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Cambridge University Press is analysing media coverage during Brazil 2014 and scoring 'confidence levels' out of 100. The score rises and falls dependent on the words used to describe England. Confidence was measured at 38 after the 2-2 draw with Ecuador on 4 June and 40 following the 0-0 draw with Honduras on 8 June but rose to 77 a day later. England's current rating is 70, going into the game in Manaus, according to the Cambridge Confidence Index. Researchers have analysed and assessed millions of words from a wide range of media sources over the past two weeks. Cambridge University Press's Dr Claire Dembry said: "The breadth of sources means we're able to give a unique insight into the mood surrounding the England team. "It's interesting to see that the nation is in confident spirits ahead of the Italy game, despite some fairly lacklustre performances against Ecuador and Honduras." Words such as "progress", "strong" and "joy" have increasingly been used by players, coaching staff and fans. Midfielder Adam Lallana, 26, and 18-year-old Luke Shaw, who are both seeking to leave Southampton, have been described more positively than any other England player. Neymar, who scored twice in Brazil's 3-1 victory over Croatia, was the most talked about player after the opening match. "Controversial" was identified as the word of the day following the disputed penalty for Brazil's first goal and anti-World Cup protests in several host cities. Cambridge will track positive and negative indicators throughout the tournament, in order to measure changes in the perceived confidence in the England team.

Confidence in the England team is high ahead of Saturday's opening World Cup match against Italy, according to a study of words relating to football.

Up to a million people still needed to complete their tax credit renewals in the final week before the deadline. They would have received information about their annual review notice in a white A4 envelope, but they can renew online up until Sunday night. Separately, many of those in the self-assessment system must pay a tax bill. This so-called payment on account is the equivalent of half the previous year's tax bill, as an advance payment on their next bill. The other half is paid on 31 January. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) warned that anyone who failed to renew their tax credits could be in danger of having payments stopped, or find themselves paying more than they needed to. "It is great that millions of people have renewed their tax credits or reported changes so far, but anyone who has not done so yet should take action now - it only takes a few minutes to renew online," said Nick Lodge, of HMRC. Renewals can now also be completed via smartphone apps. The tax credit helpline - 0345 3003900 - is open until 20:00 BST on Saturday and Sunday. To renew, they will need their renewal pack, their National Insurance number, their and their partners total income for the tax year to April 2016, the 15-digit number on their renewal pack, and details of any changes to their circumstances, such as working hours and children. Claimants who received notices in a brown A5 envelope will see their tax credits renewed automatically and are only required to contact HMRC if they need to make any corrections or notify HMRC of any changes to household circumstances. Those whose notices came in a white A4 envelope must renew, even if their circumstances have not changed. The tax payment deadline affects everyone in the self-assessment system unless: There are various ways of paying but those leaving it to the weekend are likely to be limited to paying via online or telephone banking, or via the HMRC website using a debit or credit card. Interest is charged if the payment deadline is missed. After 28 days without payment, following the deadline, a surcharge is 5% of any unpaid tax is levied. This surcharge is repeated after six months. "This is a massive amount given the era of near zero interest rates," said Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at ACCA accountancy body. An HMRC spokesman pointed out that there was some wriggle room for those who contact HMRC if they are struggling to pay the tax owed. "If a taxpayer can't pay and calls us before the due date and we agree a time to pay arrangement, they will not incur a surcharge," he said. "Our reasoning being the taxpayer is making an effort and it would not be fair to hit them with a surcharge, where a time to pay arrangement is in place." HMRC has been criticised by MPs and the National Audit Office for waiting times for those trying to call at key times, but the tax authority said the service had now improved.

Thousands of people face a deadline of the end of Sunday to renew tax credits and pay tax owed, or face losing payments or being hit with penalties.

The IFG says legislation will be needed to establish new policies on areas such as customs and immigration. The extra measures will place "a huge burden" on Parliament and government departments, the think tank says. The attitude of the SNP may also affect the passage of Brexit laws, it adds. In its report, Legislating Brexit, the IFG says that with the average Queen's Speech announcing only 20 new bills, the introduction of 15 Brexit bills before the UK even exits the EU "will leave very little space for non-Brexit related legislation". The report comes as Theresa May travels to Swansea with Brexit Secretary David Davis, where she will talk about the "precious union" of the UK. The prime minister will meet First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones, as well as local businesses, as she tries to show she is including all areas of Britain in negotiations with the EU. Mrs May will say: "I want every part of the United Kingdom to be able to make the most of the opportunities ahead." The IFG report anticipates the new bills will be in addition to the Great Repeal Bill, which will scrap the 1972 European Communities Act that paved the way for the UK to enter the then-EEC, ending the legal authority of EU law. The IFG - an independent charity that aims to increase government effectiveness - says departments will need "ruthlessly to prioritise" other legislation and find non-legislative routes to get the laws through, particularly given the government's narrow Commons majority. It warns that this will mean ministers having to achieve a fine balance between giving too little parliamentary scrutiny and too prolonged, in-depth examination of Brexit-related legislation. The IFG also argued that "a lack of clarity" about the role the devolved legislatures will play in legislating for Brexit could pose a problem. "The attitude that the Scottish National Party (SNP) takes to the passage of Brexit-related legislation in Westminster could affect the smoothness with which that legislation passes through Parliament if they join forces with the Labour Party and Conservative rebels," the report says. Dr Hannah White, IFG's director of research, said the government had finite resources to draft new legislation and Brexit bills would take a "big chunk" out of its capacity to legislate in other areas. "In the first session after the 2015 election the government passed 23 bills," she told BBC Radio 4's Today. "So that's roughly the capacity that there is in government to draft these bills and in Parliament, in terms of parliamentary time, to pass them." The reality, she suggested, was that the government's domestic priorities would "take a hit in the next couple of sessions". "There'll have to be some really tight prioritisation in government to work out what else is going to be done aside from the Brexit legislation. "The legislation required for Brexit will leave little parliamentary time for anything else - and making a success of it will require a large volume of bills and secondary legislation to be passed by Parliament against a hard deadline." The Queen gave Royal Assent to the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill last week, clearing the way for Theresa May to start talks to leave the European Union. The Bill allows the prime minister to notify Brussels that the UK is leaving the EU, with a two-year process of exit negotiations to follow. Mrs May says she will trigger the process by the end of the month.

Parliament might have to scrutinise up to 15 new bills to deliver Brexit, leaving little time for other legislation, the Institute for Government has warned.

Dorothy Cruickshank was one of six people taken to hospital after the two-car collision on the A90 at the Toll of Birness junction on 5 April. The 66-year-old, from Hatton, was a passenger in a Volkswagen Passat which was in collision with a Peugeot 207. A statement from her family said: "We'll be lost without her." It added: "Dorothy always had a smile on face. She was a proud mum of three daughters and a devoted nanna. "We are completely broken and devastated by the loss of our kind, caring, adorable and loving mum who was also an amazing wife and the best nanna in the world. "We'll be lost without her and no words can express how much pain we are feeling. "We would like to express our sincere thanks to the emergency services and the staff at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Accident and Emergency, Intensive Care and High Dependency Units for all their care and support." The other casualties from the crash were the 70-year-old driver of the Volkswagen and four 18-year-olds in the Peugeot who all suffered serious injuries. Police Scotland have said a report on the crash will be sent to the procurator fiscal.

The family of a woman who died 10 days after a car crash in Aberdeenshire have described her as "a proud mum and a devoted nanna".

The incident happened as the 33-year-old walked under a railway bridge on Dumbarton Road, near the junction with Cable Depot Road, at about 22:00 on Saturday 10 September. Both boys were described as being white, aged about 14 or 15 and wearing dark-coloured sportswear. One of them had brown hair in a quiff. The woman was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment and later reported the incident to police. Det Sgt Kevin Mulvenna, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a completely unprovoked and senseless attack on this woman, which has left her blind in one eye. The youths responsible must be caught as soon as possible. "To point a laser pen at someone is highly irresponsible. Extensive inquiries are ongoing to trace the two boys, with officers carrying out inquiries in the local area and studying CCTV footage to identify them." He asked anyone with information to contact police.

Police are searching for two teenage boys after one of them shone a laser into a woman's eye in Clydebank, leaving her blind in one eye.

It is currently negotiating with the landlord of an office block but has other options if those discussions are not successful. The paper has sold its current premises on Royal Avenue to the developer McAleer and Rushe. Its owner, INM, decided to move due to the closure of the printing operation within the Royal Avenue premises. When it made the announcement in August, INM (Independent News & Media) said it would find new premises for the paper in the "very heart of the city".

The BBC understands that the Belfast Telegraph is planning to move to Clarendon Dock.

"Trust in the values of our people and in our ability to rebuild the economy," Mr Temer said. He has named a business-friendly cabinet that includes respected former central bank chief Henrique Meirelles as finance minster. Ms Rousseff denounced her removal as a "farce" and "sabotage". Mr Temer was the leftist Ms Rousseff's vice-president before withdrawing his party's support in March. She has accused him of involvement in a "coup". After Wednesday's all-night session that lasted more than 20 hours, senators voted by 55 votes to 22 to suspend her and put her on trial for budgetary violations. In her final speech on Thursday afternoon, she again denied the allegations and vowed to fight what she called an "injustice" by all legal means. Mr Temer, 75, has now taken over as president for up to 180 days - the maximum time allowed for the impeachment trial of Ms Rousseff, 68. He said: "It is urgent to restore peace and unite Brazil. We must form a government that will save the nation." Stressing that "economic vitality" was his key task, he added: "It is essential to rebuild the credibility of the country at home and abroad to attract new investments and get the economy growing again." But he also said Brazil was still a poor nation and that he would protect and expand social programmes. "Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead," he said. Michel Temer became interim president as soon as Ms Rousseff was suspended. Read more on Michel Temer here Michel Temer also said he would support the sweeping investigation into corruption at state oil company Petrobras that has embroiled many politicians and officials. Mr Temer has nominated a 22-strong cabinet. There are no women, although two more names are expected to be added to the cabinet. Ms Rousseff had earlier suggested that sexism in the male-dominated Congress had played a key part in the impeachment process. Mr Meirelles, the new finance minister, built a reputation for calming nerves in the markets when heading the central bank, and helped tame inflation to create one of the country's biggest economic booms. But analysts say Mr Temer's popularity ratings are as bad as Ms Rousseff's and he faces many challenges. During the overnight debate, Senator Jose Serra, who has been named the new foreign minister, said the impeachment process was "a bitter though necessary medicine". "Having the Rousseff government continue would be a bigger tragedy," he said. Brazil is suffering from its worst recession in 10 years, unemployment reached 9% in 2015 and inflation is at a 12-year high. In her TV speech, flanked by ministers at the presidential palace, Ms Rousseff said that she may have made mistakes but had committed no crimes, adding: "I did not violate budgetary laws." She said: "What is at stake is respect for the ballot box, the sovereign will of the Brazilian people and the constitution." Branding the process "fraudulent" and saying her government was "undergoing sabotage", she vowed to fight the charges against her and said she was confident she would be found innocent. Her removal ends 13 years of leftist rule. The 180 days allocated for the trial to take place expire on 8 November.

Brazil's new interim President Michel Temer has addressed the nation after the Senate voted to back the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff.

Wanda Campbell, 43, of Auchenmalg near Newton Stewart, was jailed for three years earlier this month. She was also ordered to pay compensation of £110,000 at Dumfries Sheriff Court. Her appeal against that sentence and the conviction will be heard at the Appeal Court in Edinburgh. She was found guilty after a seven-day trial of acting with others to take the money from James Haugh Castle Douglas between March 2012 and October 2013.

A woman found guilty of conning a south of Scotland garage firm out of £110,000 has lodged an appeal against her sentence and conviction.

The larger-than-life star, known for Flash Gordon and Z Cars, said he came across a woman in labour while visiting London's Richmond Park in "about 1963". "I was running all over Richmond Park and a woman was having a baby under a tree and there was nobody around. "I'd been brought up with babies and helping with babies, and I rushed across to her," he told BBC Radio 4. He continued: "She'd got her legs open. She knew me from Z Cars and said 'please, Mr Blessed, I'm having a baby.' "[I said] 'it's all right dear, breathe deeply,' and gradually I got the baby out. The afterbirth came out and the clots. I got rid of the clots. Pressed her belly and got rid of the clots. And then I got the afterbirth out. "And then I bit it loose, and then I tied it into a knot etc. I just called for help and eventually an ambulance came. I was covered in blood, my shirt was covered in blood. "I was wrapping her, wiping her, 'It's all right darling,' and I was licking the baby's face." The actor was speaking to an incredulous Libby Purves, the host of Radio 4's Midweek programme. "It's absolutely true," he said. "I've never talked about it. What I'm saying is, it was natural. I'd seen my mother do all this. I was always kept in the background."

Actor Brian Blessed has recounted how he helped deliver a baby in the 1960s - and bit through the umbilical cord.

The election on the 8 June is for the Westminster parliament, rather than the assembly, but parties are now in the habit of producing a distinct document for Wales. They may include distinctive policies for Wales which can be implemented at Westminster, and may include proposal the parties for Wales' devolved policy areas. You can find links here to detailed guides for each party - and we have listed the key pledges from each manifesto. Read more here Read more here Read more here Read more here Read more here Skim-reading some of these manifestos, you might think that your vote will settle issues such as health and education in Wales. But it will not. Wales has a system of government where a number of things are in the hands of locally elected assembly members who sit in the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff Bay. The last assembly election took place in 2016 and the next one is currently pegged for 2021. Broadly, areas that are devolved include: Things that are not devolved include foreign affairs, benefits, the armed forces, big energy projects, the Severn bridges and negotiations to leave the EU. Having said this, the money that comes to Wales to fund locally controlled services still largely comes from Westminster. So MPs can have an effect on the overall amount of cash that is spent at Cardiff, but it is up to ministers here to decide how to spend it.

All of Wales' five main parties have published their Welsh general election manifestos.

Tony McMahon's free-kick deflected into the path of Lee Evans as he gave Bradford the lead from close range. Dale levelled before the break as the ball fell to Peter Vincenti for his sixth goal of the season. Devante Cole restored Bradford's lead just before the hour and an Olly Lancashire own goal two minutes later put the game out of reach. Rochdale manager Keith Hill told BBC Radio Manchester: Media playback is not supported on this device "I have been very disappointed not just today but over the last season of touchline technical etiquette. "I've been very disappointed that the technical area teams are trying to win it from the technical area. "I don't think we lost the game today because the players of the technical area were getting at the referee and fourth official, we've lost the the game today because we made mistakes."

Bradford picked up their first win in five league games as they beat Rochdale at Spotland.

The 2014 winner Pineau De Re was among those to miss the cut for the famous Aintree race. Lower-rated horses are balloted out, with The Romford Pele occupying the number 40 slot. There were no withdrawals in Thursday's final declaration stage. Four reserves are on standby should any runner pull out before 13:00 BST on Friday. Download your sweepstake kit here Pinstickers' guide Many Clouds is 7-1 favourite ahead of 10-1 chance The Last Samuri and 12-1 shot Silviniaco Conti. Coverage of the race, over 30 fences and nearly four-and-a-half miles, is expected to be followed by 600 million people worldwide. Organisers have put back the time of the race by an hour to 17:15 BST in an effort to further increase the audience. The National is a handicap chase, with each runner allotted a different weight to carry by the official handicapper Phil Smith. Some trainers are faced with the tricky task of trying to ensure their contenders perform well enough to get a rating which guarantees a run, without landing a big weight that hampers their chances. Pineau De Re is now in the twilight of his career, at the age of 13, and his rating has dropped. No horse of that age has won the National since Sergeant Murphy in 1923. The British Horseracing Authority has indicated it is open to reviewing the entry system ahead of next year's National. Top weight Many Clouds will seek to become the first horse since the legendary triple victor Red Rum in the 1970s to win back-to-back runnings. Victory would see jockey Leighton Aspell, who also triumphed aboard Pineau De Re two years ago, become the first rider to win three years running. Media playback is not supported on this device Officials believe modifications to the fences, and other alterations, introduced three years ago have helped improve safety. Since the changes, there have been no fatal injuries in the National itself, although two horses died in other races at the three-day meeting last year.

Last year's winner Many Clouds heads Saturday's Grand National field after the 40-runner line-up was confirmed.

Media playback is not supported on this device Platini wants to restore the image of world football's governing body in the wake of serious corruption allegations. "We want a reform candidate," said FA chairman Greg Dyke. "We believe he will reform Fifa in the way that reform is needed." Sepp Blatter has already announced he will quit as Fifa president, with an election set for 26 February. Frenchman Platini, president of European football governing body Uefa, is likely to face a number of challengers, among them Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein of Jordan and Liberian FA president Musa Bility. Dyke added: "We understand there will be a number of candidates, which should result in a strong and healthy debate. "However, we should not underestimate how challenging it will be for anyone to lead an organisation that has been so tainted. The whole structure of Fifa must be reviewed and fundamentally changed." Platini has found himself at odds with the FA over Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup. The 60-year-old championed the Gulf nation despite concerns over its human rights record and severe summer temperatures. But Dyke attempted to play down any differences for the time being, saying: "Mr Platini has always made it very clear that he voted for Qatar. "If all the other people who voted for Qatar had been quite as transparent it would have been more helpful." Not everyone shares the FA's confidence in Platini, a former France international who won the coveted Ballon d'Or three times. Just hours after confirming his candidacy on Wednesday, he was criticised by two potential presidential rivals. Prince Ali and Bility both claim Platini would be a bad choice as a successor. Prince Ali, who stood against Blatter in the last presidential election, said that "football's fans and players deserve better". A member of the Jordanian royal family, he added that Fifa needed a "new, independent leadership, untainted by the practices of the past". Bility agreed, telling the BBC's World Football programme that Platini would bring "chaos", "more division" and "more problems".

The English Football Association has given its backing to Michel Platini's bid to become the next boss of Fifa.

15 February 2016 Last updated at 15:37 GMT But how much do you know about their author, Roald Dahl? It's a hundred years since he was born, so Newsround has taken a look at his life.

Matilda, The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - they're some of the most popular children's books ever written.

The 24-year-old from Runcorn became Britain's first champion in the event's 17-year history in 2016. After winning gold in the season-opener in Switzerland earlier in April, she finished behind 18-year-old Janja Garnbret in Chongqing, China. Coxsey still leads Slovenia's Garnbret in the overall rankings, with five more events to take place before August. Japan's Akiyo Noguchi, 27, picked up bronze with third place. "It was a hot and sweaty final," Coxsey wrote on Twitter. "I'm very happy to finish in second place. Massive congrats to Janja!" Sport climbing - which includes bouldering - is one of five new sports confirmed for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser WATCH: How Shauna Coxsey became the UK's first bouldering world champion

Shauna Coxsey took silver in the second Bouldering World Cup event of the year as she continued her title defence.

She had just given birth to their first son Dylan. But rather than congratulations, she was told: "We're sorry, your son has Down's syndrome." With her background in nursing and her husband's as a doctor, the couple had some knowledge of the condition. But it still did not prepare them for the negative information that came flooding their way. "No-one spells out all the things that could possibly go wrong for a child when they're born," she said. "But when you have a child with a disability, with Down's syndrome, they tell you the average life expectancy is 50; they won't go to mainstream school; they won't do this and that. "They just say all the negatives." Fourteen years later and Dylan has defied those initial expectations. He is flourishing in year 9 at mainstream school and has made the Down's Syndrome GB swimming squad. But that initial lack of support led to his mother and two other mothers of children with Down's syndrome to take matters into their own hands. When Dylan was a toddler, a health visitor introduced his mother to Katharina Barker and Nicky Williams. Both women also had babies with Down's syndrome. And all three discovered they had shared similar experiences in terms of a lack of support for people with Down's syndrome and their families. Katharina said although she had had a "very positive, supportive" experience with the birth of her daughter Amelie, she quickly struggled to find specialist support. "One of the things I found hugely frustrating, unless you are pointed in the right direction you are not going to find services, they are not coming to you," she said. They decided to host a coffee morning for parents with children with Down's syndrome to make friends and share experiences. The success of it led to the trio setting up a charity and the support it offers includes speech and language therapy, school help and annual education conferences. Although Nicky has since stepped down from the Monmouth-based 21 Plus charity, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, Victoria and Katharina are determined to expand its reach as much as possible. And their hard work and dedication led to them becoming finalists in the national St David Awards citizenship category. They want to continue helping children with Down's syndrome "achieve their potential and increase access to opportunities". "One of the mums said to me yesterday that one thing she loves is being able to ask any question, even if it sounds daft and she wouldn't have the nerve to ask anyone else, she can ask us," Victoria said. "I guess that's why I do it. I don't want any of our families to think, 'I wish I'd known about…' or 'I wish I'd known that earlier'." "I believe in expert parents and I want to make it possible for our families to become experts if that's what they want." Katharina added: "We want to give children the chance to access schooling, to access learning and to access the world. "The greatest thing is to see the children grow up, to see them developing and how well they're doing. "It makes it so worthwhile, it's wonderful."

It was the look between the midwife and her husband that Victoria Hughes remembers.

Campaigners from action group Plane Stupid staged the demonstration on Monday in opposition to the airport's expansion plans. The men and women have been charged with aggravated trespass and entering a security restricted area of an aerodrome, police said. They will appear in court on 19 August. The protest took place on the northern runway at 03:30 BST on Monday. The Metropolitan Police said security at the airport would be reviewed.

Thirteen people have been charged after climate change protesters stormed onto the runway at Heathrow Airport and chained themselves together.

The wager on Murray - the competition's 5/2 second favourite, behind Novak Djokovic - would net a £175,000 return, including the stake. Ladbrokes believes it to be the largest tennis bet ever placed in Scotland. The company's Alex Donohue said: "Our Murray fan in Aberdeen has given his hero the ultimate vote of confidence with this record-breaking bet." Murray ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's singles champion in 2013 when he beat Djokovic in the final. The British number one is due to get his campaign under way against Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan on Tuesday.

A punter in Aberdeen has placed a bet of £50,000 on Andy Murray to win Wimbledon.

Sir Kevin has referred himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Kathryn Hudson. It follows a Daily Telegraph report saying he received fees for sponsoring dinners and a breakfast on the Parliamentary estate. In a letter to Ms Hudson, he said all the fees were paid to charity. According to the Commons Code of Conduct, MPs' use of public resources should always be "in support of their parliamentary duties" and should not "confer any undue personal or financial benefit on themselves or anyone else, or confer undue advantage on a political organisation". in his letter to Ms Hudson, Sir Kevin wrote: "My own understanding is that due to the fact that I made no personal gain and all the fees were paid to a charity, I had not breached the rules on usage of parliamentary facilities for personal or business use. "It is a matter of record that I followed the rules in registering this interest and that I deposited an agreement for the provision of services, as the rules required. "In light of the allegations that I may have breached House of Commons code of conduct or rules, I refer myself to you for you to consider whether any breaches of the rules or the code of conduct have taken place."

Labour MP Sir Kevin Barron has stood aside as Commons Standards Committee chairman over allegations he hosted events at Westminster for a drugs firm.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced last week that the government-led task force would "fight for a future for our steel industry". The group will be chaired by Business Minister Fergus Ewing and bring together key representatives who will work to keep open the Dalzell plant in Motherwell and Clydebridge in Cambuslang. It is the latest in a series of task forces set up to tackle problems ranging from job losses to environmental crime and the refugee crisis. But what do they do? Who sits on them and how successful have they been? BBC Scotland's business and economy editor Douglas Fraser has heard from one veteran of these task forces who described them as "largely useless". This was set up at the start of October "to support workers and communities affected by Young's Seafood's decision to reduce its operations in the town". The move followed a decision by Sainsbury's to transfer a £100m fish processing contract away from Young's, resulting in the loss of 650 jobs. The business minister said after its first meeting on 2 October: "The Task Force will also consider how to support longer term sustainable employment in the wider area. "This work will take a number of months and all members of the Task Force agreed today to collaborate closely to deliver an Economic Recovery Plan that meets the needs and aspirations of the workers, the people of Fraserburgh and surrounding communities." The Fraserburgh team is made up of representatives of Young's, the Usdaw union, Scottish Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland, Aberdeenshire Council, local MPs and MSPs. Also taking their place around the table are Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Skills Development Scotland, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Scottish Seafood Association, the Scottish Pelagic Processors Association and Seafood Scotland. An emergency summit was convened in Edinburgh on 11 September at which First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland stood ready to take at least 1,000 new refugees "as an immediate priority". Represented on the task force are the Scottish and UK governments, Scottish Refugee Council, British Red Cross, Glasgow Girls, STUC, New Scots, City of Edinburgh Council, Cosla, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, the DWP and Police Scotland. Following the meeting, the Scottish government's Europe Minister Humza Yousaf said: "It is very encouraging to hear that the majority of councils have indicated a willingness to accommodate refugees - we will now build on this positive response and ensure the appropriate support and integration services are put in place." Established by Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, this was tasked with "supporting delivery of the Scottish government's commitment to tackling environmental crime". The task force, which presented its findings to the Scottish government in June 2013, said it had looked to "define environmental crime, identify opportunities and priorities for preventing, tackling and deterring environmental crime, improve co-ordination between law enforcement agencies and others and make proposals for legislation, research and other measures to tackle environmental crime". It was made up of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, the Scottish government's Environmental Quality Division, Justice department and Natural Resources Division, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers (UK). In March, Scottish Power announced plans to close its huge coal-fired power station at Longannet in Fife early next year. The move came after the energy firm failed to win a crucial contract from the National Grid. The Longannet Task Force, again chaired by Fergus Ewing, met on 24 August and was made up of local MPs and MSPs, trades unions, businesses and government agencies. It will reconvene next month once final figures have been produced to show how many Longannet employees want to take redundancy, seek redeployment within the company or find a new job. Hugh Finlay, Scottish Power's generation director, said: "The taskforce continues to make good progress and all parties around the table are working closely together to put forward a viable economic plan for the region. We are also continuing our consultation process with every team member employed at Longannet, and we remain committed to finding the best outcomes for everyone at the station." Production at the Hall's of Broxburn meat factory in West Lothian came to an end in February 2013. Almost 1,700 jobs had gone since Dutch owners, Vion, announced its closure the previous year. Thomas Lynch was a manager at the plant, and also sat on the task force of Scottish government, union and industry representatives which tried to save it from closure. He said at the time: "It's very frustrating. I think everyone involved in the Hall's site just wanted honesty. Deep down we probably knew it was a wasted effort. "From day one the general feeling was that the site was going to close even though we went over cost-saving measures."

The Scottish Steel Task Force meets for the first time on Thursday following the announcement that steel firm Tata is to close its two plants in Scotland with the loss of 270 jobs.

It's a type of battery called lithium-sulphur, which - in theory - could have five times the energy density of the lithium-ion forms in wide use today. But the prototype developed by a UK-Chinese team overcomes a key hurdle to their commercial development by taking inspiration from the gut. Details appear in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. Scientists are tackling the challenge of improving battery technology using a variety of different approaches; this is one of them. One of the problems hindering the commercial development of lithium-sulphur-based devices has been the degradation of the batteries caused by the loss of active materials within. To overcome this problem, the researchers developed a lightweight layer with nano-scale structure which resembles the villi - finger-like protrusions which line the small intestine. In humans, villi are used to absorb the products of digestion and increase the surface area across which this process can take place. In the new lithium-sulphur battery, a layer of material with a villi-like structure, made from tiny zinc oxide wires, is placed on the surface of one of the battery's electrodes. This can trap fragments of the active material when they break off, keeping them accessible for ongoing reactions and allowing the material to be reused. "It's a tiny thing, this layer, but it's important," said study co-author Dr Paul Coxon from the University of Cambridge's department of materials science and metallurgy. "This gets us a long way through the bottleneck which is preventing the development of better batteries." The researchers say that, if hurdles to commercial development can be overcome, lithium-sulphur batteries could have five times the energy density of the lithium-ion batteries used in smartphones and other electronics. But as lithium-sulphur batteries discharge, sulphur molecules transform into chain-like structures known as poly-sulphides. As the devices undergo several charge-discharge cycles, bits of the poly-sulphide go into the battery's electrolyte (the electrically-conducting solution), so that over time the battery loses active material. "This is the first time a chemically functional layer with a well-organised nano-architecture has been proposed to trap and reuse the dissolved active materials during battery charging and discharging," said lead author Teng Zhao, a PhD student from Cambridge. "By taking our inspiration from the natural world, we were able to come up with a solution that we hope will accelerate the development of next-generation batteries." The device is currently a proof of principle; commercially-available lithium-sulphur batteries are still some years away. Additionally, while the number of times the battery can be charged and discharged has been improved, it is still not able to go through as many charge cycles as a lithium-ion battery. But the researchers point out that, given a lithium-sulphur battery does not need to be charged as often as a lithium-ion battery, it may be the case that the increase in energy density cancels out the lower total number of charge-discharge cycles.

Scientists have designed a new prototype battery that mimics the structure of the human intestines.

Two snowsports enthusiasts got married at a Scottish ski resort before sliding off down a run in their wedding attire. Bridget and Jonathan Reid, from Moy, near Tomatin in the Highlands, tied the knot at Nevis Range, near Fort William, on Friday. The couple first's date six years ago was a skiing trip, so they decided it would be appropriate to get married on skis. Adventure photographer Hamish Frost took their wedding snaps. Bridget, who is a teacher, and Jonathan, who runs his own electrical automation company, benefited from recent snowfalls for their big day. They got married in full Highland dress, which includes a kilt, and white wedding dress surrounded by snow-covered mountain landscape. The white stuff had been lacking over winter, but last month's Storm Doris and recent spells of colder weather have helped with the operation of Nevis Range and Scotland's other outdoor ski centres. The newly weds said: "Over the last couple of years we have spent as many weekends as possible skiing the Back Corries at Nevis Range. "We love the atmosphere, the friendliness of the staff and the amazing terrain for skiing. When we heard that we could actually get married there it was a no-brainer." The couple got married at the top of Easy Gully in a ceremony officiated by Halde Pottinger from the Humanist Society of Scotland. "He was totally up for marrying us on skis and did an amazing job. He is currently trying to establish whether or not we are the first wedding actually conducted and vowed in skis - officiate and couple," said the Reids. "We can't actually believe we are but there can't be many. We also managed to twist the arm of adventure photographer Hamish Frost, who came along to take photographs." The couple added: "The day could not have been better. Without doubt it was the best conditions of the year - with blue skies and fresh snow, we could not have asked for more." They thanked the staff of Nevis Range for "a fabulous job making our day possible", and for helping in throwing "a hell of a good party" in the evening.

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Only 50.5 overs were possible at the MCG, but Australia still got wickets at regular intervals with Jackson Bird taking two for 53. Azhar's 110-ball half-century saw him pass 1,000 Test runs in 2016. Australia lead the three-Test series 1-0, having beaten Pakistan by 39 runs in the opener at the Gabba. Sami Aslam was undone by Nathan Lyon after making just nine and, after Azhar and Babar Azam batted through the remainder of the morning, Azam edged the last ball before lunch from Josh Hazlewood to give Steve Smith his second catch. Misbah-ul-Haq scored 11 off 13 balls with a four and a six before being brilliantly caught at short leg by Nic Maddinson off Bird. Bird bowled Younus Khan off an inside edge to end a third-wicket stand of 51. The wicket came shortly before the scheduled tea break and the weather meant that interval came early and play never resumed.

Azhar Ali's unbeaten 66 helped Pakistan to reach 142-4 against Australia on a rain-affected first day of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne.

The council is consulting on shutting Bodlondeb in Penparcau, Aberystwyth, with the loss of 33 jobs. A report said residents would have to move to other homes - potentially long distances away. The council previously said the building would need significant investment to continue operating. It added it appreciated Bodlondeb was "very important to the people of Aberystwyth and beyond and this is a very sensitive matter for all involved". GMB and Unison, which represent staff at Bodlondeb, said the closure came with "no plan for improving or securing the long term provision of care for the elderly within our community". A consultation is due to run until 25 September and a public meeting is being held on 17 July at Llwyn yr Eos primary school from 19:00 BST. Unison branch secretary Owain Davies said: "It is simply the closure of a well-loved and valued home, in order to help balance a budget that has been cut to the bone - and now into the bone. "At a time when everyone is acknowledging that demands on social care for the elderly are rising, it is absurd for Ceredigion Council to be proposing the closure of its sole remaining residential home in its most populated town, especially as the closure comes with no plans or details as to how the increasing demands are going to be met with less capacity and less facilities." Unison added it recognised the financial difficulties facing the council, but said this proposal was "an inappropriate and inadequate response". Althea Phillips, regional organiser for the GMB, said: "All of the staff at the home are dedicated and hard-working and it is their efforts over the years that has kept Bodlondeb in high regard in the community, they deserve to be treated better than this." A report to the council said the Bodlondeb home has been operating at a loss of nearly £400,000 per year - more than £7,600 per week. The council said there were empty spaces in care homes across the county which reflects the "changing nature of care requirements". A spokeswoman added the council had been meeting regularly with union representatives and Bodlondeb staff.

A council's proposal to shut a Ceredigion care home comes with "no plan" for care provision in the area, unions have said.

The price of West Texas crude sank to $37.65 (£24.99) a barrel, a drop of 5.8%, while Brent Crude fell 5.3% to $40.73 a barrel. The slumping price comes as OPEC - a group of the largest oil producing nations- refused to cut oil production. OPEC- whose production covers about 30% of the world's oil demand - met in Vienna last week to discuss production. The group has faced growing competition from new supplies, including in the US where techniques like fracking are used to tap previously hard-to-reach oil reserves. "The decision by OPEC members to keep oil production output at record high levels has seen oil prices plummet again," said Sanjiv Shah, chief investment officer of Sun Global Investments. The group had traditionally kept a tight rein on oil production to regulate price, but announced last Friday it will continue to pump out approximately 31.5 million barrels of oil a day, going past the group's former 30 million barrel target. In 2014 Saudi Arabia led OPEC in a decision to keep output high to defend its market share.

The price of oil fell to its lowest level since 2009 as global production continues to remain high.

Bertrand Traore, playing as a central striker, gave the Blues the lead when he took Nemanja Matic's pass, turned and fired home from 20 yards out. The Potters deservedly levelled when Xherdan Shaqiri's cross was punched by Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois to Diouf, who headed into an empty net. Bojan almost won it for the Potters in injury time but Courtois denied him. Stoke remain seventh in the table, with Chelsea 10th - three points behind them. The Blues named a team with Wednesday's Champions League game against Paris St-Germain in mind. Striker Diego Costa, who had a minor tendon injury, was not risked, while midfielder Cesc Fabregas was left on the bench. Burkina Faso forward Traore started centrally, with recognised strikers Loic Remy and Alexandre Pato on the bench, and his goal was the one real moment of quality in the game. He found space outside the box before firing a great shot past Jack Butland - his fourth goal in five games. However, he had a mixed game, failing to control the ball in the box on a couple of occasions and being caught offside needlessly. He was replaced after 68 minutes by Remy, who made little impact. Chelsea could have had a penalty when Marc Muniesa leaned on Oscar in the box but there were only muted appeals for a spot-kick. The Potters had won their previous three Premier League games and started the day five points off the Champions League places. Mark Hughes named an attacking line-up at the home of the soon-to-be dethroned champions, with Ibrahim Afellay, Shaqiri and Marko Arnautovic starting behind Diouf. When Bojan replaced Glenn Whelan, they had five forwards on the pitch. And just when it looked like their luck might be out - Courtois had done well to deny Shaqiri and Arnautovic - they got their reward. With Joselu waiting on the touchline to replace Diouf, the Senegal striker headed home after Courtois failed to adequately deal with Shaqiri's cross. That was his last touch. Hughes told BBC Sport: "That's the bit of luck you need. He put a great shift in. He was looking a bit tired so I thought I'd freshen it up. Luckily he scored just before I brought him off." Stoke boss Mark Hughes told BBC Sport: "We're grateful to equalise but we deserved more from the game. It was an excellent away performance - we took the game to Chelsea. We were encouraged by the team they picked. Media playback is not supported on this device "I was a bit surprised with their team. I thought they had a chance to get in the Champions League. "We're really pleased with the performance. Their goal came out of the blue, it was a great bit of individual skill. I felt we were a strong team and made things happen." Chelsea interim boss Guus Hiddink told BBC Sport: "Stoke play well and creatively and they pushed us back. The first goal we got after a sloppy start, it was a beautiful goal. "We should have got a penalty for a foul on Oscar. Any referee would have given a free-kick if it was outside the box. That was a key point. Stoke got some encouragement after that. Media playback is not supported on this device "We have rested one or two players but it's good to see the players who came in, especially the young ones, like Traore and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, do well. "Everyone knows in December we were one point off the relegation zone. There was a little bit of panic. Through a lot of draws at the beginning, we moved away and then we had to make the next step with victories, which we did." Chelsea's next two games will have more of an impact on their chances of winning a trophy than the Stoke fixture. On Wednesday, they try to overhaul a 2-1 first-leg deficit against PSG in the Champions League last 16, while next Saturday they go to Everton in the FA Cup quarter-finals. Stoke's next game is at home to Southampton next Saturday. Match ends, Chelsea 1, Stoke City 1. Second Half ends, Chelsea 1, Stoke City 1. Attempt missed. Gary Cahill (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Willian with a cross following a corner. Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Erik Pieters. Attempt saved. Bojan (Stoke City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Giannelli Imbula. Attempt blocked. Joselu (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bojan. Substitution, Stoke City. Stephen Ireland replaces Marko Arnautovic. Attempt missed. Oscar (Chelsea) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Willian with a cross following a corner. Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Jack Butland. Attempt saved. Baba Rahman (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Loïc Remy. Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by John Obi Mikel (Chelsea). Substitution, Stoke City. Joselu replaces Mame Biram Diouf. Goal! Chelsea 1, Stoke City 1. Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Substitution, Chelsea. Cesc Fàbregas replaces Nemanja Matic. Bojan (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Nemanja Matic (Chelsea). Attempt saved. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Willian with a through ball. Foul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City). Oscar (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing. Offside, Chelsea. Nemanja Matic tries a through ball, but Loïc Remy is caught offside. Hand ball by Bojan (Stoke City). Substitution, Stoke City. Bojan replaces Glenn Whelan. Attempt missed. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick. Glenn Whelan (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Glenn Whelan (Stoke City). Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt blocked. Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Philipp Wollscheid. Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Branislav Ivanovic. Substitution, Chelsea. Loïc Remy replaces Bertrand Traore. Ibrahim Afellay (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by John Obi Mikel (Chelsea). Foul by Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City). Willian (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Marc Muniesa (Stoke City). Bertrand Traore (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing. Attempt blocked. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Foul by Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City). Willian (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing. Attempt blocked. Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Glenn Whelan.

Mame Biram Diouf scored a late equaliser as Stoke prevented Chelsea from overtaking them in the league.

Konta continued her remarkable run with a 6-4 6-1 win over China's Zhang Shuai in the quarter-finals and next faces German seventh seed Angelique Kerber. Media playback is not supported on this device Fellow Briton Murray saw off Spain's David Ferrer 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 6-3 to reach his sixth Melbourne semi-final. The Scot, seeded second, will play Canada's Milos Raonic on Friday. Raonic, a Wimbledon semi-finalist in 2014, beat Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-4. Konta and Murray have matched the achievement of semi-finalist Sue Barker and runner-up John Lloyd, who both reached the last four at the Australian Open 39 years ago. Murray, 28, won a gruelling quarter-final against eighth seed Ferrer that lasted three hours and 49 minutes. Konta, ranked 47th, is the first British woman to reach a Grand Slam semi-final since Jo Durie made the US Open last four in 1983. Media playback is not supported on this device "I'm just so happy that I'm enjoying what I'm doing," said Konta after her straight-set win over Zhang. "That is me living my dream." Her achievements so far have guaranteed her prize money of at least £370,000 and are likely to secure her a place in the world's top 30. "When I was a little girl, I dreamt of winning grand slams and being number one in the world," she added. "That dream stays the same, I think, as long as you're doing the career that you're on." Konta said she "just wanted to come out and play the best level" she could against Zhang, who was also in uncharted waters. The British number one saw off the Chinese qualifier, ranked 133rd in the world, in one hour and 22 minutes. Konta began confidently, breaking twice and serving superbly as she moved 5-2 clear before overcoming some nerves and a resurgent opponent to clinch the set. After saving a break point that would have made it 5-5 and then converting her sixth set point, the confidence returned and Konta again earned a double-break lead in the second set. With a semi-final place there for the taking, Konta saw two match points slip by but converted the third thanks to a net cord. "To be honest, I was taking it a match at a time," said Konta. "She definitely didn't make it easy for me. "Every time I was ahead, she was constantly there. I'm not proud of the net cord, but I'm happy I was able to fight every point." A Grand Slam final appearance is now a real possibility, arguably more so after Kerber's surprise win over the in-form Victoria Azarenka. Kerber and Konta will meet for the first time in Thursday's second semi-final at around 04:30 GMT. Murray is through to his 18th Grand Slam semi-final, bringing him level with Boris Becker, having dropped just two sets in five matches. The former Wimbledon and US Open champion was made to work hard by Ferrer, but Murray proved the stronger in the third and fourth sets. A three-set win looked possible after he took the opener and fought back from 4-1 down in the second to earn two break points at 4-4. Ferrer, 33, showed his famous battling qualities by digging in and forcing a tie-break, which he would win to draw level, prompting Murray to berate himself and talk to those in his player box. The Scot was understandably irritated but gathered himself sufficiently to break for a 3-1 lead in the third, at which point the roof was brought across with thunderstorms forecast. Murray saved a break point on the resumption, but broke once again to take a grip on the contest and moved 2-0 up in the fourth. Ferrer, 33, refused to yield and hit straight back but Murray made the decisive move in game six after the Spaniard netted a smash and made it to the finish line with two hard-fought service games. He will now play Raonic, who is pledging to "fight with all my heart" when the two meet on Friday. With Jamie Murray through to the semi-finals of the men's doubles with Brazilian Bruno Soares, it is the first time two brothers have reached semis in singles and doubles at the Australian Open. Azarenka might have been seeded seven places lower than Kerber at 14th, but the German still pulled off something of a shock by knocking out the Belarusian. The 28-year-old raced into an early 4-0 lead and then staged a superb second-set fightback to beat two-time champion Azarenka 6-3 7-5. The German had lost all six previous matches against Azarenka and saved five set points from 2-5 in the second set. "I can't actually describe it in words," said Kerber. "I'm so happy I beat her for the first time." Azarenka, 26, said her footwork and shots weren't good enough and also blamed "too many unforced errors in the key moments". BBC Radio 5 Live tennis correspondent Russell Fuller: Winning the Davis Cup with Serbia for the first time in 2010 inspired Novak Djokovic to win three Grand Slam titles the following year. Andy Murray certainly believes you can also ascribe some of the British success in Melbourne to Davis Cup momentum. "When you have success like we had, the other players see that and want to be part of that as well," he told BBC Sport. "Jo's played great pretty much since Wimbledon last year and my brother has probably taken some confidence from the Davis Cup as well. "They were very intense atmospheres and he played some of his best tennis in those matches." Will the run continue when Konta takes to the court for her semi-final? "Jo's definitely got a chance," said Murray. "I think she's playing at that level now. I don't think there's a clear favourite."

Britain have two Grand Slam singles semi-finalists for the first time since 1977 after victories for Johanna Konta and Andy Murray at the Australian Open.

Haroon Syed, of west London, admitted preparing acts of terrorism after trying to source weapons including a suicide bomb and machine gun. He was caught after approaching MI5 officers, who were posing as a fellow extremist, via social media. Syed was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years and six months. Last year, his brother was jailed for life for plotting to behead someone on Remembrance Sunday. Judge Michael Topolski QC said Syed wanted to carry out "an act of mass murder" and therefore a discretionary life sentence was warranted. Prosecutors say Syed's plans ranged from becoming a suicide bomber to staging a gun attack, and while he initially boasted of working with others, those people did not materialise. Instead, over the summer of last year, he made increasingly urgent efforts to secure weaponry. After he went online looking for help, a purported jihadist fighting overseas, known only as Abu Isa, introduced him to another extremist going by the name Abu Yusuf. This second man was, in fact, a group of MI5 officers who were playing the role of a jihadist in what became weeks of social media chat with Syed. Teen admits planning 'London bomb attack' Duncan Penny QC, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey there was initially some "suspicion on both sides" before Abu Yusuf concluded that Syed was a "committed brother" he could deal with. Syed then began talking about his aspirations and gave his contact a shopping list, saying he wanted "do martyrdom" after first causing "damage" with a machine gun. "Can you get the gear?" asked Syed. "You will be involved right? "Two things. Number one, machine gun and we need someone who can make a vest you know the dugma [button] one. So after some damage with machine gun then do itishadi [martyrdom] ... that's what I'm planning to do." The undercover officer told Syed guns were expensive - but he might be able to get someone to build a bomb. Syed floated the idea of going to fight overseas with his new-found friend - but revealed his passport had been cancelled by the authorities. He tried and failed twice to get fraudulent loans of thousands of pounds to cover the cost of firearms - and eventually agreed to meet his contact in a coffee shop in Slough, Berkshire, to finalise an alternative plan. Over two meetings, he talked about his aspirations and then handed over £150, asking for a bomb packed with nails. The conversation was secretly recorded. "I was thinking of Oxford Street," he told his contact. "If you put those things inside called nails, do you know what that is, nails? Those sharp things - lots of them inside. "Good man, can't wait akhi [brother]. If I go to prison, I go to prison. If I die, I die, you understand? I have got to get to Jannah [heaven]." The undercover officer later told Syed a "bomb-making brother" would have the device ready within days - and the suspect went online to narrow his list of targets. His web searches included "packed places in London" and "Elton John, Hyde Park, 11 September" - a major concert hosted by BBC Radio 2 which also featured Status Quo and Madness. Prosecutors say Syed's character had begun to change outwardly in late 2014, coinciding with the growing support among British extremists for the self-styled Islamic State group. During the course of the investigation, detectives found his web searches jumped about as he tried to satisfy himself that an attack on civilians was theologically justifiable. One of his last searches, a week before his arrest, was: "How can I stop being upset about the UK killing innocent Syrians and get on with my day?" When counter-terrorist detectives arrested him in September and asked him for the password for his phone, he replied: "ISIS - you like that?" Syed's was one of 18 terror plots to have been foiled since 2013. Mitigating, Mark Summers QC said it was a "crude, ill-thought-out" plan made at the behest of others. The court heard Syed had fallen under the influence of members of banned extremist group Al-Muhajiroun, and that he now publicly rejected his past beliefs and condemned the recent bomb attack in Manchester. But Judge Topolski told Syed: "You were not lured, you were not enticed, you were not entrapped. "You became, and in my judgement as shown by your online activities away from your contact with Abu Yusuf, deeply committed to the ideology of a brutal and barbaric organisation that sought to hijack and corrupt an ancient and venerable religion for its own purposes and you wanted to be part of it." Deb Walsh, deputy head of the counter-terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Haroon Syed is clearly a danger to the public who was prepared to carry out indiscriminate attacks against innocent people. "The compelling evidence presented by the CPS left him with no choice but to plead guilty."

A 19-year-old man has been jailed for life for planning a bomb attack that may have targeted an Elton John concert or Oxford Street in central London.

The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader Colum Eastwood, who visited Brussels this week, is in no doubt. He described the prospect of the UK's withdrawal from Europe as "the biggest immediate threat to the economy of Northern Ireland and to the island as a whole". He insisted a Brexit - the inelegant shorthand for Britain leaving Europe - "would undermine and destabilise the fabric of successive Anglo-Irish agreements". It would "undermine and destabilise our north-south institutions", he added, and would "resurrect borders and resurrect barriers for business". In Northern Ireland Questions in the House of Commons, the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Sammy Wilson took the opposite view. He maintained a vote to leave the EU would "help the Northern Ireland economy insofar as it would release £18bn every year for expenditure on public services". He also said it would "enable us to enter a trade agreement with growing parts of the world and release us from the stifling bureaucracies of Europe". Finance Minister Mervyn Storey, Mr Wilson's DUP colleague, attended an event this week to welcome the allocation of more than £400m in EU peace and cross-border funding for Northern Ireland. Earlier this month, Emma Pengelly, another DUP minister, described the peace money and the European Task Force on Northern Ireland as "essential to making Northern Ireland work and building that better future we want to see". At the same time, DUP politicians tell you it is only right that Northern Ireland should get its share, pointing out that the UK puts £1.50 into the European pot for every £1 it gets back. In the Commons, the SDLP, the Scottish National Party and the Labour Party appeared to be intent on exposing the difference between what they termed the "mixed messages" emanating from the Eurosceptic Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers and Ben Wallace, her Europhile junior minister. When it came to calculating the amount Britain puts into Europe, Mr Wilson set the bar high at £18bn. Both the DUP's deputy leader Nigel Dodds and First Minister Arlene Foster recently quoted far more conservative estimates of about £9bn. That, coincidentally, is about the same amount as Northern Ireland's fiscal deficit with Westminster, according to the latest Stormont budget. This BBC backgrounder opts for a UK EU contribution figure of £11.3bn. Mr Dodds told the BBC's Question Time that Northern Ireland and the UK could survive quite well outside the EU. Both he and Mrs Foster are sticking to the official DUP line that they will not make their minds up definitively until Prime Minister David Cameron has completed his negotiations for EU reform. But given Mr Wilson's belief that Mr Cameron's renegotiation is doomed to fail, and the DUP MEP Diane Dodds' previous criticism of the prime minister's "barrenness of ambition", it appears almost certain that the DUP will end up campaigning for EU withdrawal, together with the Tradional Unionist Voice and the UK Independence Party. The SDLP, Sinn Féin and the Alliance Party will be in the pro EU camp. The Ulster Unionists are still in wait-and-see mode. If Mr Cameron does opt for a summer referendum, voters in Northern Ireland will barely have time to recover from May's assembly election before they are asked to go to the polls again. The campaign will no doubt feature plenty of financial arguments, not just about the UK's membership fees but also regarding the impact of any withdrawal on future trade between the UK and the rest of the EU. Mrs Foster told me she would like more clarity about Westminster's plans for Northern Ireland's financial subvention in the event of the UK leaving the EU and the consequent loss of peace and cross-border cash. Whether she gets such clarity is doubtful, given that the prime minister may be reluctant to contemplate such a possibility. Away from the numbers game, with the Irish government watching on with concern and nationalists and unionists likely to be polarised, expect plenty of good old-fashioned traditional politics. Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson has said a Brexit "could see the re-emergence of passport checkpoints and customs controls" along the Irish border that would hinder "free movement and disrupt the lives of nearly a million people living in the border region". Mrs Foster said that is "scaremongering" and appears convinced that "practical solutions" will mean cross-border trade and the free movement of people would continue unaffected. Just like the Scottish independence referendum, the EU campaign in Northern Ireland may ultimately be more about hearts and minds than it is about facts and figures.

So, is Northern Ireland better off inside or outside the European Union?

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".

Andreu was denied from the spot by a brilliant save from Raith keeper Kevin Cuthbert 15 minutes from time. United were reduced to ten men when former Rovers defender Lewis Toshney was sent off in 55 minutes after collecting a second yellow card. Rudi Skacel struck the bar for Raith but neither side could find the net. Dundee United manager Ray McKinnon is desperate to add more of a goal threat to his team and Dutch trialist striker Felitciano Zschusschen watched from the stands. The Tangerines struggled to make clear cut chances but with 15 minutes to go Scott Fraser went down in the box as he tried to go between Jean Yves M'Voto and Kyle Benedictus. Cuthbert produced an impressive save to deny Norwich City's on-loan striker Andreu to ensure the points were shared. Raith Rovers manager Gary Locke: "It was a great save from Kevin but he shouldn't have had to make it. It was a poor decision. "I'm not one that likes to go about these things as the referees have got a hard job and it's not something I want to talk about too much but it was a soft, soft decision. "It was great that he saved it though as we wouldn't have deserved to get beat in that game." Dundee United manager Ray McKinnon: "I'm so proud of the players today as I thought we were the better team for the entire 90 minutes and even when we were down to ten men we were excellent. "We created a few chances but there will be twists and turns in this league all season and we have lots of positives to take forward. "To get a point against a tough team like Raith with just ten men was absolutely outstanding and if you had said to us three months ago we would be up at the top of the league we would have taken that." Match ends, Raith Rovers 0, Dundee United 0. Second Half ends, Raith Rovers 0, Dundee United 0. Attempt missed. Ross Callachan (Raith Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Substitution, Raith Rovers. Joel Coustrain replaces Bobby Barr. Corner, Raith Rovers. Conceded by Sean Dillon. Corner, Raith Rovers. Conceded by Scott Fraser. Ross Matthews (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Sean Dillon (Dundee United). Attempt saved. Simon Murray (Dundee United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Tony Andreu (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Jordan Thompson (Raith Rovers). Attempt saved. Kyle Benedictus (Raith Rovers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Corner, Raith Rovers. Conceded by Mark Durnan. Blair Spittal (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Jordan Thompson (Raith Rovers). Substitution, Raith Rovers. Lewis Vaughan replaces Declan McManus. Hand ball by Declan McManus (Raith Rovers). Declan McManus (Raith Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Blair Spittal (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Declan McManus (Raith Rovers). Attempt missed. Chris Johnston (Raith Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Foul by William Edjenguele (Dundee United). Mark Stewart (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt saved. Declan McManus (Raith Rovers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Hand ball by Declan McManus (Raith Rovers). Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Iain Davidson. Attempt missed. Mark Durnan (Dundee United) header from the centre of the box is too high. Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Kevin Cuthbert. Kyle Benedictus (Raith Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Penalty saved! Tony Andreu (Dundee United) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner. Penalty Dundee United. Simon Murray draws a foul in the penalty area. Penalty conceded by Kyle Benedictus (Raith Rovers) after a foul in the penalty area. Attempt blocked. Scott Fraser (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Hand ball by Ross Callachan (Raith Rovers). Substitution, Raith Rovers. Mark Stewart replaces Rudi Skacel. Attempt missed. Tony Andreu (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Attempt blocked. Rudi Skacel (Raith Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt missed. Blair Spittal (Dundee United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Attempt missed. Declan McManus (Raith Rovers) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Attempt blocked. Tony Andreu (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.

Tony Andreu missed a second-half penalty as Dundee United dropped two points in the Championship title race with a draw at Stark's Park.

Nigerian Keshi, who died suddenly aged 54, was appointed head coach of Togo three times between 2004 and 2011. The match in Lome was played between the current Togo national side and 'Team Keshi', made up of players who were part of his 2006 squad. "Keshi was like a big brother for me," said striker Emmanuel Adebayor, who played for Team Keshi. "He was somebody that I respected a lot and I have to give him a lot of credit because when he joined the Togolese national team he believed in me. "He was for the first time looking into my eyes and told me how good I was and how good I could become. "I just listened to his advice because he was a former footballer. Listening to his advice helped me a lot and today I am where I am because of that of that. "May his soul rest in a perfect peace and let's us keep on remembering him in our prayers." Keshi will be most widely remembered for his feats with Nigeria, both as an Africa Cup of Nations-winning player and coach. But he also will be associated deeply with Togo, who gave him his first coaching job - and he pulled off a remarkable achievement to qualify them for the 2006 World Cup finals, ahead of Senegal and Zambia. However, he was sacked by Togo just a few months before the tournament in Germany. Keshi returned for two more spells - appointed in 2007 and 2001 - but was unable to repeat his earlier success with the Hawks. More than 20,000 fans were in attendance at the Ominsports stadium in Lome to watch the game, which finished 6-2 to the current Togo national side. After the match. Adebayor told the crowd: "I would like to pay tribute to him and I hope that the family he left behind will find the needed faith and strength to overcome this period." Abalo Dosseh, deputy coach and former captain of Togo, told BBC Sport: "It is an honour for me to stand on this pitch in remembrance of Big Boss. He has done a lot for Togolese football and the entire continent. "I always remember the day I asked to captain the team for the first time and we were also lucky to make the same year to the World Cup. "All the former players and others who are still playing have come to pay tribute to him." Toglose former player Olufade Adekambi, who also played alongside Keshi, added: "We thank God that he did many good things for Togo. We are still mourning him because he was like a big brother, a coach and a big man."

Togo honoured former coach Stephen Keshi, who died in June, by playing a tribute match on Sunday.

He has sent a business case to Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir outlying how he intends to tackle the projected £490m overspend. The scheme was set up by former first minister Arlene Mrs Foster in 2012 when she was enterprise minister. Its aim was to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources. However, businesses received more in subsidies than they paid for fuel, and the scheme became heavily oversubscribed. The plan by the economy minister has now been formally submitted to the Department of Finance for approval. Mr Hamilton and Mr Ó Muilleoir held talks on the issue last week. Analysis: BBC News NI's Business Correspondent Julian O'Neill The BBC understands the plan involves a two-staged approach. First, it would reduce the tariffs paid to around 1,800 people who got into the scheme before November 2015. This would require an Assembly vote to change the tariffs from the new financial year starting in April. Secondly, there would be a public consultation on a longer-term solution. But there remains an acceptance within the Department for the Economy that any moves on tariffs could face a legal challenge. It is understood that a significant number of RHI recipients have told the Department for the Economy they do not wish their names made public. The department had written to them asking for views on their names being released. Mrs Foster and Mr Hamilton have talked of wanting transparency about who benefited. It is believed the department is taking legal advice on its options. The failure of the political parties to find a resolution on how to investigate the failings in the scheme has led to a political crisis at Stormont. Martin McGuinness resigned on Monday as deputy first minister in protest against the botched handling of the scheme and, after Mrs Foster refused to step aside while an investigation was held. Under Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, Mrs Foster loses her first minister role with the departure of Mr McGuinness. The Sinn Féin MLA's decision to quit is likely to lead to a snap election. The party has seven days to nominate a new deputy first minister, but is adamant it will not replace him. If it chooses not to, then the baton would pass to Secretary of State James Brokenshire who would be legally obliged to call an election. In an effort to avert such a move, the British and Irish governments have pledged to do what they can to resolve the crisis.

DUP Economy Minister Simon Hamilton has given details of a plan to cut costs associated with the botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.

The bodies were found by police and paramedics after they were called to the house on Station Road in Shirebrook at about 22:10 GMT on Friday. A man has been arrested. He is aged 20 and from Sheffield. He remains in police custody. Police are investigating the cause of what they say are "suspicious" deaths and have asked anyone with information to contact them.

Two women have been found dead inside a house in Derbyshire.

The 23-year-old made 116 as Tim Groenewald and Lewis Gregory rattled through the rest of the hosts line-up. Jennings, who hit 15 fours, finally fell top-edging Josh Davey to gully before Durham were bowled out for 256. Tom Abell and Davey fell lbw to Rushworth, then Onions bowled Marcus Trescothick as Somerset closed on 30-3. Durham batsmen Mark Stoneman and Scott Borthwick both fell cheaply as Somerset started brightly before Jack Burnham (33) helped repair the innings in a 79-run third-wicket partnership with Jennings. Burnham eventually fell when he was bowled by Davey. Gregory then claimed two wicket in two balls, including uprooting Paul Collingwood's middle stump first ball, as Somerset looked to gain some momentum. Rushworth became Gregory's fourth victim of the day, departing to an exceptional slip catch from Jim Allenby it left the visitors with 12 overs to face. And last year's Division One leading wicket-taker struck in his fourth when Abell was trapped playing across the line before nightwatchman Davey was caught out in the next over when the ball nipped back. Onions' inswinging yorker then dismissed the Somerset captain as the away side limped to the close, trailing by 226 runs.

Keaton Jennings' century and three quick wickets from opening pair Chris Rushworth and Graham Onions gave Durham the edge against Somerset on day one.

The Gulls beat Solihull Moors for a first win in nine, but Nicholson was unhappy with the attitude afterwards. "We came in after beating Solihull and too many of the team looked like they'd made it," Nicholson told BBC Devon. "You should be in on Thursday and you should be head down let's get ready to go and beat Tranmere." He continued: "Overall it was an OK half and then one terrible bit of defending and a goal and you throw away all the good work that you've done. "But then that comes from a will to improve, you've got to put the work in every day at training, so that those kind of mistakes stop happening." Torquay have not beaten Tranmere since 1998, having lost the last three matches the two sides have played since Rovers were relegated to the National League in 2015. "It's sad that Tranmere versus Torquay should be a clash of two titans in this league and we're coming here as huge underdogs," added Nicholson. "It shouldn't be that way, our lads have got to set the standards and targets a lot higher than what they have, however they kept going and played some reasonably good football."

Torquay United manager Kevin Nicholson says his side's attitude in training ahead of their loss to Tranmere Rovers contributed to the result.

The visitors raced into a three-goal first-half lead at Hampden. Weatherson opened the scoring with an unstoppable 15th-minute free-kick, and he made it 2-0 in the 27th minute. Matt Flynn made it 3-0 six minutes later with a fine finish. Queen's pulled a consolation goal back in stoppage time through John Carter.

Peter Weatherson netted a brace as Annan recorded only their second win in eight matches.

Alan was the Syrian three-year-old whose photograph, lying dead on a Turkish beach, focused world attention on the refugee crisis in September. Mufawaka Alabash and Asem Alfrhad were convicted of people smuggling, but acquitted of causing death "through deliberate negligence". Thousands of refugees and migrants arrive daily in Greece from Turkey. The story of Alan Kurdi's family Why Alan Kurdi's picture cut through Alabash and Alfrhad were tried in Bodrum, the same Turkish city where Alan's body was washed up. The pair had faced up to 35 years in prison each. Both pleaded not guilty in February. Alan's five-year-old brother Galib and his mother Rihan also drowned when the boat they were on sank during an attempted crossing to the Greek island of Kos. The father, Abdullah, survived. He now lives in Iraq. In the latest efforts to tackle the migrant crisis, European Council President Donald Tusk is due to hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday. Mr Tusk has raised the idea of "shipping back" migrants who arrive in the Greek islands from Turkey. A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.

A court in Turkey has sentenced two Syrians to four years in jail over the death of Alan Kurdi and four others.

The Hammers were last week accused of sex discrimination by Stephen Hunt, chairman of the ladies' club. West Ham said they will now work in unison with the ladies' team to ensure key improvements are made. Vice-chairman Karren Brady said the Premier League club are "passionately committed to equality". She added women's football was a "high priority on our agenda". Hunt had told BBC Sport West Ham should "start to act like a 21st century club" and claimed they had stopped his team from finding sponsors, adding the ladies were short on funds because they had to buy their own kit. In response, West Ham claimed Hunt had "refused to align" with their principles. The ladies' team, who this season celebrate their 25th anniversary, play in the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division. Brady added: "The addition of the ladies into the West Ham family is the solution my board and I have long sought. "Not only does it secure the long-term future of the ladies' side, but also guarantees current and future supporters, players and staff of the ladies' team will form an integral part of the club's bright future as we move forward." As part of the agreement, the West Ham Ladies' Academy will also be managed by the Premier League club.

West Ham United have taken over the running of the ladies' club, saying they are "delighted" to bring it into "the West Ham family".

Second-placed Brechin City and Alloa Athletic, who are third, also won against Peterhead and Stenhousemuir respectively. Airdrieonians, who occupy the other promotion play-off place, beat Albion Rovers 2-1 to stretch their advantage over their opponents to five points. And Queen's Park were 2-0 winners away to Stranraer. At Livi, Liam Buchanan's strike in first-half stoppage time put the hosts ahead and Michael Miller's free-kick doubled their advantage before Kevin Smith netted to halve the visitors' deficit. Mark Hurst was dismissed for a foul on Danny Mullen and Buchanan scored the resulting penalty before the visitors also had Paul McManus sent off. Ross Caldwell scored a hat-trick as Brechin won 3-1 at Balmoor, Rory McAllister netting the hosts' consolation. In Clackmannanshire, Alloa comfortably overcame bottom club Stenny, with Greig Spence's strike and Andrew Graham and Jamie Longworth's headers putting the Wasps in command. Alistair Roy replied for the visitors but Kevin Cawley rounded off a 4-1 win to keep Alloa four points behind Livi. Airdrie went ahead at Cliftonhill when Andy Ryan lashed into the top corner and Iain Russell doubled their advantage, Ross Stewart heading one back for Albion Rovers. And goals by Dario Zanatta and Anton Brady secured the three points for the Spiders at Stair Park.

Livingston remain two points clear at the top of Scottish League One after they beat nine-man East Fife.

The Lions face in-form Super Rugby side Crusaders on Saturday after narrowly beating Provincial Barbarians and losing 22-16 to Blues. Wales wing North, 24, is one of four Lions making their first appearances of the tour in Canterbury. "It's all about building for the Test series but we need to start kicking on now," North said. "After this everyone will have had some game time so everyone's foot is in the door and playing now and I think we can kick on." North scored two tries in the 2013 series which saw the Lions beat Australia 2-1 - their first Test series win in 16 years. The Northampton Saints player sat out the opening two matches along with centre Jonathan Davies, scrum-half Conor Murray and flanker Sean O'Brien. Media playback is not supported on this device North said he was carrying a "bump" when he arrived in New Zealand, but admits it was not easy watching from the sidelines. "The Lions is the pinnacle and to not feature in the first two games is annoying because, like anybody, you just want to play," added North. "But it's just part of touring isn't it? It's the bigger picture now, I knew I'd get my game time as and when and I just have to trust the medical staff and trust Gats [coach Warren Gatland] to make those calls and just be ready for it." Crusaders are the form team in Super Rugby this season, with 14 wins in as many matches and field a team including eight All Blacks against the Lions. North said the quality of the opposition has been no surprise to the tourists and believes it is better to be tested early on the tour than have the relatively easy introduction they had in Australia four years ago. "We always knew the first few games were going to be ropey and not how we want to play," said North. "And I think that was evident in 2013 as well, even though at the same stage we'd won two out of two the performances were not what we'd hoped for. "I think the way we are now is probably better. "You want to be tested in every game don't you? If you get that you become a better team as you go along." And the much-talked-about itinerary means Gatland's men have no time to rest. They face Highlanders on 13 June before the Maori All Blacks on 17 June. Those games are followed by three Tests on consecutive Saturdays against world champions New Zealand, which are North's targets. "For me and with an eye to the the Test series I have to make sure when I get my chance I play well," he added. "It's not just about the wings against us but quality wings we have in our own squad. "I have to make sure I take my chance and really kick on."

George North believes the British and Irish Lions must "kick on" after a tough start to their New Zealand tour.

David Jordan, 44, from Cavanalinn in Pomeroy, County Tyrone, is accused of the bomb attack on the officer in Castlederg in May 2008. The police officer was driving to start a night shift at a police station when a booby-trap bomb hidden under his car exploded. He escaped from the vehicle but suffered serious leg wounds. Mr Jordan is also charged with causing an explosion and belonging or professing to belong to a proscribed organisation. On Thursday, Gavin Coyle, 38, was also charged with attempting to murder the police officer. Mr Coyle, formerly of Culmore Park in Omagh, County Tyrone, but whose address was given as Maghaberry Prison, also faced charges of causing an explosion likely to endanger life and membership of the IRA. A detective told Friday's hearing at Dungannon Magistrates' Court that the two men were involved in a "joint enterprise" to try to kill the policeman. She said that when each charge was put to Mr Jordan during police interviews, he replied: "I am totally innocent of this fabricated charge." The detective added that the accused then said: "This is yet another case of internment by remand." Mr Jordan had originally been arrested in connection with the bombing in the days after the attack, but was released without charge, the court heard. The detective said police believe CCTV footage captured Mr Jordan and Mr Coyle driving two vehicles in the vicinity of the officer's house prior to the bomb. A trace of nitroglycerin was also found in the boot of a car later seized by police from Mr Jordan, the detective added. She said police were opposing bail as the defendant was connected to republican paramilitary groups and could commit offences if he was bailed, adding that he also posed a flight risk. But a defence lawyer told the court the evidence linking Mr Jordan to the attack was "non-existent". He rejected a claim that new evidence had emerged since his client's original arrest in 2008. He said: "This defendant should not be connected to these offences." Police expert analysis of the CCTV footage had not even been able to confirm the make and model of the vehicle, he said, and the car later impounded by police was not even registered to Mr Jordan. The solicitor also questioned the police's reliance on the nitroglycerin trace, saying the bomb used in the attack had been made of semtex. The judge refused Mr Jordan's application for bail. He is due to appear before Strabane Magistrates' Court via videolink on 17 December 17.

A man has been remanded in custody charged with the attempted murder of a Catholic policeman in County Tyrone.

About 300 Jews went to Jasenovac a week ahead of the official ceremony. Jewish association chief Ognjen Kraus said the snub was a warning to the new centre-right government, which took power in January. Tens of thousands died at the camp known as the "Croatian Auschwitz". Ethnic Serbs and anti-fascist groups are also boycotting next week's official ceremony. The death camp - whose victims included Jews, Serbs and Gypsies - operated under the Ustashe regime, which ran Croatia as a Nazi puppet state. However, activists say some Croatians see the Ustashe as the country's founding fathers and play down their crimes. "This is an avalanche that has been rolling for more than a year," said Mr Kraus, president of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Jewish Communities. In January, ultra-nationalists shouted pro-Nazi slogans at a rally attended by thousands of people, including Deputy Parliamentary Speaker Ivan Tepes. Similar slogans were also chanted during a football match between Israel and Croatia in March, attended by Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic. Three-quarters of about 40,000 Croatian Jews were killed by the Ustashe and Jews now make up less than 1% of the population.

Croatian Jews have held their own Holocaust commemoration at a World War Two death camp, in protest at what they say is government inaction in the face of surging neo-Nazi sentiment.

It is looking to raise more than $900m (£624m) from investors, which would value the firm at more than $5bn. The listing, planned for July, could make it the world's biggest technology initial public offering this year. Line is looking to raise funds to expand into the US and help it compete with rivals such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and China's WeChat. The app first made its debut in 2011 and is the most popular messaging service in Japan, Thailand and Taiwan. It is famous for selling animated stickers and stamps that people can share while chatting. Line also provides free voice calls and services such as music streaming. Line's management have looked to take the company public for several years now. It submitted an IPO application to the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2014. However, those plans were shelved at the time due to weak global markets. Line had 218 million monthly active users at the end of March.

Japanese phone messaging app operator, Line, has said it plans to list its shares in both Tokyo and New York.

Dawn Clements urged people to get vaccinated after the death of England and Birmingham City footballer Jeff Hall from the disease in 1959. Mrs Clements, of Kidderminster, died at the end of last month, aged 79. The British Polio Fellowship said there are many people alive and well "who owe her a huge debt of gratitude." Ted Hill, the charity's chief executive also commended Mrs Clements for helping shine a light on post-polio syndrome (PPS), which is a neurological condition that can occur in people who have had polio. "It can be difficult to imagine now a time in the UK when polio was killing and paralysing thousands like Jeff," he said. "Dawn worked to see that no one else had to go through what she did and latterly helped us with our PPS work." Mr Hall's unexpected death at the peak of his career aged 29 shocked the nation. Take-up of the polio vaccine had been slow in the 1950s but Mrs Clements' campaign is credited with inspiring people to get vaccinated. The charity head described Mrs Clements, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, as "an example to us all" He also passed on his condolences to her surviving husband Alan Clements. Mr Clements thanked charities as well as the people of Birmingham for "assisting Dawn in all of her remarkable work". "What she did 50 years ago during the worst time of her life still matters to people. Dawn would want me to thank the fans of Birmingham City and all those for all of their help and support," he said.

Tributes have been paid to a woman credited with raising awareness about the dangers of polio following the death of her footballer husband.

Scotland Yard said the 37-year-old was held at his home address under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Officers from the Metropolitan Police are searching the property. He has been taken to a south London police station and is being questioned by officers from the counter terrorism command unit.

A man has been arrested in north-west London on suspicion of involvement in production of improvised explosive devices in Iraq in 2007.

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.

Nathan, 23, said he was worried being bisexual would be a problem with his male housemates. "I was 100% nervous about what the other lads would think. "I didn't have any queries with the girls because I thought they'd be more accepting but at the same time, I thought, 'I don't care. You take me as I come.' Not one of them was bothered." He went on: "Gary came up to me and went, 'I just want you to know, we want to feel completely comfortable in this house. We want you to be yourself. You're in the house for you. We don't have any problem if you're bisexual or gay.' "I feel like I've pulled Geordie Shore up by its ears, and I'm bringing it up to date. I've splashed colour in there, both in a sexual and physical way." Figure skating champion Chloe, 19, admits she "hooked up" in the house, despite going in "not looking to get with anyone". "I did end up hooking up with someone," she admitted in an interview for MTV. "I didn't really get hurt, but I just wish I'd never gone there with this person. But the drink does that to you." Chloe says she was also apprehensive before filming the show. "I was really nervous going in the house because girls sometimes get a little bit: 'God, there's a new girl.' "But I get on literally with anyone. So I was happy about that because I was so nervous in case they didn't like us but thankfully they did. "Coming out of the house I felt more like a woman. I went in a girl and I've come out a woman because I've been hanging around with older people." The new series also shows James Tindale announcing that he's leaving the house. Vicky Pattison left Geordie Shore after nine series in October. Geordie Shore was first broadcast in 2011 and was a version of MTV's US reality show Jersey Shore. The new series starts on 7 April. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

Geordie Shore has unveiled two new characters, Nathan Henry and Chloe Etherington.

About 2,000 plants were found behind the former Blockbuster premises in Kirkgate after a phone call to police about suspicious activity in the area. Inside the buildings were several crops of cannabis at various stages of growth, said police. Insp Ian Williams said: "It is going to take us the best part of two days to remove what's in there." Officers are appealing for information about vans being loaded or unloaded around the premises.

A "major cannabis farm" has been found in disused buildings in Wakefield city centre, said West Yorkshire Police.

The body was found near Heanor Memorial Park in Derbyshire. Derbyshire Police originally thought the man was 17-year-old Han Lan, but now believe it might be a 21-year-old man named Trung Thanh Hoang. The inquest also heard police think he may not have died at the park but that his body was dropped off there. Police officers are working with Vietnamese authorities to confirm his identity and to find relatives either in the UK or in Vietnam. The inquest at Derby Coroner's Court heard it was believed the man visited a nightclub in Birmingham on Christmas Eve before returning to an address in Derby after feeling unwell. The cause of death is yet to be established but a toxicology report showed high levels of a number of drugs in his system. Police are still treating his death as suspicious. The inquest was adjourned until the end of March.

The identity of a man found dead in a car park on Christmas Day is still not clear, an inquest into his death has heard.

The Lancet Oncology review, which looked at incidence rates for 27 cancers in 184 countries, found four main infections are responsible. These four - human papillomaviruses, Helicobacter pylori and hepatitis B and C viruses - account for 1.9m cases of cervical, gut and liver cancers. Most cases are in the developing world. The team from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France, part of the World Health Organization, says more efforts are needed to tackle these avoidable cases and recognise cancer as a communicable disease. 'Preventable' The proportion of cancers related to infection is about three times higher in parts of the developing world, such as east Asia, than in developed countries like the UK - 22.9% versus 7.4%, respectively. BBC Health: In depth - cancer Nearly a third of cases occur in people younger than 50 years. Among women, cancer of the cervix accounted for about half of the infection-related cancers. In men, more than 80% were liver and gastric cancers. Drs Catherine de Martel and Martyn Plummer, who led the research, said: "Infections with certain viruses, bacteria, and parasites are some of the biggest and preventable causes of cancer worldwide "Application of existing public-health methods for infection prevention, such as vaccination, safer injection practice, or antimicrobial treatments, could have a substantial effect on the future burden of cancer worldwide." Vaccines are available to protect against human papillomavirus (HPV) - which is linked to cancer of the cervix - and hepatitis B virus - an established cause of liver cancer. And experts know that stomach cancer can be avoided by clearing the bacterial infection H. pylori from the gut using a course of antibiotics. Commenting on the work, Dr Goodarz Danaei from Harvard School of Public Medicine in Boston, the US, said: "Since effective and relatively low-cost vaccines for HPV and HBV are available, increasing coverage should be a priority for health systems in high-burden countries." Jessica Harris of Cancer Research UK said: "It's important that authorities worldwide make every effort to reduce the number of infection-related cancers, especially when many of these infections can be prevented. In the UK, infections are thought to be responsible for 3% of cancers, or around 9,700 cases each year. "Vaccination against HPV, which causes cervical cancer, should go a long way towards reducing rates of this disease in the UK. But it's important that uptake of the vaccination remains high. At a global level, if the vaccine were available in more countries, many thousands more cases could be prevented."

One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest.

The 33-year-old arrestee was injured while grabbing onto a toilet at Colchester police station on 1 May. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said all six officers face allegations of assault and using excessive force. Essex Police said one officer had been placed on restricted duties. It declined to comment further due to the investigation. The IPCC said the allegations could amount to gross misconduct if proven. The man was taken into custody on 30 April in relation to a public order incident, but in the early hours of the next day a number of officers entered his cell to find him standing with one foot in the metal toilet bowl. The IPCC said he held on to the rim on the bowl while the officers tried to restrain him. Soon after, according to the watchdog, the tops of three of the man's fingers on his left hand were severed. The tops of the fingers were later recovered from inside the toilet and transported to the hospital, but it is believed they were not reattached successfully. The IPCC said it would look at whether the officers' restraint was "appropriate" and caused the man's injuries. Investigators will consider whether the man's mental health or ethnicity influenced the actions of officers. Additionally, they will examine why there was a delay of around five hours in retrieving and transporting the severed fingertips to hospital.

Six police officers are being "criminally investigated" after a man lost the tips of three fingers during a struggle in his cell.

At one point in his final round of 67, Ramsay looked like he might take his challenge to the wire, closing to within a single shot of the eventual champion, Alex Noren, following a run of four straight birdies in his opening six holes. He said he stood on the 10th tee believing for the first time in his life that he could win a title that he says would mean almost as much to him as a major championship. Not enough putts dropped on the back nine - he gave himself multiple opportunities - and he had to settle for the consolation prize of a slot in The Open. Ramsay asked about Andy Murray in the aftermath and called the now two-time Wimbledon champion an inspiration. "Watching Andy play at Wimbledon this week, watching Jamie play, those guys are huge inspirations for Scottish people," he said. "To win Wimbledon is a massive achievement and I think sometimes we take that for granted, we forget how good he is. "It's great watching him, because he's Scottish and because he's got that grit and fire. I love that attitude. For me, every week is about trying to be the best I can be. "When I'm 60, I want to sit in my chair watching the golf and be able to say that I won X number of tour titles and that I couldn't squeeze any more out of the talent I had. Talent is great, but if you don't have that hard work ethic, you're not to get anywhere." Ramsay has won three times on tour, the most recent of them being the Trophee Hassan in March last year. He's played in The Open five times, missing the cut on three occasions. His best finish was 58th at Muirfield in 2013. He was tied for 68th at St Andrews last year. His performance here rather came out of the blue. Ramsay finished sixth in China in May, but his form since then has been poor, his best finish a 43rd. His season had been a grind up until Castle Stuart. "I just loved it out there," he said. "I didn't come out with a tentative attitude, which has sometimes been my fault in the past. I hit some great shots. "I knew, standing on that 10th tee, that I could win the tournament and that's a great feeling. I just have to take that into the next year and see if I can get this title in the bag one of these years. "From a confidence point of view, I will think to myself that I had a chance to win a huge tournament. You're halfway there when you believe you can do it. I know I have a lot more in the tank." Castle Stuart didn't get the champion it wanted, with due credit to the excellent Noren, but it was a terrific host venue. The troubling aspect - and it's reflective of golf's serious problem - was the size of the crowd on each of the four days. The total attendance for Thursday-Sunday was 41,809. The final round brought the smallest number of fans - 8,733 - of the week. There was a Murray effect there for sure. But it's a much wider issue than that. Last year at Gullane, the Scottish brought in a total crowd of 63,000, which was, in turn, less than the 65,833 that attended the year before at Royal Aberdeen. The small numbers this time are partly on account of geography but also to do with golf's diminishing attraction as a spectator sport. None of that bothered Noren, of course. Nor Ramsay. If there was a competition to find the widest smile at Castle Stuart last night, the two of them would have been locked in a dead heat.

Richie Ramsay didn't win the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart, but he wore a contented smile none the less having played himself into the top-six and securing himself a place in The Open Championship at Royal Troon later this week.

The identity of the bodies is not clear, but one of the bodies is suspected to be that of a woman who was reported missing a week ago. The bodies were found by a herder looking for his animals, who noticed signs of wild jackals in the area near the Somali border. Kenya's security forces deny charges they have been killing ethnic Somalis. The residents of ethnic Somali-dominated districts in the region have repeatedly accused Kenya's security agencies of being behind the arrest and disappearance of youths suspected to have links with Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab. Since the reports emerged, the hashtag #StopKillingSomalis has been trending in Kenya. The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi in Nairobi said disturbing images circulated on social media on Monday morning, showing human body parts sticking out of poorly dug trenches. A woman's mutilated body provoked the strongest reaction. She is thought to be a mother of five, arrested four days ago. Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet confirmed the woman's death, but denied the existence of mass graves. Area senator Billow Kerrow suggested the dead were victims of enforced disappearances. A report last year by campaign group Human Rights Watch said there was strong evidence that Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit has carried out a series of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in the region. Kenya's security forces deny the allegation. Kenya has thousands of troops fighting al-Shabab in Somalia. The militant group says this is why it has staged several deadly attacks in Kenya in recent years.

People living in north-east Kenya say they have discovered at least 20 bodies buried in shallow graves.

The 40-year-old former New Zealand player is currently forwards coach at Clermont Auvergne and he previously held a similar position at Leinster. Gibbes will work under director of rugby Les Kiss, while current head coach Neil Doak's future is unclear. "The respect I have for Les as a coach and person was one of my main reasons for making this decision," said Gibbs. Ulster are sixth in the Pro12 table and out of the European Champions Cup in what has been a largely disappointing season. "Les sold his vision of where he wants to take Ulster over the next few years," added Gibbes. "Ulster is a team that I know well, having come up against them on a number of occasions. The Clermont-Ulster games this season gave me an insight into the strengths of the squad and it's exciting to think that I'll be part of that environment from next season." Gibbes, who joined Leinster in 2008 and won three Heineken Cups during his spell in Dublin, said: "With six years at Leinster and three at Clermont in the Top 14, I've been afforded many different experiences, working with some very talented coaches and players. "I hope to apply what I've learned to the role at Ulster and my family and I are looking forward to integrating into a strong community in Belfast." He moved to France in 2014 and was part of a coaching set-up that guided Clermont to the Top 14 and Champions Cup finals in his debut season. "Jono's CV speaks for itself and I know that he's looking forward to joining Ulster and working with the team," said Kiss, 52. "Since his retirement from playing, Jono has had an integral role in the coaching teams of two of European rugby's most successful sides. "Jono's expertise as a forwards coach is obvious, however his wealth of knowledge in other areas of the game will be really important for us." "A review of the coaching structure is ongoing ahead of next season and the appointment of Jono as head coach is the first part of that process. "A further announcement will be made in the coming weeks, which will focus on getting the right balance in our coaching team."

Jono Gibbes is to become the head coach of Pro12 side Ulster on a two-year deal in the summer.

It was easy to do she says, because of Britain being inside the European Union. She has already sent off her postal vote: she voted to stay in. It wasn't just the weather that made the Stevensons leave the UK. Their cleaning business was in trouble because it was being undercut by companies run by Polish migrants. But so what, Nigel says. He thinks British people need to ''up their game'' and stop complaining about immigration. ''They have had it too easy for too long'', he says. Nigel will also be voting for Remain. Expats urged to register for EU vote The UK's EU vote: All you need to know UK and the EU: Travel and living abroad Sit on the sea wall by their café and you'll struggle to hear much Spanish conversation. Almost everyone walking by is either a British tourist or resident. There are 309,000 Brits registered as having residency in Spain but there are likely to be many thousands more living here for just part of the year. Sat at one of the café's tables is Scotsman Mark Connor. A singer and radio DJ, he performs at a nearby Irish bar. He has been paying close attention to the referendum debate and is annoyed by some of the arguments being put forward by the Remain side. In particular he is irritated at the suggestion that if Britain leaves, the Spanish government could make it harder to live and work here. The Spanish wouldn't dare make it harder for Brits he says because they contribute so much to the economy. '"The pensioners have their own UK pensions so they're not a drain on the state," Mark tells me. "And then there are all the well-off Brits living up in the hills and down at the marina, are you seriously telling me that the Spanish are going to get rid of them? I don't think so." A few miles away is a community known as Little Britain. It is not hard to understand why. There is a fish and chip shop, British Butcher's, Chinese and Indian Restaurants, an Iceland close by, and of course, full English Breakfasts a-go-go. At its heart is the Benavista Bowls Club. Almost all of the club's 150 members are British and they are mostly retired. There has been speculation that they could be hit financially, that their UK pensions could be frozen because that is what has happened to expats in some non-EU countries. Largest number of Brits living in EU countries, according to Migration Watch. There have also been warnings that the Spanish government could start charging them for their healthcare. Speaking to members after the match it was striking how many wanted to get out of the EU and how few had thought about how they might be affected financially. Whilst one couple worried about their pensions, the others did not seem particularly bothered about being charged for health care; almost all of them had private health insurance. John Richardson, summed up the mood best. ''Oh, they'll sort something out''.

It was ten years ago that Ruth and her husband Nigel packed up their life in London and bought the Blue Palm cafe in Marbella.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "The only response can be: 'yes, Mr President'." Gen Petraeus resigned as CIA director in 2012 following an extramarital affair with his biographer. It later emerged he had shared classified material with her. He served as a senior officer under Presidents Bush and Obama. He was the commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, before retiring from the military to take the top position in the Central Intelligence Agency. Asked if he thought Mr Trump had the correct temperament to be the US President, he said: "It's up to Americans at this point in time not only to hope that that is the case, but if they can, endeavour to help him." He then indicated he would personally serve under Mr Trump if asked. "If you're asked, you've got to serve - put aside any reservations based on campaign rhetoric... and figure out what's best for the country," he said. "I've been in a position before where a president has turned to me in the Oval Office in a difficult moment, without any pleasantries, and said 'I'm asking you as your president and Commander in Chief to take command of the international security force in Afghanistan.' "The only response can be: 'yes, Mr President,'" he continued. A number of media outlets have linked the retired general with positions in the new administration. A report in The Guardian last week linked Gen Petraeus to the race for secretary of state, citing diplomatic sources. Mr Trump has been putting together his administration made up of friends, family, and former rivals - but several key positions, including secretary of state, remain open. General Petraeus was indirectly critical of some of Donald Trump's rhetoric during the presidential election campaign, describing the president elect's anti-Muslim comments as toxic. However, he said he had heard good things from those who have been speaking with Mr Trump since the election result. "It's interesting that those who have been talking to him have said, you know, he's very personable, very hospitable, very gracious guy, full of questions and dialogue," he said. He also suggested that Mr Trump could forge closer ties with Russia, comparing his political position to that of President Nixon's overtures to China in the 1970s. "Only Nixon could have gone to China. Anyone else would have been criticised from the right," he said. "I think that the current president would have been criticised from the right had he tried some of the kinds of outreach that, in fact, President-elect Trump may pursue." But he warned that any such outreach should be attempted "with your eyes wide open".

General David Petraeus, one of the United States' most prominent military officers, has indicated he would be willing to serve in President-elect Donald Trump's administration if asked.

The first minister said images of Aylan Kurdi being carried from the sea had "touched our hearts". Ms Sturgeon is to convene a migrant crisis summit on Friday with councils and humanitarian agencies. Prime Minister David Cameron has come under increasing pressure for Britain to accept more refugees. Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson is among those who have urged Mr Cameron to do more to tackle the refugee crisis in Europe. But Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said accepting more refugees was not the answer. Speaking at First Minister's Questions, Ms Sturgeon said: "As first minister I pledge that I will ensure Scotland will do everything possible to help in this refugee crisis. "I will be far from the only person reduced to tears last night at the picture of a little boy washed up on a beach. "That wee boy has touched our hearts but his is not an isolated tragedy. "He and thousands like him whose lives are at risk is not someone else's responsibly; they are the responsibility of all of us. "So yes I am angry, I am very angry at the walk-on-by attitude of the UK government and I implore David Cameron to change his position and change it today. "I pledge as first minister of this country that we stand ready to offer sanctuary to refugees that need our help." Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale also criticised Mr Cameron's response to the crisis. She urged the first minister to "convene an urgent meeting with Scotland's council leaders, party leaders and people in this parliament and other relevant government agencies so that Scotland can speak with one voice and match our compassion with the action we are all willing to take". Ms Sturgeon said she had already set up a summit, which will bring together humanitarian organisations, including the Scottish Refugee Council, leaders of councils, civic organisations and religious leaders. Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said he would accept the invitation to attend the summit. Ms Davidson said the UK government must act "closer to home" and go beyond donating aid to Syria, adding: "This is not an immigration issue - it's a humanitarian crisis." She added: "I call on David Cameron to lead our government's response and accept more refugees."

Nicola Sturgeon has told how she was reduced to tears by photos of a dead Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach.

That's why so many Labour MPs feared a miscalculation when their party's leader brought his old comrade back into the fold. But his staggering comments today about Hitler and anti-Semitism crossed a line - they were enough for Jeremy Corbyn to suspend him. But the problem for the leader doesn't end with that act. No one believes that Jeremy Corbyn himself tolerates discrimination against Jews. But on repeated occasions Labour has been slow and clumsy in closing down cases of anti-Semitism among its members when they emerge. Any moments of delay or doubts about the leadership's determination, open the window a tiny crack to the kind of intolerance that the vast majority of the Labour Party, and indeed the public, find appalling. Public denials that there is even a issue could make it even worse. Perhaps in politics as in normal life, the first step towards fixing a problem is acknowledging that it exists. And with only a week before Jeremy Corbyn's first big test at the polls, In elections in London, Scotland, Wales, and al round England, it's the kind of mess, and political distraction Labour could do without.

For years it has been more surprising when Ken Livingstone hasn't raised hackles than when he has.

The attacks, occurring from 2011 to 2013, are believed to have been co-ordinated from Iranian companies. The US Department of Justice revealed an indictment against the seven, believed to be working for their government in Iran. The indictment calls them "experienced computer hackers" and officials said the attacks were a "wake-up call". It is the first time the US is charging people associated with a national government with hacking into US infrastructure for major industries like finance and water. The attacks "threatened our economic well-being and our ability to compete fairly in the global marketplace - both of which are directly linked to our national security," said US Attorney General Loretta Lynch. "And we believe that they were conducted with the sole purpose of undermining the targeted companies and damaging the online operation of America's free market." Mrs Lynch said the attacks cost the victims tens of millions of dollars. Ahmad Fathi, Hamid Firoozi, Amin Shokohi, Sadegh Ahmadzadegan, Omid Ghaffarinia, Sina Keissar and Nader Seidi are identified in the indictment as the alleged attackers. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for conspiracy to commit and aid and abet computer hacking. It is almost certain that Iran will not send the accused to the US, and they have not been arrested. The indictment is still important, said FBI director James Comey. "The world is small, and our memories are long," he said. "We never say never. People often like to travel for vacation or education, and we want them looking over their shoulder."

The US has charged seven Iranians for allegedly hacking nearly 50 financial companies and a New York dam.

Turkey has reacted with anger to the comment made by the Pope at a service in Rome earlier on Sunday. Armenia and many historians say up to 1.5 million Armenian Christians were killed by Ottoman forces in 1915. But Turkey has always disputed that figure and said the deaths were part of a civil conflict triggered by WW1. The row has continued to sour relations between Armenia and Turkey. The Pope made the comments at a Mass in the Armenian Catholic rite at Peter's Basilica, attended by the Armenian president and church leaders. He said that humanity had lived through "three massive and unprecedented tragedies" in the last century. "The first, which is widely considered 'the first genocide of the 20th Century', struck your own Armenian people," he said, in a form of words used by a declaration by Pope John Paul II in 2001. Pope Francis also referred to the crimes "perpetrated by Nazism and Stalinism" and said other genocides had followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Burundi and Bosnia. He said it was his duty to honour the memories of those who were killed. "Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it," the Pope added. Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan welcomed his comments, saying they sent a powerful message to the international community. But Turkey immediately summoned the Vatican's ambassador to Ankara for an explanation, and then later recalled its ambassador from Rome. The foreign ministry said it felt "great disappointment and sadness" at the Pope's remarks, which it said would cause a "problem of trust" between them. Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted: "The Pope's statement, which is far from the legal and historical reality, cannot be accepted. "Religious authorities are not the places to incite resentment and hatred with baseless allegations," he added. Pope Francis, who visited Turkey last year, would have been perfectly conscious that he would offend the moderate Muslim country by his use of the word "genocide". But the Pope's powerful phrase "concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to bleed without bandaging it" extended his condemnation to all other, more recent, mass killings. It now remains to be seen how far his remarks will impact upon the Vatican's future relations with moderate Muslim states. It was a bold decision but totally coherent with Pope Francis' philosophy of open discussion about moral arguments. Pope Francis' focus today on Armenia, the first country to adopt Christianity as its state religion, even before the conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine, serves as yet another reminder of the Catholic Church's widely spread roots in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In 2014, for the first time, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered condolences to the grandchildren of all the Armenians who lost their lives. But he also said that it was inadmissible for Armenia to turn the issue "into a matter of political conflict". Armenia says up to 1.5 million people died in 1915-16 as the Ottoman Empire was disintegrating. Turkey has said the number of deaths was much smaller. Many of the victims were civilians deported en masse to barren desert regions where they died of starvation and thirst. Thousands also died in massacres. Most non-Turkish scholars of the events regard them as genocide. Among the other states which formally recognise them as genocide are Argentina, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Russia and Uruguay. Turkey maintains that many of the dead were killed in clashes during World War One, and that ethnic Turks also suffered in the conflict.

Turkey has recalled its envoy to the Vatican after Pope Francis described the mass killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule in WW1 as "genocide".

Patrick McGinley, 46, and his son William McGinley, 27, of Lisfarrell, Edgeworthstown, County Longford are accused of murdering Bernard McGinley. He was shot dead outside a wedding in Newtownbutler in February. The two men are to be released on conditions including a £50,000 cash surety and daily reports to police. The court was told the weapon used in the shooting in February 2015 has not been recovered

The Public Prosecution Service has lost an appeal against the granting of bail for two men charged with murdering a relative at a wedding in Fermanagh.

Davies, 32, joined in 2015 and skippered the Staggies to League Cup final success in his debut season. He lost the captaincy at the beginning of this term and was seeking a return to his native north-east of England, due to family matters. But since then he has started all but one Premiership game for County. "We are delighted that Andrew has chosen to extend his stay at the club," said County manager Jim McIntyre. "Andrew's family are very settled and happy in the area now and it's a huge boost to have a player of his stature commit his future to the club for another two years. "Since he arrived in Dingwall, Andrew has been first class for the team and probably one of the best and most consistent centre halves in the division."

Ross County defender Andrew Davies has signed a two-year contract extension, keeping him at the Dingwall club until the summer of 2019.

Police and other emergency services had responded to reports of a man in difficulty at about 13:45 on Saturday. The incident took place as a yacht racing event was being held in the area. The man was brought ashore but died at the scene. Police said no further details would be released until he has been formally identified. A spokesman said there were no apparent suspicious circumstances. A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.

A 69-year-old man has died after his boat capsized in the Findhorn Bay area of Moray.

Ex-Manchester United trainee McGinty, 21, played 13 times for the Conference club after joining on loan in February. "It's a fantastic move for me at this stage in my career. I want to push on here," McGinty told the club website. Meanwhile, 35-year-old goalkeeper Phil Smith, who was the Shots' first-choice stopper for 2014-15, has agreed a new one-year contract with the club.

Aldershot have announced the signing of defender Sean McGinty from Rochdale on a one-year deal from 1 July.

Up to 40% of goods Venezuela subsidises for its domestic market are smuggled to Colombia, where they are sold at much higher prices, the authorities say. The border was closed on Monday night, and will be each night for a month. The move has been agreed with the Colombian government. The Venezuelan government initially announced that it planned to close the 2,200km-long (1,360-mile) border every night for an indefinite period. But later the general in charge of the operation, Vladimir Padrino Lopez, clarified that the ban will be lifted after a month. The border is being closed between 22:00 local time (02:30 GMT) and 05:00 (09:30 GMT). Cargo vehicles, including vans and lorries, will be banned from crossing from Venezuela to Colombia between 18:00 (22:30 GMT) and 05:00 (09:30 GMT). Venezuela, which has the world's cheapest petrol prices, estimates 100,000 barrels of petrol are smuggled through its western border every day and sold illegally in Colombia. The 17,000-strong contingent "will be enough to guarantee security" along the border, said Gen Padrino Lopez. The governor of Venezuela's western state of Tachira, Jose Vielma Mora, said that regional leaders support means the measure will be effective. "There is plenty of evidence to show that most of the smuggling is done overnight," he told El Universal. Dissatisfaction with the shortage of many staples, as well as rampant crime and high inflation, led thousands of people in the western Venezuelan states of Tachira and Merida to take to the streets in January. The protests quickly spread to the rest of Venezuela, which faced similar problems. The opposition blames failed left-wing policies of the past 15 years - initiated with the late president, Hugo Chavez - for the country's economic crisis. The smuggling of cheap goods from Venezuela is also seen as a major problem in Colombia. The Colombian government says it leads to a big loss in taxes and complaints of unfair competition by local businesses. The profits from are often used to finance drug gangs and left-wing guerrillas, says the BBC's Arturo Wallace in Bogota. President Nicolas Maduro discussed the measures with his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, at a summit on 1 August.

Venezuela says it has deployed 17,000 troops along its border with Colombia, which was closed on Monday for the first time as part of an anti-smuggling operation.

Services were halted near Woking, Surrey, on Thursday night following a signalling problem caused by a possible attempted theft of cable. A group of passengers, including a heavily pregnant woman, said they were challenged by police at the exit. South West Trains has apologised for a string of disruptions this week. Network Rail said 60 trains out of London Waterloo were affected by the signalling fault. It said further delays were caused when passengers went on the track, meaning power to the rails had to be turned off. Emma Firth, from Farnham, who is eight months pregnant, was among the passengers who got off their train. "Me and another man talked to each other and said: 'This is our only chance,'" she said. "In my condition I wasn't going to sleep overnight on a train, I had no food or drink. "So the man gave me a piggy back off the train and helped me walk down the track. "One guard, with a torch, helped us walk across the track safely and was very polite but the police at the gates were very angry, saying we had trespassed. "I got home around 2300 BST. I will not be using the train tomorrow, it will be a nightmare after this. I shall be working from home." Another passenger, who asked only to be named as Keith, said he took the 18.33 South West Trains service from Clapham, which ground to a halt near Woking. He said the passengers, who also included a diabetic man who need insulin, decided to get off the train after about two hours. "There were constant announcements every five minutes from the train driver saying he did not know when we would be moving. "There was about five of us and we decided to get off. We prised the door open and jumped. "When we got to the gates the police tried to get our names, saying we were trespassing and that South West Trains take this behaviour very seriously. "They didn't manage to get any of our names in the end. I got home at around 23.30." A passenger on another train, James Bilderbeck, 39, from Basingstoke, told BBC News that the service he was on was stuck for more than four hours. "It's a really miserable environment, stuck going nowhere. It's a distressing situation for all." The company director described it as the worst delay he had ever known as a commuter. Speaking at about 2330 BST, he said his train had finally got moving again and that he hoped to reach Basingstoke soon. But he said that some passengers whose final destination was Weymouth could expect for their journeys to take up to seven hours. MP for Mole Valley, Sir Paul Beresford, said: "It seems to me as though there was lack of communication between Network Rail and South West Trains, particularly as evacuation has to be done really carefully. "Someone should have been telling the drivers and the drivers should have been telling people. "OK, it doesn't make them move any faster but at least it gives them an understanding of what is going wrong." A South West Trains spokesman apologised for the disruption, which was the latest in a series to hit passengers this week. "A major signalling problem in the Weybridge area on Monday resulted in severe disruption," he said. "A fatality at Mortlake, a line closure due to a damaged bridge and an ill passenger on a train at Earlsfield on Thursday morning resulted in many delays, cancellations and diversions. "On Thursday evening, further signalling problems in the Waterloo and Woking areas resulted in a significant amount of delays. "Working with Network Rail, we have endeavoured to minimise the impact of these problems, although this is of little consolation if you have been affected by one or more of these events." Services were running to schedule on Friday morning, but with a reduced number of carriages.

Passengers have told how they got out of trains stuck for hours on South West Trains services outside London and walked down the tracks.

Archery, fencing, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby have also missed out. Cycling - which brought Team GB 12 medals in Rio - has had its funding cut by more than £4m to £25.98m. Badminton England chief executive Adrian Christy said he was "staggered" by the "incomprehensible" decision to remove the sport's funding. A total of £345m will be invested in 31 Olympic and Paralympic sports - £2m less than the record £347m allocated for the Rio Games. As a result, UK Sport has set Team GB a target of winning 51-85 Olympic medals, and 115-162 Paralympic medals in Tokyo. Britain enjoyed unprecedented success at Rio 2016, with the Olympics yielding 67 medals and the Paralympics 147. Chair of UK Sport Rod Carr said the government, which provides funding alongside National Lottery money, has "confirmed its commitment" for Tokyo 2020. He added: "These are critical funding decisions for sports to take them on their journey to Tokyo 2020 and beyond so the historic success at Rio can be maintained." Badminton, which was set a target of winning a medal in Rio, is the only sport that earned a podium place in the summer to have its funding removed. Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge took bronze in the men's doubles after the sport was given £5.74m in the last cycle. Christy said the decision represents a "catastrophic impact on the sport" and Badminton England would "fight for the hopes and dreams" of its players. "How can you return from the best Games for more than a decade, in a year where our players have demonstrated world-class performances and where we can demonstrate the journey to Tokyo is on track, only be to have every penny of investment withdrawn?" he said. "What have we done wrong?" added GB Badminton's performance director Jon Austin. Judo, which was given the same target as badminton and also claimed one bronze medal, has had its funding increased slightly. Liz Nicholl, CEO of UK Sport, said the decision to cut funding was not taken lightly. "We would like to invest in every sport but the reality is we have to prioritise to protect and enhance the medal potential," she said. "If we under-invest across the board then the British teams will ultimately underperform at the Games and medal success will be put at risk." Sports minister Tracey Crouch added: "UK Sport's approach to elite sport has proven successful in Beijing, London and Rio and the ambition to win more medals in Tokyo is a bold one that, if achieved, would mean a sensational summer of sport in 2020." Basketball had its funding withdrawn in 2014 - and handball and volleyball lost theirs in 2012 - but say a UK Sport review last year to build "performance pathways for future success" was supposed to be aimed at such sports. A British Basketball statement, in conjunction with volleyball and handball, said: "It appears that UK Sport has no interest in team sports and in particular refuses to take responsibility for the need to fund their performance development, which was identified in its own review. "With UK Sport's investment budget approaching £350m, it borders on intransigence to pass responsibility to government and other funding bodies who are not set up to fund the development of high-performance sport." UK Sport says investment in the five Olympic sports and two Paralympic sports added for Tokyo 2020 is yet to be confirmed. Baseball/softball will return to the programme, with karate, skateboard, sports climbing and surfing also added, while Para-taekwondo and Para-badminton join the Paralympic programme. UK Sport says funding will be determined "following further exploration of medal potential", with £9m of the £345m total still to be allocated. Liam Carroll, head coach of the GB baseball team, said: "The key to unlocking our potential is investment and I'm pleased that UK Sport has left the door open. "We look forward to the opportunity to impress upon them that getting behind Great Britain Baseball can extend their tremendous track record of investing in Olympic medal contenders."

Badminton is one of five sports to lose all UK Sport funding for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo - after Britain claimed a bronze in the sport in Rio.

Bruce, without a club since leaving Hull in July, is favourite to replace Roberto di Matteo, who was sacked by the Championship club on Monday. Savage said Bruce has experience in the division and still lives in the area. "He took Birmingham up, he took Hull up," said the Welshman. "He won't have to travel, he won't have to uproot." Blues were relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2005-06 season. But Bruce, who had been in charge of Blues since 2001, led them back to the top flight the following season - and also went on to win promotion to the Premier League with Hull twice too. Savage played under Bruce at St Andrew's and thinks Villa fans will not worry too much that Bruce used to manage their city rivals. He also says Bruce's ability to get the best out of the Birmingham players whenever they played Villa will count for a lot. "When we were in the Premier League, we absolutely battered them time after time," said Savage. "I think Villa fans will remember that. "They had better players than us but we had this team spirit, this togetherness and we battered them more times than not in massive pressure games." Villa have appointed a former Birmingham boss as manager in the past - and the outcome was not good. Alex McLeish lasted just 11 months before he was sacked in May 2012. During his reign, the Scot was often targeted by Villa supporters angry that the club had who appointed a former Blues manager as their boss. Former England defender Danny Mills told the Monday Night Club on BBC Radio 5 live that Villa had to get the "best man for the job" and thinks Bruce could be a good option despite his association with Birmingham. "I don't understand this fixation that he was Birmingham manager, so he can't do a good job for Aston Villa," Mills said. "It makes no sense. Surely if he goes there and does a good job, fans have got to come around to that way of thinking. It's not like he was born and bred at Birmingham, played there his whole life. He's managed other clubs."

Former Birmingham City boss Steve Bruce is the "right man" to manage Aston Villa, according to former Blues midfielder Robbie Savage.

The BBC revealed in January it understood Adidas would terminate the deal as a direct result of the doping scandal sweeping the sport. An IAAF statement on Friday said: "Our commercial relationship concludes at the end of 2016." The original 11-year agreement started in 2008. Sources told the BBC earlier this year it was worth, in terms of cash and product, as much as about $8m (£6.3m) per year. Adidas said the decision was mutual and added "we would like to thank the IAAF for a successful and professional co-operation".

Adidas, the IAAF's biggest sponsor, has announced it is ending its sponsorship deal with athletics' world governing body three years early.

A judge had made the request because efforts to get them through "political channels" had failed, the lawyer said. France, the former colonial power, has not yet commented on the request. Mr Sankara's widow and supporters have repeatedly accused France of masterminding his 1987 killing because he was a Marxist revolutionary. He was killed by soldiers in a hail of bullets shortly before a meeting of his cabinet in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou. Mr Sankara's assassination led to his second-in-command, Blaise Compaore, seizing power in a coup. Mr Compaore steered Burkina Faso into a strong alliance with France, which retains close political, security and economic ties with many of its former colonies in Africa. Burkina Faso opened an investigation into the killing after he was ousted from power in 2014. Speaking at a press conference in Ouagadougou, the family lawyer, Benewende Stanislas Sankara, said an investigating judge had formally asked French authorities to declassify military documents to see whether France had played a role in the assassination. A request had also been made to interview French officials who were involved in Burkina Faso's affairs at the time, the lawyer added. Burkina Faso issued an arrest warrant for Mr Compaore in 2015, accusing him of involvement in Mr Sankara's killing. He has repeatedly denied the allegation, but has refused to return to Burkina Faso to stand trial. Mr Compaore is exiled in Ivory Coast, also a former French colony.

Burkina Faso has asked France to declassify military documents about the killing of ex-president Thomas Sankara, a lawyer for his family has said.

A woman got out of the vehicle and an unknown man jumped in and took the car. Police said it happened at Boucher Crescent in south Belfast at about 17:25 GMT. Members of the public managed to stop the car but the man fled on foot. A short time later a man in his 30s was arrested and remains in custody. The two children were unharmed.

A man has been arrested after a car was stolen with two young children inside.

The judge held that Mr Durkan acted unilaterally and unlawfully in authorising the Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan (BMAP) without securing consent from executive colleagues. His verdict came in a challenge to the SDLP environment minister's decision. It was brought by former enterprise minister Arlene Foster of the DUP. The judge backed claims that because its significance stretched across departmental responsibilities it needed approval from the Stormont cabinet. A decision on what remedy to grant in the case will be taken at a later date. BMAP identifies zones for retail, residential and commercial development across the city and outlying areas such as Carrickfergus, Lisburn, Newtownabbey and north Down. Among the most contentious aspects of the blueprint is a retail zoning which restricts future expansion at the Sprucefield shopping centre to bulky goods only. That would mean a long-proposed John Lewis store could not be built there. Mrs Foster, now the first minister, issued proceedings amid claims her colleague in the power-sharing administration breached the ministerial code. Mr Durkan had said efforts were made to get the issue on the agenda at executive meetings. During the hearing it was confirmed that the legal action involved a disagreement split down party political lines. The DUP is opposed to the restrictions adopted by the SDLP minister in BMAP, the judge was told. Counsel for Mrs Foster repeatedly argued that the planning framework was a cross-cutting, controversial matter which needed the agreement of the whole executive. He claimed "battle lines were well drawn" in the debate over allowing unrestricted retail development at Sprucefield, with the potential impact on town and city centre shopping. He alleged the environment minister was only interested in securing approval for his own pre-determined outcome. The judge was told seven of the other 10 Stormont departments were concerned enough about BMAP to want to take part in a special executive sub-group set up to deal with the issue. Mr Durkan's barrister contended that attempts were made to coerce him into ignoring his legal duties in dealing with the planning blueprint. He also claimed the environment minister was put under pressure by DUP ministerial colleagues over a policy which effectively blocked attempts to build a John Lewis store. However, the judge held that the decision did cut across responsibilities of others in the executive under the terms of the 1998 Northern Ireland Act. He confirmed: "It was therefore a function of the executive committee to discuss and agree upon it, rather than for the respondent to act unilaterally." In a statement following the ruling, the Department of Environment said: "DoE planning is carefully considering Mr Justice Treacy's full judgement and the outcome of today's decision."

Environment Minister Mark H Durkan had no legal power to approve a major new planning blueprint for greater Belfast, a High Court judge has ruled.

They have warned visitors to keep their distance from wildlife for the safety of both humans and animals. The bison was rejected by its herd after contact with the people. The park said it was just one example of "inappropriate, dangerous and illegal behaviour with wildlife". Other such behaviour included petting bison and taking selfies with them. The visitors had what the park described as a "misplaced concern" for the calf. They saw it on its own and tried to bring it to a park facility. But their action led to the calf's mother rejecting it, and despite rangers' repeated attempts to bring it back to the herd, it started "causing a dangerous situation by continually approaching people and cars", officials said in a statement. "Approaching wild animals can drastically affect their well-being and, in this case, their survival." Social media users reacted to the news with anger and sadness. There are about 5,000 wild bison, also known as buffalo, in Yellowstone National Park. There are also bears and wolves. At least five tourists were hurt in the national park last year after getting too close to animals, leading the park to put out a warning on human safety grounds. Tourists are warned to stay at least 25 yards (23m) away from all wildlife and at least 100 yards away from bears and wolves.

Officials at the famous Yellowstone National Park in the US have revealed that they had to put down a newborn bison after some tourists put it in the boot of their car.

It meant they only managed a single batting point, having begun the game at Beckenham 24 behind leaders Essex. Opener Sean Dickson made 63 as they reached 146-7 before Will Gidman (51) and Matt Coles (52) led a recovery. South African paceman Rory Kleinveldt took 3-70 for the visitors, who had made 31-0 in reply by the close. Kent need to win and hope that leaders Essex slip up against Glamorgan next week before the two meet in the final round of matches. But their first-innings total means they can take no more than 20 points from the game, so Essex will only need 21 from their two remaining fixtures to clinch the Division Two title. The day's statistical high point came when Gidman was caught by Kleinveldt off spinner Graeme White, his first dismissal for Kent after three unbeaten half centuries, giving him an average of 283. Northants were left to face 11 overs in the final session and Ben Duckett (19 not out) and Rob Newton came through them unscathed.

Kent suffered a blow to their promotion hopes as they were bowled out for 230 on the opening day of their penultimate Championship game against Northants.

Karen Gooding This is the full statement to the inquests from his sister, Karen Gooding: Our 'Jimmy', as he insisted on being called, was born James Robert Hennessy on 24 September, 1959 in Liverpool to parents Robert and Margaret Hennessy. I was 13 months old at the time and he was a welcome brother to complete the Hennessy family. He was baptised at St Dominic's Roman Catholic Church and at the age of five, he joined me at the church school. We later moved to St Saviour's Roman Catholic School in Ellesmere Port, where our dad had started a new job. Growing up, Jimmy used to enjoy fishing with my dad and I with the St Saviour's freshwater fishing club, where our dad was a member. Profiles of all those who died We would all go in a minibus with our packed lunches and fishing tackles to various canals and lakes in Cheshire, fishing for that prized catch. He also loved racing homing pigeons with my dad under the proud name R Hennessy and Son, and together they won many a trophy. We used to go on family holidays to Butlins with our extended family and Jimmy enjoyed going because we had cousins of a similar age to us. Religion played a big part in our family life. I remember we used to have to go to mass and he would tell our parents that he was going to eight o'clock mass, but go off and play with his friends. This memory still brings a smile to my face. Jimmy had a great love for music and together we had a vast amount of LPs, some of which I still have. We spent many a night in each other's bedrooms listening to music. Later on, it was trips to the infamous Eric's Club in Liverpool, which led him to follow Death School, a local Liverpool band he went to see quite often in London. It was after one of these trips he arrived home wearing a 60s-style jacket with a pork pie hat in one hand and a copy of The Jam's In the City in the other, declaring that he was getting a Lambretta scooter, and he did. At the age of 11, he attended Ellesmere Port Catholic High School, where he was a popular lad and indeed made quite a few close friends with whom he kept friendships throughout his life. He liked school and he was a brilliant achiever academically, as reflected in his school reports. He enjoyed playing football and basketball for the school team. When he started playing basketball, it wasn't that popular in the UK. One of his teachers introduced him to it when he was about 13. He was the first recruit for the basketball team. I remember he nagged my mum and dad until we sent off to America for a pair of Converse he needed to play. He also used to go to Anfield to watch football with our dad. After leaving school, he attended Carlet Park College to do an engineering course, but after a year, he decided it wasn't for him. At 17, he started as a plasterer's apprentice with Ellesmere Port Borough Council, where he became a plasterer. He got it into his head that he wanted to do Artex, which was the in thing at the time, so he went to London to do a course. Around this time, a black cloud descended on the whole family, as our dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the spine. In May, 1980, when Jimmy was 20 and I was 21, our father passed away. Around this time, Jimmy was introduced to a girl whom he married in December 1981. The marriage lasted only a few years, after which he returned home with his faithful companion, a dog named Spike. I remember him saying that the one good thing to come out of the marriage was the arrival of his daughter, Charlotte, whom he loved dearly. As time went by, he had two little nephews, Graeme and Iain, to whom he was godfather and whom he found highly amusing. In the coming years, Liverpool Football Club played a big part in our Jimmy's life. He watched them at home and away and overseas. He was a proper Liverpool supporter. He went to Rome, Paris and Germany to see his club play. He used to do at least one football-related activity once a week. He also enjoyed being captain of the local pool team, but it was not something he showed off. He was a very private person. In the pub, he would sit silently on a ledge between the pool table area and the bar until it was his time to play. He was very unassuming. That said, he was very much into his fashion and having unusual stuff. He always had to be different from everybody else and be the first to get the latest thing. He loved to run. He ran about five to six miles every day without fail. He was addicted to it. Jimmy had everything to look forward to. He had started a new relationship and just launched his own plastering business around the time he died. The business venture proved to be successful, thus enabling him to take on two young lads as labourers. He had a lot going for him and I was proud of him. As the saying goes, he was tall, dark and handsome. He had lovely grey eyes and, though he wasn't one for smiling, he had a lovely smile when he chose to share it. It is a smile I still see in my daughter, Victoria, today. Jimmy was a man of very few words with a witty and dry sense of humour. He loved to laugh and banter with his family and friends from Sutton Way. Jimmy had ambitions. He loved his life. He was always there when we needed him. I remember that after my dad died and I got married, it was just him and my mum in the house, and we were a very close-knit family. Jimmy was very close to our mum. To her, he was especially precious, having already lost her first son, Stephen, when he was a baby. Her love for him is endless and, 25 years on, she still grieves for him with a broken heart that will never mend, all because he went to watch a game of football. As mentioned above, he was a quiet and extremely private person. I would like to think that he wouldn't mind me writing all this about him. I would hope he understands that I had to talk about him because, you see, he was not body number seven to me. He was 'our Jimmy', her son, my brother. This is the full statement to the inquests from his daughter, Charlotte Hennessy: Jimmy Hennessy is my dad. I only had six little years with him, but they were some of the best years of my life. As I was so young when he died, my mum and aunts have helped me to prepare this statement. My dad was a beautiful person. He was quiet and kept himself to himself. No-one had a bad word to say about him, nor he them. He had lots of friends and was liked by all who knew him. He was a good looking man. He loved clothes and always had the best of the best and was so vain. He is well remembered in our house for fixing his hair in the mirror every time he left. My dad was a mod with all the attire, including a green Lambretta. He had a great sense of humour - very dry and very funny. The word gargoyle used to make him laugh and he thought sloths were hilarious. He was always up for a laugh, even at the expense of my aunty and her stripy socks. My mum and dad met through friends in 1979 and started seeing each other in February, 1980. My dad's favourite band was The Jam and, together with friends, my mum and dad would go and see them in Deeside and Liverpool. On 11 December, 1981, my parents married at Chester Registry Office followed by a meal at The Witches' Kitchen. In May 1982, they got their first house. My dad was deeply loved by my maternal family. My nan and aunties loved him to bits. We were all very close and have treasured memories of him. My Aunty Jacquie was just 14 when my mum and dad started dating and she remembers my dad's fantastic taste in clothes and being jealous of his lovely things. She permed his hair once. This is a favourite memory of my Aunty Jo because, when my dad returned from his perming session, the curls were too tight and my dad was having a breakdown. Trying to be helpful, my Aunty Jo suggested he blow dry it. Needless to say, he was then modelling a big Afro frizz. He vowed never to ask Aunty Jo for advice again. On Wednesday, June 9, I was born weighing a massive 8 lbs 14 ozs. Goody Two Shoes by Adam Ant was number one in the charts and Jimmy Hennessy, the mod, became a daddy. He named me Charlotte. His passion was LFC. He went to games in the UK and abroad. Bill Shankly was his hero as well as, of course, our King Kenny and Ian Rush. My dad referred to me as "Red, White and Gold", which was the colours of our kit at the time. He was over the moon when I was born and I think it's fair to say that little Charlotte Hennessy and LFC equalised. My dad loved going out with his friends, Charlie Tigs and Steve. They were in a band and he would go and watch them at the Bull's Head with my mum too. His favourite book was Kes, was my favourite book in school too. His favourite film was 'Quadrophenia'. I know a different side to Jimmy Hennessy. I know him as daddy, the man who I adored. He threw himself into parenthood - he would change my nappies, did his share of feeds and he loved taking me out in my pram. He worked hard to provide for me as a self-employed plasterer and, to this day, the smell of plaster reminds me of my dad. What my dad's mates don't know is that he would let me play with his hair and put bobbles in! I would paint his nails. We would play in my Wendy House and we were always at the park. I was a daddy's girl, and I still to this day have the pram he bought me. My mum and dad divorced in 1985 but it never affected our relationship. I remember my dad being a part of our lives every day. I used to think he had magical powers because I would sit behind my Nanny Hennessy's sofa and pick my nose and every time he would say, 'Stop picking your nose!', and I never understood how he knew. Two weeks before my dad died, my mum and aunty went out as my Aunty Jo was moving to Jersey. My dad was looking after me. When I was in bed, I was messing around with a green wooden beaded necklace which got tangled in my hair. I was worried about being told off and I crept downstairs, knocked on the living room door and in my little Scouse accent said, 'Dad, I've got me beads stuck in me hair'. It was no problem, though. My dad sat and patiently untangled the necklace, brushed my hair and carried me back to bed! That's one of my last memories of him. There are no words to describe how much I miss him. My heart broke the day my dad died and losing him broke the heart of my family too. Whenever I was hurt and needed a hug, my dad was there with a hug, but when my dad was hurt and needed a hug, I couldn't give him one. To date, we have lost out on 9,145 days and not one goes by when I don't think about him. We have lost out on 25 Christmases, 25 of my birthdays and 25 of his. - that's a lot of hugs. Today, my dad is also a grandad to my three beautiful little boys, Liam-James, Joseph and Jacob. My boys and my mum are what keep me functioning. At times when Hillsborough consumes me and makes my heart ache, they make me realise life is worth living and that my dad lives on through us. I always tell my boys about their granddad. They call him 'Special Grandad, the brightest star in the sky' and enjoy being the first to spot him. People are quick to tell me, 'You were too little, you didn't really know your dad', but I do remember and I did know him. It is like a part of me is missing. I am incomplete. We had so much to do together, so many more memories to make and Hillsborough took that away from us. Hillsborough took my dad away from me like he was nothing and nobody, but he was everything to me. Losing my dad at Hillsborough stole my childhood from me and took away my best friend. It left me in a life of anger and bitterness and depression. I don't want to live in the shadow of Hillsborough any more and when all this is over, may my dad rest in peace. My dad will always be my hero, and I will always be a daddy's girl. No-one can take that away from me.

A father of one from Ellesmere Port, James Hennessy travelled by coach with friends, including fellow victim James Philip Delaney.

In a match reduced to 17 overs per side at Old Trafford, only seven were possible with Lancashire on 39-0. But Warwickshire's win at Yorkshire and Worcestershire's victory over Notts saw the 2014 champions finish fifth in the North Group with a worse net run-rate. Lancashire remain bottom of the group with just two wins. Following a delay of more than four hours, play eventually got under way at 18:15 BST with each innings reduced to 24 overs, and Lancashire's Karl Brown raced to 30 not out. The players went off for rain 30 minutes later, but it was hoped they could start again at 19:45 BST, with the match now 17 overs for each team. However, the weather closed in again and they did not return - meaning both sides take one point.

Durham were eliminated from the One-Day Cup after their match against Lancashire was abandoned and other results went against them.

Obituary: Francisco Blake Mora The helicopter was flying to Cuernavaca in neighbouring Morelos state for a prosecutors' meeting when it went down. All eight people on board were killed. President Felipe Calderon said weather conditions were probably to blame. Mr Blake Mora, 45, was appointed to the post last year and was a key figure in the war against drug cartels. The helicopter had initially been reported missing. Some Mexican media reports said there was heavy cloud at the time. "Unfortunately the interior secretary, his [assistants] and the helicopter crew were found dead," government spokeswoman Alejandra Sota said. Deputy Interior Secretary Felipe Zamora Castro and the interior ministry's chief press officer Jose Alfredo Garcia Medina were also killed in the crash along with other government officials and the air force crew, Ms Sota said. She said a search for the helicopter began when it was discovered it had strayed from its planned course. Mexican television showed wreckage from the helicopter strewn across a hillside. Ms Sota said the craft went down in the Xochimilco area, just south of Mexico City. By Ignacio de los ReyesBBC Mundo, Mexico Francisco Blake Mora was one of the president's right-hand men. Not only because he was in charge of domestic affairs, but also because he became one of the most strident voices of Mr Calderon's strategy against the drug cartels. In recent months, he helped co-ordinate the army, navy and federal police in the fight against drug trafficking in violence-torn cities like Veracruz or Acapulco. But his death could be a severe blow to Mr Calderon at a personal level too. Three years ago, one of the president's best friends, then Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, was killed in a plane crash in Mexico City. That accident was one of the saddest moments for Mr Calderon since he took power in 2006, he said. Mr Camilo Mourino was remembered by members of the cabinet, including Mr Blake Mora, this week. His last message on his Twitter account (@FBlakeM) was actually dedicated to Mr Mourino. "The cloudy conditions at the time certainly make you think about the probability of an accident," President Calderon said in a televised address. He said a thorough investigation of the accident was being launched and cancelled a trip to Hawaii for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum. US President Barack Obama called Mr Calderon to offer his condolences, a US government spokesman said. Mr Obama "reinforced his commitment to the close partnership between the United States and Mexico in this difficult time," said US National Security Council spokesman Ben Rhodes. The interior secretary is Mexico's senior cabinet position and the top official after the president, with responsibility for domestic affairs and security. Mr Blake was Mr Calderon's fourth interior secretary. One of his predecessors, Juan Camilo Mourino, was killed in a plane crash in Mexico City three years ago. Mr Blake began his political career in the north-western border city of Tijuana in the mid-1990s, later serving as interior secretary for Baja California state. He also served as a federal congressman from Mr Calderon's National Action Party. He earned a reputation as being a hardliner in Mexico's struggle with drug cartels. Mr Blake Mora frequently travelled to cities badly affected by the cartels, such as Veracruz and Ciudad Juarez, to help co-ordinate the government's response. More than 40,000 people are reported to have died from drug-related violence since President Calderon sent in the army to help combat the cartels in 2006.

Mexico's Secretary of the Interior, Francisco Blake Mora, has died in a helicopter crash near Mexico City.

The details emerged during the sentencing of Arshid, Bannaras and Basharat Hussain at Sheffield Crown Court. Arshid, 40, and Basharat, 39, were found guilty by a jury of 50 offences. Bannaras, 36, pleaded guilty to 10 offences before the trial started. Michelle Colborne QC said Bannaras Hussain met one victim when she was 12 or 13 and she performed sex acts on him. "He was indifferent to whether she consented or not," she said. "When her brothers found out, they were furious with her and would physically assault her because she was involved sexually with an Asian man." She said Bannaras abused one victim in a car park next to Rotherham Police Station, and told the court how the sister of another of his victims described her sister as a "broken human being". Ms Colborne said one woman had described the Hussain brothers as "a pack of animals". Summing up the contents of a number of statements from the women abused by the brothers, she said: "They describe from their teenage years a life in the main of feeling dirty, ashamed and guilty. "Between them, a plethora of emotional conditions - eating disorders, self-harm, agoraphobia, self-loathing and terminations for many of them from the age of 14 - events they have never been able to put behind them." She said many of the victims have had relationship problems throughout their lives and have found themselves subjected to domestic violence. Three associates of the Hussain brothers, their uncle Qurban Ali, 53, Karen MacGregor, 58, and Shelley Davies, 40, will also be sentenced. Ali was found guilty of conspiracy to rape, while MacGregor and Davies were convicted of false imprisonment and conspiracy to procure a woman under 21 to become a common prostitute. MacGregor was also convicted of two counts of conspiracy to rape.

A victim of one of three brothers who raped and sexually assaulted 15 teenage girls in Rotherham was attacked by her own family when they discovered the abuse, a court has heard.

At 05:00 The Scotsman's front page declared a "historic victory for SNP". The Herald also published a 5am edition. The paper said: "Sturgeon triumphant as Labour humiliated." "Victory's at hand" was the earlier headline in The National, with a full page picture of Nicola Sturgeon with her husband and SNP chief executive Peter Murrell. The paper said she was "on course to win her mandate". "Just Like Nat" was the headline on the front page of the Scottish Sun. Earlier, shortly after the polls closed, the newspaper tweeted that the Tories would "comfortably" seal second place. The Daily Record published its first edition with the caption "01:30 election latest". The headline was "Five more years" and the paper said Nicola Sturgeon was set to be returned as first minister. The Scottish Daily Express said Nicola Sturgeon had been warned that there would be "no more excuses" for failing to deliver for Scotland as the SNP "swept to an historic third term" in the Holyrood election. The Daily Star headline was "Five more years". It also predicted the SNP was poised to "hold Holyrood". The Scottish Daily Mail had published three editions by 03:00. Its most recent said "SNP set for victory, Tory vote surges in push for second and Labour disaster as seats tumble". The Daily Telegraph said Nicola Sturgeon "could be denied" a new independence referendum.

As the counts got under way in the Holyrood election the Scottish papers were predicting an SNP victory and there was little change as updated editions were published through the night.

29 June 2015 Last updated at 11:41 BST Mr Richards, 19, from Wednesbury, was among 38 killed when a Tunisian student linked to Islamic State extremists opened fire on a beach in Sousse on Friday. He was a Walsall FC fan, football referee and student at the University of Worcester. Chief executive of the Birmingham County Football Association, Chad Ehlertsen, said "it just makes you smile every time you think about Joel." "He was just a leader of young people; a good organiser, a good communicator and an extremely talented young referee," Mr Ehlertsen said.

One of the victims of the Tunisia beach attacks, Joel Richards, has been described as a leader of young people.

Gosport's HMS Sultan and Fort Blockhouse are among 91 Ministry of Defence sites now set to close - 35 were previously earmarked. The town's borough council said the loss of more than 1,000 sailors from the area would affect the economy. Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon announced the closures on Monday. He the closures would deliver better value for money and release enough land across the UK to build 55,000 homes. It is also estimated that about £140m will be saved over the next decade by selling off the sites, which Sir Michael said would be reinvested in creating "areas of military expertise" in locations across the country, including a specialised infantry group in Aldershot. Leader of Gosport Borough Council, Mark Hook, said: "We are relieved the majority of jobs will remain in the area, but we'll lose the economic benefits of having more than 1,000 sailors based in the town." He admitted the authority could not stop the sale of the land, but said it would work to get the "best possible outcomes" for the town. He said it would be "seeking assurances" from the MoD that the sites could be redeveloped for business use. "We need to reduce the impact on the area by using these sites to create business spaces that will bring with them opportunities and jobs to benefit local people," he said. Unions have described the plans - which are part of a review of Ministry of Defence land - as "brutal" and have also promised to fight the closures.

The government will be lobbied by a Hampshire council over its plans to sell off an additional 56 defence sites by 2040.

David Davies said there were too many "scare stories" suggesting people would be removed. The status of EU citizens working in the UK is likely to be top of the agenda in formal Brexit talks. Labour's Eluned Morgan said that EU migrants contribute "far far more" than they take out across the UK. Speaking on the BBC One's Wales Report programme, Mr Davies said: "There's no threat whatsoever to law-abiding, hard working Polish, Hungarian, other EU citizens who come over here to work." The Brexit campaigner said: "I'm afraid there's too many scare stories being put out there. "We're not going to stop people from moving around or throw people out of the country." Ms Morgan said: "I think what we have to understand is that economically, migrants from the EU contribute far-far more than they take out across the United Kingdom. "They contribute about £6bn which is what is paying for people's pensions and schools and hospitals." Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said earlier this week the issue was "settled" after last year's referendum, but declined in a BBC interview to say the UK would definitely leave if he became Prime Minister. Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth claimed the Conservatives were responsible for "scare stories" about the "negative effects that these immigrants from the EU have". He said EU migrants are "clearly net contributors to our economy". UKIP AM Caroline Jones said that since 2010 Theresa May had promised to bring the levels of immigration down to the tens of thousands of people per year. "Instead of that two million people since 2010 have entered the UK. So that commitment hasn't worked, has it," she said. The Liberal Democrats' Eluned Parrott said: "I think what's really really sad in all of this is that there are human beings here, individual human beings who's own status feels threatened. "People who are doctors, they're nurses, they're translators, they are people working in really useful jobs for our society who feel like they're not wanted." The Wales Report, BBC One, Wednesday, 22:45 BST

Immigrants from the EU working in Wales will not be thrown out of the country post-Brexit, a senior Welsh Conservative has said.

Core earnings fell 41% to $1.59bn (£1.03bn), with pre-tax profits down to $708m from $1.9bn a year earlier. Like many other energy companies, BG's results have been affected by the fall in oil prices from a year ago. BG said it was still happy with Shell's £47bn offer for the firm, despite a recent recovery in oil prices. "There is no change to our view on the offer," said BG chief executive Helge Lund. BG agreed to be bought by Royal Dutch Shell last month. Mr Lund said the deal was expected to be completed by early-2016. BG more than doubled production from its Brazil and Australia operations in the first quarter. However, the impact of the lower oil price from a year earlier was seen in a 21% fall in revenues to $3.99bn.

UK oil and gas exploration firm BG Group, which is set to be taken over by Royal Dutch Shell, has reported a big drop in first-quarter earnings.

The club reports that most of the squad have been able to train on Friday, and are planning for the match as normal. "Majority of the squad are in to train this morning ahead of Saturday's match with the Dons," Motherwell tweeted. "On that basis, the club have informed the SPFL there will be no requests made and tomorrow's game is good to go." Motherwell were forced to postpone an under-20s game against Celtic on Tuesday after the vast majority of the squad were laid low. "We had to shut down the club yesterday," manager Mark McGhee said on Thursday. "If we had another three or four showing these symptoms and unable to train then it would leave me with no choice. "I might only have nine players including the entire under-20s. I can't go into a football match with eight or nine players." However, enough of first team squad have now recovered sufficiently to allay fears of the match being postponed.

Motherwell will not ask the SPFL to postpone Saturday's Premiership match with Aberdeen, despite the outbreak of a virus at Fir Park.

Raymond Russell, 34, was charged with being concerned in the supply of a controlled drug to another person and also drug possession. He appeared in private at Jedburgh Sheriff Court where he made no plea or declaration and his case was continued. Russell was released on bail pending his next court appearance. He was one of two men arrested and charged following Operation Archerfish on Thursday. Eight houses in Galashiels, Hawick, Kelso and Selkirk were searched during the investigation of people suspected of being involved in the sale of drugs. A total of £1,200 was seized, as well as drugs with a street value in the region of £3,750. Police Scotland say they are also looking for another man in connection with a cannabis cultivation.

A Galashiels man has appeared in court following a major drugs operation involving 100 police officers in the Borders.

Cheesman, a three times Oxford Blue, joined the Championship side in 2012 and has made over 100 appearances. Club captain Morgan has amassed over 200 games since joining from Newbury in 2008, and has earned representative honours for the Barbarians. Forwards coach Alan Paver said: "Alex is one of the best back-rowers in the Championship, and Morgs is a legend." The Pirates have already agreed new deals with prop Marlen Walker and back row Dan Lee whilst another prop, Tyler Gendall, has gone on loan to Harlequins until the end of the season. Gendall, 22, made his Quins debut in the win at Worcester in the Anglo-Welsh Cup. The Cornish Pirates are seventh in the Championship and two points off the play-off places ahead of Sunday's home game against London Scottish.

Forwards Chris Morgan and Alex Cheesman have signed new two-year contracts at the Cornish Pirates.

Media playback is not supported on this device The American, 32, who suffered two serious injuries in 2016, made her comeback last week finishing 13th in Altenmarkt, Austria. On Saturday, Vonn won her 77th World Cup race, beating Switzerland's Lara Gut - last season's overall World Cup winner - by 0.15 seconds. She is now nine behind Swede Ingemar Stenmark's all-time record of 86 wins. Vonn was out of competitive racing for 322 days after she broke her leg in March 2016, which ended her season, and then fractured her arm in training in November. She burst into tears when she crossed the finish line and told Ski Sunday: "I'm so happy. "To be honest, I wasn't sure what I was capable of. I just put it all on the line, tried to risk more and believe in myself. "I did more than I expected and it is such a big step forward. I knew it was possible if I believed in my ability."

Former Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn claimed her first win since returning from almost a year out with victory in the downhill race at Garmisch, Germany.

Elections are being held in 27 English county councils and seven unitary authorities, last contested in 2009, as well as in Anglesey in Wales. Labour are defending the South Shields seat in a contest caused by the resignation of David Miliband in March. Mayoral contests are also being held in Doncaster and North Tyneside. Polls for all the contests opened at 07:00 BST, and close at 22:00 BST. Blue sky and sunshine are covering much of England, as millions of voters choose who will represent them on their local council. More than 2,300 seats are up for grabs in county councils and unitary authorities across the length and breadth of England, including Derbyshire, Lancashire, Somerset, Essex, Surrey, Leicestershire, Kent, Durham, Bristol and Cornwall. The Conservatives and Labour are putting up candidates in most seats, with 2,263 and 2,168 candidates respectively. The Lib Dems have 1,763 candidates. UKIP is fielding 1,745 candidates, three times as many as it did the last time these seats were fought in 2009, and the Greens have 893 candidates. Other parties standing include the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, which is fighting 120 seats, the BNP, with 99 candidates and the English Democrats, with 38 candidates. There are around 900 independent candidates. No elections are taking place in London, Scotland or Northern Ireland. The majority of council results are expected on Friday between 11:00 BST and 18:30 BST, although six councils - Lincolnshire, Dorset, Somerset, Essex, Gloucestershire and Hampshire - will declare their results in the early hours of Friday morning. The result for the South Shields by-election is also expected early on Friday morning.

Voters across England are going to the polls for council elections and a parliamentary by-election in South Shields.

Though the unverified story was short on details, and did not have the husband's side of the story, "divorced because of fat face" quickly became a top trend on microblogging network Weibo. State media picked up the story on Thursday, which was first reported in a local evening paper earlier this week. Liaoshen Wanbao reported the 49-year-old woman in Shenyang city had claimed her husband had divorced her 10 years ago because he disliked the shape of her face, said to be "large and square" with "fat cheeks". She said it spurred her to undergo facial surgery three times at a local hospital to shave her jawbones and reshape her face into a slimmer shape. During the third surgery the doctors discovered that if they proceeded further her nerves may be damaged, and halted the procedure. The woman, identified only by her surname Wang, later sued the hospital for 1.7 million yuan ($260,900; £183,900) in damages. She alleged the surgery had left her with soreness in her chin, and she could only eat and drink through a straw as "when she exerted force on her lower jaw, she had the sensation that it would break". The hospital, however, argued that the surgeries were conducted according to regulations, and pointed out that they encouraged her to seek psychiatric help instead of a third operation, which she refused. After mediation the woman agreed to accept 20,000 yuan ($3,100, £2,200) as compensation, said the report. On Weibo, some condemned the woman's husband, but others also chastised the woman. One top-voted comment read: "It's purely an excuse, if her face was large then why did he decide to marry her in the first place? If he stopped loving her then he should have just said so." It continued: "This woman is also very silly to have believed that her face shape was the real reason for the divorce, she is lying to herself." Said another Weibo user: "Even if you had gone for facial surgery and made your face smaller, he would still have found other reasons to divorce you." One person noted the sharp difference in the compensation amount and voiced suspicions: "1.7 million was dropped to 20,000, it makes me wonder if she really did have a problem with her jaw." Still others took the opportunity to crack jokes. "What an odd reason for divorce! I wonder how square was this woman's square-shaped face? Like a television set? Microwave oven?" Plastic surgery has long been a hot topic on Weibo. In December, users similarly expressed outrage when a Chinese man took out a newspaper advertisement pleading for his wife to go for plastic surgery. More than seven million cosmetic surgeries were performed in China in 2014. The industry's value, pegged at around 400bn yuan, is expected to double by 2019, according to the China Association of Plastics and Aesthetics.

A report about a woman who said she had repeated plastic surgery after her husband divorced her because she had a "fat face" has sparked outrage among China's online community.

"What time does your website close?" in Poole and "Can I exercise my kestrel on your tip?" in Nottingham are among the top ten bizarre calls of the last year. Three of ten were made in Somerset, including: "What are the rules and regulations for hosting a mouse race?" Councils are people's "first port of call" whatever the query, says the LGA. The Local Government Association said councils' customer service hubs in England and Wales handled more than 50 million calls a year - the bulk of which are about council tax and parking. But it compiled its top ten of the "slightly amusing to the outright bizarre" queries received in the past 12 months. Peter Fleming, of the LGA, said: "These light-hearted examples of calls highlight the variety of issues that councils deal with every day."

Questions on everything from James Bond villains to Great British Bake Off cake tins have been received by council call centres in England.

The 34-year-old Sweden striker's contract with the French champions expires in the summer, and he has been linked with Manchester United, Los Angeles Galaxy and AC Milan. "I am very proud," he said. "I came like a king, I leave like a legend but I will be back." PSG said Ibrahimovic leaves as "the greatest striker and one of the very best players in the club's history". Ibrahimovic is the club's record goalscorer despite only joining the club in 2012, his 152 goals coming in 178 appearances. PSG have won Ligue 1 in every season Ibrahimovic has been at the club, wrapping up the title this season with two months to spare. "I loved every day I spent here," said Ibrahimovic, who has won league titles with six different clubs. "Paris St-Germain has become a star club in the world and I played a key role moving it forward. It is now the right time for me to take a different path." PSG host Nantes in Ligue 1 on Saturday before meeting Marseille in the French Cup final on 21 May. An agreement is in place for Ibrahimovic to return to the club at the end of his playing career, with PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi saying he is "looking forward to the prospect of working with him again". Ibrahimovic finished as top scorer in France in 2012-13 and 2013-14, and leads Lyon's Alexandre Lacazette by 15 goals this season. He has also been included in the Ligue 1 team of the year in all of his four seasons in France.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic will leave Paris St-Germain at the end of the season.

The 27-year-old former Aberdeen forward, who moved to Blackburn for £2m in 2011, has signed a one-year deal at League Two side Plymouth Argyle. Goodwillie won the last of his three caps five years ago, scoring his only goal from the spot against Spain. "I don't think about it too much, but as you get a bit older you think 'is it away from me?" Goodwillie said of his international hopes to BBC Radio Devon. "If you're a player at any age, if you're performing well I don't see why you can't still think about it, but right now I'm just concentrating on club football." Goodwillie scored just eight goals in two seasons at Aberdeen, and spent the final part of last season at Argyle boss Derek Adams' former club Ross County, for whom he scored once. "It helps that he (Derek Adams) is Scottish and he knows about Scottish culture and he can put his arm around you," added Goodwillie. "You're quite far from home and he'll understand that, and I think that was a big decision for me." Goodwillie was on the scoresheet for Dundee United when they beat Adams' Ross County 3-0 in the 2010 Scottish Cup final. "He's proven goalscorer, he's a player that has commanded a high transfer fee over a period of time," Adams told BBC Radio Devon. "He's a very good football player. I think it's important that we take football players to this football club that enhance us on the pitch and he'll certainly do that."

David Goodwillie says he has not given up on representing Scotland once again.

Two men were convicted for carrying out abuse during the 1970s, 80s and 90s at the now closed Skircoat Lodge. Victim Kaz Gray said inquiries did not go far enough and some individuals were allegedly still working with children. Calderdale Council said no one involved in the historical cases still worked for the authority. In 2001, Malcom Phillips, who ran Skircoat Lodge for nearly 20 years, was jailed for seven years for repeated abuse of children in his care. A social worker there, Andrew Shadders, who abused boys, was jailed for 15 years. Another man, Terence O'Hagan, was charged with abuse but died before conviction. Ms Gray, who is leading the protest at the council's social services offices, said the scale of the abuse in care homes in Calderdale over that period of time was "rampant". She said: "When I went into care one of the first things they did was put me on the pill. "I was 14, the youngest lass I knew of at the time on the pill in Skircoat was 11 years old." Ms Gray, who has waived her right to anonymity, was abused at Skircoat and said she was trafficked to a care home in North Wales where she was raped. She said she considered there were people still working with children in the area who had been "complicit in the abuse" of youngsters decades ago. "Nothing's changed, nothing will change until everything comes out," she added. The council said it fully supported the investigation at the time. It added: This was an appalling case and we regret that children suffered when they were in the care of the local authority. "I would like to reassure people that nobody involved in the historic cases works for the council, and in the intervening years our safeguarding practices have changed beyond recognition." Chief Supt Dickie Whitehead, Calderdale District Commander, said a thorough investigation was carried out by police and the council between 1997 and 2002 following allegations against a number of employees at Skircoat Lodge Assessment Centre and Dobroyd Castle. He said: "This led to a number of arrests and prosecutions, resulting in a number of substantial prison sentences." Mr Whitehead urged victims of abuse to come forward, adding: "We can promise that reports will be investigated and victims will be treated with the utmost sensitivity."

Victims of child sex abuse in Halifax are staging a protest calling for an inquiry into historical abuse at care homes in Calderdale to be reopened.

Police have confirmed paint was thrown over doors and windows at Crumlin Orange Hall some time between 2300 BST on Monday and 1000 BST on Tuesday. SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns condemned those behind the attack which he said was "pointless". "They can only harm and destroy, they can only cause pain and hardship and useless expense to taxpayers and ratepayers," he said.

An Orange hall in County Antrim has been the target of a paint bomb attack.

Joseph McHale, 38, Kevin Schruyers, 42, and Robin Vaughan, 43, all from Liverpool, were part of a gang who targeted ATMs. The gang struck in the early hours of the morning at machines in Stonehaven, Inverurie, Aberdeen, New Deer and Ellon between August and November 2013. Sentence was deferred. They used oxygen and acetylene to get to the safes behind the ATMs. At the High Court in Glasgow, McHale and Schruyers were convicted of blowing up the cash machine at Scotmid in North Deeside Road, Bieldside, Aberdeen and stealing £112,000. They were also found guilty of blowing up an ATM at the Royal Bank of Scotland in New Deer and stealing £21,020. The pair were also convicted of blowing up four ATMs in Ellon, Stonehaven, Inverurie and Aberdeen and attempting to steal from them, and stealing a quantity of clothing, golf equipment and money from the golf professional shop at the Paul Lawrie Centre in Aberdeenshire. The duo were also found guilty of attempting to break into a cash machine in Mintlaw by using a crowbar. Vaughan admitted blowing up the ATM in New Deer and Bieldside. He also admitted trying to force open the ATM in Mintlaw using a crowbar. The focus of the investigation led to Liverpool after a number of Scottish banknotes started to circulate in the Mersey area. Many of these notes had edges cut off in a bid to remove the signs of dye which went on to them. Others had some red dye on them even though the gang had tried to remove all traces of it. The court heard they duped Francis Clark - brother of actress and model Sophie Kennedy Clark and grandson of singer Calum Kennedy - into providing them with a hideaway after a meeting at a party. The court heard that Mr Clark was originally a suspect in the case, but appeared during the trial as a witness. Lady Scott deferred sentence until next month at the High Court at Livingston. Ch Insp Graeme Mackie, of Police Scotland, said afterwards: "This was a complex police enquiry. "I would like to commend the effort and work undertaken by all the officers involved in this enquiry and also the public, whose assistance was vital. "There is no place for serious organised crime in Scotland."

Thieves have been found guilty of using explosives to blow up cash machines in a series of raids which netted more than £130,000 across Aberdeenshire.

Cricket and Nigeria may seem an incongruous pairing, but in Lagos many a weekend players in their colourful kit take to the crease on a dusty pitch in a fiercely competitive cricket league. "This league actually boasts about 99% of the Nigerian national team," says Femi Solebo, who chairs the Club Cricket Committee Lagos and also plays for the Ibeju Lekki Cricket Club. Watching a game from the welcome shade of the pavilion, he occasionally shouts out instructions to his batsmen taking on Government College Ibadan in a 50-over game. "Over the last three or four years Nigerian cricket has stepped up quite a lot and has allowed these guys here to show their stuff at an international level," he says. "Recently the national team got promoted to division five in the World Cricket League, which is a huge achievement for us - we've never been there before in the history of Nigerian cricket." Mr Solebo, who first started playing cricket whilst at school in the UK, reckons that in a population of more than 170 million "there must be a million or so followers of cricket in Nigeria quite easily". However, not many of them are at Tafawa Balewa Square Cricket Oval next to Lagos' dilapidated old racecourse. Besides a few team members on the stand and a man barbecuing meat, only a small group watches from deckchairs under a nearby tree, keeping refreshed with drinks from a cool box. Some of them turn out to be former Nigerian internationals - stalwarts of the game, some of whom are updating a chat group of enthusiasts with the latest scores by mobile phone. Femi Solebo, Club Cricket Committee Lagos chair: I joke with them that if I don't fund them, they're going to come mug me "In our time we didn't have as much exposure as the current national team does, we were restricted in playing in just the West African region," says Barnaby Ephraim, who now helps administer the game in Lagos. He says it is the Lagos league, which was started more than 15 years ago, that has helped raise the profile of cricket and the opportunity to play it outside school and university. It is also tempering attitudes that see the game as elitist and old fashioned, with some schools - even the established private ones - not seeing the sport as a priority. And Mr Solebo admits it is difficult to rival football as there are not the fans to warrant tickets that would pay for the upkeep of a turf pitch. The ground the teams use is often rented out by the cash-strapped Nigerian Cricket Federation - and with upcoming elections, political rallies have recently been held here, playing havoc with the pitch, already like concrete after the dry Harmattan season. The game is also expensive for players given the kit needed. "With soccer, all you need is just one ball and then you're away," says the 45-year-old. But he says whilst the league is sponsored by private individuals like him with a passion for the game, most of the 400 players in its two divisions are "from the streets". The Ibeju Lekki club helps pay for either a player's education or vocational training - and subsidises kit and lunches. Kunle Adegbola, Nigerian cricket captain: Cricket is just evolving in Nigeria... in the next four to five years cricket will be out there like football "Whatever it is they want to do, we'll fund that and insist that you can only be a member of this club if you have some kind of educational background - and that's what the other clubs try to do as well," says Mr Solebo, who runs a company that generates electricity. "I joke with them that if I don't fund them, they're going to come mug me. "Some of them are doing very well in university, some of them have left and are working now." A few of Lagos' cricketers have even gone professional, like Nigerian cricket captain Kunle Adegbola. The towering 33-year-old has come to practise for his Foundation Cricket Club in the nets ahead of a game the next day. When the season ends in April in Lagos he will head off to London, where he has played for Burgess Park and Blackheath cricket clubs in the past. He says with more awareness, spectators and sponsorship, he sees great things for Nigerian cricket. "Cricket is just evolving in Nigeria... in the next four to five years cricket will be out there like football," he says. But the Lagosian cricketers know gaining such momentum will only be achieved with serious corporate sponsorship - which would be more likely if ongoing negotiations with a cable TV company bear fruit. So far TV executives have been reluctant to go ahead as they would prefer a national league. "But we say that we can take it in phases, adopt Lagos first and then you can open up," says Mr Ephraim, vice-chair of the Lagos State Cricket Association which is also trying to rejuvenate youth interest in cricket. He says that unlike other states there are 35 schools in Lagos now playing cricket - with both boys and girls participating. Ibeju Lekki player Endurance Ofem agrees junior involvement is key to putting cricket on a football footing. But the former captain of the Nigerian side says offering national team players good welfare packages like those available to professional footballers is important too. "If you do that, every youngster sees the reason to come and play cricket." For Mr Solebo, competing with football is not the issue - it is the cricket that matters. "It makes me very proud that our efforts give people joy every weekend - they come here, play with passion and it's fantastic."

Nigeria has produced its fair share of great sportsmen and women - but unlike footballers and polo players, cricketers rarely get the West African nation's heart beating.

The man was found unconscious at a flat in Caledonia Court on Wednesday. He was treated at the scene and taken to Galloway Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later. Police Scotland said there were no apparent suspicious circumstances and the procurator fiscal had been informed.

Police are investigating the unexplained death of a 32-year-old man in Stranraer.

BBC Radio Solent reports Eisner has already informed manager Paul Cook of his interest in creating the role. The former Walt Disney chief executive has made an offer to buy 100% of the League Two champions. Cook is believed to want a firm input over any potential candidate to ensure minimal disruption to his set-up. Portsmouth won the League Two title on goal difference from Plymouth Argyle on the final day of the season. Cook won the title for a second time in his managerial career after leading Chesterfield to promotion in 2014. Eisner's offer of £5.67m for Portsmouth plus an additional investment of £10m in equity will be voted on by club shareholders and members of the Pompey Supporters' Trust (PST), who currently own 48%.

Portsmouth are considering appointing a director of football next season, should Michael Eisner's proposed takeover of the club go through.

The call comes after at least four people were killed in clashes between police and protesters. Pascal Tsaty Mabiala of the PanAfrican Union for Social Democracy wants to stop Sunday's vote going ahead. President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been in power since 1997. The vote is aimed at pushing through changes to the constitution such as scrapping age and two-term limits. Police fired shots and tear gas in the capital, Brazzaville, on Tuesday in a clamp down on protests against the president's bid for a third term. Texting and internet services were cut and public meetings banned ahead of the referendum, residents said. Other journalists told the BBC that most shops in Brazzaville were shut, and people were staying at home amid fears of violence. "People are demonstrating across the city. The police are firing tear gas bombs," Tresor Nzila, head of the Congolese Observatory of Human Rights, told the Reuters news agency. "In certain places, the police have fired warning shots with live fire." The opposition have been campaigning under the slogan "Sassoufit", a pun on the French expression for "that's enough". Africa's longest-serving leaders: The arrogance of power The Mobutu and Gaddafi effect

An opposition leader in Congo-Brazzaville has called for a "peaceful uprising" ahead of Sunday's referendum on whether the president can run for office again, AFP news agency reports.