF stressed the site was never unsafe and was now protected against the kind of extreme weather expected to happen "only once in 10,000 years".
A flood defence wall between 5ft 2in (1.6m) and 6ft 6in (2m) high has been constructed all the way around the plant at a cost of £2.3m.
It is part of a £5m investment in flood protection including work inside the station, such as sealing trenches, installing dam boards and raising equipment height.
Both Dungeness B reactors automatically shut down during the St Jude's Day storm on 28 October, when electricity to the site was cut off.
EDF said that during the recent floods and storms it had operated normally. | EDF Energy "betrayed the public" after safety fears led to the closure of both reactors at Dungeness B nuclear power station in Kent, campaigners have said. | 26645490 |
Firms using the intra-company transfer (ICT) scheme brought in 29,700 non-European staff in the 12 months to September 2011.
But those entering via visa schemes could be as low as 10,000, despite a cap of 21,700, the Home Office's Migration Advisory Committee said.
Ministers want to cut net migration.
Prime Minister David Cameron says he wants the overall figure to reach "tens of thousands" by 2015. It is currently around 250,000.
The ICT scheme, used by firms to bring their own people into the UK for more than a year to do specific jobs, should be kept under review, the committee said.
The number of entrants to the UK via ICT per million of the population was "substantially higher for the UK" than for comparable countries such as the US, Spain, Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany and Ireland.
By Danny ShawHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
During the last general election, the Conservatives presented an "immigration cap" as a key way of controlling levels of migration.
Their stated aim, in government, is to cut annual net migration - numbers coming in less people leaving - to tens of thousands.
But the Migration Advisory Committee figures suggest the cap will have little impact, mainly because employees from multi-national companies switching to the UK from abroad aren't included.
So, while the number of workers on capped routes fell (well below the limit), intra-company transfer numbers remain high.
This is likely to fuel concerns - outlined by the Commons Public Accounts Committee last year - that thousands of overseas IT workers are using the transfer scheme, while British people with similar skills are "struggling to find work".
The committee hints that restrictions could be tightened - but any such move would be resisted by business chiefs.
Committee chairman David Metcalf said it needed to be kept "under review".
He suggested that if the government wanted to limit the use of ICTs, it could raise the £40,000 income threshold, increase the skill level required or limit the number of work permits any one sponsor could have.
But he said: "Some of these transfers are vital, such as the Japanese auto engineer testing cylinder heads made in Japan and training British workers to do such testing.
"Other types of intra-company transfers have evolved over time, particularly those used for third-party contracting in the information technology sector, where it is possible that the UK economy is benefiting in aggregate terms while at the same time some displacement of British workers is occurring."
He added: "They are doing absolutely nothing wrong here, but it's consultancy companies bringing workers in, typically IT workers, typically from India."
They carry out some work in India and then come to the UK to do other work at the UK client's base, before returning to India to complete the work, he said.
Professor Metcalf also said: "It's here that I think we need to keep this under review. It's this group which has grown substantially in the past decade, even in the last five years.
"It is the case these workers may well be displacing British IT workers, but equally it may well be that UK plc gains overall."
One firm alone, which is a major manufacturer in Britain but also has a consultancy arm, brought in 4,000 migrant workers alone last year, Prof Metcalf said.
He added that if the government was concerned about bringing net migration down from about 250,000 now to "tens of thousands" by 2015, as Prime Minister David Cameron has said, it "should not hit the Hondas and Toyotas of this world, because that would look very badly on UK plc".
The number of ICTs had surged from around 20,000 in 2009 to about 30,000 in mid-2011, but had remained largely flat since then.
Shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant said the report "shows the ever widening gap between this Government's rhetoric on immigration and the reality of their policies".
"This government needs to tone down its rhetoric and get in touch with reality.
"We need strong controls on people who want to come here. They should pay their way and add value to our country. I hope we can all agree on that, but the Government needs to be honest with people and get tougher on illegal immigration too." | Three times more migrant workers came to the UK on companies' transfers schemes than on general visas for skilled workers, official figures show. | 17190932 |
His name's been trending on Twitter as people mocked his outfit on Match of the Day.
The former Fulham midfielder appeared alongside Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer for Arsenal v Hull in the FA Cup.
Hair tied back and wearing a black shirt, which was half unbuttoned, he was likened to Peter Stringfellow and Harry Styles in 20 years.
"Just turned on Match of the Day, so late to this, but Jimmy Bullard seems to have come as a Flamenco dancer..." wrote †| He's no stranger to banter but this time Jimmy Bullard has been on the receiving end. | 30676125 |
In a statement he said: "I want to apologise to my fiancée, my children, as well as my mother, father, and brothers for the mistake that I made.
"I also want to apologise to the UFC, my coaches, my sponsors and equally important to my fans."
The announcement comes less than a week after Jones successfully defended his title against Daniel Cormier.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) confirmed that following a random drug test in December, Jones provided a sample which contained traces of benzoylecgonine, the main metabolite in cocaine.
Under UFC rules benzoylecgonine is not a banned substance out-of-competition.
As a result, organisers were unable to penalise Jon Jones or stop him from fighting, despite knowing of the positive test.
A statement on the UFC website said they would stick by the fighter.
"While we are disappointed in the failed test, we applaud him for making this decision to enter a drug treatment facility," it read.
"Jon is a strong, courageous fighter inside the octagon [the cage where fighters do battle] and we expect him to fight this issue with the same poise and diligence.
"We commend him on his decision, and look forward to him emerging from this programme a better man as a result."
Jon Jones became the youngest ever UFC champion in 2011.
His current record inside the "octagon" is 21 wins and just one defeat, which came because he was disqualified.
UFC president Dana White said: " I'm confident that he'll emerge from this program like the champion he truly is."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon "Bones" Jones has checked into rehab following a positive test for cocaine last month. | 30711634 |
Noye, 67, was jailed for life for the murder of 21-year-old Stephen Cameron in 1996 during a fight on an M25 slip road at Swanley in Kent.
He then fled to Spain but was extradited later and convicted in 2000.
The victim's mother, Toni Cameron, described Noye as a lifelong "villain" who should never be let out of jail.
The Parole Board said the case had been referred to them by the secretary of state.
Mrs Cameron told BBC Radio Kent the family would be writing to Home Secretary Theresa May to put "our side of things" forward.
"We're absolutely devastated about it because we think life should mean life. Our son hasn't got a life and obviously it brings it all back, it opens up wounds," she added.
"We just feel that it's not fair that he should come out and have parole. He's a villain and he always has been. His whole life is criminality.
"He got out six years early [for good behaviour] for being involved in the Brinks Mat robbery and I think that should come into play now.
"He should serve that other six years because he wouldn't have murdered Stephen had he not come out early.
"We want justice for our son and to have justice means he stays in prison and serves a sentence."
Noye become one of Britain's most notorious criminals because of his involvement in the £26m Brinks Mat raid in 1983 - one of the UK's biggest robberies.
Six armed men posed as security guards and stole 6,800 gold bars from a warehouse at Heathrow Airport.
The police investigation into the heist focused on Noye's mansion in West Kingsdown, Kent.
It was in the grounds of this house in 1985 that he stabbed to death undercover officer Det Con John Fordham.
He admitted killing the detective in self-defence when he found him in shrubbery at his home.
Noye was cleared of murder but jailed for 14 years for handling stolen bullion.
Profile: Kenneth Noye
Two years after his release, he murdered Mr Cameron during the M25 slip road fight with a knife he kept in his car.
His dying words to his partner Danielle Cable were: "He stabbed me, Dan. Take his number plate."
Noye fled to France in a private helicopter with a bag full of cash the day after the stabbing, but was arrested in Spain in 1998 and extradited to the UK for trial.
A Parole Board spokesman said the panel could only direct the release of a life sentence prisoner if it was "satisfied that it is no longer necessary for him to be detained in order to protect the public from serious harm".
"Each case is assessed on its own individual merits," he added.
A range of prison and parole staff reports will be considered before the board makes a decision on whether he should be released.
If it decides that Noye is fit for release then its decision is final.
It can also recommend that he is moved to a low category open prison, but this would be open to challenge.
The Parole Board is due to make its decision in April. | Road rage killer Kenneth Noye, one of the UK's most notorious criminals, has been given the chance to argue for his release at a parole hearing. | 31454562 |
A group of the women and their supporters unveiled a statue of a girl in traditional costume there.
Demonstrators have rallied since 1992 outside the embassy to demand an apology and compensation from Japan.
Japan has repeatedly apologised and has offered lump-sum compensation, but many Koreans say this is not enough.
Japan also says the matter was settled in bilateral agreements with South Korea in the 1960s.
Up to 200,000 women are thought to have worked as sex slaves for the Japanese army in military camps before and during the war.
The vast majority of the women were Korean.
Japan has reportedly protested about the statue, but South Korean officials have said they cannot do anything about it.
Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Osamu Fujimura, called the statue "extremely regrettable", the Associated Press reports.
The blinds at the Japanese embassy were drawn shut - as they usually are for this weekly protest, reports the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul.
"[South Korean] President Lee Myung-bak cannot say he doesn't know that white-haired grannies come out here, rain or shine, week after week," said 85-year-old Kim Bok-dong, one of the former "comfort women".
"President Lee should call on Japan to correct the wrongs of the past, so that things which need apologies can receive them, and compensation can be given," she added.
In a rare move, a North Korean association for former comfort women sent a letter of support, AFP news agency reports.
"The Wednesday demonstration that has lasted for 20 years is an unbearable blaze of anger against sexual slavery crimes committed by Japan that have trampled on national pride," the group said in a faxed message.
President Lee is expected to meet Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in Tokyo this weekend.
Mr Fujimura was quoted as saying the visit would still go ahead, but that the topic of the statue would be unavoidable at the summit talks. | South Korean women kept as sex slaves by the Japanese army during World War II have held their 1,000th rally outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul. | 16185314 |
Borthwick, 36, will link up with new England head coach Eddie Jones after agreeing terms earlier this week.
In a statement, the RFU said that he would start work "with immediate effect" as England forwards coach.
Bristol owner Steve Lansdown had claimed the RFU were "totally unprofessional" in their approach.
He had accused them of trying to "ride roughshod over everybody" while the club reluctantly agreed to negotiate a compensation package for the 36-year-old.
Ian Ritchie, RFU chief executive said: "We very much appreciate that our approach for Steve has come at a challenging time for Bristol during the season, and in such circumstances I thank them for reaching this agreement."
Borthwick, a former England captain, had handed in his resignation despite agreeing a long-term contract with Bristol following the World Cup.
The RFU had then released a statement saying Borthwick would work for Jones as forwards coach, even though there was no agreement in place with the Championship leaders.
Chris Booy, Bristol Rugby Chairman said: "On behalf of the club we wish Steve Borthwick the very best with England and we are pleased that we can move on and begin the process to recruit a new coach as quickly as possible."
Premiership side Northampton have also taken issue over the RFU's approach for backs coach Alex King, with Saints boss Jim Mallinder saying the club have been "kept in the dark". | The Rugby Football Union has reached an agreement with Bristol to release coach Steve Borthwick from his contract with the Championship club. | 35143504 |
The Donegal-born thespian voiced the lead role in the animation Kubo and the Two Strings, alongside Matthew McConaughey and Charlize Theron.
The film has been nominated in the Best Animated Movie and Best Visual Effects categories.
The 15-year-old schoolboy rose to prominence playing Rickon Stark in the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.
He also played a major role in last year's disaster movie San Andreas, about a devastating earthquake that hits San Francisco.
Now, Art could add potential Oscar glory to his list of achievements.
"Mum came in yesterday and she was almost crying. I wouldn't be doing it without her, they're all very proud," Art told BBC Radio Foyle.
"I'm very excited about it to be honest. It's a great achievement, everybody who is involved in film making wants the recognition of what they put into it."
Art Parkinson explained how he had been returning to class at his Irish-speaking secondary school in Buncrana, County Donegal, when he heard the news.
"I knew the nominations were coming out but when it got to break time, I just completely forgot," Art said.
"I was going from English class to my geography class and my teacher called me out and said: 'I've been looking for you' and told me the news.
"It's a bit mental to be honest, it's very exciting."
Juggling school life with Hollywood fame isn't an easy task for any teenager, and Art is still unsure if he will even make it to the awards ceremony.
"It kind of depends on the work I'm doing, I'm going over for the Annies (American animation awards) next week but as of the Oscars I'm not too sure yet."
Art is the voice of the lead character, Kubo, in the film and he believes he shares some of his qualities.
"He's very like me in many ways; he's very cultured and he's a story teller and as an actor I think of myself as a story teller.
"He brings his stories to life through his origami whereas I like to do it through my acting."
The boy from the quiet coastal town of Moville will be hoping his story telling gets rewarded at the Academy Awards ceremony on 26 February.
You can find the full list of Oscar nominations here. | Irish actor Art Parkinson discovered his film had been nominated for an Oscar, in between school classes. | 38742110 |
It might sound like Nicholas Daines has had an extraordinary run of bad luck.
But no... he is in fact a former Team GB gymnast who, after hanging up his tracksuit, chose the rather unconventional career path of training to become a Hollywood stuntman.
Daines, 39, who represented Great Britain at the 2003 World Championships in Germany, now spreads his time between living in Hertfordshire and Hollywood.
The stuntman, who trains in London, has appeared in about 50 movies including Die Another Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
And for athletes who have decided they reached their sporting zenith at the London Olympics, he recommends working in the film industry as one of many career options open to them.
Currently working on the upcoming Angelina Jolie film, Maleficent, Daines told the BBC: "When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was jump around and fall off things but I never believed it was something I could make my living from."
"With a lot of athletes, once their competitive days are done, they think that's it and they just have to get on with life," he said.
"But there is a whole realm of opportunity out there that is relatively untapped into."
Daines went to Hollywood at the age of 22 in the hope of pursuing a career in film.
"That was a naive dream," he said. "Without the paperwork it was impossible."
Back in the UK, while continuing to compete for his local gymnastics club, he picked up a job as an acrobat in a pantomime troupe.
"Some of the other acrobats told me about the stunt world," he said.
Daines trained with the Equity Stunt Register and at the age of 27 he qualified as a member of the British Stunt Register.
After competing in the double mini-trampoline in the 2003 World Championships, he decided it was time to focus on his new career.
"To be the best you can be at a sport you have to dedicate yourself 100%, and once I'd represented Team GB, I'd reached my goal," he said. "My new career took over."
He gradually built up his CV performing stunts for commercials and films.
In 2004, he performed "the most dangerous" stunt he says he has ever attempted.
When Det Sgt Mel Silver dramatically exited BBC TV series Waking the Dead, it was not actress Claire Goose taking the 80ft nosedive from the top of a block of flats.
It was in fact Daines - as a body double - completing the fall with a one and three-quarter somersault into an airbag.
"It was a technical gymnastic manoeuvre so my skills came in handy," Daines said.
Through building up experience and skills, he was eventually considered as having special ability status for his US Green Card in 2010.
At the age of 37, he returned to LA and his film credits since have included Clash of the Titans and Batman Begins.
But which role has been his career highlight so far?
"The fall off a glacier in Switzerland was my favourite," Daines proudly says.
In 2007 film The Golden Compass, Daines played a Samoyed chasing Lord Asriel, performed by Daniel Craig.
Lord Asriel slid down a glacier and saved himself. But Daines' character was less fortunate, and fell off off the edge.
"We had a 50ft ice slide, with noose-runs carved out of the glacier and then there was a 60ft high fall," he said.
Terrifying? Perhaps. But it got him a World Stunt Award nomination in the Best Work at Height category.
Meanwhile, Daines has a final word of advice for this year's Team GB athletes.
"Sport is an amazing asset to have because you have that discipline and focus that only sport can give you.
"It's great gateway to help you achieve whatever you want to in life." | He has fallen off glaciers, jumped out of speeding cars and leapt from a 10-storey building to avoid a flurry of gunfire. | 19245279 |
Dinner lady Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and Katie, 13, were smothered and stabbed while they slept at home in Spalding.
Sentencing them, the judge said it was "a terrible crime which has few parallels in modern criminal history".
The killers were 14 at the time, apparently making them Britain's youngest double-murderers.
The judge at Nottingham Crown Court, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, said the case had "defining and particularly chilling" features, and condemned the killers' conduct as "grotesque".
Jurors heard that the killers went on to share a bath, have sex, and watch four Twilight vampire films after the murders in Dawson Avenue, Spalding, on 13 April.
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Addressing the teenagers, the judge told them: "There is a clear intention to kill both victims - both defendants admitted wanting to murder them.
"There was remarkable premeditation and planning - it was, on any view, substantial, meticulous and repeated."
He added: "The killings were brutal in the form of executions, and both victims, particularly Elizabeth Edwards, must have suffered terribly in the last minutes of their lives."
Mrs Edwards and her daughter were repeatedly stabbed by the couple, who were described in court as having a Bonnie and Clyde-style relationship
Mrs Edwards was stabbed by the boy eight times, twice in the throat, in a deliberate attempt to ensure her daughter was not woken by screams or cries for help.
Katie was stabbed twice in the neck with severe force before she was smothered by the boy.
During his sentencing remarks, the judge said both teenagers were equally responsible for the murders and had "revelled in what you achieved".
"I see no reason to distinguish between you in any way," he said. "Had you been adults you may have been facing the whole of your lives in prison for this double murder."
Outside court, Karen Thompson, deputy chief crown prosecutor for the East Midlands, said: "This is one of the most distressing and disturbing cases that I have ever encountered.
"Our deepest sympathies are now with the extended family and friends of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards as they attempt to come to terms with this horrific crime."
Det Ch Insp Martin Holvey, of Lincolnshire Police, said it had been "a rare and unprecedented case".
"The planning that went into these brutal murders of Elizabeth and Katie, as they slept in their own beds, was cold, ruthless and chilling - as was the lack of remorse shown by the two juveniles afterwards."
In court Peter Joyce QC, prosecuting, detailed for the first time the account given by the boy shortly after he was arrested.
He said the pair had met up and both agreed to kill Mrs Edwards and her daughter after "the girl had asked him to kill both of the victims as she did not like the smell of blood".
"He went on to describe the killing of the mother, Elizabeth, and said that during the attack she had struggled and scratched his face, back and bum," Mr Joyce told the court.
"After about three minutes she had stopped struggling and had gone limp. He had got off the bed and taken off his trainers since they had made the floorboards creak."
The boy then went into Katie's room, bent down and pushed the knife through her throat before using a pillow to smother her, the court heard.
Defending the boy, Simon Myerson QC said the two children "became trapped in a fantasy of their own devising".
Andrew Stubbs QC, representing the girl, said the pair were in a "toxic relationship" and were "almost playing chicken with each other" as they spurred each other on to commit the killings.
The pair pleaded guilty to manslaughter at a hearing in September but later the boy admitted to murder before the trial began. His girlfriend maintained her innocence to murder but was found guilty of two counts. | Two 15-year-olds have been given life sentences with 20-year minimum terms for the murder of a mother and daughter in Lincolnshire in April. | 37941236 |
But the setting is not actually Nepal, it is in fact Egypt.
The BBC's own team of verifiers noticed the footage doing the rounds on social media at the time of the April quake, but quickly spotted the signs that identified the scene as Egyptian.
It's not the only misidentified imagery to be picked up at the time.
Facebook's year in review uses a mix of video and still pictures to give viewers a visual tour of the big stories of 2015.
The clips include the Pluto flyby, the migration crisis, the shootings in Paris, sporting successes and stories that were big on social media.
But a few seconds of video highlighting the devastating earthquake that killed 9,000 people and devastated many communities in Nepal is not all that it might appear.
Omayma el Zulafi, a journalist with the BBC's User Generated Content (UGC) verification hub, spotted the video around the time of the quake and quickly noticed it could not be from Nepal.
"There's a shot [in the full version] showing an Arabic sign and you can see an Egyptian policeman. If you listen carefully you can hear an Egyptian Arabic accent," she said.
The BBC's UGC team says the incident highlights the importance of close verification of images.
It was not the only fake image to appear at the time purporting to be of the earthquake.
A video of waves in a hotel swimming pool also got a lot of attention, but was in fact from Mexico, as BBC Trending found out.
And a widely-shared image of a little boy comforting his sister was also debunked as it emerged the photograph was taken in Vietnam in 2007.
The BBC has informed Facebook about the footage in its year in review video and they say they are looking into it. | Facebook's two-minute-long year in review video features a scene of a crumbling building in its segment on the Nepal earthquake. | 35130097 |
Only one case has been discovered in Ryan's string but the yard near Thirsk has been placed under quarantine by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA).
The nearby stables of trainers Bryan Smart and Michael Herrington have also been quarantined as a precaution.
The BHA said they are working with Ryan and staff to ensure the correct disease control measures are in place.
"The risk of the virus being transmitted in a controlled race-day environment is relatively small," said David Sykes, the BHA's director of equine health and welfare.
"[But] it is in theory possible that horses from the yard in question may have been infectious some time before the disease was diagnosed.
"For this reason we have taken measures to alert trainers, as well as racecourses and veterinary surgeons, to be vigilant to the clinical signs."
The equine herpes virus can cause respiratory disease and abort foetuses, while a less common neurological form of the virus can cause co-ordination problems and paralysis, and is potentially fatal.
The National Stud breeding site in Newmarket was closed last year following the discovery of the neurological herpes virus infection.
Ryan won the French Derby and Irish Champion Stakes in 2014 with The Grey Gatsby and is a four-time winner of the Ayr Gold Cup, including the 2016 edition with Brando. | Trainer Kevin Ryan has been suspended from running horses after a case of equine herpes was found at his yard. | 40122299 |
The former All Black was capped 63 times by his country and was considered one of rugby's first global superstars.
Thousands attended the service, which opened with a traditional Maori haka for Lomu, who was of Tongan descent.
He was diagnosed with a rare kidney condition in 1995, but the exact cause of death has not been established.
Doctors believe he died as a result of a blood clot that developed on the long flight back from the UK where he had recently been watching the Rugby World Cup with his wife and two young boys, reports the BBC's Jon Donnison in Eden Park.
Many of those at the memorial were from New Zealand's Pacific Island communities. A private family burial service will be held in Auckland on Tuesday.
This was a great send off for a great man. Perhaps not the attendance everyone was hoping for, but several thousand turned up at Eden Park to remember a legend of rugby union. The game's first global superstar.
The ceremony opened with a haka, performed in traditional warrior costume with spine tingling intensity. The crowd heard tributes from people ranging from Queen Elizabeth II to Elton John.
Dozens of former All Blacks were there to pay their respects, among them Grant Fox, who told me: "The scary thing with Jonah was he was performing with a debilitating illness. Imagine what he could have done if he was 100% healthy."
Former winger Eric Rush reduced the crowd to laughter and then tears as he addressed the gathering, remembering his dear friend.
It was a tough day for Jonah Lomu's wife Nadene, who did her best to comfort the couple's two young boys, Dyhreille and Brayley, both decked out in the famous number 11 shirt their father wore to such devastating effect.
The memorial opened with a haka, and powhiri welcome ritual. Jonah Lomu's coffin was then carried into the stadium by pallbearers, including several former All Blacks.
Lomu's wife Nadene followed, wearing a woven skirt - a traditional Tongan symbol of respect and mourning - accompanied by her two sons.
In an especially moving moment, pupils of Lomu's former school in South Auckland, Favona Primary, performed their own tribute song, calling the rugby giant "Number 11, our friend in heaven".
The tributes were led by World Rugby chairman Bernard Lapasset, who travelled from Paris for the memorial. He described Lomu as "a giant of a man (who) leaves a giant space in world rugby".
"He will forever be a big part of rugby's story," he said.
New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key recorded a video tribute in Paris, where he is attending the world climate conference.
"He proved that you can come from anywhere in New Zealand, in any background, and make it to the top,'' he said in the message.
Jonah Lomu fought a nearly two-decade battle with kidney illness, which former All Blacks coach John Hart recounted, saying "he was a fighter until the very end".
His death did not only touch the rugby world, with footballer David Beckham and Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman also among those paying their condolences.
Lomu scored a record 15 tries at Rugby World Cups, eight of them in 1999 - also a record for most tries at a single tournament. Both records were only matched this year. | A public memorial for New Zealand rugby great Jonah Lomu, who died earlier this month at 40, has been held at Auckland's Eden Park stadium. | 34960749 |
Armed officers were sent to the supermarket in Blackheath, West Midlands, on Saturday and several roads were closed.
A teenager has been charged with making an explosive substance and maliciously causing an explosive substance to endanger life.
The boy has also been charged with possession of a bladed article.
West Midlands Police confirmed the teenager was remanded in custody on Monday.
"No members of the public were hurt during the incident and road closures have now been lifted in the area," police added. | A 15-year-old boy has been charged after a fire in a Sainsbury's toilets led to the store being evacuated. | 40083510 |
Proposals to cut up to 24 posts in the region and lose one fire engine from the Wrexham station are up for consideration at a meeting on 20 June.
North Wales brigade secretary Shane Price said: "The service has already suffered heavy cutbacks in staffing."
Deputy Chief Fire Officer Dawn Docx said there are a variety of money saving options on the table.
The Wrexham station currently has three engines.
The FBU's Mr Price said he felt the authority has failed to take into account how much support crews in Wrexham offered to surrounding fire stations like Johnstown and Chirk.
But Mrs Docx said the fire service's budget could no longer be frozen due to the cost of inflation and rising pension costs and the decision to reduce future services was "the least damaging option".
The authority's executive members met with senior fire officers in May to discuss future plans.
She said: "The working group had come to the conclusion that the option that they intend to explore further and consult on, would be the potential removal of a whole time pump from Wrexham by the end of this decade.
Once the full authority has agreed on its proposals there will be a full public consultation later in 2016. | The Fire Brigades Union has warned against "brutal cuts" being considered by the North Wales Fire Authority. | 36424636 |
The 43-year-old, who finished fourth in the event in 2016, hit eight birdies to return a bogey-free round.
Dredge's round of 64 is his best since regaining his tour card last year.
Meanwhile, former US Open champion Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland started well and finished the day two strokes back in third.
McDowell opened with three birdies and reached the turn in only 30 shots after starting on the 10th tee.
The 37-year-old dropped just one shot, on the sixth, as he signed for a six-under 66.
"I understood today that the scoring was going to be good," Dredge said.
"It was an opportunity to go at more flags and get the ball closer to the hole.
"Without the wind, it certainly makes it a lot easier to get the score going and get the putts in."
Find out how to get into golf with our special guide. | Welsh golfer Bradley Dredge carded an eight-under-par 64 in the opening round to lead the Qatar Masters by one shot over Finland's Mikko Korhonen. | 38757417 |
The 68-year-old had been in charge for four years after replacing Italian Fabio Capello but has won just three of 11 games in major tournament finals.
Iceland - with a population of just 330,000 - were among the lowest-ranked teams in France at 34 in the world.
"I'm sorry it will have to end this way but these things happen," Hodgson said.
"Now is the time for someone else to oversee the progress of a hungry and extremely talented group of players.
"They have done fantastically and done everything asked of them. I hope you will still be able to see an England team in a final of a major tournament soon."
Hodgson, who won 33 of his 56 games as England boss, would have been out of contract at the end of the tournament.
The former Liverpool and West Brom boss was due to discuss a possible contract renewal but Football Association chairman Greg Dyke said he would only stay on if England "do well" in France.
In a statement issued following Hodgson's resignation, the FA said: "Like the nation, we are disappointed to lose this evening and that our run in Euro 2016 has come to a premature end.
"We had high hopes of progressing through to the latter stages of the competition and accept that we have not met our own expectations or those of the country.
"We back Roy Hodgson's decision to step down as England manager and will discuss next steps imminently."
England qualified for Euro 2016 with a 100% record in their group.
They started the finals with a 1-1 draw against Russia before beating Wales 2-1 and drawing 0-0 with Slovakia in their final Group B game - results that left them in second place and in a tougher half of the draw.
Hodgson faced heavy criticism following the Slovakia game for making six changes to the side that had beaten Wales.
Under Hodgson's guidance, England had reached the quarter-finals of the last European Championship, losing to Italy on penalties, before a dismal showing at the 2014 World Cup.
They went out at the group stages without winning a game.
Speaking to reporters following Monday's defeat, Hodgson confirmed that assistants Ray Lewington and Gary Neville would also leave their posts.
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BBC Match of the Day pundit and former England striker Alan Shearer said of the Iceland defeat: "That was the worst performance I've ever seen from an England team. Ever.
"We were out-fought, out-thought, out-battled and totally hopeless for 90 minutes. It looked to me like Roy was making it up as he was going along."
Shearer, who revealed he wanted to become England manager before Hodgson was appointed, added: "Our players caved tonight. They caved and the manager caved."
Fellow BBC pundit Jermaine Jenas said Hodgson "didn't know" what he was doing, adding: "He didn't know his best team or system.
"His loyalty to players has cost him his job. It was a horrible way to go out of the tournament."
Captain Wayne Rooney insisted tactics did not play a part in England's loss.
"I can't stand here and say exactly why it's happened," said the striker. "There are always upsets in football. It's not tactics. It's just unfortunate.
"We know we're a good team. It's a sad day for us. It's tough."
Asked about his own international future, Rooney said: "I'm still available."
England goalkeeper Joe Hart said: "We worked hard but with no success. That is how this team will be remembered."
He added that the next manager "has a tough job on his hands".
The latest odds have England Under-21 boss and former Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate as favourite to succeed Hodgson.
Odds are also being offered on Gary Neville and Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew (10/1); Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe and new Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers (16/1); Arsenal's Arsene Wenger (28/1) and Manchester United's Jose Mourinho (33/1).
After a playing career that took him to Crystal Palace, Gravesend and Northfleet, Maidstone and South African side Berea Park, Hodgson began life in management with Halmstads in Sweden at the age of only 28, where he won two league championships.
He took over at Bristol City in 1980 but was dismissed after just four months, before returning to Sweden where he won five successive titles with Malmo.
Hodgson took over as Switzerland manager and led them to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup finals and Euro 96 in England.
There followed unsuccessful spells back in club football in charge of Inter Milan and Blackburn, before he took charge of the United Arab Emirates. He was sacked after finishing fifth in the Gulf Cup.
He also managed Finland, but quit after failing to qualify for Euro 2008.
In 2007, he was appointed manager of Fulham and took them to their highest ever top-flight finish of seventh, followed by a remarkable run to the Uefa Cup final, where the London side were beaten by Atletico Madrid.
He then moved to Liverpool in July 2010 but left just seven months into a three-year contract.
In February 2011, he took over at West Brom and guided them clear of relegation. The following April, the West Midlands club gave the FA permission to speak to him about the vacant England manager position. | Roy Hodgson resigned as England manager after his side suffered a shock 2-1 defeat by Iceland to crash out of Euro 2016 at the last-16 stage. | 36647032 |
Defender Nick Ansell headed home the only goal for Kevin Muscat's side, who beat Italian champions Juventus on penalties last week.
Atletico boss Diego Simeone, who selected seven academy players, was pleased with his side's performance.
"I take from this many positive things," he said.
"The youths are learning and this is the way to improve."
Atletico will return to Spain on Tuesday before facing Galatasaray in Turkey on 6 August as part of their pre-season preparation. | Champions League finalists Atletico Madrid lost 1-0 to A-League side Melbourne Victory during their pre-season tour of Australia. | 36935568 |
Arthur Simpson-Kent, 49, stabbed Ms Blake to death along with their sons Zachary, eight, and Amon, four.
He killed them when he learnt Ms Blake was planning to leave him and take their sons away, the court heard.
Judges upheld a decision that he should receive the most "severe punishment for his horrific crimes" on Tuesday.
Following the murder in December 2015, Simpson-Kent painted over the bloodstains in the family bungalow in Erith, south-east London, before fleeing to his native Ghana in January.
He was arrested at Heathrow Airport in February after being extradited and admitted murdering his family in June.
He was sentenced at the Old Bailey last October by a judge who said he had been left in "no doubt" he should receive the most severe punishment available for his "truly horrific" crimes.
Lord Thomas, describing the murders of the three vulnerable victims as horrific and involving "extreme brutality", said the court was "entirely satisfied" that the sentencing judge was entitled to reach the conclusion that it was a case where "just punishment" required the imposition of a whole-life order.
The appeal judges rejected argument on the killer's behalf that a "very long finite" sentence in the region of 40 years would have been sufficient - and would have given him some hope of release once served.
In throwing out Simpson-Kent's challenge, Lord Thomas said that for a whole-life sentence to be imposed the offending must be "exceptionally high".
He said: "We have to look at the whole of the circumstances and to consider whether this was a case where the seriousness of the offending was exceptionally high - we have no doubt that it was."
Ms Blake played Frankie Pierre in 56 episodes of EastEnders between 1996 and 1997.
She went on to work as a voice-over artist and sign language interpreter. | The partner of former EastEnders actress Sian Blake has lost a challenge against his "whole-life" jail sentence for killing her and their two children. | 40419909 |
Eighty-four-year-old Lawrence Silk, who completed three tours of duty during the Vietnam War, now has dementia and insists he needs to return to the country to carry on fighting.
Lawrence lives in a care home in Vancouver and has days where he interacts and copes well and has "the charm turned way up," says son-in-law Kenny Dunn, but it's not always that way.
"After one visit to her father, my wife Julie broke down in tears because of all the problems he faces psychologically."
But it was his Vietnam memories which were plaguing him the most.
Lawrence's daughter Julie was concerned her father was getting more anxious.
"He'd started to talk about the Pentagon, saying they were going to send someone out with his uniform and rifle so he could report for duty."
Julie and husband Kenny appealed for anyone who had served with him in the Civil Engineering Squadron Prime BEEF (Base Engineer Emergency Force) to come and help.
It was Kenny's idea to write an appeal on Facebook, as he explained on the Veterans section (or 'subreddit') of Reddit:
"He is consistently haunted by his need to do his duty so we are asking for a current or retired military officer to volunteer to visit him - in uniform - and tell him that his responsibility to his country has been fulfilled.
"Perhaps present a certificate of some kind and take a picture so we can show it to him in the event that he forgets."
Soon after the Facebook post went public, a recently retired lieutenant colonel from the same squadron agreed to visit Lawrence and tell him his duty had been done.
"It was pure coincidence that he was a commander of the same unit. It was perfect," said Kenny.
Lt Col LaFrazia presented Lawrence with a certificate of appreciation from the United States Air Force (USAF), a USAF civil engineering badge and coins from the Prime Beef and Red Horse units.
Julie and her husband Kenny were so grateful that they posted their appreciation on Facebook and Reddit, along with photos of the emotional visit.
"We hope and pray that the colonel's kind words and message of reassurance can serve as a daily reminder to him that his duty has been done," Julie wrote.
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There were soon plenty of words of support and advice for the family across both sites, with many people expressing their happiness for the family on Facebook.
One Reddit user advised Julie and Kenny to "take a picture of the gentleman in uniform and frame it.
"Put it in his room next to an old photo of the patient in his dress blues and whenever he starts having an episode, call his 'army buddy'. Any male voice will probably do the job, just let him know he's done his duty and is currently on leave."
Other users expressed their concern about Lawrence's sleeping arrangements with one noting how thin his mattress was and suggesting Julie and Kenny should get a mattress more than two inches thick.
Kenny was quick to point out that this was not an issue and Lawrence was perfectly happy with the conditions at his care home.
Along with all of the advice from complete strangers, Lawrence now has a selection of memorabilia to remind him of his past achievements and that he doesn't need to return to Vietnam.
"Col LaFrazia is a saint in our eyes," says Kenny.
"No stranger I have ever met has been more gracious, caring and understanding."
Col LaFrazia said he wanted to help people understand a veteran's story doesn't end when the war does, and hoped his visit highlighted some of the challenges aging veterans face and the support which can be provided for them. | A Vietnam veteran with dementia has received a certificate of appreciation and regiment badges and coins to reassure him his fighting days are now over. | 40923339 |
Most of the internet company's $33bn (£21.8bn) value is attributed to its shareholding in Alibaba.
The decision is the opposite of the strategy announced in January to spin off its 15% stake in Alibaba.
Yahoo's internet business will now be put into a new company to be listed on the stock market.
Investors in Yahoo will get shares in the new company on a pro-rata basis.
Yahoo bought 40% of Alibaba in 2005 for $1bn. The current holding is worth about $30bn.
Chief executive Marissa Mayer said the new plan would help ensure that Yahoo's internet business was "accurately valued".
She also said she was "taking further steps to tighten our focus and prioritise our investments to drive growth".
More details about the move will be outlined in late January when Yahoo announces its fourth-quarter results.
The plan to spin off the Alibaba stake hit a hurdle in September when US tax authorities denied a request from Yahoo to decide whether the deal would be tax-free.
Yahoo shareholders could have ended up paying billions of dollars if the deal was ruled to be taxable.
Analysts said Wednesday's announcement could make it easier for Yahoo to sell its internet business. They include websites, mobile apps and advertising services and could be worth between $3bn and $5bn.
Roger Kay, analyst at Endpoint Technologies Associates, said Yahoo's internet business still had some value, given its huge global audience and expertise in online advertising.
"I don't know if Marissa Mayer is the right person to lead to company out of the desert, but it can be done," he said. "I think after the spin-off, it will establish its own level of value."
Yahoo chairman Maynard Webb denied there were plans to sell the internet businesses.
"We believe that we are tremendously undervalued and we think the best path to unlocking that value is by separating the Alibaba assets from our operating businesses and also turning around the performance in our operating business," he said.
Obtaining the necessary shareholder and regulatory approval meant the Alibaba transaction could take as long as a year to complete.
After initially rising, shares in Yahoo fell 3.1% to $33.76 in afternoon trading in New York.
Ms Mayer, 40, is expecting to give birth to twin girls this month, but plans to take only a short period of time off work.
She returned to work just two weeks after giving birth to her first child in 2013. | Yahoo has abandoned a plan to spin off its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. | 35051353 |
21 February 2016 Last updated at 19:34 GMT
The Cat S60 can measure the temperate of objects and take thermal selfies in complete darkness.
BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones asked product manager Pete Cunningham what people would use the device for. | A smartphone with a built-in thermal camera is on show at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. | 35603144 |
I Wenjie He, from Solihull in the West Midlands, was arrested in England on Wednesday.
He was then brought to Northern Ireland for questioning.
It follows the seizure of more than £800,000 of 'skunk' cannabis and cash during searches across Northern Ireland in recent days.
At Newtownards Magistrates Court on Saturday, a detective said the police investigation is still ongoing and that they fear the man might flee if released on bail.
Mr He was among 15 people arrested in the UK and Italy during the investigation.
Four men have already appeared in court charged with similar offences.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland carried out searches in Belfast, Greenisland, Bangor, Newtownards and Ballywalter.
They have also been co-operating with police in Italy, where officers uncovered a cannabis factory.
It is believed the total value of the 'skunk' seized in Northern Ireland and Italy was £4.25m and was destined for Northern Ireland.
The four other men who have already been charged - Jian Wen Chen, 29, of Belfast, Jiazhu Cia, 30, of Ballywalter, Yong He, 33, from Belfast and Wei Zou, 32, from Bangor - all appeared in Newtownards Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
The men were among six people, including two women, arrested in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.
The women, aged 29 and 26, have since been released on police bail pending further inquiries.
Eight people were also arrested in Italy and remain in custody. | A 37-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged over an international investigation into the supply of cannabis to Northern Ireland. | 32099790 |
Harding, who quit Shamrock Park along with manager Ronnie McFall in March, takes over from Gary Haveron following his resignation on Monday.
"I've a lot of respect and time for him and he wanted an opportunity in management," Rangers owner Michael Hughes told the Carrick Times.
"He's prepared to come and help develop the football club and our brand."
"Kieran is a guy who has been around Irish League football as a coach and he delivers the coaching licences for the IFA," added Hughes.
"For me it's a really positive appointment and I'm really looking forward to working with him and to the challenges ahead."
Harding and McFall stepped down at Portadown following a shock defeat by Lurgan Celtic in the Irish Cup.
Meanwhile, Carrick said Haveron departed as they were "unable to establish a mutual agreement on the best way forward for the club".
Rangers avoided relegation by finishing 10th but the club was later charged for failing to implement Haveron's touchline ban against Dungannnon.
It could have resulted in Carrick losing three points and being relegated but the Irish FA decided not to apply any sanction following a hearing.
Warrenpoint Town, who finished bottom but just a point behind Carrick, have appealed the IFA ruling. | Carrick Rangers have appointed former Portadown assistant boss Kieran Harding as their new manager. | 36400804 |
Holland & Barrett says there has been a 187% increase in sales of rosemary essential oil compared with last year.
A Northumbria University study showed pupils in a room scented with rosemary performed better in memory tests.
It supported the traditional links between rosemary and memory.
A spokeswoman for Holland & Barrett said that after the research about rosemary was published "we saw a sharp rise in customer demand".
"As the exam season continues, we have increased provision in store to meet demand," she said.
The rush for rosemary saw almost a doubling in sales compared with the same time last year and a trebling compared with the previous week.
Hundreds of thousands of pupils are revising and taking GCSEs and A-levels - with the suggestion that the spike in rosemary sales has been driven by anxious parents trying to find a way to help their children.
The research from Northumbria University, presented at the British Psychological Society's annual conference, backed up historical associations between rosemary and memory.
It suggested that pupils who worked in a classroom with the aroma of rosemary oil achieved 5% to 7% better results in memory tests.
Researcher Mark Moss said the human sense of smell was highly sensitive and sent messages to the brain, setting off reactions and responses.
"It could be that aromas affect electrical activity in the brain or that pharmacologically active compounds can be absorbed," he said.
Rosemary has been connected with memory for centuries.
In ancient Greece, students wore garlands of rosemary in exams and in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia says: "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance." | A High Street health food chain says it has had to order extra stocks of rosemary after research claimed the scent of the herb could improve the memory of students revising for exams. | 39949193 |
Some villagers fear the community will be ridiculed if it is forced to have signs with Farteg on them.
The move is under discussion as many place names across Wales display both English and Welsh spellings.
There is no letter 'V' in the Welsh alphabet, so it should read Farteg in Welsh.
The move has been supported by the Welsh Language Commissioner.
But people in the village have put their name to a petition opposing the change.
One of the county borough councillors whose ward includes Varteg said local residents remained adamant that the name should not be translated.
"They are very angry - they don't want it on the signs," said Giles Davies, who represents Abersychan on Torfaen council.
"Now there is the consultation, at the end of the day they are going to tell the council that.
"They are the ones who have got to live there, and they are worried that they will end up being ridiculed."
Mr Davies said he was "100%" behind the Welsh language but in this instance was representing the views of the people who elected him to the council.
He said that a decision to consider using the form Y Farteg rather than just Farteg did not improve the position.
"People who are not Welsh speakers will see that as 'Why Fart Egg'. People there have just had enough," he added.
The council said the decision to move to a public consultation over the name of the village followed a county-wide review.
"Following consultation on 22 Welsh place names in Torfaen, the council is asking people their opinion on the possible adoption of Y Farteg or Farteg as an additional Welsh place name for the current English spelling of Varteg," said a council spokesperson.
"If either Y Farteg or Farteg are adopted it will mean that in the future one of these Welsh place names will be used alongside Varteg."
The consultation is open until 9 December, online and through council offices. | A public consultation is under way on adopting the Welsh place name Y Farteg for the Torfaen village of Varteg - despite local opposition. | 25044888 |
English Fine Cotton, which makes material for bullet proof vests at Tame Valley Mill, Dukinfield, is to produce luxury yarn at neighbouring Tower Mill.
The company is investing £4.8m topped up with a £1m grant from the Textile Growth Programme.
The Grade II listed Tower Mill last produced cotton in 1955.
The firm has collected spinning machines and looms from mills over the years to produce synthetic textiles at Tame Valley, but the new production will have the latest in loom technology.
Andy Ogden, general manager of English Fine Cotton's parent company, Culimeta-Saveguard Ltd, said: "We owe it to the cotton industry - which Manchester was synonymous with - to put it back onto the world stage.
In 1781 Richard Arkwright opened the world's first steam-driven textile mill on Miller Street in Manchester.
Manchester rose to power as a centre for the trading, production and storage of cotton in the 19th century, earning the description "Cottonopolis".
The number of Manchester cotton mills reached its zenith in 1853 with 108 mills.
The UK cotton industry declined in the 20th century, starting with the halting of exports caused by World War One and the rise of other countries as cotton exporters.
Cotton mills in North West England closed at the rate of one a week in the 1960s and 70s, with the last one shutting in Greater Manchester in the 1980s.
Source: Museum of Science and Industry.
He added: "A number of times we have had firms coming to us saying they want British cotton. Unfortunately, up until now, we have had to say no."
A company spokeswoman said among the luxury cotton used will be Sea Island from Barbados, adding "It is the cotton that Ian Fleming specified James Bond's shirts were made of and Daniel Craig wore shirts using this cotton in Spectre."
The firm hops to sell "high end" cotton produced in Britain to companies such as Burberry or Marks and Spencer.
Councillor Kieran Quinn, executive leader of Tameside Council and responsible for investment strategy and finance within the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), said the mill will not be competing with the mass production of China, South East Asia or India.
"What we're talking about is bringing high quality........Made In Britain is a very powerful brand," he added.
English Fine Cotton bought Tower Mill - which was used to film the late 1980s' BBC One series Making Out - two years ago with help from GMCA, which also loaned £2m for the company's investment. | British cotton is to be spun for the first time in a generation thanks to a £5.8m renovation of a Greater Manchester mill. | 34984504 |
Pacquiao and Mayweather are set to split upwards of £150m following their welterweight bout at the MGM Grand.
But Freddie Roach said of Mayweather: "I really am wondering if he's going to turn up on the night.
"I don't think any fighter is afraid, but I don't think he wanted this fight. He was forced into a fight he didn't want to take."
Roach added: "I just don't know why Floyd has gone quiet for this fight. His speech is very subdued."
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Five-weight world champion Mayweather, 38, was unmoved by Roach's claims, stating: "I'll be there.
"I talked trash in the past but this fight sells itself, so I don't have to."
Roach said Mayweather's camp had also made a complaint about the protective cup that Pacquiao will use, citing that as further proof of Mayweather's fragile state of mind.
Roach said the Nevada Commission had inspected the cup at Pacquiao's training camp and approved it.
"It's the regular cup," said Roach, a seven-time trainer of the year who was in Oscar de la Hoya's corner when Mayweather beat him in 2007.
Mayweather's trainer, Floyd Sr, also went on the offensive at Wednesday's news conference.
"Manny Pacquiao ain't got it," he said. "He can't punch. It's going to be one-sided and Pacquiao is going to be put to sleep. Good night."
He also mocked Pacquiao and Roach in rhyme, including the line: "When Floyd breaks his jaw, he will take time to recoup. And when it's all finished, he'll be sucking on soup."
Six-weight world champion Pacquiao, 36, said he wanted the fight more than Mayweather and criticised the American - unbeaten in 47 bouts - for being money-focused.
"It's all business for him," said Pacquiao. "For me, it's about giving the fans who are paying all this money a great fight. They deserve that."
The Philippine legend added he was in good shape for the fight, which is the richest in history and also for the WBC, WBA and WBO titles.
"The feeling I had three years ago, 10 years ago, is back," he said. "I haven't felt like this in my last few fights, I feel different. I'm relaxed and confident." | Manny Pacquiao's trainer says he fears Floyd Mayweather might not turn up for Saturday's super-fight in Las Vegas. | 32525679 |
Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg lost his seat to the Labour Party in Sheffield Hallam, as did Lib Dem Greg Mulholland in Leeds North West.
Both have strong student numbers, the Leeds constituency being the area with the biggest increase in registered voters in the past year.
Some cited their reasons for voting Labour as a protest against the Tories.
Others prioritised the NHS and local education as key election issues.
The result was Alex Sobel taking the Leeds North West seat by more than 4,000 votes for Labour and Mr Clegg losing to Labour's Jared O'Mara by more than 2,000 votes.
Alex Keen, 23, from Headingley, is studying a masters degree in biodiversity and conservation at the University of Leeds.
"I had never considered voting Lib Dem after the coalition," he said.
"I'd say I was all aboard Jeremy's bandwagon, I went to a rally and he sold his manifesto to me. As for Tim Farron, his views on same sex marriage, well that was enough to put me off.
"I am normally a green voter but this time it was about tactical voting."
Rashelle Thomas-Jarrett, 23, a healthcare student also from Headingley, said: "I was Green all the way, but as we saw the Conservatives lead was increasing I thought I needed to do something.
"I thought if I did vote Labour there was more of a chance of getting Theresa May out.
"I'm a healthcare student so the NHS is a massive thing for one. You just couldn't vote for a Conservative government for that reason."
Elsi, 19, a midwifery student from Headingley, said: "I voted Labour. I was more anti-Tory than for a specific group. It was more of a strategic vote.
"I'm an NHS student so that was a factor. Labour is very supportive of funding the NHS and supporting that. It wasn't just for my career but it was for helping other people too."
Engineering student Dan Piper, 20, lives in Headingley in the Leeds North West constituency but cast a postal vote in his hometown of Ulverston.
"I voted Lib Dem but it was a tough choice. I think Conservative policies are not working for most people, more for the higher earners.
"I had a look at Labour's policies and thought they went a bit too far. They were trying to put a lot of money into things that they couldn't afford.
"I'm OK with tuition fees. I'm a student and my fees are £18,000 a year but I will happily pay."
It appears the surge in new voters in Leeds North West managed to win Labour an extra seat, possibly helped by a visit from Jeremy Corbyn during his campaign.
About 3,000 people packed a courtyard, road and parts of a park opposite Brudenell Social Club in Hyde Park, Leeds, when he visited on 15 May.
In Sheffield Hallam, young voter Amy Smith, 23, said Corbyn "speaks their language".
She said: "Young people are actually getting involved and know that there's someone out there that's not letting them down and can give them a future they can actually work for and live in.
"Corbyn has been really good at galvanising people to get out and get interested in politics because he speaks their language."
Charlie Heywood-Heath, also from Sheffield, said: "I think they've [politicians] realised actually young people probably are more important when it comes to the voting demographic." | Young voters in Yorkshire played their part in toppling two Liberal Democrat MPs on election night. | 40219802 |
Adams had last been on the losing side when Portsmouth defeated former club Northampton on 19 December last year.
His unbeaten run was the longest in the Football League since Scunthorpe's Eddie Nolan went 33 games in 2013-14.
Arsenal's Sol Campbell holds the record in the Premier League, playing 56 games between defeats.
"It's mad that I haven't lost a game of football for so long," 30-year-old Adams said earlier in the week. "The lads keep asking me, 'How many is it now?'
He played 17 league games last season after Northampton bounced back from their loss against Pompey to win promotion to League One.
This season he had made 15 appearances for Carlisle before Saturday's game, scoring once.
Boss Keith Curle predicted that his side would be "dangerous animal" after their first league reverse of the season.
He told BBC Cumbria: "We've had a phenomenal start to the season - 16 games, undefeated in 16. Now we start again." | Carlisle United midfielder Nicky Adams tasted defeat for the first time in 33 league games as they were beaten at Newport County on Saturday. | 37962417 |
There have also been counter-demonstrations in some countries.
Europe is struggling to cope with an enormous influx of people, mostly from Syria, who are fleeing violence and poverty in their own countries.
More than 9,000 migrants arrived in Munich on Saturday. Germany expects 40,000 to arrive over the weekend.
Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the decision to let in large numbers of refugees, saying she was "convinced it was right".
However, she faces growing criticism from her political allies, including the premier of the state of Bavaria, who told Der Spiegel magazine (in German) the situation would soon be beyond control.
Around 4,000 troops are being deployed in Germany for logistical support.
In London, tens of thousands of people, some carrying placards that read "Open the Borders" and "Refugees In" marched towards the prime ministerial residence in Downing Street.
There were similar demonstrations in other UK cities.
The British government has said it will take up to 20,000 refugees over five years, but from camps in the Middle East rather than people arriving in Europe.
In the Swedish capital Stockholm, about 1,000 people appealed for more generous support for refugees.
"Sweden can do much more, not only because it has the capacity to do so, but also because it, along with the European Union, bears some responsibility for the conflict in Syria," said demonstrator Joakim, 38, who took part with his two children.
An estimated 30,000 people rallied gathered outside parliament in the Danish capital Copenhagen, chanting "Say it loud and say it clear, refugees are welcome here".
Mohammed Harra, who was born in Morocco, told Denmark's Politiken newspaper: "I am here to support refugees who have been driven out of their houses because of what has happened in Syria, with the bombings and the killings."
In other events:
Rallies against welcoming more refugees and migrants took place in some eastern European countries.
About 5,000 people chanting anti-Islamic slogans marched in the Polish capital Warsaw, while a nearby counter-demonstration drew about 1,000 people.
In Prague, about 800 protesters carried banners reading "I do not want refugees and Islam in Czech Republic" and "Protect the borders".
Elsewhere in the city, a smaller counter-demonstration in support of refugees attracted about 200 people, witnesses said.
Another anti-migrant rally attended by about 1,500 people took place in the Slovak capital Bratislava.
Tens of thousands of mainly Syrian migrants have been making their way from Turkey, through the Balkans and Hungary to reach Austria, Germany and Sweden.
Migrants have continued to arrive in Macedonia from Greece. More buses were reported to be heading towards the Hungarian border.
Next to a set of old railway tracks, a long line of migrants and refugees queues for buses to take them to nearby registration camps, which I have not been able to visit.
A police officer calls families forward one by one. "Syria? Afghanistan? Pakistan?" the officer asks in English.
He notes their reply on a piece of paper and lets them board.
A translator stands by to help. At one point, she picks up a rake and clears rubbish from the road in front of the bus.
By contrast to the chaos and panic I witnessed at the same place on Friday night, the atmosphere is calm. The police are courteous and organised.
Volunteers walk along the line handing out sandwiches and bottles of water. The refugee families wait patiently in the sun.
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Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter appealed urgently for other German regions to do more to process and accommodate the new arrivals.
He described as "scandalous" the failure of other regions to provide more accommodation, according to state broadcaster ARD.
Reports suggest the government is considering new temporary powers to take control of unoccupied rental property to accommodate migrants.
The crisis has exposed deep divisions within the European Union. The European Commission announced plans for obligatory quotas to share out 120,000 additional asylum seekers among 25 member countries.
The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia oppose being forced to take in new arrivals.
Hungary, which has struggled to cope with some 150,000 migrants who have crossed its borders so far this year, has faced criticism.
The Austrian chancellor said Hungary's treatment of migrants reminded him of the darkest days of Europe's history - an apparent allusion to the Nazis.
The Hungarian government spokesman said Werner Faymann had run amok.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. | Tens of thousands of people have taken part in a "day of action" in several European cities - and in Australia - in support of refugees and migrants. | 34235673 |
The project was due to regenerate the town's market and rebuild the Europa Pools leisure centre, with restaurants, a food court and a hotel also proposed.
Wirral Council said it was still negotiating with developers Neptune, but was also talking to other firms.
Council leader Phil Davies said the decision was linked to "more ambitious" development opportunities.
The scheme was announced as part of wider plans to reinvent Birkenhead as one of the North's most desirable places for businesses to invest.
Called the Wirral Growth Plan, the focus was particularly on what the council described as the "Downtown Birkenhead" postcode, CH41.
Mr Davies said the council continued to have "huge ambitions" for Birkenhead, and believed it could be a "fantastic destination".
He added: "Initial discussions about Europa Pools focused on moving the pool and building a food court, but as we explore more ambitious development opportunities in and around Birkenhead town centre, we have now decided to look again at our leisure offer in light of other exciting investments."
Discussions continue with a number of developers, he said.
Steve Parry, of Neptune Developments, said the company was "very disappointed" the council had decided to review its position, after initially approving the scheme.
He added: "We remain in active discussions with the council and are fully committed to playing a major role in the regeneration of Birkenhead."
This doesn't necessarily spell the end for the working relationship between Neptune and Wirral Council. I understand the authority is open to a different plan for this area from the developer, but is also in discussion with other firms.
This process has already been quite lengthy and this latest twist creates further uncertainty for retailers especially those who feel they're losing out to the out-of-town shopping centres.
The council says it is determined to get the best deal for Birkenhead.
But if this £30m project is off the table, the question of what will replace it remains. | Plans for a £30m redevelopment of Birkenhead town centre have been scrapped. | 37790092 |
There are 90 seats to be filled, a reduction from the 108 seats elected in May 2016.
With STV, candidates are elected according to the share of the vote they receive, the size of the electorate, and the number of seats to be filled.
On ballot papers, voters rank candidates in order of preference, giving each a number. They can choose as many or as few as they like.
When polls close and vote counting begins, the first step is to work out the 'quota', which decides how many votes a candidate needs to be elected.
To calculate the quota, you divide the number of valid voting papers cast by the number of seats to be filled plus one, and then add one.
Candidates who exceed the quota are elected straight away.
Votes are then redistributed among the other candidates in two ways.
1. Some candidates may be elected by many more votes than the quota. These extra votes are called the surplus, and are redistributed in proportion to the total number of preferences for other candidates in an elected candidate's ballots.
2. The lowest ranked candidates are eliminated, and the preferences on their ballot papers are distributed among the other candidates.
The process continues, with votes redistributed in these two ways, until all the seats are filled.
To illustrate how the process can work, consider an election for the three most popular Shakespeare characters.
Here is the result from the first round of voting:
To calculate the quota: There were 109,525 valid votes cast and three seats to be filled.
So, 109,525 divided by (3 seats +1)4, +1 = 27,382
Hamlet has clearly achieved this, so is elected in round one.
There are 29,406 surplus votes from Hamlet to be redistributed - and all of his ballots are examined to decide the proportion.
Some 23% of Hamlet's total ballots were found to have second preferences for Cleopatra.
Therefore, of the 29,406 surplus, 23% is awarded to Cleopatra = 6,763.4
Quota: 27,382
Cleopatra now exceeds the quota and is elected at stage 2.
The other candidates receive proportional transfers from Hamlet's surplus.
There are 6,148 surplus ballots from her new total to redistribute. Again, all of her ballot papers are examined and the new surplus is redistributed in the same way as before.
Quota: 27,382
However, no one reaches the quota in stage 3 so the last placed candidate - Lady Macbeth - is eliminated.
Any preferences on her ballots are transferred to the remaining candidates.
Any votes with only one preference - for Lady Macbeth herself - are discarded, and known as 'non-transferable'.
Quota: 27,382
Stage 4 concludes with no candidate surpassing the quota.
Last-placed Romeo is now eliminated and his preferences transferred to the remaining candidates.
Quota: 27,382
Desdemona is elected in the final round when Romeo's second preferences are transferred.
A candidate can win without meeting the quota when there are no more votes available for transfer.
In this particular scenario, surpluses were only redistributed in the first two stages.
However, in an election where more seats need to be filled, and with more candidates, the process can happen repeatedly through many stages of counting.
The summary scoreboard shows first preference votes and vote share to indicate electoral support across the country.
The bar chart at the top of the page shows the top 5 or 6 parties in terms of seats won in the assembly.
If more than 6 parties win seats, the parties with fewest seats are amalgamated into a grouping called Others.
In the event of a tie - for example two parties have two seats - the party with the most first preference votes nationwide will be named.
Each constituency page displays a summary of all parties' and candidates' first preferences.
You can follow how the stages of counting unfold on the 'stage by stage' tab. This shows who is elected and eliminated in each round and the transferred votes at each stage.
Seat change will not be shown at national or constituency level in this election. This is because the reduction in seats from 108 to 90 makes a valid comparison extremely difficult.
On smaller mobile screens, parties are sometimes abbreviated to 3 or 4 letter codes. Codes used in Northern Ireland are:
APNI: Alliance Party
CCLA: Cross Community Labour Alternative
CON: Conservative
CSA: Citizens Independent Social Thought Alliance
DUP: Democratic Unionist Party
GRN: Green Party Northern Ireland
IND: Independent
PBPA: People Before Profit Alliance
PUP: Progressive Unionist Party
SDLP: Social Democratic & Labour Party
SF: Sinn Féin
TUV: Traditional Unionist Voice
UKIP: United Kingdom Independence Party
UUP: Ulster Unionist Party
WP: Workers Party
OTH: Others | Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly are elected using the Single Transferable Vote system or STV. | 35555322 |
It comes after oil giant Royal Dutch Shell last month stopped its Arctic activity citing "disappointing" tests.
The US interior department said it was cancelling two potential Arctic offshore lease sales and would not extend current leases.
The announcement has been welcomed by environmentalists.
Miyoko Sakashita, of the Center for Biological Diversity, said the decision was "great for the Arctic and its polar bears".
"We need to keep all the Arctic oil in the ground," she said.
US government leases are due to expire in the Beaufort Sea in 2017 and in the Chukchi Sea in 2020.
"In light of Shell's announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease sales in the Arctic in the next year and a half," Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said in a statement.
Shell has spent about $7bn (£4.5bn) on Arctic offshore development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
However, last month it announced it had not found sufficient amounts of oil and gas in the region to warrant further exploration.
It said it would end exploration off Alaska "for the foreseeable future".
Correspondents say the Arctic is a risky and expensive place for oil companies to explore, and the current low price of oil makes it even less attractive.
The US Geological Survey estimates that the Arctic holds about 30% of the world's undiscovered natural gas, as well as 13% of its oil.
However, environmental groups say offshore drilling will pollute and damage a natural wilderness.
They also argue that fossil fuels such as oil and gas must be left in the ground if the world is to avoid runaway climate change. | The US government has announced new curbs on oil and gas exploration in Arctic waters off Alaska's northern coast. | 34557099 |
Criminal gangs are using guns to settle their disputes, said detectives.
They believe the "sickening and cowardly" shooting on Monday may be linked to the murder of Salford's "Mr Big", Paul Massey, in July.
The woman has been named locally as Jayne Hickey, 29. Both victims are in hospital with leg wounds.
Security boss Mr Massey was shot outside his home in Salford and there is a possible link to a feud between rival gangs in the Swinton and central Salford areas. There have been several shootings.
A second feud has broken out, unconnected to Monday's attack, centred on another area of the city, Little Hulton. There have been at least six shootings linked with that.
Det Ch Supt Russ Jackson, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said rival gangs were understood to be involved in drug dealing, loan sharking and extortion, but the gang war may also be over other issues.
"It is very difficult to understand what the feuds are about. But what I can say is that it's got all the hallmarks of a feud over disrespect.
"These incidents often start not necessarily over drugs but over a degree of disrespect shown to each other," he said.
Speaking at a news conference, Deputy Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said gun crime was "absolutely not" out of control in the city.
He said a major police operation involving 50 detectives was already running in Salford, targeting organised crime.
DCC Hopkins said 30 guns had been seized since January, there had been dozens of arrests and armed response units were working around the clock.
But he appealed for the public's help to break down what has been called a "wall of silence" surrounding gangs in the city.
Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd also urged local people to come forward.
"I can't believe that even those involved in the organised gangs in Salford will be anything other than sickened themselves by the descent when we see not grown men involved in gangs but a woman - a mother - and a seven-year-old child becoming the victims of the violence that has echoed around these streets in recent months," he said. | The shooting of a seven-year-old boy and his mother in Salford is linked to armed feuds between gangs in parts of Greater Manchester, police have said. | 34516556 |
The world governing body's adjudication committee will now decide whether to take any action against the 70-year-old, who was one of 22 men to vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Beckenbauer was provisionally banned by Fifa for "failing to co-operate" with its inquiry into the bidding process.
Russia and Qatar won the 2010 vote to stage the next two tournaments.
Fifa vice-president and senior Uefa official Angel Maria Villar Llona has also had his case passed to the committee for a verdict from head of adjudication Hans Joachim Eckert.
In a statement, Fifa also said it would "do everything in its power" to complete its separate investigation into outgoing president Sepp Blatter and Uefa chief Michel Platini, within their 90-day suspensions.
Both men are banned, pending further inquiries into a £1.35m payment between them.
Beckenbauer captained West Germany to victory as hosts at the 1974 World Cup, and was coach when they next lifted the trophy in Italy 16 years later.
He then managed at Olympique Marseille and Bayern Munich, where he is now honorary president. | A Fifa investigation into Germany's World Cup-winning captain and coach Franz Beckenbauer has been concluded. | 34597198 |
Attorney General Michael Lauber said the incidents had been reported by Swiss banks.
He said his office was analysing a "huge amount" of seized Fifa data in its inquiry.
The Swiss investigation is running in parallel to one being carried out by the US.
Separately, Fifa's chief ethics investigator said on Wednesday that the organisation was also looking into alleged breaches by officials relating to bidding for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.
"Should new evidence come to light, the investigatory chamber will widen the group of suspects," Carl Borbely said in a statement, adding that Fifa investigators were prepared to increase staff numbers "at any time if needed".
The 2018 and 2022 World Cups were awarded to Russia and Qatar respectively. But senior Fifa official Domenico Scala has said the awards could be cancelled if evidence emerges of bribery.
Both countries deny any wrongdoing.
Fifa is facing claims of widespread corruption after Swiss police raided a hotel in Zurich - where Fifa is based - and arrested seven of its top executives last month.
The seven were held at the request of the US justice department which has charged 14 current and former Fifa officials and associates on charges of "rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted" corruption.
The charges follow a three-year inquiry by the FBI.
Also in May, Swiss prosecutors opened separate criminal proceedings "against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering" in connection with the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
However, until now, much less has been revealed about the Swiss investigation than the inquiry being led by the FBI.
Mr Lauber told a news conference that the investigation was "huge and complex on many levels" and would take a long time.
"So far our investigative team obtained evidence concerning 104 banking relations (relationships between banks and clients). And, be aware that every banking relation represents several bank accounts," Mr Lauber said.
"We note positively that banks in Switzerland did fulfil their duties to file suspicious activity reports. Partly in addition to the 104 banking relations already known to the authorities, banks announced 53 suspicious banking relations via the anti-money-laundering framework of Switzerland."
Mr Lauber said he did not rule out interviews with Fifa president Sepp Blatter as part of his investigation.
Mr Blatter has denied any wrongdoing and announced earlier this month that he will resign.
Mr Lauber said his investigation was separate from that being carried out by the FBI and that documents and data would not be shared automatically with the US.
He added: "The world of football needs to be patient. By its nature, this investigation will take more than the legendary 90 minutes." | Swiss prosecutors are investigating 53 cases of possible money laundering in their inquiry into bidding for the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cups. | 33163918 |
Nottingham City Council said up to 200 workers a week were asking for temporary or replacement ID badges.
Workers without their pass will now be asked, on a voluntary basis, to give £1 to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library which donates books to children.
The GMB union said staff would feel they were under pressure to pay up.
The council said its plan was "one way of getting staff to think about the consequences of persistently forgetting their pass".
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"We noticed receptionists regularly have to issue council officers with temporary security passes, and this was causing bottlenecks at busy times of the day," said Angela Probert, strategic director for organisational transformation.
She said the reception area at the Loxley House headquarters had become much busier since the Department for Work and Pensions moved in recently and front-desk staff were "very busy".
Unions have been consulted, she added, and it was "made clear the donation was voluntary and would not be enforced".
But GMB spokesman, Chris Needham, said: "It may be for a good cause but the point is that people's hard-earned money is better in their pockets and charity starts at home.
"It's quite clear it's a way of enforcing yet further hardship on my members.
"They are expected to pay a pound for the privilege of going into work. Not acceptable."
The Dolly Parton Imagination Library sends free books to children from birth until their fifth birthday, and it has been running in Nottingham for several years.
The singer had a go at using the East Midlands phrase "ay up me duck" when extending the scheme in Nottingham earlier this year. | A council's plans to ask forgetful members of staff to donate to a children's book scheme set up by Dolly Parton have been criticised by a union. | 34707759 |
Anne of Romania will be buried at Curtea de Arges. A day of mourning has been declared in both Romania and Moldova, and flags will fly at half-mast. She died in hospital in Switzerland on 1 August, aged 92.
In the past days, President Klaus Iohannis of Romania, Moldova's President Nicolae Timofti, many other statesmen and thousands of well-wishers, have paid their respects, as her coffin lay in state at Peles Castle at Sinaia and at the Royal Palace in Bucharest.
Her husband, former King Michael, now 95, and five daughters survive her. Michael will remain in Switzerland and miss the funeral, due to his frail health.
It seems hard to believe that democratic Romania is going to so much trouble over a royal family that was only created in 1866, after the end of Ottoman rule, and then forced into exile in 1947.
Anne barely spoke Romanian, preferring her native French, and in a sense could hardly be called a queen, as she married the king after he lost his throne.
The answers lie in the extraordinary popularity of the royal couple among Romanians, and the careful diplomacy of the former king, queen, and their daughters since they were allowed back to Romania.
Although there is little prospect of restoration of the monarchy, polls suggest the royal family is the most trusted institution in Romania.
Anne always looked after her guests. She opened the door of the house when I came to interview her husband at their home in exile near Lake Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2011.
As we spoke, she arranged the tea and biscuits, and corrected her husband when his memory faltered. An earlier guest, Christian Mititelu, then head of the BBC's Romanian Service, remembers her arriving on her bicycle at the royal guest house, to bring fresh croissants in the morning.
Princess Anne Antoinette Francoise Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma was born in Paris in 1923, grew up in Denmark and fled to New York when the Nazis occupied her homeland.
She worked as a nurse with the Free French forces in North Africa, Italy and France, then met King Michael at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in London in November 1947.
When Michael returned to Romania a month later (against the advice of Winston Churchill) to announce his engagement to her, the Communist authorities forced him to abdicate at gunpoint.
The couple were married in Athens in June 1948 and began a long and happy life in exile together. They were allowed back into Romania only after the fall of communism.
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In the chaos after the popular revolution of December 1989, even the restoration of the monarchy seemed possible.
Michael tried to visit in 1990, but was expelled by police.
Allowed into the country for three days at Easter 1992, more than a million people turned out to see him. Frightened by such enthusiasm, Socialist President Ion Iliescu banned any further visits.
Later the same year, a meeting of his supporters tried to encourage Michael to reclaim his throne. He listened, but said little.
The next President, Emil Constantinescu (1996-2000), restored their Romanian citizenship, but did little to promote a restoration of the monarchy. Ion Iliescu, back in power from 2000 to 2004, finally allowed the family to live in Romania and reclaim several properties.
The royal family divided their time between Romania and Switzerland.
"For twenty-six years, I have worked with my family to restore the Crown to usefulness and relevance in a post-communist society that lacked pride, knowledge of its own identity, and self-respect," Anne and Michael's eldest daughter, Crown Princess Margaret, told an audience at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London last month.
"It is therefore understandable that today, Romanians look to the Crown with respect, admiration and hope." | A royal funeral takes place in central Romania on Saturday for a queen who was never crowned and never served and yet still commands full state honours. | 37064327 |
Race walker Anna Lukyanova has also been given a two-year ban, while there are four-year suspensions for runners Maria Nikolaeva and Yelena Nikulina.
The sanctions were the first handed down by the ROC since Russia was banned from athletics competition in November.
Further details about the bans have not been made public.
Lukyanova was a silver medallist at the 2010 World Junior Championships.
Russia is dealing with the fallout of a damaging report that made allegations of state-sponsored doping in the country.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), which governs world athletics, provisionally suspended Russia from international competition in November.
Russia will only be reinstated if it fulfils strict criteria, including compliance with all World Anti-Doping Agency and IAAF anti-doping rules.
An IAAF inspection team is due to meet Russia's new athletics chief, Dmitry Shlyakhtin, in Moscow on Monday.
Maracheva, 31, finished third behind Britain's Lynsey Sharp at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki but was upgraded to silver when Russia's Yelena Arzhakova was stripped of her gold medal for doping.
Scotland's Sharp was awarded the gold after Arzhakova was banned in 2013 after tests revealed an "abnormal haemoglobin profile in her biological passport".
According to the Russian news agency Tass, the decision to ban the four athletes was taken by the interim co-ordinating committee of the ROC based on the documents received from the IAAF.
However, no details were given of the start dates of the bans, the types of doping violation committed, or which results would be wiped from the record books. | European 800m silver medallist Irina Maracheva has been banned for two years by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) for doping. | 35399737 |
The Chancellor George Osborne announced in his Spending Review that The Factory Manchester will receive £9m a year in 2018/19 and 2019/20.
Building work on the project, which incorporates art and culture from theatre to TV, starts in 2016.
Mr Osborne said the spending is part of the Northern Powerhouse scheme.
A spokeswoman for the Manchester project said it is hoped the support will continue after 2020.
Mr Osborne said: "We have backed The Factory with significant investment because we know it will provide an outstanding new arts venue to be enjoyed by people of all ages and backgrounds for generations to come."
The Factory, which received planning permission in July, forms a part of the new St John's neighbourhood on the 15-acre former Granada site. | Plans to convert the former home of soap opera Coronation Street into a "flagship arts building" have received government backing. | 34928079 |
The writer of the Harry Potter books, who lives in Edinburgh, has publicly backed the Better Together campaign.
Explaining her decision on her website, Ms Rowling said there was a "denial of risks" within the "Yes" campaign.
She also said there was a "fringe of nationalists who like to demonise anyone who is not blindly and unquestionably pro-independence".
Voters in Scotland will go to the polls on 18 September to decide on their country's future.
They will be asked the "Yes/No" question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
In her statement, Ms Rowling, who was born in south Gloucestershire, said she had friends on both sides of the debate, adding that the "Yes" campaign's "romantic outlook strikes a chord with me".
But she added: "My hesitance at embracing independence has nothing to do with lack of belief in Scotland's remarkable people or its achievements.
"The simple truth is that Scotland is subject to the same 21st century pressures as the rest of the world.
"It must compete in the same global markets, defend itself from the same threats and navigate what still feels like a fragile economic recovery.
"The more I listen to the 'Yes' campaign, the more I worry about its minimisation and even denial of risks. Whenever the big issues are raised - our heavy reliance on oil revenue if we become independent, what currency we'll use, whether we'll get back into the EU - reasonable questions are drowned out by accusations of 'scaremongering'".
"JK Rowling's "magic million" to conjure up a vote against independence is not a great surprise.
"She is friends with former PM Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah, has previously donated money to the Labour Party, and told the BBC two years ago that she had reservations about independence.
"But the author's argument will resonate with many Scots: attracted by a "romantic" ideal of a "fairer, greener, richer and more equal society", but in the end not quite prepared to accept the associated risks.
"A second theme of Ms Rowling's web post will also resonate with many: concern about the nature of the debate.
"She writes about a "fringe of nationalists" demonising anyone not 'blindly and unquestionably pro-independence'.
"Indeed, she has herself received abuse on social media, something senior Yes campaign strategists realise does not help their cause.
"Just today First Minister Alex Salmond ordered a special adviser to apologise for briefing against a pro-union mother-of-two who had been attacked online as a "traitor" to her country.
"Mr Salmond points out that pro-independence supporters, in particular Lottery winners Chris and Colin Weir, have suffered online abuse too and called for it to stop.
"It would be lovely to think that everyone could come to the same conclusion and debate with civility and grace.
"Sadly, such dreams probably belong in the realms of romantic fiction."
Referring to the donation she wrote: "I wanted to write this because I always prefer to explain in my own words why I am supporting a cause and it will be made public shortly that I've made a substantial donation to the Better Together campaign, which advocates keeping Scotland part of the United Kingdom."
Better Together confirmed the donation was received "recently".
Ms Rowling also said: "I also know that there is a fringe of nationalists who like to demonise anyone who is not blindly and unquestionably pro-independence and I suspect, notwithstanding the fact that I've lived in Scotland for 21 years and plan to remain here for the rest of my life, that they might judge me 'insufficiently Scottish' to have a valid view."
Shortly after the author's blog went live, social media was awash with comments.
Edinburgh-based charity, Dignity Project, tweeted: "What a #bitch after we gave her shelter in our city when she was a single mum."
That remark was condemned by both sides of the debate.
Pro-independence supporter Patrick Harvie MSP responded on Twitter: "A comment like that is a disgrace to the Yes cause, and to the cause of social justice."
The charity later claimed its account had been hacked.
According to the latest Sunday Times Rich List, Ms Rowling is estimated to be worth £570m.
Both sides of the independence campaign have now received a number of big individual donations.
Recent Electoral Commission figures showed that Ayrshire Lottery winners Colin and Chris Weir donated £1m to the SNP earlier this year, taking their total donations to the pro-independence cause to £5.5m.
The couple, who have said they are "lifelong supporters of independence", added that the donations had led to them being subjected to "downright nasty" personal attacks.
They won £161m on EuroMillions in 2011 and have also set up a charitable trust to fund good causes.
Following news of the donation, First Minister Alex Salmond told the BBC: "JK Rowling's entitled to give money to whatever she pleases and is entitled to express her views.
"When it comes to people in the artistic community, I think the general feeling would be that the substantial majority of them are backing the 'Yes' cause.
"We're now in a period of spending limits and both campaigns are rightly regulated on how much they can spend - I think that's a good thing, because that makes sure we're going to have an equal fight in terms of finance, and it will be then up to the people to decide and make their judgement."
Speaking on behalf of the Better Together campaign, Labour's shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran said Ms Rowling's donation would be put to "good use".
She added: "This is a significant and welcome intervention from one of this country's most talented and successful women. Separation is failing to win support among women and more and more of us are saying No Thanks to Alex Salmond's plan.
"It doesn't take a wizard to work out that Alex Salmond's case for breaking up the UK simply isn't a risk worth taking. The best way to make sure that we can make our country fairer is by working together across the whole of the UK, not putting a barrier between us." | Author JK Rowling has made a £1m donation to help fund the campaign against Scottish independence. | 27793967 |
The photo, which labels the school "the place of sleeping teachers", has been shared widely on social media.
Willenhall E-ACT Academy was rated "inadequate" in an Ofsted report in March and teachers have been striking over management throughout July.
The academy said the teacher in the photo is from an external agency and it will not be using its services again.
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The caption on the Snapchat image reads: "And the teachers say it's the students fault the schools no good. Welcome to willenhall the place of sleeping teachers".
A spokesperson for Willenhall E-ACT Academy said the teacher was brought in for one day to help invigilate an exam.
"The individual pictured in the photograph is not a Willenhall E-ACT Academy employee but is a member of external agency staff," they added.
"We have expressed our disappointment in the strongest terms directly to the agency, and have informed them that we will not be using their services in the future."
The BBC has been unable to identify the individual in the photograph or the agency involved.
The struggling school has a high staff turnover with 70% of teachers leaving between 2015 and 2016. There have also been three different head teachers this year.
Ofsted's March report described Willenhall as "coasting" and "persistently poor" after inspectors were pelted with food.
More than 30 teachers from the academy went on strike this month over management issues and the safety of staff. One teacher spoke to the BBC about a school "riot" where staff members were injured by pupils.
A parent, who did not want to be named, said the photo "sums up perfectly the attitude of the school - the teachers have given up".
They added: "While no child is an angel, the adults in charge should be able to set standards." | An agency teacher has been photographed supposedly asleep at a school where pupils threw food at Ofsted inspectors. | 40681131 |
Currently young people have to leave their foster carers when they turn 18.
However, charities including Fostering Network Wales, say allowing them to stay longer increases their chance of success in life.
The Welsh government said it was committed "to improving outcomes for looked-after children in Wales".
Wales is trialling a scheme that allows some of about 4,400 children in foster care to stay beyond the age of 18.
It comes as the UK government has announced that children in care in England will be able to stay with their foster families until they reach 21.
The Department for Education has provided £40m over the next three years to fund the plan.
Bryn Miles, 62, and his wife Linda, from Llysworney in the Vale of Glamorgan, have fostered more than 50 times over the last 18 years.
Mr Miles said he "100%" supported the call to increase the leaving age to 21.
He said: "Support and advice and guidance shouldn't end at 18. One day they are with you, and the next day they're gone.
"I can imagine myself at 18. If my parents had said 'you have to leave on your 18th birthday' I just wouldn't have known what to do."
Mr Miles and his wife specialise in looking after teenagers, and say it can be traumatic for them to be forced to leave when they are 18.
He said a separate scheme is in place - called assisted lodging - for people aged over 18.
However, he added: "Although I'm approved to foster, I'm not approved for this assisted lodging. The amount of red tape you come across is unbelievable."
Care charities have called it the most significant reform for children in care in a generation.
However, in Wales, young people being fostered would normally have to leave their carer's home when they turn 18.
The charities say a proposed amendment to the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Bill - to be discussed at the Senedd on 4 February - does not force local authorities to allow young people to stay with their carers beyond 17.
They are calling on the Welsh government to "strengthen its proposals" before the debate.
The charities claim that "the longer a young person can stay with a foster family, the more successful they are later on".
They claim care leavers are "less likely to do well educationally, and are more likely to have a mental illness, be homeless, misuse substances, be unemployed or spend time in prison than those who haven't been in care".
In a letter to deputy minister for social services Gwenda Thomas, they said: "Experience shows that we cannot rely on the voluntary, guidance-led approach to solve this problem.
"Legislation to allow young people to stay in foster care until at least 21 is required to make a real difference."
The letter is signed by the Fostering Network Wales, Action for Children-Gweithredu dros Blant, The British Association for Adoption and Fostering, Barnardo's, Children in Wales, Gofal, NSPCC Cymru/Wales, NYAS, TACT, Tros Gynnal Plant, Voices from Care and the Who Cares? Trust.
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "It is important to emphasise that for those young people now reaching the age at which they are considering leaving care, there is nothing to preclude a local authority from supporting that young person to remain with their foster carers after the age of 18.
"The When I Am Ready guidance provides comprehensive information and advice for 'corporate parents' in Wales to offer opportunities to young people who do not feel that they are ready to leave care and move into independent living.
"The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill demonstrates our commitment to improving outcomes for looked after children in Wales." | Twelve charities have called on the Welsh government to change the law and allow foster children to stay with carers until they are 21. | 25936913 |
'Foster faces revolt' is the headline in the Belfast Telegraph as it states up to 10 of her MLAs have privately expressed disquiet about her.
Suzanne Breen says senior DUP sources have told the newspaper that Mrs Foster should reconsider her decision and not put her personal pride before what is best for the "party and the people of Northern Ireland".
Elsewhere, columnist and former editor Ed Curran believes the question is whether the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA as first minister can command sufficient respect after a "bruising and brutal month of electioneering".
He says unionists of all shades need to engage in a soul-searching inquest.
That point is emphasised by a story underneath on the Ulster Unionist leadership battle which indicates that Robin Swann and Steve Aiken are the likely front-runners after Mike Nesbitt announced he is stepping down.
The News Letter's Sam McBride says Mr Nesbitt's announcement leaves the UUP no closer to knowing what it stands for.
He says he was frequently struck by how freely the former television presenter "expressed opinions without apparently realising how controversial those might be within his party", but says he departed the main stage with dignity
The Irish News and News Letter also consider the future of Mrs Foster.
The Irish News says public expressions of support for Mrs Foster over the weekend were "conspicuous by their absence", although it acknowledges that Simon Hamilton was batting for her on the BBC's Politics Show. Columnist Alex Kane says the DUP leader's campaign comments about feeding a crocodile were a "crass blunder" that enraged a Sinn Féin voting base which "hasn't come out for years".
The News Letter acknowledges that Mrs Foster's future has been debated by senior party figures, but that there has not been an open challenge to her and there are no plans to hold the customary Monday meeting of the DUP Assembly group.
The Irish News reports that there are serious concerns for the health of former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness and that he has spent the last two weeks in hospital.
It says it is believed Mr McGuinness is suffering from a genetic condition and that he was admitted to Altnagelvin Hospital "due to the severe side-effects of his ongoing treatment". Sinn Féin has declined to comment saying the 66-year-old's health is a private matter.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror reports that the UK and Irish governments have warned time is running out for parties in Northern Ireland to restore devolution.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has said there is a "limited window" in which the executive and assembly can return, while Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan said both of them agreed it was of the "utmost importance" that the Northern Ireland political institutions "promptly resume their work".
Money might be tight at Stormont, but the Mirror highlights the raft of Northern Ireland celebrities making the Sunday Times rich list for 2017.
Ballymena's Liam Neeson is probably the best person to ask if you are short of a fiver, he is reportedly worth a cool £96m. Other big earners include Rory McIlroy (£82m), Sir Van Morrison (£53m) and Sir Tony McCoy (£40m). | DUP leader Arlene Foster is a prominent figure on the front pages as the post-election analysis continues. | 39176938 |
The attack happened in the Jenkins Dale area of Chatham at 17:26 BST. The child, thought to be a young girl, was rushed to a London hospital in a critical condition.
The dog was shot dead by police firearms officers.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the attack and are in custody as police inquiries continue.
Neighbours told the BBC the injured child was a two-year-old girl who lived locally.
One eyewitness, Alisha Robinson, said she saw the girl receiving first aid.
"They were trying to keep her alive. You couldn't see her face, she was covered in blood. Then her mum came up screaming, that did it for me, I wanted to cry," she said.
Other people reported hearing a shot fired and seeing a child under a blanket being carried to an ambulance.
Jaspreet Uppal said: "First I heard a gunshot, there was a dog on the floor. A few officers carried out a child from the back area of the flats.
"There is a little park there. I could not see the child, they were covered. I think they were quite small."
Charlie Helder witnessed the police marksmen as they arrived in Jenkins Dale.
"I saw two police officers with guns," he told BBC South East. "One said 'stand back' and he shot it twice."
Following the attack, MP for Chatham and Aylesford Tracey Crouch, tweeted: "Horrid news from Chatham this evening. My thoughts and prayers are with the child & their family tonight."
Kent Police has asked that anyone with footage of the events to contact them and not upload it to social media. | A child is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being bitten by a dog in Kent. | 39495699 |
Jamel Boyce, 17, was left critically ill after being stabbed in the chest and leg in Clapham, south-west London, on 14 October.
His mother Pansy said it was "impossible" to describe the pain her family was suffering.
But she hoped the image would show the devastating impact of knife crime.
Detectives said the "minor scuffle" with four males may have appeared trivial to onlookers, but the teenager collapsed soon afterwards.
Jamel, a business student, was at a McDonald's in Clapham High Street when there was a dispute with the people he was with at about 15:00 BST on 14 October.
Four hours later the teenager was attacked in a road around 200 yards from the restaurant.
Bystanders gave him first aid before the arrival of paramedics who took him to hospital.
Mrs Boyce said: "It breaks my heart to release this picture of Jamel but it shows plainly the devastating impact that carrying and using a knife can have.
"I would hate for any other mother or family to go through what we are going through right now.
"If you know what happened, and who did this to my son, please look into your conscience and speak to police." | The parents of a boy left fighting for his life after being stabbed have released a picture of him in intensive care in a bid to find his attackers. | 37785195 |
At close, the benchmark FTSE 100 was down 46.79 points, or 0.67%, at 6,886.95.
Elsewhere in Europe, France's Cac 40 index closed down 0.29% while Germany's Dax closed up 0.51%.
The yield on German 10-year bonds settled, after jumping by 20 basis points on Thursday, reaching 0.799%.
Only three weeks ago, the yield had fallen to a record low of just 0.05%.
Other eurozone bonds were affected, with French yields rising 14 basis points to 1%.
The global bond market has seen a huge sell-off in the past week, which has pushed down bond prices and increased yields.
Signs that fears about deflation may have been overdone is one reason behind the sell-off, analysts say. The argument is that if inflation is set to pick up, then investors are less likely to accept ultra-low returns on their bond investments.
Among individual UK shares, Morrisons shares closed 6.5% lower, after the company said first quarter sales fell 2.9%, worse than the 2.6% decline seen in the previous quarter.
The UK's fourth-largest supermarket group also warned that it would take a charge of up to ??40m to cover restructuring costs.
BT Group's shares closed down 0.2%, despite its full-year results which came in ahead of forecasts.
The telecoms group reported a 14% rise in pre-tax profits to ??2.645bn and said it added a record 455,000 new fibre broadband customers in the first three months of the year.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Telecity closed up 21% after it said could be taken over by US firm Equinix.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.1% against the dollar to $1.5225, and was up 0.5% against the euro at ???1.3503. | (Close): Shares fell sharply on the London market as a big sell-off in bonds rattled investors. | 32621081 |