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Media playback is not supported on this device Page, 25, was beaten to gold by 0.425 points as Canada's Rosannagh MacLennan won a second successive Olympic title with a score of 56.465. World champion Li Dan of China took bronze, while another Briton, Katherine Driscoll, came sixth. "I can't believe I've won an Olympic medal," said Page, from Huntingdon. "I'm just so happy." Find out how to get into gymnastics with our special guide. "I had no idea it was a medal but my performance was the best I could have done. That is why I was so happy, that all the training and hard work had paid off. "I am so happy I got to share the final with Kat." Prior to winning Olympic silver, Page's highest career finish in an international event was fifth at the 2015 World Championships in Denmark. Trampoline made its Olympic debut in 2000 and this is the first time British women have reached the final. Media playback is not supported on this device Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.

Bryony Page became the first British woman to win an Olympic trampoline medal by claiming silver in Rio.

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Little is beyond their reach. Official documents and private communications are made public, and websites blocked. They hijack CCTV cameras, electronic billboards and network printers. The best known of the virtual warriors are the Ukrainian Cyber Troops, the Cyber Berkut and Anonymous International. All three present themselves as independent activists, separate from other, government-sponsored groups. The most prominent pro-Ukrainians hackers are the Ukrainian Cyber Troops, led by Kiev-based programmer Yevhen Dokukin. Most recently, he claimed to have hacked into two Russian interior ministry servers and an email account used by police in Russia's Rostov region - bordering Ukraine's eastern separatist regions. "I gave all this data to Ukraine's security service, but they still can't get round to analysing it, so do it yourselves," he urged readers on Facebook. Volunteer activist group Inform Napalm sifted through more than 35 gigabytes of the data and found what looked like official reports confirming that Russian military servicemen were among the hundreds of people evacuated to Russia after being wounded in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Cyber Troops make extensive use of one of the most tried and tested tools in cyber warfare, the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. "DDoS attacks are the Ukrainian Cyber Troops' artillery," Mr Dokukin likes saying. Scores of rebel websites were made inaccessible when the Ukrainian Cyber Troops relentlessly bombarded them with fake service requests. To disrupt separatist funding, they target accounts held by rebels in electronic payment systems such as PayPal and WebMoney. The Cyber Troops have also hacked into public CCTV systems in rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine and monitor them for the movement of troops and military hardware. On 8 December, Yevhen Dokukin claimed to have hijacked network printers in eastern Ukraine and Crimea to print pro-Ukrainian messages and insults against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some media reports suggest that Ukraine's security services have used information obtained by hackers to direct artillery fire. But officials deny this. "We only use data obtained by people we trust and know," Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky told the BBC. On the other side of the conflict is Cyber Berkut, a staunchly anti-Western group which takes its name from the riot police used against protesters during the unrest in Kiev that led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych. The group's declared goal is thwarting Ukraine's military plans and thus stopping the "genocide" that it accuses Kiev of unleashing at America's behest. Its motto is "We won't forgive or forget", and its rhetoric closely resembles that of Russian state media. During US Vice-President Joe Biden's visit to Kiev on 20-21 November, Cyber Berkut hacked several Ukrainian government websites, placing a message on their front pages which read: "Joseph Biden is the fascists' master." Cyber Berkut claims to have retrieved confidential documents from a mobile device used by one member of Mr Biden's team while it was in Kiev. The documents appear to detail Washington's military assistance to Ukraine. Another stunt carried out by Cyber Berkut is the apparent hacking of electronic billboards in Kiev, which were made to show a video branding Ukrainian officials and activists "war criminals" and featuring highly graphic images of civilians killed in the current conflict. They also claim to have disrupted the electronic vote-counting systems ahead of October's parliamentary election in Ukraine, to have leaked Ukrainian defence ministry data on losses and desertions, and to have blocked President Petro Poroshenko's website. In addition, Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted a Facebook conversation allegedly hacked by Cyber Berkut, in which Ukrainian officials appear to admit that their forces downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The claim went largely ignored elsewhere and has never been verified. Russian activist group Anonymous International made its name by publishing leaked documents from the Kremlin. It is otherwise known as b0ltai or Shaltay Boltay, which translates as "Humpty Dumpty". What is not clear is whether it obtains material through hacking or are given it by Kremlin insiders. The group focuses on Russia's domestic affairs, but some of its material covers Ukraine. In November it published a letter from a Russian fighter in eastern Ukraine suggesting that locals did not support the separatist forces. And in May it made headlines leaking what it said were emails to and from former Russian FSB colonel Igor Girkin, also known as Strelkov, who was then a key rebel commander in eastern Ukraine. Access to Anonymous International's website is currently blocked in Russia. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.

Throughout the bitter violence of the Ukrainian conflict, another hidden war has been waged, involving several groups of computer hackers.

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Mr Hockey's appointment comes after he left politics following his removal as treasurer by Malcolm Turnbull. He had been seen as a close ally of Tony Abbott who was ousted as PM by Mr Turnbull in a party vote in September. Mr Turnbull said Mr Hockey was "a great Australian, he is one of the most engaging, persuasive people I've known in public life". "He's held very high office, he's got great contacts in the United States, he's a passionate patriot," he told Australian media. Announcing the appointment, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Australia's relationship with the United States was the "bedrock of foreign and defence policy". Some in the Labor opposition questioned the move, citing Mr Turnbull's role in ousting Mr Abbott and Mr Hockey's departure from politics. "This is a very important posting for Australia and should be done by someone with a deep interest for foreign affairs," said deputy opposition leader Tanya Plibersek. "There is no doubt this is a captain's pick by Malcolm Turnbull," she told ABC television. Kim Beazley, who has has been Australia's ambassador to the United States since 2010, will be replaced by Mr Hockey in January.

Australia's former treasurer Joe Hockey has been named as the new ambassador to the United States.

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Kingfisher House, near the domestic airport in the western city of Mumbai (Bombay), was being sold by lenders to recover losses. However, bidders appeared to be deterred by the asking price of 1.5bn rupees ($22m; £15m). The businessman is said to have some $1.4bn of unpaid debts after his Kingfisher airline collapsed in 2013. Speculation rose about his whereabouts after a consortium of banks and creditors approached the Supreme Court over unpaid debts. They demanded that his passport be impounded, and that $75m in severance pay he was to receive from Diageo be blocked and used to repay them. The payout was blocked, but it emerged that Mr Mallya had already left India. Later in a series of tweets he denied that he was "absconding" as was being alleged in India. Media reports say Mr Mallya is currently living in London. Opposition MPs have demanded that the government bring him back to face the law. Mr Mallya, who is a household name in India, sold a large chunk of United Spirits, which he inherited from his father, to Diageo in April 2014. He was to receive the $75m payout as settlement after being ousted from the firm in February. Mr Mallya, once dubbed by Indian media as "India's Richard Branson" and the "King of Good Times" for his lavish lifestyle, also owns a stake in the Formula One team Force India.

An auction to sell a property belonging to Indian drinks baron Vijay Mallya has failed to attract any bidders.

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Jacqueline Oakes, of Birmingham, was let down by a raft of procedural errors and failings to identify the risk she faced. She was battered to death in 2014. The West Midlands force said it agreed with the findings on its employees. See more stories from across Birmingham and the Black Country here In all, the actions of 40 staff were examined by the IPCC - "one of the biggest investigations" it has carried out, it said. The inquiry looked into 19 reported incidents involving Ms Oakes, 51, and her killer Marcus Musgrove in the run-up to her death at her home on 14 January 2014. Musgrove was jailed for life that year. Errors were made by officers and control room staff, the IPCC said. Among the failures, the investigation found, were those of five detectives who did not ensure they were adequately informed before determining that Musgrove should be bailed. On 10 January 2014, four days before she died, Ms Oakes gave a police statement about an incident in which Musgrove breached his bail conditions. There was an outstanding warrant for Musgrove for the breach when she died. The IPCC said it found there were at the time "significant organisational failings" in the way the force managed outstanding arrests of this type, which meant "arrest attempts" were not made until 12 January 2014. Ms Oakes's daughter, Jenny, 36, said: "I will never be able to understand how such a slack attitude to a situation of potential escalating domestic abuse can be taken by so many people at a police force. It is shocking." In addition to the 19 employees said to have a case to answer for misconduct, a now retired officer was found to have a case to answer for gross misconduct. No misconduct was identified for a further 20 employees whose actions were investigated. The IPCC said two officers would attend misconduct meetings, with others subjected to "management action to address the failings". No action is to be taken against the retired officer. Deputy Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe, of West Midlands Police, said: "We acknowledge that some of our officers and staff failed in their duty to complete certain checks, risk assessments and, on occasion, follow the force's domestic abuse policy and for this we sincerely apologise to the family of Jacqueline Oakes."

Nineteen police officers and staff have a case to answer for misconduct in their dealings with a domestic violence victim before her murder, a major investigation has found.

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The 18-year-old was found in Caldy Walk, Islington, shortly after 18:00 BST on Wednesday and died a short time later in hospital. Two boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder and three others are being held on suspicion of robbery and perverting the course of justice. They are all being held in custody. A post-mortem examination gave the cause of Mr Appleton's death as a stab wound to the chest, shock and haemorrhage. Mr Appleton was in Nightingale Park with friends when he was attacked, police said.

Five 16-year-old boys have been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of teenager Stefan Appleton in north London.

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11 April 2016 Last updated at 06:52 BST But exactly how do they know that he wrote it? Jenny asks expert, Zoe Wilcox, to reveal the secret to spotting a Shakespeare script.

The only remaining handwritten script by the famous playwright, William Shakespeare, is about to go on display at the British Library in London.

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Daly spent two seasons at Ibrox after leaving Tannadice, where he has been training since pre-season. "I would never say never," the 32-year-old said of the possibility of signing for the Scottish Premiership club. "If they came to me and were interested, I would definitely consider it." Daly spent six years at Tannadice and ended as club captain. "I am currently training at Dundee United," he told BBC Scotland. "When pre-season came about and I still hadn't got a club, I rang manager Jackie McNamara and asked if I could go in. "They are a good club with some fantastic young players. "I would never say never, but United would need to want me first." The United States appears to be a possible destination for Daly. "I am probably looking further afield than Scotland," he said. "I'm looking abroad. "At the moment, there are a few clubs interested, but they have their full forum of allocated players so they need to maybe lose one or two of them before they can move. "It is looking like January before the foreign market can come about, so I might need to get something short term until then." Daly had no regrets about his move to Rangers, who helped the Ibrox side win Scotland's third tier before dropping to the bench for much of last season in the Championship. "I was out of contract with Dundee United and at the time they were only prepared to offer a one-year contract," he said. "When I spoke to Ally McCoist, they were prepared to offer two years. "A lot of people say you are dropping down the divisions, which is a fair point, but it is going to a club of Rangers' stature, history, fan base, playing at Ibrox every second week and training at Murray Park every day. "I was just delighted to go to a club like that and play for a man that I really respected in Ally McCoist."

Jon Daly has not ruled out a return to Dundee United, but the striker thinks his future probably lies abroad following his release by Rangers.

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Visitors and residents protested against Lepe Country Park closing its gates by 20:00, particularly during the summer months. The park has views over the Solent towards the Isle of Wight. Hampshire County Council said opening hours would now take account of sunrise and sunset but extra costs would have to be met by additional charges. Paul Stewart, of the Keep Lepe Open Longer, campaign said: "It will be good news if and when it goes ahead." But he criticised the extra charges: "If it were open all the time they wouldn't need someone to monitor the car park." The council had originally said opening times were set to minimise the risk of anti-social behaviour. Mr Stewart said that decision was "persecuting the majority because of the actions of the minority". A decision on exact opening times between April and September will be made at a later stage, after consultation with the landowners and customers.

A New Forest car park that attracts 270,000 visitors a year is to stay open longer following a public campaign.

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The competition kicked off on Friday evening as Ayr United beat neighbours Kilmarnock 1-0 in Group E. And the cup gets into full swing on Saturday, with 15 more games. Well have lost to two English National League sides in pre-season, while Hibs' games included a draw with Sunderland. Lennon's side beat Dunfermline Athletic and Berwick Rangers in pre-season and will host Montrose in the Group D match. "I was never a lover of pre-season when I played and as a manager I never paid to much attention to the results either," lennon told HibsTV. "It was all about getting the players fit, but I've been pleased so far. The players have done very well. "We know what is ahead of us and we know what's at stake in the Betfred Cup. We want to go as far in the competition as we can, if not win it." Nigeria defender Efe Ambrose will not feature against the Gable Endies after arriving back at training two days late with the Edinburgh club. The 28-year-old, who was signed from Celtic this summer, said his delay was because of a personal matter. Lennon said this has now been resolved. It is the second year of the new League Cup group-stage format, with Premiership rivals Ross County hosting League One's Alloa Athletic in Saturday's other Group D game. Motherwell are the top seeds in Group F, but the squad that is being reshaped by Robinson [nine players have arrived with 16 exiting] have suffered defeats by Gateshead and Barrow. "The cup competition comes really, really early," the Well manager said before their trip to face League One side Queen's Park. "I would rather have people 100% ready, but everybody's in the same boat. "We will get better, especially our understanding. We brought in nine players and potentially one or two more. "I think we need a bit of an injection of pace in the top end of the pitch, but we probably have to move people on first." One player Robinson has no intention of losing is Louis Moult, and the manager insisted the striker is ready to give 100% despite a rejected bid from Aberdeen. Group H top seeds Partick Thistle face a tricky opener at home to Livingston, who won promotion to the Championship. Thistle midfielder Stuart Bannigan is close to a return after 15 months on the sidelines through injury, but the 24-year-old is unlikely to feature as manager Alan Archibald is wary of rushing his recovery. Archibald is already without right-back Mustapha Dumbuya, who is facing a couple of months on the sidelines after having surgery on an injury. Fellow defender Niall Keown is also doubt after picking up a knock before leaving Reading. Archibald has therefore been forced back into the transfer market to find a new right-back as well as a new striker after Ade Azeez departed for Cambridge United. With Aberdeen, holders Celtic, Rangers and St Johnstone not featuring until the next round because they were in European competition, Hamilton Academical are the other top-flight side in action on Saturday. They made their first signing of the close season on Friday, with French central defender Xavier Tomas joining for an undisclosed fee from Swiss club Lausanne-Sport. However, the 31-year-old will not feature away to Lowland League champions East Kilbride as he requires international clearance. Group A Falkirk v Stirling Albion Inverness Caledonian Thistle v Brechin City Group B Dunfermline Athletic v Elgin City Peterhead v East Fife Group C Cowdenbeath v Buckie Thistle Dundee United v Raith Rovers Group D Hibernian v Montrose Ross County v Alloa Athletic Group E Clyde v Annan Athletic Group F Berwick Rangers v Greenock Morton Queen's Park v Motherwell Group G East Kilbride v Hamilton Academical Stenhousemuir v Queen of the South Group H Livingston v Partick Thistle Stranraer v St Mirren

Hibernian's Neil Lennon hopes pre-season results are a prelude to Scottish League Cup success while Motherwell's Stephen Robinson will look to improve on results over the summer.

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Uche Ikpeazu gave the Us the perfect start, netting in the seventh minute with a deflected shot that wrong-footed goalkeeper Russell Griffiths. The forward was central again after 18 minutes, stealing the ball from Aaron Downes and running through before teeing up Berry, whose shot was blocked superbly by Danny Parslow. Berry did find the net 11 minutes after the interval, planting an unchallenged header past Griffiths after Greg Taylor's cross from the left side of the box. He then doubled his tally 16 minutes from time with an angled drive following Max Clark's incisive pass. Only a Griffiths save prevented Ikpeazu from making it 4-0 at the end of a rapid break, before Cheltenham struck a consolation goal five minutes from time when Billy Waters scrambled the ball home from close range after good work by Easah Suliman. Report supplied by Press Association Match ends, Cambridge United 3, Cheltenham Town 1. Second Half ends, Cambridge United 3, Cheltenham Town 1. Foul by Amari Morgan-Smith (Cheltenham Town). Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town). Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Cambridge United. Sean Long replaces Luke Berry. Attempt missed. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Attempt missed. James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Substitution, Cambridge United. Harrison Dunk replaces Piero Mingoia. Foul by Kyle Storer (Cheltenham Town). Max Clark (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Goal! Cambridge United 3, Cheltenham Town 1. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Easah Suliman. Attempt missed. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Attempt saved. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt blocked. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Mark Roberts. Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Leon Legge. Attempt missed. Kyle Storer (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Foul by Ben Williamson (Cambridge United). Aaron Downes (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Robert Dickie (Cheltenham Town). Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing. Attempt missed. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Max Clark (Cambridge United). Goal! Cambridge United 3, Cheltenham Town 0. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Max Clark. Amari Morgan-Smith (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Greg Taylor (Cambridge United). Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Easah Suliman. Attempt saved. Max Clark (Cambridge United) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Billy Waters. Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Mark Roberts. Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Amari Morgan-Smith replaces Danny Parslow. James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card. (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. James Dayton (Cheltenham Town). Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Daniel Wright (Cheltenham Town).

Luke Berry scored twice to inspire Cambridge United to victory over League Two strugglers Cheltenham Town.

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Mike Peters, lead singer of The Alarm, is encouraging US congressmen and senators to 'Get On The List' on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Three-time cancer survivor Mr Peters co-founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation in 2007 to encourage more people to sign up as potential lifesavers. The US visit follows a similar recruitment drive in Westminster. Ahead of the event, Mr Peters encouraged people in the USA to write to their local representative asking them to attend the donor drive at Capitol Visitor Centre. Potential donors fill out a consent form and have their cheeks swabbed. Their details are then stored anonymously on an international bone marrow registry until they are 61-years-old. It is hoped the event will grow the number of US donors and improve the chances of finding matches for patients suffering from a blood borne cancer or illness. Mr Peters said the foundation has been campaigning for this day for many years. "It is so exciting to feel that all the hard work and effort, made possible with the support of DKMS - We Delete Blood Cancer, and so many others, is finally coming to fruition," he said. "People are realising that one day it could be someone that they know who needs a bone marrow donor, and the more people that are on the list, the better everyone's chances of finding an unrelated donor area." The event in the House of Commons in 2013 registered more than 100 MPs and staff members, and MP John Glen became a lifesaving match a few months later.

A Welsh rock star has taken his bone marrow donor drive to Washington DC.

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About 47% of working South Africans earn less than the wage, which is being introduced to combat income poverty and inequality. But critics say it could put more people out of work as employers might not be able to afford the higher wages. The government says it will consult on the issue, but hopes to introduce a minimum wage within two years. Announcing the rate, which was proposed by a panel of advisers, the country's deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa said: "We are now a step closer to finalising discussions on the national minimum wage. All social partners will now decide what their take is." He said the panel was not endorsing the proposed figure as a living wage, but wanted to set a minimum payment for workers. Wages are politically sensitive in the country, where the official unemployment rate is close to 25%. One employment expert reckoned the figure was only about a quarter of the amount needed for the upkeep of a typical South African working-class household. Prof Chris Malikane of the University of Witwatersrand told a Johannesburg radio station: "You would need 12,000 rand to sustain a basic household." The African National Congress, South Africa's ruling party, supported the proposal calling it "credible and clearly supported by clear evidence". However, the Economic Freedom Fighters, the country's third largest political party, said the plan "favours business at the expense of workers". It called for a higher minimum wage of at least 4,500 rand. South Africa faces a possible downgrade to sub-investment grade by credit ratings agencies next month, with concerns remaining over violent wage strikes. Moody's currently rates South Africa two notches above subinvestment grade, with a negative outlook, while Fitch and S&P Global Ratings have it just a step above "junk". However, Mr Ramaphosa said: "We have made tremendous progress on the labour instability issues,"

South Africa's government has proposed a national minimum wage of 3,500 rand ($242; £199) a month.

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India's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 5.3% in the quarter compared with a year earlier, data showed. That is down from 6.1% in the previous quarter. Analysts were expecting the same figure for January to March. India is the third-largest economy in Asia but has been struggling with inflation and currency weakness. Since July last year, the Indian rupee has seen one of the biggest declines among Asian currencies, dropping more than 27% against the US dollar. "Shocking numbers as growth was even lower than lows witnessed during the financial crisis," said Anubhuti Sahay from Standard Chartered Bank in Mumbai. The BBC's Yogita Limaye in Mumbai said that just a year ago India was aspiring for double-digit growth. But a global slowdown has reduced external demand, and high inflation coupled with a weak rupee has made things more expensive within the country. Domestic demand, which India's economy is largely reliant on, has also slowed in part due to the political upheaval in the country. India's economy is suffering from "policy incoherence, shifting global risk appetite and a comatose government", said Rajeev Malik, senior economist at brokerage CLSA India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh admitted early this month that his government must do more to get the once fast-growing economy moving again. The Congress-led coalition government is caught up in a slew of corruption scandals. Key policy reforms, including allowing foreign investment in India's retail sector, have been delayed in parliament for more than a year. This has worried foreign investors and threatened the country's investment grade credit rating. "This is definitely a very important signal for the government - this is a make or break situation for India and the government has to step on the panic button," said Rupa Rege Nitsure, chief economist at Bank of Baroda in Mumbai. "If the government doesn't step in now, India's sovereign ratings may be jeopardised."

The Indian economy grew at the slowest rate since 2003 in the first three months of 2012, due to a widening trade gap and poor investment.

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The Queensferry Crossing was scheduled to be completed by December this year but that deadline will not be met. Keith Brown, the cabinet secretary for the economy, said the delay had been caused by "adverse weather conditions" in April and May. In a statement to MSPs he said the delay was a "very recent development" caused by high winds earlier this year. Mr Brown said the contractor, Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors (FCBC), had advised Transport Scotland that it was unable to achieve a target opening date of December 2016. In response to a question from Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Murdo Fraser, the minister said the bad weather "exceeded expectations" and resulted in an increase in the number of days lost to the weather. He told MSPs that 25 days were lost over April and May due to high winds, using up the time contractors had put aside for contingencies. Work was also halted in April when a 60-year-old worker was killed on the site. Mr Brown said contractors remain on schedule to complete the project ahead of the contractual completion date - six months after the December target. He also insisted that there would be no financial impact or cost to the taxpayer due to the opening date being pushed back, but did admit that "weather is still a factor" in the May 2017 target. The Scottish Conservatives said ministers must now give a date for completion. Murdo Fraser said: "This is very disappointing news for people on both sides of the bridge. "They were continually told by the Scottish government that this project was ahead of schedule and would soon be up and running. "Now we find this is not the case, so the SNP must now give an exact date when this will be completed by." The existing Forth Road Bridge was closed to traffic for almost three weeks in December after a crack was discovered under a truss in the roadway. Mr Fraser called for assurances that the current bridge is fit to carry on while the new crossing is completed. "We saw the sheer disruption caused to people and businesses when the existing Forth Road Bridge was closed over Christmas," he said. "It's essential we know whether or not the patch-and-mend approach taken at that point will be enough to ensure it can cope until the Queensferry Crossing opens." Mr Brown insisted that the existing Forth Road Bridge could handle an extra six months of heavy traffic. Labour's Alex Rowley said the delay "will be greeted with great disappointment in Fife and beyond". Stressing that the building of the new bridge remains good news, he said it was "important that ministers do not announce unrealistic deadlines", calling for "full transparency" in the project. Lib Dem MSP Alex Cole-Hamiltion, whose Edinburgh Western ward includes the southern end of the bridge, said the project was in "abject distress". He queried "how on earth" 25 days of delays had caused the opening date to be pushed back 180 days. Mr Brown said "everything possible" was being done to get the bridge open as quickly as possible, in line with safety guidelines. In February, Transport Scotland said the project was scheduled to finish "on time and under budget". But earlier this week, in the wake of newspaper reports that the opening of the bridge could be delayed, the transport agency would not give a completion date. Instead, it said FCBC was "making every effort to open the bridge as soon as possible".

The new £1.35bn road bridge across the Forth will now open in May 2017, six months later than originally planned.

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The planned voluntary rules would cover "integrated electronic devices, including mobile phones". Officials want distracting functions to be disabled when driving. In 2010, US figures suggested that "distraction by a device or control integral to the vehicle was reported in 26,000 crashes". Thenew proposals include goals to reduce the amountof inputs required to operate a device - the number of buttons to push - and reducing unnecessary visual information. There are also guidelines requiring one-handed operation and a two second limit on "off-road glances" - the time spent looking at the device. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) also wants built-in gadgets the driver can use to turn-off non-essential functions while the car is moving, and keep them disabled until the car is parked. In particular they want to prevent manual texting, use of the internet/social media, entering addresses into sat navs and dialling long phone numbers. Displaying more than 30 characters of text not related to driving should also be prevented, it says. Electronic warning systems would be exempt from the rules, the NHTSA said. The first phase of the plans only apply to built-in devices. However, the NHTSA said that in later phases it might issue further guidelines on the use of "devices or systems that are not built into the vehicle but are brought into the vehicle and used while driving". This could include "navigation systems, smartphones, electronic tablets and pads, and other mobile communications devices". Official figures suggested that in 2010 electronic devices were involved in 47,000 distraction-related crashes. NHTSA administrator David Strickland said consumers wanted more "tools and conveniences" but said the guidelines would help carmakers "develop electronic devices that provide features consumers want - without disrupting a driver's attention or sacrificing safety". The NHTSA is currently consulting on the first phase of the proposals.

US transport safety officials have proposed guidelines to limit driver distraction from gadgets built into cars.

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George Hamilton was speaking to MPs on the Northern Ireland affairs committee. It is investigating how a UK exit from the EU could affect Northern Ireland. Mr Hamilton said the PSNI would "not take a position on exit or not" and would work with whatever circumstances are in place after the EU referendum. Voters will go to the polls in June to decide whether the UK should remain a member of the EU. Asked on whether an exit from the EU would affect policing, Mr Hamilton said: "I think all of this is probably doable with an exit, but it will be slower, complicated and more costly is the view we would take from a practical policing perspective." But he said the PSNI had a "very good working relationship" with a number of police forces in non-EU countries, "most notably America". Mr Hamilton, who appeared before the committee with Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr, also said he did not think the PSNI's link with the Irish police would suffer in the case of an exit from the EU. He said "the relationships are secure". He added that if a so-called Brexit - a shorthand term for a UK exit from the EU - took place he was "absolutely sure the quality of the relationship and the professionalism of both organisations would not be diminished". The committee is examining areas like the economy and the border with the Republic of Ireland. It has already heard evidence from a wide range of politicians and business leaders.

A UK withdrawal from the European Union could make policing in Northern Ireland slower, more complicated and more costly, the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said.

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Donald Swanson was born at Geise, near Thurso, and went on to become one of Britain's best Victorian detectives. Here, historian Alan McIvor, author Adam Wood, who is writing a book about Mr Swanson, and Mr Swanson's family reveal details of his early life and his work in tackling some of the 1800s most shocking crimes. Donald Swanson was born at Geise Distillery, about two miles from Thurso, on 12 August 1848. He was the youngest child of brewer John Swanson and his wife Mary. The distillery, which closed in 1851, is now long gone and ruined buildings now mark the spot. Mr Swanson was still a boy when his family left Geise and moved to a home in Thurso's Durness Street. He attended Robert Meikle's Parish School in Thurso's Market Place, before going to the Miller Institution. After leaving school, Mr Swanson was a teacher for a time at the Miller Institution, which is today a public library. In 1867, Mr Swanson left on a horse-drawn stagecoach with the aim of getting himself to London. His 83-year-old granddaughter Mary Berkin said: "When you are 20 the world is your oyster and I suppose he thought 'if I get on that stagecoach I will get to London eventually and make my fortune'." In 1868, the young man joined the Metropolitan Police. Mr Swanson rose through the ranks and earned promotions to sergeant, detective inspector and detective chief inspector in 1888 - the year of Jack the Ripper's murder of five women in the Whitechapel area. In 1896 he was made superintendent of the force's criminal investigation department. During his long career in the police, Mr Swanson handled investigations into some of the worst crimes of the Victorian age. He was involved in the arrest of murderer Percy Lefroy Mapleton in 1881. Mapleton planned a robbery on a train from London to Brighton. He targeted a former stockbroker, killing the man by throwing him out of a carriage after unsuccessfully shooting at him with a revolver. Mr Swanson was involved in two other major investigations that same year. One led to the recovery of jewellery worth £250,000 stolen from a Lady Alice Bective. Later, Mr Swanson found himself back in Scotland tasked with hunting down a gang of grave robbers who stole the body of an aristocrat and demanded a ransom for its return. A stone cross still marks the spot where the Earl of Crawford's body was found unceremoniously buried in woods near Dunecht in Aberdeenshire. In 1884, the detective helped in the hunt for those responsible for a prolonged bombing campaign, and four years later tackled his most gruesome case. Jack the Ripper murdered five women in the Whitechapel area of London. In private notes, Mr Swanson named "Kosminski" as the killer. In more modern times, writers have named Polish-born Aaron Kosminski as a suspect. Mr Kosminski, a hairdresser who arrived in England in 1882, had a history of mental illness. He was allegedly spotted at the scene of the murder of Elizabeth Stride, believed to be the Ripper's third victim. Mr Wood said: "According to Swanson's annotations, Kosminski was a prime suspect. "He went insane and was committed to an asylum where he died shortly afterwards." In 1903, the Scottish detective, who frequently returned to Thurso for holidays, retired on a pension of £280-a-year. He died in Surrey on 24 November 1924 and was buried at Kingston cemetery. Mr Swanson's police rattle was brought to the unveiling ceremony in Thurso by his family. Rattles were carried by Metropolitan Police officers until the 1880s as a means of raising an alarm. Whistles replaced rattles because the sound from a whistle travelled further. "The things that he and the other police at the time had to look at, probe at and find out about - I wonder how they could stomach that," said Mrs Berkin, who unveiled the new memorial outside Thurso Police Station earlier this week with the policeman's great grandson Nevill Swanson. Historian Mr McIvor added: "He was something else. The career he had was incredible. The fact he came from Thurso is absolutely fantastic."

A memorial has been unveiled in a Scottish town in honour of a teacher-turned-police officer who investigated the murders of Jack the Ripper.

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Figures for England, Wales and Northern Ireland showed more than a quarter of cases were not picked up within the required 24 hours after birth. Health campaigners say the problem can affect crucial early days of bonding. A cleft palate is a gap in the roof of the mouth leading to difficulties sucking adequately and trouble feeding. The condition can also lead to hearing and speech difficulties, and may indicate other problems with the heart or nervous system. Unlike a cleft lip, a cleft in the palate is hard to identify in a scan during pregnancy. National guidelines say the problem, which affects about 500 babies every year in the UK, should be diagnosed within 24 hours of birth. This allows quick referral to a team of experts including surgeons, nurses, orthodontists and speech and language therapists. But figures published by the Royal College of Surgeons show a cleft palate is often missed at birth. They come from the Crane Database, which is a national register of information on those born with a cleft lip or palate in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Crane annual report says last year 28% of babies with a cleft palate alone did not get a diagnosis within 24 hours. And 5% of cases had not been picked up after a month. The clinical lead of the database, Scott Deacon, says there is a need for stronger guidelines. He says in the past health staff have been trained to use a finger to feel for the defect, but he insists that a thorough visual check is needed. "What we're asking for is for people to visibly examine the mouth using a torch and a spatula to get the tongue out of the way. Because obviously a baby is small and it's not the easiest thing to see unless you're getting the tongue depressed and out of the way." When Tomas Lewis struggled to feed, his mother Elizabeth was told he might have just been sleepy as a result of her epidural during labour. It was only four days later, back at home, Tomas's uncle spotted a hole in his mouth as he yawned. The family did an internet search and made their own diagnosis of a cleft palate - which was confirmed by a health professional the following day. Mrs Lewis says those first few days, when Tomas was losing weight, were "horrendous". But they were then supported by a specialist team, and when he was seven months old Tomas had corrective surgery. His mother says from that moment he was "a different little boy". Mr Deacon says a failure to diagnose the problem can cause parents great anxiety and distress. That was the experience of Elizabeth Lewis 16 months ago following the birth of her son Tomas. He struggled to feed and lost weight, but it took four days until his cleft palate was identified. "I just wasn't able to feed him and give him that important nourishment that he needed. And that is very hard. You start blaming yourself, thinking I must be doing something wrong, there's something wrong with my child. "It's awful and I wouldn't wish it on anybody," she said. Tomas has had corrective surgery on the cleft, but will require further checks on his speech and hearing. Rosanna Preston from the Cleft Lip and Palate Association backed the call for better early diagnosis: "For any parent, noticing that your baby is not eating, feeding properly or gaining weight is terribly worrying. "Many parents will initially blame themselves until the cause is found and worries about their baby's health can affect those crucial early days of bonding; the sooner they can get support the better." A spokesman for the Department of Health said newborn babies deserved nothing less than the best possible care. "We expect that NHS organisations will want to follow NICE [National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence] guidelines on postnatal care, so that mothers and new babies receive the vital support they need."

Too many babies born with a cleft palate are being diagnosed late, causing unnecessary distress, the Royal College of Surgeons says.

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The way we work, play and live with robots is changing. In a special series Ricky travels the country meeting the robots of the future and the scientists working on them. From spending a night in a robot house to getting a brain scan, Ricky finds out how and why our relationship with robots is changing, fast. Check out his first report here...

They can walk, they can talk, and may soon be thinking for themselves.

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Sabah Saleem, 11, and three-year-old Rayhan were hit by a car driven by 37-year-old Mohammed Khalil Anwar on Brudenell Road in August 2012. Leeds Crown Court heard that Anwar, of Brudenell Mount, failed to stop as he feared being attacked by local people. Anwar is due to be sentenced on 29 November. Sabah and Rayhan, who were 10 and two at the time of the incident, were knocked down by Anwar's Vauxhall Astra car on 18 August last year. They were returning from a greengrocer's shop with food for the family's Eid celebrations which were due to take place the following day. Both underwent surgery at Leeds General Infirmary. While Rayhan was discharged from hospital a few days later, Sabah remained in hospital for about six months and surgeons operated on her several times. The court was told she had been left with "significant and permanent" disabilities as a result of the crash. During his trial, Anwar told the court he was in control of his car at the time of the collision, but he had no time to react when Sabah and Rayhan ran out in front of him. The court heard Anwar was driving at nearly 35 mph along Brudenell Road when he collided with the two children, about 15 mph faster than the speed limit. Anwar admitted he did not know the speed limit was 20 mph along that stretch of road, even though he had regularly driven along there over the past 12 years. He told the court he drove off after hitting the children as he was afraid he would be attacked. Following the verdict, Sabah said she still could not remember anything about the accident. While she still found it "very difficult" to walk, she was now feeling "okay", she said. Sabah's father, Saleem Rafique, said his "very brave" daughter was still recovering. The 11-year-old continues to suffer from double vision, balance problems and memory loss, he said. "She was a really bright kid, doing really well at school and very determined to succeed. "Unfortunately, this happened and that has put her back. "She's tough, she's a real fighter but we don't know whether she will be the same as she was before. It's very hard to tell."

A driver has been convicted of a hit-and-run crash in Leeds which left a girl permanently disabled and her brother seriously injured.

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The stone got past the elephant's fence and a ditch separating the animal and visitors, the zoo said in a statement. The girl was taken to hospital and died within a few hours, the zoo added. The zoo statement said the enclosure met international standards and said "this kind of accident is rare, unpredictable and unusual". Africa Live: More on this and other stories The statement went on (in French) to point out two other recent incidents in the US: Phyllis Lee, Scientific Director of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants, says that targeted throwing of stones and branches by elephants is very unusual. "It can happen when elephants are frustrated or bored. In my opinion, it's unlikely the elephant was directly targeting the girl - but exhibiting frustration. You can't predict what animals in captivity will do." The moments after the girl was struck at Rabat Zoo on Tuesday were filmed by a bystander and uploaded onto YouTube. The video shows the elephant waving its trunk behind a fence and swerves round to show a stone on the ground. Metres away people are gathered around the girl, holding her head and stroking her leg.

A seven-year-old girl has died after being hit by a stone thrown by an elephant from its enclosure at Rabat Zoo in Morocco.

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A number of leading politicians have stepped down from their positions within the Northern Ireland Executive including Peter Robinson who was the First Minister. The Northern Ireland Executive is a power-sharing government made up of ministers from the five biggest parties. Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers, who represents the UK government, is now holding talks with all of the different parties to see if they can continue to work together to run the country. She expects the talks to take up to six weeks. The crisis has come about after a murder which the police say was carried out by the IRA - they were an armed group who wanted Northern Ireland to be part of a united Ireland separate from the UK. Sinn Fein is one of the biggest political groups in Northern Ireland. It traditionally had links to the IRA. The leaders of Sinn Fein insist that the IRA have "gone away". It's not clear what will happen if the political parties can not come to agreement. There might have to be a new election. At the moment people living in Northern Ireland won't be noticing any differences to their day to day services like schools and rubbish collections. Prime Minister David Cameron has said that he wants the talks to resolve the problems as soon as possible.

Politicians in Northern Ireland are holding talks over the next month to prevent the collapse of the government.

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It proposes the line between Edinburgh and Tweedbank should be improved and extended via Hawick to Carlisle. The report, produced by the Campaign for Borders Rail (CBR), said that could provide a "new strategic link" in the national network. Extending the line is already being examined as part of a wider study of transport issues in southern Scotland. "We believe that the Borders needs a through route to the south to maximise the region's economic potential," the CBR report states. "For Hawick, a rail link is vital." The Summary Case for a New Cross-Border Rail Link adds: "CBR is committed to making the case for further rail-led economic and social regeneration of the Borders and a transformative new cross-border rail link." Now it is time for Hawick and other communities in the southern Borders to benefit directly. The briefing sees the vision for an extended Borders Railway as an "exciting opportunity". "This document will help inform the debate on preparing for the proposed railway through the Scottish Borders to Carlisle and beyond," said Allan McLean, chairman of the CBR. "The economies of Edinburgh, Midlothian and the northern Borders have all gained demonstrably from the opening of the Borders Railway. "Now it is time for Hawick and other communities in the southern Borders to benefit directly." The briefing document sets out the CBR's commercial, social and economic cases for a new railway linking the existing Tweedbank terminus to the West Coast Main Line at Mossband, just north of Carlisle. "The completed railway would allow through trains between Edinburgh and Carlisle, serving intermediate settlements including Hawick," the report states. "Communities not directly served would benefit from access by connecting bus services and park and ride stations." The report claimed that extending the railway was the "only realistic proposal" to adequately address economic and social problems faced by the Scottish Borders and release the route's full potential. It said detailed studies indicated benefits for passengers and freight that could be realised by the investment. The report has been presented to Transport Minister Humza Yousaf. Earlier this year it was announced a new study would look at the possibility of extending the Borders Railway. The findings will feed into the Scottish government's nationwide strategic transport projects review.

A new report has been published detailing the advantages of enhancing and extending the Borders Railway.

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Services from Douglas to the UK were disrupted after the Ben-my-Chree, which sailed from Heysham, Lancashire, struck the pier on Sunday. The Isle of Man Steam-Packet Company confirmed no passengers or crew were injured. Four crossings between Douglas and Heysham were been cancelled following the the collision. Chief executive Mark Woodward apologised to passengers and said it was an "unfortunate incident", adding the company would "do all we can to minimise the disruption". A company spokesman said that on arrival in Douglas Harbour, the Ben-my-Chree "encountered significantly stronger than forecast easterly winds" and the vessel made contact with the King Edward Pier. He said engineers worked through the night to assess any damage and a diving inspection had been carried out. He added the Ben-my-Chree would return to service later, though its sailing at 19:45 GMT would be subject to "prevailing weather conditions".

A ferry crashed into a pier on the Isle of Man as the captain tried to dock in strong winds.

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People in 120 homes in Wisbech had been told to boil their water "until further notice" after supplies were contaminated. Anglian Water said tests were carried out following repairs to a burst main near Blackbear Lane, Wisbech on Sunday. The results showed "naturally occurring organisms that should not be there". The firm had advised people to boil and cool all drinking water as "a precautionary measure". A spokesman for Anglian Water said: "We haven't found anything harmful to human health but the harmless organisms are indicator species that something might have been there that should not be." Homes in Blackbear Lane, numbers 2 to 74, all properties in Pendula Road, Lucombe Drive, Oaklands Drive and Lebanon Drive were affected. A notice sent to affected customers said: "As an additional precaution, we are also making a small increase to the amount of chlorine in the water and carrying out some localised flushing. "We apologise for any inconvenience, but stress that the health and safety of our customers must come first."

Householders in Cambridgeshire who have had to boil their water since Sunday have now been told it is safe to drink once again.

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The 35-year-old batsman will link up again with his ex-Black Caps team-mate Daniel Vettori, who was appointed Middlesex's Twenty20 coach on a three-year deal in December. McCullum worked under Vettori at Big Bash side Brisbane Heat this winter. Meanwhile, James Franklin, 36, has been made full-time captain in the County Championship and the One-Day Cup. Franklin took over the captaincy on an interim basis last season following an injury to Adam Voges and helped steer the club to their first Championship title since 1993. "It's a very exciting time for the club, getting Brendon back again after his stint with us last year," Franklin told BBC Radio London. "He's one of the best captains in world cricket of the modern age so it's going to be exciting for players to work with him. "And Dan being on board as the Twenty20 coach, I think it shows how progressive the club are looking at things. "To be able to get in a coach of his calibre is hugely exciting." Last season's T20 Blast captain Dawid Malan, 29, has been named vice-captain in that format and will lead the side when McCullum, who has re-signed for nine group games, is unavailable.

Former New Zealand skipper Brendan McCullum has been named Middlesex captain for this season's T20 Blast.

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The 26-year-old Samoan, who started his career with Manly Sea Eagles, made six appearances for the NRL champions last season. He told the club website: "I'm ready now to take my game up to a new level and Castleford sounds perfect for me. "I'm looking forward to playing for a club that plays such a big part in the community."

Castleford Tigers have signed Cronulla Sharks forward Jesse Sene-Lefao on a two-year deal.

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Two reports, published in November, criticised the regulator at the time for failing to take action. One of those reports, by barrister Andrew Green QC, said regulators should consider banning 10 former HBOS executives. A new investigation has now been announced by regulators. "The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have decided to start investigations into certain former HBOS senior managers," the regulators said. "These investigations will determine whether or not any prohibition proceedings should be commenced against them. The FCA and PRA continue to review materials with a view to making further decisions regarding other former HBOS senior managers." No details are being given as to the exact nature of the investigations, who is being investigated, or the timeframe of the inquiry. A Bank of England/FCA report examined the failure of HBOS, while Mr Green examined decisions taken by the Financial Services Authority, the City regulator at the time of the HBOS demise. Both were published in November. So far the only person to have been banned is Peter Cummings, who was previously the head of corporate lending at HBOS. In 2012, he was fined £500,000, and banned from senior positions in banking. In his report, Mr Green suggested that the Bank of England's PRA and the FCA should consider prohibition proceedings against former executives. That included Andy Hornby, HBOS chief executive from 2006 to 2009. Mr Green said the FSA was "misguided" when it took the decision not to take action against Mr Hornby. Other former HBOS executives named in the report included Lord Stevenson, and Mike Ellis, the former group finance director at HBOS. Lindsay Mackay, the head of HBOS's Treasury division from 2004, could also be banned, November's report said. James Crosby, HBOS chief executive from 2001 to 2006, has retired. He gave up his knighthood in 2009, and surrendered part of his pension. Eight former non-executive directors of HBOS were criticised in the report, although they said they disagreed with its findings. The eight, including Lord Stevenson and Carphone Warehouse founder Sir Charles Dunstone, said the report had downplayed the "unforeseeable" effects of the financial crisis.

Regulators are to begin investigations into senior managers at HBOS, the bank which collapsed during the financial crisis.

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A lawyer for the former Cleveland Browns quarterback told the Associated Press news agency that prosecutors had told him a charge was coming. A Texas grand jury has agreed a misdemeanour assault charge for family violence, the lawyer said. Colleen Crowley says he confronted her at a Dallas hotel and hit her as they drove back to Fort Worth. The Class A misdemeanour carries up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine. Lawyer Robert Hinton told AP the charge was expected on Tuesday and he expected a judge to set bail. Despite success playing football as a university student, Manziel - nicknamed "Johnny Football" - has struggled with substance abuse and personal issues in the professional league. Manziel was released from Cleveland Browns in March.

Troubled NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel is expected to be charged over an alleged assault on his ex-girlfriend.

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Kieran McGrath, 26, was shot after leaving the Sheldon Arms pub in Ashton-under-Lyne on 4 October 2014. He drove to a police station but died later. The man who orchestrated his killing, Anthony Henry, 32, was found guilty of murder on Friday. Troy Beckford, 24, and Jace Smith, 31, were convicted after a trial at Liverpool Crown Court. The jury was unable to agree in the case of two other men, Remi Adams, 34 and Scott Chapman, 27, also charged with murder. Mr Adams was found not guilty of possessing ammunition without a certificate. A woman, Bretony Gallimore, 24, was found guilty of assisting an offender. The gun used to kill Mr McGrath was the same gun used to kill Manchester shopkeeper Pragaret Singh three weeks later. Police believe the firearm was passed between criminals. Mr McGrath was shot after leaving the pub at about 22:25 BST. Anthony Henry had tracked Mr McGrath's Audi S3 and watched his movements on an iPad, the trial heard. After being shot, the 26-year-old drove away from the scene to a nearby police station but died after collapsing near the front door. He died from a single gunshot wound, a post-mortem examination found. No witnesses to the attack have come forward.

Two more men have been found guilty of murdering another man who was shot outside a Greater Manchester pub.

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Instead she came out swinging against Donald Trump in a scathing speech that made clear she's looking to appeal to a broad centre in the general election. Billed as a national security speech, her address lacked any new proposals. Instead it was a forceful, often mocking, rebuke of the presumptive Republican nominee, as she framed her pitch in patriotic terms that could also resonate with Republicans. Mrs. Clinton presented herself as the real defender of American values and a commander-in-chief with a steady hand who believed in America as an exceptional country. Mr Trump on the other hand, "believes America is weak. An embarrassment. He called our military a disaster. He said we are, and I quote, a third-world country," said Mrs Clinton, speaking in San Diego, a city with 95,000 military personnel. Mrs Clinton was introduced by the spouse of an active duty naval officer and spoke with 20 US flags prominently displayed behind her. Although still fighting a primary, Mrs. Clinton is clearly making a play for independent and Republican voters who are concerned about Mr Trump's erratic foreign policy pronouncements but also his statements on women, Mexican immigrants and Muslims. On Thursday, the head of Hispanic media relations for the Republican National Committee, Ruth Guerra, resigned. Mrs Clinton has always had the potential to appeal to moderate Republicans turned off by their party's stance on social issues such as gay marriage, abortion and even guns, but who feel she is tough enough on foreign policy. In late April, during her speech after her victory in the Pennsylvania primary, Mrs Clinton appealed to "thoughtful" Republicans, independents and Democrats to stand together against divisive candidates on the Republican side. Although House speaker Paul Ryan finally endorsed Donald Trump on Thursday after weeks of hesitation, prominent Republicans are not rushing actively to back the presumptive Republican nominee just yet. At least nine Republican governors, and a number of senators, are steering clear from their party convention in July. There has also been a trickle of lifelong, prominent Republicans who openly say they will vote for a Democrat for the first time in their life in November. Mrs Clinton's message on American global leadership may not resonate widely with the GOP (Grand Old Party; Republican) base which is turning more isolationist - but it is finding an audience with many moderates and foreign policy thinkers. On Twitter, the hashtag #RepublicansforHillary was trending for a day this week, after an interview on US cable TV with a former Reagan administration official, Doug Elmets, who said that "four years of Hillary Clinton is better than one day with Donald Trump as president". Widely quoted in the US media as well was retired army colonel Peter Mansoor, a former aide to General David Petraeus during the Iraq war. Mr Mansoor said he would be voting for Mrs Clinton not because he had converted to being a Democrat, but because Mr Trump was dangerous. Elections are not won on Twitter and a handful of Republicans won't tip the balance in November, but the chatter on social media is bringing out voices from the Republican party silent during the raucous days of the Republican primaries and raising questions about a ripple effect. Mr Trump has been criticised by leading names such as former secretary of defence Robert Gates, former CIA director Michael Hayden, former Bush administration spokesperson Tony Fratto, historian Max Boot and commentator David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W Bush. Clinton campaign aides were not willing to discuss their strategy to appeal to moderate Republicans, especially while the Democratic primary is still under way. But they acknowledged there were Republicans, particularly those concerned with foreign policy issues, who could support her. Vin Weber, a Republican strategist and former congressman who supported Jeb Bush in the primaries, said Mrs Clinton should enlist Republican advisors. "If she were campaigning like her husband, she would move to the centre, and try to get votes that are not locked up by the Republican Party," said Mr Weber, who said he was still doing some hard thinking about how to vote in November. Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg says a recent poll shows moderate Republicans represent a "stunning 31% of the GOP base", what he describes the alienated third of the party. "They are disproportionately college graduates in a white, working-class party, and they are socially liberal." On marriage equality, climate change or abortion rights, those GOP moderates are more in sync with the Democratic party. The poll, conducted in February when all the Republican candidates were still in the race, showed that 10% of Republican moderates would vote for Clinton. Kori Schake, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, said that Clinton's challenge would be to convince anti-Trump Republicans they actually need to vote for her - not simply refrain from voting for Mr Trump. "Republican refuseniks are not enough to make a difference," she said. Ms Schake said presenting Mr Trump as dangerous was an effective strategy, but it was also key for Mrs Clinton to frame her pitch in economic terms. She had to press home the damage she believed a Trump presidency would cause to the economy - but to do so would require moving decisively to the right of Mr Sanders, and risk alienating many in her own party. "I've just come back from Cuba, and I've seen what a Sanders economy looks like," said Ms Schake. Mrs Clinton will seek to unify the Democratic party ahead of the convention, She will not undo the positions she has taken during the drawn-out primaries to appeal to the Democratic base. But to win those moderates Republicans, she will now need to present herself not just as the candidate of her party's middle but of America's centre.

Some may have expected Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton to swing further left to woo supporters of her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders ahead of the California primary on Tuesday.

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If it does it won't be without a fight. Thousands of villagers have been taking to the streets every day in a brazen challenge to the authorities. At the time of writing there has not yet been an attempt to smash these demonstrations but special police are moving into the area by the busload. The Guangdong Government has been urging us to leave. There are really only two possibilities. One: They think that without media coverage some of the steam will come out of the protests, allowing the nearby city government to come up with some sort of negotiated settlement. Two: With no international media to observe and record, the riot police can be sent in to bring Wukan under control the hard way. We asked government official Chen Jiasheng, if we left, how likely it would be for this second option to occur and he told the BBC: "As head of the Guangdong provincial press office I can guarantee you that your fantasy will never happen." Local Communist Party Secretary Lin Zuluan is seen as a hero to the villagers. He's now in custody but people here want him released. He was one of the leaders in the rebellion of 2011 when the former government was overthrown. Elections were permitted as part of the deal to end the conflict nearly five years ago and he was chosen as village chief in a landslide. But recently he had threatened to re-start the protest movement as a way of pushing yet again for these people to receive compensation for the land they say was stolen from them in the past by corrupt officials. Yet, before he could make good with this threat, the 72 year old was taken away. In an interview with the BBC, Shanwei City Chief Prosecutor Yuan Huaiyu said, following a tip off from "someone on the internet or maybe even a villager", Lin Zuluan was being held in custody and investigated in relation to kickbacks on several infrastructure projects including roads and a school library. The prosecutor wouldn't say how much money was allegedly involved. He said they have received evidence from developers giving bribes and some documents. Asked about the timing of Lin Zuluan's detention he said: "We've had a preliminary investigation lasting more than three months. Possibly the timing is a coincidence but this is a judicial process and we're doing our job". Even though their former leader has been shown on television in a recorded "confession", the villagers of Wukan think these are trumped up charges to shut down an effective campaigner. Prosecutor Yuan says the villagers don't yet understand what their leader has done but said he expects they'll change their mind once they see the evidence. Asked by the BBC if there was any chance that Lin Zuluan could be released, Prosecutor Yuan laughed out loud and said: "We need to see how this case develops". The election of Wukan's government had given people in villages right around the country great hope for what might be possible under the Chinese system as it stands today. Where else could you see virtually the entire population of town or a village filling the streets in support for their Communist Party Secretary? Even given the risks involved - in a country where you can be thrown in jail for challenging the Party - there is a remarkable unity of purpose amongst the people of Wukan, from primary school children to elderly fishermen who each day answer the call to join in the struggle. "Free Lin Zuluan!" they chant as they march. "Return our land!" And, it's always followed by: "Long live the Communist Party!" They're hoping that more senior political figures might override the nearby city government and come to their aid. In 2011 that's exactly what happened. After expelling the officials they saw as corrupt, they barricaded the village. The former Guangdong Party Chief Wang Yang brought an end to the standoff which had lasted months. He gave permission for a directly-elected government and said this would become known as "the Wukan model". Wang Yang was seen as a peacemaker: a powerful party leader prepared to push for a calm and reasonable outcome as opposed to the heavy-handed tactics normally employed to crush dissent in China. He appeared destined for promotion into the elite politburo standing committee. But he didn't get there. Now there's no Wang Yang as Guangdong party chief. Some analysts believe that Wukan's elections could only have happened in that unique moment in history and that the window has now closed. What's more if Lin Zuluan is prosecuted and most likely given a prison sentence it is hard to see such an open election process being allowed in order to choose his successor. But the problem for Party elites trying to decide what to do with Wukan is that people here are now used to having one of their own in charge. They're organised. They're committed. They're united. They know the meaning of a long political struggle. Getting them to settle for anything less than what they have now is not going to be easy.

This has been a place which - unlike anywhere else in China - had a genuinely elected government but many here are wondering if the so-called "Wukan experiment" is about to die.

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The plans would allow victims to ask for a case to be reviewed when police identified a suspect but did not pass a file to the Crown Prosecution Service. The policy would begin with rape and child sexual exploitation cases. Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said it was time to "put victims in the driving seat". The CPS already has a right to review scheme in place, where victims can request a review of their case if it is dropped by prosecutors before reaching the courtroom. Labour said it intended to extend this to decisions by the police. Ms Cooper said: "Rape and child sexual exploitation are vile crimes that ruin lives and destroy families. "Too often victims and survivors aren't listened to and aren't heard, especially children. "And although reports to the police have gone up, arrests and prosecutions have gone down. "But right now if the police decide not to pursue a crime, there is little more victims or their families can do. That's not good enough. "We'll change the law so that if the police decide to drop a case after a suspect has been identified, victims will have a new right to challenge their decision. "It's time to change the culture, stop these awful crimes being hidden away and put victims in the driving seat." Main pledges Labour said that of 16,300 complaints of rape made to the police in England and Wales in 2012-13, 5,400 were passed to the CPS. The party said a decision to drop a case when a suspect had been identified would follow the process used by the CPS, of local resolution followed by independent review. Under the plans, the decision to drop the case would be first be checked by a prosecutor who has not been involved with the case previously. Labour said it would ensure victims were provided with a clear and detailed explanation of the decision and the local resolution would normally be completed within 10 days of the receipt of a request for review. If the victim were not satisfied with the local resolution, the decision would be independently reviewed by another prosecutor. Former Thames Valley Chief Constable and head of the National Policing Improvement Agency, Peter Neyroud, said: "It is critical that victims have a right to review decisions all the way from the duty to record and allegation, through to decisions on whether to pursue a prosecution. "Not only does this put the spotlight of accountability on the police, but it also gives the victim an important additional opportunity to influence their case and understand the decisions. "Sometimes this will encourage a fresh angle to the case; sometimes there will be no new avenues. But there should always be a full and frank explanation of the steps taken to bring an offender to justice and the rationale for police decision."

Labour has said it would give victims of sexual offences the right to challenge decisions by police not to prosecute suspects.

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Investigators from the League Against Cruel Sports said they saw no gunmen and heard no shots when they filmed the Jedforest Hunt in February 2016. However, Malcolm Henderson told a court he had been there with a shotgun. John Clive Richardson, 66, and his son Johnny Riley, 24, both deny deliberately hunting a fox with dogs. Mr Henderson, who has worked with the hunt for the past two years, said he had been at the site near Jedburgh on the day in question. He told Jedburgh Sheriff Court he was present when a fox was flushed from cover and pursued by hounds towards his gun which the law permits. He told the trial: "I was there. "I was down in the dip but they (the investigators) would not see me from where they were standing." Earlier in the trial, Mr Richardson had told the court that Mr Henderson had shot and wounded the fox. Mr Richardson and Mr Riley, of Bonchester Bridge, deny breaching the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002. The trial will continue later this month.

A retired police wildlife crime officer has told the trial of two men accused of breaking Scots fox-hunting laws he was waiting in a gulley with a shotgun.

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The group published its report on the government's draft budget, which marks the first use of new tax powers. Members said new powers combined with economic uncertainty caused by Brexit meant it was "critical" there was "complete transparency" over budgets. Holyrood's parties have so far failed to reach consensus over the plans. Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has said he is "positive" about winning opposition support for the budget, but other party leaders have warned "it's not looking good" for a deal to be struck ahead of the Stage One vote on 2 February. The budget bill has now been formally published at Holyrood, marking the start of the formal legislative process. The final votes on the tax and spending proposals will be held before the end of February. Finance committee convener Bruce Crawford said he was pleased that the cross-party membership of the group had managed to come to a consensus and produce a largely unanimous report, despite the political disagreements over the budget. Summarising the report, he pointed to Holyrood's new fiscal powers introducing "a significant level of complexity to the budget process". He said: "It is clear to us the increased dependence of the budget on relative economic performance, combined with the complexity of the fiscal framework, means there is now a much greater degree of volatility and uncertainty in the budget process. "This uncertainty is exacerbated by the potential impact of Brexit on economic growth and the public finances." The report notes the "historic" nature of the budget, being the first time that Holyrood will set the rates and bands for income tax in Scotland. Members noted that this would be complex under normal circumstances, but added that "the added uncertainty arising from Brexit significantly increases the challenge" for the parliament and government in agreeing the budget. They said it was therefore "critical" that there was "sufficient transparency to ensure public confidence in the operation of the new financial powers". And they added that "significant work is required in developing a new budget process and wider financial scrutiny" given the added complexity and the reduced timescale for scrutiny in the current setup. Members also noted the "variety of sets of figures" being presented on local government and local services, which has been the root of a political row. Opposition parties have pointed to the core council budget going down, but the government insists other funds going directly to schools and health and social care partnerships means the budget for "local services" is increasing. In its budget report, Holyrood's local government committee said that "greater transparency is required" as "the budget for local government and the allocations to local authorities are very difficult to follow". The finance committee agreed with this, and called on the Scottish government to produce "detailed proposals" on making the state of local government finances more transparent. This was one of the few areas where the MSPs could not reach a consensus, with the report noting: "Due to the different presentation and sets of numbers relating to the local government settlement, some members were concerned about the level of financial resource available to local government in the settlement." Members also voiced disappointment that Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Gauke had declined to give evidence to the committee over the operation of the fiscal framework, saying it was "vital" to hear from a Treasury minister during the budget process. The report also asks the Scottish government for additional information on a range of topics, including estimates of tax revenues and "a full and comprehensive analysis of the use of borrowing powers". Mr Mackay said he would consider the recommendations in the report "carefully", and provide a formal response before the end of the budget process. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said "we are not getting any reasonable proposals from the Conservatives or Labour", but Mr Mackay has said there is "room for manoeuvre" in talks with the Lib Dems and Greens. However, Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie, who has asked for up to £400m of extra spending on mental health and education, warned that "it's not looking good" for a deal to be struck before the Stage One vote. And Scottish Green co-convener Patrick Harvie, who is targeting tax changes, said there was no sign so far that the government had decided to compromise with any other party. He said debate would continue "in a constructive spirit", but said the ball was in the government's court. Mr Mackay said he would continue "constructive discussions" with other parties. The Scottish Conservatives said they would not back the budget, saying it would make Scotland "the highest-taxed part of the UK". And Scottish Labour said the government should "go back to the drawing board", saying they would "seek to amend the SNP's budget to stop the cuts".

Scotland faces "a much higher level of uncertainty and volatility" in its budgets due to new powers and Brexit, Holyrood's finance committee has said.

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On 30 October 1974, a fight for the world heavyweight championship took place between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa, Zaire. The bout between the then undefeated world heavyweight champion, Foreman, and his charismatic challenger, Ali, came to be known as "The Rumble in the Jungle". It is often called one of the greatest sporting events of the 20th Century. Ali eventually triumphed, knocking Foreman down in the eighth round and reclaiming the title from his significantly younger opponent. To mark the anniversary of Ali's death last year at the age of 74, photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham visited Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire was renamed in 1997) to meet some of the boxers hoping to follow in Ali's footsteps. The fight was held in the Stade Tata Raphael. Although still surrounded by huge floodlights, it is in a state of disrepair, with only a few of the bulbs remaining. The stadium is home to a boxing club named in Ali's honour and the next generation of Congolese boxers still hold him in high regard. There are about 120 semi-regular attendees, including more than 40 who hope to box professionally. Sparring often takes place outside the stadium. Jorbelle Malewu sits outside the Muhammad Ali Memorial Club, where she has been training since 2010. Mainly inspired by Mike Tyson, she hopes to go on to box full-time as a professional. At present, she is unemployed. Another boxer at the club, Dina Yame, practises outside. For him, Ali is an icon. He complains that the government provides no money for the upkeep of the Stade facilities. There is a shortage of equipment, particularly gloves, and there is no boxing ring so sparring takes place freely around the compound. However, at fights spectators still sit in the same stands where roughly 60,000 people gathered to watch Ali defeat Foreman. Dorcas Lukamba has been boxing at the club for only three months, but she is aware of Ali's skill, having seen footage of his fights on DVD. Her coach, Carlos Kabongo, sits in his office underneath the stadium. Kabongo is a former boxing champion with three gold medals, who modelled his technique on the quick-footed fighting style of "The Greatest". He agrees with Yame about the lack of funding and dislikes the fact that he must charge youngsters a small fee to train within the stadium's historic premises. Now the director of the state-run television station, RTNC, Pierre Celeste Kabala was a 27-year-old radio journalist at the time of the fight. He remembers an atmosphere of pure elation in the city in anticipation of the American boxers' arrival. He too bemoans the lack of support structures and funding for today's Congolese boxers. The abandoned palace of the country's former leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, stands in Nsele, east of Kinshasa. Ali and Foreman spent much of their summer training here, becoming acclimatised to the tropical weather. The area is now overgrown and a glaring contrast with the nearby villages. The ruins are guarded by a handful of troops, but there is little of worth left to protect.

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Jaeseok Lee, 40, collapsed at an address in High Street, New Malden, at about 01:20 GMT on Wednesday. He died at the property. Hyojung Lim, 43, of High Street, New Malden, has been charged with his murder, Scotland Yard said. Ms Lim is due before Wimbledon Magistrates' Court later.

A woman has been charged with the murder of a man who collapsed and died at a property in south-west London.

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Just like its aquatic inspiration, the robotic tentacle has no rigid skeleton; it can bend, stretch and switch between flexible and rigid states as required. Its movement is driven by inflatable compartments and its stiffness by a central tube containing a specially selected granular medium: coffee. When suction is applied, the granules "jam" to create the desired rigidity. The design is published in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics and is the product of a collaborative EU project called Stiff-Flop. The latest work was done by engineers in Italy - one of twelve teams involved in the consortium, which is coordinated by King's College London. Ultimately, the researchers hope to develop the device so that it can be used in "minimally invasive surgery" - operations performed via a body cavity or a keyhole-type incision. "The human body represents a highly challenging and non-structured environment, where the capabilities of the octopus can provide several advantages with respect to traditional surgical tools," said the paper's lead author Tommaso Ranzani, from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. Dr Ranzani and his many collaborators set out to build a tentacle that could, for example, wind its way into an awkward target area and then hold delicate organs out of the way with one stretch of its length, while another part of the arm operates. "Traditional surgical tasks often require the use of multiple specialized instruments such as graspers, retractors, vision systems and dissectors, to carry out a single procedure," Dr Ranzani said. He believes the robotic tentacle could trim that number of instruments and simplify operations. The current prototype is 14cm long and 3cm across and split into two sections. Running the length of each section are three cylindrical chambers that can be pumped full of air to varying degrees, lengthening or bending the arm. At the centre is another chamber, packed with coarse-ground coffee. When air is sucked out of this compartment, the granules jam together and the arm becomes more rigid. Other robotics engineers were impressed by the tentacle's performance but emphasised that it is still a long way from the surgery. There are many laboratories and companies working on special surgical robots, and this effort is still at an early stage. "The concept has a great deal of potential and the implementation is clever," commented Ravi Vaidyanathan, a senior lecturer in bio-mechatronics at Imperial College in London. He told the BBC it was "a wonderful initial proof-of-concept" with some distance to travel. "There's a great deal of testing and refinement to be done before it's ready for the operating theatre," Dr Vaidyanathan said. Follow Jonathan on Twitter

Engineers have constructed a robotic arm, aimed at improving surgical operations and inspired by the octopus.

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Mr Blair, who had strained relations with the unions when he was prime minister, said he trusted Mr Miliband would handle it in the "right way". The Labour leader is expected to set out changes to limit union influence in candidate selection on Tuesday. He says he wants to "mend", not end, links but insists he runs the party. Labour has referred allegations of union malpractice in the process to select a 2015 election candidate in Falkirk to the police. An internal party inquiry found evidence union officials signed up new members without their knowledge, breaching party rules, to try and get their favoured candidate elected. Unite leader Len McCluskey has said he has "no trust" in the probe. Labour has insisted the episode is a one-off but said it showed the need for wider reforms to candidate selection, including a cap on how much any candidate can spend to limit the influence of wealthy backers - whether unions or big business. There has also been talk of greater use of open primaries to select election candidates - where everyone living in a constituency is eligible to vote whether they are a party member or not. And some have called for a more fundamental review of Labour's historic financial links with Unite, its biggest backer, and other unions. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Blair - who clashed with the unions over a range of issues during his 13 years as leader - said it would be wrong for him to be drawn into the dispute. "I think he (Mr Miliband) is going to make a speech on this and the last thing he needs is advice from me. "One of my experiences is, when you are about to make a major initiative as leader of the party, the last thing you need are voices off... if you forgive me I am not going to queer his pitch." Asked whether he was worried the dispute would re-open old divisions in the party and undermine Mr Miliband's leadership, Mr Blair said he was "sure he will deal with it in the right way". Speaking on Sunday, former home secretary Lord Reid - a close ally of Mr Blair - said the dispute was a battle for the direction of the party, suggesting Mr McCluskey and other union leaders wanted to take Labour back to the 1970s and 1980s. "I am in no doubt that the leader of Unite wants to impose an ideological direction on the Labour Party that would lead us into political oblivion, as it did in the 1970s and 1980s, and that's why this is a political struggle," he told the BBC. "Ed Miliband didn't particularly go looking for this fight. This fight came to him," he added. "But I think he understands, as everyone else in the Labour Party does that a struggle of this nature, which is in essence political, is a determining struggle about the direction of the Labour Party. "And I have no doubt in my mind that the direction in which Ed Miliband wants to move, which is as I said an open, modern, relevant party." The Conservatives have said Labour must publish the Falkirk report and refuse to take any more money from the unions until an entirely new system of funding is agreed. The Conservatives have also asked the Metropolitan Police to investigate claims of criminal wrongdoing in the selection of candidates at two more Labour Party branches. Party vice chair Bob Neill has written to Met commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe claiming there is evidence that "merits investigation". But Unite said the Conservatives were wasting police time and in a "disgraceful political witch-hunt". "We strenuously reject any suggestion of criminality or that we have broken Labour party rules. Using the police to score political points and diverting their attentions away from making our communities safer is obscene." And Billy Hayes, the general secretary of the CWU union, said the Conservatives and a "gang of uber-Blairites" were using the dispute to have a go at the unions. "There's a problem in one contest that needs to be sorted out," he said. "But I'm getting fed up learning through the papers that this or that aspect of the Labour Party's constitution is going to be reformed."

Tony Blair refused to comment on Ed Miliband's dispute with the Unite union, saying he did not want to "queer his pitch" or be part of "voices off".

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She replaces Jo Stevens, who resigned last month in protest at an instruction that Labour MPs should back the bill to trigger Brexit. Ms Rees is the fifth appointment to the role since the 2015 general election. Mr Corbyn said his team's strength would "develop Labour's alternative plan to rebuild and transform Britain". In other appointments, Rebecca Long-Bailey becomes shadow business secretary, Sue Hayman takes the environment, food and rural affairs brief, and the new shadow chief secretary to the Treasury is Peter Dowd. Ms Rees was a shadow justice minister in January 2016 but resigned after the EU referendum, only to return to the job in October 2016. She backed Andy Burnham for the Labour leadership in 2015 and Owen Smith in 2016. A former Welsh squash international who won more than 100 caps, the new shadow Welsh secretary was preceded by Ms Stevens, Paul Flynn, Nia Griffith and Mr Smith. Ms Rees was previously married to former Labour Welsh Secretary Ron Davies. Christina Rees is the fourth MP to hold the shadow Welsh secretary's job under Jeremy Corbyn - and the fifth since the general election less than two years ago when she entered parliament. She supported Owen Smith's challenge to Mr Corbyn's leadership last year but voted with the Labour leader to trigger Brexit this week. Eight Welsh Labour MPs rebelled in that vote, including Shadow Arts Minister Kevin Brennan. Unusually, the Cardiff West MP and other frontbench rebels are likely to keep their jobs, a sign of Mr Corbyn's limited authority as leader.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has named Neath MP Christina Rees as the new shadow Welsh secretary.

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Kluber struck out eight of the first nine outs registered and Roberto Perez hit two home runs as the Cubs endured a miserable return to the season finale. The Cubs' last World Series win was in 1908, while the Indians clinched their most recent title in 1948. Game Two of the best-of-seven series begins at 00:08 BST on Wednesday. The first pitch has been brought forward an hour because of the threat of rain in the Cleveland area.

A superb pitching display from Corey Kluber helped the Cleveland Indians to an emphatic 6-0 win over the Chicago Cubs in the World Series opening game.

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If found guilty on the charge of negligence, she could be jailed for up to 10 years. The anti-corruption agency has also called for her to be personally liable for losses to state coffers. Ms Yingluck was removed by a court in May 2014, shortly before the military ousted her elected government. She was later impeached over the rice subsidy scheme and banned from politics for five years. Thailand, meanwhile, remains under martial law in the wake of the coup. Ms Yingluck was not at Bangkok's Supreme Court to hear the indictment. But the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says today's court filing will seem to her supporters like yet another attempt by the military to crush her politically for whenever Thailand does return to democratic rule. Under the rice subsidy scheme Ms Yingluck's Pheu Thai-led government bought rice from Thai farmers at above the market rate, costing the government billions of dollars. Critics accused Ms Yingluck of funnelling money to her core supporters. She said the policy was aimed at helping farmers and denied any day-to-day involvement in the running of the scheme. The Supreme Court will decide on 19 March whether to pursue the criminal case. Additionally, Finance Minister Sommai Phasee said on Wednesday that the ministry had received a letter from the national corruption watchdog urging it to pursue civil suit against Ms Yingluck to recover losses of 600bn baht ($18.4bn; £11.9bn) related to the scheme. "The finance ministry oversees damages to the state and is ready to take action," he said. The military seized power in May 2014 in what it said was a bid to restore public order after months of occasionally violent street protests against Ms Yingluck's government. But Thailand has been embroiled in a cycle of political instability since the military ousted Ms Yingluck's brother, billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, as prime minister in 2006. The Shinawatra family are hugely popular among Thailand's rural population but are hated by the urban middle-class and elite who accuse them of corruption. Thaksin-linked parties, under various different names, have won every election since 2001.

Thailand's attorney-general has filed criminal charges against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra over a controversial rice subsidy scheme.

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A statement from Greaves's family said the 75-year-old, who had a minor stroke in 2012, had been taken ill on Sunday. Greaves scored 44 goals in 57 England games and a club-record 220 league goals for Tottenham having started his career at Chelsea. "His wife Irene and four children have asked for privacy during what is a worrying time," added the statement. "Jimmy had a minor stroke in 2012, but appeared to have made a full recovery. "He was due to be inducted into the Tottenham Hotspur Hall of Fame on 13 May at a sell-out ceremony at White Hart Lane." Greaves is fourth on the list of all-time England goalscorers, behind Sir Bobby Charlton, Gary Lineker and Wayne Rooney. He was part of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad but originally missed out on a medal because he was injured during the tournament's group stage. At the time, only the 11 winning players on the pitch at the end of the final received the award, although football's governing body Fifa changed that practice in 2007. The World Cup squad players and the families of team manager Sir Alf Ramsey and other backroom staff were finally presented with medals in 2009. Tottenham posted a message of support on their official Twitter feed shortly after the news of Greaves's stroke emerged. "Everyone at the club wishes Jimmy Greaves a speedy recovery after he suffered a stroke yesterday," the message read. "Our thoughts are with Jimmy and his family at this difficult time." Greaves scored 124 league goals for Chelsea, then a club record, between 1957 and 1961. Chelsea tweeted: "All at Chelsea are thinking of former Blue Jimmy Greaves and his family at this time. We wish him a full and swift recovery." England World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst, who scored a hat-trick in the 1966 final, said on Twitter: "Thinking of my friend and one of our greats this morning. Wishing him all the best and hoping for a speedy recovery." Hurst replaced Greaves in the England team in 1966 after he injured a shin against France during the group stages. Greaves helped Tottenham win the FA Cup in 1962 and 1967, while his career also included spells at AC Milan and West Ham United. In the 1980s he forged a new career as a football pundit on ITV, most notably alongside former Liverpool striker Ian St John on 'Saint and Greavsie', which ran from 1985 to 1992. Former Tottenham striker and BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker tweeted: "Choked to read that Jimmy Greaves has had a severe stroke. One of my absolute heroes. Thoughts are with him and his family. Get well, Jimmy."

Former England and Tottenham striker Jimmy Greaves is in intensive care after suffering a severe stroke.

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Iva Barr, from Bedford, was taking part in her 20th marathon, completing about 14 miles of the route. Ms Barr has been running marathons for "30-odd years" and took part in the first London Marathon in 1981. She said she would "never forget" her final attempt at the famous event, despite not quite completing the route. Ms Barr tackled the first 14 miles of the marathon before taking an Underground train to Westminster, and walking the final part of the course to The Mall. "I rather wanted to go out in a blaze of glory," she said. "That didn't happen but I still had a great day." And she said she had "no regrets" about giving it a go. "I just thought 'I really can't do this and I don't think I should carry on'," she said. "But in the end I only didn't do about eight or nine miles, because I gently walked the last couple of miles to the finish line. "It was so wonderful, everybody was fantastic with me, especially the young people. I will never forget it."

An 88-year-old woman who became the oldest competitor in this year's London Marathon has confirmed Sunday's event will be her last.

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The 70-year-old Time Team presenter joined anti-tunnel campaigners to fight the plans, saying they placed the area's wider archaeology at risk. The protest by the Stonehenge Alliance was staged outside a consultation event in London earlier. Highways England said it was working to find "the best solution possible". The public consultation on its plans for putting the A303 into a 1.8-mile (2.9km) dual carriageway tunnel runs until 5 March. Highways England says the move would cut congestion and improve journey times. The scheme has the backing of English Heritage and the National Trust. Speaking outside the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House, Robinson suggested a longer tunnel. He said: "I think the proposal we are being offered is a really old-fashioned one. "It assumes what needs to be protected is that little clump of stones." He said it was only over the past three decades archaeologists had begun to comprehend the wider significance of the site. "That's a high-class Wiltshire Disneyland experience," he said. "Once it's gone, we'll never get that back. "If you were going to protect Buckingham Palace, you wouldn't put a tunnel in halfway down the Mall." The Stonehenge Alliance wants other options to reduce traffic to be fully explored. Spokeswoman Dr Kate Fielden said: "We want a genuine consultation with real choice. "Both of Highways England's options involve huge and damaging new roadworks gouged into our most important ancient landscape." A spokesman for Highways England said: "We fully understand the cultural heritage of the site and one of the broad objectives of the scheme is to help conserve and enhance the World Heritage Site by removing the sight and sound of traffic and make it easier to reach and explore."

Actor and broadcaster Sir Tony Robinson has said plans for a tunnel near Stonehenge in Wiltshire are too "old-fashioned" in outlook.

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The Met Office said the reading had been registered at Heathrow - breaking the previous record set in 2006. A level 3 "heatwave action" heat-health alert has been declared for all parts of England. But in Scotland, forecasters warned of thunderstorms, torrential downpours and hail stones up to 1cm in size. Lightning was also spotted in the north-east of England, with a storm breaking out near Antony Gormley's Angel of the North statue. Hot weather may have been a "contributing factor" to a large fire which consumed about 30 acres of Thetford Forest. Motorists on the M1 in Derbyshire faced delays after a lorry carrying batteries burst into flames, causing the motorway to be temporarily closed in both directions. Meanwhile, five people were taken to hospital from the Royal Norfolk Show as temperatures rose to 31C (88F) in Norwich. In Staffordshire, 80 people were stranded on the monorail at Alton Towers when two trains broke down. Wimbledon spectators - who had been covering their heads with umbrellas, newspapers and towels - were advised to wear hats. London was hotter than Rome and Athens, according to figures collated by the Met Office, but other parts of Europe saw temperatures rise above 40C (104F). 38.5C (101.3F) Hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK - Faversham, Kent in August 2003 36.7C (98F) Recorded at Heathrow between 15:00 and 15:30 BST on Wednesday 7 degrees This much above average counts as "very hot" - 6 degrees over is just "hot" 5 days Length of time the max daily temperature must exceed average to count as a heatwave Network Rail instructed train companies to slow down at vulnerable locations where tracks could buckle because of the heat. Network Rail has said the heat could have been a factor in the derailment of a freight train in Lincolnshire on Tuesday. Heatstroke - the heatwave killer Heatwave myths: The tips and tricks that help you keep your cool 10 ways UK is ill-prepared for a heatwave Eight low-tech ways to keep cool in a heatwave How to sleep in hot weather When does tarmac melt? Health warnings were also issued to young children, the elderly and those with serious illnesses who are encouraged to stay in the shade, wear loose clothing and drink plenty of water. Vicky Barber, from the British Lung Foundation Helpline, said: "During hot weather, the air we breathe has lower moisture levels than usual, which can have a drying effect on our airways. "As a result, people with respiratory conditions such as COPD or severe asthma may find it harder to breathe, feel more tired, or find their lungs feeling heavy or tight." Dr Angie Bone, head of extreme events at Public Health England, said: "Employers should ensure indoor areas are kept cool and consider allowing these individuals to travel to or from their place of work during cooler, or less busy times of the day. "For those working or exercising outdoors, strenuous physical exertion during the hottest part of the day should be kept to a minimum." Some schools have cancelled their sports days, including Castledon School in Wickford, Essex, and Christchurch Primary School in Ilford, north-east London. People have been reminded to take care swimming in open water, after the death of a man believed to have drowned in a reservoir in Suffolk on Tuesday. The heat has caused bin collections to be delayed across Bath and North Somerset because the circuit boards in the compactors of the bin lorries are overheating. BBC Essex hired an ice cream van to give free ice cream to listeners, paid for by the station presenters and editor. Breakfast presenter James Whale said: "It's going to be baking in Essex and our listeners are so brilliant we thought they deserved a treat." One animal at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary has been making the most of the sunshine. Pumpkin, a grey seal, has learned to jump on the sun canopy over his pool, which he uses as a hammock as he rolls around sunbathing. He learned the trick in May but has been doing it every day recently because of the hot weather. Hot weather can be fatal for many animals, and the RSPCA has reminded people never to leave a dog alone in a car on a warm day, even with the windows left open. The PDSA has advised that pets should always have access to shade, and hutches should not be left in direct sunlight.

The UK has seen the hottest July day on record, with temperatures hitting 36.7C (98F).

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Neville was sacked by Valencia on Wednesday after less than four months following a run of 10 wins in 28 games. The 41-year-old said it was his call to appoint former assistant Ayestaran in February, saying the Spaniard would also depart the club if he left. But the 53-year-old said he was "grateful" for the chance to steer Valencia away from relegation trouble. Ayestaran, who was formerly Rafael Benitez's assistant at Valencia and Liverpool, said "When they offered me the role I had two conditions. "The first was that Gary was in agreement, and if Gary hadn't agreed I wouldn't be here, because my values come above everything else. "The second was that I come with my coaching team. The feeling I have at the moment is fantastic." Media playback is not supported on this device Ayestaran added of Neville, who is still assistant coach to England boss Roy Hodgson: "He did a huge amount of work and he gave everything for the club, but it wasn't enough." Neville was sacked after winning three of his last 16 league games to leave Valencia six points above the relegation zone. But his brother Phil, part of the coaching staff, has been retained. Sporting director Jesus Garcia Pitarch added: "When we took the decision to replace Gary we invited Pako to come to Singapore and meet with [owner] Peter Lim to weigh up the situation and so that Pako could explain what he could do for the club." Garcia Pitarch said of Neville: "The results are not only down to him. I send Gary my best wishes and my respect. I've worked with a lot of coaches and he's one of the best colleagues I've had." Valencia president Layhoon Chan added: "Pako has already spent several years at the club in the past, and we are excited because he has expressed his desire to lead the team."

New Valencia coach Pako Ayestaran says he only accepted the job with predecessor Gary Neville's blessing.

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Seventeen years ago, he was responsible for work at a particularly troublesome oil field in Kazakhstan. "That oil field, Karazhanbas, was a real dog," he recalls, explaining that the oil there was very viscous, making it difficult to extract. "Nobody wanted it." But Mr Barak and his colleagues persevered, drilling hundreds of wells. The field was later sold in 2005 for around $2bn (£1.5bn), he says. Now, Mr Barak has turned his attention to the Wardlaw oil field in Edwards County, Texas. It lies in the southern corner of the Permian basin, a huge sedimentary basin in Texas and New Mexico that is associated with a high number of oil deposits. But while there are an estimated 168 million barrels at Wardlaw, only around 120,000 have ever been extracted. That's what Mr Barak and his colleague Anatoly Bazhal, principal science coordinator, hope to change. At Galex Energy Corporation, they have developed various technologies designed to dislodge hydrocarbons from the rock and move them to the surface. One example of their innovations uses acoustic waves that are "swept", a process invented by Galex in which the waves are transmitted into oil-bearing rock surrounding the oil well. Oil is trapped within that rock in tiny pores - the "reservoir" is more like a hard, wet sponge than an underground lake. To force oil out of the pores, the acoustic waves produce micro fractures in the rock that increase permeability. The area is also exposed to cycles of low and high pressure. During low pressure cycles, the trapped oil droplets are impacted dramatically. "The liquid bursts into vapour within the pore," explains Mr Barak. The pressure differential then encourages the hydrocarbons to flow towards the well where they can be drawn out of the ground. Galex hopes to drill around 25 test wells this summer to measure the effectiveness of swept and other technologies it has developed. But the process is not without risks. In a 2013 article Mr Barak and Mr Bazhal wrote, "the unauthorized and incompetent use of [the] technology swept can cause damage to the subsoil environment, property and threat to the life of staff". Nevertheless, oil and gas companies are continuing to pursue new methods and techniques like this in order to get ever more fossil fuels out of the ground. It's important to note that, traditionally, it has been commonplace for firms to recover only about a third of the oil from an oil field using existing techniques. But that is changing. There are various reasons why new extraction methods are cropping up, but a key factor was the high price of oil in recent years - between roughly 2011 and 2014 the average price of a barrel was $100 or more. "That period of time [when prices were high] allowed investments to be made in places such as very deep water in Brazil, Canadian sands and other parts of the world," explains Neil Atkinson, head of the International Energy Agency's oil industry and markets division. In other words, the oil companies invested heavily in research and development at trickier sites, and in some cases are now benefiting from increased extraction. An area long associated with oil production that some thought would have largely "dried up" by now is the North Sea, says Prof John Underhill at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. "More oil is being produced from those depleted fields than ever was thought possible when the North Sea was opened up," he says. One new approach he cites is directional drilling, in which non-vertical wells are bored into the oil field. "One can target those pockets of oil that would otherwise be left behind," he explains. There have been innovations in injection too - the process of putting fluid into an oil reservoir to increase the pressure, helping it to flow through to the well. At BP's major new site at Clair Ridge, off the coast of Shetland, chemistry will be harnessed to dislodge oil from the reservoir during injection. The technique involved is called "LoSal". The oil in the Clair field clings to clay thanks to ions - atoms or molecules with an electric charge. They act a bit like a chain holding the hydrocarbons in place. However, by lowering the salt content of the water in the reservoir, BP thinks this will make the chemical bonds of that chain relax. If that happens, the ions may be replaced by less binding ones, releasing the hydrocarbons in the process. BP plans to begin production at Clair Ridge in 2018, and continue recovering oil from the field for the following 32 years. The list of options for engineers vying to lure yet more oil from underground reservoirs is certainly growing. Some firms, like Titan Oil Recovery in the US, are even enlisting the help of microbes, tiny organisms living within the oil field. A sample of water in the field is sent to the lab for analysis, explains chairman and founder Ken Gerbino. The goal is to find a microbe living there that can be fed and encouraged to proliferate. Once one is identified, Titan can deliver its - secret - formula. "They multiply like crazy," says Mr Gerbino. The microbes, booming in number, surround globules of oil trapped in the porous rock. "They physically deform the droplets into micro oil droplets," he explains. That means that the oil is more mobile and easier to recover. "We've been on 48 commercial oil fields, we've done over 300 well applications, and the average increase in production has been 92%," he adds. But microbial enhanced oil recovery, or MEOR as it is known, is not commonplace despite having been in development for many decades. MrGerbino says his company's approach can cost as little as $6 per barrel, but the oil industry has long hesitated over MEOR techniques because of high costs and fears that microbial manipulation might not work as intended. Of course, specialised techniques for encouraging oil towards the production well are one thing - simply locating pockets of oil suitable for extraction is another. This is no mean feat when, as in the North Sea, hundreds of smaller pools of oil are of course locked under the seafloor. Selecting which to aim for needs to be done carefully. But augmented reality could soon help engineers decide which of these resources to earmark, according to Chris Pearson, small pools solution centre manager at the UK's recently opened Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC), The OGTC is working with Aberdeen University to develop 3D visual representations of reservoirs - simulations of the oil field - based on data from geophysical surveys. Artificial intelligence techniques can then predict what oil in that model is most recoverable and these evaluations can be represented within the 3D view. "I'd call it augmented decision-making," says Pearson. "It gives you a more informed view of what the reservoir looks like." For those in the oil industry right now, new technologies are just part of the excitement associated with high levels of both supply and demand. They also play to many people's confidence that "peak oil" - when the maximum rate of oil extraction has been reached - is still a long way off. And that, of course, is despite continued concerns that the fervour to extract more oil will lead to serious environmental problems - including, ultimately, a problematic contribution to climate change once those hydrocarbons are burned as fuel and emissions released. But peak oil has certainly seemed more distant in recent times than it did, say, 10 years ago. The entrepreneurs and engineers behind new extraction technologies have plenty of faith that the status quo will continue - as does Neil Atkinson at the IEA. "Oil production has been going up and up and up remorselessly for a very long time," he says, "and it will continue to do so."

Russian engineer Alex Barak has been coaxing oil out of the ground for a long time.

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He was involved in an accident while providing medical cover at a Skerries 100 practice session, the Motorcycle Union of Ireland said. He died in hospital in Dublin on Saturday. Dr Hinds, 35, from Tandragee, and his colleague Dr Fred McSorley were dubbed "the flying doctors" of Irish motorcycle sport. He was a consultant at Craigavon Area Hospital in County Armagh. He regularly worked at the North West 200 motorbike races in County Antrim. Dr McSorley told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster on Monday that an investigation into the cause of the accident was under way. "John was not racing, he was riding his road bike. He was not in a race, we do not race," he said. "He was travelling with the marshals after the race. He had been on the circuit that day. It was not a tricky corner. He was a highly skilled rider and we really don't understand what happened," he said. Paying tribute to Dr Hinds, he said his death was "profoundly difficult for everyone". "In road racing, he was revered and adored by so many riders. "But our thoughts also go to staff in Craigavon where he was revered for his wonderful work. He was a natural teacher and wonderfully inspirational. "He was hugely dedicated to improving the care of critically ill people." Dr McSorley said Dr Hinds was exceptional. "He not only saved people's lives but effectively, particularly with head injuries, he saved their brains. "The fact they are able to walk and talk normally, get to work, pick up their children and give them a hug is because of the excellent care that he provided." Harris Healey from the Motorcycling Union said Dr Hinds was "always a gentleman". "He saved a lot of people's lives in racing accidents and people had a better outcome because he was there," he said. Dr Hinds had led a campaign for an air ambulance service to be introduced in Northern Ireland and had met the health minister, Simon Hamilton, to discuss it. He said Dr Hinds was a "lovely guy who will be sadly missed". TUV MLA Jim Allister, who backed the air ambulance campaign, said the death of Dr Hinds was deeply shocking. "He was one of our leading trauma experts. He was driven with a great passion to try and improve the chances of those involved in serious accidents. My thoughts are with his family. "I do hope as a lasting tribute to him, the government will now push ahead with his ambition to have a proper air ambulance service for Northern Ireland." Members of the medical profession have also paid tribute to the Tandragee man. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) tweeted: "Saddened to hear reports of the untimely death of Dr John Hinds - a friend to many in NIAS." Members of London's Air Ambulance service said Mr Hinds "was a true friend and advocate of the air ambulance community".

Tributes have been paid to Dr John Hinds, one of the "flying doctors" of Irish road racing.

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Pawel Sroka, 33, of Meadvale Road, Croydon, was charged on Saturday with the murder of his 29-year-old partner, Joanna Trojniak, of the same address. A special post-mortem examination on 24 March gave the cause of death as a stab wound to the chest. Ms Trojniak's next of kin have been informed. Mr Sroka is due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 4 April.

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9 February 2017 Last updated at 15:00 GMT Thousands of athletes from around the world will be going for glory on the ice and snow. So what events will there be, how many medals are up for grabs and what will the mascots look like? Here's Ayshah with all you need to know!

There's exactly one year to go until the Winter Olympics officially kick off in the Asian country of South Korea.

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Action on Hearing Loss Cymru said its south east Wales support service is one-of-a-kind with nothing similar elsewhere in Wales. It said "demand outweighs supply" for its two advisers and the referral process is "problematic". The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said it had a number of relevant "tailored" services and funded others for those who need extra help. Action on Hearing Loss estimates 4% of the Welsh workforce - about 84,000 people - are deaf or wear hearing aids. The charity's employment service, which is funded by the DWP, has run for two years and received 29 referrals. It has now been extended until December. The charity told the Eye on Wales programme it had been "overwhelmed with demand" and, without it, there would be "no support for deaf people looking for work in Wales". Richard Williams, director of the charity in Wales, said: "Demand is far outweighing supply and our two advisors are currently only able to support clients in the south east Wales area. "No support is available throughout the rest of Wales for deaf clients. "The referral process is also problematic; jobseekers must be referred by their Disability Employment Advisor (DEA) on the first Monday of every month by telephone call, which creates a further barrier for those people looking for work." Of the 29 people referred so far, six have gone into long-term employment and several more are still on the programme. Construction worker Jack Griffiths, 25, of Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, who was born profoundly deaf, found his confidence "ebbing away" when he struggled to find work. "Nobody was keener to get into work than me. And when you hear 'no' all the time, constant disappointment - it becomes a hard struggle to keep on applying," he said. But he managed to get a job at Willis Construction in Cardiff after getting help from the charity. "I feel better about myself. I am learning," he said. "When you're not working, you're not learning or progressing." The charity's research suggests people who are deaf or hard of hearing are four times more likely to be unemployed than a hearing person. "Every month our advisors are approached by deaf people desperate for support in finding employment but did not make it through the referral system and will have to wait another month," Mr Williams said. The DWP said it was "committed to helping disabled people" to find and stay in work. "As well as tailored help available through the Personal Support Package and Access to Work, our Jobcentre Plus disability employment advisors are working with thousands of people every day to provide the extra support that they need," a spokeswoman said. "We recognise there will be some people who need even more specialist help. That's exactly why we fund organisations such as Action on Hearing Loss in Wales through the Specialist Employability Support programme and we're currently considering how to extend this support in the future." The Welsh Government said it was in the process of refreshing its Framework for Action on Independent Living, a programme designed to help remove barriers for people with disabilities, including on employment. "We are working with the DWP to raise awareness amongst employers and disabled people of the Access to Work scheme, which provides equipment and other support, including communication support, so deaf and disabled people can access the same employment opportunities as everyone else," a spokeswoman added. For more on this story listen to Eye on Wales, BBC Radio Wales, at 12:30 BST on Sunday 9 July

More should be done to help deaf people into work in Wales, a charity has said.

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Georgina Callander, 18, was among 22 people who died in the suicide bombing at Manchester Arena on 22 May. Hundreds attended the ceremony at Holy Trinity Church in Tarleton, Lancashire. Attendees wore "a touch of yellow" at the request of her family, who thanked mourners for their "sympathy and support". Parents Lesley and Simon, with brothers Daniel and Harry, laid flowers in the village before the funeral. Shops were closed as a mark of respect as the funeral cortege made its way through. Bishop John Goddard said the service was a chance to "put aside hatred and look to embrace love and hope". A private burial service was held after the church ceremony. Ms Callander was described as "beautiful" by friends who said on social media that she was one of the first people taken to hospital after the attack. She was said to be a huge fan of 23-year-old Grande and was pictured with her in 2015. The final song played at the service was the US singer's hit One Last Time, which has become an anthem for fans since the attack. Grande performed an emotional rendition of the song at the One Manchester benefit concert on 4 June.

Streets of a village were decorated with pink and yellow ribbons for the funeral an Ariana Grande "superfan" killed in the Manchester terror attack.

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Media playback is not supported on this device The Six Nations champions trailed 9-6 at half-time, with Kurtley Beale kicking three penalties to Leigh Halfpenny's two. The Wales full-back landed two more to nudge the hosts 12-9 ahead on the hour. But with less than 30 seconds left, Beale scored in the right corner. "That's the worst defeat I've ever been involved with. To be in control really for the majority of the second half and in the last play of the game we slip-up. It's really hard to take." It was a desperate end to a dismal autumn for Wales, the game ending in further anti-climax as Halfpenny, after a man-of-the-match display, was taken off on a stretcher. Defeat means Wales will drop out of the top eight in the world rankings ahead of Monday's 2015 World Cup draw and will be in the third band of seedings. Already without three injured locks among a dozen casualties, Wales appeared to have lost another as early as the third minute when Luke Charteris got his head in the wrong place trying to tackle Scott Higginbotham and was forced to leave the field after lengthy treatment. The beanpole second-row re-emerged five minutes later to join Lou Reed, the Scarlets lock starting his first Test, in the Welsh engine room, but only lasted until half-time, Ryan Jones replacing him. Australia, playing their 15th Test in the last six months, showed few signs of physical or mental fatigue initially, despite Beale missing an early penalty. (provided by Opta) They were the first to demonstrate their attacking intent, Adam Ashley-Cooper cutting through the midfield and finding Drew Mitchell on the left wing, but Wales scrambled well in defence. The hosts were quick to respond. Wales won a scrum on their own line and Rhys Priestland, feigning to kick, instead passed to Jamie Roberts, who in turn released Alex Cuthbert to race 60m up the right touchline. But the giant wing appeared to delay before trying to find his support, allowing Berrick Barnes to force him into touch. Wales threatened a try on three more occasions in the first half, the first when Wycliff Palu narrowly beat Sam Warburton to Halfpenny's kick ahead after an electric break from the full-back. Then Liam Williams also opted for a kick rather than keeping ball in hand, before Australia won a turnover after Jonathan Davies had released Cuthbert. Instead it was Australia who opened the scoring in the 16th minute, Beale going for goal from the halfway line after Matthew Rees was penalised for going off his feet at a ruck. Halfpenny swiftly replied with a long-ranger from inside his own half, and kicked Wales into a 6-3 lead after 24 minutes when David Pocock, the Wallabies open-side playing his first match since August, was penalised at the breakdown. Beale soon levelled the scores with his second penalty from halfway and nudged his side ahead four minutes before half-time after Roberts was penalised for taking the ball into contact. Wales should have been level at the break, but Halfpenny missed a straightforward kick. The second half began along similar lines to much of the first, the hosts going through a multitude of phases before Australia turned the ball over at a breakdown. "Wales had control of the game and the defensive organisation was not good enough for the try. Australia took their one last chance. They need to redeem themselves in the Six Nations but have to play a lot better." Barnes pushed a snap drop-goal attempt wide as the Wallabies threatened, Wales requiring a crunching tackle from Halfpenny to deny Mitchell a try, after Barnes had sent the wing through. But Halfpenny levelled the scores in the 55th minute after Wales won a penalty at a scrum, and put the hosts in front again with his fourth successful kick on the hour. Australia brought on Mike Harris, the man who broke Welsh hearts with a last-ditch penalty to win the second Test in Melbourne in June, but the full-back missed an opportunity after 67 minutes when he dragged a straightforward attempt wide. With time ticking down, Wales messed up another line-out in the Australia 22, and the Wallabies broke out from their own line through Mitchell. Wales repelled the first thrust with another superb Halfpenny tackle, but the Wallabies came again and replacement Dave Dennis exploited an overlap to put Beale over in the right corner, albeit with a suspiciously forward-looking pass. After a lengthy delay while Halfpenny was attended to, captain Nathan Sharpe - after the 116th and final Test of a magnificent career - headed off into retirement by missing the conversion. Wales: Halfpenny, Cuthbert, J Davies, Roberts, L Williams; Priestland, Phillips; Jenkins, Rees, Andrews, Reed, Charteris, Shingler, Warbuton (capt), Faletau. Replacements: Owens (for Rees, 66), Bevington, Lee, R Jones (temp, for Charteris, 3-8, 41), Tipuric (for Faletau, 66), Knoyle, Biggar, S Williams. Australia: Barnes, Cummins, Ashley-Cooper, Tapuai, Mitchell; Beale, Phipps; Robinson, Polota-Nau, Alexander, Douglas, Sharpe (capt), Higginbotham, Pocock, Palu. Replacements: Moore (for Polota-Nau, 41), Slipper (for Robinson, 62), Kepu (for Alexander, 67), Dennis (for Higginbotham, 16), Hooper (for Douglas, 52), McKibbin, Harris (for Tapuai, 58), Ioane (for Cummins, 49). Referee: Wayne Barnes (England) Assistant referees: Romain Poite (France) and Greg Garner (England) TV: Marshall Kilgore (Ireland)

Wales slipped to an agonising seventh straight Test defeat and their eighth in a row against Australia as the Wallabies stole victory in a dramatic finale in Cardiff.

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The first node in the network is a telecommunications satellite that was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. It will use a laser to gather pictures of the planet taken by other spacecraft and then relay them to the ground. One benefit will be to put information on natural disasters, such as flooding and earthquakes, into the hands of emergency responders far faster than has previously been possible. Currently, it can take hours to get the pictures taken by Earth observation satellites down on the ground. Part of the reason is that spacecraft can only transmit their images when they pass over a receiving dish, and they will have visibility of this antenna for just 10 minutes in most cases during every 90-minute tour around the globe. The European Space Agency's (Esa) answer is to fire the pictures upwards instead, via laser, to another satellite much higher in the sky that has a constant view of the ground station. The agency recently put up two Earth observers that are equipped with optical transmission equipment. These will now be able to offload their data through the new relay satellite, which is to be positioned 36,000km above the equator at 9 degrees East. Testing by Esa's industrial partner, Airbus Defence and Space, shows it should be possible for the system to put pictures on the desks of the people who need them within 20 minutes of those images being acquired. For some applications - such as the monitoring of pollution incidents, or illegal fishing or ocean piracy - the time saved could be critical to achieving an effective response. "Some important shipping routes go through the North Pole region, where thick ice flows can cause damage to vessels and even threaten human life," explained Magali Vaissiere, Esa's director of telecoms. "It's also an environment in constant motion which means that data that is two days old is not only unhelpful - it could even be unsafe. "We have already demonstrated quasi real-time performance of below 20 minutes for bringing monitoring information from the coast of Brazil to the user's desk. And with this capability, the European Data Relay System (EDRS) may open up a new horizon to what I would call quasi real time Earth observation." EDRS has been in development for more than 10 years. Getting satellites to talk to each other via a narrow laser beam is no easy task, says Esa project manager Michael Witting. "The difficulty is basically that you have to hit another satellite with your laser beam over a distance of over 40,000km, which is akin to hitting a two-euro coin over the distance of the Atlantic," he told BBC News. With a successful connection, data will move at a rate of up to 1.8Gbps. EDRS will debut with the European Commission as its anchor customer. Brussels is establishing a series of satellites called Sentinels that will systematically map the Earth, to help inform and enforce EU policies. Prodigious volumes of data are expected from these satellites in the coming years and the traditional downlink solutions are no longer regarded as adequate to the task. The relay spacecraft is actually a standard TV platform owned by the Paris-based commercial operator Eutelsat. Esa's laser node, which it refers to as EDRS-A, is a hosted payload on this spacecraft. The launch from the Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome atop a Proton rocket occurred at 22.20 GMT on Friday (04:20 local time Saturday). The drop-off high above the Earth was confirmed nine hours and 12 minutes later. Many weeks of testing lie ahead. EDRS should go into full service in the summer. A second relay satellite carrying another laser terminal will go up in 2017. Further such platforms will be required to provide fully global, round-the-clock, super-fast connections. Evert Dudok from Airbus said: "We are looking for partners to deliver the system. It can be a dedicated payload but it can also be a hosted payload as we have it on EDRS-A. We want to have this system operational by 2020; that's very important. And I think we can set this optical standard established here in Europe as a global standard, which would be very interesting" The laser technology is very much a German development, led by Tesat Spacecom. Germany has invested more than 280m euros in the capability, through its own space agency (DLR) and through Esa. Eutelsat-9B was built in large part at Airbus factories in Stevenage and Portsmouth the UK. Britain will also be a major downlink point for EDRS through a dish sited at Harwell in Oxfordshire. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

Europe has begun to roll out a data superhighway in orbit above the Earth.

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Media playback is not supported on this device Scarlets led by 14 points after a frantic first half with Aaron Shingler, Jonathan Evans and DTH van der Merwe scoring tries. Hadleigh Parkes' score - following a superb break by Rhys Patchell 30 seconds after the break - clinched the bonus point and the game. Blues could add only a diving Blaine Scully try to Tom James' early score. After losing their first three games of the season, Scarlets overtake the Blues - who have lost their last three - to move into sixth place in the Pro12 table. The absence of 13 first-choice players on Wales international duty did little to detract from the atmosphere and excitement, although some of the defending was less than top-class. A noisy Friday night crowd were whipped up by four tries in the opening 23 minutes. And they really found their voice during a series of re-set scrummages lasting more than seven minutes before the interval, which eventually resulted in props Taufa'ao Filise and Wyn Jones being shown yellow cards. Scarlets held out under intense pressure with the home crowd baying in vain for referee Lloyd Linton to award a penalty try. Their sense of injustice was further fuelled when Patchell, playing at the Arms Park for the first time since leaving Blues for Scarlets, broke from his own half to set up Parkes from the restart. Media playback is not supported on this device The meeting of the Shingler brothers was another sub-text for the fixture and took its own farcical twist when Aaron was shown a yellow card after being tackled without the ball by Steven. Blues eventually claimed a try when Scully scored acrobatically, but in spite of dominating possession and benefitting from a lopsided penalty count, they could not close the gap further. Forwards Ryan Elias, Will Boyd and Shingler were outstanding in a dominant Scarlets display at the breakdown, the visitors aided by a misfiring Blues lineout. Cardiff Blues: Matthew Morgan; Blaine Scully, Cory Allen, Rey Lee-Lo, Tom James; Steve Shingler, Tomos Williams; Rhys Gill, Kirby Myhill, Taufa'ao Filise, George Earle, James Down, Macauley Cook, Josh Turnbull (capt), Cam Dolan. Replacements: Matthew Rees, Brad Thyer, Dillon Lewis, Seb Davies, Shane Lewis-Hughes, Lloyd Williams, Jarrod Evans, Dan Fish. Scarlets: Aled Thomas; DTH van der Merwe, Steff Hughes, Hadleigh Parkes (capt), Steff Evans; Rhys Patchell, Jonathan Evans; Wyn Jones, Ryan Elias, Werner Kruger, Tom Price, David Bulbring, Aaron Shingler, Will Boyde, John Barclay. Replacements: Emyr Phillips, Dylan Evans, Peter Edwards, Lewis Rawlins, James Davies, Aled Davies, Dan Jones, Ioan Nicholas Referee: Lloyd Linton (SRU) Assistants: Cammy Rudkin (SRU), Dai Cambourne (WRU) TMO: Neil Paterson (SRU)

Scarlets claimed a fourth consecutive Pro12 success with a bonus-point win over Cardiff Blues at the Arms Park.

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Murray, the first British man to reach a Roland Garros final since 1937, hopes to add the French Open to his victories at the US Open and Wimbledon. Djokovic, the world number one, can finally add the one major title to have so far eluded him. It will be the pair's seventh meeting in a Grand Slam final. Djokovic leads that head-to-head 4-2, their overall contests 23-10 and has 11 major titles to Murray's two - but it was the Serb whom Murray beat to claim his Grand Slam victories at the US Open in 2012 and Wimbledon in 2013. The Scot also won their most recent meeting in the final of the clay-court Italian Open four weeks ago. Listen - Can Murray fight French Open demons? There is a huge amount at stake for both men in Sunday's final, with Murray again looking to match Fred Perry, Britain's last male champion in 1935. Sue Barker won the women's title in 1976 but since then a surprise run to the semi-finals by Tim Henman in 2004, followed by three semi-finals for Murray, were the best any Briton had managed on the Paris clay. "It's obviously a very big match for both of us, Novak trying to win the career slam and me trying to win my first French Open," Murray said. "Neither of us know how many more chances we'll have to win here. It's a very tough event to win. "There's a lot riding on the match for both of us." It is the first final between two top seeds trying to win a Grand Slam title for the first time since Ivan Lendl beat John McEnroe in Paris 32 years ago. Murray will hope to emulate the achievement of his former coach - and then second seed - Lendl, and he takes on a very familiar rival. Both finalists turned 29 last month and have known each other since junior days - but Djokovic has taken a firm grip on their personal duel in recent years, winning 12 of their last 14 matches. "We have had some really big battles in the Slams before on all the other surfaces," Murray said. "I'm sure it will be the same again on Sunday." Murray needed five sets to beat Radek Stepanek and Mathias Bourgue in his first two matches, and four sets to beat Richard Gasquet in the quarter-finals, but played superbly to beat defending champion Stan Wawrinka on Friday. "The conditions aren't that easy," he said. "It's been cold, wet, slow - much, much slower than what we played in the last few weeks. "Obviously getting through difficult matches, you can find your rhythm. I spent a lot of time on court at the beginning of the event. I'm starting to feel better every day." Djokovic and Murray have stood at the top of the rankings for all but a week in 2016 - but the Serb has a huge lead and would hold all four Grand Slam titles with another victory over Murray. Only American Don Budge in the 1930s and Australia's Rod Laver in the 1960s have achieved that feat, and just seven men have completed the career slam. However, Djokovic has played three French Open finals without success, losing twice to Rafael Nadal and then suffering a surprise defeat by an inspired Wawrinka 12 months ago. "I've put myself in a position in which I wanted to be in of course ever since last year's final," Djokovic said. "It's always high on the priority list when I start a season, thinking about Roland Garros." Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.

Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic will meet in Sunday's French Open final - with both men seeking their first title in Paris.

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Kjell Lindgren played Amazing Grace on the pipes after recording a message about research scientist Victor Hurst, who was involved in astronaut training. It is thought to be the first time that bagpipes have been played in space. They were made for Mr Lindgren by McCallum Bagpipes at the company's factory in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Kenny Macleod, who works at McCallum Bagpipes, told BBC Scotland the 42-year-old astronaut had got in touch two years ago to say he was going to the space station and wanted to play the pipes while he was there. "He wondered if it was feasible to play bagpipes," he said. "They're made of plastic - they're just easier to keep clean and to make sure they're not contaminated. They're also lighter." In the video, Mr Lindgren is seen to give the pipes a punch before he starts playing. Mr Macleod said it was normal for pipers to massage the bag to get the air flowing, "but not quite as vigorously as that". "The thing about bagpipes is that they're very difficult to play at high altitude because the air is that bit thinner. They're quite hard to blow so he's done well," he added. There are six astronauts currently in space on the 45th expedition to the International Space Centre. In a video recorded in the last few days, Mr Lindgren said all of them had come into contact with Dr Hurst during their training and were "shocked and saddened" to hear about his death. Dr Hurst worked for US engineering company Wyle Science as a research scientist and instructor. He died suddenly in October, aged 48. Nasa flight engineer Mr Lindgren said: "He always had a quick smile, a kind word. I don't know if anyone was more enthusiastic and professional about being involved in human space flight."

A US astronaut has played a set of Scottish-made bagpipes on the International Space Station to pay tribute to a colleague who died.

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Eight of the accused, all senior managers, are charged with murder over the Soma coalmine tragedy in western Turkey last year. The trial was adjourned until Wednesday because the court said the accused must testify in person, not via video link. An underground fire sent deadly carbon monoxide through the mine. An inquiry criticised the mine's safety measures. It was modern Turkey's worst industrial accident. The trial at Akhisar, about 50km (30 miles) from Soma, drew several hundred angry relatives to the special tribunal, but police prevented them from getting in. The BBC's Turkey correspondent Mark Lowen says the government is shielding state officials from any investigation, despite claims that they were aware of safety deficiencies at the mine but failed to act. The managers facing murder charges could be given up to 25 years in prison. Protests broke out after last year's disaster, fuelled by an apparently insensitive comment by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was prime minister at the time. He said accidents were "in the nature of the business". The International Labour Organisation says Turkey has the third-highest rate of workplace accidents in the world.

Turkey has begun the trial of 45 managers and employees charged over a mine disaster which killed 301 people.

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) made its latest claims two days before Russia finds out whether it can send athletes to the 2016 Rio Olympics. They were banned from international competition after Wada accused Russia of state-sponsored doping. Athletics chiefs meet on Friday to decide whether to lift the ban. It says that: The report details the lengths athletes from different sports allegedly went to, both to avoid tests and fool doping control officers (DCOs). It says one athlete was seen running away from the mixed zone after an event, while another left the stadium during a race and could not be located. Wada also highlighted the case of an athlete who, it says, used a container - "presumably containing clean urine" - that had been inserted inside her. When she tried to use the container, it leaked onto the floor. The athlete is alleged to have tried to bribe the DCO before providing a sample that subsequently returned an adverse finding. The report also says that: As a result, tests were not carried out at the national weightlifting and national Greco-Roman wrestling championships. In some cases, testers were not told where an event was taking place. "What really comes through, when you read through it page by page by page, is the number of occasions when there was simply no co-operation given," former Wada president Dick Pound told the BBC World Service. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) voted to suspend Russia's athletics federation on 13 November after an independent Wada report alleged "state-sponsored doping". The report was commissioned to investigate claims made in a documentary shown by German broadcaster ARD in 2014. The programme alleged widespread doping in Russian athletics, claiming as many as 99% of athletes had cheated. The claims were made by whistleblowers, among them Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian anti-doping official, and his wife Yulia, a former 800m runner who was banned for doping. Russian athletes, including former London Marathon winner Liliya Shobukhova, also admitted to taking drugs and observing corruption. The Wada report found evidence of state involvement, as well as evidence that samples had been destroyed, doping controls had been interfered and bribes had been paid to conceal positive tests. Media playback is not supported on this device The IAAF meets on Friday in Vienna to discuss what Russian authorities have done to tackle doping and whether its athletes should compete in Rio. Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said the country could take legal action if its athletics federation was not reinstated, Interfax news agency has reported. "It is a big and an important message whatever is decided," said Pound. "If they are held to be excluded, that's a message. If they are allowed to come back in, there is going to be another message that all of the sporting authorities are going to have to deal with." Pound said a ban on Russian athletes competing in the Olympics would be extremely difficult for the Russian government to explain to its citizens. "You can explain all sorts of economic sanctions and political sanctions and what not if you are the state," he said. "But it is very hard to explain to a country that really enjoys its sport and likes to watch it why it is that nobody will play with you." Meanwhile, Russian Olympic medallists and world champions have appealed to the head of the International Olympic Committee to let athletes with no history of doping to compete at the Rio Games. "The fraud of dishonest people should not jeopardise the career of innocent fellow athletes," said 13 sports stars in a letter to Thomas Bach. The 13 include Alexander Popov, a four-time Olympic champion swimmer, and judo champion Tagir Khaibulaev. The Olympic athletics programme begins in Brazil on 12 August.

Anti-doping officials in Russia are being stopped from testing athletes and are also being threatened by security services, says a new report.

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John Stevenson Wright was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to 18 months for sexually abusing Darren Kenny. The court heard the offences took place when Wright worked at a pub run by Mr Kenny's parents in Rochdale. Wright, 68, abused Mr Kenny as a teenager when he used to sleep over at the pub. He was convicted of gross indecency, indecent assault and inciting a child under 16 to engage in a sexual act between 1978 and 1981. Wright's sentence will be added to the 22 years he is already serving for sexually abusing boys. Mr Kenny, 50, an officer with Greater Manchester Police in Tameside, was repeatedly abused as a teenager and thought Wright was dead until he typed his name into an internet search engine. While looking for his abuser's obituary, he was "horrified" to learn Wright had been jailed for child sexual abuse in Rochdale. He added: "We had been told he had died - I had my closure and then when we found out he wasn't dead I had no closure any more and I needed it back." Mr Kenny, who has waived his right to anonymity, contacted the officer who had investigated Wright and said: "I've got another victim - me. "Even if wasn't a policeman I would have come forward. "The length of sentence isn't important... returning the guilty verdict is what is important." Mr Kenny encouraged other abuse victims to speak out. "Look at me - I'm here, I'm a 50-year-old cop, and if I can do it I'm sure they can."

A police officer who thought his childhood abuser had died before he chanced across him online has said the man's conviction brought him "closure".

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Mr Duckenfield was match commander at the FA Cup semi-final when 96 Liverpool fans were fatally injured in a crush. Ex-South Yorkshire Police (SYP) Ch Insp Sir Norman Bettison, two officers, a solicitor and a Sheffield Wednesday club secretary also face charges. The Prime Minister said it would be a day of "mixed emotions" for families. Last year, new inquests into the disaster at the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest match, held at Sheffield Wednesday's ground, concluded the fans had been unlawfully killed. The inquests found that Liverpool supporters were not responsible for the dangerous situation at the Leppings Lane turnstiles. For legal reasons, Mr Duckenfield cannot be charged over the death of the 96th victim, Tony Bland, as he died four years after the disaster, prosecutors said. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) must apply to the High Court to lift an order imposed after he was prosecuted privately in 1999, which must be removed before he can be charged. An application will be made to the High Court in a matter of weeks and a senior judge will make a ruling in due course. The full list of individuals and charges are: The six men charged over Hillsborough Hillsborough: Criminal charges explained The defendants, other than Mr Duckenfield, will appear at Warrington Magistrates' Court on 9 August. No organisation will face corporate charges and no-one from the ambulance service will be charged, said Sue Hemming, head of special crime and counter-terrorism at the CPS. She explained that Sheffield Wednesday is now a "different company" and, as it is not a successor organisation, is not criminally liable for any offences that might have been committed in 1989. £56.5m cost of Operation Resolve £42m cost of IPCC investigation 17,000 lines of inquiry by Operation Resolve 11,000 statements taken by Operation Resolve 190,000 documents reviewed by IPCC investigation 23,000 images reviewed by IPCC investigation The CPS brought charges following referrals from the Operation Resolve investigation into the causes of the disaster and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) probe. Assistant Commissioner Rob Beckley, from Operation Resolve, said: "Our inquiry looked at all aspects of the event, including the planning and the preparation for the game, the safety of the stadium and the response by the emergency services." The IPCC investigated the conduct of both SYP and West Midlands Police (WMP) in the days and weeks afterwards. Any decision regarding WMP, which was brought in to carry out the original investigation into the conduct of SYP officers, will be made at a later date. Ms Hemming made the announcement of the intended prosecutions to victims' families at a private meeting in Warrington earlier. She said: "Following our careful review of the evidence, in accordance with the code for Crown prosecutors, I have decided that there is sufficient evidence to charge six individuals with criminal offences. "Criminal proceedings have now commenced and the defendants have a right to a fair trial." Campaigner Trevor Hicks, whose daughters Victoria, 15, and Sarah, 19, died in the disaster, said: "There will be six people facing criminal charges who might not have done if we hadn't been resilient and all stuck together and fought this long fight. "There are no winners in this, it doesn't bring anybody back. "What it does do is send a message about accountability, as we keep saying, that nobody but nobody is above the law; be it the police or anybody else." Chairwoman of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, Margaret Aspinall, whose son James, 18, was killed, said: "This is definitely the start of the end. "I think everybody needs that, I think we all need peace from Hillsborough but we can never have peace until we've got truth, justice, accountability. "I think that's the time we'll all have peace." Barry Devonside, whose son Christopher, 18, was killed in the disaster, said: "Everybody applauded when it was announced that the most senior police officer on that particular day will have charges presented to him." Evelyn McDonnell Mills, whose brother Peter McDonnell, 21, died, said she was "really happy", but sad that her brother who campaigned for years and died during the new inquests never got to see their conclusion. Pete Weatherby QC, who represents 22 of the victims' families, said they had "always known that accountability is the most difficult objective". "They remain keen to see the criminal process properly pursued for those who have been charged and given that, the rights of the defendants should be respected. "They do however hope that the memories of their loved ones and the integrity of the fans who attended Hillsborough will be respected during the process." BBC News profiles of all those who died At Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May said: "I know from working closely with the families when I was home secretary that this will be a day of mixed emotions for them." Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn offered a "tribute to all of those that spent a great deal of time trying to ensure there was justice for those that died at Hillsborough". Dr Alan Billings, the South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner, said he hoped the start of criminal proceedings would "lead to a measure of closure for the family members who have experienced a long and traumatic process". Sheffield Wednesday said the club had no comment to make. Mr Duckenfield and Mr Denton's legal representative Ian Lewis, from JMW Solicitors, said: "In light of the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service to commence criminal proceedings against David Duckenfield and Donald Denton, it would be inappropriate for me as their solicitor, or for my clients themselves, to make any comment." Mr Metcalf declined to comment.

Former Ch Supt David Duckenfield faces 95 charges of manslaughter and five other senior figures will be prosecuted over the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.

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Both players join the League Two side until the end of the season. Nelson, 19, is yet to make a senior appearance for the Black Cats but has played two under-21 games in the EFL Trophy this season. Northern Ireland Under-21 international Rooney, 20, has played just three times this season but scored twice against the Pools on his Argyle debut in May. He was on the bench for Plymouth's 2-1 defeat at Yeovil on Tuesday night, with the club saying his move to the north-east went through just 17 seconds before the transfer window shut. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.

Hartlepool have signed strikers Andrew Nelson and Louis Rooney on loan from Sunderland and Plymouth respectively.

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Media playback is not supported on this device The world champion made a bad start, ran off the road on the first lap and later damaged his car in a collision with Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo. Hamilton said: "I was all over the place. I really don't have any words to describe what happened. It was a really bad performance from me. Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel won ahead of Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat and Ricciardo. Running fourth on the first lap after a bad start, Hamilton ran wide at the chicane, dropping to 10th place, fought back up to fourth place and then broke his front wing colliding with Ricciardo after a restart following a safety car period. Media playback is not supported on this device Vettel eventually sealed victory after taking the lead from Hamilton off the start line. That led to a pit stop and a drop down to 12th place with 20 laps to go, from which he fought back to finish sixth. Hamilton added: "I don't know if it was a lack of concentration or what. "I pushed right to the end but there were so many obstacles. It's like there were two different directions and each time I chose the wrong one." He admitted it was "bizarre" that in the circumstances he had extended his championship lead over Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg. The German finished eighth after a late-race collision, while fighting for second place with Ricciardo, caused a puncture and a stop for fresh tyres. Media playback is not supported on this device The incident was reviewed by race officials and Rosberg said they had decided to take no action. "Do I deserve any points?" Hamilton said. "By the grace of God I got some points. "I have to go away from this, take breather and come back in Spa [the next race on 23 August]. "To come away knowing this was one of the worst performances I've put in for a long, long time… I don't generally try to rely on luck. The team have worked incredibly hard. The race was a bit wobbly." Rosberg, who had been on course to make up a hatful of points on Hamilton until his crash with Ricciardo, admitted it was a lost opportunity. "A very disappointing day," he said. "It is the sort of day I need to make the most of it against Lewis and it didn't work out. "I just snagged Daniel's front wing on the exit of the corner. I trust the FIA and they have decided to take no action." "[I need to] just keep going. It was close. This is half time [in the season] but with tiny differences I could have had the lead at half-time. "Could, should, would, whatever. I have a good chance to pass Lewis in the championship at some point soon." Full race results

Lewis Hamilton accepted the blame for the errors that led to him finishing sixth in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.

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Craig Nelson, who was also known as Craig Preston, was found at the Woodhead Tunnels off the A628 in Derbyshire at 11:00 BST on Monday. A post-mortem found the 34-year-old from Wath-Upon-Dearn in Rotherham died as a result of head injuries. A man, 41, and a woman, 23, were arrested in Sheffield by South Yorkshire Police and remain in custody.

Police have arrested two people on suspicion of murder after a man's body was found on moorland.

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During a drive to tackle overflowing bins around Leith Walk, officials found that more than half of firms they visited did not have the correct waste collection contracts in place. They discovered evidence that some were using communal bins meant for residents to dispose of their waste. One leading councillor accused the businesses of "abusing the system". Transport and environment convenor Lesley Hinds said their actions "undoubtedly" resulted in overflowing bins, litter and fly-tipping. Compliance officers visited 406 traders during the Our Edinburgh initiative to address anti-social behaviour like littering. A total of 215 did not have the correct waste collection contracts in place. They also carried out a detailed inspection of one bin at Bernard Street and three-quarters of its contents were found to be trade waste. Five businesses were handed a £200 fixed penalty notice on the back of the investigation. Ms Hinds said: "We have focussed phase two of Our Edinburgh on the Leith Walk area as it's been identified as a hotspot for overflowing bin complaints and it's becoming clear why. "Communal bins are meant for residents' household waste so it's unacceptable that businesses are abusing the system, which undoubtedly results in overflowing bins, litter and fly-tipping. "That's why this campaign aims to provide information and advice to businesses in order to ensure they have the right waste collection arrangements in place, as well as penalising those that continue to break the rules." Three further bins have been examined and found to contain up to 50% trade waste, according to the City of Edinburgh. It said five more businesses will receive fixed penalty notices as a result.

More than 200 businesses in part of Edinburgh have been found to be breaking rules on using communal bins.

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Fatima Elomar, 31, was intercepted at Sydney Airport in May last year as she tried to board an international flight. Cash, camouflage gear and medical supplies were found in her luggage. In a brief court appearance, she pleaded guilty to supporting incursions into a foreign state with the intention of engaging in hostile activities. Mohamed Elomar travelled to Syria and then Iraq in 2013 to fight with so-called Islamic State (IS). Court documents reportedly detail text messages between the couple in which Ms Elomar begs her husband to return home for medical treatment after being shot. Mr Elomar reportedly told his wife to prepare the children's passports so they could be together in Raqqa, Syria. Mr Elomar, and fellow Australian Khaled Sharrouf came to public attention last year after they posted pictures of themselves posing with severed heads to social media. One of those images showed Sharrouf's seven-year-old son holding up the severed head of a Syrian soldier. It is believed Elomar died in June during an air strike on a convoy of vehicles near IS's self-declared capital of Raqqa. The Australian government estimated in September that around 120 Australians were currently in Iraq and Syria to support IS and other terror groups.

The wife of one of Australia's most notorious extremists, Mohamed Elomar, has pleaded guilty to supporting overseas terrorism.

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A spokesman said both men were in their 60s, but gave no further details. The men reportedly ran into bad weather as they were coming down the mountain over the weekend. Last week, the remains of two Japanese climbers who disappeared 45 years ago were found on the Matterhorn, one of Europe's highest mountains. DNA tests helped identify those remains - the latest to have been discovered with the melting of ice on the mountain. The 4,478m (14,700ft) Matterhorn has a distinctive pyramid-shaped peak, making it one of the world's most recognisable mountains. Hundreds of people have died trying to reach the top.

Two Japanese climbers who scaled the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps have been found dead on the mountain, according to the Japanese foreign ministry.

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Taylor, who also managed England from 1990 until 1993, died on 12 January, aged 72. His funeral was attended by hundreds of fans. A statue celebrating his footballing career will be erected at Watford's Vicarage Road ground, the club announced. A pre-season tribute fixture in Taylor's memory is also being planned. The exact location of the statue and details of its design have not yet been decided. Watford said it would be working on the plans with fans' representatives and the borough council. On its website, Watford FC described the proposed statue and pre-season match as "two significant tributes... to remember Watford's greatest ever manager". More on this and other news from Hertfordshire Taylor took Watford from the Fourth Division to a second-placed finish in the top flight in five seasons. He also guided the club to the only FA Cup final of their history - a 2-0 defeat against Everton in 1984 - and European football. He also had spells in charge of Lincoln City, Aston Villa and Wolves.

A statue is to be commissioned by Watford FC to honour the club's former manager Graham Taylor.

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Yet for some chocolate firms the fact that most Easter eggs are hollow is more than just disappointing, it's problematic. "It sounds ridiculous, but there is a lot of air in Easter eggs relative to their value in weight," says Helen Pattinson, co-founder of boutique British chocolate chain Montezuma's. The oval shape of eggs and the boxes required to keep them intact means that, compared to the amount of space they take up in a shipping container, it is impossible for Montezuma's to charge the end customer enough to make a decent profit. Foreign sales account for about a fifth of the company's overall sales and for this financial year, ending in May, it expects exports to hit the £1m mark for the first time. Despite the strong demand from abroad, the firm is yet to send its chocolate eggs overseas. "The economics just haven't added up so far," says Mrs Pattinson, who co-founded the firm in 2000 with her husband Simon. The company has six shops in the South East of England and sells directly to customers in the US and Europe via its website, and further afield via export arrangements. So far most of its overseas customers have come via a partnership deal with a large US retailer. Despite the more established reputation of Swiss and Belgian chocolatiers, Mrs Pattinson says she is seeing a growing demand for British-made chocolate. "The most contemporary artisan foodies are beginning to realise Britain is a fantastic producer of chocolate," she says. Last year, the UK exported a whopping £245m worth of chocolate, up by almost a quarter on 2015. Exports of unfilled chocolates and chocolate products, which include Easter eggs, totalled just over £30m, up 3% on 2015. While the vast majority of these went to EU countries, the biggest growth was in exports to non-EU countries which increased by almost a fifth, according to the Department for International Trade. It is a trend that hasn't escaped the notice of Sean Ramsden, chief executive of Ramsden International. The family firm specialises in exporting British food overseas and Mr Ramsden says Easter is its busiest period after Christmas. The awkward shape of chocolate eggs isn't a problem for the company because it supplies a much wider range of products, enabling it to mix Easter eggs with other food orders. "Easter eggs are a popular UK product and they're very exportable. They [Easter eggs] are not as advanced in other countries," he says. When the Grimsby-based firm first started exporting in 1970, business was largely driven by expats. Marmite, brown sauce and baked beans were the items most in demand in the company's markets in Spain, Portugal, France, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong. Now it delivers to 130 countries and turnover last year was £50m. Mr Ramsden says the company's growth reflects demand from a growing global middle class. "The food becomes premium by virtue of being imported. There is an element of snob value in certain markets," he says. Particularly in Asia, he says, customers are keen to have "something a little bit different or a bit more exclusive" such as a foreign brand. But he says many of its customers also have an international outlook, with second homes in the UK, for example, and a genuine affection for British food. Sharan Gill, who lives in Hong Kong, says she always buys imported chocolate eggs for her children at Easter. "It's a tradition amongst my friends too, both Western and Asian. I spend between 100 to 150 Hong Kong dollars (£10-£15; $13-$19) on chocolates for the annual Easter egg hunt, which my kids thoroughly enjoy. "Easter seems to be a growing trend, partly because clubs and restaurants promote it extensively. "Plus Hong Kong has a large expat community, a large proportion of which consists of Westerners, for whom Easter is an established tradition. It is also celebrated by the predominantly Catholic Filipino community who form a large part of the domestic helper workforce," she says. The fervour surrounding the Christian festival has reached such fever pitch that the home and lifestyle gurus at Good Housekeeping magazine recently declared the occasion "a second Christmas". Theresa May criticises Cadbury over Easter egg hunt Co-op's 'Treat your daughter' Easter egg adverts changed It is not just small firms benefiting from the growing sense of occasion. Marks and Spencer says it exports a number of its popular eggs to its 468 shops overseas, with them selling particularly well in Hong Kong, Western Europe and the Czech Republic. "We're seeing double-digit growth on sales of our Easter eggs internationally - with people buying into both our large 'giftable' eggs as well as impulse purchasing small bags of chocolate foiled eggs and bigger bags of eggs for Easter egg hunts - an event which is increasing in popularity," says a spokeswoman. People really like the licensed character eggs and Star Wars' R2D2 is currently the best seller internationally, she adds. While market research firm Mintel doesn't track British chocolate exports, its figures show people around the world are eating more chocolate eggs. "In Brazil, for example, the trade association ABICAB reported that 95 million chocolate Easter eggs were sold in 2016, a 19% increase over 2015. In that country, Easter eggs make up a major percentage of annual chocolate revenues," says global food and drink analyst Marcia Mogelonsky. "In Ireland, consumers spent more than 40m euros (£34m; $42m) on Easter eggs in 2016, while the UK Easter egg market was valued at £220m." It is a market that Montezuma's Mrs Pattinson is obviously keen to exploit. "It's about putting our new product development heads on to find ones that don't have so much air inside," she laughs.

Cracking open a large chocolate egg to find nothing in the middle is one of life's perennial disappointments.

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As three-time African champions, the first African nation to win football gold at the Olympic Games and the most successful country at the Fifa U-17 World Cup with five titles, Nigeria have trophies to back up the claim. Throw in their seven titles at the African Women championship and same number of titles in the U-20 African Youth Championship, and you get the picture of a nation that has consistently been in the top tier of African football. But Nigeria have been on a downward spiral in the past two years and their failure to qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations is a confirmation of decline. The Super Eagles will sit out the finals in Gabon as they did in Equatorial Guinea last year after winning the 2013 edition in South Africa. It was only three years ago that Stephen Keshi led the team to the Nations Cup title and he also steered them to the last-16 at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Nigeria's fall since then has been rapid and the tragic comedy that it has become speaks volumes about the state of the game in the country. Football in Africa's most populous nation has been plagued by the Nigerian Football Federation's failings; a bitter leadership crisis, in-fighting over the presidency, instability in the coaching role and political and financial problems. 'Nigeria's failure is inexcusable' Former international winger Segun Odegbami, a key member part of Nigeria's team that claimed the country's first Nations Cup title in 1980, believes success on the pitch will not return unless they "sort things at the administrative level". "It is inexcusable that the great Super Eagles will not be at the biggest tournament in Africa twice in a row," Odegbami told BBC Sport. "I don't think that we've had the kind of administration that would have shepherded football development so that we can fulfil our true potential. "We've not had the best quality in the last two football administrations with all the controversies and in-fighting. Clearly nothing good comes out of that kind of situation, but sadly it's a reflection of the state of our football." Instability in the coaching role has led to the NFF appointing six managers since 2010 - Shaibu Amodu, Lars Lagerbäck, Austin Eguavoen, Samson Siasia, Stephen Keshi and Sunday Oliseh. Odegbami insists there needs to be consistency in the coaching department, but warns that only competent administrators can stop the Nigerian game from drowning in mediocrity. "Until the foundation is strengthened and properly reinforced everything that you build on it will collapse the way it has this time around," he said. "Yes it [poor results on the pitch] has everything to do with the way the coaches have been shuffled like musical game of chairs. "Now the NFF president has said he wants a foreign coach but who are the foreign coach that will come here? "These are all journeymen. The top coaches will not come to Nigeria - they will just come, milk the country, live in Europe, collect big money and will not do anything. "We are in a big mess created by the NFF board and I don't know how we are going to come out of this with the 2018 World Cup coming soon. It's a failure on the part of the administrators. "Unfortunately we are no longer one of Africa's football powerhouses. If we do not qualify for the Nations Cup two times in a row, how do you call yourself a giant?" 'Nigerian heroes abused by administrators' Another former international Taribo West, who played in two World Cups and won Olympic Gold in 1996, believes Nigerian football lacks an impartial football body. The former Inter Milan, AC Milan and Derby County defender feels the NFF has seemed intent on destroying the reputation of Nigerian football, along with their own. "Those managing football have disrespected our coaches and players," Taribo told BBC Sport. "Look at how dedicated heroes like Siasia, Keshi and Oliseh were treated by the administrators - they were unpaid and abused by those in power. "The problems we are facing now started a long time ago and the slide will continue with these sets of politicians and self-serving people in charge of our football. "Where's the structure for development in our football? The only thing we hear daily are those fighting for power and control of the game. "They lack the technical ability to reshape the country's football and that is the sad truth." The amount of dissenting voices suggests something drastic needs to be done to change Nigerian football. NFF president Amaju Pinnick says he wants quickly to move on by shifting focus to the 2018 World Cup, while at the same time insisting his administration does not suffer from poor organisation, bad management nor administrative deficiencies. Since taking charge of the NFF in September 2014, Pinnick has reiterated his desire to change the way Nigerian football is run. But he has yet to deliver on good intentions and it is time for promises to be delivered. For Nigerian football to move forward, it must find a way to forge an environment that looks after its players, coaches, develop football from the grassroots and has transparent and fair administration.

Without question, Nigeria is one of Africa's biggest and most successful football nations.

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Warren, 79, who started the Granada Television show when he was 24, died on 1 March after a short illness. His coffin was carried into the cathedral by members of the cast, watched by the crowds outside. Among those who attended the service were Julie Goodyear and William Roache, who has played Ken Barlow since the first episode in 1960. Goodyear, famous for playing barmaid Bet Lynch, paid a heartfelt tribute to Warren, a friend of 50 years. "We cried together and we laughed together," she said. Canon Philip Barratt said all the hymns and readings at the funeral, which was also open to members of the public, were chosen by Warren. "It's a big service for a very big character and a lovely part of the history of Manchester," he said. Former stars in the congregation included Ken Morley, who played Reg Holdsworth, and Christopher Quinten, best known for his role as mechanic Brian Tilsley. Warren was born Anthony McVay Simpson in Eccles, Salford, in 1937, and took the stage name of Warren during his career as a child star. He trained at Liverpool's Elliott Clarke Theatre School and was a regular on the BBC radio show Children's Hour, before acting in radio plays alongside some of the actors who would became household names because of Coronation Street, including Violet Carson and Doris Speed. His idea for the soap opera was commissioned for 13 episodes by Granada in 1960 and the show has gone on to be one of the UK's most successful ever, reaching viewing figures of 26.6 million for the departure of the much-loved character Hilda Ogden in 1987. He wrote episodes for the ITV soap until the late 1970s and was made an MBE in 1994 for his services to television drama. The writer remained a consultant on the soap until his death, with his creator credit appearing at the start of the closing credits of every episode.

The funeral of Coronation Street creator and writer Tony Warren has taken place at Manchester Cathedral.

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In a speech he said, given the effects of the referendum vote, the government had to be "realistic about achieving a surplus by the end of the decade". The target had been the chancellor's most prized goal and had been driving austerity measures in previous budgets. But he said the economy is showing "clear signs" of shock following the vote to leave the European Union. Giving a speech in Manchester, Mr Osborne said: "The referendum is expected to produce a significant negative economic shock to our economy. How we respond will determine the impact on jobs and growth. "We must provide fiscal credibility, continuing to be tough on the deficit while being realistic about achieving a surplus by the end of the decade." Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell welcomed the move, saying: "Sadly the vote last Thursday for Brexit has only brought forward what was inevitable. "The Chancellor had already dropped his other fiscal rules on welfare and debt at the Budget in March, and according to many economists he was expected to be forced to drop this one too." BBC business editor Kamal Ahmed says that the target was heading for the "Treasury shredding machine" following a speech from Home Secretary Theresa May yesterday. In a speech launching her bid to become prime minister she said "we should no longer seek to reach a budget surplus by the end of the parliament". Kamal says that Mr Osborne has now followed suit. Nevertheless, the Treasury insists that it still wants to balance the books and "fix the finances". Mr Osborne first committed himself to returning the national finances to surplus by 2020 at the Conservative Party conference in 2013 and it became policy in the July budget of 2015. But there have been questions ever since over whether that target could be met. Even before the referendum vote he only had "a slightly better than 50/50 chance" of making the target said Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. But the uncertainty caused by the Leave vote could hold back the economy and make creating a surplus even more difficult. "Having voted for Brexit last week, the economy is clearly going to go into a downswing, that might be a full-blown recession, that might just be very very low growth," said Paul Johnson the director of the IFS. It is sometimes easy in these incredible political times to forget that for most people "it's the economy, stupid" still holds true. For the UK economy, one of the most important passages of Theresa May's speech yesterday was when she signalled that George Osborne's "fiscal rule" (to produce a budget surplus by 2020) was for the Treasury shredding machine. "While it is absolutely vital that the government continues with its intention to reduce public spending and cut the budget deficit, we should no longer seek to reach a budget surplus by the end of the parliament," Mrs May said. Now the chancellor has said he agrees, arguing that the government must be "realistic" about its fiscal targets and that austerity policies could be eased. My Treasury sources point out that the "rule" can be varied in "non-normal" times. And these are pretty "non-normal" times. The abandonment of the fiscal target suggests the government could borrow more, presumably for investment in infrastructure and to mitigate the need for tax rises and spending cuts, if the economy does take a turn for the worse as some predict. More from Kamal: Brexit and the easing of austerity The Tories have been in turmoil since David Cameron announced his intention to resign following the UK's vote in favour on leaving the European Union. In a shock development on Thursday, Boris Johnson, widely seen as the frontrunner to become prime minister, announced that he would not be running. The BBC has learned that Justice Secretary Michael Gove is now coming under growing pressure to abandon his bid to become Tory leader. Sources have told the BBC government ministers are trying to persuade the justice secretary to give way so the party can "unite" around Home Secretary Theresa May. Mr Gove opted to stand after switching his support from Boris Johnson. In a speech, Mr Gove said his decision to stand to become Conservative leader is driven by "conviction" about what is right for the UK not personal ambition. Three other candidates have put their names forward for the Conservative leadership: Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom, MP Liam Fox and Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb. The government borrowed £74.9bn in the 2015/2016 fiscal year and for the financial year so far - covering April and May - borrowing reached £17.9bn, £0.2bn higher than the same period a year ago. It is thought that the government will now raise borrowing, so it can avoid further cuts in spending or raising taxes. It could also borrow to invest in big building projects. "The problem of course is, you can't borrow forever,"said Paul Johnson from the IFS. "So we'll have a few more years of more borrowing, but my guess is this is not the end of austerity, actually this means austerity will just go on for longer because we'll probably have the spending cuts and tax rises right through the 2020s to pay for this."

Chancellor George Osborne has abandoned his target to restore government finances to a surplus by 2020.

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Bafana Bafana are without a win in four games in Group M and drew their latest games against Cameroon 2-2 and 0-0. They are five points off leaders Cameroon with two games left, giving them a slim chance of playing in Gabon. "It's most unfortunate that when the team doesn't win, the blame comes to the team," said Mashaba. "The problem of not scoring goals doesn't start here. All the coaches in the PSL (South Africa's Premier Soccer League), when they don't win, you hear them talking about the problem of not scoring goals. "Those are the things you can't address in the national team. You have only got three days at the most (to prepare). It must be fixed at grassroots. That where people are taught to play." The 65-year-old believes South Africa still have a chance to make it to next year's finals, despite the odds being stacked heavily against them. "If we win then next games we can sit on nine points and hope we can get one of the two slots for the second best teams. We are not going to throw in the towel," he said. "Anything is possible in football. When we went to Cameron, nobody gave us a chance. Everybody said 'you are going to be hammered'. "We fluffed it in our first two games (against Gambia and Mauritania). Possibly it was because of poor preparation or something. Those games let us down. These two games we played against Cameroon, had we won one and drawn another, we'd be talking a different story."

South Africa coach Ephraim Mashaba has insisted the team is not responsible for the poor results in their 2017 Africa Cup of Nations group qualifiers.

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Nearly 25,000 signatures - 10% of Cardiff's voters - are needed to force a vote on the issue. But Labour councillor Ashley Govier told BBC Wales only about 8,000 have been collected. Cardiff council's Labour group said it was "willing to take the lead from public opinion on this issue". The Mayor for Cardiff campaign was launched earlier this year with a budget of more than £20,000. Daran Hill, from the campaign, said at the time that an elected mayor was a "new, fresh idea" that could "energise the people of Cardiff". There are currently 17 directly-elected mayors in England with more on the way, but there are none in Wales. Mr Govier, a councillor for Cardiff's Grangetown ward, said the debate has "moved on" and a regional mayor was now needed. "We're not going to hit the target, especially because the council refused to allow online petitions," he said. "We feel we've moved the debate on and the focus now needs to switch to a regional mayor for south east Wales. We have to go bigger." Mr Govier claimed the Cardiff Capital Region City Deal - a funding package agreed between UK, Welsh and local government worth £1.2bn over 20 years - was beginning to stall "because of governance". "The region has to work together on infrastructure and transport," he said. "A regional mayor is needed." He added there are "sympathetic ears throughout the region and across political parties". Ceredigion is the only Welsh local authority to have had a referendum on the matter. Voters there rejected the idea in 2004 by a margin of nearly three to one. A spokeswoman for Cardiff council's Labour group said: "Cardiff Labour are willing to take the lead from public opinion on this issue, and as we have seen there is very little interest in introducing a further level of bureaucracy. "The City Deal is definitely not stalling and is moving forward, despite uncertainty caused by Brexit. "It will be a huge boost for Cardiff and the region, and suggestions to the contrary are just mischief making." A Wales Office spokesman said: "The Cardiff City Deal is the biggest of its kind in the UK and we are confident this ambitious project is on target." The Welsh Government declined to comment in response to Mr Govier's comments.

An attempt to trigger a referendum on Cardiff having an elected mayor is going to fail, a campaigner has admitted.

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Jenny Rathbone said some tenants were charged ??150 to have properties taken off the market while a contract was finalised, while others charged ??65 for cleaning the property. The Cardiff Central AM called for a ban on the charging of such fees. Ministers have warned of a risk that banning fees would push up rents. In Scotland, all charges to private tenants other than rent and deposits have been deemed illegal since 2012. Campaigners have called for similar rules in other parts of the UK. In a Senedd debate, Ms Rathbone said: "It should be the landlord paying the letting agency, not the tenant." She added: "Frankly, the letting agencies are getting away with simply not providing a service in exchange for the fee and I think it's something that needs to be stopped as a matter of urgency." Assembly lawyers have told Ms Rathbone that Wales had the legal powers to impose a ban, despite the Welsh Government previously saying it did not have the authority. Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant said agents were legally obliged to advertise fees, and he was "not persuaded" a ban was needed at this time. "I wouldn't want to see the fees - extortionate fees in some cases - just being transferred to the tenant [in the form of higher rents]," he said. "I would like to learn from the evidence from the experience in Scotland before deciding whether this measure is necessary," Mr Sargeant added. Sunday Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales on Sunday 16 October at 1100 BST

Students and other people renting their homes have been victims of "widespread abuse" of fees charged by letting agents, a Labour AM has claimed.

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Unknown hackers carried out a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Ukrposhta's website. The attack began on Monday morning, but ended shortly after 21:00 local time (1900 BST). However, Ukrposhta reported on Facebook that the DDoS attack continued again on Tuesday. "Friends, we've been DDoSed," the company in a post on Tuesday. "During the first wave of the attack, which began yesterday in the morning, our IT services could normalise the situation, and after 17:00, all the services on the site worked properly. "But today, hackers are at it again. Due to their actions, both the website and services are working, but slowly and with interruptions." DDoS attacks occur when hackers flood a website's servers with a huge amount of web traffic, with the intent of taking the website offline. Attackers do this by secretly infecting computers, routers and Internet of Things-enabled devices, such as thermostats, washing machines and other home appliances, with malware and then roping the zombie computers into a botnet. "With critical systems exposed to the internet and inadequate protection, denial of service attacks can have an impact way beyond taking a website down or preventing online transactions from taking place," Sean Newman, director of Corero Network Security, told the BBC. "In this case, it was a service that was reportedly brought to its knees, but outcomes for other organisations could include manufacturing processes being interrupted or halted, potentially impacting productivity, quality and even safety. "This serves to highlight how any organisation, including those which don't transact directly with consumers, can be seriously impacted by denial of service attacks. With the level of sophistication of today's attackers, and without the latest generation of always-on, real-time automatic DDoS protection, all organisations are vulnerable to DDoS attacks of all sizes and durations." This is not the first time that Ukraine's postal service has been targeted this year - in June, Ukrposhta was hit by the NotPetya ransomware attacks, as part of a wider national attack on Ukrainian banks, the state power provider, television stations and public transport services.

Ukraine's national postal service has been hit by a two-day-long cyber-attack targeting its online system that tracks parcels.

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Albert Anthony Smith McDonald, 58, was found with head injuries on Cumbernauld Road, Riddrie, at 21:25 on Monday. He died on his way to hospital. Officers said the car driver is assisting with their inquiries. Police said Mr McDonald's family were "completely devastated" by his death and appealed for information. Senior investigating officer Det Ch Insp Laura McLuckie said earlier: "We are following up several lines of inquiry, including speaking to local residents and accessing CCTV from around Cumbernauld Road and the surrounding area." She added that "Mr McDonald had significant injuries" when he was found and the investigating team was "trying to establish just how he sustained them". She said officers were trying to piece together his last known movements. "Understandably his family and friends are completely devastated, and specialist officers are providing them with support at this tragic time," she said. "It is imperative we find who is responsible for Albert's death. "I would ask anyone who was in the vicinity of Cumbernauld Road around 21:30 or earlier, and who may have seen anything suspicious to come forward to police." Det Ch Insp McLuckie added: "You may think that the information you have is insignificant however it may be the piece of information we are looking for."

Police investigating the murder of a man who was found seriously injured on a Glasgow street have traced the driver of a car seen near where he was found.

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had earlier called for a "Day of Silence", to make a widely-violated ceasefire deal stick. New talks between the rebels and the government could take place in Belarus in the coming days. Russia has resumed gas supplies to Ukraine after months of tough talks. Ukrainian pipeline operator Ukrtransgaz says up to 43.5m cubic metres (1.5bn cu ft) will be imported daily, to prevent winter shortages. Ukraine has paid Russia's Gazprom $378m (£242m; €308m) in advance for December deliveries, officials say. Russia cut off Ukraine's gas in June as the conflict between the government in Kiev and the rebels in the east escalated. But a new gas deal was reached through EU mediation in October. Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Russia of supplying heavy weapons and troops to the rebels - something Moscow has repeatedly denied. The warring sides signed a truce in Minsk in September, but more than 1,000 people have been killed in fighting since then, the UN says. Some of the heaviest fighting has raged at Donetsk airport. The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday a ceasefire had begun in "all the positions of the anti-terrorist operation forces", Interfax Ukraine news agency reported. The pro-Russian separatists had also laid down their arms at 09:00 (07:00 GMT) across eastern Ukraine, Russia's Ria Novosti agency said. Mr Poroshenko said last week that troops would observe the Day of Silence on Tuesday to try to boost the peace deal. Since the conflict began in April, more than 4,300 people have died with almost one million displaced, the UN says. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Kiev must not renege on a pledge to give "special status" to the rebel-held Donetsk and Luhansk areas in the east. Speaking to Russia's RIA Novosti news agency, he said Mr Poroshenko had called for that status to be cancelled - a move that would "only strengthen the distrust between the sides, complicating their already difficult dialogue". He also accused Kiev of blocking financial co-operation with the rebel-held areas. Authorities in Minsk said they had not received any confirmation that either the Ukrainian government or rebel representatives would attend new peace talks, which were planned to begin on Tuesday. Russian media reports say that the talks may now begin on Friday instead, but this has not been confirmed. The previous Minsk agreement, brokered in September, projected a 30km (18 mile) military buffer zone in the east and limited self-rule for the separatists. However, the rebels then held leadership elections on 2 November that Ukraine and the West refused to recognise. There have been near-daily clashes and exchanges of heavy weapons fire, leaving hundreds dead. Meanwhile, the last pieces of wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine, have arrived in the Netherlands for investigation. Ukraine and its allies have accused Russia of supplying the missile used to bring down the plane, while Russia has denied involvement. A total of 298 people died when the plane came down in July. The Ukraine crisis began a year ago, when then-President Viktor Yanukovych abandoned an agreement on closer trade ties with EU in favour of closer co-operation with Russia. This decision sparked pro-EU protests in the capital Kiev, eventually toppling Mr Yanukovych in February. In the weeks that followed, Russia annexed Crimea, in Ukraine's south, and pro-Russian separatists took control of Donetsk and Luhansk, declaring independence. The crisis has caused a serious rift between Russia and Ukraine's Western supporters.

Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine are observing a ceasefire after weeks of bitter fighting, officials say.

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The comedian and actress did her trademark gallop during the curtain call at the musical's opening night at London's Piccadilly Theatre. The enthusiastic celebrity-packed audience included her Miranda co-stars Tom Ellis, Patricia Hodge, Sally Phillips and Sarah Hadland. Speaking to the BBC after the show, Miranda said she felt "exhilarated" to be making her West End debut as the "big and brash and clowny" orphanage owner. "Despite being grotesque and a drunk and vile, she's also vulnerable and very funny, so it was hard not to bring some of my humour to it," she said. "There's always going to be a bit of me in the performance - and obviously I had to gallop at the end. That was essential!" The reviews have been largely positive, with The Telegraph saying the role of Miss Hannigan takes Miranda "outside her plummy-pleasant comfort-zone". "Half gorgon, half goofball, all round pleasure, she daftly-deftly combines menace with physical comedy," Dominic Cavendish wrote in his four-star review. The Guardian's Michael Billington was less convinced in his three-star-review. "She works hard and sings and dances capably, but it's difficult to accept her as an accomplice, as the role demands, to abduction and possible murder," he said. "Hart, I suspect, has too much heart." Set in 1930s New York during the Great Depression, Annie tells the story of an 11-year-old girl who wants to escape from a life of misery at Miss Hannigan's orphanage and find her parents. Her luck changes when she is taken to spend Christmas at the home of billionaire Oliver Warbucks, but Miss Hannigan hatches a plan to spoil Annie's happiness and her search for her real parents. The musical includes the songs It's A Hard Knock Life, Tomorrow and Easy Street. In Monday's show Annie was played by 12-year-old Ruby Stokes, who shares the role with Madeleine Haynes, 13, and Lola Moxom, 12. They all get to play opposite the scene-stealing Amber, a Labradoodle who plays Annie's dog Sandy. Some reviews have pointed out the West End musical's unashamed optimism is just what London needs after the recent terror attacks. Alex Bourne, who plays Warbucks, said: "Whatever happens in the world, or in our country, people still come to the theatre. "I remember 10 years ago when there were the 7/7 bombings and I was in a show in London we all thought people wouldn't come, but they came more because people need cheering up in those times." Miranda added: "It's part of why we do it. We remember being Ruby's age and sitting in that magical place in the theatre and being awestruck by musicals in the way that you are at that age." Read the full reviews in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Mail, The Stage, Whatsonstage and the Evening Standard. Annie is at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, until 6 January 2018. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Fans of Miranda Hart's clownish TV persona won't be disappointed with her stage performance as the child-hating Miss Hannigan in Annie.

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Beji Caid Essebsi, who won the first round with 39% of the vote, is challenging interim leader Moncef Marzouki. Mr Essebsi represents the secular-leaning Nidaa Tounes party. Tunisia was the first country to depose its leader in the Arab Spring and inspired other uprisings in the region. Polls closed at 18:00 local time (17:00 GMT). Voter turnout had reached 36.8% after four and a half hours of voting, Tunisia's election authority said. Shortly after polls closed, Mr Essebsi's office said that there were "indications" that he had won. However, a spokesman for Mr Marzouki said the claims were "without foundation". Mr Essebsi, who turned 88 this week, held office under both deposed President Zine el-Abedine Ben Ali and Tunisia's first post-independence leader, Habib Bourguiba. He is popular in the wealthy, coastal regions, and based his appeal to voters on stability and experience. His opponent, Moncef Marzouki, is a 67-year-old human rights activists forced into exile by the Ben Ali government. He has been interim president since 2011 and is more popular in the conservative, poorer south. After casting his ballot, Mr Marzouki said Tusinians "should be proud" of themselves "because the interim period has come to a peaceful end". Mr Marzouki was thought likely to attract support from the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which has played a key role in Tunisian politics since the Arab Spring but did not field a candidate. Whoever wins faces restricted powers under a constitution passed earlier this year. The president will be commander-in-chief of the armed forces but can appoint or sack senior officers only in consultation with the prime minister. The president will also set foreign policy in consultation with the prime minister, represent the state and ratify treaties. Tunisia boosted security for the elections and closed border posts with Libya, which has been plagued by unrest. A group of at least three attackers targeted a polling station near the city of Kairouan on Sunday morning. Security forces say they killed one attacker and arrested three. In the build-up to the vote, a video emerged of Islamic State militants claiming responsibility for the 2013 killings of two Tunisian politicians. The men in the video also condemned the election and threatened more killings. An interior ministry spokesman dismissed the video, saying the group "mean nothing to us". About 5.2 million Tunisians were eligible to vote in the run-off poll. At least 88,000 observers oversaw the election, according to Tunisian state media.

Voters in Tunisia have been choosing their first freely elected president in a run-off election seen as a landmark in the country's move to democracy.

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Born at Alltnacaillich, Strathmore in 1714, Rob Donn could not read or write and dictated his poetry from memory in later life. A wall hanging depicting scenes from his life and work is to be created in a project led by Strathnaver Museum and Mackay Country Community Trust. People living in and around Strathnaver are to be invited to help make the piece of craftwork. Donn's poetry continues to be celebrated and studied today. Some of his work has turned into music and performed at Glasgow's Celtic Connections Festival. Strathnaver Museum has been awarded £5,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund's Stories, Stones and Bones programme towards the project.

A Gaelic bard is to be remembered in needlework.

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He was speaking in a BBC interview after a Russian court declared him "under arrest in absentia" over the 1990s murder of a Siberian mayor. "Definitely I'm considering asking for asylum in the UK," he said. Mr Putin "sees me - it's obvious now - as a serious threat", he said. Once Russia's richest man, the former head of the now defunct Yukos oil firm spent 10 years in a Siberian prison on fraud charges, which he says were politically motivated. Mr Putin pardoned him in 2013 and he now lives abroad, mainly in Switzerland. "I'm considered by President Putin as a threat, economically, because of the possible seizure of Russian assets abroad, and politically, as someone who will potentially help democratic candidates in the coming 2016 elections," he said. Russia will hold elections to the lower house of parliament - the State Duma - next year. The Duma is currently dominated by Mr Putin's supporters. The BBC's Richard Galpin asked Mr Khodorkovsky whether he felt at risk in light of the murders of prominent opponents of Mr Putin in recent years. Among them was former secret agent Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned with radioactive polonium in a London hotel in 2006. "The history of deaths of opponents of this regime is impressive... but I was in jail for 10 years, I could have been killed any day easily. In London I feel much safer than during those years," he replied. When he left Russia in 2013 he said he would not get involved in politics - which was widely believed to have been the reason for his early release. He told the BBC on Wednesday that he would "help young political activists in Russia to gain political experience and present an alternative to the existing regime". He said it was "far too optimistic" to speak of regime change in Russia now, "but I'm quite confident that within 10 years the regime will be changed and I hope I will play a significant role in that". Earlier, referring to the Russian order for his arrest, he said the Moscow authorities had "gone mad". He is accused of ordering several of his employees to kill both the mayor and a businessman, who survived. Investigators allege Vladimir Petukhov, the mayor of Nefteyugansk, was killed on 26 June 1998 for demanding Mr Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos, pay taxes that the company had allegedly been avoiding. Local businessman Yevgeny Rybin was allegedly targeted because his activities "clashed with Yukos's interests", Russia's powerful Investigative Committee (SK) said in a statement (in Russian). Mr Rybin survived a gun attack in November 1998 and a second attack on his car in March 1999, when another man in the vehicle was killed and several people were injured. Five people have already been tried for the attacks and the arrest warrant is unlikely to make any difference unless Mr Khodorkovsky returns to Russia, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports from Moscow. Armed police raided the Moscow offices of Mr Khodorkovsky's Open Russia pro-democracy movement on Tuesday, in a move that authorities said was linked to allegations of tax evasion. The flats of at least seven activists who work for Mr Khodorkovsky were also searched. After Mr Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003, Yukos was broken up and taken over by a state oil firm. Last year an international arbitration court in The Hague said Russian officials had manipulated the legal system to bankrupt Yukos, and jail Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The court told Russia to pay former shareholders in Yukos $50bn (£32bn) in compensation. 1963 - Born in Moscow, son of chemical engineers 1987 - Founds Menatep bank 1995 - Buys Yukos for $350m, with Menatep assuming $2bn in debt 2003 - Arrested for tax evasion, embezzlement and fraud 2005 - Found guilty on six of seven charges, jailed for eight years 2007 - Yukos declared bankrupt 2010 - Convicted of embezzlement and money laundering 2013 - Pardoned by President Putin after request for clemency; leaves Russia for Germany 2015 - Charged with ordering 1990s murder of Siberian mayor; says he is considering asking for political asylum in the UK

Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, says he is considering applying for political asylum in the UK and feels safe in London.

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The BBC's Ian Pannell said the jihadists were putting up a hard fight. BBC producers Joan Soley and Peter Emmerson are also embedded with the Iraqi troops. BBC Arabic's Feras Kilani caught in crossfire. This picture from Feras Kilani shows the destruction of a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city. There are thought to be up to 1.5 million civilians in Mosul, trapped between IS and Iraqi forces. The team were with the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) when it retook Bazwaya, about 3km (2 miles) east of Mosul, on Monday.

As Iraqi special forces enter the city of Mosul for the first time since the start of the campaign to retake it from so-called Islamic State, a BBC team embedded with the troops is tweeting from the front line as the battle unfolds.

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The public vote, which is called a referendum, will happen on Thursday 23 June 2016. Here is Newsround's guide to what has been going on between the UK and the European Union. Back in 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron promised that if his political party, the Conservatives, won the next general election, then he would let voters have their say on whether or not the UK should stay in or leave the European Union. Last year, they won the election so it's all systems go. A referendum is a vote in which all adults can take part, normally giving a "Yes" or "No" answer to a question. Whichever side gets more than half of the votes wins. The European Union, or EU, is a group of 28 countries in Europe whose governments work together. It began after World War Two with the idea that the best chance of stopping another war was by countries working more closely together. It's a bit like a club. To join you have to agree to follow the rules and in return you get certain benefits. Each country has to pay money to be a member, which they mostly do through taxes. The EU uses the money to change the way people live and do business in Europe. It has its own parliament, which is made up of politicians called Members of the European Parliament. They are elected by people who live in European Union countries. One of the main jobs of the parliament is to change, approve or reject laws that apply to all EU countries. 1957: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg 1973: Denmark, Ireland and the UK 1981: Greece 1986: Portugal and Spain 1995: Austria, Finland and Sweden 2004: Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Cyprus 2007: Bulgaria and Romania 2013: Croatia One major reason the European Union was set up is trade: to make it easier for countries to buy and sell things to each other. Certain rules to do with immigration have been relaxed too - so people from EU countries can move around more freely inside the Union. EU laws affect many areas of our lives - like how many hours we're allowed to work in a week, health and safety rules, and even how many fish we're allowed to catch. For the 40 years that the UK's been a member of the EU, there's been a debate about our role within it. Some feel being part of this bigger club makes the UK richer and more important. Others argue that the EU takes power away from Britain. They feel that people who aren't British shouldn't be making laws for this country. They also feel it costs Britain too much money. The question is always important in any referendum. The question for voters will be "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?" There are many reasons, but a big one is that some people believe Britain is being held back by the EU, which they say forces too many rules on the UK. They also want Britain to limit the number of people coming here to work from other European countries. They believe Britain gets a big boost from being a member of European Union - it makes buying and selling things to other EU countries easier. They also believe Britain is stronger as part of a big club than on its own.

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has said people should be able to vote on whether the UK should be a member of the European Union (EU).

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The 53-year-old man, identified as Ramu Chavan, was accosted by traffic police after they received multiple calls from people who saw him. Police told BBC Hindi that Mr Chavan had confessed to beheading his wife but did not divulge a motive. Police suspect he is mentally unstable and are seeking more information. He worked as a watchman at a building currently under construction, police said. Videos and images of Mr Chavan walking around the city with the severed head are being circulated on Indian social media. Police told BBC Hindi that he appeared to be walking towards the police station even before he was accosted by officers. Meanwhile the relatives of the murdered woman, identified as Sonubai, have arrived in the city, and police are trying to get more information about Chavan from them.

A man in the western Indian city of Pune has been held after carrying his wife's severed head down a busy road, police say.

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Mr Opstelten had said the trafficker was paid less than he actually was for money wrongly confiscated by the state. He also said details of the payment - authorised by Mr Teeven as prosecutor - had been lost, but this was not so. The resignations are a blow to the Liberal party as it faces an election. Mr Opstelten and Mr Teeven are both from the conservative wing of the party, which faces a challenge from Geert Wilders' far-right Freedom Party in provincial elections this month. The resignations are also expected to place a strain on the Liberal's coalition with the Labour party, which has been very critical of Mr Opstelten and Mr Teeven. The justice minister had claimed that a convicted drug trafficker, Cees Helman, was paid much less than the compensation of 4.7 million Dutch guilders - worth €2.1m (£1.5m; $2.3m) in current terms - that he in fact received. He also said that the details of the payment had been lost. On Monday, however, Mr Opstelten said a record of the transaction had been found. "This information could have been found earlier," he told reporters. "I take full responsibility for this and have just now offered my resignation to the king." The payment was made after the authorities were unable to prove that money they had confiscated from Helman had been obtained illegally. Mr Teeven, who was a prosecutor at the time, had authorised the settlement. The payment was not illegal. However, both ministers said the misinformation had made their positions untenable, Reuters news agency reports.

Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten and his state secretary, Fred Teeven, have resigned after misleading parliament over a 2001 compensation payment to a convicted drug trafficker.

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Shaw will be joined on the 18 July flight to Los Angeles by fellow England World Cup squad member Wayne Rooney. Spain's Juan Mata and David De Gea are also named, plus Japan's Shinji Kagawa. "We are delighted to have such a strong travelling squad for our pre-season tour to the United States," said assistant manager Ryan Giggs. United have already confirmed new manager Louis van Gaal will be present, even though he could be involved in the World Cup final with Netherlands, only five days before his squad leave Manchester. Van Gaal's side have a minimum of four games in the US, starting against Los Angeles Galaxy on 23 July and including an International Champions Cup programme against Roma, Nemanja Vidic's new club Inter Milan and Real Madrid.

Manchester United's £56m new signings Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw will join the squad to tour the United States later this month.

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Media playback is not supported on this device Wales go into Saturday's semi-final against France with Gatland claiming: "We are not whiter than white." Media playback is not supported on this device While England were damaged by stories of late-night revelry, the Welsh have been portrayed as virtually teetotal. "A lot [has been] made of us being like monks and that there has been an alcohol ban. That's completely untrue," said Gatland. "There has been no alcohol ban in this squad. Some of the stuff has been self-imposed by players. We have had a couple of nights when we have gone back to the hotel and we've had a drink. "And a couple of times we have spoken with [captain] Sam [Warburton] and the senior players about putting the curfew on when the players come back after going out. "You can't keep a lid on everything. You play a night game and there's a lot adrenalin and you say to players 'look go out if you are back in the hotel by 1.30 in the morning'. They might have gone to the casino [but] they are not drinking alcohol - some of them might have had a beer. "There is a lot made that we are whiter than white. We definitely are not." But Gatland admitted he has been impressed with the attitude of his players both on and off the field. "These guys have been great ambassadors in this campaign for Wales," said the coach, whose side set up a meeting with France by beating Ireland in the quarter-finals. "That's what's been important. There has been a sea-shift in terms of the professionalism and the way we have prepared. "These guys have known right from day one that we were in pretty good shape heading towards this World Cup and if we looked after ourselves, both on and off the field, we could made an impact. I think we have done that." Gatland was quick to point out that he has taken little pleasure from England's controversial World Cup, which was haunted by a string of off-the-field controversies. The conduct of some England players resulted in front-page headlines throughout the tournament, prompting the Rugby Football Union to launch a review of player behaviour following the country's quarter-final exit at the hands of France. On one occasion, captain Mike Tindall found his conduct under scrutiny after a group of players were given permission by team manager Martin Johnson to enjoy a night out drinking in Queenstown. As a coach I don't take any satisfaction whatsoever or any pleasure in the criticism that has been heaped on England Tindall, who married the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips in July, later issued an apology for misleading the England management over his movements, having initially claimed he did not go on to another bar afterwards. There were other indiscretions, too, notably when centre Manu Tuilagi was formally warned by police and fined £3,000 by England rugby officials after jumping from a ferry in Auckland. "As a coach, I don't take any satisfaction whatsoever or any pleasure in the criticism that has been heaped on England," insisted Gatland. "I know what it's like to be on the wrong side of the media in the past. As a fellow coach, there are a lot of good friends of mine in the England set-up. "I don't take any pleasure - and I'm sure the Welsh team don't take any pleasure - on all that criticism that has been heaped on England. "So, I just want to say we are no monks, we are not whiter than white and we have had our problems in the past."

Coach Warren Gatland denies Wales have been existing "like monks" during their World Cup campaign in New Zealand.

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His comments come amid the expenses scandal that has embroiled the government for the past three weeks. Mr Abbott said on Friday the woman at the centre of the scandal, Speaker of the House of Representatives Bronwyn Bishop, was "deeply remorseful" about her use of taxpayers' funds to travel to friends' weddings and Liberal party functions. The prime minister has himself had to pay back money spent on travel in the past. The scandal began when it became public that Ms Bishop had spent A$5,000 ($3,647; £2,339) of public funds on a helicopter flight to a Liberal Party function that could have easily been reached by road. She has also claimed expenses for travel to several weddings of her Liberal Party colleagues. Australia's rules about travel entitlements for politicians are hazy but Ms Bishop's spending set social media on fire and she soon became the speaker who sparked a thousand memes. The Facebook page Bronwyn Bishop Memes gained more than 13,000 followers in just a week, as users poked fun at her chopper ride. Memes have adopted the helicopter as their main tool to mock the speaker, with Ms Bishop using chopper flights for everything from taking extreme holidays and dropping the kids at the local swimming pool to going for a jog - via chopper. The public have also had fun at her expense with cultural references ranging from Australian TV soap operas to movies such as 101 Dalmatians and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Social media taunts even included sly hints towards other expenses scandals, such as the misuse of living away from home allowances for politicians. Ms Bishop has apologised and is paying back the helicopter costs but she is resisting calls, from independent senators and reportedly even from some members of the government, to resign. "I love this country very much and it does sadden me that I have let [the public] down," Ms Bishop told reporters. "I won't resign from the position but I will be working very hard," she said.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has reminded Australian politicians they cannot "get away with exploiting the rules" on expenses.

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The inmate, from Romania, had been serving a 30-month sentence for sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 13. He was due for release from HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire on 6 January, but was deported on Friday morning. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said an investigation is now under way. A spokesman said the man had not been released out on to the streets, but placed in an immigration removal centre. "He was placed in an immigration removal centre before being removed from the country the following day," he said. "Incidents like this are extremely rare." An investigation was under way to establish the circumstances of the man's release, he added.

A sex offender was mistakenly released from prison a month early, the BBC has learned.

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21 October 2016 Last updated at 15:03 BST In 2008, about 40 were recorded on the seahorse study site at South Beach in the bay, but none have been spotted there since 2013. Miranda Krestovnikoff has been investigating for Inside Out and speaking to Neil Garrick-Maidment, from the Seahorse Trust, and the Royal Yachting Association's Emma Barton.

Spiny seahorses may soon be locally extinct at Studland Bay in Dorset, according to the Seahorse Trust.

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Patrick Ewing, 66, collapsed at his home in Oakham, Rutland, and was given resuscitation by his partner, Yvonne Ainsworth. Paramedics used a defibrillator to shock Mr Ewing to restore his normal heart rhythm for almost an hour. East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) said only about 8% of patients survived a cardiac arrest outside hospital. Andy Swinburn, of EMAS, said: "Patrick's case is extremely rare. His heart muscle was very unstable, which lead to a repeated cardiac arrest meaning the crew had to shock him 17 times." Mr Ewing said: "It's an astonishing thing to tip over the edge and be hauled back again. "What they did for me might of just been part of their day job but they worked so hard to keep me going. I will forever be grateful."

Ambulance crews who gave a cardiac arrest patient 17 high-energy electric shocks say he is lucky to be alive.

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Mark Jones, 45, of Cwmbran, Torfaen, fractured Amelia Jones's skull when he was supposed to be looking after her. He had denied murder but was convicted at Newport Crown Court on Thursday and jailed for life. He was also jailed for four years after admitting perverting the course of justice which will be served concurrently. Mr Justice Wyn Williams said Jones had shown no remorse for his "wicked and despicable" actions. He said: "It may well be that you are never released from prison or if you are, you will be a very old man." The court heard he had "totally destroyed" the life of his daughter, Sarah Jones, and given her surviving children nightmares. A victim impact statement from Ms Jones, said: "It really upsets and saddens me now, looking back, I spent such little time with her. "It seems like she didn't really exist, like she was some kind of dream." The court was told the rest of her children were taken from her for about 18 months, between November 2012 and April 2014. One child in particular was "afraid his grandfather would kill him if he got out of prison", the statement said. "There have been times when I blamed myself for what happened to Amelia, because I was the person who invited him back into my life," Ms Jones added. "As far as I'm concerned he is no longer my father." Amelia died in November 2012 after suffering a "catastrophic" bleed to the brain. During his trial, Jones claimed he fell with Amelia in his arms on one occasion and passed out while holding her on another. But the court heard she had suffered a skull fracture, brain swelling and multiple rib fractures and had been injured at least three different times. The prosecution said the injuries "could not have been accidental" and were all deliberately inflicted by her grandfather, who frequently had sole charge of Amelia. The prosecution said he hurt her because he disliked her father, Ian Skillern.

A man who murdered his five-week-old granddaughter has been jailed for life and will serve a minimum of 25 years.

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England was ranked seventh for child independence in the study of 18,000 seven- to 15-year-olds in 16 countries, by University of Westminster academics. Freeing children to go out alone in their local area benefited their health and development, the researchers said. Fear over traffic was the top reason for restricting freedom, they added. The children and their parents were surveyed between 2010 and 2012 about what they were allowed to do in their local neighbourhoods without supervision. This included: The study said: "A large proportion of children under 11 years old in most of the countries do not have the the freedom to get about their local area. "Even the oldest children are restricted in what they are allowed to do, at an age when many of the rights of adulthood are close to being granted, including the right to drive vehicles on the road once the test has been passed." Overall, Finland was found to be the top-performing country on independent mobility, with Germany coming second. According to the survey, most Finns can, without supervision: In England, most primary school children are allowed to cross roads without supervision but only 28% to travel home from school and even fewer to go out after dark, travel on local buses or walk to places other than school. Even at secondary school, less than 25% are allowed out alone after dark. Ben Shaw, director of the Policy Studies Institute, said: "Obviously, we've got to protect children but part of their development is that we allow them to gain independence. "People see the change from primary school to secondary school as the time to do it, but not having them do it earlier means there is a spike in road accidents at this age."

Anxious parents in England give their children less freedom to play and go outside than those in many other European countries, research suggests.

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It was one of 20 left at various locations by Ren Benson, from York, who said she just wanted to give other mothers support. "I am a first-time mum, my little boy is 10 months now, and parenting is really hard," she said. Emma Lowe, who found the supermarket letter, said it was a "lovely gesture" and very welcome. Read more about this and other stories from across Yorkshire On parenting, Miss Benson said: "It is really challenging and there are times when you do feel like you are just on your own and a little bit falling apart." The first letter was left after she had dropped her shopping in the supermarket and felt she was at the "end of her tether". "I thought 'this is the time when I need some love - there must be another mother who is going to feel this way'," she said. Miss Benson said she was inspired by other mothers' random acts of kindness for each other through the online community - The Motherload. "Such a small gesture and it can make the world of difference at times." Mrs Lowe found the letter as she changed her daughter and said it had made her day. "I ignored it at first, but on the envelope it said 'yeah you'. "I opened it and thought what a lovely, lovely gesture that someone has taken the time to handwrite the note to say 'you know you've got this'. "As a first-time mum it is really challenging at times, but I thought that is so lovely that someone has done that and left it for someone to find."

A handwritten letter of encouragement for new mothers was left in a supermarket baby-changing area.

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Media playback is not supported on this device Liverpool cancelled a meeting with Sterling on Friday because of comments attributed to the player's agent. Aidy Ward reportedly said the England forward, 20, will not sign a new deal even if offered "£900,000 a week". Rodgers said: "Raheem has two years left on his deal and I expect him to see that two years through." Rodgers said Sterling would be available for selection for the team's last game of the Premier League season against Stoke on Sunday and insisted the player would not be unhappy with the prospect of having to stay at the club. "We want to resolve the situation but it doesn't change my approach to him. There is no problem there," he added. Radio 5 live: Phil Neville is teased for his club loyalty "I don't see Raheem being unhappy. Raheem's representative made it very clear that he wanted to speak at the end of the season. "Our concentration is on the last game of the season and I'm sure talks will take place over the course of the summer." The England international has already rejected a new £100,000-a-week contract with the club and was expected to tell Rodgers and chief executive Ian Ayre at Friday's cancelled meeting that he wanted to leave this summer. Media playback is not supported on this device Ward told the Evening Standard that he did not care about the PR of the club and used a four-letter expletive to describe former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher, who has criticised the player. "He's not signing for £700,000, £800,000, £900,000 a week," said Ward in the newspaper interview. But Rodgers said the club would attempt to continue with contract discussions "as private as possibly can be". "Whatever conversation I have with a player or member of staff will remain between us," added the Northern Irishman. "The owners have shown their strength in their time here. When they have had to show that strength with players they have done that."

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has said he expects forward Raheem Sterling to stay at the club for the remainder of the two years on his contract.

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Liam Henderson opened the scoring with a terrific free-kick before John McGinn increased the lead against his former club. Stevie Mallan pulled one back with a free-kick of his own before half-time. Anthony Stokes played the final 20 minutes and marked his Easter Road return with a late third for the hosts. Alan Stubbs, whose side moved two points clear of Falkirk, resisted the temptation to start Stokes following his arrival on loan from Celtic given the Irishman had not played first-team football since August. His opposite number, Alex Rae, handed a debut to Rocco Quinn, who had arrived from Ross County since their last action more than a fortnight ago. The pre-match headlines were about Stokes, but it was another on-loan Celt who brought the Hibs fans to their feet. Henderson was brought down on the edge of the box by Jack Baird and though referee Don Robertson initially allowed the advantage, he brought it back. The midfielder got back to his feet and whipped a wonderful shot into the top corner. It was an outstanding effort that arched over Buddies goalkeeper Jamie Langfield. Hibs dominated proceedings for large spells and should have doubled their lead when Jason Cummings latched on to a long ball which dropped over his shoulder leaving him one-on-one with Langfield, who stood tall to deny the Easter Road top scorer. Cummings and January signing Chris Dagnall tested Langfield, who was single-handedly preventing the roof from caving in. The veteran could only stem the flow for so long and after good set-up play by Cummings, McGinn stroked home. St Mirren threatened very occasionally but gave themselves a lifeline with the last kick of the opening half and it was their main threat who provided it. Stevie Mallan has a penchant for the spectacular and he found the bottom left of Mark Oxley's goal with a superb free-kick. The pattern of Hibs dominance continued after the interval and Paul Hanlon had one header saved and another cleared off the line while a deflected McGinn drive just cleared the crossbar. Stokes took his second Easter Road bow with 20 minutes to play and soon tapped home after good set-up play by fellow-sub James Keatings.

Hibernian moved to within two points of Rangers at the top of the Championship with a comfortable victory over St Mirren.

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The annual festival started back in 1945. Some people say it began as a food fight between a group of friends, others say people threw tomatoes at a carnival parade, and some believe it happened when tomatoes spilled from a truck. This year the town will launch its first ever tomato-based obstacle course, the Tomatina race.

More than 22,000 people from across the world have gathered in the small Spanish town of Bunol to celebrate the 70th annual Tomatina Festival by throwing 150 tonnes of squashed tomatoes at each other.

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