Netflix has announced it will be adding HDR to its existing content.
The firm said it would be adding HDR to its existing content, which includes a number of original shows and movies.
The firm said it would be adding HDR to its existing content, which includes original shows and movies.
The firm said it would

Netflix has gone live in nearly every country in the world.

Article: Network Rail is lowering the track and carrying out platform modifications, in preparation for the electrification of the Great Western Main Line.
The line will be shut from Saturday until early on 11 April. Keynsham and Oldfield Park stations will be closed.
It is part of a Â£2.8bn project to electrify the line between London and South Wales.
Andy Haynes from Network Rail said: "Once completed, the residents of Bristol and Bath will be a step closer to the benefits that electrification will bring.
"These include faster trains with more seats and more legroom, and less noise and cleaner air for those who live close to the railway line.
"In addition, faster journeys and the ability to move more people by train will also benefit businesses in the area, helping to drive economic growth across the south west."
Regular rail replacement bus services will run between Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads while the line is shut.

Summary: The main railway line between Bristol and Bath has been closed while planned engineering work takes place.
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Article: The firm announced it had switched on its service in 130 additional countries.
It said it was still trying to expand to China. The other exceptions are North Korea, Syria and Crimea, where it is banned from operating by US law.
The announcement was made by the firm's chief executive Reed Hastings at his keynote speech at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.
He also confirmed that Netflix would begin offering HDR (high dynamic range) content later this year.
The company's shares closed the day more than 9% higher.
"We were expecting Netflix to go everywhere, but this has happened more quickly than we thought," commented Fernando Elizalde from the tech consultancy Gartner.
"Until now, the firm had been doing it in phased stages because of the costs of marketing and dubbing or subtitling the content.
"But it's worth remembering that in some of the emerging economies it will only be people in urban areas that will be able to use it because of limited internet availability."
Mr Hastings said Netflix was in talks with the Chinese government, but acknowledged it would take time to reach an agreement.
"It's a very large country, you know a billion Chinese that we want to give access to the Netflix content," he said.
"In China you need specific permission from the government to operate, so we are continuing to work on that and we are very patient."
But one company watcher had doubts.
"China is going to be a tough nut to crack given that that three strong domestic services already exist," said Mike Goodman from Strategy Analytics.
As part of its expansion, Netflix has added support for Korean, Chinese and Arabic to its list of supported languages.
That brings the total number - in which the firm provides subtitles, captions and alternative audio - to 21 languages.
Mr Hastings added that Netflix would initially focus on expanding the reach of its existing content rather than commissioning extra locally-made shows.
For consumers who already have Netflix, the biggest change may be the addition of HDR.
High dynamic range video...

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The government's response to the Libyan crisis has been "troubling", say MPs.
The committee's report said the UK had failed to "fully understand the risks and the consequences of intervention".
It said the UK had not "fully understood the consequences of intervention".
It said the UK had not "fully

Three men have been jailed for sexually exploiting a teenage girl in Hertfordshire.

Article: Chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee, Crispin Blunt, said ministers' response was "troubling", as he believed similar mistakes could be made in future.
In September, the committee said the UK had lacked a coherent strategy and intelligence had not been "accurate".
But the government disagreed, saying the coalition's actions saved lives.
An international coalition led by Britain and France launched a campaign of air and missile strikes against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in March 2011 after the regime threatened to attack the rebel-held city of Benghazi.
But after Gaddafi was toppled, Libya descended into violence, with rival governments and the formation of hundreds of militias.
And so-called Islamic State, also known as Isil and Daesh, gained a foothold.
In its report in September, the foreign affairs committee criticised David Cameron, prime minister at the time, saying he had been ultimately responsible for failing to develop a coherent Libya strategy.
It said UK strategy was based on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence and ministers should have foreseen that militant extremist groups would attempt to benefit from the rebellion.
'Inadequate plans for stabilisation'
But Conservative MP Mr Blunt said the MPs on his committee "do not accept that it understood the implications" of intervening in Libya - including the rise of Islamist extremism.
He said its response had failed to "work through the logic" of the evidence heard by the committee and was "yet to appreciate the lessons from our experience in Libya including our lack of country knowledge amongst those drafting and deciding policy".
"This is troubling, because Libya should inform the development of future UK foreign policy," he said, adding there should have been a "robust process of self-examination in government to improve future performance".
"I believe we are about to repeat the failure to have adequate plans and resources for stabilisation in Mosul. Libya should have taught us these lessons."
He also...

Summary: The UK government appears not to have learned the lessons from its 2011 Libya intervention, say MPs.
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Article: Alistair Spagnoletti, 21, of Luton, and Curtis Walker, 23, of Watford, pleaded guilty to controlling a child at Harrow Crown Court.
Callum Ward, 19, of Watford, was found guilty of the same charge.
Police said the men groomed a 17-year-old girl into prostitution in one of the most "damaging" cases of child sexual exploitation they had seen.
Det Sgt Iain MacPherson, of Hertfordshire police, said: "This is one of the most damaging cases of child sexual exploitation we have encountered in Hertfordshire.
"It has also been an extremely complex case. These men had groomed their 17-year-old victim into having sex with men for money which they took, she believed that by providing her with food, drink, drugs, they were looking after her and they were people she could trust.
"The power they wielded over her was so great that she felt she could not support police action against them. Sadly she may never recover from what they have done to her.
"These acts are deplorable and I am in no doubt these men pose a risk to other children. It is right they are now serving time in prison."
Spagnoletti, of Wauluds Drive, Luton, was jailed for six years and eight months. Walker, of Lord Street, Watford, was jailed for four and a half years and Ward, of The Thrums, Watford, was jailed for two years.

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A man was arrested in the city of Nagoya on Wednesday for allegedly trying to sell a zebra to a zoo.
The man, who is in his 30s, was arrested after he was spotted trying to sell a zebra to a zoo in the city of Nagoya.
The man was arrested on suspicion

A zebra that ran away from a horse riding club in Japan has died in a golf course lake after it was tranquilised.

Article: There are 21 institutions being investigated in England by the Department for Education, according to a ministerial statement.
The statement from children's minister Edward Timpson says "robust steps" are being taken to tackle unregistered schools.
But Labour's Lucy Powell said ministers had "dragged their feet".
The issue of illegal schools was raised by Ofsted last year.
Inspectors warned of pupils being taught in schools that were not registered, inspected or subject to any kind of formal accountability - and Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw called for urgent action to get them closed.
These are schools which are running as full-time places of education, rather than classes providing extra lessons.
In November, inspectors reported that they had uncovered 15 such illegal schools and then in December a further three schools were found operating outside the law.
The only one to be publicly identified was Bordesley independent school in Birmingham, which had already been closed down.
Labour has been pointing to this month's ministerial response which said there were 21 current investigations into institutions that might be "unregistered independent schools".
"However, this number often changes as new settings are established and existing ones close, or are confirmed not to be operating as schools," continued Mr Timpson's statement.
"We have taken robust steps to tackle unregistered schools and improve safeguarding which includes being clear it is a criminal offence to operate an unregistered independent school.
"All these institutions have been warned that it is a criminal offence to operate as an unregistered school. We are asking Ofsted to visit and to prepare cases for prosecution as necessary."
In November, Ofsted wrote to the education secretary saying: "The arrangements for closing down unregistered schools are inadequate.
"Too many children remain at significant risk of harm. I will continue to do all that I can to identify and inspect unregistered schools."
Lucy Powell, Labour's shadow education...

Summary: Labour has accused the government of failing to take fast enough action to close down illegal schools.
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Article: Police officers and veterinarians had chased the animal around the course near Toki city in the central Gifu prefecture for hours.
It ran into the lake shortly after it was shot with a tranquiliser dart.
The animal died despite being pulled out within minutes. Officers said it had likely drowned and that its heart had stopped.
The two-year-old male zebra was owned by a mobile zoo, reported the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, but was being housed at the Mikuni West Farm, a local stable and riding club.
On Tuesday evening, farm managers were bringing in the zebra for the night when it became agitated, trampled the paddock fence, and escaped, fleeing towards a nearby mountain.
By early Wednesday morning police were receiving reports of a zebra running along a highway.
They quickly tracked it to the Toki International Golf Course, where veterinarians and police tried to catch it.
It ran into a lake shortly after being darted.
"We pulled it out, but its heart had stopped," said police spokesman Takahiro Taniguchi, saying it had likely drowned.
The unusual story quickly became a talking point among Japanese netizens who expressed shock and sadness on Wednesday, with the Japanese word for zebra "shimauma" trending on Twitter.
Many retweeted a photo by a girl who said she had spotted the animal galloping down a road on Tuesday night and expressed surprise at spotting "a zebra in the forest".

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A former North Tyneside artist has been given a Blue Plaque to mark his life.
John Falconar Slater was born in Rye Hill, Newcastle, in 1897.
He was a member of the Cullercoats Colony, a group of professional artists who captured the character of the fishing community and the surrounding

A woman accused of murdering her baby son has been remanded on bail at a mental health facility.

Article: John Falconar Slater was best known for his paintings of land and seascapes in the north-east of England.
Painting with a distinct impressionist style, one of his most celebrated works was Stormy Sea at Cullercoats.
Mr Slater was also part of the Cullercoats Colony - a group of professional artists from the North East who captured the character of the fishing community and the surrounding coastline throughout their work.
Born in 1897 in Rye Hill, Newcastle, in his later life Mr Slater lived in Whitley Bay before moving to Cullercoats 12 years before he died in 1937.
Now, on the 75th anniversary of his death, the current owners of the artist's final home are commemorating his life with a Blue Plaque.
Steve and Alwyne Barrigan approached North Tyneside Council earlier this year to request the blue plaque at their house on St Oswin's Avenue.
Blue plaques commemorate the links between notable figures of the past and the buildings in which they lived and worked.
Mr Barrigan said: "We have lived here for many years and when we discovered that John Falconar Slater had lived here we were inspired to mark his legacy in some way.
"This is a great achievement for us, Cullercoats and the North East."
Elected Mayor Linda Arkley was due to officially unveil the £300 plaque on Wednesday.
She said: "It is fantastic that we have been able to honour such a great artist and also fulfil a longstanding wish of Alwyne and Steve.
"The commemorative plaques are just one of the ways in which we are able to celebrate the borough's talent and heritage."

Summary: The life of a Tyneside artist is being honoured with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at his former home.
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Article: The 30-year-old is to remain there following the completion of a psychiatric report.
Belfast Magistrates' Court was told she would not be able to leave without the hospital's permission.
The woman cannot be named amid claims that identifying her would increase the risk of her taking her own life.
A press challenge to the temporary reporting restrictions is due to be heard next month.
The woman was arrested by detectives investigating the child's death following an incident in Belfast in March.
She was charged with murder and then held under the Mental Health Act.
Her barrister revealed on Wednesday that a medical report had now been prepared.
Based on its contents he sought a termination of the current arrangements for keeping his client at the facility.
"The application is that she be remanded on bail, subject to the condition that she continues to reside (there)," he said.
A doctor who assessed the accused confirmed that the health trust consented to the proposal, provided the accused was there as a detained person.
The judge was informed that under those arrangements the woman would not be able to leave.
Granting the application, she listed the criminal proceedings for a further update in eight weeks time.

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The UK's new car registrations have fallen by a third in the past year, but the number of new cars sold has risen by a similar amount.
The number of new cars sold in the UK has fallen by a third in the past year, but the number of new cars sold has risen by a similar amount.

Second hand Volkswagens appear to be holding their value well, a motoring magazine says, despite the emissions scandal which emerged a year ago.

Article: University of Reading, UK, researchers have investigated how the decline in sea-ice, driven by warmer temperatures, will make the region more accessible.
They find that by 2050, opportunities to transit the Arctic will double for non ice-strengthened vessels.
These open-water ships will even be going right over the top at times.
And if CO2 emissions are not curtailed - if the aspirations of the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise "well below two degrees" are not implemented - then moderately ice-strengthened vessels could be routinely ploughing across the Arctic by late century for perhaps 10-12 months of the year.
"The reduction in summer sea-ice, perhaps the most striking sign of climate change, may also provide economic opportunities," commented Reading's Dr Nathanael Melia.
"There is renewed interest in trans-Arctic shipping because of potentially reduced costs and journey times between Asia and the Atlantic. So far only a few commercial vessels have utilised these routes as they are not currently reliably open."
Sea-ice is in a committed, long-term decline as the polar north warms.
The traditional September minimum extent is about to be set in the coming days, and this year looks on course to be the second lowest in the satellite record.
Researchers do not see this trend being reversed anytime soon.
"If we experience a 2-degree increase in global temperatures, we will get close to an Arctic that is effectively ice-free for part of the year; that's less than a million sq km of ice cover," said Reading's Dr Ed Hawkins.
"So, even if future emissions are consistent with the Paris agreement, it will of course mean shipping routes will be more open. Not every year, but more regularly than they are now."
"Open water vessels won't be hugging the Russian coast quite so much, and ice-strengthened ships will be going right over the pole," he told BBC News.
The incentives are clear: if vessels can transit the Arctic, they will shave many days off their journey times between the Pacific and North Atlantic...

Summary: Shipping routes across the Arctic are going to open up significantly this century even with a best-case reduction in CO2 emissions, a new study suggests.
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Article: Industry magazine What Car? says prices of VW models have not collapsed as might have been expected.
VW cars which are three years old, or have done 36,000 miles, are typically worth 42.21% of their original value, the magazine said.
That is 2.7% lower than in September 2015, just before the scandal broke.
However, across the industry as a whole, second hand values have fallen by 2% over the same timeframe, suggesting that Volkswagens have performed only slightly worse than the average car on the market.
"I'm sure there are motorists out there who were rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of used VW prices falling off a cliff because of the emissions debacle," said What Car? editor Steve Huntingford.
"That simply hasn't come to pass, however, and while the VW story continues to rumble on a year after the story first came to light, the Golf and Polo are still among the most popular new cars in the UK."
The German car-maker admitted on 16 September last year that software had switched diesel engines to a "clean mode" whenever they were tested for emissions.
VW has recalled 200,000 cars in the UK as a result.
But while it is offering to repair them, it is not offering owners compensation.
VW drivers in the US have been offered up to $10,000 each to make up for the deception.
The What Car? research suggested that cars made by VW under the Audi brand experienced a similar drop in value to VW-badged cars over the past year.
It also found that the value of second hand Seat and Skoda models, also made by the VW group, fell by less than 0.5% over the 12-month period.

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The number of "bricks and mortar" entertainment stores has reached a record high.
The number of "bricks and mortar" entertainment stores has reached a record high.
The number of "bricks and mortar" entertainment stores has reached a record high.

Shares in Chipotle have slumped more than 12% after US health authorities reported more cases of E. coli linked to the Mexican restaurant chain.

Article: There are now some 14,800 shops selling CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray, with supermarkets and high-street chain sales leading to the rise.
The figures show "traditional retail still has a place", said the Entertainment Retailers Association.
The internet accounted for 71.8% of entertainment sales in 2015.
Physical stores were responsible for the remaining 28.2%.
The number of stores selling music and video has more than doubled since 2009, with DVD and Blu-ray available in 14,852 stores in 2015 and CDs and vinyl in 14,727, said the ERA, which represents retailers and digital services.
Many stores sell both, said a spokeswoman.
"These are astonishing numbers," said ERA chief executive Kim Bayley.
"Conventional wisdom has always suggested that the internet spelled the end for physical entertainment stores, but these numbers show that traditional retail still has a place, particularly for impulse purchases and gifts.
"After all, you can't gift-wrap a download or a stream."
She told the BBC that physical stores are now streamlining and tailoring customer offers.
"The growth of the internet has made retailers think differently," she added, with independent stores "catering to very distinct tastes" such as country music or world music.
Larger retailers are driving sales by focusing on campaigns and offers, as well as impulse buys, she said, adding: "People tend to go to stores like Amazon when they know what they want - but in a shop, they might decide to pick up a film to watch with a pizza on a Saturday night."
Stores now reporting sales to the Official UK charts for the first time include Argos, Boots, Primark and Urban Outfitters.
"The addition of these outlets to the chart panel means it is difficult to make a direct year-on-year comparison, but the trend is clear - just as the internet has demonstrated that accessibility and convenience are key to selling entertainment, physical stores are demonstrating that if you put entertainment in front of people, they will buy it," added Bayley.
In January, the ERA said "surging...

Summary: The number of "bricks and mortar" entertainment stores has reached a record high - despite rising online sales of music and film.
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Article: The Center for Disease Control (CDC) said 45 people had been infected with a strain of E. coli, 43 of whom reported eating at a Chipotle restaurant.
The cases were in California, Minnesota, New York and Ohio.
Earlier this month, the chain temporarily closed 43 outlets in and around Washington and Oregon states.
This was after health officials investigated an E. coli outbreak that made at least 22 people ill.
"The epidemiologic evidence available at this time suggests that a common meal item or ingredient served at Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants in several states is a likely source of this outbreak," the CDC said.
"The investigation is still ongoing to determine what specific food is linked to illness."
Chipotle shares are now down by more than a fifth this year, valuing the company at $16.7bn (Â£11bn).
E. coli is short for Escherichia coli. It is a type of bacterium present in the gut of humans and other animals.
Most strains are harmless but some can produce toxins that cause illness in humans.

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The US dollar has fallen against the euro and yen in the past week, with the dollar losing ground against the yen and euro.
The dollar has fallen against the euro by 0.3% to $1.1375, while the dollar has fallen against the yen by 0.1% to $1.13

China saw a sharp fall in the value of its imports last month, figures show, raising further questions over the strength of its economy.

Article: The former Candystripes captain replaced Roddy Collins as Brandywell boss in May last year.
Derry are battling against relegation from the Premier Division while they made their FAI Cup exit on Monday night with a 3-0 defeat at Cork City.
City assistant boss Paul Hegarty will take over as caretaker manager until the end of the season.
The 42-year-old, who was City's longest serving player, took Derry to last season's FAI Cup final.
However, Derry have won just six of their 27 league games this season and are just three points clear of basement side Limerick.
Hutton's final match in charge came on Monday in the quarter-final replay loss at Turner's Cross.
"The Derry City FC Board Of Directors would like to announce that Peter Hutton has left the club by mutual consent," said the Candystripes.
"Derry City FC would like to thank Peter for his service, and we wish him well for the future."

Summary: Derry City have parted company with manager Peter Hutton by mutual consent after a poor league campaign.
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Article: In dollar terms, imports dropped 20.4% from a year earlier to $145.2bn, a steeper fall than had been expected.
The drop was due to lower commodity prices and weaker domestic demand.
Next week, China is due to report its third-quarter growth rate, which is expected to be lower than the 7% annual pace seen in the second quarter.
China recently revised down its growth rate for 2014 from 7.4% to 7.3%, the weakest pace for almost 25 years.
China has been attempting to shift from an export-led economy to a consumer-led one, although the steep fall in imports suggests domestic demand is not as strong as the government would have hoped.
In dollar terms, China's exports fell by 3.7% from a year earlier to $205.6bn - although analysts had forecast a steeper fall.
The country's trade surplus nearly doubled to $60.34bn.
In yuan-denominated terms, imports fell by 17.7% while exports were down 1.1%.
In a research note, economists at ANZ said: "September's import figure does not bode well for industrial production and fixed-asset investment.
"Overall growth momentum last month remained weak and third-quarter GDP growth to be released next Monday will likely have edged down to 6.4% in the third quarter, compared with 7% in the first half."

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A new study has found that the number of people who die in car crashes in Northern Ireland is higher than the national average.
The study, by the University of Ulster, found that the number of deaths in Northern Ireland is higher than the national average in the first three years of the year, but falls to the national

A plan to expand 20mph zones across Manchester is to be reviewed after their impact on reducing the number of accidents was called into question.

Article: Ten-year-old Ewan MacKerracher, from Coleraine, was diagnosed with a tumour in 2010, which recurred in 2012.
His mother Kerrie said she was told he would need MRI scans every six months, and that the family "live in fear" that Ewan's tumour could return.
The Belfast Trust said it will be in contact with the family.
Ewan's last check-up scan was in January 2014 and the family waited almost 12 months without being informed of another before meeting a neurosurgeon in December last year.
"He said we would have a choice of a 9-12 month wait for one with anaesthetic or six months' wait for one without anaesthetic," Mrs MacKerracher said.
Keen to get the scan completed as soon as possible, they chose a non-anaesthetic scan.
But no appointment had been confirmed by June 2014, and the family were told the surgeon was on a three-month sabbatical.
They were then informed in September 2014 that Ewan was being transferred from an adult waiting list to a children's list.
"All that time he'd been on the adult waiting list and it was then lost," his mother said.
"The radiology department are now saying that there's been some form of lost paperwork between transferring him from the adult waiting list to the children's' waiting list.
"It's been a series of errors and problems and nobody can tell us when he's getting a scan.
"It should always have been a routine six-monthly scan. He should have had each of the scans pre-booked."
Ewan said: "Sometimes I do worry that [the tumour] will come back."
Children in Northern Ireland currently have MRI scans at an adult unit.
A new MRI scanner was delivered to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in September, with the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust saying it would reduce waiting times, but it is not yet operational.
The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust said it the recommended intervals for follow-up scans was 12-24 months, and that was "endeavouring to provide the best treatment and support" for Ewan.
"We are keen to reassure Ewan's parents that we have followed the...

Summary: A County Londonderry boy who has had two brain tumours removed has been waiting almost two years for a check-up scan, his mother has said.
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Article: The number of pedestrians and cyclists hurt in accidents fell by more than a third between 2012 and 2016 - but the rate was lower in 20mph zones, the city council said.
The council said it will now evaluate the effectiveness of existing zones.
It also agreed to spend the Â£687,000 road safety pot on alternative schemes.
Since 2014, a 20mph limit has been introduced on more than 1,000 roads and around 138 schools in the city.
This has cost the council about Â£640,000, according to a BBC Freedom of Information request.
It led to an average speed reduction of 0.7mph in these areas but the "amount of accidents experienced in 20mph zones has not fallen as quickly as initially hoped", the council said.
For example, casualties of cyclists on the city's roads fell by more than 40% between 2012 and 2016 but the drop in 20mph zones was notably lower - 16% in Gorton and 12% in Miles Platting, Newton Heath, Moss Side and Fallowfield.
Last year, one person in Greater Manchester was convicted for exceeding the speed limit in a 20mph zone, police said.
While the review is undertaken, money for road safety will be spent on other traffic calming measures and pedestrian crossings.
Councillor Rosa Battle said: "It's important that we fully understand how effective these zones have been in terms of reducing accidents so far."
Rod King, director of 20's Plenty for Us, welcomed the report but said it was "incorrect to use early, small number datasets which are not statistically valid and compare them to whole city totals".

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The TUC's report found that the average number of hours worked by workers in Wales has fallen by 1.5 hours since 2006.
The report found that the average number of hours worked by workers in Wales has fallen by 1.5 hours since 2006.
The TUC said the fall in hours worked was due

Londoners face the longest average daily commute in the UK, a study found.

Article: Hundreds of homes in Welsh local authorities have had the insulation removed due to damp and condensation.
A report for a body advising the Welsh Government has recommended a wider investigation into the issue.
Construction Excellence in Wales (CEW) also wants better risk assessments on suitability for cavity insulation.
"There is evidence that that cavity wall insulation or external wall insulation has been installed in unsuitable properties, or without due regard for best practice," stated the authors of the report for CEW.
As many as 900,000 homes in Wales are built with cavity walls, according to the investigation. It was carried out by the construction research organisation BRE.
BRE said a survey in 2008 revealed that at least half those homes had the cavity gap filled with insulating material.
"The proportion of dwellings with insulated walls is likely to have risen considerably since this time," added the experts.
The report makes three main recommendations:
Pauline Saunders from Newport set-up the campaign group Cavity Insulation Victims Alliance and said she is not surprised by the report findings.
She said she has been contacted by around a thousand people and helped hundreds get funding to remove damaging insulation.
"It's confirming what we've known all along - that the cavity wall insulation industry is rubbish and it's ruined people's lives," she said.
"I've a file of cases about 12 inches deep. Wales has some of the worst cases. There needs to be an in-depth report because no-one has any figures."
The report for CEW has backed that argument, noting that its current findings are based on a small number of self-selected properties that had problems with damp.

Summary: Experts asked to examine issues with cavity wall insulation in Wales say there needs to be a nationwide survey of the problem.
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Article: Workers spend on average 75 minutes a day travelling to and from work in London, compared nationally with 52.8 minutes, the TUC said.
Wales sees the fastest commutes, an average of 41.4 minutes travelling, down 4.6 minutes since 2006.
The study compares pre-recession travel times of 2006 with those of 2012 and found the average commute was the equivalent of five weeks a year.
The TUC analysed the figures from the Labour Force Survey to mark Commute Smart week.
The study found that men working in the east of England saw the sharpest rise in travel times - up 3.8 minutes to 65.2 minutes.
But in London even though men spend just above 77 minutes commuting, the figure has fallen by 1.8 minutes since 2006. The study attributed the drop to an increase in part-time work, especially among men.
The trend was bucked by the capital's women workers who saw their travel times rise by three minutes to 72.8 minutes.
The TUC's General Secretary Brendan Barber said: "With rising transport costs far outstripping pay rises, reducing the number of peak-time commutes would save both time and money for hard-pressed workers.
"Recent trends suggest there is a link between long commute times and longer hours in the office, with the growing number of men in part-time work having shorter journeys to work.
"This trend is concerning if it means part-time workers and those needing to balance work with caring responsibilities are being excluded from certain types of jobs."
Phil Flaxton, chief executive of Work Wise UK, urged employers to "revise tired working practices" and adopt "flexible approaches to people management".

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The company said it had been hit by a "exceptional mortalities" amounting to 1,300 tonnes, or about a fifth of its potential harvest.
The company said it had been hit by a "significant" number of "exceptional mortalities" in the quarter before the end of the year.

A Scottish salmon producer has reported third-quarter losses after suffering an "unprecedented" level of deaths at its fish farms.

Article: The company, one of the country's richest and most powerful, said Wu Xiaohui was stepping aside as chairman.
It gave few details but said he was no longer able to fulfil his duties for "personal reasons".
Chinese business magazine Caijing had reported that Mr Wu was detained by authorities last week, but later deleted its article.
An official source told the BBC that Mr Wu had been taken away from the Anbang Office Building on 8 June by police who arrived in two cars.
It is not clear where Mr Wu is now.
If Mr Wu's detention is confirmed by the authorities, he would be the highest-profile target of the government's attempt to re-establish state control of the financial industry, and target corruption.
Anbang is known for a number of high profile international acquisitions, like the purchase of New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel in 2015.
The company, which manages some 1.65tn yuan (Â£190bn; $242bn) worth of assets, said in a statement that the chairman's duties would be managed by other senior executives.
Anbang did not comment on the report by Caijing that he had been detained.
Earlier, Anbang had denied a report by the Financial Times that Mr Wu had been stopped from travelling abroad.
Anbang had recently been in talks with a real estate company part-owned by Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner.
The two sides were reportedly negotiating a deal to redevelop one of Kushner Companies' Manhattan buildings.
$242bn
Value of assets managed
$60m Starting capital in 2004
9.12bn Current capital
1.95bn Acquisition of New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel
The possible deal had raised media speculation over a potential conflict of interest and was called off by "mutual agreement" without any reasons given.
Wu Xiaohui had long been considered one of the most politically connected men in China, having married the granddaughter of former leader Deng Xiaoping.
His company has in recent years been among the biggest players of Chinese firms pursuing high-profile overseas acquisitions and...

Summary: The head of Chinese insurance and financial giant Anbang is reported to have been detained by the  authorities.
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Article: The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) said it was hit by "exceptional mortalities" amounting to 1,300 tonnes - about a fifth of its potential harvest.
SSC also said "biological challenges", such as sea lice, had led to a lower mean weight of fish harvested.
As a result, operating costs increased and earnings dipped, it added.
The Oslo-listed company reported losses of Â£1.4m in the quarter before interest and tax.
This was despite a 39% increase year-on-year in revenue as a result of increased harvested volumes and higher market prices.
Revenue stood at Â£25.5m, while volumes rose from 5,130 tonnes to 5,486 tonnes.
SSC managing director Craig Anderson said: "This quarter has been challenging and, like many other operators in the sector, results have been impacted by biological issues.
"We have been working for some time to develop effective long term solutions to tackle these industry wide issues, such as the use of cleaner fish to combat sea lice.
"In the shorter term, we are using a range of established best practice methods to manage the situation.
"We remain focused on growing our business and developing our export markets to enable us to capitalise on the continued demand for premium Scottish salmon.
"Maragay Mor, our new site in the Hebrides, has been commissioned and is an important element in delivering our strategy of long term sustainable growth."

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The Republican presidential candidate's campaign has been hit by a series of scandals, including a series of sexual assault allegations against women.
The latest is a new allegation that a former campaign staffer, who was fired in June, was involved in a sexual assault.
The allegations are the latest in a series of sexual assault allegations

It's crunch time in the Democratic race, and if the past week is any indication, nerves are starting to fray.

Article: BBFC director David Austin told BBC Radio 5 live its violence was "arguably too strong" for it to be rated U now.
He added the film also contains language that would be "unacceptable" in a film rated U under 2016 criteria.
His comments followed complaints over the film's content after it was aired on Channel 5 on Sunday.
"Well done to whoever at Channel 5 decided that Watership Down was a nice Easter Sunday afternoon film to show," wrote one tweeter.
Based on the novel by Richard Adams, the animated film tells of a group of rabbits who leave their burrow in search of a new home.
Their quest brings them into contact with a battle-scarred rabbit called "General" Woundwort, as well as a gull called Kehaar who tells another character to go away using an expletive.
The BBFC continues to receive "one or two complaints" each year over its content, which includes scenes of rabbits fighting, being throttled and gasping for air.
The film - which features the voices of Sir John Hurt and the late Richard Briers - received a U rating on its initial release for its "very mild language, mild violence and threat".
According to Austin, though, "standards were different then". "The film has been a U for 38 years, but if it came in tomorrow it would not be," he continued.
For it to receive a different rating, however, it would have to be re-submitted to the BBFC - something Austin said would only happen if the title was acquired by a new distributor who wished to re-release it.
According to BBFC guidelines, a U-rated film "should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over" while a PG may feature scenes "unsuitable for young children".
A spokesman for Channel 5 said the broadcaster would not be commenting on the issue.

Summary: The U-rated 1978 film Watership Down would be classified PG were it released today, the new head of the British Board of Film Classification has said.
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Article: The fratricide within the Republican Party is getting much of the national attention, but the two remaining Democratic candidates - and their supporters - are starting to swing some sharp elbows.
The Wisconsin primary on Tuesday marks the beginning of the Democratic presidential campaign's endgame. More than half the pledged delegates have already been apportioned, and only a few truly landscape-altering battlegrounds - New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California - remain on the calendar.
Mr Sanders can claim momentum, with wins in five of the last six contests, but he needs a sizeable victory in Wisconsin if he wants to properly set the stage for the critical coming contests and cut into Mrs Clinton's 263 delegate lead.
It's enough to set both candidates on edge.
On Thursday, when confronted by a Greenpeace activist in New York about whether she could address climate change while taking donations from the fossil fuel industry, Mrs Clinton showed a rare flash of anger.
"I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me," she said. Her campaign would later assert that the former secretary of state, like Mr Sanders, takes donations from individuals employed in the energy sector but is prohibited from accepting money from corporations.
It was a moment of emotion for a usually carefully controlled candidate - and the Sanders camp quickly responded.
"If the Clinton campaign wants to argue that industry lobbyists giving thousands of dollars to her campaign won't affect her decisions if she's elected, that's fine," Sanders adviser Jeff Weaver said. "But to call us liars for pointing out basic facts about the secretary's fundraising is deeply cynical and very disappointing."
It was just one of numerous recent shots between the two campaigns. When Mrs Clinton unveiled manufacturing proposals on Friday, a Sanders spokesperson said the former secretary of state has embraced "policies that have decimated the manufacturing industry ... and eliminated millions of jobs across the country".
Trump's disastrous women...

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The Queen's 90th birthday was marked with a special service at Windsor Castle.
The Queen's official birthday is on June 30, but the day was marked with a special service at Windsor Castle.
The service was attended by the Queen's closest family and friends, including her son Prince Harry, and the Duke of

Prince William has answered criticism of his commitment to royal duties, saying he is willing to take on more responsibility when the time comes.

Article: The Federal Reserve increased rates on Wednesday by 0.25% to a range of 0.5% to 0.75%, citing a stronger US economy.
When the Fed changes policy on rates, it ripples across the globe. So, how does it affect people in the UK?
The short answer is not a lot.
There might have been a time when a rate rise in the US could have added to pressure here to raise rates.
But the Bank of England is in a very different place now.
It cut interest rates in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union - and it is expecting growth to slow next year.
Policy makers are unlikely to be swayed by anything the Federal Reserve does at this meeting.
UK interest rates are not expected to rise in 2017, and indeed are more likely to be cut further from the current historic low of 0.25%, according to Anna Stupnytska, global economist at Fidelity Investment Management.
But in the US, the Fed now thinks that there could be three rises next year, up from the two that were predicted in September. That's because of the expansionary policies expected to be introduced by President-elect Donald Trump.
So, in the UK you might not be immediately affected, but for those of you looking at longer term mortgages - such as a 10-year fixed rate - these are influenced not just by the UK's base rate, but also by the global bond market, which is already seeing yields rise.
And if US rates continue to increase, that may continue to push bond yields higher, in turn pushing up some mortgage rates.
It might.
Traditionally a rate rise means that an investor can get a better return on their investment and that usually benefits the currency, so the dollar might rise in response.
However, this rate rise has been so well signalled that investors have effectively "priced it in", in other words they are already acting on the assumption that it will happen.
The pound has already fallen significantly against the dollar since the referendum (about 14%) and it's likely that EU exit negotiations will have a major influence.
But Ms Stupnytska points out that if Mr Trump...

Summary: America's central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate for only the second time in 10 years.
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Article: He was speaking in a BBC interview in which he paid tribute to the Queen on the eve of her 90th birthday.
She had been a "guiding example" of what a good monarch should be, he said.
Meanwhile, a picture of the Queen, the Prince of Wales, Prince William and Prince George, for stamps to mark the monarch's birthday, has been released.
The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, met staff and viewed an exhibition at Windsor's Royal Mail delivery office in the first of a series of events to mark her birthday on Thursday.
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Her visit marked the 500th anniversary of the postal service and she was welcomed with singing from the Royal Mail choir.
The royals then headed to Alexandra Gardens in the town for a ceremony to officially open a new bandstand and met pupils from the six schools involved in its decoration. The children also sang Happy Birthday.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were among the political leaders who said they were looking forward to wishing the Queen a happy birthday, at Prime Minister's Questions.
Mr Cameron said Thursday was an "important landmark", adding the monarch had served the nation with "dignity".
In an interview with BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell, Prince William said: "The Queen's duty and her service, her tolerance, her commitment to others - I think that's all been incredibly important to me and it's been a real guiding example of just what a good monarch could be."
The prince's own commitment to royal duty has been questioned in recent months, with headlines in some newspapers referring to him as "work-shy William".
He said he did not ignore such criticisms but did not take them completely to heart.
"I take duty very seriously. I take my responsibilities very seriously. But it's about finding your own way at...

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A man has been found guilty of causing the death of a motorist by dangerous driving.
The court heard that the man, who was driving a Ford Focus, was driving at more than double the speed limit on the A9 when he collided with a car in the opposite lane.
The man, who was in

A man banned from driving for life has appeared in court after he was caught driving his carer's car home from a pub.

Article: Junel Miah, 28, of Magazine Road, Ashford, was convicted of causing the death by dangerous driving of Danyl Ponsford, 26, following a trial at Canterbury Crown Court.
Miah was driving at 75mph in a 30mph zone when his Volkswagen Golf collided with Mr Ponsford's Toyota Celica in Ashford on 30 September 2013.
He will be sentenced in January.
Det Sgt Scott Lynch said: "If [Miah] had been driving at the correct speed, and obeying the law, the collision would never have taken place.
"Miah's driving that night was a significant risk to other road users and his indifference to others has cost a young man his life.
"Danyl was a well-known and popular young man in his community who had everything to live for but his life was tragically cut short."

Summary: A driver has been found guilty of killing a motorist while he was driving at more than double the speed limit.
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Article: Hugh Thomson, 67, from Lumsden, drank half a pint of beer and four whiskies, Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard.
Police found that he was more than four times the legal drink drive limit and in breach of a life-long driving ban.
He has been given a community payback order as a direct alternative to jail and a further 10 year driving ban.
The court heard that Thomson, who says he has a terminal illness, was banned from driving for life when he appeared at Fort William Sheriff Court in 1997.
On 23 May this year he drove from Lumsden to Rhynie, a nearby village, and drank in the Gordon Arms Hotel.
People tried to take the car keys from him when he set off for home. He refused to give the keys up and police were alerted, Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard.
Sheriff Alison Stirling imposed a further 10 year ban on driving and told him to carry out 60 hours of unpaid work in the community in a year.

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A new study has found that the number of people dying from heart disease has fallen by 43% in Scotland since 2004/05.
The figures show a 30% drop in the number of people dying from heart disease in Scotland since 2004/05.
The Scottish Government said the figures showed the Scottish Government was working to

Mortality rates for two of Scotland's biggest killers, stroke and heart disease, have fallen in the past decade.

Article: Anti-matter is rare today; it can be produced in "atom smashers", in nuclear reactions or by cosmic rays.
But physicists think the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and its opposite.
New results from the DZero experiment at Fermilab in Illinois provide a clue to what happened to all the anti-matter.
This is regarded by many researchers as one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology.
The data even offer hints of new physics beyond what can be explained by current theories.
For each basic particle of matter, there exists an anti-particle with the same mass but the opposite electric charge.
For example, the negatively charged electron has a positively charged anti-particle called the positron.
But when a particle and its anti-particle collide, they are "annihilated" in a flash of energy, yielding new particles and anti-particles.
Similar processes occurring at the beginning of the Universe should have left us with equal amounts of matter and anti-matter.
Yet, paradoxically, today we live in a Universe made up overwhelmingly of matter.
Researchers working on the DZero experiment observed collisions of protons and anti-protons in Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator.
They found that these collisions produced pairs of matter particles slightly more often than they yielded anti-matter particles.
The results show a 1% difference in the production of pairs of muon (matter) particles and pairs of anti-muons (anti-matter particles) in these high-energy collisions.
"Many of us felt goose bumps when we saw the result," said Stefan Soldner-Rembold, one of the spokespeople for DZero.
"We knew we were seeing something beyond what we have seen before and beyond what current theories can explain."
Dr Guennadi Borissov, from Lancaster University in the UK, who is co-leader of the project, said: "This beautiful result provides important input to understanding the matter dominance in the Universe.
"The DZero experiment is still collecting data and so, as long as funding for our work continues, we can expect...

Summary: A US-based physics experiment has found a clue as to why the world around us is composed of normal matter and not its shadowy opposite: anti-matter.
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Article: Deaths rates from heart disease between 2004/05 and 2013/14 dropped by 43%, according to official figures.
The number of people dying after a stroke also decreased by 41%.
The Scottish government said the figures showed its strategy for tackling heart disease was working.
Figures from ISD Scotland found the gap in death rates between the most and least deprived communities had narrowed by 33%.
For patients admitted to hospital with their first heart attack, the chances of surviving at least 30 days have risen from 85% to 92% over the same period.
The figures also show a 30% drop in the number of new cases of heart disease.
In 2013 there were 7,239 deaths in Scotland where coronary heart disease was the underlying cause.
Treating and preventing heart disease is a national clinical priority for Scotland.
Public Health Minister Maureen Watt welcomed the figures.
"It's tremendous news that fewer people are developing heart disease or suffering strokes, and that fewer people are dying," she said.
"I'm also encouraged to see that health inequalities are reducing in this area, with the gap in mortality rates between the most deprived and least deprived communities falling over time."

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The BBC's Women's Footballer of the Year 2015 is announced.
The BBC's Women's Footballer of the Year 2015 is announced.
The BBC's Women's Footballer of the Year 2015 is announced.
The BBC's Women's Footballer of the Year 2015 is announced.
The BBC's Women

BBC World Service has revealed the five names in contention for its inaugural Women's Footballer of the Year award.

Article: Two females laid seven eggs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.
There are only about 200 breeding pairs of the critically endangered species left in the wild.
Nigel Jarrett, from the trust, said when staff discovered the first egg last week they "almost couldn't believe it".
Mr Jarrett, WWT head of conservation, said staff had "done their best" to enhance breeding conditions, with special lightbulbs, timer switches and lots of sand and netting to recreate the experience of migrating from tropical Asia to Arctic Russia.
"For the last two years - ever since all the spoonies came into maturity - we've been doing everything to get these birds in the mood for love," he said.
"And for two years we've come up scratching our heads and feeling a bit deflated. Now, we've had two mums busy laying and the significance of it is only just starting to hit home."
The WWT began trying to establish a flock at Slimbridge in 2011, as a back-up to the wild population which was declining by up to 25% a year.
But with its extreme lifestyle - including making an annual 10,000-mile round-trip between Russian Arctic breeding grounds and wintering grounds in South East Asia - the bird has never been bred in captivity.
In the wild, the birds have been hit by loss of habitat in East Asia and bird trapping by villagers in Bangladesh and Burma.
Mr Jarrett said the trust was now on the road to breeding spoon-billed sandpipers in captivity, which was "the ultimate insurance policy for the species in the wild".

Summary: One of the world's rarest birds - the spoon-billed sandpiper - has laid eggs in captivity for the first time.
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Article: Spain's Veronica Boquete, Germany's Nadine Kessler and Scotland's Kim Little are joined by Brazilian forward Marta and Liverpool and Nigerian youngster Asisat Oshoala.
The winner will be revealed on BBC World Service on 26 May after being decided by a public vote.
Voting is open now and closes on 11 May at 10:00 BST.
A panel of experts - including administrators, journalists, coaches and former players - decided the shortlist.
Fans can vote online through the BBC website or by SMS.
To vote for BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2015 by SMS, text the number of the player you wish to vote for to +44 7786 20 20 04.
Text 1 for Veronica Boquete, 2 for Nadine Kessler, 3 for Kim Little, 4 for Marta and 5 for Asisat Oshoala.
Mary Hockaday, Controller of BBC World Service English, said: "With anticipation building ahead of the Women's World Cup in Canada in June we're thrilled to announce the shortlist for the first BBC Women's Footballer of the Year award.
"The five shortlisted players represent the creme de la creme of female footballers from across the globe."
Spanish midfielder Boquetetold the BBC: "I'm really, really happy to be shortlisted. To have all the media talking about this award is really important to help our sport grow."
2013 European Championship winner Kessleradded: "I am very honoured to be nominated for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year Award. It is a special award because this time the fans are given the opportunity to vote for the players."
Little, who plays for Seattle Reign in the United States, said: "Considering the competitiveness and the amount of great players there are worldwide, it's extremely nice to be recognised."
Marta, a World Cup runner-up, said: "I feel very happy to be nominated and already feel victorious just for being in the final five. It's very special because you are being judged by the public, the people who follow you."
And Oshoalasaid: "I worked hard last year but I am surprised to be nominated and I feel very appreciated. This award is a very good thing for women's...

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The BBC's Planet Earth II is the most-watched programme of the year.
The BBC's flagship nature series has been a huge success, with more than a million people tuning in to watch the first episode.
The programme has also been nominated for a Bafta for best documentary.
The BBC's

A new female osprey which has nested at a Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve in Perthshire has laid her first egg.

Article: The department's documentaries have included Planet Earth II and Blue Planet - both narrated by Sir David.
The 91-year-old will join the unit's head Julian Hector.
They will discuss some of the most ground-breaking moments throughout its 60 years of programme making.
Sir David said: "I'm delighted to be at the Edinburgh TV Festival to recall the history of what was the first Natural History Unit to be set up in the world and to celebrate some of its milestones."
Mr Hector said: "I grew up with The Living World presented by Peter France on Radio 4 and was studying zoology at university by the time Sir David's Life On Earth was first broadcast in 1979 on BBC 1.
"The NHU has been part of my life ever since, and I look forward to sharing with the TV Festival all of the astonishing work that goes on behind the scenes to make these incredible series."
Sir David has been breaking ground in nature documentaries since the 1970s when one of his first televised expeditions, A Blank On The Map, saw him trek through the central New Guinea highlands to meet a group of tribespeople  never before seen by Europeans.
Most recently, he lent his charismatic voice to the second series of Planet Earth, which won a Bafta earlier this year for best specialist factual programme.
His appearance at the festival will mark a special moment for visiting fans, not least the event's own director Lisa Campbell.
"It's long been an ambition of mine to welcome Sir David to the festival and I have no doubt that this will be a remarkable and historic session," she said.
The Edinburgh International Television Festival runs from August 23-25.

Summary: Sir David Attenborough will join the line-up for this year's Edinburgh International TV Festival as he celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Natural History Unit.
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Article: The female has taken up residence at the Loch of the Lowes centre near Dunkeld, which was home to Lady, thought to be the world's oldest breeding raptor, for 24 years.
A stringent protection programme is put in place once eggs are laid at an osprey nest.
The Loch of the Lowes nest is being monitored around the clock.
Staff at Loch of the Lowes fear former resident Lady may be dead, after she failed to return to the nest for the first time in a quarter of a century.
The venerable osprey, who would be 30 this year, laid almost 70 eggs and reared 50 chicks at the reserve.
Her mate of recent years, known as Laddie, has mated with the new female, and the pair united to chase off two other female intruders which had tried to move in to the area.
Scottish Wildlife Trust ranger Charlotte Fleming said there was "plenty of excitement" at the centre as the new female laid her first egg.
She said: "Now there is an egg on the nest, the osprey protection programme will begin in earnest. The Trust operates a 24-hour watch on the nest site to ensure the safety of the birds and the egg.
"Hopefully in the coming days there will be more eggs, as ospreys can lay up to four in a season."
The Trust operates a live webcam at the nest, which attracted more than a million viewers from 96 different countries last year.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a satellite to study the effects of gravitational waves.
The satellite, called Pathfinder, will be launched from French Guiana on a Vega rocket.
It will orbit the Earth for about a year, and will be sent in the direction of the Sun.
The satellite will

Families of two men who died in prison have brought a High Court case over the "exceptionally" high rate of self-inflicted deaths there.

Article: It will test the technologies needed to detect gravitational waves - the warping of space-time produced by cataclysmic events in the cosmos.
Having such a capability would make it possible to detect the merger of monster black holes - a marker for the growth of galaxies through time.
Lisa Pathfinder went into orbit on a Vega rocket from French Guiana.
It lifted away from the Kourou spaceport at 01:04 local time (04:04 GMT).
The satellite is being sent in the direction of the Sun, to a point some 1.5 million km from Earth.
The expectation is that the European Space Agency (Esa) mission will operate for about a year.
Pathfinder contains just the single instrument, which is designed to measure and maintain a 38cm separation between two small gold-platinum blocks.
These "proof masses" will be allowed to free-fall inside the spacecraft, and a laser system will then attempt to monitor their behaviour, looking for path deviations as small as a few picometres. This is well less than the diameter of an atom.
Scaled up, it is like tracking the distance between the tops of London's Shard skyscraper and New York's One World Trade Center, and noticing any changes down to just fractions of the width of a human hair.
"We use the laser interferometer to bounce light between the proof masses and the optical structure that we built in Glasgow," says Dr Harry Ward from Glasgow University, UK.
"We then read out the phase of the laser beams as we recombine them, and motion of the proof mass translates into phase changes in the light - essentially, the light gets brighter or dimmer."
While this precision performance is relatively routine in Earth labs, it is very exacting to try to demonstrate it in space.
But if Pathfinder can prove the technology, it will pave the way for an even bigger Esa mission in the 2030s that will aim to study gravitational waves.
These are a prediction of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, and describe the rippling that occurs in the very fabric of space and time when masses accelerate, such as...

Summary: Europe has launched the Lisa Pathfinder satellite, an exquisite space physics experiment.
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Article: Ian Brown, 44, and Daniel Dunkley, 35, died following incidents in their cells at HMP Woodhill last July.
Their relatives claim Woodhill's governor has not complied fully with Prison Service Instructions (PSIs).
But the governor and the Secretary of State say the judicial review claim is "neither appropriate or necessary".
PSIs cover management of prisoners at risk of harm to self, others and from others, early days in custody and medical emergency response codes.
Heather Williams QC, for the families, said the claim addressed the "exceptionally high" rate of self-inflicted deaths at the Milton Keynes prison.
There were seven self-inflicted deaths last year, five in 2015 and 18 at the prison since May 2013.
"The rate of self-inflicted death at HMP Woodhill is far higher than at any other prison, at a time when the suicide rate in the prison estate as a whole is at a record high," said Ms Williams.
She said the case raised serious ongoing breaches of Article 2 of the Human Rights Act, which protects the right to life, and involved long-term failures to comply with the responsibility placed on the authorities to protect prisoners.
James Strachan QC said the governor was well aware of his obligations to comply with the requirements of the PSIs.
"The defendants do not dispute that the number of deaths at the prison is a legitimate matter of concern.
"However, not only have the governor and the Secretary of State taken significant action in 2016 to improve the situation, but as the taskforce approach shows, this is a continuing high priority."
Lord Justice Irwin and Mr Justice Garnham will give their decision at a later date.

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The Ospreys have signed former Scarlets centre Sam Underhill on a two-year deal.
The 28-year-old centre, who has played for Scarlets, Ospreys, Exeter Chiefs and Wasps, has signed a two-year deal with the Ospreys.
The Osp

Ospreys have signed former Scarlets and Wales back-rower Rob McCusker on a short-term contract as injury cover.

Article: The mixture is defined as a blend of fresh Bramley apple pieces, sugar and water, with the option of Bramley apple puree, cornflour and lemon juice.
The apple pie filling joins several other delicacies on the traditional specialities guaranteed (TSG) list.
Bramley apples are grown commercially across Kent, East Anglia and the West Midlands.
Other products given the same special status as the pie filling include Italy's mozzarella cheese and Belgian lambic beer.
The TSG list seeks to protect the reputation of regional products, promote traditional and agricultural activity and ensure inferior products cannot be promoted unfairly.
Adrian Barlow, chief executive of English Apples and Pears, said: "We are delighted that Bramley apples have been recognised by the EU and that they, like us, realise that the heritage of such an iconic British ingredient is worth celebrating and the traditional Bramley apple pie filling worth protecting."
A farm product may be registered as TSG only if it is produced using traditional raw materials and prepared with traditional methods.
The designation is considered a boon for ingredient producers as it is thought to place a premium on their product.
The TSG is one of three European designations used to protect local foods, including Cornish pasties, Jersey royal potatoes and French Champagne.

Summary: Traditional Bramley apple pie filling has been given protected status by the European Commission.
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Article: Open-side flanker Sam Underhill has been ruled out for four months with a shoulder injury.
McCusker made 133 appearances for Scarlets before moving to London Irish last season, where he played 17 games.
The 30-year-old has won 10 caps and joins Ospreys having initially signed for Welsh Premiership club Carmarthen Quins following his release from Irish.
"With Sam's injury and one or two others working their way back to full fitness who are not quite there yet, we felt that we needed someone else in to help us through this period," said Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy.
"We are fortunate to have someone with Rob's versatility and experience available and have brought him into the environment with a view to him helping us prepare for Zebre at home in the opening round of the Pro12 next month."

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He was a good speaker, and his message was clear.
He was a good speaker, and his message was clear.
He was a good speaker, and his message was clear.
He was a good speaker, and his message was clear.
He was a good speaker, and his message was clear.

The UK Independence Party spent almost as much as the Conservatives at this year's European elections - while the Lib Dems outspent Labour, Electoral Commission figures show.

Article: Nothing less than a "battle against secrecy".
And now Herve Falciani has revealed that far from this week being the end of the story, there is still plenty of information that is likely to come out about HSBC.
One million new bits of data, to be precise.
He says work will start soon on analysing the information.
And that a major oil company could be next to feel the effects of a major data leak about how it operates.
Mr Falciani is the man behind the largest data leak in banking history - and after days of revelations about HSBC and tax evasion by its wealthy customers between 2005 and 2007, he now says he feels vindicated.
The BBC has seen an email obtained by Le Monde that Mr Falciani sent in 2008 to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
It offered details of clients in what was described as a large private bank in Switzerland.
He told me that HMRC did not respond, despite a follow up phone call to the tax evasion hotline.
HMRC told Parliament on Wednesday that it had no record of the email. After last night's revelations, it said it was now looking into whether it had received it.
I asked him how it felt, seeing the email again, seven years after he sent it.
"Relieved in a sense. It's part of public awareness now."
There are now questions about why HMRC didn't respond and why it has taken so long for the information to become public.
HSBC has said it has reformed how its private bank operates and that there are now far fewer clients and much stricter controls.
Anyone involved in the allegations of tax evasion have left the bank, sources tell me.
But Mr Falciani says that HSBC should still be prosecuted for past failings.
"We have to punish, no matter how big they are," he said, saying that there could have been "hundreds" of other banks involved in helping wealthy people avoid and evade tax.
He called on European, Asian and American law enforcement agencies to work together to tackle bank corruption.
Whistleblowers should also be given more protection so they can reveal what they know.
Critics of Mr...

Summary: He came across as credible, assured and clear in what he is trying to achieve.
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Article: UKIP, which won May's election, spent £2,956,737, while the Tories' campaign expenditure was £2,980,815,
The Lib Dems spent £1,580,575 and lost all but one of their MEPs - Labour, which came second, spent £1,027,339.
The figures cover the campaign period from 23 January to polling day, 22 May.
UKIP's campaign spending works out at 68p for each of their 4,376,635 votes. For Labour it is 26p per vote, the Conservatives 79p and the Lib Dems, who lost 11 of their 12 MEPs, £1.45. The Green Party, which came fourth, spent £534,249 on its campaign - 43p for each of its 1,255,573 votes.
Including the SNP's £267,372, the six highest-spending parties spent a total of £9,347,087 on campaigning, the Electoral Commission said.
All but Labour spent more than they did during the 2009 European election campaign.

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The Lorenz SZ42 is a key piece of equipment used by the British codebreakers during World War Two.
The machine was used to break German codes and was used by the British codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the war.
The machine was seized by the Norwegian secret services after the war.

A team of engineers will use 3D printing technology to reconstruct the missing motor of a rare wartime German code machine.

Article: Through the centuries thousands have died as a result of tremors equal to, or not much bigger than, the event that struck in the early hours of Wednesday.
We all recall the L'Aquila (Magnitude 6.3) event of 2009 in which 295 died. But go much further back to Avezzano (Magnitude 6.9-7.0) in 1915, which claimed 30,000 lives; and to 1703 when a trio of Magnitude 6 quakes killed at least 10,000 people.
Thankfully, we tend not to see deaths on those scales any more, and that is because of more robust building, better preparation and more co-ordinated emergency responses after the fact.
What doesn't change is the geological cause. On the grand scale, Italy's seismic problems are driven by the great collision between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates.
But look closer at the specifics of any quake and the details are much more complicated. The Tyrrhenian Basin, or Sea, which lies to the west of Italy, between the mainland and Sardinia/Corsica, is slowly opening up.
Scientists say this is contributing to extension, or "pull-apart", along the Apennines which works at a rate of 3mm per year.
Add in movement in the Adriatic where the crust is rotating in an anti-clockwise direction, and you have a fiendishly complex picture. Italy is literally being pushed and pulled every which way.
"The Apennines are also very high; the crust is very thick there and there's a process of gravitational collapse," said Dr Richard Walters from Durham University, UK.
"So, there's a spreading of the Apennine mountain chain which also then leads to extension - the pulling part - and therefore the normal faulting earthquakes."
These are not the colossal tremors we see at tectonic plate boundaries where Magnitude 8 and 9 events will occur. But as history shows, Apennine quakes will certainly cause their share of misery.
"The effects are so devastating here because the quakes happen so shallow in the crust. And that's just due to the nature of the faults," explained Dr Laura Gregory from Leeds University, UK, who works in the...

Summary: Quakes are the ever present danger for those who live along the Apennine mountain range in Italy.
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Article: The Lorenz SZ42 - known as Hitler's "unbreakable" cipher machine - is on loan to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.
Staff launched an appeal for help to recreate the vital component to allow visitors to see it in working order.
Messages from Lorenz were routinely intercepted during World War Two.
The machine was used by German forces in Norway and seized by the Norwegian secret services after the war.
It has been given to the UK on long-term loan by the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum.
It is thought about 200 were in operation during the war, but only four still exist.
The model has a number of inner components missing - including an all-important working motor.
Now, a team of engineers from the Government Communications Centre (HMGCC) has stepped in to recreate the motor using 3D printing technology.
The museum's John Whetter, who helped secure the loan of the Lorenz SZ42, said: "The HMGCC team will take three-dimensional images of an existing Lorenz motor and then reconstruct it using 3D printing techniques.
"Externally, the motor will be almost indistinguishable from an original."
The motor will allow staff to demonstrate how Bletchley Park was able to intercept German commands using the British codebreaking machine, Colossus.
The groundbreaking intelligence work carried out at Bletchley Park during World War Two was credited with bringing forward the end of the conflict.
A HMGCC spokesman said: "The wartime work at Bletchley Park, including breaking the Lorenz cipher, was instrumental in the birth of modern computing and the development of what we now call cyber security."

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The government has announced a new scheme to help people who are struggling to pay their mortgage.
The government is offering a £1,000 cash-back mortgage to people who are struggling to pay their mortgage.
The scheme is being run by the Mortgage Advice Service (MAS) and will be available to people who are

Tenants in Southampton may face eviction because landlords are holding incorrect paperwork, Shelter claims.

Article: Mark Carney, the Bank's governor, warned that the risks of leaving "could possibly include a technical recession".
Prime Minister David Cameron said the warning amounted to "a very clear message" of the dangers of Brexit.
Vote Leave campaigners have strongly criticised Mr Carney, with one calling for him to resign.
However, a spokesman for Mr Carney rejected the call, saying the Bank had "a duty" to make its judgements known.
The latest minutes from the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) said that a leave vote may cause both growth and sterling to fall and unemployment to rise.
Mr Carney said the Bank had not compiled formal forecasts about the possibility of a recession - defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth - resulting from a Brexit vote.
Chancellor George Osborne said the UK now had a "clear and unequivocal warning" from the MPC as well as the Governor of the Bank of England about the risks of a Leave vote,
"The Bank is saying that it would face a trade-off between stabilising inflation on one hand and stabilising output and employment on the other," he said.
How working conditions and pay rates are affected by EU membership.
"So either families would face lower incomes because inflation would be higher, or the economy would be weaker with a hit to jobs and livelihoods. This is a lose-lose situation for Britain. Either way, we'd be poorer."
Jacob Rees Mogg, a Tory MP and Treasury Select Committee member, called on Mr Carney to resign.
"I think it is unprecedented for the governor of a central bank to suggest that people should short his own currency. Suggesting sterling will fall sharply is simply not what responsible central bankers do," he said.
Former Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said that Mr Carney needed to be "very careful" about making such comments.
Lord Lamont, the former Chancellor and Vote Leave spokesman, said: "The governor should be careful that he doesn't cause a crisis. If his unwise words become self-fulfilling, the responsibility will be the...

Summary: The Bank of England has given its starkest warning yet that a UK vote to leave the EU could hit the economy.
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Article: Landlords who let properties to more than three unrelated people need to apply for a licence for a House of Multiple Occupation (HMO).
But many are put off - because a licence can cost ??1,000 - despite facing a fine of up to ??20,000, Southampton City Council said.
The authority estimated a total of 1,500 unlicensed HMOs in the area.
Shelter helpline adviser Nadeem Khan said fear of eviction and living in poorly maintained properties are frequent concerns raised by HMO tenants.
"Because of the huge shortage of affordable homes people are being forced into rented homes which are unregulated. We receive about five or six calls a day about this," he said.
Nationally, mandatory licensing for HMOs is aimed at houses of three storeys or more and occupied by five or more unrelated people.
In Southampton, the licences affect properties in Bargate, Bevois, Portswood, Swaythling (Designation 1 - introduced in 2013) and in Shirley Freemantle, Millbrook, and Bassett (Designation 2 - introduced in 2015).
A council spokesman said: "Landlords have generally co-operated with the regime, but a small minority have resisted applying for their licence."
The council said it had so far gained prosecutions against one firm and 13 individuals.

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The Birmingham-based West Midlands Police have been suspended following their arrest in February 2017.
The force said it was investigating the allegations of misconduct and drug dealing.
The force said it was investigating the allegations of misconduct and drug dealing.
The force said it was investigating the allegations of misconduct and drug dealing.
The

Two police officers who plotted to steal and sell drugs for profit have been convicted of drugs and misconduct offences.

Article: Alex Neil said ministers would also look to reduce the stress of applying for social security.
Responsibility for a number of benefits is being devolved to MSPs as part of the new Scotland Bill.
They include the Carer's Allowance and benefits for the disabled such as the Disability Living Allowance.
Just over 15% of welfare spending north of the border will be devolved, with the legislation also giving the parliament in Edinburgh the power to create new benefits and top up existing payments.
Mr Neil will use a debate on Tuesday to set out the key principles that will underpin the Scottish government approach to welfare - that social security is an investment in the people of Scotland, with respect for the individual at the heart of the system.
Holyrood ministers also stress welfare services will be "evidence based", and provide value for money, while "putting people first" will be central to all policies, processes and systems.
Mr Neil said: "With our new social security powers we have the opportunity to take a different approach and develop policies for Scotland which will help to remove the stigma attached to accessing benefits.
"These policies will be based on principles which will ensure people are treated with dignity and respect. We want to show that social security can be fairer, tackle inequalities, and protect and support the vulnerable in our society."
"It's understandable that people who receive benefits, who are ill, retired or disabled, will be concerned about how these changes will affect them.
"I want to reassure them that our priority is for them to receive their benefits on time and with the right amount."
He added: "We want to ease some of the stress of applying for benefits and will make the system easier and simpler to navigate, and align it with our devolved services that support people."

Summary: The Scottish government wants to use new welfare powers to help remove the stigma attached to claiming benefits, the social justice secretary has said.
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Article: Birmingham-based West Midlands Police constables Wahid Husman, 48, and Tahsib Majid, 36, used their roles to conspire to steal quantities of Class A and B drugs, the force said.
Husman admitted drugs and misconduct offences on 7 August.
Majid was convicted on Tuesday after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Five other men also admitted a number of offences on 7 August following the police investigation, the West Midlands force added.
Husman accessed police computer systems to feed information to a number of criminal associates, while Majid committed a Data Protection offence on behalf of an associate, the force said.
A surveillance operation, led by the force's counter corruption unit, captured the officers talking about drug dealing on duty and conspiring with criminal associates to steal a consignment of illegal drugs destined for Birmingham.
The group planned to split the drugs between them to supply for their own gain.
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Police said an investigation revealed Husman had begun accessing police computer systems as far back as 2011, when he started to feed intelligence and information to some of his co-accused.
After his arrest, officers searched Husman's address and found Â£7,000 cash and heroin.
The officers, based at Perry Barr, were suspended following their arrest in February 2017 and now face dismissal from West Midlands Police.
All the defendants are due to be sentenced in October.

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The firm has been hit by a "significant" drop in its share price.
The firm's share price has fallen by more than 10% in the past year.
The firm's share price has fallen by more than 10% in the past year.
The firm's share price has fallen by more than 10

One of the UK's biggest insurers Royal Sun Alliance is to close its Birmingham office, putting 190 jobs at risk.

Article: They grew 1% higher than the previous quarter.
All the quarterly growth was driven by urban areas. Prices in rural areas have remained unchanged.
The figures come from the Northern Ireland Residential Property Price Index, which analyses almost all sales, including cash deals.
Prices are still lower than levels recorded at the start of 2005.

Summary: House prices in Northern Ireland have risen by 7% in the third quarter of 2014, compared to the same period last year.
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Article: The firm, which has had a presence in the city for more than 30 years, says it follows a restructuring review.
The office will shut later this year but a new "commercial trading site" will open in the city in September. Staff are to be offered redeployment around the UK, a spokesman said.
Union Unite called it a "big blow" for the finance sector in Birmingham.
Regional secretary, Gerard Coyne, said: "[Royal Sun Alliance] have made us aware of their intention to close the Birmingham office.
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"We will now enter into discussions with them and try to get them to review their decision in Birmingham as it's a big blow to our members and the finance and insurance sector in the city."
Royal Sun Alliance told staff on Wednesday that 190 jobs were at risk of redundancy but was "committed" to staying in the city. It has been at its current site in Colmore Row for 20 years.
A spokesman said the firm's review showed it could work more effectively "if teams doing the same kind of work, or focused on the same kinds of customers, are situated together".
"Unfortunately, a number of our employees will be impacted by these changes and we will be working closely with them over the next few months and will look to redeploy our people wherever possible."

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The asteroid 2004 BL86 is about 325m across, and its moon is 70m wide.
The asteroid 2004 BL86 is about 325m across, and its moon is 70m wide.
The asteroid 2004 BL86 is about 325m across, and its moon is 70m wide.
The asteroid 2004 BL

New pictures of asteroid 2004 BL86, which passed close by Earth yesterday, have been released by US space agency Nasa.

Article: Ecologists fitted special tiny tail cameras that can see beneath the birds' bellies to see how the wild New Caledonian crows behave.
As well as glimpsing two crows making special foraging hooks, the team was able to track their activity over time.
Christian Rutz, from the University of St Andrews in the UK said: "Why is it that New Caledonian crows use tools but other birds don't? I think the answer lies in figuring out how important tool use is in their everyday lives.''
In nearly 12 hours of "crow cam" footage from 10 different birds, the team diddn't get much footage of the birds making and using the tools.
"Out of total observation time, only about 3% was spent making or using tools," Dr Rutz said. And only four of the 10 picked up a tool at all.
The crows spent most of their time looking  for food with their beaks.
The birds spent a lot of time tearing strips from paperbark trees in search of grubs. Their sturdy beaks are perfectly good for this job.
"But every now and then, they suddenly switch to tool use - in the very same trees.'' Dr Rutz said. "We don't understand what is happening there."
But they caught two different crows, not just using sticks but making - and using - hooks.
"When we got that footage it was a proper high-five moment in the field camp," Dr Rutz said.
From lab experiments and sightings through binoculars, the team knew that the birds made these hooks.
They snap off one branch from a forked twig and leave a small part of the main stem attached to the end.
But now, for the first time, they have video evidence of it happening, unprompted, in the wild.
Jolyon Troscianko from the University of Exeter said: "New Caledonian crows are notoriously difficult to observe, not just because of the challenging terrain of their tropical habitats, but also because they can be quite sensitive to disturbance."
The crow cams have been given a new design to make recording easier.
Instead of beaming the video to a receiver which meant researchers had to scramble through the New Caledonian forest with...

Summary: Crows are well known for their clever tricks but now they have been caught on camera making and using hook like tools.
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Article: 27 January 2015 Last updated at 14:30 GMT
They show that the asteroid has its own small moon orbiting it.
The asteroid passed by the Earth at a safe distance of 1.2 million km, giving scientists a rare chance to study it 'up close'.
The new data shows that asteroid 2004 BL86 is about 325m across, and its moon is around 70m wide.
Now that it has passed Earth the asteroid will continue on its orbit around the Sun, and it won't come this close again for another 200 years!
The next 'close shave' of a large asteroid is due in 2027: that object is called 1999 AN10 and is just over 1km wide.

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The Conservative Party has been accused of "playing politics" with the election of a new leader, with the party's leader David Cameron saying he would not be "satisfied" with the result.
The party's leader, David Cameron, said he would not be "satisfied" with the result of the

Young runners at Olympian Mo Farah's former athletics club have been banned from training at Windsor Great Park in preparation for cross country races.

Article: Mr Smith, who joins Angela Eagle in challenging Jeremy Corbyn, said the tax system needed to be more "progressive".
On Brexit, he said people should not accept "we're on a definite path out."
Mr Smith and other Labour MPs say there should be a "unity" candidate to take on Mr Corbyn, who has vowed to fight the challengers in the contest.
But Ms Eagle, who was the first to launch a challenge against the Labour leader, said it was "too early" to talk about that idea.
Meanwhile, Mr Corbyn told the BBC's Sunday Politics he thinks the rules which exclude recently signed-up Labour members from voting in the contest are "not very fair" - and that he wants the party's National Executive Committee to change them.
He also believes the £25 fee for registered supporters to vote in the contest is too high.
In a speech in his constituency later, Mr Smith, MP for Pontypridd, will set out his leadership pledges, including plans to invest £200bn into building projects, which he will say is what is needed to "rebuild Britain".
Speaking on Sunday's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Smith, when asked if he would raise taxes on the richest in society, said: "I think we need to completely overhaul our tax system, so yes."
The former shadow work and pensions secretary said he would reintroduce a 50p top rate of tax "tomorrow" and also said it was "completely anomalous" for capital gains tax to be 20% when the higher rate of income tax was 45%.
Mr Smith, a former member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), went on to say he would vote to renew Trident in Monday's Commons vote, saying he believed the world had become "more volatile, more insecure over the last few years".
"I want a world without nuclear weapons altogether, but I don't think we hasten that by divesting," he said.
Asked whether he would be prepared to press the nuclear "button" as prime minister, Mr Smith said: "You've got to be prepared to say 'yes', that's absolutely right."
BBC political correspondent Alan Soady
Both Angela Eagle and Owen Smith are putting themselves...

Summary: Labour has been "too timid" about taxation, leadership hopeful Owen Smith has said, and pledged that he would raise the top income tax rate to 50p.
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Article: Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletics Club normally use the park's famous Long Walk for winter training.
The Crown Estate now said the park's ground conditions are not suitable for the club's training sessions.
Coach John Higgins said: "Mo Farah used to train with the club, and he used to train exactly on this venue".
"It's really sad."
Mr Higgins said although the club used an athletics track for summer training, in winter it needed an outdoor venue for athletes to train on grass for cross country fixtures.
The club is used by children aged between eight to 18-years-old to train, and has been running since the 1880s, with Prince Philip as its current patron.
"We need somewhere lit and that's why the Long Walk is so perfect".
"It's a lovely place and we're very very careful about not littering, because we respect the place," he said.
Russell Young, a father of two children at the club, said: "We're extremely disappointed, we don't really cut up the grass.
"We thought they'd be quite happy to have children exercising on it."
The nearby playing fields of Eton, where the Thames Valley Athletics Centre is based, are not lit and have cricket pitches which could be damaged by runners, while Upton Park in Slough is not safe for the club to use at present as the pedestrian crossing is out of service following a collision with a lorry.
A spokesperson for Windsor Great Park said discussions were continuing with the club to find what other options may be available for the next season.

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The SPLA is a key player in the war in Sudan, and has been a key player in the fight against the NCP.
The SPLA is also a key player in the fight against the NCP, and has been a key player in the fight against the NCP.
The SPLA is also

With clashes between South Sudan and Sudan threatening to spiral into all-out conflict, state TV networks in both countries are pulling out the stops to rally support for their respective causes.

Article: The transgender US army private, born Bradley Manning, is due to be freed on 17 May, after former President Barack Obama commuted her sentence.
Manning had been scheduled for release in 2045, after receiving a 35-year sentence for her role in leaking diplomatic cables to Wikileaks.
She confirmed the release was going ahead on her Twitter feed on Tuesday.
"Freedom was only a dream, and hard to imagine. Now it's here! You kept me alive <3," Manning wrote, linking to a longer statement which referred to some of the treatment she had received behind bars, including "periods of solitary confinement, and... routinely forced haircuts".
"For the first time, I can see a future for myself as Chelsea," she said. "I can imagine surviving and living as the person who I am and can finally be in the outside world."
Manning said she would be "forever grateful" to all those who had supported her and President Obama, and now hoped to make "life better for others".
President Obama commuted her sentence in January, with just three days left in office. The move did not satisfy all her supporters, as some felt she should have been pardoned.
A joint statement from her lawyers, Nancy Hollander and Vincent Ward, noted: "Chelsea has already served the longest sentence of any whistleblower in the history of this country. It has been far too long, too severe, too draconian.
"President Obama's act of commutation was the first time the military took care of this soldier who risked so much to disclose information that served the public interest."
The US army charged Manning with 22 counts relating to the unauthorised possession and distribution of more than 700,000 secret diplomatic and military documents and videos.
Included in those files was video footage of an Apache helicopter killing 12 civilians in Baghdad in 2007.
Manning also passed on sensitive messages between US diplomats, intelligence assessments of Guantanamo detainees being held without trial and military records from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The disclosures were...

Summary: Chelsea Manning has released a statement ahead of her planned release from prison next week.
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Article: Martial music accompanies footage of soldiers, and statements by military commanders reinforce the military mobilization under way on both sides of the border.
Meanwhile, online activists within Sudan are using social media to question the official line.
State-run Sudan TV is re-running programmes made during the north-south civil war, including a 1990s repeat, "In The Fields of Sacrifice". The programmes urge "jihad" against "the enemy" - namely, South Sudan's ruling party.
The TV carries videos promoting the Popular Defence Forces (PDF) militia, a mainstay of the Sudanese military. The footage features PDF "martyrs" and archive footage of battles from the long-running civil war.
Other footage, broadcast under the title "The Youth Who Answer The Call To Arms", urges young men to join up. It features key figures from the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), including the defence minister and Khartoum State governor, who are shown dressed in military fatigues, extolling the virtues of jihad.
Unlike its counterpart in South Sudan, Khartoum's official TV is not showing contemporary footage from Heglig. Instead, it relies on archive video from other battlegrounds. The TV repeatedly insists that Sudanese forces are about to "liberate" the area.
South Sudan TV is showing footage of parades and recordings of commanders addressing soldiers. In one video, a commander addresses his soldiers in Arabic and blames the NCP and President Bashir for lying to their people and dragging the countries to the brink of war.
The commander urges his fighters to "liberate Khartoum from the NCP" and talks of sending President Bashir and his tribe "back to the Arabian peninsula".
Echoing the jihad calls from Sudanese commanders, the SPLA officer advocates "a Christian holy war" against the "mondokoro" (slang for Arab Sudanese), and promises to hand over President Bashir and other Sudanese officials to the International Criminal Court.
The network has been showing footage of prisoners of war, said to have been captured in Heglig. The...

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