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Wigan moved level on points with Super League leaders Warrington by coming from behind to beat Castleford. | [
"Denny Solomona crossed for Castleford, but Wigan led at half-time against the run of play through Lewis Tierney's try and Matty Smith's penalty kick.\nGrant Millington's try put the visitors back in front, before John Bateman went over to restore Wigan's two-point lead.\nNick Gregson got his first senior try and Bateman crossed again late on as Warriors climbed to third in the table.\nHaving suffered their heaviest defeat in Super League since 2005 with a 62-0 loss to Wakefield in their previous fixture, Wigan started slowly but were good value for their win after the break.\nThe hosts failed to take advantage when Luke Gale was sent to the sin-bin for dissent with the scores level in the first half, but Bateman's return to the side after two games out sparked the comeback.\nShaun Wane's team also welcomed back Dom Crosby, who made his first Super League appearance of the season having recovered from a hip injury.\nSolomona moved clear as Super League's leading try-scorer with his 13th of the season, but Tigers were frustrated by improved Wigan defence in the second period as they suffered their fourth defeat in a row at the DW Stadium.\nWigan coach Shaun Wane:\n\"I don't want to keep going on about it. But, if you knew what we had gone through this week, there's so much toughness showed in that game against a really good Cas team.\n\"The admiration I have got for my players, the desire to grind out the win with the circumstances that nobody knows about is unbelievable.\n\"There were quite a few good performances, they are a good team and are well coached who know how to defend.\n\"We're not the biggest team, but I thought the way we defended was outstanding.\"\nCastleford coach Daryl Powell:\n\"That last try gave the score a bit of an easier look than it was. It was tight all the way through.\n\"We lacked a little bit of quality in our play. I thought we defended awesome, they came at us in the second half with a game plan that put us under pressure.\n\"They made minimal errors and kicked well and we couldn't find a spark to get us out of yardage and into good field position.\n\"They deserved to win the game, they had more ball than us in decent field position and we had to work really hard to keep them out and that drained our energy reserves.\"\nWigan: Sarginson; Tierney, Bateman, Gildart, Charnley; Gregson, Smith; Mossop, Powell, Clubb, Tomkins, Isa, Sutton.\nReplacements: Crosby, Tautai, Burke, Bretherton.\nCastleford: Hampshire; Monaghan, Minikin, Webster, Solomona; Holmes, Gale; Lynch, Milner, Jewitt, Holmes, McMeeken, Massey.\nReplacements: McShane, Millington, Maher, Cook.\nReferee: Phil Bentham."
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Plans for a new £91m entertainment arena being built in Bristol will not include an "expensive" dedicated car park, the council has said. | [
"Two planning applications for the Bristol Arena, a 12,000-seat venue set to open in 2017 near Temple Meads, are to be submitted next month.\nPeople living nearby raised concerns about parking but the council said city centre car parks had \"spare capacity, within a 20 minute walk of the arena\".\nA consultation closes on 13 October.\nPaul Breedon lives in nearby Totterdown and runs community magazine South Bristol Voice.\nHe said he was not against the arena, but when he had asked local people about their concerns, they replied \"parking, parking, parking\".\n\"Some of the closest places you will be able to park on the street are in Totterdown and the worry is that there's no plan at the moment,\" Mr Breedon said.\nPeter Mann, of Bristol City Council, said: \"Building a car park next to the arena will send all the wrong messages about the sustainability of it.\n\"So using public transport, cycling and walking and investing in that side of it, rather than building an expensive car park.\"\nMayor George Ferguson said parking for disabled people and operators would be provided but visitors would be \"encouraged to travel to the venue sustainably\".\nHe said: \"Of course, I absolutely respect that Totterdown have got parking pressure and I've had a lot of people from Totterdown already, because of commuter parking, saying we should have a residents' parking scheme, and we might do that.\n\"This is for the end of 2017, early 2018, by which time we'll have the Metrobus and have made arrangements with Great Western for additional trains for major events.\n\"This is not a parking story, it's a story about fantastic regeneration for Bristol.\""
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"The delay was revealed by Mayor Marvin Rees in the annual state of the city speech on Thursday evening.\nThe 12,000-seat venue near Temple Meads was originally due to have been finished by late 2017. A delay until 2018 was announced last year.\nMr Rees said he \"intended to deliver\" the £92.5m arena by 2019, but warned against spiralling costs.\nDuring his annual state of the city speech Mr Rees also said discussions had begun to bring back powerboat racing to the city docks, and he announced plans for a new fleet of buses for the city."
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Royal Troon Golf Club is consulting members over whether to end its men-only membership policy. | [
"The Ayrshire club, which is hosting this year's Open, shares its facilities with Ladies' Golf Club Troon but both have separate clubhouses.\nTroon captain Martin Cheyne said the club had written to its 800 members to \"understand their views and feelings on the issue\".\nRoyal Troon and Muirfield are the only two Open hosts to still exclude women.\nLast month, golf's governing body the R&A said the issue was \"a matter for the club\" to decide on.\nTroon was formed in 1878 and Cheyne added: \"We care very much for the reputation of Royal Troon Golf Club and it is important that the club, much like the wider game, reflects the modern society in which we exist.\"\nGolf will feature at the Olympics in Rio this summer after a 112-year absence and the sport's oldest institutions have taken steps to modernise since its return to the Games was confirmed.\nThe Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews opened its membership to women in 2014 for the first time in 260 years, while Royal St George's in Kent lifted its ban on women last year."
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"Members at the privately-owned club voted 80.2% in favour of updating their membership policy.\nIt followed a decision by golf's ruling body, the R&A, to remove Muirfield as a host venue for the Open Championship after it failed to change in 2016.\nR&A chief executive Martin Slumbers said the club would now be reinstated as an Open venue.\n\"It is extremely important for us in staging one of the world's great sporting events that women can become members at all our host clubs.\n\"Muirfield is a truly outstanding Open venue and we very much look forward to taking the championship there in future,\" he said.\nThe Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, which owns and runs Muirfield, had recommended its members update their rules.\nIt followed consternation from many quarters at the result of the 2016 vote that failed to back female members.\nAt the time, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for the decision \"simply indefensible\".\nFollowing the latest vote, she tweeted: \"Well done, Muirfield - decision to admit women members emphatic & the right one. Look forward to seeing you host the Open again in future.\"\nUK Sports Minister Tracey Crouch added her voice to those congratulating the club, but added: \"The decision has been a long time coming and it was right that the R&A made clear to Muirfield that the Open Championship would only be hosted at clubs that allow women members.\n\"Golf has the potential to attract a more diverse audience to the game and this decision sends out an important message.\n\"It is vital that clubs and sports organisations play their part in promoting equality.\"\nMuirfield - which was founded in 1744 - had required two-thirds of its eligible voters to back admitting women.\nThe postal ballot of members returned 498 votes in favour of change, with 123 votes (19.8%) against.\nA total of 621 votes were counted, a 92.7% turnout.\nClub captain Henry Fairweather welcomed the result: \"This is a significant decision for a club which was founded in 1744 and retains many of the values and aspirations of its founding members.\n\"We look forward to welcoming women as members who will enjoy, and benefit from, the great traditions and friendly spirit of this remarkable club.\"\nMuirfield has staged the Open 16 times and last hosted the event in 2013.\nWhile the change to admit women members takes affect immediately, the club admits it is likely to be at least two years before the first woman successfully negotiates its lengthy joining process.\nDespite previously not being able to become members of Muirfield, women had been able to play on the links course and visit the clubhouse as guests and visitors."
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A baby hatch in southern China has been forced to suspend work after hundreds of infants were abandoned, overwhelming the centre, its director says. | [
"More than 260 children had been left at the welfare home in Guangzhou since 28 January, director Xu Jiu added.\nStaff will continue caring for babies already at the welfare home, all of whom suffer from illnesses, Mr Xu said.\nChina introduced the centres so parents could abandon infants safely rather than leaving them in the streets.\nSupporters say the baby hatches save lives, but critics say they encourage parents to abandon their children.\nMr Xu announced the suspension on Sunday, saying that 262 babies had been left at the centre since the scheme began in January.\n\"I hope everyone understands the difficulties the welfare centre faces,\" Mr Xu told Xinhua news agency.\n\"We are temporarily closing the centre [to new babies] so that we can properly care for the infants already at the centre.\"\nThe centre, which also cares for orphans, has 1,000 beds.\nHowever, it currently houses 1,121 babies and young people, with another 1,274 in the care of foster families, Guangzhou's Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau said.\nAll the abandoned infants had illnesses, such as cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome and congenital heart disease, the bureau added.\nIt is thought that many parents abandon ill babies because they fear they cannot afford the medical care required.\nAbandoning children is illegal in China. However, authorities believe that the hatches give the infants a better chance of survival than if they were left in the street.\nA total of 25 baby hatches have been established in 10 provincial regions in China, Xinhua reports.\nUnder China's strict population control policies, most couples have only been allowed to have one child and there is a strong preference for healthy baby boys.\nIn December, China's top legislature formally adopted a resolution easing the one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children if either parent is an only child.\nProvinces are now determining when to relax their restrictions at a local level, with some acting already."
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"Aged between five and 13, they appeared to have drunk a bottle of pesticide, officials say. Police have not ruled out suicide.\nThe parents of the three girls and a boy had reportedly left the village, near Bijie city, in search of work.\nThe area is one of the poorest in the country and has seen previous deaths of abandoned children.\nChinese state media report that the mother of the four siblings left three years ago, followed by their father in March.\nThe children had reportedly dropped out of school a month ago, according to the Xinhua news agency. It added that their only food was corn and preserved meat.\nThe mass urban migration of Chinese parents looking for work has led to millions of children being left behind in villages; many of them are cared for by grandparents.\nCorrespondents say that such children can be highly vulnerable.\nThree years ago there was a national outcry after five abandoned children died in Bijie.\nThe children had suffocated inside a rubbish bin where they were sheltering, after apparently lighting a fire to keep warm.\nChinese officials have said that at least 80 million people live below the poverty line, surviving on less than $1 (£0.65) a day."
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El Salvador's electoral court has confirmed the victory of former left-wing rebel Salvador Sanchez Ceren in a tight presidential run-off election. | [
"It said Mr Sanchez Ceren won 50.11% of the votes in the 9 March poll, defeating conservative candidate Norman Quijano, who polled 49.89%.\nMr Quijano had challenged the result, alleging fraud.\nBut the court's decision makes Mr Sanchez Ceren the country's first ex-rebel to serve as president.\nOn Sunday, the court said that there was not enough evidence to back Mr Quijano's claim.\n\"Based on the results, Salvador Sanchez Ceren and Oscar Samuel Ortiz are declared president and vice-president elect respectively, for the period from 1 June 2014 to 1 June 2019,\" court president Eugenio Chicas was quoted as saying by Reuters.\nThe country's outgoing President Mauricio Funes said he would meet Mr Sanchez Ceren later on Monday to begin the handover process.\nMr Sanchez Ceren became vice-president of El Salvador in 2009, while Mr Quijano was the mayor of the capital, San Salvador."
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"President Ricardo Martinelli is not allowed to stand for re-election this time round, but his wife, Marta Linares de Martinelli, is running for the vice-presidency, leading to suggestions that Mr Martinelli is keen to run affairs from behind the scenes.\nWho is Marta Linares?\nShe is a political novice and the running mate of Jose Domingo Arias, the candidate of the governing Democratic Change party.\nShortly after it was announced that she was running for vice-president, she stepped down from the office of first lady to work full time on Mr Arias's campaign.\nHer dual role as candidate and president's wife had attracted criticism both from the opposition and the media.\nBorn in 1956, Marta Linares married Mr Martinelli in 1978. She worked as an insurance broker from 1980 until 2009, when she became first lady.\nWhy is her candidacy controversial?\nCritics say her candidacy is a thinly veiled attempt by Mr Martinelli to keep his grip on power after a five-year presidency marked by strong economic growth but also by mounting allegations of corruption.\nShe says she is a strong candidate in her own right and her husband has stressed he has no intention of holding on to power.\nOpposition supporters have petitioned the Supreme Court to dismiss her nomination, alleging it is unconstitutional.\nAnalysts say that since the rule of strongman Manuel Noriega ended in 1990, Panamanians have been suspicious of anything that might deviate from the rules governing the transfer of power.\nHow would her election help Mr Martinelli?\nMany believe that a win by Ms Linares would allow Mr Martinelli to remain influential and close to power.\nThere has also been speculation that an Arias-Linares government would seek to eliminate the constitutional requirement that a president sit out two terms before becoming eligible to run again - allowing Mr Martinelli an earlier bid for the top job.\nMeanwhile, Mr Martinelli has been busy campaigning for his Democratic Change party, engaging in what critics have called a veritable \"ribbon-cutting marathon\", which leads them to believe he is far from done with politics.\nAnd in a potential violation of a ban on campaigning by the president, he warned that economic growth would be jeopardized if any of his party's rivals won the election.\nWho is running for president?\nJose Domingo Arias is the candidate for the ruling Democratic Change (CD) party. He served in President Martinelli's government, most recently as housing minister.\nThe former mayor of Panama City, Juan Carlos Navarro of the centre-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), is the leading opposition candidate. An umbrella opposition movement, the New Republic, has been backing Mr Navarro as the best option to avoid the \"disguised re-election\" of Mr Martinelli.\nJuan Carlos Varela is the current vice-president. He is the candidate of the right-wing Panamenista Party and served for a time as foreign minister under President Martinelli.\nWho is favoured to win?\nMr Navarro and Mr Arias are the front-runners according to opinion polls, and analysts suggest it could be a very close result.\nThe president is elected to a five-year term by direct vote of the people, and whoever gets the most votes in the single round of voting wins.\nWhat challenges will the victor face?\nThe new president will inherit a strong but slowing growth rate in the Central American country of 3.6 million people and will oversee the completion of a multibillion-dollar expansion of the Panama Canal, which was disrupted this year by a dispute over cost overruns.\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook."
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Cock-fighting is banned in many countries, but its popularity endures in Madagascar where it is still legal. | [
"11 October 2016 Last updated at 17:18 BST\nIt can be lucrative sport and spectators can win substantial amounts betting on the outcome of fights.\nPhotos: Raissa Ioussouf\nVideo journalist: Mark Sedgwick"
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"While about 200 live safely on the Rock of Gibraltar, they are experiencing rapid decline in their natural habitats in North Africa.\nHundreds of infants are illegally taken from the wild each year for European pet markets.\nCountries banned any form of trade in the species.\nThe Barbary Macaque seems to specialise in isolation. It's the only African primate species north of the Sahara and the only macaque species in Africa.\nExperts estimate that there are between 6,500 and 9,100 Barbary Macaques in fragmented populations strung across Morocco and Algeria. They were categorised as endangered in 2008 as their numbers plummeted by 50% in 24 years.\nWhile destruction of habitat is a significant cause of their decline, another important factor is illegal trade.\nAbout 200 infants are taken from the wild in Morocco each year. Some are used as photo props for tourists in North Africa. Most are bought by Europeans wanting to raise them as pets.\nIn Morocco, the animals sell for up to 450 euros each. In Europe they can fetch 2,000 euros.\n\"People actually think it will be a suitable pet, it isn't, it's horrible,\" said Rikkert Reijnen of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).\n\"They need a lot of attention, they basically wreck your house and as they grow older they start to follow their natural behaviour, which is sometimes aggressive.\"\nMost end up in animal sanctuaries. Between 2001 and 2015, there were 545 reports of Barbary Macaques being rescued and sent to sanctuaries, mostly in France, Belgium and Spain. It's ironic that while the numbers in the wild are going down fast, the Macaque sanctuaries are over stocked.\nSo great is the concern about the impact of this pet trade on their survival that Morocco, supported by the EU, asked the Cites meeting here to put the animals on Appendix I. It was the first time in 30 years that Cites considered increasing the level of protection for a monkey species.\n\"This Appendix I listing means that the animal gets more attention from the authorities,\" said Rikkert Reijnen.\n\"When an Appendix I-listed species starts coming in to your country illegally, the authorities start thinking twice. There are a lot of tortoises coming into Europe but it doesn't have that priority with law enforcement, so that Appendix I listing is critical in getting that priority.\"\nWith an estimated 3,000 Barbary Macaques kept as pets in Europe, the EU is keen to be seen to doing what it can to stamp out the trade.\nMEP Gerben Jan Gerbrandy, is leading the European Parliament delegation to the Cites meeting and says that this is an important moment for the survival of the species.\n\"The adoption of the joint proposal from the EU and Morocco would be a key next step in protecting a species for which the EU is unfortunately a key destination market. Now we have to make sure that any agreement is properly and coherently enforced to the fullest effect. That is where the real difference will be made.\"\nIf the macaques are given increased protection, it may have some implications for Gibraltar. The population on the Rock has been kept to around 200 through culling, something that has proved controversial in the past.\nIf the species is elevated to Appendix I it's likely that the populations would have to be controlled through contraception and other humane methods.\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook."
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The official assessment of paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland has not changed despite some very serious crimes, the PSNI chief constable said. | [
"George Hamilton was speaking after a meeting with Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt on Tuesday.\nMr Nesbitt asked for a briefing following Monday's murder before his decision on joining a new Executive.\nEarlier, Stormont's political parties were given a document with the main points of a programme for government.\nIt was delivered in talks that lasted just minutes.\nThe parties are to reconvene on Thursday to give their initial response.\nSpeaking after the brief talks, Mr Nesbitt said the Alliance Party had been offered the Justice Ministry. In response, Alliance said Mr Nesbitt had broken an agreement of confidentiality, with Stewart Dickson calling the Ulster Unionists \"flippant\".\nThe SDLP leader, Colum Eastwood, said he believed his party was \"a very long way\" from a programme to which they could sign up.\nSo what happens next?\nThe parties have been given until Thursday to make a formal initial response.\nThat's also the day the new Assembly meets for the first time - and sets the clock ticking on a two week negotiation period. But what are they being asked to agree on?\nSources close to the negotiations describe what will eventually emerge as a \"framework programme for government\" which will then go out for consultation.\nAt the end of this year a detailed programme for government will be produced.\nThere'll also be a budget for the next three to four years.\nAnd there'll be documents setting out strategies on the economy, capital investment and social policy strategy.\nSources say they've looked closely at the model in Scotland where a series of national outcomes describe what the Government wants to achieve over the next ten years.\nFollowing last week's Northern Ireland Assembly election, he DUP maintained the total of 38 seats that it held in the last assembly, while Sinn Féin lost one and now holds 28.\nThe Ulster Unionists have 16 seats, and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) lost two and now have 12.\nThe Alliance Party secured eight seats during the election, meaning it does not have enough seats to automatically qualify for a ministerial department.\nAn executive will be formed when an agreement has been reached.\nSinn Féin's Martin McGuinness said the talks would be inclusive and he wanted to see all of the parties enter the new executive.\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said it might be more honest if those who have previously opposed the executive from the inside now do so on the outside.\nIn his meeting with Mr Nesbitt on Tuesday, the chief constable said that the paramilitary assessment commissioned by the secretary of state and published on 20 October 2015 remains valid.\n\"Over the course of the last seven months, there have been a number of very serious crimes committed in our community.\n\"Significant PSNI resources have been allocated to progress the investigations into these incidents. This investigative activity nor wider intelligence to date has not indicated any change to the position reflected in the October 2015 Paramilitary Assessment.\"\nAfter the meeting, Mr Nesbitt said: \"The chief constable confirmed no change from the assessment given to the secretary of state last October - PIRA still exists.\n\"This is not surprising, but disappointing, given PIRA have drawn the roadmap that others are following. George Hamilton would not be drawn on this week's shootings, but these are serious criminal acts.\"\nHe said the chief constable's assessment did not make re-entry to the executive \"any more attractive\".\nThe Ulster Unionists have \"two other tests regarding the Programme for Government,\" he said and expected answers in a few days' time."
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"George Hamilton added that some of its members were involved in the murder of ex-IRA man Kevin McGuigan Sr last week.\nBut he said there is no evidence at this stage that the killing was sanctioned by the organisation.\nThe police assessment, he said, is that the Provisional IRA remains committed to politics and is not engaged in terrorism.\nMr Hamilton said that \"some of the Provisional IRA structure from the 1990s remains broadly in place\" but its purpose \"has radically changed since this period\".\n\"They are not on a war footing, they are not involved in paramilitary activity in the sense that they were during the period of the conflict,\" he said.\nMr McGuigan, 53, died after he was shot at his home in east Belfast in what detectives believe was a revenge attack for the killing of former IRA commander Gerard 'Jock' Davison in Belfast in May.\nThe chief constable said the two murders were the results of a \"fall-out\" within the republican community.\n\"Some current Provisional IRA and former members continue to engage in a range of criminal activity and occasional violence in the interest of personal gain or personal agendas,\" he added.\nMr Hamilton said the PSNI had no information to suggest that \"violence as seen in the murder of Kevin McGuigan\" was \"sanctioned or directed at a senior level\" in the republican movement.\nThe main unionist and nationalist parties met with Mr Hamilton on Saturday to discuss the police probe into killing.\nSinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said his party would support the investigation.\nAnd he reiterated remarks by the party's president Gerry Adams in which he said the IRA was not involved in the murder.\n\"The IRA stood down over 10 years ago,\" Mr Kelly said.\n\"Sinn Féin's commitment to peaceful and democratic progress is beyond question.\"\nHe added that the party had raised with Mr Hamilton \"concerns about a number of speculative and unhelpful comments made recently\".\nThe DUP's Gregory Campbell said his party would be meeting with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers about the alleged role of IRA members in the killing.\nHe added that there was no surprise among his party at the suggestions of IRA involvement.\nThe Ulster Unionist Party also met with Mr Hamilton on Saturday.\nParty leader Mike Nesbitt said afterwards that Sinn Féin's credibility was \"in tatters\" and it needed to \"accept some responsibility\" for Mr McGuigan Sr's killing.\n\"They continue to insult our intelligence by claiming no IRA involvement in this latest murder,\" Mr Nesbitt said.\nAfter the SDLP's meeting with the chief constable, its leader Alasdair McDonnell said the \"skeleton\" of the IRA remains in existence.\nBut he said the evidence was not there to collapse the assembly.\nThat came in response to comments from First Minister Peter Robinson, who said he would discuss the prospect of excluding Sinn Féin from the executive with other Northern Ireland parties."
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A Mexican businessman accused of financing the jailbreak of Mexico's most notorious drug lord has been sent to prison pending trial. | [
"Prosecutors think Manuel Trillo helped Joaquin \"Shorty\" Guzman break out of the Altiplano jail in July.\nNow Mr Trillo has been sent to that very same prison.\nA manhunt is under way to catch Guzman, who leads the Sinaloa drug cartel, since he escaped through a 1.5km-long (one mile-long) tunnel on 11 July.\nAccording to investigators, Mr Trillo is the financial operator of the Sinaloa cartel and bankrolled Guzman's escape.\nHe is also accused of using illicit funds to purchase properties from 2012 to 2015 under false names.\nMore than 30 people have been arrested in connection with Guzman's escape, including the prison governor and several guards.\nGuzman's arrest in February 2014 was seen as a coup for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.\nThe cartel leader had been on the run for 13 years since escaping from another maximum security jail in 2001, reportedly hidden inside a laundry cart.\nBut his spectacular break-out from the Altiplano prison caused huge embarrassment.\nVideo footage showed how guards failed to detect his escape until more than 20 minutes had passed.\nQuestions have also been raised how the prison authorities could have failed to notice the construction of the tunnel leading directly into Guzman's cell.\nOn CCTV footage leaked to the media, the sound of drilling can be heard reverberating through his cell.\nInvestigators say Guzman's associates must have been planning the jailbreak since shortly after his arrest.\nNot only would the construction of the tunnel have taken time, but Guzman's associates also purchased a plot of land outside the jail and built a house to disguise the tunnel's exit.\nAttempts to recapture Guzman have so far failed although authorities said he was injured when he narrowly escaped from a police operation last month.\nHe is believed to be hiding in his home state of Sinaloa, in north-west Mexico."
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A 15-year-old herder has died in Kyrgyzstan of bubonic plague - the first case in the country in 30 years - officials say. | [
"The teenager appears to have been bitten by an infected flea.\nThe authorities have sought to calm fears of an epidemic and have quarantined more than 100 people.\nBubonic plague, known as the Black Death when it killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages, is now rare.\nWorld Health Organisation epidemic disease expert Eric Bertherat told the BBC there were about 400 cases of bubonic plague reported in 2012.\nHe said Africa accounted for more than 90% of cases worldwide - especially Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo.\nDr Bertherat said that bubonic plague in Central Asia was usually transmitted by fleas attached to small wild mammals, which meant that only those who lived in rural areas and worked outside for long hours were in danger of being affected.\n\"Because bubonic plague is such a rare event, local medical staff are not prepared to diagnose the disease and treat it appropriately,\" he said, \"which means the first patient usually dies without even a diagnostic.\n\"If secondary cases occur, medical staff are aware and better able to treat patients with antibiotics.\"\nThe teenager, named as Temir Issakunov, came from a mountain village in the north-east of the country, close to the border with Kazakhstan.\n\"We suspect that the patient was infected with the plague through the bite of a flea,\" health ministry official Tolo Isakov said.\nThe BBC's Rayhan Demytrie says that doctors failed to correctly diagnose his illness until tests were made after his death last week.\nTeams have been sent to the area to get rid of rodents, which host the fleas that can carry the deadly bacterium.\nReports suggest that the infected flea could have come from a marmot - a type of mountain squirrel sometimes hunted for food.\nKyrgyz authorities say that the availability of antibiotics means that there is no danger of an epidemic.\nMore than 2,000 people are being tested for bubonic plague in the Issik-Kul region.\nCheckpoints have been set up and travel and livestock transport restricted.\nNeighbouring Kazakhstan is reported to have tightened border controls to prevent the disease entering its territory.\nThere are three human plagues caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis of which bubonic plague is the most common.\nThe other two conditions are linked to bacteria in the blood - septicaemia - and bacteria in the respiratory system - pneumonia, which can be transmitted between humans by respiratory droplets.\nDuring the last 20 years, at least three countries experienced outbreaks of human plague after dormant periods of about 30-50 years, experts say.\nThese areas were India in 1994 and 2002, Indonesia in 1997 and Algeria in 2003.\nAccording to the World Health Organization, the last significant outbreak of bubonic plague was in Peru in 2010 when 12 people were found to have been infected."
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"The infected delegates were among hundreds who had gathered for the four day forum organised by the Ministry of Health at a Nairobi hotel on Tuesday.\nThey have been isolated in a city hospital, but health officials say the number of people infected may rise.\nIt is unclear how they caught the disease, which has led to five deaths in the past month.\nCholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholera.\nMost of those infected will have no or mild symptoms but, in severe cases, the disease can kill within hours if left untreated.\nIn Yemen, a large cholera outbreak is fast approaching 300,000 cases, according to UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien. He described it as a \"man-made catastrophe\" caused by both sides of the country's ongoing civil war.\nIn a press release on 24 May, Kenya's Ministry of Health said there had been 146 cases across the country since the outbreak began.\nSome of those infected had attended a wedding at an upmarket estate in Nairobi.\nAs a result, authorities put in place emergency measures to try and curb its spread.\nAn outbreak two years ago killed 65 people across Kenya."
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King's College London could become the first British university to open a European campus since the referendum. | [
"King's has been collaborating with Technische Universität Dresden on a research initiative, known as Transcampus, since 2015.\nBut, according to Times Higher Education, an \"offshore King's College Europe\" is now on the cards.\nKing's College confirmed that it was discussing potential further collaborations with TU Dresden.\nThe two institutions already offer 10 joint professorships and several joint PhD programmes through Transcampus.\nHowever, its dean, Prof Stefan Bornstein, has told Times Higher Education that plans for the new King's campus are already \"in the process\".\nProf Bornstein, who is director and chairman of TU Dresden's department of medicine and an honorary consultant in diabetes and endocrinology at King's, said the plan would allow King's to have a presence in Europe and maintain access to European research funding post-Brexit.\nLikewise, he said, TU Dresden would benefit from increased ties to London, one of the \"leading academic centres in the world\".\nProf Bornstein said the new campus would hopefully run new undergraduate courses \"linked to innovation and the needs of industry and society\".\nThe aim would be to recruit leading scholars from around the world, he added.\nProf Bornstein said the Transcampus project had been envisaged before the EU referendum but admitted that it had become \"a lot more interesting\" since the vote.\n\"We cannot allow things that have developed for so many years in a positive way [to be] hampered by political decisions that actually nobody wanted,\" he said.\n\"It's a nice way to have a solution to get around this very stupid Brexit idea.\"\nA number of UK universities are believed to be considering opening branch campuses in Europe after Brexit - though earlier this year Oxford University rejected reports that it was in talks to open a Paris campus.\nProf Bornstein said he would expect the Transcampus model to be replicated by other universities in the UK and Europe, but stressed that the key was a long history of collaboration between researchers at the two institutions.\nIn a statement, King's said the university valued the Transcampus initiative \"which demonstrates the success of cross-national and institutional links\".\n\"We will continue to work together in various fields on research and exchange and discuss potential further collaborations.\""
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"Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS), set up by the university in 2002, has bought the former Open University site in Boar's Hill.\nIt said the new facility, at Foxcombe Hall just outside Oxford, would open in summer 2018 and teach students from China, the UK and the European Union.\nThey will be given the opportunity to study for a year at the Oxford campus and another year in China.\nThe business school is based in Shenzhen in the province of Guangdong.\nA statement from PHBS said China was \"opening its higher education market to the world\" in a bid to improve the country's \"inferior position globally over the past century\".\nIt added that after the Brexit vote \"the EU and the Great Britain have become more competitive in their desire to enhance their relationship with China\".\nPeking University president Prof Lin Jianhua said: \"It is our hope that the new initiative in Oxford will further strengthen the school's international reputation as well as its teaching and research capabilities.\"\nThe campus will host its first group of visiting students from China next spring is expected to be fully functioning by the summer of 2018.\nIn September, Times Higher Education ranked Peking University 29th in the world.\nThe Open University announced in 2015 that it would close seven regional centres.\nJon Silversides, a partner at estate agent Carter Jonas, said the Open University is due to vacate the premises in May and added: \"We wish the business school every success in their investment in the UK.\""
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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says his side must "improve a lot of things" if they want to win the Premier League this season. | [
"Media playback is not supported on this device\nCity are top of the table with a 100% record after four games, with their most recent victory coming against Manchester United on Saturday.\n\"The way we have played up until now will not be enough to win the title,\" said the Spaniard, who succeeded Manuel Pellegrini in the summer.\nThe Blues last won the title in 2014.\nGuardiola, who is preparing his side to face Borussia Monchengladbach in the Champions League on Tuesday, added: \"Of course, we are so happy for the results, for the numbers and the way we're playing after two months.\n\"But it is not enough to win the Premier League or achieve the big, big targets in the Champions League.\"\nMonchengladbach coach Andre Schubert described his counterpart at City as \"the best there is\" and said their opponents had a chance of winning titles both at home and in Europe.\n\"I understand they might be trying to soften expectations but they have incredible strength,\" he said. \"Manchester City has a great chance to win one or two trophies.\"\nCity winger Raheem Sterling has said some of the recent criticism he has faced is unjustified.\nThe 21-year-old endured a difficult Euro 2016 as England were knocked out in the last 16 by minnows Iceland.\nHowever, he won August's Premier League player of the month after a strong start to the season with City.\n\"I have had unfair criticism. Last season I made my mark in the Champions League and I equalled my best scoring season,\" he said.\n\"Unfair criticism does put you down a little bit. No-one says I am willing to do my best for club and country. At times it is frustrating.\n\"Pep [Guardiola] has been a massive help. I spoke to him before and he said he watched me at Liverpool. He has made me stronger.\"\nMeanwhile, Guardiola has reiterated his support for new goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, who had an eventful debut in Saturday's derby win over Manchester United.\nThe Chile international was at fault for United's goal and some pundits felt he should have had a penalty awarded against him after a heavy challenge on Wayne Rooney.\nGuardiola defended his keeper after the game, saying Bravo had been integral to his side's good first-half performance.\nThe former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss said on Monday that all goalkeepers made mistakes.\n\"I am going to tell you something: goalkeepers will make mistakes,\" he said. \"The opponents will score, I am sure of that.\"\nSubscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox."
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"The deal will keep the Ivory Coast international at the Etihad Stadium until 2017.\n\"This is where I want to be,\" the 29-year-old told the club website.\n\"I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.\"\nToure joined City from Barcelona for a reported £24m in 2010, having helped the Spanish giants win the Champions League title a year earlier.\nThe box-to-box midfielder has since been an integral member of Roberto Mancini's side, scoring the winning goal in the 2011 FA Cup final and a crucial double against Newcastle United last May to keep the eventual Premier League champions in the title hunt.\nWe must try to finish on a high note and then start preparing to win more next season\nToure has scored eight goals this season as City have progressed to a Wembley FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea on Sunday 14 April, but his side made an early Champions League exit and are 15 points behind Manchester United in the league with only seven games remaining.\n\"Of course now it looks likely that we will not successfully defend the Premier League title and that is sad for all of us,\" Toure added. \"But we can still finish second and win the FA Cup for a second time in three years and that is still an achievement for a club that won nothing for a long time.\n\"We must try to finish on a high note and then start preparing to win more next season. Football is always a challenge and always a puzzle to solve and that is why we all love the game.\n\"You have to use your skill, intelligence and strength to constantly improve and that is what we at City intend to do.\""
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England lost their last World Cup warm-up game by four wickets as Pakistan prevailed in a tense finish in Sydney. | [
"Alex Hales (31) and Gary Ballance (57) came into the England side but both got out playing loose shots when well set.\nJoe Root then hit 85 from 89 balls but fell in the penultimate over as England finished on 250-8 from their 50 overs.\nPakistan skipper Misbah-ul-Haq (91 not out) and Umar Akmal (65) kept them in contention, and Shahid Afridi saw them home with seven balls to spare.\nEngland must now decide on their XI to face Australia in Melbourne when the tournament begins on Saturday - with the biggest decisions resting over who joins pacemen James Anderson and Stuart Broad in the bowling attack.\nRarely tested in Monday's comfortable win over a lacklustre West Indies side, England rang the changes at the Sydney Cricket Ground to give their remaining squad members a run-out.\nHales and Ballance, who did not feature in the recent tri-series against Australia and India, were given a final chance to press their credentials as Ian Bell and James Taylor sat out, while Anderson and Broad - rested against the Windies - returned in place of Chris Woakes and Steven Finn.\nOpener Moeen Ali failed to build on his 46 against West Indies, getting a leading edge to cover for four.\nThough Hales and Ballance added 64, both players fell tamely to leg-spin as Hales gave Sohaib Maqsood a simple catch at mid-wicket off Afridi, while Ballance picked out the same fielder on the leg-side fence when trying to attack Yasir Shah (3-45).\nCaptain Eoin Morgan swiftly followed, edging to slip when trying to lap-sweep his third ball.\nRoot eventually found a durable partner in Chris Jordan (31 not out) as England reached the 250 mark off the last ball of their innings.\nAfter Broad and Anderson removed Pakistan's openers, Jordan and James Tredwell - battling for those bowling places - took a wicket apiece, inducing false shots from Younus Khan and Haris Sohail as Ballance threw himself around in the deep to take the catch on both occasions.\nIt left Pakistan's hopes resting with the vastly experienced Misbah, who added 133 with Akmal to keep his side in contention, and by the time Akmal edged Broad to keeper Buttler, Pakistan still needed 40 from 33 balls.\nWhen Maqsood (20) fell with eight needed from 14, the stage was set for the big-hitting Afridi, roared on by a noisy Pakistan fan contingent inside the SCG.\nThe veteran all-rounder did not disappoint, blasting Broad for successive fours in the penultimate over."
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The European Commission chief, Jean-Claude Juncker, has said he feels "betrayed" by the "egotism" shown by Greece in the failed debt talks. | [
"He told a news conference that Greek proposals were \"delayed\" or \"deliberately altered\" and the Greek people \"should be told the truth\", but the door was still open to talks.\nTalks broke down on Friday sparking a weekend of dramatic developments.\nGreece called a surprise referendum and Greek banks are closed for a week.\nThe negotiations were not \"a game of liar's poker\", Mr Juncker said. \"Either all win or all lose\".\nHe said the talks were broken \"unilaterally\" by the announcement from the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that he was calling a referendum for 5 July.\nThe European Commission president said that he still believed a Greek exit from the euro was not an option and insisted that the creditors' latest proposal meant more social fairness - \"no wage cuts, no pension cuts\".\nIs Grexit nearer?\nOn Saturday, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided not to extend emergency finance to the Greek banks, after the breakdown of talks on giving heavily indebted Greece the last payment of its international bailout.\nFollowing the ECB announcement, Greece said its banks would remain shut until 6 July. Cash machines are now reopening, but customers can withdraw only limited amounts.\nGreece crisis - live coverage\nA critical deadline looms on Tuesday, when Greece is due to pay back €1.6bn to the International Monetary Fund - the same day the bailout expires. There are fears of a default and a possible exit from euro.\nThe French cabinet met on Monday in an emergency session. President Francois Hollande said afterwards that a deal was still possible if the Greeks wanted it.\n\"There are a few hours before the negotiation is definitively closed, in particular for the prolongation of the Greek aid programme.\"\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said that she was \"ready for further talks\" with the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras \"if he actually wants to\".\nIn its decree bringing in the bank restrictions, the Greek government cited the \"extremely urgent\" need to protect the financial system due to the lack of liquidity.\nThe main points are:\nIn reaction to the crisis, the London, Paris, Frankfurt and Milan stock markets fell sharply in early trading on Monday, following similar falls in Asia.\nThe euro lost 2% of its value against the the US dollar. Government borrowing costs in Italy and Spain, two of the eurozone's weaker economies, have also risen.\nThe Athens stock exchange is also closed as part of the measures.\nEurozone finance ministers also blamed Greece for breaking off the talks, and the European Commission took the unusual step on Sunday of publishing proposals by European creditors that it said were on the table at the time.\nBut Greece described creditors' terms as \"not viable\".\nThe current ceiling for the ECB's emergency funding - Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) - is €89bn (£63bn). It is thought that virtually all that money has been disbursed.\nThe temporary closure of banks in Greece, and the introduction of capital controls, is very bad news for Greece. Greek people will have less money to spend and business less to invest; so an already weak economy will probably return to deep recession.\nAs for the impact on the rest of the eurozone, corporate treasurers and wealthy individuals will wake up on Monday wondering if their money is safe in the banks of other weaker eurozone economies.\nGreece's bank holiday from hell"
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"Spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis told the press in Athens that labour and pension issues are non negotiable.\n\"We won't go beyond the limits of our red lines. It's clear that we cannot cut pensions.\"\nTalks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU) will continue over the weekend.\nCreditors have demanded cuts in spending, including plans to trim the civil service and privatisation of state assets, in order for Greece to continue receiving loans.\nBut Greece's ruling left wing Syriza party, led by Alexis Tsipras, was voted in earlier this year on promises to ease up on the highly unpopular austerity measures with increases in the minimum monthly wage and a job creation programme.\nMr Sakellaridis said: \"There should not be an expectation on the part of institutions... that the government will back down on everything.\n\"When you negotiate, there should be mutual concessions.\"\nSome creditors, notably Germany, are losing patience with what they see as Greece's profligacy.\nThe prospect of a deep schism between Greece and the financial community, particularly the eurozone area, has haunted financial markets for years.\nThe president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said it would not be wise to openly discuss a Greek exit from the euro: \"If I were to say that \"Grexit\" [Greek exit from the EU] was an option, what do you think would happen then on the financial markets?\"\nBut in France, Finance Minister Michael Sapin was more reassuring, saying Greece's talks with its international creditors were heading in the right direction: \"The risk of things running off the rails for Greece also entails that risk for Europe,\" he said, calling for a \"push towards a compromise\" at Monday's gathering of eurozone finance ministers.\nGreece is due to make its next repayment - of €763m (£566m), one of its biggest - to the IMF on Tuesday.\nThe Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, insisted that the country will meet Tuesday's deadline, amid concerns that it may not have enough money to so do.\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Varoufakis said: \"The Greek government used to pretend it could meet certain targets that it knew it could not keep.\n\"This cycle of debt deflation and insincerity has to end. We are prepared to go all the way down to the wire.\n\"Europe works in glacial ways, and eventually does the right thing after it has tried all alternatives.\"\nHe ruled out a bailout agreement being reached at the eurozone finance ministers meeting on Monday, but insisted they \"will certainly have an agreement within the next couple of weeks or so.\"\nHe also said he is \"the chief negotiator of the Greek government\", countering claims that he had been sidelined after a reshuffle in the bailout negotiations team in late April.\nGreece met the deadline on Wednesday to pay the IMF €200m (£148m) in interest payments."
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Jy Hitchcox scored three tries as Castleford overcame Super League's bottom club Huddersfield. | [
"The Giants' eighth defeat in nine outings, despite a hat-trick from Jermaine McGillvary, saw them remain two points adrift of 11th-placed Leeds.\nMike McMeeken scored twice for the hosts, with Greg Minikin and Jake Webster also crossing for Castleford.\nLeroy Cudjoe went over on two occasions for Huddersfield, with Sam Rapira grabbing the Giants' other score.\nThe defeat continued a miserable start to 2016 for Paul Anderson's men, who were beaten by Wigan in the play-off semi-finals last season.\nCastleford, who remain without a number of key first-team players through injury, climbed to seventh in the table, three points behind third-placed Widnes Vikings.\nCastleford head coach Daryl Powell:\n\"It was a crazy game. It was a typical third game of Easter.\n\"We've generally been pretty good in this period, but I haven't been able to rotate like normal. We have 10 guys out and we lost Grant Millington early on, and it's made it hard for us.\n\"It's a massive win. I said to (assistant) Danny Orr before the game whether we'd have enough to beat them but we did, just about.\n\"There's a couple of clubs who've responded well to new coaches such as Wakefield and Hull KR - and the competition is real tight, so it's an important win.\"\nHuddersfield head coach Paul Anderson:\n\"Our focus has to be on dusting ourselves down and trying to make sure we win the next game.\n\"We know this group is capable of doing some good things. It's just a case of building energy because we're robbing ourselves of it at the moment.\n\"It's the same old story. I could sit here and repeat myself constantly.\n\"The positive was that we scored 30-odd points but the negative was clearly the amount they got.\"\nCastleford: Hampshire; Minikin, Crooks, Webster, Hitchcox; T. Holmes, Gale; Lynch, Milner, Jewitt, McMeeken, Millington, Massey.\nReplacements: Cook, McShane, Maher, Boyle.\nHuddersfield: Brierley; McGillvary, Cudjoe, Wardle, Murphy; Brough, Connor; Rapira, Hinchcliffe, Huby, Lawrence, Ta'ai, Roberts.\nReplacements: Crabtree, Patrick, Mason, M. Wood.\nReferee: Phil Bentham"
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A US boy who made history as the world's first child to have a double hand transplant is now swinging a baseball bat well, his doctors say. | [
"It is two years since Zion Harvey, who is now 10, was given new hands, and his doctors say they are amazed by and incredibly proud of his progress.\nZion can now write and feed and dress himself, as well as grip a bat.\nAlthough his hands came from a donor, his brain has accepted them as his own, medical tests show.\nDr Sandra Amaral, a member of the team treating Zion at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, told the BBC that Zion continues to make significant progress.\n\"He is able to swing a bat with much more co-ordination, and he can write his name quite clearly.\n\"His sensation continues to improve. It's amazing.\n\"Now he can pat his mother's cheek and feel it.\"\nDr Amaral said there was evidence that his brain had rewired to take account of his new hands.\nThe team has published medical notes about his remarkable story in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health journal.\nZion was born with two hands but when he was aged two, doctors had to amputate them.\nIn his own words: \"When I was two I had to get my hands cut off because I was sick.\"\nZion had sepsis, a life-threatening infection. Doctors removed both his hands at the wrist, and his legs below the knee because they were dying. His kidneys also failed.\nAt the age of four, after two years of dialysis, Zion had a kidney transplant using a kidney donated by his mother Pattie Ray.\nIt was another four years before the boy from Baltimore got his new hands.\nZion's hand operation in June 2015 was a big deal. Although not the first ever double-hand transplant - that was in 1998 - he was the youngest to ever have the procedure.\nHis doctors say Zion's medical story, along with his positive personality and determination, made him a great candidate.\nTransplant patients need to take lifelong anti-rejection drugs and these can have bad side-effects, which means the benefits of the surgery must outweigh the risks.\nZion was already on this medication for his kidney and after 18 months of close assessment, the medical team was confident a double-hand transplant could benefit him.\nNext came the wait for a donor of the right size, skin tone and blood group compatibility.\nThree months later they found a donor.\nA team of 40 medical staff, including 10 surgeons, operated through the night and into the early hours of the morning to fit Zion's new hands.\nOne of the biggest challenges was connecting up all the tiny blood vessels that would keep the hands alive.\nDr Benjamin Chang, co-director of the hand transplant programme at the hospital, recalls: \"We wanted to really make sure that this was going to work for our patient and work for a lifetime.\"\nZion Harvey: The boy with the double hand transplant\nTwo years on, Zion is doing well.\nThere were a few times in the first year after the transplant that Zion's doctors feared his body was starting to reject the new hands. Thankfully, tweaking his medication helped.\nHis doctors say one of the most promising things they have seen during the recovery period is how well Zion's brain has responded \"despite the absence of hands during a developmental period of rich fine motor development between the ages of two and eight years\".\nSpeaking about Zion last year, lead surgeon Dr Scott Levin said: \"His brain is communicating with his hands. His brain says for his hands to move and they move. And that in and of itself is remarkable.\""
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The Premier League fixtures for 2016-17 have been released. | [
"Follow the links below for your team's fixtures in full.\nArsenal\nBournemouth\nBurnley\nChelsea\nCrystal Palace\nEverton\nHull\nLeicester City\nLiverpool\nManchester City\nManchester United\nMiddlesbrough\nSouthampton\nStoke City\nSunderland\nSwansea City\nTottenham Hotspur\nWatford\nWest Bromwich Albion\nWest Ham United"
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The Brussels metro station where 16 people were killed by a suicide bomber last month has re-opened. | [
"A bomb was detonated on board a train pulling out of Maelbeek station, close to the European institutions, in the morning rush hour on 22 March. The attack followed suicide bombs at Brussels airport which also killed 16.\nPeople can write their tributes to the victims on a commemorative wall inside Maelbeek station.\nThe metro system is now fully open.\nThe Brussels public transport authority (Stib) said that military and police officers would be present to \"ensure the security of the entire network\".\nThe metro would be running to the same timetable as before the attacks; however, the number of entry points is limited to one or two per station, Stib said. Since the attacks, the metro system had been running from 06:00 to 22:00 but on Monday resumed its normal hours of 04:30 to 00:30.\nSurvivors and relatives of the victims were able to visit the station on Saturday, before it re-opened.\nThe explosion on 22 March did not damage the structure of the metro station, according to Stib; the work carried out included re-tiling and painting.\nA commemorative art work will eventually replace the tribute wall."
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"One officer was stabbed in the neck and another in the stomach, while a third officer who arrived at the scene in Schaerbeek district suffered a broken nose, Belgian broadcaster VRT reports.\nThe attacker was shot in the leg and taken away by ambulance.\nAuthorities have named the attacker as \"Hicham D\", 43, of Belgian nationality.\nBelgian media report that Hicham D is known to Belgian police and is believed to have links to jihadists who travelled to Syria to fight. He also served as a Belgian army officer until 2009.\n\"We have reason to believe that the incident was a terrorist attack,\" a spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor's office, Eric Van Der Sypt, said.\nBelgian prosecutors said the officers had not suffered life-threatening injuries.\nThe attack happened near a main road in a region linked to previous terror attacks.\nIt comes just hours after commuters were evacuated from Brussels Nord station over a bomb scare.\nBelgium has been on high alert following attacks in Brussels on the airport and the city's metro system in March, which killed 35 people and injured more than 300.\nThe attacks were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) militant group."
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A 300 metre-wide asteroid is making a close pass to the Earth. | [
"Apophis - named after the Egyptian demon of destruction and darkness - has been put on a watch list by scientists.\nThey have calculated that in 2036 there is a very small chance it could collide with our planet.\nHowever, its current fly-by is at a safe distance of about 14 million km - but this is close enough for astronomers to study the space rock and assess its future risk.\nApophis will not be visible with the naked eye, but space enthusiasts can watch it online via the Slooh space camera's website.\nCollision course?\nThe large rocky mass was first discovered in 2004. At the time, it raised alarm when scientists calculated that it had a one-in-45 chance of smashing into the Earth in 2029.\nLater revisions, lifted this threat; instead on the Friday 13 April 2029, it will make a close pass at a distance of about 30,000km.\nHowever, astronomers say there is still a one-in-200,000 chance that it could strike Earth in 2036.\nProfessor Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queen's University Belfast, UK, said: \"In 2029, it will pass so close to us that Earth's gravity will change its orbit.\n\"Most of the potential orbits it will end up on will mean we are safe for the next 100 years. But there is a small region of space - something we call a keyhole - and if it passes through that keyhole in 2029, it will come back and hit us on 13 April in 2036.\"\nIf this happened, it would strike the Earth with 100 times the energy in our largest nuclear bombs, said Prof Fitzsimmons.\nFuture hazards\nAstronomers are using the current close encounter as an opportunity to study the asteroid, so they can improve their calculations to predict its future path.\nProf Fitzsimmons said: \"While [the asteroid] is relatively close to the Earth, astronomers can ping it with radar. Radar measurements are incredibly accurate: we get the distance to the asteroid very, very precisely, and we can also get its velocity relative to us. And these two things let us pin its orbit down very precisely. \"\nResearchers are becoming increasingly interested in potentially hazardous asteroids.\nSo far they have counted more than 9,000 near-Earth asteroids, and they spot another 800 new space rocks on average each year.\nProf Fitzsimmons said learning more about them was vital.\n\"At some point, we are going to find an asteroid big enough that it could cause damage at ground level if we let it hit,\" he explained.\n\"So we should find these objects, we should track them, work out where they are going - and if they stand a chance of hitting us, do something about it.\""
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"The comet, named 67P, is throwing out lots of material as it warms up on its journey towards the Sun.\nThe ball of rock and ice is being photographed by the Rosetta spacecraft, which is following it on its journey.\nRosetta was sent into space by the European Space Agency and is about 60 miles away from the comet, but still got these amazing pics.\nScientists say this was a special sighting: \"No-one has ever witnessed the wake-up of a dust jet before,\" said scientist Holger Sierks from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, in Germany.\nOver the next few weeks lots more jets of dust are expected, as the comet travels closer to the Sun."
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There is little sign of the scars of the past in Newry these days - the Georgian High Street looks prosperous, and the modern shopping centre which has been developed along the quayside of the town's 18th Century canal is buzzing with life. | [
"But the small group of public officials and local activists I met in a cafe there all remember when this area saw the Troubles at their most savage.\nAnd they associate the changes that have come, thanks to the peace process, with the benefits that have flowed from EU membership.\nNewry is just north of Northern Ireland's border, and Conor Patterson, now chief executive of the Newry and Morne Enterprise Agency, recalled what it was like to cross it in the bad old days.\n\"My mother was from Dundalk (in the Republic), so we travelled every week from Newry to Dundalk, and experienced weekly what the hard border meant in practice,\" he says.\n\"That was long queues - not just through the security border but thereafter at the customs post… it was really tough.\"\nPamela Arthurs, chief executive of East Border Region, a local authority-led cross-border organisation, worries about a Brexit threat to the stability which, she says, has been brought to the region by £2.4bn of EU funding.\n\"The concern we would have is if there was a Brexit, what would the alternative be?\" she asks.\n\"Are we assured that the amount of money would continue?\"\nListen to Brexit: The Irish Question by Ed Stourton on BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme on Monday 8 February at 20:30 GMT, or catch up via the iPlayer\nThe UK's EU referendum: Everything you need to know\nWhat will happen when?\nQ&A: What Britain wants from Europe\nFull coverage of the EU referendum\nUnionists who want to leave the EU bridle at the idea that it would undermine the peace process.\n\"We have come through far, far more difficult challenges to the political institutions in the peace process than this issue,\" says Nigel Dodds, MP for Belfast North and deputy leader of the DUP.\n\"The peace process was based on a desire to move Northern Ireland forward, away from years and decades of violence. That's not going to be interrupted or disadvantaged by whatever decision we make on the EU membership issue.\"\nBut the way the peace process has been raised as an issue in Northern Ireland reflects an important dimension to the forthcoming referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.\nThe Brexit debate can look very different from different parts of the United Kingdom.\nSince the last time we voted on Europe - in 1975 - there has been a constitutional revolution.\nThe devolution of power to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies has changed the relationship between the constituent parts of the UK profoundly.\nDr Jo Hunt of Cardiff University, who studies the impact of devolution on the way government works in the UK, says that the \"devolved parts of the UK have developed their own relations with the European Union\", and argues that that is likely to be reflected in the way people vote.\nIn Northern Ireland the most important factor which makes the Brexit debate different is the border.\nIt is the UK's only land border with another sovereign state, which runs for more than 300 miles (483km) from Carlingford Lough on the Irish Sea to Lough Foyle in the North West.\nAnd fears that it might become a so-called \"hard\" border have prompted Belfast to get involved in the the UK's internal debate in a way some Unionists resent.\n\"When you have two countries that are linked in the way our countries are, with a land border between us and extraordinary economic, political, historical people-to-people links, anything that puts a barrier between them has to be a negative thing from our point of view,\" says Dan Mulhall, the Irish ambassador in London.\nHis Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, went a step further and, on a recent trip to London, warned that a Brexit could cause \"serious difficulties\" for Northern Ireland.\n\"I don't dispute that Irish Republic leaders and politicians have a right to express a view as far as it affects the Irish Republic,\" says the DUP's Nigel Dodds.\n\"I am critical when Enda Kenny comes to the UK and says a decision to leave is bad for Northern Ireland.\"\nAnd \"leave\" campaigners challenge the assumption that the border would change radically.\nVeteran MP Kate Hoey who was born in Northern Ireland and is co-chair of Labour Leave says: \"I don't see a situation where we would end up with big barriers up.\"\n\"I see no reason if we were not in the European Union why we wouldn't build a good relationship with the Republic that would work out a lot of these issues\".\nSinn Fein has in the past been sceptical about some aspects of the EU, but they will be in the \"stay\" camp, and it sees the possibility of what Martina Anderson - one of the party's MEPs - calls a \"constitutional opportunity\".\nIf the leave campaign wins but Northern Ireland votes to stay, it will, like the SNP in Scotland, push for a second, separate referendum there.\n\"The days of Mother England wagging its finger to Scotland, Wales and to us in the North, and that we would be pulled out of the EU if the people of Northern Ireland are against that, are over,\" Anderson says.\nMany of these positions, of course, reflect local political concerns, but their impact could be felt right across the UK.\nCardiff University's Dr Jo Hunt argues that the referendum \"is far more than just a question about remaining in the EU. It is about our constitutional future\".\nDevolution has, she points out, been \"an ongoing and evolving\" process.\n\"This,\" she believes, \"could be seen as a trigger button.\""
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"The streets of Northern Ireland's capital have been built on top of rivers that still flow far below the city's pavements.\nBoth the Farset and the Blackstaff rivers determined the shape of the city that grew up around the narrowest bridging point of the Farset, where High Street is today.\nAnd the little-known river even gave Belfast its name, Béal feirste (the mouth of the Farset).\nFarset itself comes from the Irish word for sandbar.\nThe history of these hidden rivers is explored in a BBC Newsline series.\nReporter Ita Dungan discovers what the city's defining waterways are like above ground, and what those that are hidden are like below ground.\nOld photographs and computer-generated images bring the rivers' histories to life and reveal regeneration plans that are benefitting Belfast's residents and wildlife.\nIn its heyday, the River Farset powered the linen mills on the Crumlin and Falls Roads.\nIts journey takes it from a spring at Squires Hill, far above the city, down into Ballysillan, before cutting across the Crumlin and Shankill Roads.\nIt then roughly follows the peaceline before heading under the Westlink motorway and into Belfast.\nIt runs under the city centre in large pipes, some of which big enough for a bus to go through them.\nBelfast grew up around the narrowest bridging point of the Farset, where High Street is today.\nThe Farset also determined High Street's curving shape.\nAt Great Victoria Bus Station, as buses and passengers come and go, deep underground, the Blackstaff river is making its way towards the River Lagan.\nA fresh clear spring, the Blackstaff rises south of Black Mountain, flows along the bog meadows where it joins up with the Clowney River and divides.\nThe original river then heads north into the city centre towards the gas works, and the 1960s relief culvert runs south towards the Lagan at Botanic.\nToday, it may flow quietly along the Boucher Road, but many will remember the Blackstaff's power during the 'big flood' of 1952, when parts of Tates Avenue were completely submerged.\nThe destruction forced a changing of the river's course and a huge underground culvert was constructed under Broadway roundabout to contain any overflow.\nNow, the Blackstaff runs under the bus station, the Europa hotel, the BBC Blackstaff Studios, the gas works and then into the Lagan.\nWith Titanic Quarter on one side and east Belfast and Victoria Park on the other, the River Connswater is another of Belfast's defining waterways.\nThe opening of the Sam Thompson Bridge last year was one of the first steps in transforming the landscape of the river's entire course.\nThe bridge links the Harbour Estate and Titanic Quarter.\nThe river itself rises in the Castlereagh hills and runs northwards through east Belfast, getting wider until it reaches the sea at Belfast Lough.\nThe sea shows its full force from time to time, flooding nearby houses, but designating the area as a place of scientific interest has done more than protect the birds and mud flats.\nA raised bank of wild flowers acts as a giant sponge soaking up floodwaters and protecting residents.\nFollow the Connswater upstream to Mersey Street, and the banks of this once rubbish-filled part of the river are under regeneration.\nThere are also plans to put reinforced concrete floodwalls all the way down to the Sydenham bypass to protect homes and businesses.\nOff the Beersbridge Road, the Knock and the Loop rivers join and become the Connswater.\nVan Morrison sang about this part of the river in his song Brown-Eyed Girl, but the area has a lot more history; a 400-year-old bridge and water that made something quite a bit stronger.\nIn Victorian times, two-thirds of whiskey exported from Ireland came from Belfast, and around half of that came from two distilleries - the Connswater distillery and the Avoneil distillery.\nFurther upstream at Orangefield Park, Connswater's transformation is even more apparent.\nThe river used to run along fences at the back of the houses, which were susceptible to flooding. Instead of building floodwalls, here the river has been 'moved' to become a central feature of the park.\nA heron, a little egret and a kingfisher have already been spotted along the banks, along with all of the birds normally associated with wetland areas.\nIt's now become an asset to the area and a place for people to come and relax.\nHidden Rivers starts on BBC Newsline 6.30 on BBC1 Northern Ireland at 18:30 BST."
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A Christmas baubles campaign has raised more than £17,000 for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance Trust. | [
"Supporters of the charity were urged by a former patient to send donations and festive greetings to the pilot, doctor and paramedic on a bauble-shaped card.\nNearly 600 cards now adorn a Christmas tree at its Marden base, in Kent, after the appeal was launched by Liz James.\nThe charity, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, also received a total of £17,448 in donations.\nMs James, from East Grinstead, said the air ambulance had \"undoubtedly helped to save my life\" after she was involved in a road traffic accident.\nSo far this year, the air ambulance has attended more than 2,100 callouts."
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The scheme that assesses claimants of disability benefits faces a major overhaul, with ministers promising to extend a "revolution" of getting more people into work. | [
"A consultation on reforming the Work Capability Assessment was announced on Monday.\nWork and Pensions Secretary Damian Green said he wanted a \"personalised\" way to help more people find jobs.\nThe charity Scope said it welcomed the planned changes.\nBoth Employment Support Allowance (ESA), which is paid to more than two million people, and the assessments, were originally introduced by Labour and then expanded by the coalition government.\nThe consultation follows the announcement that people with severe conditions will no longer face reassessments for their benefits.\nIt will examine how people receiving ESA can be helped back into employment without having their benefits put at risk while they search for a job.\nMr Green told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We need to change across the system so we will be changing so it's no longer just a binary assessment... much more personalised.\"\nSaying he did not want to \"categorise\" people, he added that he wanted to change the \"mindset\" of businesses: \"We want them to realise that there's a huge pool of talented people who are disabled and want to work and can contribute fully in the workplace.\"\nMr Green said: \"We've got historically high employment levels. We want to spread that so everyone can enjoy the revolution that we have seen in job creation in the last few years.\"\nThe Department for Work and Pensions places claimants assessed eligible for ESA in either the \"work-related activity group\" or \"support group\".\nThe work-related activity group means officials have decided a claimant's disability or health condition currently means they are unable to have a job but are capable of making some effort to find employment.\nThey receive up to £102.15 a week in ESA payments while attending employment-focused interviews and training. From April 2017, payments will fall to £73.10 for new claimants, bringing the rate into line with Jobseeker's Allowance.\nThose in the \"support group\", who have been deemed unable to work and are not required to do anything to improve their chances of finding a job, receive up to £109.30 a week.\nMr Green said it had been envisaged that \"about 10%\" of those assessed would end up in the support group, but it was actually \"about 50%\".\nHe added: \"In the long run there's nothing more expensive than saying we are going to leave people on benefits for a lifetime. It's expensive and bad for the individual…\n\"The idea that sitting at home, living only on benefits, is in any way good for people is completely wrong.\"\nFormer work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who spearheaded the government's welfare reforms for six years before resigning in March, agreed ESA was \"in real need of reform\".\nFor Labour, shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams called for the assessments to be scrapped, saying they caused \"needless misery and stress\" for thousands of sick and disabled people.\nShe said the government's approach was \"ideologically driven with the sole purpose of targeting the most vulnerable in our society to pay for their austerity plans, painting disabled people as scroungers and shirkers, whilst making no impact on the disability employment gap\".\nScope chief executive Mark Atkinson said: \"The current fit-for-work test doesn't accurately identify the barriers disabled people face in entering or staying in work.\n\"An assessment should be the first step to getting support and should be separate from determining benefits entitlement.\"\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission's chief executive, Rebecca Hilsenrath, suggested apprenticeship schemes could use positive action to employ more disabled people.\nCitizens Advice said it dealt with 25,000 issues around Work Capability Assessments last year, saying the reforms should make the test \"fair, consistent and right first time\"."
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"It follows government criticism over \"significant quality failures\".\nDisabilities Minister Mike Penning said a new company would be appointed in early 2015, and Atos would not receive \"a single penny of compensation\".\nAtos had been due to finish in August 2015. It said the settlement was \"in the best interests of all parties\".\nIt also said it would \"work hard to support transition to a new provider\", adding: \"We will be transferring our infrastructure and employees to ensure consistency of service to those going through the process.\n\"There will be no change for those applying for Employment and Support Allowance.\"\nLast month, Atos said it was seeking to end its government contract under which it carried out the Work Capability Assessments.\nAtos will continue to carry out the assessments in Northern Ireland under a separate contract.\nIt will also continue with assessments for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) - another welfare change introduced by the government - in Scotland, the north of England, London and the south of England.\nAnother company, Capita, provide PIP assessments in central England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\nClaimants applying for Employment and Support Allowance must undergo a Work Capability Assessment to see how their illness or disability affects their ability to work.\nAtos has been criticised over the number of these assessments it has made as well as for lengthy waiting times.\nDisability campaigners have described the work tests as \"ridiculously harsh and extremely unfair\".\nLast summer, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) identified \"significant quality failures\" in the written reports Atos produced after tests and put a plan for improvement in place.\nBut in February, the DWP said standards had declined unacceptably.\nMr Penning said the government was looking for a provider to replace Atos \"with the view to increasing the number of assessments and reducing waiting times\".\nHe said: \"I am pleased to confirm that Atos will not receive a single penny of compensation from the taxpayer for the early termination of their contract.\n\"Quite the contrary, Atos has made a substantial financial settlement to the department.\"\nThe DWP said \"one national provider\" would be appointed to take over the contract early next year.\nIn the longer term, it said, it planned to take on \"multiple providers\".\nAtos chief executive Ursula Morgenstern said: \"We are pleased to have reached an agreement with the government to allow us to exit this contract early and we remain committed to delivering essential services to the UK government as a strategic supplier.\"\nShe said the company would \"work hard to support transition to a new provider\".\nRichard Hawkes, chief executive of disability charity Scope, meanwhile, said: \"I doubt there's a single disabled person who'll be sorry to hear that Atos will no longer be running the fit-for-work tests.\"\nHe said the \"fundamentally flawed\" test should be \"more than an exercise in getting people off benefits\".\n\"It should make sure disabled people get the specialist, tailored and flexible support they need to find and keep a job.\"\nPublic and Commercial Services union general secretary, Mark Serwotka, said the assessments were \"designed to harass vulnerable people and take their benefits away rather than provide support and guidance\".\n\"Doctors, MPs and disabled people all believe the tests should be scrapped so, instead of replacing the failed Atos with another profit-hungry provider, the government should bring the work in-house and invest in it properly.\"\nAnd charity Sense called for a \"root-and-branch reform of the system to ensure disabled people are judged fairly on their ability to work\".\nShadow work and pensions minister Kate Green joined calls for the government to \"reform fundamentally\" the assessment system, adding that people with disabilities who could work must be given the \"support they need to find a job\"."
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Mark Cavendish won the second stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour on Friday to take the overall lead. | [
"The 31-year-old Manxman beat Team Sky's Elia Viviani and Astana's Andrea Guardini in a sprint finish.\n\"I'm happy with that,\" said the Dimension Data rider, who finished second in last Sunday's road race at the Road World Championships.\n\"We wanted to win. I felt good. It was a very chaotic sprint in which I lost my lead out in the second last corner.\"\nThe races continues on Saturday with a 150km stage that finishes with a 10km ascent to the summit finish at Jebel Hafeet, while Sunday's final stage is a 26-lap race around Yas Marina Circuit.\nStage two standings:\n1. Mark Cavendish (GB/Dimension Data) 2 hrs 32 mins 21 secs\n2. Elia Viviani (Ita/Team Sky) same time\n3. Andrea Guardini (Ita/Astana)\n4. Jakub Mareczko (Ita/Wilier Triestina)\n5. Jean Pierre Drucker (Lux/BMC)\nOverall standings:\n1. Mark Cavendish (GB/Dimension Data) 5 hrs 48 mins 06 secs\n2. Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita/trek Segafredo) +4 secs\n3. Jens Keukeleire (Bel/Orica BikeExchange) +5 secs\n4. Elia Viviani (Ita/Team Sky) +8 secs\n5. John Degenkolb (Ger/Team Giant-Alpecin) Same time"
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Alastair Seeley has broken the record for wins at the North West 200 road races by achieving his 16th career win at the international meeting. | [
"The 36-year-old from Carrickfergus had been level on 15 with the late Robert Dunlop going into Thursday's races.\nSeeley broke away to win the opening Supersport race ahead of runner-up Ian Hutchinson and Martin Jessopp.\nThe Supertwins race was abandoned after a two riders were injured in a high-speed crash.\nDungannon rider Ryan Farquhar and Dan Cooper from Stroud came off at Black Hill and were taken to hospital.\nForty-year-old Farquhar sustained chest and pelvic injuries, while Cooper, 28, had shoulder injuries.\nRecord-breaker Seeley has won at least one event at the North-West for nine years in a row.\nHe has also won at least one Supersport race in each of seven consecutive years from 2010 to 2016.\nThe Supersport event provided a thrilling start to racing at the 2016 North West.\nBallymoney's Michael Dunlop, a four-time winner at the North West, did not make it off the grid because of mechanical problems.\nSeeley surged into an early lead but some exillerating action saw Fermanagh rider Lee Johnston, Yorkshire man Hutchinson and Michael's brother William Dunlop all take turns at the front.\nSeeley, Hutchinson and Jessopp all broke the class lap record on the final circuit.\n\"The North West put me on the map when I first came here and now to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Dunlops is unbelievable,\" said an elated Seeley.\n\"It was a typical Supersport race. We managed to get a break and clinch the 16th win.\""
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Crystal Palace manager Ian Holloway has described the rule that has allowed Watford to make 11 international loan signings as "ludicrous". | [
"The Hornets named seven loan players in their squad to face Palace on Friday, six of whom are from Watford's sister clubs Udinese and Granada.\n\"They've got some world-class players that they've borrowed from almost one club,\" Holloway told BBC Sport.\n\"It seems pretty ludicrous to me,\" he said after a\nUnder Football League rules, sides are only allowed to name five loan players in a matchday squad and can only take two players on a standard loan from any one club.\nBut loan deals arranged with foreign teams are recognised as transfers, meaning there is no limit to the number of loanees from overseas.\nIt also means that Gianfranco Zola's Watford were able to earlier in the season.\nWatford currently have 10 players from Udinese and Granada on their books - teams who are also under the umbrella of Hornets owners the Pozzo family - and six of these were named on the teamsheet for Friday's game.\nNathaniel Chalobah, on loan from Chelsea, was the only Watford player in the squad who counted towards their loan quota.\nStriker Fernando Forestieri was also on loan from Udinese earlier in the season, until\nIt is a system that has worked well for Zola, whose side are third in the Championship.\nHolloway, who saw one of his own loan players, Kevin Phillips, net the equaliser at Vicarage Road, added: \"We're only allowed to borrow two from the same team in this country. Unlimited abroad? That gives a licence to people to buy English clubs, chuck all their players over here and have a reserve team.\n\"What if Barcelona wanted to buy us and play their 'B' team for us? We've got to sort this out.\n\"No arguing - what their manager is doing and how they're doing it is fantastic. If there's a loophole, they've found it and some of those players are as good as any I've seen in the world.\n\"But I can't believe there's such a massive loophole, and my question is - where are those English players going to come from?\"\nDespite a reliance on foreign imports, Watford have maintained their tradition of using young, homegrown players.\nEight players produced from the Watford academy have played a competitive match for the Hornets this season."
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"Transfer deadline day is upon us and Premier League clubs have already broken all known spending records for this summer's transfer window.\nTwelve clubs have set new transfer records for single deals, benefiting from the new £5.1bn television deal.\nArsenal's £52m double signing of Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi pushed top-flight summer transfer window spending close to the £1bn mark, which it then passed on deadline day.\nIt has long surpassed the previous high of £870m set last year.\nBBC Sport takes a look at a few big things to look out for on 31 August, including which clubs will be the busiest, which will be quietest and a look at some of the more left-field deadline day signings.\nThe window closes at 23:00 BST in England and midnight in Scotland.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nWest Brom manager Tony Pulis said on 12 August that his team needed four or five more players and since then they have added winger Nacer Chadli from Tottenham for £13m and Everton defender Brendan Galloway on loan.\n\"The club needs a lift. We need five players to come in and make a difference straightaway - we need almost half a team,\" Pulis told BBC WM.\nCrystal Palace boss Alan Pardew said his team had lost two \"iconic\" players with the exits of Mile Jedinak and Yannick Bolasie, although the Eagles have fended off a Spurs bid for winger Wilfried Zaha.\nPalace have already signed striker Christian Benteke for £27m from Liverpool and Chelsea forward Loic Remy on a season-long loan but could yet do more business. Jack Wilshere has been suggested as a potential addition, with Arsenal keen to give the England international some game time.\nManagerless Hull City did not sign anyone all summer and then went and added Tottenham midfielder Ryan Mason, Cardiff goalkeeper David Marshall and Manchester United striker Will Keane on Tuesday. With only 14 fit senior professionals available last weekend, there could be more to come.\nInjury-hit West Ham are also likely to be looking for additions despite their early exit from European football and Everton manager Ronald Koeman could have a busy day after he admitted he would be \"disappointed\" if he was not able to add a few new faces.\nSwansea City chairman Huw Jenkins has told BBC Wales that the club could bring in some new faces on loan.\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho has said his business is done for the summer - despite rumours of interest in another centre-back.\n\"I have 23 players in the squad and in principle nobody is leaving, because I don't want anyone to leave,\" the Portuguese said last week. \"No-one is coming and 23 players is more than enough.\"\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola is only looking at outgoings as he aims to trim his squad.\nHe said: \"We have 30 players, it's enough. I'm so happy with the squad and the team. I'm so confident. I trust a lot in them.\"\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger - often derided by his own fans for a lack of transfer activity - pushed the club's summer spending close to the £100m mark with a double coup of Germany defender Shkodran Mustafi and Spanish striker Lucas Perez on Tuesday for a combined fee of more than £50m.\nHaving already added Granit Xhaka, Kelechi Nwakali, Rob Holding and Takuma Asano, Wenger has said there are \"no plans for anyone else now\".\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nDutch striker Vincent Janssen and Kenya midfielder Victor Wanyama have been the two major signings made by Tottenham, and boss Mauricio Pochettino cryptically said the club hopes to sign \"one, two or three players or maybe no-one\".\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte says he is \"pleased to work with the players I have\" but acknowledged he would still like to \"improve his squad\" before the window closes. An incredible Stamford Bridge return for Brazil centre-back David Luiz was being rumoured on Tuesday.\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says he \"can't wait for the day when the transfer window is closed,\" and is surprised by the \"obsession\". He then added that the club \"do not have a preferred position to sign players\".\nEvery year there is at least one move that has fans scratching their heads and asking \"where has that come from?\"\nIn January 2014, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger signed the injured Sweden international Kim Kallstrom on loan. The then 31-year-old went on to make four appearances for the Gunners.\nDeadline day in August 2008 saw Manchester City part with £32.5m for Real Madrid's Robinho. The Brazilian was caught so off guard by the transfer that he initially seemed to think he had joined Chelsea.\nWith their season in freefall, Everton brought in Senegal striker Oumar Niasse for £13.5m from Lokomotiv Moscow on February's deadline day. Niasse, signed by Roberto Martinez, failed to score in 152 minutes of first-team football and was not given a squad number by new Toffees boss Ronald Koeman.\nManchester United fans were also left confused on the same deadline day when the Red Devils brought in Andy Kellet from Bolton on loan for six months. Kellett had only made four senior appearances for Bolton and was used to boost United's reserve team.\nUnable to command a place in West Ham's first team, the agent of midfielder Julien Faubert pulled of a coup by convincing Real Madrid to take the Frenchman on loan for the remainder of the season on deadline day in January 2009. He made two appearances and infamously fell asleep while on the bench during a match against Villarreal.\nAn alcohol-fuelled scouting trip, some dodgy VHS tapes and a case of mistaken identity were some of the theories for Milton Nunez's deadline-day move to Sunderland in March 2000. The diminutive Honduran striker was bought by Peter Reid for £1.6m from Nacional of Uruguay but made just a solitary league appearance for the Black Cats.\nIn attempt to avoid relegation, QPR broke their club record transfer fee to sign defender Christopher Samba from Anzhi Makhachkala for £12.5m in January 2013. \"He's a monster,\" said then manager Harry Redknapp, sounding a little like cult agent Eric Hall, only to sell him back to the Russian Premier League club six months later.\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger has a penchant for a left-field deadline-day transfer signing. In August 2011 he brought in left-back Andre Santos from Fenerbahce for £6.2m. After an underwhelming career at Emirates Stadium he headed back to his native Brazil.\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola made it clear that goalkeeper Joe Hart, 29, was free to find himself a new home.\nLast week's signing of Claudio Bravo effectively pushed Hart down to City's third choice position and the England man has elected to join Italian side Torino on loan, with the deal set to be announced on Wednesday.\nAlso likely to be looking at the City exit doors are Samir Nasri, 29, and Yaya Toure, 33.\nNasri has been linked with a move to Spanish side Sevilla while Toure is yet to feature in a league match this season.\nThis is the first season that teams outside the Premier League will not be able to use the emergency loan window to sign players between the end of August and the start of January.\nThat means we can expect a lot more action from the teams in the EFL than would normally be the case.\nTuesday saw the biggest Championship transfer ever with Bristol City selling striker Jonathan Kodjia to Aston Villa for a fee of up to £15m.\nThere had already been some big-money moves in the Championship this summer with Ross McCormack joining Villa from Fulham for £12m, Newcastle signing Matt Ritchie from Bournemouth for the same amount and Derby adding Matej Vydra from Watford for £8m.\nBristol City are now likely to be active on Tuesday in a bid to replace Ivorian Kodjia, while Nottingham Forest received £13m for winger Oliver Burke from RB Leipzig on Sunday and fans will hope to see some of that money reinvested.\nIn League One, Sheffield United got their first win of the season on Saturday and boss Chris Wilder may well be appealing for funds to kickstart a promotion push, while League Two Portsmouth may be willing to spend in order to avoid a fourth successive season in the bottom tier."
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Two private planes owned by Elvis Presley - the Lisa Marie and Hound Dog II - are going up for auction. | [
"The Lisa Marie, named after his daughter, was bought by Presley in 1975 and refurbished to include a master suite with full-size bed and conference room.\nNeither plane is airworthy but have been on display at Graceland for more than 30 years for fans to tour.\nThey are being auctioned off by Julien's by sealed bids.\nPresley bought the Convair 880 jet in 1975, two years before his death, and spent about $300,000, refitting it and renaming the Lisa Marie. It also features a bathroom with gold taps and a stereo system with 50 speakers.\nThe tail is adorned with Presley's trademark TCB for Taking Care of Business.\nThe last flight it took was to transport his former wife Priscilla Presley and actor George Hamilton to his funeral.\nIt was sold by his father, Vernon, in 1978, and had two owners before being bought by a consortium in a joint venture with the owners of Graceland to allow it to be displayed at the tourist hotspot.\nThe agreement with the owners and Graceland expires in 2015.\nThe Hound Dog II, a Lockheed JetStar, was bought in 1975 as a stopgap while the Lisa Marie was being prepared. It arrived at Graceland in 1984.\nThe planes are being sold as one lot, with the option to buy land next to Graceland to display them, independent of the Presley Museum."
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"The lots included a Rolls-Royce Phantom owned by Sir Elton John, which went for £123,750.\nA Rolls-Royce Corniche Convertible, previously owned by the Qatari royal family, was snapped up for £135,000.\nBut a number of cars in the collection failed to achieve their reserve prices, including a 2012 Bentley Mulsanne owned by the Queen.\nA 1994 Audi Cabriolet, previously owned by Princess Diana, was sold for £54,000.\nDiana travelled about 4,000 miles in the car.\nOther highlights during the auction included the sale of a 1972 Fiat 500L, which was bought by former Prime Minister David Cameron as a birthday present to his wife Samantha, and fetched £20,813.\nA 1976 Bentley owned by Michael Winner and a 1980 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith II, formerly owned by Princess Margaret, also failed to meet their reserves.\nThe Jewels In The Crown Collection went under the hammer at the NEC Classic Motor Show on Saturday and Sunday."
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Sarah Brightman has been working with her former husband Andrew Lloyd Webber on a song she can perform in space. | [
"The British soprano, who is training at Star City near Moscow, is due to blast off on a Russian Soyuz craft on 1 September.\nThe 54-year-old will spend 10 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), 260 miles (420 km) above Earth.\nBrightman said singing in space was a \"very different\" proposition to performing on Earth.\nSpeaking at a press conference in central London, the Phantom of the Opera star said her team were trying to work out the technical details of performing on the ISS.\n\"I would like to connect with a choir, or children or another singer or an orchestra on Earth,\" she told reporters.\nBrightman said she had been working with Lord Lloyd-Webber to find a song that \"suits the idea of space\".\nShe recorded the song in New York last week and it will appear on a retrospective of her career, out later this year.\n\"To sing in microgravity is a very different thing to singing down here,\" she said. \"We use the Earth to ground ourselves when we sing and the air around us.\n\"This is going to be very different. I'm trying to find a piece that is beautiful and simple in its message, as well as not complicated to sing.\"\nShe didn't want to \"promise too much\", she went on, because of the complexity of the idea.\nIn 2013, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's rendition of David Bowie's Space Oddity from the ISS become a huge YouTube hit.\nBrightman is thought to be paying around £34m ($51m) to become the eighth space tourist. She said she had paid for the trip herself, but could not \"contractually\" say how much it had cost.\nShe will be part of a three-person crew travelling to the ISS. The last space tourist to make the trip was Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte in 2009.\nBrightman said the Moon landing in 1969 - which she watched as a nine-year old - had been \"a pivotal moment\" in her life.\nShe joked that while in space she might \"do some of the movements\" from 1978 chart hit I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper.\nThe track was performed on Top of the Pops by dance troupe Hot Gossip, with whom Brightman began her career.\nIn the 1980s, Brightman starred on the West End stage in Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. Both were penned by Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she married in 1984.\nThe pair divorced in 1990 and Brightman embarked on a solo singing career.\nThe singer helped popularise the classical crossover genre, scoring a worldwide hit with her duet with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, Time To Say Goodbye.\nBrightman began Tuesday's press conference by saying she had talked to many people who have travelled in space.\n\"They have all said it is indescribable. You feel a mixture of laughter and tears. You feel humble but you can see the bigger picture.\n\"It's been an unusual path that has taken me to this point and it hasn't been an easy journey. I've found out a lot about myself.\"\nThe singer has also spent time training at Star City with Tim Peake, who will become the first \"official\" British astronaut when he goes to the ISS at the end of 2015."
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"The project \"is in the style of disco, using about five of my songs and some new ones,\" he told Radio 4's Front Row.\n\"I don't know the story yet. My friend Harald Kloser, a great producer who is currently doing Independence Day 2, is really an expert in writing scripts, directing and music.\n\"I think he's coming up with a great idea,\" he added.\nMoroder, one of the forefathers of electronic dance music, produced huge hits for Donna Summer during the late-1970s disco era, including I Feel Love and Love to Love You Baby.\nHe has since collaborated with dozens of artists including David Bowie, Kylie Minogue and Daft Punk.\nThe 75-year-old has also won three Oscars, including one for best original score for Midnight Express.\nHe told Front Row presenter John Wilson that he was choosing which of his many hits to use on the production.\n\"Definitely Call Me (recorded by Blondie in 1980 ) but Flashdance is too typical. Maybe Take My Breath Away (from the film Top Gun).\"\nMoroder said there were no plans to debut the jukebox-style musical in a Broadway theatre.\n\"The idea is to have it in the smaller theatres in America,\" he explained. \"The company which is investing has thousands of smaller theatres. Maybe someday we would head for Broadway but [it will be] smaller for now.\"\nWith no title or storyline, it is too early to discuss casting but Moroder insisted \"we're not going to have big stars\".\n\"We are going to use the original singers and tracks. This is all pre-recorded. Even the new songs we do will be pre-recorded. The show is more like the story behind them.\"\nYou can hear the full interview on BBC Radio 4's Front Row on Monday 1 June."
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National League side Sutton United have signed former Chelsea trainee Adam Coombes from Welling United. | [
"The 25-year-old striker has scored 20 goals in National League South games for the Wings this season.\nHe has netted a further seven times in three FA Cup games, including six goals in one game against Swindon Supermarine in the third qualifying round.\nEx-Notts County and Bromley man Coombes is eligible to make his debut for the U's against Torquay on Saturday.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page."
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"The 21-year-old joins from English Conference side Aldershot Town, where he has made 68 first team appearances.\nThe Englishman has been well travelled with various loan spells at Havant & Waterlooville, Tamworth and Bishop's Stortford.\nHe is the latest signing to join the Scottish Cup winners after striker Nat Wedderburn moved from Cowdenbeath."
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The UK's construction sector ended 2016 well, expanding at the fastest pace for nine months in December, according to a closely watched survey. | [
"The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose to 54.2 in December, up from 52.8 the month before. A figure above 50 indicates expansion.\nHowever, the sector \"continued to experience intense cost pressures\".\nMarkit said that the increase in costs seen last month was the biggest since April 2011.\nThis came as suppliers passed on the higher costs of imported raw materials. The sharp fall in the value of the pound following last year's Brexit vote has made imported goods more expensive.\nTim Moore, senior economist at IHS Markit, hailed \"a solid rebound in construction output during the final quarter of 2016\".\n\"All three main areas of construction activity have started to recover from last summer's soft patch, but in each case, growth remains much weaker than the cyclical peaks seen in 2014,\" he said.\n\"Housebuilding remains a key engine of growth for the construction sector, with the latest upturn the fastest for almost one year.\n\"Meanwhile, commercial activity was the weakest performing category in December, reflecting an ongoing drag from subdued investment spending and heightened economic uncertainty.\"\nThe construction survey, together with a similar survey of the manufacturing sector released on Tuesday, suggests the UK economy remained robust at the end of 2016, although the manufacturing survey also found firms facing rising costs.\nThe survey of the UK's dominant service sector is due to be released on Thursday."
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"The CIPS/Markit composite purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose to 54.1, compared with 53.6 a month earlier - its highest reading in 49 months.\nA reading above 50 indicates growth, while a reading below 50 suggests a fall in activity.\nMarkit said the services sector had seen its best quarter for four years.\nIn addition, factories enjoyed their best quarter of production growth for a year, \"highlighting the broad-based nature of the upturn\".\nEmployment and new orders also rose at their strongest rates for four years in the second quarter.\n\"Despite the cloud of the Greek debt crisis hanging over the region, the eurozone saw economic growth accelerate to a four-year high in June,\" said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.\n\"The PMI is signalling GDP growth of 0.4% for the region as a whole in the second quarter.\"\nThe eurozone's gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.4% in the first quarter, according to official figures.\nMr Williamson added that the eurozone's economy was on course to grow by 2% this year, \"though much of course depends on the outcome of the Greek debt negotiations and any resulting impact on growth in the second half of the year\".\nBusiness activity picked up in both Germany and France in June, but Germany saw a weaker growth rate in the second quarter compared with the first.\nExcluding France and Germany, the rest of the eurozone recorded its best performance for eight years, Markit said."
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Bydd Llywodraeth Cymru'n cyfrannu £3m at y gwaith o adeiladu Yr Egin, pencadlys newydd S4C yng Nghaerfyrddin. | [
"Aeth Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant at y llywodraeth i ofyn am arian cyhoeddus wedi i'w cais am arian Ewropeaidd gael ei wrthod.\nMae disgwyl y bydd £3m arall yn dod o fargen ddinesig Bae Abertawe.\nDywedodd Ysgrifennydd yr Economi, Ken Skates, y byddai'r cynllun yn rhoi bywyd newydd i'r economi leol.\n\"Bydd y buddsoddiad hwn yn helpu i ddarparu'r seilwaith angenrheidiol i gefnogi gweledigaeth y brifysgol o glwstwr o fusnesau creadigol yng Nghaerfyrddin,\" meddai.\n\"Bydd hyn, yn ei dro, yn helpu i chwistrellu bywyd newydd i'r economi leol, yn dod â swyddi ychwanegol o ansawdd uchel i Gaerfyrddin, a gwella enw da cynyddol Cymru fel cefnogwr talent, dychymyg a chynhyrchiant.\"\nYchwanegodd y byddai'r gefnogaeth ariannol yn gymorth i \"ddarparu gofod a chyfleoedd rhwydweithio ar gyfer busnesau eraill, y brifysgol, myfyrwyr ac entrepreneuriaid\".\nMae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi dweud o'r blaen ei fod yn \"siomedig\" fod bwlch cyllido wedi ymddangos ers i'r prosiect gael ei gyhoeddi gyntaf yn 2014.\nYn ôl panel annibynnol sy'n cynghori'r llywodraeth ar y diwydiannau creadigol, ni ddylai'r Egin dderbyn arian gan y trethdalwr.\nCafodd y cyhoeddiad ei groesawu gan S4C a Phrifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant.\nDywedodd llefarydd ar ran S4C: \"Bydd yr adeilad yma, nid yn unig yn gartref i bencadlys S4C, ond hefyd yn gartref i glwstwr o gwmnïau sy'n gweithio o fewn y diwydiannau creadigol.\n\"Bydd y ganolfan yn hwb economaidd i gefn gwlad Sir Gaerfyrddin ac yn dod â swyddi da i ardal lle mae'r Gymraeg dan bwysedd.\"\nAr ran y brifysgol, dywedodd llefarydd fod hwn \"yn brosiect trawsnewidiol sy'n cynnig y cyfle i ddwyn ynghyd amcanion polisi economaidd, ieithyddol a diwylliannol Llywodraeth Cymru fel y nodwyd yn y rhaglen ar gyfer Llywodraeth, Symud Cymru Ymlaen\".\n\"Rydym yn edrych ymlaen at weithio gyda Llywodraeth Cymru a rhanddeiliaid eraill wrth ddatblygu'r fenter hon, a fydd yn gatatalydd ar gyfer adfywiad economaidd a diwylliannol yn y rhanbarth.\"\nCafodd y cyhoeddiad ei groesawu gan AC Plaid Cymru yn Nwyrain Caerfyrddin a Dinefwr, Adam Price, ac AC Arfon, Sian Gwenllian - oedd yn gynharach wedi galw ar S4C i ailystyried lleoliad ei phencadlys yn sgil yr ansicrwydd.\n\"Mae'n hanfodol nawr, wrth i ni geisio gweld mwy o'n sefydliadau cenedlaethol a'r sector gyhoeddus yn symud o Gaerdydd, ein bod ni'n edrych ar y broses ynghlwm â phrosiect Yr Egin S4C a sut gallwn ni ddysgu gwersi ar gyfer y dyfodol\", meddai.\nFe ddywedodd AC Ceidwadol Gorllewin Sir Gâr a De Penfro bod gan y cynllun \"arwyddocâd economaidd a diwylliannol enfawr\" i'r ardal.\nYchwanegodd Angela Burns: \"Mae gorllewin Cymru yn ardal sydd â brwdfrydedd creadigol enfawr ac rydw i'n edrych ymlaen yn fawr at weld y gronfa hon o dalent yn cael ei ryddhau gan y cynllun.\""
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"Fe fydd y dyn 26 oed sy'n byw yn Aberystwyth yn mynd o faen Ynadon Westminster ddydd Gwener 5 Mai.\nMae Josh Walker, sy'n wreiddiol o Fryste, wedi ei gyhuddo o dan Adran 58 o Ddeddf Terfysgaeth 2000 o gasglu neu gofnodi gwybodaeth a all fod o ddefnydd i berson sy'n paratoi neu yn cyflawni gweithred derfysgol.\nFe gafodd ei arestio gan swyddogion Uned Gwrth Derfysgol Cymru ar 29 Rhagfyr ym maes awyr Gatwick wrth iddo ddychwelyd i'r DU."
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Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris believes Cardiff is ideally placed to be one of eight city sides hosting matches in a new Twenty20 tournament. | [
"The new competition planned by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is set to start in 2020.\nGlamorgan became the first county to launch its bid at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on Thursday, and could face competition from Bristol.\n\"We believe Cardiff has a compelling case,\" Morris told BBC Wales Sport.\nThe Welsh club is seeking support for its bid from Cardiff council and the Welsh Government.\nMorris continued: \"Cardiff is one of the greatest sporting capitals in the UK and has hosted some of the world's major sports events.\n\"We have a great stadium that has been able to deliver two Ashes tests.\n\"We have got a great city with a huge sporting tradition and are used to working with a Team Wales approach and putting on a great show.\"\nThere have been no details yet about where the city franchises will be issued, with Morris not being drawn on a possible name or whether Cardiff is in direct competition with Bristol.\n\"We have had no criteria in terms of venue selection, that will come in the coming months,\" added Morris.\n\"The name is an important detail but something that needs to ironed out.\"\nA final decision on the eight cities and next round of international matches for 2020-2024 is expected towards the end of the year.\nAfter lengthy negotiations, the ECB presented the detailed overview of its proposals for the new competition this week, with Essex only emerging publicly so far as a dissenting voice.\n\"This had to happen [for the future of county cricket],\" said Morris.\n\"Many counties have struggled, ourselves included.\n\"It has been a long process but there are lots of different stakeholders to consider.\n\"We have reached a place where pretty much everyone is happy. This is going to be an important cog in the cricket wheel.\n\"There might one or two who are less comfortable but the consensus is heading in the right direction.\"\nMorris also pointed to the declining numbers of cricketers in England and Wales as a reason for the competition's introduction.\n\"We have seen in India and Australia domestic T20 cricket has been hugely successful not just financially but also growing the game,\" added Morris.\n\"There have been some alarming statistics at the participation rates here.\n\"This is a chance to restore cricket as the national summer sport. We have dropped off the radar and need to get back there.\"\nMorris insisted Glamorgan's financial future was not dependent on being chosen as one of the host cities but recognised the benefits.\n\"The ECB have said each of the 18 first-class counties is going to get £1.3m whatever, that is significant funding,\" said Morris.\n\"The attraction is being one of the hosts.\n\"This tournament will be big business with real global profile which will be beamed around the world.\"\nThe 18 counties will still run alongside the new tournament in the existing domestic competitions."
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has taken world leaders to the Shinto religion's holiest site, as the Group of Seven (G7) summit begins in the country. | [
"Mr Abe said the visit was so that they could \"understand the spirituality of Japanese people\".\nThe two-day G7 meeting in Ise-Shima brings together industrialised nations.\nOn Friday, US President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima - the site of the first atomic bomb - the first sitting US president to do so.\nThe visit to the shrine is controversial because critics say Mr Abe is catering to his conservative supporters who want to revive traditional values.\nTop of the agenda for the G7 nations - the US, Canada, Britain, Italy, Germany, France and Japan - will be concerns over the health of the global economy.\nEurope's refugee crisis will also feature prominently at the meeting. European Council President Donald Tusk said on Thursday he would ask the G7's support for more global aid for refugees.\n\"If we (G7) do not take the lead in managing this crisis, nobody would,\" Mr Tusk said to reporters.\nTerrorism, cyber security and maritime security are also on the agenda.\nOn Wednesday, Mr Obama and Mr Abe met for talks where the US president expressed regret over the arrest of a US military base worker in Okinawa in connection with the death of a local woman.\nMr Obama also mentioned his upcoming visit to Hiroshima, saying it would \"honour all those who were lost in World War Two and reaffirm our shared vision of a world without nuclear weapons, as well as highlight the extraordinary alliance that we have been able to forge over these many decades\".\nHe has previously said he would not be apologising for the dropping of the bomb by the US."
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"Keiji Furuya and Yoshitaka Shindo visited the shrine to mark the 69th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.\nThe Yasukuni shrine commemorates Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals.\nPrime Minister Shinzo Abe did not visit the shrine but sent a ritual offering instead.\nInternal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshitaka Shindo, a regular visitor to the shrine, said he was not worried that his visit would cause diplomatic tension.\n\"Many valuable lives perished in the war. I came here to pray so that something like this will never happen again,\" he said.\nThe shrine is dedicated to souls of Japanese nationals who died in wars, but those venerated include 14 convicted Class A war criminals.\nA museum in the shrine's grounds is also deeply controversial because of the way it presents Japan's World War Two history.\nVisits to the shrine anger China and South Korea, who see it as a symbol of Japan's World War Two aggression and accuse Tokyo of failing to show adequate remorse.\nChina said it resolutely opposed such visits, calling the shrine a \"spiritual tool of Japanese militarism\".\n\"Only when Japan earnestly faces up to and deeply reflects on its history of aggression and completely makes a clean break from militarism, can it be possible for Sino-Japanese relations to achieve a healthy and stable development,\" said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying in a statement.\nSouth Korea's foreign ministry said it \"cannot help deploring\" the visit and Mr Abe's offering, according to Yonhap news agency.\nSouth Korean President Park Geun-hye also called on Japanese leaders to show sincerity over historical issues, in a speech commemorating the end of Japanese colonial rule.\nTies between Tokyo and its two closest neighbours have been severely strained by both historical issues and separate territorial disputes.\nWhile Washington has been mediating relations between Seoul and Tokyo, tensions between China and Japan remain high.\nMr Abe paid a visit to the shrine in December, prompting a rare US rebuke.\nHe and the Chinese president have not yet held a formal summit, but met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in St Petersburg last year.\nThe two sides are reported to be eyeing a similar meeting at a regional forum later in the year."
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The bodies of two men have been found following a rescue operation launched off the Dumfries and Galloway coast. | [
"The bodies, recovered from the Irish Sea, have yet to be formally identified, but are believed to be those of two men - aged 35 and 46 - who went missing on Saturday.\nThey had been driving a speedboat from Port Logan, possibly to Stranraer.\nPolice Scotland said officers were trying to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident.\nHelicopters, coastguard rescue teams and several lifeboats had been involved in the operation to find the missing speedboat off the Mull of Galloway.\nRescue teams in Wales and Northern Ireland also took part in the search.\nA report was received at 18:15 BST on Saturday that two speedboat drivers had failed to return having set off at 09:00.\nPolice Scotland said the men had launched the speedboat for a leisure trip.\nTwo helicopters and lifeboats searched the water overnight on Saturday, following the boat's known and projected movements.\nAbout 10 teams had been involved in the search and returned to the water on Sunday.\nA coastguard spokeswoman described the search as \"extensive\"."
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Plans to prevent the closure of 10 Sheffield libraries by handing control to community groups have been approved. | [
"Sheffield City Council's cabinet agreed to set aside £262,000 from public health funds so voluntary groups can bid for cash to help running costs.\nThe idea came after thousands of people objected to council plans to close several of the city's 28 libraries.\nThe authority said it would work with community groups to finalise business plans by June.\nThose libraries are: Broomhill, Ecclesfield, Frecheville, Gleadless, Greenhill, Jordanthorpe, Stannington, Totley, Upperthorpe and Walkley.\nThe council said if groups did not make \"sufficient progress, or fail to submit a business plan to the required standard\" closures would still be needed."
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"The council is axing 1,300 jobs as it attempts to cut £100m from its budget over three years.\nIts original plans were modified after residents, community groups and partners came forward to help keep some closure-threatened facilities open.\nThe updated proposals will now be considered by the full council for approval on 6 March.\nThe Labour leader of Newcastle City Council, Councillor Nick Forbes, said: \"This has attracted a lot of comment - quite understandably - but I believe it is important to be frank about what the city faces so we can work together in good time to try to find alternatives.\n\"I am proud of the spirited response from our communities which will enable some facilities and services to continue whilst we set about trying to minimise the 1,300 job losses in the council - but no one should be mistaken about the scale of the challenge public services face.\"\nLiberal Democrat opposition leader, Councillor David Faulkner, said the budget process had been dealt with in an \"unprofessional\" manner, and more could have been done to save services.\nThe updated budget plans state that the council will end or reduce funding for seven of its 18 libraries in June.\nA proposal to close two respite centres for people with learning disabilities has been placed on hold. But Cheviot View in Longbenton and Castledene in South Gosforth could still close in 2014.\nThe council said that the city would retain a \"comprehensive\" library service. It remains hopeful that investment will emerge to allow Fenham and Cruddas Park libraries to remain open.\nTalks are also ongoing with groups interested in taking over libraries at Jesmond and High Heaton, but Dinnington, Moorside and Denton Burn will shut their doors in June. Others will close in March 2015 unless a solution can be found.\nCommunity partnerships are also being sought as a means of keeping leisure facilities open.\nThe council had originally proposed a 100% cut to its support for the city's arts and cultural organisations but it has now announced an annual fund of £600,000 to support the sector. It is also proposing a freeze in council tax at current levels for 2013-14."
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A former council leader's expenses are being reviewed over claims they may have breached the authority's rules. | [
"Mike Jones, who led Cheshire West & Chester Council until 2015, spent £4,889 on a credit card for travel, food and accommodation, and failed to provide some receipts.\nThe authority's rules state those type of credit card transactions are \"barred\" and receipts must be provided. A police review is also under way.\nMr Jones said he met the rules.\nIn February, council officials announced an internal review of Mr Jones' credit card transactions, after details of his spending were revealed by the Chester Chronicle.\nThe BBC has been told the review will look into why the card was used for \"subsistence, travel and accommodation\", and also why receipts were not provided on 75 occasions, after new rules were introduced in 2013.\nA \"purchase card procedure\" introduced in January 2013 states it \"must not\" be used to pay for food, drinks, travel, parking or accommodation.\nA list of transactions shows Mr Jones' card was used for those purposes between 2010 and 2015, as well as paying for hospitality expenses.\nMr Jones was the only councillor to own a council credit card when he ran the Conservative-led Cheshire West & Chester Council from 2009 until elections in 2015, when Labour gained control.\nHe is now a backbench Conservative councillor for Tattenhall.\nSome of Mike Jones' expenses paid for on his council credit card include:\nIn total, the card was used to spend £2,383 on the \"barred\" categories after the new rules were introduced.\nMr Jones said he was given an exemption allowing him to use his card to pay for parking, adding that some of his transactions may have related to work he carried out for the Local Government Association.\nRecords released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal Mr Jones did not provide receipts for transactions which mostly included parking and rail travel, despite rules saying \"cardholders are required to retain all purchase receipts\".\nHe said: \"In all the cases where receipts are issued I have passed them into the council and if they are missing, unfortunately I have no idea why they have not been recorded.\n\"Expenses and use of the purchase card were properly scrutinised by officers and our audit staff. No such issue was raised with me,\" he said.\nCouncil spokesman Mark Wynn said: \"Councillor Jones, in his role as leader, met with potential external investors with a view to attracting regeneration and development to the borough.\n\"The council has reviewed all the transactions brought to its attention and responded accordingly and is conducting its own internal review.\"\nCheshire Police received a complaint from a former Cheshire West & Chester councillor in February.\nIt said: \"The allegation is currently being reviewed, in order to establish whether any offences may have been committed.\""
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The wreck of a German U-boat that sank almost 100 years ago has been discovered by engineers laying subsea power cables. | [
"Remarkable sonar images show the missing World War One submarine is largely intact and lying off the Galloway coast.\nExperts believe the vessel could be the UB-85, a sub that sank in 1918, according to official records.\nHowever, naval folklore suggests it may have been attacked by a \"sea monster\".\nThe entire crew of the U-boat is reported to have abandoned ship due to the \"monster attack\".\nOnce aboard the British ship HM Drifter Coreopsis, their commander, Captain Krech described their encounter.\nHe is said to have spoken of a beast with \"large eyes, set in a horny sort of skull…with teeth that could be seen glistening in the moonlight\".\nHe apparently claimed that the sub was so damaged in its battle with the \"monster\", it could no longer submerge.\nHowever, Dr Innes McCartney, a historian and nautical archaeologist who helped identify the wreckage, does not believe the tale.\n\"In reality, the real sea monster was the U-boat, here trying to sink ships,\" he said.\nHe added: \"The submarine was caught on the surface at night, recharging its batteries.\n\"It saw the patrol ship coming. It attempted to do a crash dive to get away.\n\"Once the submarine was under water, it rapidly started flooding from above so they had no option but to blow all the compressed air they had, bring the submarine to the surface at which point all they could do was surrender.\"\nThe historian said tales of sea monsters and haunted U-boats came about due to secrecy surrounding exactly what happened during the first U-boat war which meant that period was \"ripe for conspiracies\".\nHe said the stories were often concocted as a result of journalists and ex-Navy men \"talking late at night, after having a nice time\".\nDr McCartney said there were at least 12 British and German submarines known to have sunk in the Irish Sea.\nHe said: \"The features of this particular wreck, which is largely intact, confirm it as a UBIII-Class submarine, of which we know of two which were lost in the area - the more famous UB-85 and its sister boat UB-82.\n\"While I can conclude that this wreck is likely to be one or the other, they would be practically impossible to tell apart, aside from the numbers painted on them in service, now obviously long gone.\n\"Unless a diver can find a shipyard stamp, we cannot say definitively, but yes, we're certainly closer to solving the so-called mystery of UB-85 and the reason behind its sinking - whether common mechanical failure or something that is less easily explained.\"\nThe historic discovery was made by engineers involved in the £1bn Western Link project to lay a subsea power line between Ayrshire and the Wirral.\nThe 385km (239miles) long cable will carry renewable energy produced in Scotland to England and Wales.\nThe engineers found the wreckage 120m north-west of the centre of the planned route, off the Stranraer coast. It is about 45m long, with debris spilling from the stern.\nGary Campbell, the keeper of the Official Sightings Register of the Loch Ness Monster, said it was \"entirely feasible\" that a large sea creature disabled the submarine.\n\"The World War One report from the captain of the British ship HMS Hilary a year earlier makes it clear that sea farers at that time were well aware of large sea 'monsters' that could be harmful to their ships,\" he said.\n\"The area of sea where the attack took place has a history of sea monster sightings - they have ranged from the north coast of Wales to Liverpool Bay. What the German captain said could well be true.\"\nScottish Power Transmission and the National Grid are working together on the Western Link project to lay the undersea cable.\nPeter Roper, of Scottish Power, said: \"The images we get back from the subsea scans are incredibly detailed, but we obviously need to be aware of what lies beneath before we can start laying a power cable.\n\"In all the years I have been building power lines, I can say that this is the most extraordinary discovery.\"\nNational Grid's Graham Edwards said: \"The Western Link is a very significant project for the UK and has required careful planning in all aspects, but particularly in the laying of high-voltage cables in the sea, where we are working hard to minimise our impact on the environment.\n\"During construction we take great care over archaeology, whether on land or at sea, and it's always exciting to record a significant find and help to shed new light on our history - especially one with such a good tale involved!\""
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"The tanks and other equipment were being carried on a landing craft which capsized and lost its cargo as it was heading for the D-Day landings in 1944.\nThey sit on the seabed between the east of the island and Selsey, West Sussex.\nHampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology is looking at how land legislation can be applied to the sea.\nThe project has been funded by English Heritage.\nThe charity is working together with Southsea Sub-Aqua Club, which discovered the crafts in 2008, to investigate and chart the site.\nVictoria Millership, from the trust, said it was not just ancient wrecks such as the Mary Rose that should be protected.\n\"The nature of seawater and the underwater environment preserves a lot more material than is often available on land and the things that are under water are often in a better state of preservation.\"\nThe Mark V landing craft tank (LCT) 2428 set off for Normandy on the evening of 5 June 1944 but developed engine trouble in the Channel and was taken under tow by the rescue tug HMS Jaunty.\nOn its way back to Portsmouth the landing craft capsized and lost its cargo.\nHMS Jaunty fired upon the upturned hull until it sank to make sure it did not cause an obstruction. None of the crew were lost.\nThe vessel was carrying two Centaur CS IV tanks, two armoured bulldozers designed to destroy any anti-tank devices on the beach, a jeep and other military equipment for the Royal Marines armoured support group.\nThe lost cargo and the sunken craft created two sites on the seabed 20m (66ft) below the surface.\nThe hull was later located about 6km (3.7 miles) to the east of the vehicle site. Both vessels have been preserved on the sea-floor for more than 60 years.\nHampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology hopes the project and case study will lead to better protection for underwater archaeology around England, specifically shipwrecks."
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Families of people with learning disabilities and autism say they are planning to take legal action against local authorities and NHS providers over lack of provision in the community. | [
"Debbie Evans is a mother who feels using the law is her last resort.\nHer 24-year-old son Eden has been in institutions for seven years.\nOver a period of five years his weight increased by 16 stone (101kg).\n\"He would say to me, 'You've got to get me out Mummy, you've got to get me out,'\" she said.\nMrs Evans found it difficult to support her son, who has autism and a learning disability, when he lived at home in west London.\nShe said he had no formal education from the age of eight because there was no proper provision for him.\n\"It got really hard with him when he was 14; he hadn't had any education and basically he lashed out at me,\" she said.\n\"It got to the point that I couldn't breathe - it was 24 hours a day seven days a week.\"\nShe sought help and he ended up in an assessment and treatment unit.\nThese are meant to be short stay hospitals where patients are given a plan of care to support them back into the community, but this did not happen in Eden's case.\n\"He's been trapped for seven long years,\" Debbie said.\nEmma Jones is a human rights lawyer from Leigh Day solicitors representing about five families living in England.\nShe believes they have a case to be answered and is exploring avenues for legal action to be taken under the Care Act, the Children's Act and the Human Rights Act.\nShe said: \"In a nutshell, the position we are facing in this country is that there aren't enough community provisions being provided which means that people who no longer meet the criteria to be detained remain locked up because [there is] nowhere else for them to go.\n\"If they're locked up when they shouldn't be locked up they are detained unlawfully and that's a breach of their human rights.\"\nSince the Winterbourne View scandal in 2011, when an undercover Panorama investigation revealed abuse of people with learning disabilities, there has been debate as to the best way to support some of the most vulnerable people in society.\nNumerous reports have been published and NHS England has responded with what is described as a \"far reaching\" plan.\nThe aim is to reduce the number of people in institutional care by up to 50% over the next three years by building up the level of support in the community.\nThere are more than 2,500 people with learning disabilities and autism kept in institutions across England.\nAccording to the latest Learning Disability Census, nearly a third have care plans that clearly state there is no reason for them to receive inpatient care.\nA spokesperson for NHS England said: \"Every case is different and patients' needs are often extremely complex, but we have been clear that hospitals should not be seen as homes.\n\"Where admission is deemed by clinicians to be in their best interest, patients should stay no longer than they need to.\n\"From this month, local areas will begin implementing a plan to ensure that the housing, care and advocacy services become available in each community to provide the high-quality alternatives to hospitals.\"\nThe families of those still in the system say that every minute, every hour is valuable and things have so far, moved far too slowly.\nA social media campaign is due to launch on Monday called \"Seven Days of Action\".\nEach day will see the release of a new story of someone's son, brother, sister or daughter far away from their families.\nThey are doing it, they say, to put a face to the numbers."
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"Mencap and the Challenging Behaviour Foundation have spoken of the risks of moving patients hundreds of miles.\nThe warning comes as the results of a serious case review into the abuse of patients at the private hospital near Bristol are due to be released.\nThe abuse was uncovered during secret filming by the BBC Panorama programme.\nEleven people have admitted charges of ill-treatment and neglect related to the abuse.\nSouth Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) commissioned the review, carried out by an independent expert.\nMencap and the Challenging Behaviour said they had received 260 reports from families concerning abuse and neglect in institutional care since the Panorama programme was aired in May last year.\nTheir joint report - Out of Sight - detailed a number of serious incidences reported by families, including physical assault, sexual abuse and the overuse of restraint.\nMencap chief executive Mark Goldring said: \"We fear that unless the government commits to a strong action plan to close large institutions and develop appropriate local services for people with a learning disability, there is a very real risk that another Winterbourne View will come to light.\"\nThere are currently hundreds of people with a learning disability in assessment and treatment units like Winterbourne View, the charities said.\nMany of these are located hundreds of miles from home, where people are at particular risk of neglect and abuse, they added.\nVivien Cooper, founder of the Challenging Behaviour Foundation, said they had \"deep concerns\" over patient \"safety and welfare\".\n\"Many hundreds of people with a learning disability are being sent away to care institutions hundreds of miles from home, where they remain for years unnecessarily, at risk of neglect and abuse,\" she said.\nA Department of Health spokeswoman said: \"We are clear that wherever possible people should be supported to live in their own homes within their local community.\n\"In a small number of cases people might need access to good quality assessment and treatment services which might include some short periods of in-patient care.\n\"However this is not a substitute for high quality care within the community.\n\"It is vital all services are commissioned properly, reviewed regularly and not used as a long-term solution.\"\nTwenty-four patients were transferred from Castlebeck-run Winterbourne View, near Hambrook, following the BBC investigation.\nThe hospital was closed the following month.\nThe criminal charges related to five patients at the hospital.\nAll the defendants are awaiting sentence."
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What does a sensational scientific discovery about a solar storm in the Earth's magnetic field have to do with old, recycled steel pipes which lay buried for more than a decade under a now-defunct gold mine in India? | [
"Almost everything.\nMore than 3,700 such pipes are actually at the heart of a most significant scientific finding.\nA team of Indian and Japanese scientists recently published an internationally-feted paper which recorded the events that unfolded after a breach in the Earth's magnetic shield.\nUsing the GRAPES-3 muon (a sub-atomic particle) telescope - the world's largest of its kind - at the Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty, a hill station in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the scientists recorded a two-hour burst of galactic cosmic rays that invaded the atmosphere on 22 June 2015.\nThe magnetic field breach was the result of charged particles from the Sun striking the Earth at high speed.\nSolar storms of such high magnitudes can knock out satellites and aircraft autopilots, cause catastrophic power outages, and take us, according to one of the scientists leading the research, Dr Sunil Gupta, \"back to the Stone Age\".\nScientists record breach in magnetic field\nThe world's largest and most sensitive cosmic ray telescope located in Ooty is made up of four-decades old recycled zinc-coated steel pipes.\n\"Necessity is the mother of invention. When you don't have the money to buy new, expensive stuff, you look within the system to find out your own solutions to reduce costs. India's scientists have mastered the art of recycling and coming up with their own inexpensive solutions,\" Pallava Bagla, India correspondent for Science magazine, told me.\nA notable example: India's 2014 operation mission to Mars, cost the exchequer 4.5bn rupees ($67m;£54m), almost 10 times less than the American Maven orbiter. (This prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to quip that India's real-life Martian adventure cost less than Hollywood film Gravity.) The Ooty laboratory's annual budget is about $375,000.\nThe 6m (19.65 ft) long pipes, which acted as sensors in the telescope, lay in underground caverns below the centuries-old Kolar Gold Fields in southern Karnataka state, home to one of the world's deepest gold mines, for nearly two-decades.\nThe pipes were imported from Japan - where they are normally used at building construction sites - to help a team of Indian and Japanese scientists examine neutrinos, sub-atomic particles produced in high energy interactions in the galaxy and beyond. The scientists had laid them 2km (1.24 miles) below the earth for their experiment.\nWhen gold prices fell to unprofitable levels and the fields began shutting down in the early 1990s, authorities planned to remove the pipes and dispose them off as scrap. \"We said we want to re-use them for our experiments,\" Dr Gupta told me.\nEventually, some 7,500 of the pipes were transported by truck to a hilly 100-acre campus that the laboratory shares with a radio astronomy centre. The place skirts a forest populated by deer, bison, tigers and wild boars. Recently, CCTV cameras captured a tiger strolling past the sensors at night.\nWork on recording cosmic rays in Ooty began in right earnest in 1998, when the scientists began making muon sensors from the discarded pipes to research high energy cosmic rays.\nToday, 3,712 steel tubes, stacked up against layers of concrete, are housed across 560 sq m in four squat brown-and-white colour buildings, home to the world's largest such muon telescope. There are a couple of dozen such telescopes in the world, but none as powerful as the one in Ooty.\nAt the laboratory, a small group of scientists and assorted helpers - local gardeners and carpenters, for example - continue to recycle the old pipes, so that they can be used as cosmic ray detectors.\nTo do this, they open the pipes and clean them with high pressure water jets. They insert a 100 micron - as thick as a strand of human hair - tungsten wire into the pipe and anchor it at both ends with hermetic seals. The pipes are then filled with a gas comprising methane and argon and an electric potential run through it to enable it to become an effective sensor.\nFinally, they are laid out in rows - below two metres of concrete, which act as absorbers - to become a muon telescope.\nThe fabled jugaad - an Indian colloquial word that means ingenious improvisation in the face of scarce resources - extends to using the pipes as sensors.\nWhen the scientists at the laboratory wanted to make doubly sure that the old pipes were not leaking, they modified a helium spray gun by attaching a 7-cent injection syringe needle to the nozzle of the gas jet to help them to carry out the precise leak tests.\n\"Every day, we make 10 such recycled pipes ready for our experiments. The plan was to make very sensitive sensors to detect the weakest of signals. We wanted to measure cosmic rays with higher sensitivity than ever done before\", says Atul Jain, a scientist at the facility.\nThe laboratory itself is a shining example of home-grown innovation. The majority of the electronic equipment is designed, assembled and manufactured in-house. The software for the computer programmes is locally made.\nThe 40GB of raw data from cosmic rays that it generates every day is stored and processed by a cluster of computers which has been largely assembled in-house, cutting costs and saving hefty maintenance fees. Old computers are stripped for parts. A locally developed cooling system using fans saves electricity and protects the computers.\nAt the moment, the scientists plan to pore over 17 years of data on cosmic rays recorded by the lab's sensors to find out whether they offer more clues about forecasting space weather and advance warnings about solar flares. They say there have been some 38 severe solar storms in the past 17 years.\n\"We should be able to sift through our data to find out more about them. For us, they are a gift from the Sun, because they add to our knowledge on space weather,\" says Dr Gupta."
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"It's an image that still haunts police officer Deputy Douglas Duvall who, on the evening of 28 February 2013, responded to an emergency call in the suburban calm of Tampa, and found himself face to face with the Florida underworld.\nInside a detached bungalow, the ground had opened and swallowed the sleeping body and the bed of 37 year-old Jeff Bush.\nHis brother Jeremy was frantically trying to dig him out, but Jeff's body was sucked into the depths and never found.\nHorizon: Swallowed by a Sinkhole\nDriveway sinkhole woman 'lucky'\nOnly the efforts of first responder Douglas Duvall hauling Jeremy out of the churning pit prevented a second tragedy.\nThe natural trapdoor that opened up and claimed the life of Jeff Bush is called a \"sinkhole\". It is far from the only case.\nIn the last few years, vast sinkholes have appeared overnight from as far afield as China and Guatemala, but it's Florida where the fear is greatest.\nJust last August, a resort complex near Disney World collapsed into a huge 20m hole.\nIt was to investigate this devastating phenomenon that I travelled to Florida to try to understand what caused the sinkhole that killed Jeff, and why the geology of this state makes it the sinkhole capital of the world.\nIt's possible to explore some of these natural shafts and descend within the voids beneath, at places like Ladder Cave in Citrus County.\nHere you can see how acid-tinged rain and ground water slowly eats away at limestone bedrock below, producing cavities in the subsurface.\nOften, surface sand and mud gets washed into these to fashion a pockmarked landscape of pits and depressions which we call karst.\nThe trouble is, sometimes, the subterranean world of caves and caverns break through the surface cover to drag down whatever lies above.\nThese \"cover-collapse\" sinkholes are the deadly threat that lurks in the Florida underworld.\nInvestigations revealed that a cover-collapse sinkhole had lain directly beneath Jeff Bush's bedroom.\nBill Bracken, the structural engineer who worked with the emergency workers at Jeff's house, showed me the footage that he took from within the hole that fateful night.\nIt makes chilling viewing. When it opened and soil began to fall inward, a suction force was exerted on the concrete floor above, eventually wrenching it down along with everything in that room.\nSinkhole collapses are pretty commonplace across Florida. Virtually the whole of the Sunshine state, from the Keys in the south to the border with Georgia in the north, is a vast limestone platform that is flushed with groundwater below and has a humid climate that rains down plenty from above.\nThat water keeps the lawns green, fills the swimming pools and provides drinking water for millions. But the waters are also consuming Florida's soluble limestone foundations.\nThe result is a state collapsing in on itself. Amid the city streets, quiet suburbs and citrus groves, holes are often opening up to reveal a new hidden Florida.\nResidents are, understandably, nervous about the Florida concealed beneath. As soon as any cracks appear in their buildings, nervous homeowners call in geotechnical experts.\nOver 6,500 sinkhole insurance claims are reported each year. All of which makes Florida's sinkholes a boom for lawyers and geologists.\nWhat is not commonplace are sinkhole tragedies. Jeff Bush's death is Florida's first fatal sinkhole collapse in decades.\nHis suburban district of Seffner lies in a sinkhole \"sweetspot\" - a cluster of collapses pepper the west central part of the state around the city of Tampa.\nHis death has created unease among the sedate, retiring gated communities of west Florida. Because the sinkhole scourge is on the rise.\nQuite why sinkholes are becoming ever more prominent in Florida is uncertain. Their triggers are enigmatic, though the fact that there is a \"sinkhole season\" suggests that Florida's climate has something to do with it.\nIn the summer months, the Gulf Coast's hurricanes deluge the state, dumping tonnes of water on the land over a matter of hours, weighing down the soil and collapsing the roofs of caves below.\nIn the dry season, drought conditions can lower the water table, reducing pressure in water-filled voids and causing their unsupported sides to implode.\nDramatic changes to the Floridian water table can also come from another more surprising source. The state's warm, wet weather and fertile soil cover has made it ideal for agriculture, and makes it, alongside California, the fruit basket of America.\nIts famous citrus groves and fruit fields are irrigated in part from groundwater drawn from Florida's underground aquifer.\nUnlike the year-round warmth of California, the winter months in Florida can be cold and its fruit, particularly its vast strawberry crop, is prone to frost damage.\nSo when sudden cold snaps strike, farmers respond with an intense spraying of warm groundwater onto the strawberry fields.\nThis aggressive groundwater pumping, however, can drop aquifer levels by tens of metres overnight. When this has happened in the past, large numbers of sinkhole collapses have occurred.\nThere is no evidence that groundwater pumping for agriculture was the trigger for last year's lethal collapse in Seffner.\nHowever, it is a reminder of the growing human pressures that are being placed on Florida's natural support system.\nThe lure of the Florida sun is drawing ever more people to the state, and our urban sprawl is advancing into wild land primed with lethal sinkhole traps. In the past, they would have gone unnoticed. But not now.\nSo, in a way, the real reason for Florida's growing toll of sinkhole damage is ourselves.\nHorizon: Swallowed By A Sinkhole is on BBC2 at 9pm on Monday 3 February"
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The vice-chair of pro-Corbyn group Momentum is under pressure to quit over allegations of anti-Semitism. | [
"Jackie Walker has faced criticism over comments made on social media and at an anti-Semitism training event.\nThe TSSA union says it will \"seriously reconsider\" its support for Momentum if Ms Walker remains in place and the group says its steering committee will meet on Monday to seek her removal.\nShe told Channel 4: \"I certainly wouldn't call myself an anti-Semite.\"\n\"I'm Jewish and my partner is Jewish.\"\nBut a spokesman for Momentum, the left-wing grassroots organisation set up in wake of Jeremy Corbyn's 2015 election as Labour leader, said: \"Members of Momentum's steering committee are seeking to remove Jackie Walker as vice-chair of the committee.\"\nMs Walker was suspended by the Labour over comments made on social media in which she claimed that \"many Jews (my ancestors too) were the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade\" but was re-admitted following an investigation.\nBut a leaked video emerged on Wednesday of her saying she had not found a definition of anti-Semitism she could work with, and questioning why Holocaust Memorial Day was not more wide ranging, at an anti-Semitism training event.\nManuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA union, which backed Momentum and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, said on Thursday he was \"deeply saddened that a fellow member of our Labour and trade union family holds such anti-Semitic views\" and said she should not be allowed to \"remain active within our party\".\n\"I am asking Jackie that in the interests of unity she resigns at once from our party and also as vice-chair of Momentum.\n\"If she doesn't, both the Labour Party and Momentum need to act to get rid of her at once. We would seriously need to consider our union's support for Momentum if she is still in post by this time next week.\"\nIn an interview with Channel 4 News, Ms Walker said she had not intended to offend anyone. Asked whether she had thought about resigning, given criticism from some Jewish groups, she said: \"Some other prominent Jewish groups, of which I'm a member, think a very different thing.\n\"What we have to look at when we're talking about this subject, particularly at the moment, is the political differences that are underlying this as well.\"\nWhoever leaked the video \"had malicious intent in their mind\", she said. Ms Walker said she was anti-Zionist, rather than anti-Semitic: \"Zionism is a political ideology and like any political ideology, some people will be supportive and some people won't be supportive of it.\"\nWhat's the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism?\nMs Walker previously had support from six Jewish Labour activists who issued a statement saying she had been subject to a witch hunt.\nLabour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has denied there was a \"crisis\" in the party amid accusations of anti-Semitism in its ranks.\nLabour MP Naz Shah and former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone were among those to be suspended over allegations of anti-Semitism.\nA review of the issue of racism in Labour, led by former Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, found the party \"is not overrun by anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or other forms of racism\".\nBut the report was criticised by Jewish leaders and MPs, who said its credibility was undermined because Ms Chakrabarti was nominated for a peerage by Labour just weeks after its release."
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"Renfrewshire Council member Terry Kelly was suspended by Labour in May.\nIt came after he wrote strongly in defence of former London mayor Ken Livingston, who was suspended from the party for making comments about Hitler.\nIn a blog posted on Thursday, Mr Kelly said that his suspension from the Labour party had been lifted.\nA spokesman for Renfrewshire Council also confirmed he had been reinstated.\nIn his original blog, Mr Kelly described himself as \"anti Zionist and anti Israel\" but he said he was not \"anti-Jewish in any way\".\nHe said he had been the victim of a \"classic smear\", in his latest post.\nThe Paisley North West representative added: \"In over 43 years in the Labour party I have never heard one anti Semitic remark made, it was gutter politics at its worst.\"\nMr Livingston was suspended from Labour for making comments about Hitler while speaking in defence of MP Naz Shah, who had earlier been suspended over accusations she was anti-Semitic.\nShe was reinstated last week following a meeting of the party's national executive committee.\nAn inquiry by Shami Chakrabarti found that the Labour party was not over-run by anti-Semitism or other forms of racism but there is an \"occasionally toxic atmosphere\"."
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The sites of World War Two bombing raids in and around Aberdeen have been charted on an interactive map. | [
"The map was created by Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives using Civil Defence and Air Raid Precaution Records.\nThe creators said the Google Map showed the approximate areas of attack and damage.\nIt covers all the known attacks from 26 June 1940 until the last raid on 21 April 1943.\nA second map shows enemy aircraft attacks recorded in the Aberdeen County Register of Air Raids and Alarms from 1940 - 1944."
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"Edinburgh: Mapping the City brings together 71 maps, including the earliest known map of Edinburgh which was drafted around 1530 by exiled Scottish Lutheran theologian Alexander Allane.\nThe earliest detailed map of the Lothians was printed around 1610 in Amsterdam, from the pioneering survey of Scotland by Timothy Pont.\nIt lists many tower houses and farms whose names live on in Edinburgh today, as the city has grown to include them.\nAnother map contained in the collection shows the arrival of the main railways into Edinburgh in the 1840s.\nThe map below, from 1851, by W & AK Johnston, shows the \"Joint Railway Station\" that would become Waverley.\nIt is a fraction of its later size and includes the Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway leaving to the north through the Scotland Street tunnel.\nThe next map shows the distribution of tuberculosis cases recorded in 1892.\nIt shows marked concentrations in poorer, high-density housing in the Old Town.\nDr Robert Philip, who recorded these cases, would go on to set up the influential Edinburgh Anti-Tuberculosis Scheme.\nThe book also includes this snapshot of the city centre's drinking dens from 1923, produced by the temperance movement in an attempt to limit the number of licensed premises.\nChris Fleet, map curator at the National Library of Scotland, has produced the book with Daniel MacCannell.\nMr Fleet said: \"Today we may think of maps as tools to get us from one place to another but they are important historical documents in themselves.\n\"They can show how people's lives have changed over time and how the city has been adapted around them.\"\nHe added: \"Edinburgh: Mapping the City is an anthology of historic maps which have been specially selected for the particular stories they reveal.\n\"It provides many surprises and we hope people will find it an accessible, enjoyable, attractive and browsable history of Edinburgh as seen through maps.\"\nThe book is published by Birlinn, in association with the National Library of Scotland.\nOne of the more unusual entries is a Soviet army map of Edinburgh from 1983, intended for use by Soviet commanders in the event of an invasion of Scotland.\nIt is colour coded for different buildings - military in green, administrative in purple, industrial in black and residential in brown.\nThis confidential map has text in Cyrillic and includes significantly more information about Edinburgh than Ordnance Survey maps.\nIt would have been perfect for planning a tank invasion.\nThe book also contains a map used to measure the speed of sound from the firing of the One o'clock gun on Edinburgh castle in 1879."
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Hundreds of people in a former steel-making town became directors of companies involved in pornography, dating, diets and travel, a Reuters investigation has revealed. | [
"Residents in Consett, County Durham, were paid to forward post that came to their address, but said they otherwise had no involvement in the companies.\nOne, John Mawson, said he \"didn't really know\" what his role involved.\nSimon Dowson, who set up the legal firms, said everyone was informed.\nMr Dowson, 35, from Shotley Bridge formed the shell entities to provide a UK address, directors, company records and tax returns to meet UK requirements so overseas online businesses could trade in Europe.\nThese were businesses considered by credit card companies to be at high risk of refund requests.\nThe investigation by the Reuters news agency found at least 429 unconnected people in the town were paid £50 cash to become directors, with a further £150 a year for forwarding company mail and fees for extra paperwork.\nMr Mawson, 61, was recruited by a neighbour who had already signed up.\n\"All we were told was that we would just get letters sent and all we had to do was hand them on,\" he told BBC Newcastle.\n\"Money was rather tight. All we wanted was a bit of extra cash.\"\nAnother director, Andrew McBride, 46, said he did not realise what he had agreed to, but accepted he should have checked further.\nMr Dowson was paid between £2,500 and £3,000 per shell company, administering 1,200 at his peak.\nUsing unconnected individuals as directors prevented \"cross contamination\" if credit card companies withdrew services from one company, he said.\n\"It's a very simple operation. It's commonplace. It's just not commonplace here,\" he said.\nMr Dowson said the directors were given information about the companies, their role and any documents they had to sign.\n\"There was nobody ever kept in the dark,\" he said.\nMr Mawson only found out a few years ago that one of his directorships involved pornography sites and wanted \"nothing more to do\" with the arrangement.\nMr Dowson said the overseas companies' trade included travel, bingo and \"vanilla\" dating sites, not just adult entertainment.\nHe has been investigated by the Insolvency Service, part of what is now the government's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, he said.\nSome of the firms using his service have also been investigated, and some closed down, but there have been no criminal charges or sanctions brought against Mr Dowson or any of the directors.\nHe was told what he had been doing was \"incorrect or maybe not best practice\" but \"not illegal in any way, shape or form\", he said.\nHe has agreed to stop using untrained people as directors and said his company formation business would soon close.\nThe government declined Reuters' request for comment."
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"The figures suggest a shift in profile of fraudsters from rogue executives to younger people funding extravagant lifestyles, said the researchers.\nOverall, however, there was a 39% drop in fraud during the period to £317m.\nThe decline was helped in large part by a 72% drop in frauds committed by those aged 46 and over, to £88m.\nAccording to the research, more than 400 people were conned into handing over sums ranging from £20,000 to £2m, yet their funds were used to purchase a Lamborghini and 5-bedroom house with a swimming pool among other things.\nIn one case a 30-year-old man convinced his victims to invest in vintage wine, which they believed would increase in value.\n\"Where once it was the jaded executive who relied on unquestioned seniority and authority to get away with dipping their hands in the till, it seems we are witnessing a changing of the guard,\" said Hitesh Patel, UK forensic partner at KPMG.\n\"Today's fraudster is younger and just at ease with using technology and data as selling promises,\" he said.\nAnother case involved a crooked financial adviser who bought a fleet of supercars, invested in a racehorse and sponsored two Premier League football clubs with the proceeds of his con artistry.\nHis scam involved the creation of a bogus investment fund for which he persuaded investors to hand over large cash sums, which he simply spent.\nOne victim was so convinced that he parted with £3.7m, none of which has been recovered."
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France edged to an unconvincing win over Italy to make a successful start to their Six Nations campaign. | [
"Media playback is not supported on this device\nIn a tight first half Virimi Vakatawa and Damien Chouly crossed for France, but a Carlo Canna drop-goal and Sergio Parisse's try kept Italy in touch.\nCanna finished off a burst by Parisse to put the visitors in the ascendancy.\nFrance retook the initiative with Hugo Bonneval's score, but they still needed a late penalty from Jules Plisson to hand a win to new coach Guy Noves.\nThis was first sporting event held at the Stade de France since the attacks on Paris in November last year.\nFormer Toulouse boss Noves, 62, had promised to build a more entertaining French side from the one that went out in the quarter-finals of last year's World Cup and finished a disappointing fourth in the 2015 Six Nations.\nThere was certainly a sense of adventure about Noves's side, personified by powerful sevens international Vakatawa who showed guile and fleet of foot on the wing to score the opening try.\nGael Fickou's quick-tap penalty opened the door for Chouly to cross for their second and Jonathan Danty drew in defenders expertly to release Bonneval for the third, but there remained a fragility to the home side.\nItaly, inspired by their captain Parisse, almost took full advantage with a structured, organised performance, in which they won seven turnovers to France's three.\nParisse, who plays his club rugby in Paris with Stade Francais, has for so long been Italy's talisman and the number eight stepped even closer to legendary status for his country with this all-action performance.\nThe 32-year-old touched down from a catch and drive in the first half and came agonisingly close to finishing off a barnstorming burst after the break, before Canna applied the finishing touch regardless.\nIn fact, he almost snatched it at the death with an audacious drop-goal attempt that drifted wide, but in the end it was Plisson's monster penalty from near the halfway line that ended up being the difference maker.\nFrance: Medard; Bonneval, Fickou, Danty, Vakatawa; Plisson, Bezy; Ben Arous, Guirado, Slimani, Jedrasiak, Maestri, Lauret, Chouly, Picamoles.\nReplacements: Doussain for Medard (77), Mermoz for Fickou (56), Atonio for Ben Arous (50), Poirot for Slimani (50), Flanquart for Jedrasiak (72).\nNot used: Chat, Camara, Machenaud.\nItaly: Odiete; L. Sarto, Campagnaro, Garcia, Bellini; Canna, Gori; Lovotti, Gega, Cittadini, Biagi, Fuser, Minto, Zanni, Parisse.\nReplacements: McLean for Odiete (55), Haimona for Garcia (70), Palazzani for Canna (77), Zanusso for Lovotti (65), Giazzon for Gega (56), Castrogiovanni for Cittadini (65), Bernabo for Biagi (43), van Schalkwyk for Zanni (66).\nReferee: JP Doyle (England)"
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"Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe victory saw Craig Fulton's side emerge top of Pool A in the tournament, having also defeated Ukraine and then Austria in a penalty shoot-out.\nThe Irish will now face Poland in the last eight on Thursday.\nIreland need to overcome the Poles and win their semi-final to keep their World Cup qualification hopes alive.\nThe host nation began their campaign with a thumping 9-2 win in their opening fixture of the competition on Saturday, then saw off the Austrians 4-2 in a penalty shootout after their match ended 1-1.\nThe Irish men are the highest ranked team in the tournament and a top-three finish would be enough to qualify for the World League semi-finals in the summer."
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Those hoping to become the first mayor of the Liverpool City Region have less than a month remaining in which to secure your vote. | [
"Liverpool City Region, in case you were wondering, includes Merseyside's five councils (Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral) as well as Halton in Cheshire.\nWho are the eight candidates desperate for your support on 4 May, though, and what are their priorities?\nBBC Radio Merseyside's political reporter Claire Hamilton has produced a potted biography for each of them.\nWe're also asking all of them for a \"minute manifesto\" video.\nCandidates are listed below in alphabetical order\nRoger Bannister, Trade Union & Socialist Coalition\nVeteran trade unionist Roger Bannister believes the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority should never have approved the contract for a fleet of new driver-only Merseyrail trains. He says he would seek to reverse this decision. He also believes local authorities have passed harmful austerity budgets on people struggling to make ends meet. He stood for Liverpool city mayor in 2016, coming fourth with 5% of the vote.\nPaul Breen, Get the Coppers off the Jury\nPaul Breen is a resident of Norris Green, Liverpool and became the last candidate to be nominated. He is listed as treasurer of the party on the Electoral Commission's website, with Patricia Breen listed as deputy treasurer. He has not yet released any material detailing his manifesto but told the BBC the title of his campaign speaks for itself. He simply does not believe that police officers should be allowed to serve on juries.\nMr Breen declined to provide a \"minute manifesto\"\nTony Caldeira, Conservative\nBorn in Liverpool and educated in St Helens, Tony Caldeira started out working on a stall selling cushions made by his mother at Liverpool's Great Homer Street market. His business expanded and now operates in Kirkby, distributing world-wide. Mr Caldeira has stood for Liverpool mayor twice, coming sixth in 2016 with just under 4% of the vote. He has pledged to improve the area's transport network, speed up the planning process and build homes and workplaces on brownfield sites rather than green spaces.\nCarl Cashman, Liberal Democrats\nBorn in Whiston, Knowsley, Carl Cashman is leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Knowsley Council. He and his two Lib Dem council colleagues were elected in 2016, breaking a four-year period when Labour was the only party represented. Aged 25, he's the youngest of the candidates. Mr Cashman believes maintaining strong ties with Europe and the region will be key, and has pledged to open a Liverpool City Region embassy in Brussels. He also wants to better integrate ticketing across public transport and make the current Walrus card more similar to the Oyster card used by Londoners.\nTom Crone, Green Party\nTom Crone is leader of the Green group on Liverpool City Council. He won 10% of the vote in the mayoral elections in Liverpool in 2016 and came third. Originally from Norwich, he has lived in Liverpool since 2000 after arriving as a student. Mr Crone is keen to see a shift away from traditional heavy industry in the city region towards greener \"tech\" industries. He's also passionate about making public transport more affordable and environmentally friendly. He says he'll look to prioritise new routes for cyclists and pedestrians.\nTabitha Morton, Women's Equality Party\nTabitha Morton was born in Netherton, Sefton. She left school with no formal qualifications, and started work at 16 at a local market, and later in cleaning. She was taken on for NVQ training by a company in Liverpool, and stayed on to train others. She now works for a global manufacturer, in what she describes as \"a male-dominated industry\". She says she would prioritise grants for employers offering equal apprenticeships for young women and men and ring-fence funds for training women in sectors in which they're underrepresented.\nSteve Rotheram, Labour\nBorn in Kirkby, former bricklayer Steve Rotheram was a city councillor in Liverpool and also Lord Mayor during the city's European Capital of Culture year in 2008. He was also elected MP for Liverpool Walton in 2010, and re-elected to the seat in 2015. Mr Rotheram is pledging to cut the cost of the fast tag for motorists driving through the Mersey tunnels. He wants to improve education and offer better careers advice for young people, and also wants to make brownfield sites more attractive to developers.\nPaula Walters, UKIP\nWallasey-born Paula Walters is chairman of UKIP in Wirral and lives in New Brighton with her family. She has campaigned to scrap tunnel tolls for several years. She says her local UKIP branch is one of the most thriving in the North West. A civil servant, she studied English and biomolecular science at degree-level. She has also lived in South Africa where she attended the University of Pretoria. She believes Liverpool city centre has attracted money at the expense of outlying areas, one of the things she wants to tackle."
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"She polled 186,661 of the votes in the first round of counting, ahead of the Conservative David Burgess- Joyce who totalled 54,000.\nAs she had secured more than 50% of the vote initially, there was no need for a second count.\nIn total, Ms Kennedy had secured 61.76% of the vote.\nShe said she looked forward to working \"with all of the communities of Merseyside to make sure we maintain a safe and happy place to live and work.\"\nCandidates are listed alphabetically by surname. BBC News App users: tap here to see the results.\nMore information is available on the Choose my PCC website."
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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he will feel "less guilt" if his side get a tough draw in the Champions League last 16 after they topped Group A. | [
"Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe Gunners have exited at the first knockout stage for the past six years, having finished second in their group in five of those campaigns.\nBut they topped their section thanks to a 4-1 win in Basel and Ludogorets' shock 2-2 draw at Paris St-Germain.\n\"We wanted to do our job and got lucky with the PSG result,\" Wenger said.\nArsenal will avoid Monaco and Barcelona, who eliminated them in 2015 and 2016 respectively, as well as Atletico Madrid and Napoli in Monday's draw.\nHowever, teams they could still be paired with include Bayern Munich, who knocked them out in 2013 and 2014, and one of Borussia Dortmund or Real Madrid.\n\"We can still have a difficult draw,\" said Wenger. \"But there's less guilt when you finish first in the group because you feel you have done your job and you play the second leg of the first knockout tie at home.\n\"It is what we wanted but, at the moment, the difficulty of the draw will not be much different.\"\nArsenal's win in Switzerland came thanks to a Lucas Perez hat-trick, the Spaniard more than doubling his Gunners goal tally after making a £17m move from Deportivo La Coruna in August.\nHe twice tapped into an empty net, and got his third with a neat finish from just inside the 18-yard box.\n\"The first two were quite easy goals, created by the team,\" said Wenger. \"But the third goal is a real striker's goal.\n\"He scored over 20 goals in Spain last year and tonight he showed why. He has a real eye for goal.\"\nBBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty\nArsenal's success in topping their group is a tribute to their growing resilience, which saw them draw home and away to PSG in games where they were forced to suffer and battle for long periods.\nThey also showed the swagger when they needed it to ruthlessly put Basel away to fulfil their side of the bargain while Ludogorets delivered the big favour in Paris.\nThe different facets the Gunners have shown in coming out on top of the group suggests increasing maturity in Arsene Wenger's team and more justification for his belief they can make their mark in the Champions League this season.\nThe Guardian, Metro, Daily Star and I newspapers all led with Arsenal on their Wednesday back pages."
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"The 26-year-old limped out of the 1-1 draw at Carrow Road at the weekend.\nBoss Arsene Wenger defended Sanchez's selection, despite him suffering \"a little hamstring alarm\" in last week's Champions League over Dinamo Zagreb.\nArsenal also lost Laurent Koscielny and Santi Cazorla on Sunday, adding to a lengthy list of injured players.\nDefensive midfielder Francis Coquelin is expected to be out for three months after suffering ligament damage, while Jack Wilshere, Tomas Rosicky and Mikel Arteta are also out.\nIn addition, strikers Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck are currently sidelined.\nThe Gunners face Sunderland in the Premier League on Saturday, followed on Wednesday by a crunch last Champions League group game in Athens against Olympiakos, which they need to win by two goals, or a high-scoring one-goal margin, to reach the last 16.\nSunday's result meant Wenger's side missed out on the chance to draw level on points with Manchester City at the top of the Premier League."
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To celebrate International Migrants Day, Marcia Chandra invited members of the British public to a story booth, allowing them to tell their stories and offer up messages of greeting for arriving refugees. | [
"\"When I came here as a student nine years ago I felt that I had come into a very multicultural society and really wanted to be part of it.\n\"I miss the food in Morocco and being around people who have known me my whole life, but London is my home now. My closest friends from university and from Morocco live here now, my values align more with London and I love being in a very multicultural environment where you get to meet people from all ends of the world.\"\n\"Although I left Ireland 57 years ago, I still regard this country as my home. My family has moved back and I miss them. They're part of my identity.\n\"Family is my community and has structured who I am.\"\n\"It's interesting the opportunity that moving home has given me to start over and edit my story and identity in fresh and exciting ways.\n\"I have moved about four or five times in my life; I've lived in countries in Africa, Asia and now, Europe. Flowers at my bedside, warmth, the smell of garlic and a sense of familiarity and light jazz music - that is home. A place of comfort, safety and beauty and a non-judgemental space where you can stare at the ceiling and know it's OK.\"\n\"What makes me feel comfortable here is that I can sleep in peace. I can walk alone at night with my handbag. There is no dust, no insects. Food, shelter and security are abundant.\"\n\"Getting to know a new place, learning a new language, landing a job, making new friends… these are processes that everyone goes through. It's just a matter of time before you start feeling at home.\"\n\"My father sought asylum in the UK after the Iranian revolution. This country welcomed him with open arms. Community here is about listening to each other's stories and treating each other with compassion and respect. I hope you find the same things here when you arrive.\"\n\"I love the diversity in London. When I'm on the bus - hearing different languages, seeing different faces - that richness is one of the things I find most beautiful about London.\n\"Welcome to the UK. I hope you find friends, safety, a community for yourself and become part of this tapestry of London life.\"\n\"My move to the UK from a village in Pakistan was a huge culture shock. My teacher was very helpful. She became another mother to me and encouraged me to work hard. I didn't even know how to write an essay, yet she gave me the courage to achieve. She made me realise that anything is possible.\n\"We who come from a Third World country often feel like we can't compete but we have all the abilities to accomplish our dreams.\"\n\"Moving from Turkey at a young age, I was excited to experience England. This ability here to experience two different cultures and feel safe in both - has made me feel like a global citizen.\n\"As an academic I am connected to friends and colleagues from all over the world and being part of this one global community is an honour and a privilege. I hope one day everyone can have this feeling of inclusion and belonging.\"\n\"We met when we were doing our master's degrees and are still friends. Don't believe the media narrative about people's perceptions of refugees and migrants. The average person on the street is friendly and accepting, and the UK is a very diverse place.\n\"Most people here are open and interested in who you are. Be yourself and, if you feel like it, share your stories.\"\n\"My grandfather came here just after World War Two, invited by Her Majesty to come and rebuild the country. He is now 90 years old, has five children, 12 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.\n\"When he arrived he worked in a factory making nuts and bolts to rebuild the East End. He realised that the food he was used to from India was not available, so he decided to do something about it and opened a shop to sell homemade food. The best thing you can do is to bring your food and recipes here. The UK loves food. We want to welcome you with food. Let's share some recipes.\"\n\"There is no one way to be a part of British society. The people here have so much heart and joy and wonder. People here will help connect you to the community. Being in Britain doesn't mean telling each other how to be, but sharing who you are with others.\n\"With shared experiences, we avoid misunderstandings and judgement, and we build a community together.\""
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"Baucher was asked to explore the theme of immigration as part of the Imagine Festival in Belfast, and so set about coming up with an idea that would open the viewer's mind to a new way of seeing.\nHe set upon a plan to take pictures from the viewpoint of the sitter, each person looking down on a possession that reflects their journey to Northern Ireland.\nHe began with a few friends and then used social media to spread the word.\n\"Over two-thirds of the images came about because of this approach,\" says Baucher.\n\"Whilst I contacted some of the statutory bodies dealing with migrants there was an understandable reticence to be involved. With this in mind, I continued to find people who wouldn't necessarily fall into the broad term immigrant.\"\nHis pictures are simply captioned.\n\"The identities of the sitters is not revealed, just the countries their families lived in before their arrival here in Northern Ireland,\" adds Baucher.\n\"These images are just a very small sample of the complex demographic of Northern Ireland yet hold truths for us all.\"\nThe pictures are part of Belfast's Imagine: Festival of Ideas and Politics and are on show at the Framewerk Gallery in Belfast until 19 March.\nYou can see an earlier piece I wrote on John Baucher's Through the Viewfinder work here."
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