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Neil Trotter admitted taking pictures of women at Edinburgh's Waverley Station and Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries between June and September 2014.
A sheriff told the 54-year-old, from Falkirk, that "women should be able to walk without fear" in public places.
He was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
A previous hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told that Trotter travelled into Edinburgh daily by train to go to work.
On Monday 29 September, a fellow passenger noted him walking in "a curious, a sinister manner" at Waverley Station, "clearly making an effort to get very close to a female ahead of him" on the escalator.
Fiscal depute Aidan Higgins, prosecuting, told the court that "it was clear he was using his phone to get under the lady's skirt, taking photographs".
The commuter reported his concerns to British Transport Police and Trotter was identified from CCTV footage. He was detained as he left the station the following day.
Examination of Trotter's phone and his home computer established that he had been using his mobile on various days between 11 June and 29 September, with 22 videos showing the camera had been directed under women's skirts.
Defence solicitor Neil Hay told the court Trotter was "most ashamed of his actions", and "well aware his behaviour is unacceptable".
He said his client had "lost his career, brought his family to the brink of financial ruin and brought shame and humiliation to himself and those very close to him".
Sentencing him to 18 months in prison, Sheriff Peter Braid told Trotter: "You have pled guilty to taking images of women in a clandestine manner, prompted by voyeuristic impulses for your own sexual gratification.
"This involved significant planning committed over a period of more than three months in public places where women should be able to walk without fear.
"The repugnance society must feel towards these offences is such that, in my view, there is no alternative to a custodial sentence, in retribution and to deter others." | A former senior information officer for the Scottish government has been jailed for 18 months for using his mobile phone to take photos up women's skirts. | 33551522 | [
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Mae grŵp wedi'i sefydlu yn Arberth, Sir Benfro sy'n helpu i ddod â theulu o ffoaduriaid i'r DU a chynnig cartref iddyn nhw.
Mae Arberth yn un o 10 tref yn y DU sydd wedi ymgymryd â chynllun gan Lywodraeth y DU yn 2016 i gymryd cyfrifoldeb o gefnogi cartrefu ffoaduriaid.
Dywedodd un sy'n aelod o Croeso Arberth, Christina Hughes, wrth raglen Eye on Wales ar BBC Radio Wales nad oedd hi'n gallu "eistedd nôl a gwylio pobl yn dioddef".
Felly daeth criw o bobl leol at ei gilydd i sefydlu'r grŵp, sy'n cymryd cyfrifoldeb o hyd at dri theulu drwy ddarparu cartref ar eu cyfer a'u helpu i ddysgu Saesneg er mwyn dod o hyd i waith.
Mae ffigyrau yn dangos bod grwpiau cymunedol o'r fath wedi cefnogi hyd at 53 ffoadur y llynedd.
Ond mae Croeso Arberth yn pryderu bod y broses yn un cymhleth.
Roedd yn rhaid iddyn nhw gasglu £4,500 ar gyfer yswiriant ar gyfer y saith ffoadur maen nhw'n eu cefnogi, yn ogystal â chadw £6,000 mewn cyfrif i dalu am gyfieithwyr a chostau teithio.
Mae £200 yn cael ei gadw 'nôl hefyd fel lwfans i aelodau o'r teulu.
"Dyma oedd dechrau'r broses gyda nifer o ffurflenni gan y Swyddfa Gartref i'w llenwi," meddai Ms Hughes.
"Doedd gennai ddim syniad faint o waith oedd yn ei gymryd. Hanner ffordd drwy'r broses roeddwn yn gofyn i fy hun 'be dwi'n ei wneud?'
"Ond dwi'n falch fy mod wedi bwrw 'mlaen."
Dyma beth sydd i ddisgwyl gan gymunedau sy'n noddi ffoaduriaid:
Roedd rhaid i'r grŵp gael caniatâd gan Gyngor Sir Benfro cyn bwrw 'mlaen gyda'r cais i ddarparu cymorth i'r ffoaduriaid, yn ogystal â Citizens UK.
Bellach mae'r broses ar ben ac mae teulu o saith ffoadur o Syria wedi cyrraedd Arberth.
"Allai ddim credu bod y cyfan drosodd," meddai Ms Hughes.
"Gan ein bod yn un o'r grwpiau cyntaf i gyflawni hyn dwi'n gobeithio wrth fynd ymlaen bydd y Swyddfa Gartref yn gwneud pethau'n gynt i grwpiau eraill." | Wrth i'r swyddfa gartref gyhoeddi £1m i helpu cymunedau noddi ffoaduriaid mae pryder ynglŷn â pha mor gymhleth yw'r broses. | 40673606 | [
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England only needed a draw to finish top of the group and after a lacklustre first half, Nikita Parris set them on the way to victory after the break.
The striker headed home Karen Carney's cross to give England the lead.
England dominated thereafter and Carney doubled the visitors' advantage with a strike which took a heavy deflection.
Jade Moore won the ball and released Carney who neatly beat one defender on the edge of the box before scoring with a strike which went in via Lorca van de Putte.
It was a victory which extended England's unbeaten run to seven matches, with the past five of those ending in victories. The Lionesses last lost a competitive qualifier in November 2002.
England had already qualified for next summer's tournament in the Netherlands thanks to the 5-0 thumping of Estonia on 15 September, but England boss Mark Sampson said before the match in Leuven that he was determined his team would end the qualifiers as group leaders.
Belgium, the only team to have taken a point off Sampson's side during the campaign, could have finished top of Group 7 had they beaten England, but they never truly came close and must settle for second spot.
Neither team impressed in a first half full of stray passes and pedestrian attacks. England's best chance fell to Lucy Bronze, whose long-range effort was a fraction wide from the top corner.
Belgium also had an opportunity to break the deadlock and would probably have scored through a Tessa Wullaert in-swinging corner had Jill Scott not headed the danger away.
Belgium were organised in defence and for most of the match were quick to close down playmaker Karen Carney whenever she received the ball, reducing her influence in the final third and consequently nullifying England.
But on the rare occasions Belgium did give Carney space to pull England's strings, the Chelsea forward was ruthless. First, she floated a lovely cross towards the industrious Parris to score her third international goal and followed up with five minutes remaining with a strike which completely wrong-footed Justien Odeurs thanks to the deflection.
Sampson has proved he is not afraid to make changes - tweaking the formation during this campaign and making two changes to the team which beat Estonia, with Siobhan Chamberlain and Gemma Davison replaced by Karen Bardsley and Gilly Flaherty.
But it was the introduction of Moore that changed the course of this match, with the midfielder breaking up play and giving the visitors more ballast in midfield.
England's Euro 2017 preparations begin in earnest with a friendly against France, a team ranked third in the world, next month in Doncaster. | England beat Belgium in their final match of the Women's Euro 2017 qualifiers, ensuring they finish as Group 7 leaders. | 37407067 | [
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Theme park bosses were informed of the accident on Tuesday at 13:57 BST but ambulance crews said the 999 call was not made until 14:08.
Alton Towers said one of its first responders was soon on the scene and security staff would have called 999 as soon as an assessment had been made.
Sixteen people were hurt, four seriously, when the Smiler crashed.
Crews from the West Midlands Ambulance Service arrived on the scene at 14:35 and they called the fire service at 14:41.
Fire crews were not initially requested by Alton Towers but the park's staff did put their own call in requesting their assistance at 14:45, the fire service said.
In a statement, Alton Towers said: "Our community first responders, based on site at Alton Towers, are trained by West Midlands Ambulance Service and form part of our security and medical teams.
"Once the incident occurred, a member of the ride staff would have called our first responders who arrived at the scene within minutes.
"After instant assessment they call our security department who then call 999 straight away."
The crash saw two carriages collide on the £18m ride, leaving people trapped 25ft (7.6m up) at an angle of 45 degrees for up to four-and-a-half hours.
Alton Towers said its staff built a platform to reach the injured people, although first responders initially used ladders so they could begin treating patients as soon as possible.
Joe Pugh, 18, and his girlfriend Leah Washington, 17, both from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, suffered "significant leg injuries" in the crash.
Daniel Thorpe, 27, from Buxton in Derbyshire, and 19-year-old Vicky Balch, who is believed to be from Leyland in Lancashire, were also seriously injured.
Mr Thorpe is being treated at University Hospital Coventry where his condition is described as stable.
The other three victims are being treated at Royal Stoke University Hospital.
Mr Thorpe is the assistant manager at The Izaak Walton Hotel in Dovedale. Shura Prince, the general manager, speaking on behalf of the hotel, said they were "shocked" by what had happened.
"Dan was taking a well earned day off following a busy weekend and it's awful to hear that what should have been a relaxing and fun day has ended in horror.
"Dan is an amazing friend and colleague who I have known for many years. Dan is hugely popular and has many close work friends. We are like a big family at The Izaak Walton and Dan's absence whilst he recovers from this awful ordeal will leave a huge hole here.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Dan and the other passengers at this difficult time."
A statement from University Hospital Coventry on behalf of Daniel Thorpe's family said: "We would like to thank everyone for their wishes at this time and would ask for some privacy while Daniel recovers."
1 billion
rides a year taken at fairgrounds & theme parks
1 death
in the UK since 2006/07
1.5 injuries per million rides in Europe each year
5% of accidents caused by technical problems
1 in 24m chance of being seriously hurt
Shares in Merlin Entertainments, which owns the theme park, have fallen just over 2.6% since the accident, wiping about £100m off its stock market value.
One analyst has estimated the park could be losing £500,000 for every day it stays closed.
Earlier, Alton Towers said it would remain shut on Friday while the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) continues its investigation.
A park spokesperson said anyone with pre-booked tickets would be able to visit Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures, Warwick Castle or Legoland Windsor as an alternative.
Neil Craig, head of operations for HSE in the Midlands, said a specialist team of inspectors was making inquiries.
"Our role is to establish the facts," he said.
"We will want to determine that those responsible for operating this ride have done what the law requires.
"We will also ensure that if there are any lessons to be learned, they are shared as soon as possible.
"Although the investigation is in its early stages, we will take action to protect the public if we uncover evidence that could affect the safety of other rides at the park or elsewhere."
Nick Varney, chief executive of Merlin Entertainments, said the park could reopen only when the investigation had concluded but did not give a time-frame.
Friends and relatives of those injured have been offering messages of support.
Natalie Kerr, Leah Washington's form tutor at Horizon Community College in Barnsley, said it was "devastating".
"I'm sure with Leah's determination and strength she'll get through this," she said.
"Best wishes go out to her.
"Leah was one of those pupils who is so genuine, she'll do anything for you. She has a smile on her face everyday. It's devastating for everyone especially the family. She's got good family around her so she's in good hands.
"Regardless of these injuries I think she'll go on to live the life of her dreams."
The Oaks Working Men's Club in Barnsley, where Joe Pugh works as a barman, posted on Facebook: "We at the Oaks WMC would like to extend our prayers and best wishes in the speedy recovery of our barman Joe Pugh and his girlfriend Leah Washington." | Emergency services were not called until 11 minutes after the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash, it has emerged. | 33011347 | [
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But he did not know the size of block grant coming from the Treasury in London until George Osborne's autumn statement on 25 November.
So with few sleeps and bargain-seeking days to Christmas, the budget process is being delivered this week, and the legislative timetable squeezed.
What can be expected of John Swinney's taxation and spending plans? Let's play budget bingo.
"Osborne's austerity is wrong for Scotland": There will be a squeeze of more than 5% (the Scottish government prefers a slightly different calculation rounding it up to 6%) in current or revenue (non-capital) spending.
"Difficult decisions have to be made": If the health service is protected from cuts, and schools too, departments with less than half the budget have to absorb all the cuts.
That is likely to feature local government, which has been told to brace itself for some deep cuts in grant funding over the next five years.
John Swinney could sweeten the pill by allowing them to raise council tax - as George Osborne did south of the border, allowing a 2% council tax rise if it is to pay for social care.
But it will be tempting to stick to a ninth year of freezing council tax, even though that will cost him a cumulated £630m out of next year's budget, and even though it is more generous to those with the biggest bills.
"Taxes for a fairer Scotland": That'll be the reason for not using the new Scottish Rate of Income Tax. Both Mr Swinney and the first minister have said they want to use income tax powers only when they are sufficiently flexible to tilt the burden towards those most able to pay it.
That will probably, eventually, mean a rise in higher rate tax, or changes to thresholds. That flexibility won't be added to this year's new powers until 2017.
"A healthy private rented housing market": Mr Swinney could choose to follow Mr Osborne's example last month, by raising property transaction tax on buy-to-let homes. It would be a progressive move.
But the Scottish finance secretary doesn't need to burst a house price bubble in and around his capital city. He may also want to give landlords something they like, to make up for the boost to tenants' rights they are soon to face.
"ESA10": Technical jargon for public finance nerds, but it matters a lot. Mr Swinney has to give more detail than he did last month on the constraints placed on capital projects by a European accounting rule that makes significant capital projects a public liability rather than the private one that had been planned.
"Scottish Fiscal Commission": This independent, new-ish body will publish its reckoning of Mr Swinney's fiscal projections at the same time his draft budget is delivered. Watch for a shortfall in revenue from Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (the successor to Stamp Duty).
"The A9": The road is busy, it's being dualled, slowly, and it runs right through Mr Swinney's constituency.
"PFI on steroids": Labour's Jackie Baillie will complain about the "debt mountain" being built up under the SNP. Quoting a report from The Guardian about £15bn of council debt and the liabilities resulting from the Public Finance Initiative and its successors, she probably won't explain that a lot of it was built up while she was a minister.
"Capitulation to the powerful roads lobby": Greens will complain that insufficient money has been directed towards household energy efficiency, and too much is going on building a new Forth crossing and Aberdeen ring road.
"Eye off the ball": Conservatives will blame any and all shortcomings in public sector performance and economic performance on the SNP government's campaign for independence. It's a way of rallying 'No' voters. Watch Ruth Davidson for pointers towards manifesto tax cut pledges.
"Budget for fairness, for growth and for Scotland": Whatever is announced, and whatever the reality, Mr Swinney will present his draft budget as all these and more.
"House!" (Yes, more housing too. It will be a theme of the SNP election campaign.) | John Swinney should have published his draft budget in mid-September, for MSPs to deliberate on it over winter, with a big rubber stamp in plenty time for the start of the financial year. | 35110142 | [
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Parts of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean are up to 11 kilometres deep, so we know little about what sea life there is.
So a team has been sending down a robotic submarine called Deep Discoverer with a camera on it.
Science fans or anyone who is just curious can check out what the camera is showing online.
The three-month expedition is looking for things like fish, mud volcanoes and deep sea coral.
So far they've spotted shrimp, jellyfish and black pillow lava from an underwater eruption. | Scientists are exploring the deepest place on Earth - and streaming live video from there. | 36226983 | [
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Air accident investigators have been briefing families ahead of official publication of their final report.
The police helicopter crashed onto the busy Clutha bar on 29 November 2013.
An earlier interim report said the engines had shut down even though there was fuel in the reserve tank.
Some relatives said the briefing had left many questions unanswered, and underlined the need for black box flight recorders to be fitted in all passenger-carrying aircraft.
Following the meeting with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) in Glasgow on Wednesday evening, Ian O'Prey whose son Mark died in the bar, said there was "no resolution" to the tragedy.
Mr O'Prey said there had been a few "heated moments" during the meeting but it "all calmed down".
He said: "I don't think I'm any further forward. The AAIB - they think it was switches that were left on - or weren't left on.
"My main question to them was flight recorders - if they had flight recorders, it would have taken us a fraction of the time it has taken us.
"Personally I feel calmer than I did before I went in. I can't keep shouting at the moon for the rest of my life although I feel I want to."
Investigators are due to hold another closed meeting with bereaved relatives on Thursday and have asked families not to discuss the detailed findings until the report's official publication on Friday.
John McGarrigle, whose father John died, said he felt "let down" despite optimism ahead of AAIB meeting.
Mr McGarrigle said: "All tonight has done for me is raise loads more questions. My head is scrambled, I'm that angry.
"Flight data recorders should be installed in every passenger-carrying aircraft - simple as. If we had that, we would know a lot more.
"We wouldn't know the full cause, but we would know half of the reasons at least and we would have learned from it."
Jim Morris, an aviation law expert with Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, also said the lack of a "black box" had hampered the investigation.
He said: "Unfortunately, in my view, due to a lack of a requirement to fit a black box flight data recorder, we have almost more unanswered questions."
Mr Morris added: "We still do not know why fuel did not reach the engines.
"The report goes into significant detail in its analysis but it is clear from what is said in the report that they can't answer all the questions."
Anne-Marie Kennedy, who was working behind the bar and was trapped in the wreckage, said she was "satisfied" with how the briefing went.
She said: "It's shown me that they should have black boxes for defo, it's shown me the need for other regulation, but other than that nothing.
"Until I speak to my legal team I can only speculate.
"I'm satisfied with the way the night went. I believe that the AAIB has done everything in their power.
"The guy explained the investigation, the complexity and the length of time. They did all they could."
Find out more
The Police Scotland Eurocopter EC 135, operated by Bond Air Services, came down on to the roof of the Clutha Bar at about 22:25 on a busy Friday night.
The helicopter crew who were killed were pilot David Traill, PC Tony Collins and PC Kirsty Nelis.
The seven customers in the Clutha who died were John McGarrigle, Mark O'Prey, Gary Arthur, Colin Gibson, Robert Jenkins, Samuel McGhee and Joe Cusker.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) issued an interim report last year which said that both engines on the helicopter "flamed out" due to a fuel supply problem.
The report, however, did not set out the cause. | Relatives of the 10 people who died in the Clutha helicopter tragedy in Glasgow have been told fuel switches were in the off position when they should have been on. | 34599367 | [
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The 22-year-old Scotland international made five appearances for Leeds in 2012 and was released by the Rhinos at the end of the 2013 Super League season.
Hood will join his former Leeds team-mate Ben Jones-Bishop at the Red Devils next season.
"I'm very pleased that I've got this chance again and I'm going to take it with both hands," said Hood.
He told BBC Radio Manchester: "It's a massive challenge. I've had a couple of years out of top-flight rugby and it's a big change.
"You don't realise how much it benefits you being full-time. I'm really looking forward to getting back into it." | Salford Red Devils have signed hooker Liam Hood from Championship One Hunslet Hawks on a two-year deal from 2015. | 28802997 | [
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Spanish police say he had secretly taken photographs of his students as well as having sent images of other children to people on the internet.
The Manchester-born man reportedly had a "special obsession" with a girl he taught.
He was arrested in Valladolid, north-west Spain as part of an Interpol investigation.
Interpol said they discovered illegal files were being sent from an email address in Spain and alerted the authorities.
Police said on Sunday the teacher is suspected of using a cloud storage service to keep and share the pictures between computers and with others.
Officers say they found a large number of sexually explicit files involving minors at the home of the teacher.
He kept photos of one girl in a dedicated folder on his computer but had not shared the images he had secretly taken of his underage students.
Police said they believe he previously lived in the Seville area.
Spanish National Police said: "At the moment, [police are] trying to establish the identity of the victims shown in the images found on the electronic devices belonging to the detained." | A British teacher living in Spain has been arrested for allegedly storing and sharing sexual images of children. | 40847761 | [
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His grandmother offered him a plate of grapes, but she doesn't remember whether Faizan had it. The son of a farmer then put on his pheran, the woollen cape-like garment Kashmiris wear, and quietly left for his Sunday lessons.
A few hours later, Faizan lay dead near a sun-baked school playground, ringed by bare walnut and willow trees. Paramilitary soldiers, eyewitnesses alleged, had shot him in the back of his head.
Carrying a packet of biscuits, he was returning home on a bright, nippy morning when he encountered a throng of local people protesting against Indian rule near the school, where polling was taking place for a parliamentary by-election.
Eyewitnesses say four shots rang out of the single-storey, squat school building which, according to some reports, was being pelted with stones thrown by protesters from a hill above and from the road in front.
Faizan possibly halted to find out what the commotion was all about, and was hit by a bullet. Two neighbours ran up to his home to deliver the news. His mother had sprinted down to the playground, hugged her bleeding son and let others take him to hospital.
"I knew he was gone," Zarifa told me.
A heart-wrenching video recorded by a villager on his mobile phone minutes after the killing shows a wailing man cradling the dead boy, blood streaming down his broken face, in a packed vehicle taking him to the nearest hospital. There, the doctors declared him dead.
Faizan's final journey is recorded on another mobile phone video: his slight frame, draped in white, bobbing slightly on a hospital cot, carried through a sea of weeping, agitated mourners extolling their latest "martyr". By late afternoon, his body was lowered into the grave near his village, Dalwan.
Faizan was among the eight people killed on Sunday when paramilitary soldiers fired bullets and shotgun pellets at those protesting against Indian rule at polling centres near Srinagar, the summer capital. Election authorities say some 170 people, including 100 security personnel, were injured in about 200 incidents of stone pelting and violent protests on the day.
The voter turnout in Sunday's election was an abysmal 7.1% - the lowest in decades - and came as a huge setback for the region's mainstream parties.
The soldiers had been brought in from other states to secure polling stations and may have been unprepared to deal with "protests and provocation" in a complex conflict zone like Kashmir, a senior official told me.
One report said the police had registered complaints against the paramilitary forces for firing into the crowds.
Separatist groups had rejected the elections and urged voters to boycott Sunday's poll, which took place after a politician resigned over what he described as the "anti-people" agenda of the Indian government.
Disillusioned voters - even in relatively peaceful places like Dalwan where people turned out to cast their votes enthusiastically in previous elections - generally stayed away.
Why Faizan was killed on a day when local voters rejected the ballot is not clear.
By all accounts, he was not pelting stones or hurling abuse at the soldiers. One report said police fired tear gas shells to keep the protesters away from the empty polling station, but the soldiers opened fire.
Whatever it is, Faizan became another grisly statistic in Kashmir's unending tragedy.
A picture taken by his friend on his mobile phone during their winter break shows the shy-looking boy - "he would often top his class, and he was very knowledgeable about the world," the friend said - clad in a woollen cap and collared jacket, peering uneasily into the camera.
"He was quiet and studious, he was doing well in school. He played cricket, and counted [former Indian captain] MS Dhoni as his favourite cricketer. He wanted to become a doctor," a cousin told me, when I visited the family.
Grief is the price one pays for love. Zarifa's lament for her dead son filled the still air inside a tent outside their home where local women had gathered to mourn.
"My son, my son, where will I find you now?" she cried, again and again.
Then she stepped out of the tent, entered her home and joined her husband in a dank, cold room. He sat there, stoic and numb, surrounded by mourners, and gazed vacantly at the pastel pink walls. The room had a red carpet and red window curtains.
"The blood of a martyr never goes waste," said Fayaz Ahmad Dar. "One day, the blood of innocents will help us gain our freedom [from Indian rule]."
A brief silence followed. Zarifa broke it, bemoaning the loss of her boy.
"I am looking at your books, I am looking at your school bags. How will I touch your books again, my son? Everybody would talk about your intelligence, how you would answer every question with so much wit."
Outside the secondary school - Enter to learn, Leave to serve, its motto, is engraved on the walls - a group of young men gathered later in the day. Their eyes seethed in anger. They spoke about frustration, alienation, desperation, humiliation and hopelessness.
They said they had lost their fear of life. They insisted that they helped rebels because "they are our brothers and don't kill civilians" and are "fighting for freedom".
More than half of them raised their hands when asked whether they had pelted stones at Indian forces.
"We are not safe in our own homes, we are not safe on streets. They are killing little boys now. Life is uncertain," said Feroze Ali, a school clerk.
Since February alone, some two dozen civilians have been killed during gunfights between armed rebels and security forces. The security forces have accused civilians of helping rebels escape.
The army says it has tried to reach out and engage with civilians through its 29 schools, youth clubs and cricket tournaments.
Recently some 19,000 Kashmiri young men applied for a few hundred vacancies in the army.
"Provocation and panic can lead to accidents. Security forces often fire when they face life threatening situations. But protecting civilians remains our first priority in this situation. When a civilian dies, it hurts us," an army officer told me.
The region has seen heightened tension and increased unrest since July when influential militant Burhan Wani was killed by Indian forces. More than 100 civilians lost their lives in clashes with protesters during a four-month-long lockdown, including a 55-day-curfew, in the restive Muslim-majority valley.
Kashmir, clearly, appears to be teetering on the brink of an open public revolt against Indian rule.
Many say the federal government's near-complete lack of engagement and dialogue with local stakeholders and Pakistan, a complete mistrust of the local government and a lack of development and jobs have left most people jittery and alienated.
Militancy continues to be at low ebb - there are an estimated 250 militants in the state now of which 150 are local - compared to several thousand during the peak of insurgency in the 1990s.
But young Kashmiris - more than 60% of the men in the valley are under 30, and more than 40% of men in Kashmir are jobless - are restless and angry. The local political parties are in danger of "becoming irrelevant", as a leader of an opposition party told me.
"This is the worst situation that I have seen. Earlier, it was a movement led by the militants. Now it is being led by the people," says Feroze Ali, 35, a schoolteacher.
"India needs to be worried, very worried about this." | The day 12-year-old Faizan Fayaz Dar died, he woke up in the morning in his hilltop home in Budgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, had a cup of salted tea, recited the Koran and pottered around in the kitchen where his mother prepared breakfast for the family. | 39586912 | [
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The Sana news agency said the military had "restored security and stability to the neighbourhood of Khalidiya".
Activists reported clashes in Khalidiya on Monday morning, but said that most of the area was under army control.
The announcement comes a month after troops launched an offensive to oust rebels from Syria's third largest city.
Homs has been one of the focuses of a two-year nationwide uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, in which the UN says more than 100,000 people have died.
Correspondents say the capture of Khalidiya would add further impetus to the counter-offensive by government troops and their allies, which saw the nearby town of Qusair fall in June.
By Paul WoodBBC News, Beirut
The fall of Khalidiya had been expected. One Western diplomat said he had been told recently by a Free Syrian Army commander that it was not possible to get any ammunition or other supplies in. Cut off from help, it was only a matter of time, perhaps, for the rebels.
There are other parts of Homs still, just, in rebel hands. But if they, along with Khalidiya, do fall, Homs will become just the latest in a line of regime victories on the battlefield.
The regime's forces have been steadily picking off some of the villages around Homs. Two months ago, with the help of Hezbollah, they recaptured the town of Qusair. The government has halted - if not quite turned around - a rebel advance on Damascus. Sources close to the regime say an offensive is also planned for the northern city of Aleppo.
After Khalidiya, Syria conflict goes on
In pictures: Khalidiya devastation
On Monday, an unnamed army officer told Syrian state television: "Today, we can report having complete control of the area of Khalidiya."
"That was a victory of all our fighters and the whole Syrian Army and especially our dear leader, Bashar al-Assad. And God willing, we will get rid of the terrorists in the entire country and the future will be free of killings and under the control of the army."
However, UK-based activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights cast doubt on the claim.
While the group acknowledged that government forces were in control of most of Khalidiya, it said fighting was continuing on Monday.
"Clashes took place between rebels and regime forces, supported by Hezbollah and National Defence Forces, in the southern parts of the Khalidiya neighbourhood," it said.
"Regime forces are bombarding parts, and military reinforcements are arriving as advancing regime forces try to establish full control."
Opposition activists told the AFP news agency that about 90% of Khalidiya was now controlled by the army. One told the Associated Press that the battle for the district was "almost over".
On Sunday, the Arabic TV station al-Mayadeen, which is seen as close to the Syrian government, broadcast what it said was footage of Khalidiya, showing heavily damaged buildings and piles of rubble.
It also showed pictures of the interior of the historic Khaled bin Walid mosque, a focal point for anti-government protesters. Troops reportedly seized it on Saturday, days after activists accused them of firing shells at the tomb of Khaled bin Walid, a revered figure in Islam.
Only the Old City of Homs and a few other districts are still held by the opposition. On Monday, government jets bombed the Bab Hud district of the Old City, just south of Khalidiya, according to the Syrian Observatory. | Syrian government forces have fully captured a district that was a key rebel stronghold in the central city of Homs, state media report. | 23488855 | [
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Allsop, 25, made his Premier League debut in November 2015 and has spent time on loan at Coventry and Wycombe.
Cooke, 20, won the European Championship with England Under-17s in 2014 and scored four goals while on loan at Crewe last season.
League One Blackpool have now signed nine players this summer.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Blackpool have signed Bournemouth goalkeeper Ryan Allsop and midfielder Callum Cooke from Middlesbrough on season-long loans. | 40648389 | [
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The party's NEC said it had voted by a "clear majority" to exclude Mr Woolfe - previously seen as the frontrunner.
The MEP said he was "extremely disappointed" by the decision, and three NEC members have quit in protest.
Jonathan Arnott, Bill Etheridge, Diane James, Lisa Duffy, Phillip Broughton and Elizabeth Jones are on the ballot.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Woolfe said he believed the NEC had "their own reasons" for excluding him from the ballot, but implied it could have been linked to the fact he was committed to abolishing the executive.
Asked if he would consider taking legal action, or calling a vote of no confidence in the NEC, Mr Woolfe said it was a matter for the party membership but he thought the contest should continue without him.
Announcing their resignations from the NEC, Victoria Ayling, Raymond Finch and Michael McGough said in a joint statement that the party's governing body "is no longer fit for purpose" and called for a vote of no confidence in the NEC.
They accused it of "deliberately obstructing" Mr Woolfe and some of its members of putting personal ambitions ahead of the interests of the party - which polled more than four million votes at the last general election and got 12% of the vote.
"Steven Woolfe is a popular candidate among UKIP's members and should be permitted to represent those that wish to vote for him," they wrote.
"To purposefully trawl for technicalities upon which to base a decision to deny his inclusion is not in the best interests of the membership and truly injurious to UKIP."
The winner of the leadership contest - sparked by Mr Farage's decision to stand down after the UK voted to leave the EU - is scheduled to be announced on 15 September.
In a statement announcing the final line-up, the party said: "By a clear majority of NEC members Steven Woolfe MEP's application was considered to be ineligible as a result of a late submission and as such he did not meet the eligibility criteria."
Mr Woolfe, the party's immigration spokesman, submitted his nomination papers 17 minutes late on Sunday, blaming the delay on technical issues with the registration site.
He submitted his application at 11:35 BST - before the noon deadline - but it did not successfully go through until 12:17 BST.
He said he had been in contact with party officials prior to the deadline passing to alert them to the problems, and had sent pictures, upon request, to prove it.
The party's chairman, Paul Oakden, said Mr Woolfe's exclusion was "regrettable" but the rules for prospective candidates, as for all elections, were "very clear".
He told BBC Radio 4's World at One that the NEC was put in the position of having "to bend and flex the rules" to accommodate a single candidate and "I think they did not feel comfortable in doing that".
Mr Woolfe said he was "extremely disappointed" not to be on the final ballot as he had wanted to "inject my ideas, plans and passion into the party".
And he criticised the NEC as "not fit for purpose" and said its conduct during the leadership election had "confirmed many member's fears that it is neither effective nor professional in the way it governs the party".
"They have failed to accept that there were serious issues with the application system despite providing evidence that attempts of submission were made before the deadline. The NEC deny this is the fault of the UKIP system.
"Furthermore, highly confidential information about me held in party documents has been leaked to the press and the NEC has not sought to investigate this gross breach of privacy," he added.
Mr McGough - who has resigned from the NEC - said Mr Woolfe's exclusion from the contest was "unfair" and called into the question the party's future.
Unless the party elected a "competent leader who was comfortable with the media, it was finished", he told World at One. "This is a fight for survival. It is life or death."
BBC political correspondent Tom Bateman said the NEC's decision "opens up a whole new schism in UKIP" and he understood that Mr Farage could call an emergency meeting of the party membership to put pressure on the body to reconsider.
Mr Oakden, who only took over as party chairman this week, said the party was perfectly entitled to call an EGM if 25% of its branches backed the move but said talk of a potential split was over-exaggerated and the remaining contenders were a diverse and exciting group.
MEP Ms James - now regarded as the favourite in the contest - has launched her own campaign website while Mr Arnott, an MEP for the north east of England, has said he was won the backing of the party's deputy leader Paul Nuttall.
Of the other candidates, Mr Etheridge is also a member of European Parliament while Lisa Duffy is a councillor in Cambridgeshire. Both Ms Jones and Mr Broughton have stood as candidates in recent parliamentary elections. | UKIP leadership hopeful Steven Woolfe has been ruled "ineligible" to stand in the contest to replace Nigel Farage - after he submitted his papers late. | 36962266 | [
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The Bulls' fate has been in the balance since the full extent of their financial worries emerged in the weeks since their dramatic final-day escape sent Chester down instead.
Chester have been reinstated as a Conference Premier club and Hayes & Yeading will stay in Conference South.
"Hereford United can have no complaints. The Conference bent over backwards to help them.
"I described the news of the board's offer of an extension on Friday evening as not so much 'last chance saloon', but rather 'last orders in last chance saloon' and United have seemingly chosen not to offer the league the assurances they were seeking.
"It is a desperately sad day for all Hereford supporters, but the Bulls have nobody to blame but themselves.
"You have to feel very sorry for those players who gave their all at Aldershot on the last day of the season to keep Hereford in the Conference Premier. Sadly, those efforts now count for nothing."
The Conference had originally offered a payment deadline of Thursday, 5 June.
The club's debt to their football creditors, including former boss Martin Foyle, members of the current squad, other club staff and clubs from whom the Bulls loaned players during the 2013-14 season, added up to £148,000.
That deadline was extended three times, to Friday, 6 June, then again to Saturday, 7 June and for a third time until Thursday, 12 June.
But it became clear on Tuesday that the Bulls, taken over last week by London businessman Tommy Agombar, would not make that deadline - and the Conference has now acted.
The last team to be expelled from the Conference was Chester City in February 2010.
They reformed as Chester FC two months later - and it is now they who have taken the Bulls' place, following a dramatic final day of the season when, almost simultaneously, a late Hereford winning goal at Aldershot and a Salisbury equaliser at Chester kept the Bulls up.
By way of an added twist, Chester announced on Tuesday that Kingsley James, who was in Hereford's team that day, has moved to Bumpers Lane.
26 April - Hereford stay up on final day of Conference Premier season
29 April - Hereford United Supporters' Trust make offer to buy the club for £1 and clear their £220,000 debts
22 May - Former Bulls boss Martin Foyle serves winding-up petition over unpaid wages, after players reveal they have not been fully paid too
2 June - Case adjourned for 28 days at Royal Court of Justice
3 June - Tommy Agombar takes over as new Hereford owner
5 June - Hereford fail to meet 17:00 BST deadline to pay football creditors, and are threatened with expulsion, subject to Conference board vote
6 June - Hereford meet with Conference board and are given new deadline of 7 June. The deadline is moved to 9 June, then 12 June
10 June - Hereford expelled from Football Conference
And former Hereford boss Foyle, now manager at Southport, chose the same day to sign another player from that same Bulls team, keeper Dan Lloyd-Weston, who opted to leave as he was still owed part of his salary.
When last season ended, despite months of fundraising efforts by fans, as well as generous donations from fans of other clubs, the Bulls faced debts of approximately £225,000.
They still owe over £70,000 to clear the latest PAYE tax demand from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
An offer was made by one of the club's main fan bodies, the Hereford United Supporters' Trust (HUST), on the back of pledges made by their backers, to buy the club for £1 and take over the running at Edgar Street.
But, although chairman David Keyte held talks with them, they were not the preferred option.
Keyte was reported to have been in talks with three different rival bidders before Agombar's takeover.
The downward spiral of Hereford's financial situation since being relegated from the Football League in May 2012 has been exacerbated by falling gates.
The average attendance for the 2013-14 season at Edgar Street was 1,758, little over half the average gate they attracted of 3,270 in League Two just five years ago. | Hereford United have been expelled from the Football Conference following the club's failure to pay their bills. | 27786442 | [
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Brentford goalkeeper Daniel Bentley saved Aluko's initial shot but the winger followed up from close range to give Fulham a deserved half-time lead.
The Bees did not register a single shot on goal in the first period.
Ex-Brentford keeper David Button superbly saved Josh Clarke's effort before Cairney slotted in Fulham's second on the break in stoppage time.
A win for Dean Smith's Bees would have taken them into the play-off places before Saturday's Championship fixtures, but they failed to find the net for the fourth time in six league games.
Instead, they were leapfrogged by a Fulham side that is only outside the top six on goal difference.
Fulham, who had scored 11 times in their previous four Championship matches, should have been further ahead by the interval.
Full-backs Scott Malone and Ryan Fredericks were constant attacking threats but some wayward finishing let the visitors down, while Bentley rescued Brentford with saves from Stefan Johansen and Cairney.
Brentford struggled to seriously test Button too often on his return to Griffin Park following his summer move to Craven Cottage.
He made an excellent one-handed stop to deny Clarke an equaliser and Fulham survived a number of scrambles from set-pieces before Cairney's calmly-taken goal sealed victory.
Brentford boss Dean Smith told BBC Radio London:
"We didn't perform well and didn't deserve to win. We knew they would come and press us but our use of the ball was not good enough.
"In the second half our midfielders had to get on the ball higher up the pitch and we were better.
"While not playing at our best, we showed some spirit and stayed in the game until the 93rd minute."
Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic told BBC Radio London:
"I am very happy. We showed another positive step and our progress. We tried to show our identity and our style and I am very satisfied for my lads and the Fulham fans.
"We didn't win in the last four games against Brentford and this is a nice present for people around us.
"We are in a learning process and want to be better."
Match ends, Brentford 0, Fulham 2.
Second Half ends, Brentford 0, Fulham 2.
Lasse Vibe (Brentford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lasse Vibe (Brentford).
Goal! Brentford 0, Fulham 2. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chris Martin.
Substitution, Fulham. Tim Ream replaces Scott Malone.
Andreas Bjelland (Brentford) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Fulham. Stefan Johansen tries a through ball, but Floyd Ayité is caught offside.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Harlee Dean.
Attempt blocked. John Egan (Brentford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. John Egan (Brentford) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sullay Kaikai with a cross.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by David Button.
Substitution, Brentford. Philipp Hofmann replaces Josh Clarke.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nico Yennaris (Brentford).
Foul by Scott Malone (Fulham).
Lasse Vibe (Brentford) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Harlee Dean (Brentford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin McDonald (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harlee Dean (Brentford).
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Scott Parker.
Attempt missed. Scott Malone (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Tomas Kalas.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by John Egan.
Substitution, Fulham. Scott Parker replaces Sone Aluko.
Attempt blocked. John Egan (Brentford) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sullay Kaikai with a cross.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Chris Martin.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Ragnar Sigurdsson.
Attempt missed. Floyd Ayité (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Stefan Johansen.
Attempt saved. Harlee Dean (Brentford) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Harlee Dean (Brentford) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sullay Kaikai with a cross.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Kevin McDonald.
Substitution, Brentford. Lasse Vibe replaces Romaine Sawyers.
Substitution, Fulham. Floyd Ayité replaces Lucas Piazon.
Attempt missed. Ryan Woods (Brentford) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Foul by Kevin McDonald (Fulham).
Josh Clarke (Brentford) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Sone Aluko (Fulham) left footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Tom Cairney.
Offside, Brentford. Romaine Sawyers tries a through ball, but Scott Hogan is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Josh Clarke (Brentford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Maxime Colin. | Goals from Sone Aluko and Tom Cairney gave Fulham a west London derby win over Brentford at Griffin Park. | 37795561 | [
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Ian Toothill said he believes he is the first cancer patient to scale the world's highest mountain.
The Sheffield Wednesday fan planted a flag of rivals Sheffield United at the summit for charity.
The 47-year-old personal trainer, who reached the summit on Monday, has raised almost £31,500 ($40,600) for Macmillan.
He tweeted: "Nothing to see here, just some cancer dude [Sheffield Wednesday] fan on the summit of Everest with a @SUFC_tweets flag."
Live updates and this and other stories from Yorkshire
Mr Toothill, originally from Sheffield, lives in Willesden Green in London and has climbed in the Himalayas.
He was diagnosed with bowel cancer in June 2015 and told in early 2016 that he had beaten the disease, but later found out it had returned.
He said he has been told he has "just several months left to live".
Speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield in February, he said: "I'm determined to prove anything is possible."
He reached the top of the North Col route on 16 May and the summit of Everest on 5 June.
Miss NJP tweeted: "What an amazing achievement and a wonderful moment for @IanToothill. Feeling emotional. So glad you made it to the top #climbingforcancer".
The Sheffield Wednesday fan planted the rival Sheffield United flag at the summit after a friend donated £1,000.
Mr Toothill was accompanied part-way of the climb by Leslie Binns, from Rotherham, who abandoned his climb to the summit after saving the life of a fellow climber last June.
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Ian Drake is British Cycling's chief executive officer, and here he gives his top tips for how you can get involved in the sport. | With Chris Froome's triumph for Britain in the Tour de France, cycling is in the spotlight. | 33680970 | [
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Sarah Johnson was one of 21 women heading to Liverpool when their minibus was hit by a lorry on the M62.
Her friend Bethany Jones, 18, was killed while Ms Johnson and several others were badly hurt.
Minibus driver James Johnson was jailed for more than six years for causing Bethany's death, in April 2013.
Ms Johnson, who broke her shoulder, back and pelvis, said the help she received from a charity while in hospital led her to want to support others.
Speaking publicly for the first time about the crash, Ms Johnson described how everyone was "excited and giddy" for the hen party.
"To me the impact was just a massive explosion," she said. "I thought the bus had blown up.
"I remember the bus dropping on its side. The next thing, I woke up on the roadside so I'd actually come out of the window."
Ms Johnson was taken to Leeds General Infirmary where she, along with Bethany's sister Amy Firth, underwent major surgery and spent time in intensive care.
Whilst she was there she got support from charity Day One, which helps victims of major trauma.
She said: "It's absolutely fantastic.
"It supports people by giving benefit advice, legal advice and peer support such as me and Amy, who have been in similar situations and who are now helping other people who've suffered from major trauma."
Ms Johnson said the crash had made her realise how lucky she had been.
"Beth can't complain, she's not here," she added. "We just have to be grateful for what we've got." | A woman who was seriously hurt in a fatal hen party motorway crash is now helping other major trauma victims rebuild their lives. | 34363226 | [
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The city centre road was made pedestrians only from June to November during the redevelopment of the Westgate Shopping Centre.
Now Oxfordshire County Council has agreed to continue the policy when the centre reopens because of the predicted increase in pedestrians.
The "experimental traffic order" still has to be signed off by the government.
The closure has also been blamed for increasing pressure on other city centre roads.
When the shopping centre is finished next year there are expected to be 11 million more people using it.
Council officers have estimated the number of pedestrians using the road will increase by 145% from 4,000 per hour up to 9,800 per hour.
They have also calculated that at present, 48 buses per hour use the road.
Officers said in their report that assurances from the bus companies "do not remove our concern over pedestrian safety".
But transport boss David Nimmo Smith said he was worried it would cause increased bus traffic in other roads such as St Aldates, which he described as an "architectural gem".
The Secretary of State for Transport will now have to approve the plan before it comes into effect. | Councillors have voted to ban buses and taxis from Queen Street in Oxford for six months because of safety concerns. | 38384761 | [
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The first of six boxes was unveiled on Tottenham Court Road this week.
The service is free to use although users will be shown adverts as they wait for their phone to charge.
Many of the UK's red telephone boxes have largely fallen into disuse although some are being revived as libraries or being fitted with medical equipment.
The boxes have had a makeover for the project - painted green and fitted with a roof-mounted 86cm solar panel.
Inside there are a variety of charging stations for different models of phone and a screen which shows adverts.
The advertising screen is reinforced to deter vandals and the boxes are maintained daily and locked overnight.
The project was the brainchild of two geography students turned entrepreneurs Harold Craston and Kirsty Kenny.
Both studied at the London School of Economics (LSE) and were interested in finding new ways to use public spaces.
"I lived next to a phone box in my second year at uni and walked past it every day. I thought, 'There are 8,000 of these lying unused in London and we must be able to find a use for them,'" explained Mr Craston.
The solarbox can charge up to 100 phones a day, offering a 20% battery boost in 10 minutes.
Since launch, about six people per hour use the booth, according to the founder.
Running out of battery is a perennial problem for smartphone users as they become ever more powerful without an equivalent technology leap in battery life.
"On launch day, my phone ran out of battery and I genuinely had to use the box," said Mr Craston.
Solarbox won second place in the Mayor of London's Low Carbon Entrepreneur of the Year Award earlier this year and also won the LSE's Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Five more boxes will be rolled out by April 2015.
Funded by advertising, the founders are keen to make sure users are engaged by "short, fun and exciting ads showing exclusive content".
Firms signed up include Tinder and Uber, and 30% of advertising space is reserved for community projects. | Disused phone boxes in London are being put to a novel use - as solar-powered charging stations for mobile phones. | 29455992 | [
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Walmart will give JD.com ownership of Yihaodian's marketplace, including the brand, website and app.
In exchange Walmart will take a near 5% stake in JD.com, China's second largest e-commerce firm after Alibaba.
Walmart took full control of Yihaodian last year, but has struggled to grow its market share.
"We're excited about teaming up with such a strong leader in JD.com, and the potential that this new relationship creates for customers in China, as well as for our businesses," said Walmart chief executive Doug McMillon.
Walmart will be listed as a preferred seller on JD.com, offering it greater exposure to the Chinese market.
Walmart's Sam's Club brand will launch a shop on JD.com's website.
The deal will also help grow Yihaodian in the western and northern regions of the country where it is less well-known.
"We look forward to further developing Yihaodian, which has tremendous strength in important regions of eastern and southern China," said JD.com chief executive Richard Liu.
Yihaodian's sale of food and beverages, home goods and electronics accounts for just 1.5% of web sales in China, according to research firm iResearch
According to Walmart, the website had more than 100 million registered customers in July 2015.
The two companies also announced plans to improve supply chain management and increase the amount of imported goods. | Walmart has announced a partnership with the Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com to help revive the US company's struggling website Yihaodian. | 36581743 | [
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The monitoring of paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland was conducted by the IMC up until 2011.
The PSNI has previously said it would support any move to set up such a body.
Lord Alderdice, who is also a former leader of the Alliance Party, said he did not think it would be appropriate for the commission to return now.
Talks will begin next week in Belfast in a bid to resolve the current crisis, sparked by the murder of ex-IRA man Kevin McGuigan Sr.
Police believe that killing was in retaliation for the murder of former IRA commander Gerard Jock Davison in the Markets area of Belfast in May.
The Ulster Unionists withdrew from the executive after police said Provisional IRA members had a role in the killing.
"The current crisis is of a different order," Lord Alderdice told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme.
"Even before the horrible murders of these two men, we were right on the edge of devolution being set aside.
"If somehow or another, magically, the issue of these two murders was taken out of the picture, we would still be in that position of crisis where the assembly, the executive, is about to be suspended or fold because there is no agreement on the governance of Northern Ireland.
"The IMC or any new IMC could not help that problem at all, it did not have a political mandate to try to get people to negotiate on the politics and the governance issue.
"I think it is maybe unwise for people to look back at a form of treatment that worked before and say: 'Oh well the symptoms are the same so the diagnosis is the same'." | The ex-chair of the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) has said he does not believe bringing it back would solve the latest Stormont crisis. | 34152489 | [
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The association and groups including the Mountaineering Council of Scotland have raised concerns in the past about rubbish being left in the shelters.
Use of bothies increases in summer months.
The MBA has now issued a new message asking people to help keep bothies in a tidy state.
The association said: "With summer upon us we are seeing many visitors to bothies, especially on the more popular long-distance trails, who perhaps have not used one before and who seem unaware that unlike in some other countries, our mountain bothies are not serviced and have no rubbish collection service.
"Bothies rely on you to remove your litter, and that of any inconsiderate others, so please help where you can."
Last year, one of two volunteers who looks after Corrour Bothy in the Lairig Ghru, Cairngorms, told of taking four hours to sort through and burn waste left there.
Neil Reid said hillwalkers had to be willing to pick up litter they find. | The Mountain Bothies Association has appealed to hillwalkers and climbers to help keep more than 100 shelters it looks after in the UK clean and tidy. | 36835855 | [
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Clive Weatherhogg's counsel told appeal judges that prosecutors now conceded there had been a miscarriage of justice over the coercion charge.
Appeal judges also agreed that a jury was misdirected over charges relating to the footage sent to relatives.
Mr Weatherhogg, 43, was jailed last May after being found guilty by a jury.
It is understood he will now be released from prison.
Sheriff George Way had remitted the case from Dundee Sheriff Court to the High Court in Edinburgh to be dealt with because of its greater sentencing powers.
Defence counsel Shelagh McCall QC told the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh that the Crown conceded there was insufficient evidence to prove lack of consent on the coercion charge.
The Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian, who heard the appeal with Lady Paton and Lord Turnbull, said: "We are satisfied the concession is well made."
Lord Turnbull said that information conveyed to the court seemed to show that even at an earlier preparatory marking stage in the case there were concerns over a lack of corroboration.
Lady Dorrian said the appeal judges were also satisfied that misdirections given to jurors by Sheriff Way over the charges relating to the footage sent to relatives were "material and constituted a miscarriage of justice".
Mr Weatherhogg, of Guthrie, near Forfar, Angus, had denied the charges during the trial, but admitted a separate charge of uploading the film to the internet.
He was jailed for four-and-years by Lady Wolffe with an additional 18 months for the charge he admitted.
The appeal hearing was told that Mr Weatherhogg had been in custody since March last year and had served the 18 month sentence, taking into account early release provisions. | A man jailed for six years for coercing a woman into having sex with a stranger and sending "revenge porn" to her family has had the convictions quashed. | 38839837 | [
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Giving evidence for the ex-Sunderland winger at Bradford Crown Court, Stacey Flounders said she did not see a future in their relationship.
The 26-year-old is the mother of Mr Johnson's one-year-old daughter.
Mr Johnson, 28, denies two counts of sexual activity with a child.
In the witness box, Miss Flounders described how he had told her "everything" about kissing a 15-year-old girl when he returned from a police station after his arrest in March last year.
Asked if he talked about other things, she said: "The other women that he cheated on me with."
Miss Flounders was asked by Orlando Pownall QC, defending, how many there were and she said: "Quite a few."
When questioned about about the future of her relationship with Mr Johnson, she replied: "We're just going to remain friends."
She told the jury she had stayed with him after his arrest "because he was honest with me and I knew he was telling the truth".
"We'd just had a daughter. I wanted us to be a family. My head was all over the place. I didn't know what was going on."
Mr Pownall finished his questions by asking Miss Flounders if she saw any future in "the relationship that you had".
She replied: "Do you mean now? Not at the minute, I don't. No."
She was asked about messages she exchanged with Mr Johnson on the day of the incident with the girl, and she admitted she suspected him of being unfaithful but had no "hard and fast evidence".
She said he first told her he was going to plead guilty around September last year.
Miss Flounders said she had previously exchanged messages with the teenager involved after she recognised her as one of the fans who waited for Mr Johnson after home matches.
She said she even wished the girl happy birthday in 2014.
She added that after his arrest, Mr Johnson told her the girl was aged 16.
Kate Blackwell, QC, prosecuting, went through some of the details of the teenager's account of the incident and asked Miss Flounders whether her partner had told her about each.
Miss Blackwell asked her if he told her the pair had kissed with tongues and about various messages Mr Johnson had exchanged with the girl.
Miss Flounders agreed that he had not told her, although she said he had mentioned he asked for a "thank you kiss".
Earlier, Miss Flounders was asked a series of questions about her partner's pubic hair and was asked to examine a photograph.
The teenager involved in the incident has told the jury Mr Johnson was shaved in that area.
Miss Flounders said he would trim the area with scissors, but would not shave.
Mr Johnson began his football career at Middlesbrough before moving to Manchester City and then on to Sunderland in 2012.
He has previously pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a child and one charge of grooming. These relate to him kissing the girl in his Range Rover after exchanging messages with her on social media.
But he denies two further charges of sexual activity with a child relating to the same incident. | The ex-girlfriend of former England footballer Adam Johnson has told a jury they split up after he admitted cheating on her with "quite a few" women. | 35659406 | [
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It allows users to control games on the touchscreen devices and can show extra information about progress.
It also lets the handhelds act as controllers for the firm's Internet Explorer web browser, which will launch on the console later this year.
The move poses a challenge to Nintendo's Wii U Game Pad.
While the Japanese company's product is specifically designed to enhance the experience of using its next-generation console, Microsoft is offering users a way to extend the functionality of its existing games machines via third-party devices they may already have.
"Xbox SmartGlass works with all the devices that you already own: the TV you already own, the phone you already own and the tablet you already own," said Marc Whitten, head of Microsoft's Xbox Live division.
"Xbox SmartGlass turns any TV into a smart TV."
A demo showed the highly anticipated first-person shooter Halo 4 using the facility to trigger maps and other data about its in-game environment.
The announcement
was made in Microsoft's keynote presentation at the E3 video games trade show in Los Angeles.
Mr Whitten added that SmartGlass would also enhance television programmes and films streamed through the Xbox.
He gave the example of a viewer watching Game of Thrones on their television and being able to look down at their tablets to see where on-screen characters were located on a map of the show's fantasy world.
The demonstration also showed how the linked device could bring up details about the cast and characters while the user was watching a film.
"It lets Microsoft say that you don't need to buy new hardware to have a two-screen experience," Stephen Totilo, editor of gaming website Kotaku, told the BBC.
"Nintendo looked to be ahead of everyone else on this, but now Microsoft is breathing down its neck. But there may be a little bit of smoke and mirrors here as I'm not convinced SmartGlass will have as much functionality as the Wii U offers."
The app was also mocked by South Park's creator Trey Parker who was at the event to promote a new video game featuring his characters.
"How many times have you been watching an episode of South Park and thought I'd like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device which is being controlled by my tablet device which is hooked into my oven all while sitting in the refrigerator," he joked.
New uses for Microsoft's Kinect motion and voice sensor also featured heavily in the E3 presentation.
A tie-up with Nike
will deliver a title towards the end of the year in which a digital personal trainer offers feedback on owners' workout techniques based on information gathered by the Kinect.
Voice commands were shown being used to change team formations in the next edition of the American Football simulation John Madden NFL, and to call in air strikes in the action game Splinter Cell Blacklist.
A new game called Wrecketer also allows players to use gestures to launch and guide missiles to destroy castles in a title based around a similar concept to Angry Birds.
Microsoft also promoted its device as an entertainment hub.
A new service called Xbox Music will offer "over 30 million music tracks" to the Xbox as well as Windows 8 and Windows Phone devices.
A video suggested the service would rival similar offerings from Spotify, Rdio and others. However, details were scant with no launch date or countries mentioned, and no comment about how it would affect the firm's existing Zune product.
US users were promised new content including NBA basketball games, Paramount Pictures movies and Nickelodeon children's programmes.
Much of the rest of the presentation was dedicated to trailers showcasing new titles in existing video game franchises such as Tomb Raider, Fable, Call of Duty and Resident Evil.
"We're probably getting a new Xbox console in 2013 so that will be what the next E3 is about, so they had to spend this year talking about the stuff that precedes it," said Mr Totilo.
"But people who get upset about sequels forget they tend to be some of the best games ever made as developers don't have to worry about working with new hardware, and can instead hone their craft and be creative." | Microsoft has unveiled Xbox SmartGlass: a service to allow tablet computers and smartphones to communicate with its video games consoles. | 18325815 | [
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Shana Grice, 19, was found with her throat cut in her bedroom at her Brighton home in August 2016.
Her ex-boyfriend Michael Lane, 27, of Portslade, had placed a tracker device on her car, Lewes Crown Court heard.
Miss Grice contacted police several times about Lane's unwanted attention before she died. The police watchdog has begun an investigation.
A statement by her mother, Sharon Grice, read out in court by counsel, said: "We firmly believe her murder could have been avoided if her fears had been taken seriously by police.
"Michael Lane had been harassing, stalking and pressurising her for over a year. Her life became a nightmare which we believe had affected her mental and physical health.
"The brutal death of our daughter has ruined our lives forever. We have become mere shells of our former selves."
Speaking after the verdict, Deputy Chief Constable of Sussex Police, Bernie O'Reilly, said the force had apologised to the Grice family.
"When we looked at the circumstances leading to Shana's murder, we felt we may not have done the very best we could," he said.
During the two-week trial, Lane admitted he had stalked Miss Grice and had lied to police in interviews, but denied murder.
He had claimed he found her body and left her home without raising the alarm because he was in shock.
But the jury returned its guilty verdict after just over two hours of deliberation.
The court heard Lane refused to accept their break-up and was incensed when Miss Grice rekindled her relationship with ex-boyfriend Ashley Cooke, vowing to a friend: "She'll pay for what she's done."
Prosecutor Philip Bennetts QC said: "During their relationship, he stalked her. He put a tracker on her car and followed her movements.
"That obsession with her translated into killing her. He would not allow anyone else to be with her."
Two days before Miss Grice was killed, she met Lane at a hotel in Hove to insist their relationship was over, but Lane claimed they had sex earlier that day.
The evening before he killed her, he filled a red petrol can with fuel, but claimed he bought it to kill himself due to depression following his grandfather's death.
The car mechanic waited until she was alone at the bungalow she shared with two housemates before cutting her throat and trying to set fire to her room.
Prosecutors said one fire was started on the bed and another on the carpet, and Lane dismantled the smoke alarm in the hallway.
After the killing, Lane withdrew £60 from Miss Grice's bank account and went to check a lottery ticket before he went to work at SE Tyres in Burgess Hill, where he was arrested.
He is due to be sentenced on Thursday.
Mr Justice Green warned Lane he faces a life sentence with a "very substantial minimum term".
During the trial, the the court heard Miss Grice complained about her ex-boyfriend to police several times.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is conducting an investigation into the contact between Miss Grice, Mr Lane and Sussex Police in the lead-up to her death.
Mr O'Reilly said: "Within days of her murder I personally visited Shana's family to apologise on behalf of Sussex Police and we made a referral to the IPCC.
"We have thoroughly reviewed all aspects of how we deal with cases of stalking and harassment and we have now taken on the learning and our approach is more robust."
An IPCC spokesman said investigators had already interviewed a number of witnesses and further interviews would be carried out now the trial had finished. | A man who stalked and killed his former girlfriend after she rejected him has been found guilty of her murder. | 39355895 | [
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Aiton, 30, had scans to diagnose the injury on Monday.
He joined the Dragons from Leeds at the end of 2015, and missed the end of the last campaign with an arm injury.
The Papua New Guinea player played 94 games for both Wakefield and Leeds following his move from Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in 2012. | Catalans Dragons will be without hooker Paul Aiton for up to six weeks after he tore a pectoral muscle on his debut, in a defeat by Wigan Warriors on Friday. | 35523296 | [
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It comes 12 years after their first, when Jose Mourinho's 2004-05 side stormed to glory, 12 points clear of nearest rivals Arsenal after having lost just once, to Manchester City, all season.
Didier Drogba spearheaded the attack, Claude Makelele reinvented the anchor man role and Frank Lampard top-scored from midfield as the Blues won their first top-flight title in more than half a century.
Antonio Conte's 2016-17 breed have wrapped up the league with two games to spare, with Diego Costa hitting 20 goals [as of 12 May], Eden Hazard impressing and N'Golo Kante winning player of the year.
But who, from Chelsea's first and most recent Premier League-winning teams, would make your combined XI?
Pick your best XI from Chelsea's Premier League winners in 2004-05 and 2016-17. | Chelsea's 1-0 win at West Brom on Friday clinched the Blues their fifth Premier League title. | 39895178 | [
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A message on Luton councillor Aysegul Gurbuz's Twitter feed claimed Hitler was the "greatest man in history".
Another tweet on Ms Gurbaz's account suggested Iran could develop a nuclear weapon to "wipe Israel off the map".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said anyone who makes anti-Semitic remarks is "auto-excluded from the party" pending an inquiry.
The BBC has contacted the councillor for comment.
The Labour Party has confirmed she has been suspended pending an investigation.
Speaking to the Andrew Marr Show, Mr Corbyn said: "Anti-Semitism is absolutely abhorrent and wrong.
"We have suspended, we will suspend, any member that behaves in that way."
The tweets in question were made before Ms Gurbuz was elected to Luton Borough Council in May 2015.
A spokesman for the council said: "While these comments appear to pre-date her time as a councillor, the council is shocked by these comments.
"This matter will be referred as a matter of urgency to the council's independent standards committee to allow a full investigation to take place."
On Thursday, Mr Corbyn was criticised by a Jewish leader for not taking anti-Semitism seriously enough. | A Labour councillor has been suspended from the party over anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter account. | 36009544 | [
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Vokes is now tied to the Turf Moor club until the end of the 2018-19 season.
"My massive goal is to do well at club level and play at the Euros in the summer," Vokes told BBC Radio Wales.
The 26-year-old, who has six goals in 37 games for his country, has been with the Clarets since joining from Wolves in July 2012.
He has scored 31 goals in 137 appearances in all competitions for Burnley, with a total of 64 in 300 career games.
He has netted five times in 27 games for Sean Dyche's side this season.
"It's great to put pen to paper, I've been very happy at Burnley, it's a club I've found a home at in the last few years," he said.
"We are concentrating on pushing for promotion and that was a massive factor in signing the new deal, the belief I have in the club.
"Promotion is a big aim and I think we've got the squad to do that."
A spot in Chris Coleman's 23-man squad for Wales' first major football tournament since 1958 this summer is another priority.
"I'm not guaranteed a spot, it's never a given or something I'd take for granted. You need to be playing well for your club to be picked for your country," Vokes added.
"I need to do well this season and that gives me the best chance of going to France and forcing my way into the team."
Vokes' 2014-15 campaign was hampered by a cruciate ligament injury but has suffered no problems since having surgery.
"Three-and-a-half more years shows faith from the club in me and they stood by me with my injury," he said.
"I'm over the injury, it's behind me now, but the club were great with me.
"Playing week in and week out has helped." | Striker Sam Vokes is aiming for promotion and a place in Wales' Euro 2016 team after signing a new contract with Burnley. | 35382370 | [
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It is a tiny signal seen in the way the waters at the ends of the 35km-long lake rise and fall.
When combined with the direct tug from the gravity of the Moon and Sun, the loch surface goes up and down by just 1.5mm.
The study is reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
"If you were on a boat in the middle of the loch, you certainly wouldn't notice it," said Philip Woodworth from the UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Liverpool, "but a tide like this has never been observed in a western European lake before."
Prof Woodworth, David Pugh and Machiel Bos say their precision measurement technique could be used in other lakes around the world to understand better how the Earth's crust deforms as a result of ocean movements - rather like a carpenter will use a spirit level to gauge how a length of wood deviates from the horizontal.
"I have described Loch Ness as the largest spirit level in the world," David Pugh, who is a visiting professor at NOC, told BBC News.
None of us can feel it, but Britain rises and falls by centimetres every 12 hours and 25 minutes as a great bulge of ocean water washes around the country.
The pencil-shaped Loch Ness is the largest UK lake by volume, and although inland, is close enough to the North Sea to be influenced by this loading effect.
The team placed pressure sensors a few metres under the lake surface at six locations, from Fort Augustus in the far southwest to Aldourie in the far northeast. They then monitored the change in the height of the overlying water during the course of 201 days.
What the scientists saw was a clear spike in the data twice a day - the result of the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun. But they could also tease out a second signal stemming from the way water rises and falls as a result of the tilting of the land. And, in fact, the latter effect sits on top of the first and is responsible for most of the amplitude change.
The team says the measurement was made to an accuracy of just 0.1 mm over the loch's 35 km length.
"We had to extract the tidal signal and get rid of all the noise. This involved very high precision," explained David Pugh.
"For example, the loch surface itself goes up and down every day by four centimetres just due to the pump storage scheme for hydroelectric generation, and we have to pull out a very small signal within that.
"The holy grail would be to learn from the effects of the tides something about the Earth's crust. So the more precise we can get, the more we may learn about the crust."
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter | Scientists have measured the way Loch Ness tilts back and forth as the whole of Scotland bends with the passing of the tides. | 16394421 | [
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The FA says the club, one of a few from outside the English mainland to enter, must play any replays in England - even if they are the home side.
The club would also have to pay the travel expenses of visiting sides.
Those expenses, which come after the club has shared any gate receipts, mean Guernsey are considering whether they can afford to enter the competition.
The club, founded in 2011, also want to play in the FA Trophy, and director Nigel Braybrook told BBC South West Sport: "They're very prestigious competitions and the players have earned the right to take part.
"We feel they deserve the chance to show themselves on the national stage, but that could be taken away from us for non-football reasons."
Guernsey are used to paying for clubs to come over to the island to play them, having spent the past two seasons in the Combined Counties League,
They also made the semi-finals of the FA Vase,
As well as any home replays being played at a venue in England at Guernsey's expense, the club would also have to play any postponed home ties in England as well.
A Channel Island team has competed in an FA Cup before. Jersey's St Peter's ladies side played in the 2004 FA Women's Cup, losing 3-1 to Aldershot Town in the first qualifying round.
The FA has given Guernsey until Monday, 24 June to decide if they want to enter on those terms, and told BBC South West Sport that they would not comment until that time.
"They haven't given a reason, they've just set out these conditions," Braybrook said.
"I can only imagine their concern is that opposing clubs would have to travel over midweek, and at a lower level some of the players will have to work and they may have concerns about that.
"We would love to be in the competition but it's purely finance.
"Playing in the Ryman League this year will increase our costs considerably, with more matches, more overnight stays and longer journeys.
"If we play a game on the mainland, drew and then pay for the replay, it could potentially cost us £10,000 to play one round."
The club has launched a campaign to try to raise money in Guernsey to help fund their cup matches. | Guernsey FC could be forced to pull out of the FA Cup over restrictions imposed on them by the Football Association. | 22984678 | [
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Mohammed Ali, of Prescot Road, Liverpool, is accused of attempting to possess a chemical weapon.
The father of two, 31, has denied the charge at the Old Bailey in London.
Using an online alias, Ali allegedly tried to order 500mg of the deadly toxin, the jury was told, which would have been enough to kill 1,400 people.
As "Weirdos 0000", Ali contacted a man on the black market and placed an order for the ricin, the court heard.
He went on to negotiate the deal in encrypted exchanges unaware the United States-based 'dealer' was actually an FBI agent who alerted the British authorities.
On 10 February, he took delivery of a toy car with "special batteries" at the home he shared with his wife and two young sons.
But instead of ricin, the five concealed packets contained a harmless powder and Ali was arrested.
The court has been told that the Bolton-born computer software programmer has displayed many traits of Asperger's syndrome.
Under cross-examination, defence clinical psychologist Alison Beck said: "I think that so far as I understand it, Mr Ali was motivated with pushing the boundaries of what was possible with the technology.
"The relevance of the dark net was to procure ricin and that idea was implanted in his brain having watched the series Breaking Bad."
Ali denies a charge of attempting to possess a chemical weapon between 10 January and 12 February.
The trial continues. | A man tried to buy ricin from the "dark web" after the idea was "implanted in his brain" from watching the Breaking Bad television series, a court heard. | 33638005 | [
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In a speech he said, given the effects of the referendum vote, the government had to be "realistic about achieving a surplus by the end of the decade".
The target had been the chancellor's most prized goal and had been driving austerity measures in previous budgets.
But he said the economy is showing "clear signs" of shock following the vote to leave the European Union.
Giving a speech in Manchester, Mr Osborne said: "The referendum is expected to produce a significant negative economic shock to our economy. How we respond will determine the impact on jobs and growth.
"We must provide fiscal credibility, continuing to be tough on the deficit while being realistic about achieving a surplus by the end of the decade."
Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell welcomed the move, saying: "Sadly the vote last Thursday for Brexit has only brought forward what was inevitable.
"The Chancellor had already dropped his other fiscal rules on welfare and debt at the Budget in March, and according to many economists he was expected to be forced to drop this one too."
BBC business editor Kamal Ahmed says that the target was heading for the "Treasury shredding machine" following a speech from Home Secretary Theresa May yesterday.
In a speech launching her bid to become prime minister she said "we should no longer seek to reach a budget surplus by the end of the parliament".
Kamal says that Mr Osborne has now followed suit.
Nevertheless, the Treasury insists that it still wants to balance the books and "fix the finances".
Mr Osborne first committed himself to returning the national finances to surplus by 2020 at the Conservative Party conference in 2013 and it became policy in the July budget of 2015.
But there have been questions ever since over whether that target could be met.
Even before the referendum vote he only had "a slightly better than 50/50 chance" of making the target said Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
But the uncertainty caused by the Leave vote could hold back the economy and make creating a surplus even more difficult.
"Having voted for Brexit last week, the economy is clearly going to go into a downswing, that might be a full-blown recession, that might just be very very low growth," said Paul Johnson the director of the IFS.
It is sometimes easy in these incredible political times to forget that for most people "it's the economy, stupid" still holds true.
For the UK economy, one of the most important passages of Theresa May's speech yesterday was when she signalled that George Osborne's "fiscal rule" (to produce a budget surplus by 2020) was for the Treasury shredding machine.
"While it is absolutely vital that the government continues with its intention to reduce public spending and cut the budget deficit, we should no longer seek to reach a budget surplus by the end of the parliament," Mrs May said.
Now the chancellor has said he agrees, arguing that the government must be "realistic" about its fiscal targets and that austerity policies could be eased.
My Treasury sources point out that the "rule" can be varied in "non-normal" times.
And these are pretty "non-normal" times.
The abandonment of the fiscal target suggests the government could borrow more, presumably for investment in infrastructure and to mitigate the need for tax rises and spending cuts, if the economy does take a turn for the worse as some predict.
More from Kamal: Brexit and the easing of austerity
The Tories have been in turmoil since David Cameron announced his intention to resign following the UK's vote in favour on leaving the European Union.
In a shock development on Thursday, Boris Johnson, widely seen as the frontrunner to become prime minister, announced that he would not be running.
The BBC has learned that Justice Secretary Michael Gove is now coming under growing pressure to abandon his bid to become Tory leader.
Sources have told the BBC government ministers are trying to persuade the justice secretary to give way so the party can "unite" around Home Secretary Theresa May.
Mr Gove opted to stand after switching his support from Boris Johnson.
In a speech, Mr Gove said his decision to stand to become Conservative leader is driven by "conviction" about what is right for the UK not personal ambition.
Three other candidates have put their names forward for the Conservative leadership: Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom, MP Liam Fox and Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb.
The government borrowed £74.9bn in the 2015/2016 fiscal year and for the financial year so far - covering April and May - borrowing reached £17.9bn, £0.2bn higher than the same period a year ago.
It is thought that the government will now raise borrowing, so it can avoid further cuts in spending or raising taxes. It could also borrow to invest in big building projects.
"The problem of course is, you can't borrow forever,"said Paul Johnson from the IFS.
"So we'll have a few more years of more borrowing, but my guess is this is not the end of austerity, actually this means austerity will just go on for longer because we'll probably have the spending cuts and tax rises right through the 2020s to pay for this." | Chancellor George Osborne has abandoned his target to restore government finances to a surplus by 2020. | 36684452 | [
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Following the revelations of inappropriate relationships, the home affairs select committee has called for an urgent review of laws governing undercover policing.
Here are the women's accounts of how they felt when it emerged that their relationships, which lasted from two to six years, were based on deception. These are not their real names.
"I was absolutely shocked and devastated," she told MPs.
Lisa had a six-year relationship with former PC Mark Kennedy, who posed as long-haired dropout Mark "Flash" Stone to infiltrate a group of environmental protesters.
"You imagine that somebody may be in public meetings that environmental groups have. You imagine there might be somebody listening in there. You could even imagine that your phone might be tapped or that somebody might look at your emails.
"But to know that there was somebody in your bed for six years, that somebody was involved in your family life to such a degree, that was an absolute shock.
"Well, 'shock' is an understatement. It felt like the ground had shifted beneath me and my sense of what was reality and what wasn't was completely turned on its head."
During the hearing she was asked whether she had any sympathy for Mr Kennedy, who is suing the Metropolitan Police claiming he had been traumatised by what had happened.
"As a human being it is very difficult not to have sympathy for somebody that I cared about deeply, but it is also important to remember that that person that I cared about deeply did not in fact exist," she replied.
She adds that she still has questions about what happened.
"Who was listening in to our most intimate phone calls? Who saw our holiday photos? Was there anybody following us when we were on holiday?
"Who made the decisions about what happened to my life, where I was allowed to go, who I was allowed to see, which I thought was my free will but actually was being manipulated by this person who was being controlled by other people?"
"We weren't married, clearly, but we shared the same flat. He was completely integrated into my life for five years and then one day he disappeared," she said.
Alison had a relationship with a man she knew as Mark Cassidy, who she met through a group she was involved with in 1994. But he was in fact an undercover police officer. She told MPs the revelation had an "enormous impact" on her life.
"The experience has left me with many, many unanswered questions, and one of those that comes back is: how much of the relationship was real?," she told MPs.
"Some of the consequences of that have meant that I have, for the last 13 years, questioned my own judgment and it has impacted seriously on my ability to trust, and that has impacted on my current relationship and other subsequent relationships.
Alison, a peaceful campaigner involved in left-wing political causes, believes she inadvertently provided him with "an excellent cover story", helping persuade other activists he was genuine.
She said he became totally integrated into her family, appearing in her mother's wedding photograph, accompanying her on holidays and supporting her through the bereavement of a close friend.
"This is not about just a lying boyfriend or a boyfriend who has cheated on you. It is not even about a boyfriend who is having another relationship with somebody else. It is about a fictional character who was created by the state and funded by taxpayers' money."
"You do not know who you can trust any more. It destroys everything," she said.
When the boyfriend Clare knew as John Barker disappeared two years into their relationship, she was determined to track him down. She found a death certificate for his name, and discovered he had been using the identity of a child who had died of leukaemia aged eight.
She visited the child's house, but their parents no longer lived there.
"He had told me that his parents were dead when we were in a relationship, so I wasn't expecting to see the parents, but I thought that if I went there... he had been a missing person for however long and I was desperate to find him. I was really concerned about his welfare," she explained.
"Nothing made sense of what had happened, and so I went there desperate, thinking I have to follow every clue that I have, and I thought maybe some other members of the family may still live there or somebody might know where he was."
She said people trying to justify the practice saying things like it prevented terrorism, was very distressing.
"This is not about a need to do it. It is about a desire to do it. They have the power and they think they can get away with it. That is what it is about.
"It is deeply distressing, and I do not think it should be allowed in any circumstances. It is so intrusive into people's lives, and, as my friends have said, it turns your life upside down.
"Everything that you thought you knew suddenly becomes unreal; everything changes," she said. | The stories of women who were unknowingly involved in relationships with undercover police officers are revealed as their testimonies to MPs are made public. | 21629991 | [
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Lord McConnell was in the African country to discuss the importance of electricity at the time.
He tweeted: "Spent the evening discussing the importance of better electricity for #Malawi. Walked out to the dark street and fell down a drain. #Ouch".
Jack McConnell served as first minister between 2001 and 2007.
He signed a co-operation agreement between Scotland and Malawi in 2005, and continues to be a regular visitor to the east African country.
It appears the Labour peer escaped injury after his stumble - but his admission sparked a flurry of responses on social media.
Twitter user @nowayjomo suggested: "Proved your point then?" while @itsjustlewis pondered: "fell down? or stumbled? Too many pints ;) but yes, funny how issues are like this are overlooked. Oan yersel". | A former Scottish first minister has fallen down a drain while walking in the dark in Malawi. | 32849064 | [
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Officers from Police Scotland alerted Benbecula Community Council to the scam at a meeting of the council earlier this week.
Sent from Italy, the email involves a fake story about an African man trying to transfer his inheritance to a new account after his father was poisoned.
The use of Gaelic in the email is poor, according to speakers on the isles.
Benbecula Community Council believed the email may have been written using online tool, Google Translate.
Scots Gaelic was added to the service in February this year. | What is believed to be the first email scam using Gaelic has been targeted at residents of the Western Isles. | 36286053 | [
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President Raul Castro said "attempts to destroy the revolution" would fail.
Mr Trump has tightened restrictions on US travel to and business with the communist island.
But the US embassy in Havana, re-opened by former President Barack Obama, is still operating.
Mr Castro was speaking in front of Cuba's national assembly. It was his first public comment on the policy changes Mr Trump announced a month ago.
State-run Cuban media quoted Mr Castro as saying that Mr Trump was using "old and hostile rhetoric" and had returned to "confrontation that roundly failed over 55 years".
He said: "We reject the manipulation of the topic of human rights against Cuba, which can be proud of much in this area and does not need to receive lessons from the United States nor anyone."
Mr Trump anchored his policy rollback in human rights concerns raised by political opponents of Cuba's communist government, many of whom have fled to Miami where Mr Trump announced the changes on 16 June.
Mr Castro continued: "Cuba and the United States can cooperate and live side by side, respecting their differences. But no one should expect that for this, one should have to make concessions inherent to one's sovereignty and independence."
Mr Castro will step down as president in seven months, but will remain the head of the country's Communist Party. | The president of Cuba has spoken publicly for the first time against US President Donald Trump's rollback of a thaw between the two countries a month ago. | 40615948 | [
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Bernard Hender, 19, and Doug McTavish, 39, died in the blaze above a funeral director's office in Llanrwst, Conwy county, in October 2014.
The Abergele inquest is examining if a Hotpoint dryer caused the fire.
On Thursday, a fire engineer told the hearing there was "no compelling evidence" it started in the dryer but he could not rule it out.
Clifford Christie, a member of the Institute of Fire Engineers, was asked to look into the cause of the fire by domestic appliance company Whirlpool.
Giving evidence on the second day of the hearing, he said the dryer was "severely damaged" by fire but some components on the machine were intact.
Mr Christie said he was "satisfied" it had not started in the timer, the motor or the drum, and there was no accumulation of lint in the machine.
But he said he could not rule out that it started in the machine's starter switch, which was not recovered following the blaze.
He also told the hearing it was possible there was a fault in an iron kept in the same room.
He said evidence given to the inquest on Wednesday that the iron was switched off might have been "mistaken".
On Wednesday, a tenant who lived in the flat spoke of surviving the fire.
Garry Lloyd Jones, 50, told the inquest: "I just remember walking down the corridor to see what was going on and seeing flames coming out of the tumble dryer.
"I went down to the living area and went to the kitchen and there was nothing there but when I looked out of the kitchen window I could see an orange glow."
Notices had previously been issued by Whirlpool telling customers to unplug Hotpoint, Creda and Indesit models manufactured between 2004 and 2015 after a potential fire risk was identified.
The inquest continues. | A tumble dryer could "not be ruled out" as the cause of a flat fire in which two men died, an inquest has heard. | 39654348 | [
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The advert for its invisible deodorant range said "white is purity" across an image of a woman.
It was posted on the firm's Facebook page, geographically aimed at its followers in the Middle East. Nivea accepted the post was "misleading".
Many on social media complained the post was racist, but it was also widely-shared among alt-right users.
The advert on the Nivea Facebook page (since deleted) was posted alongside the caption: "Keep it clean, keep it bright. Don't let anything ruin it."
The post was directed at its audience in the Middle East, although the company has 19 million fans globally on its page.
Many on social media complained about the post's racist connotations.
But it was also picked up by alt-right social media accounts who trolled the Nivea account with comments, including of Hitler and Pepe the frog, who was branded a hate symbol last year.
One alt-right account said: "#Nivea: the official moisturizer/anti-perspirant of the #AltRight."
A spokesperson for Nivea's owners Beiersdorf said: "There have been concerns risen about ethnic discrimination due to a post about NIVEA Deodorant Invisible for Black & White on our NIVEA Middle East Facebook page.
"We are deeply sorry to anyone who may take offense to this specific post. After realizing that the post is misleading, it was immediately withdrawn.
"Diversity and equal opportunity are crucial values of NIVEA: The brand represents diversity, tolerance, and equal opportunity.
"We value difference. Direct or indirect discrimination must be ruled out in all decisions by, and in all areas of our activities." | German skincare brand Nivea has apologised and removed an advert that was deemed discriminatory. | 39489967 | [
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The report contains a bogus poll indicating that President Uhuru Kenyatta will win August's election.
The BBC has urged Kenyans to verify stories by visiting the BBC website.
A recent survey suggested that 90% of Kenyans had seen or heard false news in the run-up to the poll.
Many of the people surveyed felt that some news items had been deliberately misleading.
It also found that while traditional media remained the most trusted source of information, large numbers of people got their news from Facebook and WhatsApp.
The origin of the fake BBC news story is not clear but it began to be shared on WhatsApp on Friday morning.
A fake report made to look as if it came from CNN has also been circulating.
The presidential election on 8 August will see incumbent President Kenyatta run against seven candidates including his main challenger, opposition leader Raila Odinga. | A fake video report about Kenya's election that is made to appear as if it is from the BBC's Focus on Africa programme has been circulating on social media. | 40753182 | [
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The Sky Blues currently play in Coventry's Ricoh Arena but had a long dispute with the stadium's previous owners.
The council said the club wanted to meet to understand how it would deal with a planning application.
The club said it was not commenting "at this stage".
The club's owners, Sisu, have been involved in a long-running stand off with the previous operators of the Ricoh that saw the Sky Blues play the 2013/14 season in Northampton.
The arena is now owned by Premiership rugby team Wasps.
In a statement, Rugby Borough Council said its leader and the council's executive director and head of planning had met with Coventry City in March.
"The club requested the meeting to understand how the council would deal with any planning application for potential stadium sites in the borough of Rugby," it said.
It said the plans would need to be finalised by September to be included in the council's local plan, but added that a site had yet to be identified.
Peter Ward, from Sky Blues Supporters' Consultative Group, said he was pleased to hear that things were "moving" with the club's search for a new home.
"It's good that finally there is some evidence things are happening," he said.
"As we've heard from the club's directors, there is a need to take control of and have access to all the revenue streams."
However, he said that fans could find a move out of Coventry difficult - particularly as they only moved from their previous home, Highfield Road, to the Ricoh in 2005.
"The move from Highfield Road to the Ricoh was a big emotional move for the fans," he said. "This would be another big change." | Planners in Rugby have revealed they have been in talks with Coventry City Football Club about building a stadium in the borough. | 32612168 | [
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Many lizards can detach their tails when attacked, but fish-scale geckos have large scales that tear away with ease.
The new species is a master of this art, say scientists, having the largest scales of any known gecko.
The reptile, named Geckolepis megalepis, is described in PeerJ.
The skin of fish-scale geckos is specially adapted to tearing. The large scales are attached only by a relatively narrow region that tears with ease.
In addition, beneath the scales there is a pre-formed splitting zone within the skin itself.
Although several other geckos are able to lose their skin like this if they are grasped firmly, fish-scale geckos are able to do so actively - and at the slightest touch.
They can also grow them back scar-free in a matter of weeks, while other geckos might take a long time to regenerate their scales.
But Geckolepis megalepis is remarkable for the huge size of its scales. The researchers hypothesise that larger scales tear more easily than smaller ones, because of their greater surface area relative to the attachment area, and larger friction surface.
"What's really remarkable though is that these scales - which are really dense and may even be bony, and must be quite energetically costly to produce - and the skin beneath them tear away with such ease, and can be regenerated quickly and without a scar," said lead author Mark Scherz, from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
The new species was discovered in the Tsingy cave formations of northern Madagascar. | A newly discovered species of gecko has tearaway skin that leaves predators with nothing but a mouthful of scales when attacked. | 38897327 | [
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"This is definitely not the Oscars," said 22 Jump Street star Jillian Bell on the red carpet in Los Angeles.
As well as fan-voted awards like best kiss and best shirtless performance (Efron won it - again) the ceremony was also an unofficial promotional platform for this summer's blockbusters.
The night's big winner was The Fault in Our Stars, which won best movie.
The film's star Shailene Woodley also picked up best female performance, the Trailblazer Award and best kiss for a scene with Ansel Elgort.
Woodley gave an emotional speech dedicated to John Green, the author of the book which the film is based on, saying "he gave this world a beautiful masterpiece".
Other winners included Bradley Cooper, who won best male performance for his role as the late Chris Kyle in American Sniper.
The 40-year-old actor said: "Chris Kyle would have turned 41 four days ago. Chris, this is for you," said Cooper.
Channing Tatum took home best comedic performance for 22 Jump Street and Meryl Streep picked up best villain for her role in Into the Woods.
Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Lawrence, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne were also among the winners.
Kevin Hart, who was the target of many size-related jokes throughout the night, brought his kids on stage to accept the comedic genius award.
He said: "I do it all for them. I'm trying to leave a legacy behind."
In one of the more energetic moments of the show, Robert Downey Jr brought his fellow Avengers stars to their knees while accepting the Generation Award.
Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner all took the stage to present their co-star with the award, which Downey called "the recognition I so desire".
Clips from the upcoming Pitch Perfect sequel, Judd Apatow's latest comedy Trainwreck and Marvel's new film Ultron were shown during a look ahead to this summer's releases.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Vin Diesel sang, Channing Tatum danced and Zac Efron showed off his abs, yes - again, at the 2015 MTV Movie Awards. | 32282102 | [
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Liberty, headed by Sanjeev Gupta, was first to express an interest in the assets when they were put up for sale.
A spokesman for Liberty told the BBC that the firm had put together a team of advisers and financial backers.
"The formal process is to submit a letter of intent; it amounts to a bid. It will be done on Tuesday," he said.
In addition to the Port Talbot factory - the UK's largest steelworks - Tata's remaining assets include sites at Newport, where more than 1,300 people are employed, and Rotherham, which employs 1,200. Tata also has operations at Corby, Shotton and Teesside.
Macquarie, the Australian bank, was advising Liberty on a potential bid, and is considered a potential financial backer of any takeover.
Liberty House started life in the university room of Indian-born founder Sanjeev Gupta.
While a student at Cambridge University in 1992, the budding entrepreneur started what has since become a global steel and commodities business with annual sales of more than £2bn.
With operations in 30 countries, and headquarters in London, Dubai, and Singapore, Mr Gupta's Liberty has also emerged as a possible saviour of Britain's steel industry.
Liberty's focus is on recycling the mountains of scrap metal generated in the UK, rather than the historical method of producing steel in blast furnaces.
Last month, it acquired Tata Steel's plants in Lanarkshire. In recent years, it has reached similar deals for steel plants in Newport and the Black Country.
A management buyout team is also planning to submit a bid under the name Excalibur Steel UK Limited.
It has appointed investment banker Mark Rhydderch-Roberts as a non-executive director. He joins Stuart Wilkie, the head of Tata's United Kingdom strip steel business, and former Alcan senior executive and venture capitalist Roger Maggs, on the board.
The government has promised to support any buyer of the business by taking up to a 25% stake in a new business and making hundreds of millions of pounds of finance available.
Tata has not publicly set a deadline for any deal, but has made it clear it cannot sustain its £1m-a-day losses indefinitely and does not want to prolong the uncertainty for workers and customers.
Tata's Scunthorpe operation, which employs more than 3,000 people, has been sold to investment firm Greybull Capital for a nominal £1. | Liberty House plans to submit a formal bid on Tuesday to buy Tata Steel's UK assets, which include the Port Talbot works employing about 4,000 people. | 36189022 | [
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The initial plan was to pass ownership to supporters' group Well Society in five years, but instead it has taken 14 months for the handover to be agreed.
This was always going to be the final outcome, since Hutchison was never interested in owning or running the club long-term.
For him, a Lanarkshire boy whose business career took him abroad and eventually into a life of significant wealth, the point was to contribute to his local community.
Challenges remain, though, even if Hutchison believes much of the hard work has been carried out.
The significant progress is that costs have been cut, that investments have been made on infrastructure projects at Fir Park and on improving the chances of the football side of the business contributing to self-sustainability.
Hutchison is satisfied that in agreeing to sell his 76% shareholding for £1 to the Well Society, he has paved the way for stability and fan ownership.
If there is a message from Hutchison, it is that fans and local businesses need to step up to support the club financially, so that it never needs to be reliant on wealthy individuals or investors.
"I can't speak to the future of any business, whether it's secure or otherwise, but if they have enough customers and they follow the strategy which has been implemented, we've significantly improved the probability of success," Hutchison told BBC Scotland from his home in Barbados.
"[The club] is extremely close [to break even]. In recent months, the player budget has been reduced dramatically, we've been able to sign some really excellent younger players on longer-term contracts, which reduces costs because you don't have to buy a much more experienced player, we've significantly reduced the medical bills by the introduction of the sports scientist.
"We could do with a little bit of a boost on the commercial side, but we have that pipeline of young talent coming through which would give the opportunity for additional transfer income.
"What [supporters] need to do is decide whether or not they want to try to make it work and whether they want to step up.
"The second, and probably more important one, is that I'd like to see more local companies participate more effectively with the club and the community."
Hutchison had to address costs at Fir Park since the club was running at a loss.
Before John Boyle's controlling interest was transferred in January 2015, Hutchison had to provide £30,000 to pay bills. He has since invested £650,000 and £380,000 in loans, with at least £180,000 having been paid back, and the remaining repayment terms altered.
Motherwell previously used to budget to finish in the top half of the Premiership, which meant that any drop in form had a significant impact on working capital.
That has changed, while 10 players left the club in January, although one of them - James McFadden - subsequently signed a new short-term deal until the end of the season.
Under Mark McGhee's management, the focus is to be on developing young players, and Hutchison is particularly proud that under his tenure, Motherwell have reached the youth cup final for the first time in 30 years.
The challenge, though, is financial as well as sporting. The income streams of football clubs rise and fall over the course of a season, but there is now no wealthy individual on hand to cover any shortfalls that might arise.
The Well Society's membership has plateaued, with some letting their subscriptions slide. The Society needs all of its members to be contributing and for more to join if money is to be raised to support the fan-ownership model.
"People got into a bit of a comfort zone that maybe they don't have to participate, 'it's okay, Les is here, don't worry about it'," Hutchison said.
"From the very outset, I wasn't in the business of wanting to own or run a football club in Scotland, I am a philanthropist and I was trying to help the community.
"The Society have had up to 1700 people who have at some point in time contributed. All it takes is for people who have done it in the past to do it again and a few more, with also the support of local business who really want to support their local communities and customers, they need to step up a bit more as well.
"If that happens, then the thing will be in good hands.
"What [the club] has to do is manage the cash flow. That's the challenge. The cash comes in in peaks and troughs because of the way the league does their financing and the way that sponsors pay their money, and TV and so on.
"If they could build up some reasonable reserves, they can then manage through the peaks and troughs.
"We've been budgeting quite prudently. We've had to take actions to make sure those budgets can be achieved. It all bodes well at this point."
Hutchison has stabilised Motherwell - at a personal cost of £1m - and has now left the supporters with the opportunity, and the challenge, of taking over. For that to happen, the Well Society will need to succeed in a way that it hasn't been able to achieve in the past. | Les Hutchison's involvement at Motherwell has ended before he expected it to. | 35826768 | [
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It is not the done thing to interfere in the internal affairs of a member state after all and Britain is still a member state - just about.
EU Council President Donald Tusk has already offered a lesson in what to say when you know you can't say much.
He wrote: "It was Hitchcock who directed Brexit - first an earthquake and the tension rises."
That suggests that Mr Tusk has only a hazy knowledge of the works of Hitchcock - but it also hints at an expectation in Brussels that the Brexit debate is about to heat up.
In domestic terms, Mrs May is hoping for a strong, clear and personal mandate to lead the Brexit negotiations on her own terms. And if the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wins he would also claim endorsement for placing his own political priorities at the centre of the talks to come.
But in European terms, that's something of a secondary issue.
The EU Commission's lead negotiator, Michel Barnier, is going to have to deal with whoever is in residence in 10 Downing Street and the strength of the occupant's mandate won't be his concern.
His team have already said that while the announcement doesn't change anything, there's a hope that it will produce a strong leader with strong backing from the people of the UK.
And we can be sure this British election will be watched with even closer attention than usual - not just in Brussels but in the other European capitals where Brexit is going to be a huge issue in the years to come.
First, both Theresa May and all her rivals will have to set out their visions for Brexit in much more detail than we've heard so far.
British voters will demand nothing less.
But in the process, the Barnier team and the governments of France, Germany and the rest will get a feeling for where the British red lines in negotiations really lie.
Any British candidate worth his or her salt will try to leave room for manoeuvre in the talks to come after the election, but it will surely be impossible to campaign without giving away at least some detail.
And of course there are romantics across Europe who hope that the voice of the Remainers will be heard loud and clear in the British debate to come.
The hope that Brexit might be quickly reversed has pretty much faded from the European debate now, but plenty of politicians across the continent will be hoping to hear candidates putting forward the argument for a soft Brexit with the closest possible links to the EU and its single market.
That may be wishful thinking, but there'll be strong support for such voices from many quarters in Europe.
Europe was taken by surprise by Theresa May's announcement, but not taken aback. The EU negotiators have been working hard behind the scenes to prepare their position and their message is that they're ready to negotiate with Britain, no matter who occupies 10 Downing Street.
This was already a busy year for European democracy - the Netherlands has already voted, while France votes for a president at the weekend and will hold National Assembly elections in June.
Germany goes to the polls in September.
But there's an awareness that the UK election will be different precisely because it will play a huge part in shaping the British negotiating position on Brexit.
And, of course, there's also the fascination of the pure political theatre of it all. | The EU has to be measured in its response to Theresa May's election announcement. | 39632041 | [
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There have been ongoing industrial problems in the school for months.
The panel consists of leading educationalist Prof Sir Robert Salisbury, trade unionist John Corey and Belfast Metropolitan College's principal Marie-Thérèse McGivern.
Education Minister John O'Dowd has said he wants them to complete the investigation by early summer.
The secondary school, in the Andersonstown area of west Belfast, has 1,100 pupils.
About a third of its 70-strong teaching staff were absent for a period prior to Easter, and, in an unusual move last month, an associate principal was appointed to the school.
A group representing some parents also held a number of protests to express their concern about how the disputes were affecting their children.
Mr O'Dowd said that he wanted the panel to investigate events in the school, and make recommendations "to ensure the school's future".
"I consider the panel members to be eminently well qualified and experienced," he said.
"My priority continues to be to the pupils at the school and this investigation will give pupils, parents, staff and their representatives, and all those involved with the governance of the school, the opportunity to express their view."
The investigation will look at staff relationships, the role of senior leadership, governance of the school and the impact of the ongoing disputes on pupils.
Mr Corey was general secretary of Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) union from 2003-10 and is currently a member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
Prior to her role at Belfast Metropolitan College, Ms McGivern was director of development at Belfast City Council.
Sir Robert, meanwhile, recently chaired the literacy and numeracy task force in Northern Ireland and is a former professor of education at the University of Nottingham.
The National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), which represents almost half the teachers at De La Salle College, welcomed the appointments.
It said the move "should reassure all partners in the De La Salle community that Minister O'Dowd is committed to finding a robust resolution to the recent period of challenge".
However, it said the terms of reference would be "critical to the success or otherwise of the investigation".
The NASUWT also said it will "seek assurances from the panel that their work will not cause any further disruption".
Jim Clarke, chief executive of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS), also welcomed the appointment of the panel.
"The background and experience of those who will be carrying out the investigation gives confidence to the process," he said.
"CCMS will continue with its ongoing work with the other interests through the agreed strategy. It remains focused on the needs and interests of the pupils at the school." | A three-person panel has been appointed to carry out an investigation into De La Salle College in west Belfast. | 36163760 | [
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There were about 19,000 diagnoses in 2015, compared to about 17,300 in 2006.
Public Health Wales (PHW) said the main reason for the increase was an ageing population.
The organisation's Dr Dyfed Wyn Huws said there was "good news" by way of significant reductions in smoking rates in recent decades.
There was a year-on-year decrease from about 19,800 cases in 2014, but the 2015 figure of 19,088 is likely to increase as statisticians revise the numbers.
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Ding scored at least a half-century in every frame he won as he extended his first-session lead from 6-2 to 10-2.
Williams, who had to play with a new tip after splitting his old one on Monday, managed to pot just two balls before the mid-session interval.
The Welshman did take frame 13, but China's Ding powered to victory.
Two-time Crucible champion Williams only made two half-centuries, but said he was destined to lose from the moment he split his old tip.
"I got beat easily and, to be honest, deep down I knew I would so I cannot really grumble," said Williams, 41.
"I was playing, and feeling, brilliant. With the players left in, it was probably my best chance of winning the World Championship.
"But as soon as my tip split the night before I knew then that my chances were gone. It was almost impossible. It didn't matter who I played.
"He played good but in the first session, I feel, if I had my normal tip I would have been in front."
Ding still had to take his opportunities and he did so in devastating style.
Williams was so accustomed to sitting in his chair during a one-sided start to the evening session, that Ding had to remind his opponent to get up and go in for a break.
The Welshman then joked that he had Ding "rattled" and his "head had gone" when he tweeted during the interlude.
Ding, who last reached the semi-finals in 2011, has dropped down to 17 in the world and had to qualify for this year's tournament.
But the 29-year-old looked to be reaping the reward of so much time in play during a one-sided morning session where he was sharp and fluent in taking six from seven frames after Williams won the opener.
And he sealed victory with little fuss, grabbing his 11th score of more than 50 on his way.
"I got some easy chances in the match because Mark had a lot of bad kicks," Ding said. "And every player has a big problem if they have a new tip.
"I controlled the game, took my chances and made some good breaks. I was confident. Every time I saw a chance I thought I could go for it and pot it."
In the evening's other match, world number one Mark Selby maintained his four-frame advantage over gutsy qualifier Kyren Wilson to lead 10-6 with a session to play.
Wilson, who beat top-10 seeds Joe Perry and Mark Allen to reach the last eight, had chances in the first three frames but lost them all as the 2014 champion Selby built a 6-0 lead.
The Kettering man responded by taking the next two and then won a scrappy ninth frame of a disjointed match to get to within three.
But Selby's famed matchplay saw him keep his rival at bay and he won a tense final frame to avoid his lead being reduced to two frames.
Wilson and Selby return to finish their match on Wednesday morning. | Ding Junhui thrashed Mark Williams 13-3 inside two sessions to become the first man into this year's World Championship semi-finals. | 36146668 | [
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Syrian state media says toxic gas was contained in shells that rebels have been firing at government-held areas in the divided city.
Russian news agency Interfax says seven people died and more than 20 were hospitalised after Tuesday's attack.
There has been no independent confirmation of the claim.
It comes after reports from a rebel-held town in Idlib province that chlorine gas was dropped on it late on Monday after a Russian military helicopter had earlier been shot down nearby.
A battle has continued since the weekend in Aleppo, as rebels attempt to break a government siege of a rebel-controlled area.
It is expected to be decisive for the future of a city that was once a commercial heartland but has been destroyed by five years of war.
About a quarter of a million civilians are living under siege since government forces cut them off last month.
The latest reports from the area are that the government, backed by Russian jets, has regained some ground. It is not clear exactly which territory has returned to government control but a reporter for a Beirut-based TV station said the army had regained control of two out of three villages that it lost near Aleppo earlier this week.
Russian and Syrian forces say they have been operating seven so-called humanitarian corridors, allowing hundreds of people to leave the besieged area peacefully.
On Wednesday, Russian state television ran pictures of civilians and fighters leaving. Smoke was seen billowing over the city in the footage, and gunshots were heard.
The UN's Children's Fund (Unicef) said it is "extremely" concerned for the safety of children caught up in violence in the city.
Saad Houry, of the fund, said children make up a third of the population trapped in the siege, and called for unhindered humanitarian access and for children to be protected.
The New York-based Physicians for Human Rights group said the last week of July was the worst week for attacks on medical facilities in the region since the Syrian war began in 2011. In a statement, the group said it has verified six deadly air strikes against hospitals in Aleppo governorate, all perpetrated by Syrian government forces.
Widney Brown of Physicians for Human Rights said: "Destroying hospitals is tantamount to signing thousands of death warrants for people now stranded in eastern Aleppo." | The Russian military says it has informed the US that it believes rebels in the Syrian city of Aleppo have deployed "toxic substances". | 36970220 | [
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The 23-year-old, who spent three years at the Spireites, has penned a two-and-a-half-year deal.
The former Ivory Coast Under-20 international made 82 league appearances for Chesterfield, scoring 10 times for the League One side.
Meanwhile, first-team coach Kevin Nugent has left the O's after the arrival of Kevin Nolan as player-boss.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Leyton Orient have signed striker Armand Gnanduillet from Chesterfield for an undisclosed fee. | 35387945 | [
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The vote in the St Louis suburb is the first since the death of Michael Brown last August led to protests.
A federal investigation found racial bias in the Ferguson police department was widespread.
Two-thirds of Ferguson's residents are black and now half the council.
Shortly after the results came out, a video emerged showing an unarmed black man being shot dead by a police officer in South Carolina.
State investigators said the officer, Michael Slager, would be charged with murder after the video showed him firing at Walter Lamer Scott who was running away.
Turnout in Ferguson increased from 12% at the last elections, in 2013, to 29%.
Wesley Bell, who defeated another black candidate in Ferguson's third ward, said: "This community came out in record numbers to make sure our voices were heard.
"When you have a community engaged, the sky is the limit."
A drive by activists to register new voters and encourage previously disenfranchised residents to vote appeared to have paid off.
"People in general want to see change," Ferguson Mayor James Knowles told the Reuters news agency.
Ella Jones defeated another black candidate and two white candidates in Ferguson's first ward to become the first black woman on the council.
Black residents in Ferguson protested for several days last August after Mr Brown was shot dead by St Louis police officer Darren Wilson.
The protests spread nationwide in November when it was announced that Mr Wilson, who has since left the police, would not be charged.
US police have faced severe criticism from rights groups in the wake of Mr Brown's death, with a series of high-profile deaths of unarmed black men in police custody. | Voters in Ferguson, Missouri, where last year an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by police, have tripled the number of African-Americans on the six-member council from one to three. | 32214200 | [
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The "learning from mistakes league" rates 120 trusts outstanding or good, 78 with "significant concerns" and 32 with a "poor reporting culture".
Other measures include legal protection for staff who admit mistakes, and new medical examiners to review deaths.
A patient safety charity welcomed the moves but said it remained "concerned".
The first annual "learning from mistakes league" uses feedback from staff on their freedom to speak when things go wrong.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is hosting a "global patient safety summit" in London on Wednesday and Thursday, said the changes were a step towards a "new era of openness".
He said health services must "unshackle ourselves from a quick-fix blame culture and acknowledge that sometimes bad mistakes can be made by good people".
The changes announced by Mr Hunt include:
Peter Walsh, chief executive of patient safety charity Action Against Medical Accidents, welcomed the initiatives but said he remained concerned about the "woeful inconsistency and often inadequate quality of NHS investigations into serious incidents".
He said there was "nothing" in Mr Hunt's announcement to reassure his organisation that urgent action would be taken to address the quality of local investigations.
James Titcombe, whose son Joshua died after failings in care, said the measures were "major steps that will help move the NHS towards the kind of true learning culture that other high-risk industries take for granted".
Labour's shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander said her party supported "any measures that will improve safety", but she added: "On Jeremy Hunt's watch, hospitals are overcrowded, understaffed and facing financial crisis." | Health trusts in England have been ranked by their ability to learn from mistakes, as part of several changes designed to improve patient safety. | 35761011 | [
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The 33-year-old former Scotland Under-21 cap, who arrived from Yeovil Town in 2012, has signed until May 2017, with a further one-year option.
MacLean has scored 11 goals in 23 games for the Premiership outfit this season.
He started out with Ranges and also spells with Scunthorpe United, Sheffield Wednesday, Cardiff City, Plymouth Argyle, Aberdeen, Oxford United and Cheltenham Town.
Meanwhile, St Johnstone have sent two youth players on loan for the rest of the season, with defender Neil Martyniuk joining Montrose in League Two and striker Greg Kerr spending time with Whitehill Welfare in the Lowland League. | St Johnstone have secured striker Steven MacLean on a contract extension. | 35436910 | [
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The new boathouse, which will replace the existing building on Foreshore Road, will be home to a new £2m Shannon class lifeboat.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) said building work would begin in autumn and take a year to finish.
Plans were approved by Scarborough Borough Council's planning and development committee.
RNLI divisional operations manager Andrew Ashton said: "We're delighted that the plans have been approved today and this heralds an exciting new era in Scarborough RNLI's rich and long lifesaving history."
The lifeboat station will be funded from various RNLI sources including legacies, donations and fundraising activities.
The Shannon class lifeboat will replace Scarborough's current Mersey class lifeboat in 2016.
John Senior, Scarborough RNLI lifeboat operations manager, said: "While it will be a shame to say a fond farewell to our existing facilities, which have served us admirably over the decades, it's time to look to the future."
Plans for the lifeboat station were approved despite a number of objections from local residents who claimed the building would not "blend in with existing buildings", with one branding it a "monstrosity". | Plans for a new £3m lifeboat station in Scarborough have been approved by the town's council. | 27818549 | [
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Perry Beeches III is one of a chain of six free schools. Mr Cameron described the schools as "a real success story".
But the Ofsted report said too many students were underachieving and described teaching as "inadequate".
Perry Beeches chief executive Liam Nolan said he "fundamentally disagreed" with the inspectors.
The school's headteacher, Darren Foreman, its senior leadership team and chair of governors have resigned, Mr Nolan said.
Mr Nolan has taken on the role of interim head teacher, together with Jackie Powell.
The report said: "Teaching is inadequate. Too much is dull and fails to engage students who became bored and start to fidget."
It also accused the school's leadership of having an, "unrealistic and inaccurate" view of the school and added students' behaviour required improvement.
Mr Nolan said: "This judgement makes me question Ofsted's credibility."
However he said he intended to work with Ofsted to make the school outstanding.
He described the report as an, "unfortunate blip".
He said: "Within six months you will see us back on the top."
The Perry Beeches schools are funded by central government but not run by local authorities.
Two of the other schools in the chain have been rated "outstanding" by Ofsted.
Perry Beeches III was opened by the Prime Minister in September 2013.
At the time, he said the majority of free schools were, "a real success story we should build on as a country".
A Department for Education spokesman said: "Liam Nolan and the Perry Beeches free schools are transforming the life chances of children in Birmingham, in some of the most deprived communities of the country.
"The performance of Perry Beeches I and II has set the bar for schools across the rest of the country.
"Swift action has already been taken to change the leadership of Perry Beeches III and to turn around the performance of the school." | A £7m Birmingham free school opened by Prime Minister David Cameron is to go into special measures following a highly critical Ofsted report. | 33450881 | [
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Michelle O'Neill hosted a departmental breakfast at the Balmoral Show on Thursday morning.
In attendance was the Chinese consul general Madam Wang Shuying.
Chinese inspectors visited Northern Ireland pork plants in April as part of a process to approve local pork for export.
Ms O'Neill said she was also hoping to agree access to Chinese markets for beef and chicken.
US consul general Greg Burton was also at the event.
Northern Ireland is hoping to sell beef into the United States.
Ms O'Neill said she was also working with Irish agriculture minister Simon Coveney to resolve labelling issues that have hit Northern Ireland lamb sales to meat plants in the Republic of Ireland.
She told guests that the quality of Northern Ireland food was "something that carries our reputation around the world."
She said it was "safe, traceable and sustainably produced" and she would seek to use that reputation to open doors.
It is the second day of the Balmoral Show, the biggest showcase for Northern Ireland's farming and food industries. | The agriculture minister is to return to China next month as attempts to access markets there continue. | 32736400 | [
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The 21-year-old has yet to make a first-team appearance for the Eagles, but has had six separate loan spells.
In total, he has made 32 league appearances for clubs including Port Vale, Yeovil and Gillingham.
The centre-back has also appeared for England at Under-21 level and joins a club which has won just one of their opening five League One games.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League One side Southend United have signed defender Ryan Inniss on a season-long loan from Crystal Palace. | 37238733 | [
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The Conservatives have been given a huge confidence boost and will feel in a position to challenge in more constituencies next year, rather than just on the list.
At the party's weekly press briefing, I asked the Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies, who was elected on the list, whether he'd stand as a constituency candidate in his home turf of the Vale of Glamorgan but he said he hadn't thought about it.
Presumably those are the kind of decisions they will now feel more confident contemplating.
The party will also have a huge amount of new data on voters which it'll be able to call upon and the belief that campaigning hard on the NHS helped the Tories cross the line in places like the Vale of Clwyd and Gower.
The Conservatives feel it's them, rather than any of the other opposition parties, who have become the repository of votes from those who are disaffected by the state of the NHS.
Welsh Labour are going to hold a "short sharp" analysis into what went wrong.
Carwyn Jones was in line with most of the criticism of Ed Miliband when he told AMs that the party needed to appeal to small business owners who are not millionaires but who work hard.
What will be more difficult is countering the argument on the NHS, which the former minister Alun Davies believes is already lost.
Another potential difficulty for Welsh Labour will be dealing with unhappiness within the party over council re-organisation.
Bernie Attridge, the deputy leader of Flintshire Council, has tweeted saying the party needs to be careful on local government reform if it wants to retain the support of grassroots councillors.
It also seems to have been the case that Labour lost more votes to UKIP than the Conservatives, which is another challenge to overcome.
But Labour will at least have the advantage that it will be David Cameron, and not Ed Miliband, carrying out the latest round of public sector cuts that are likely to take effect sooner rather than later.
The question is whether Carwyn Jones is going to be able to turn that to his advantage when his own record in government will be under scrutiny.
Plaid Cymru's education spokesman, Simon Thomas, also in the party's weekly press briefing, said he believed Leanne Wood could portray herself as an alternative first minister because of the way she emotionally connected with people in the campaign.
The party now has a year to make that a credible proposition after it failed to gain any new seats and came fourth, behind UKIP, in the overall share of the vote, despite her unprecedented profile.
He also said that on the campaign trail people wanted to know what Plaid was going to do about the NHS and that people "did not see the strengths" of its arguments.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats are still licking their wounds but in a "je ne regrette rien" moment, the leader Kirsty Williams said she had no regrets over the coalition.
She has admitted the party failed to communicate what they were standing for. It will now hold a series of meetings across Wales as it tries to rally members for an election that it'll be able to fight unshackled of being in coalition government which was clearly a burden to many of them. | Another election is probably the last thing the public want to hear about after what we've just gone through but that's exactly what the parties at the assembly are gearing up for next year. | 32713124 | [
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Highways England say the £6m layout changes on the Posthouse roundabout proved more difficult than anticipated.
Work began last summer and was expected to finish by March but it has now been pushed back to 28 June.
Wrexham MP Ian Lucas said the route was vital to the region's economy.
"Deadlines were set, missed, then extended, not once but again and again - and the level of information given to motorists has been very poor indeed," he said.
New Chester MP Chris Matheson added: "The chaos these works have caused has been a real issue for Chester for months."
A Highways England spokesperson said: "We are doing everything we can to complete the A55/A483 scheme as quickly as possible.
"We have rescheduled the street lighting installation work to take place overnight in July, so that we are able to fully open the roundabout and start operating the traffic lights from Monday 29 June." | MPs are demanding highways officials explain why roadworks on the A55 and A483 on the Chester-Wrexham border have over-run, causing months of frustration and long hold-ups for motorists. | 32752492 | [
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John Morley, 29, of Deanstown, Finglas West, is alleged to have carried out a sustained weekend attack at the Chimney Corner Hotel in Mallusk.
The victim, Derek White, was said to have been stabbed in the chest and leg.
Mr Morley, is charged with the attempted wounding of Mr White and possession of an offensive weapon with intent to commit an offence.
He is further accused of disorderly behaviour and possession of Class B drugs, namely cannabis.
He will not be released from custody until all conditions are met - including the lodgement of a £2,000 cash surety.
Police detained him after being called to the hotel just outside north Belfast in the early hours of Sunday.
Paramedics were already on the scene treating Mr White, who is believed to be aged in his 30s.
At the defendant's first appearance before Belfast Magistrates' Court it was alleged that he chased the victim through the hotel with a flick knife.
A police officer revealed the two men had travelled to Northern Ireland with their children for a football match. | A Dublin man accused of stabbing his friend in a County Antrim hotel has been granted bail. | 32136921 | [
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It comes after a bidder to run University Hospital of Hartlepool's fertility services was rejected, despite already running services there.
Hartlepool Borough's council asked the area's clinical commissioning group (CCG) to explore with the bidder how it could reach the required standard.
But, the CCG said it could not lawfully treat one bidder differently.
Care Fertility, which operates 15 clinics across Britain and supports fertility services in Hartlepool, said in January it was "disappointed not to be awarded the contract".
The council's audit and governance committee asked the CCG to discuss with the firm how it could reduce risks highlighted in its rejected tender.
The CCG said this was not "reasonably practicable".
"It is simply not the role of the CCG to guide bidders to make successful tenders," it said.
It would be an "unusual and unwelcome" precedent for the CCG to advise bidders and would lead to accusations of unfairness if it did not do the same for all other bidders in the future, it said.
It also said re-tendering would take too long, could increase clinical risk and prolong the gap in the delivery of the service and there was "no guarantee that the outcome would be any different".
Last year, the council was granted a High Court injunction to stop the unit's closure, after which it was announced an alternative provider would be sought to run fertility services, including IVF.
The CCG had said it could not recruit enough staff to keep the unit going. | Health managers planning to close a hospital fertility unit have refused to put the service back out to tender. | 39378077 | [
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Two-year-old Lane Thomas Graves had been playing in the sand near the resort's Seven Seas Lagoon when he was dragged underwater by the creature.
His parents and older sister had been visiting the Grand Floridian resort in June 2016 from the state of Nebraska.
The lighthouse has been installed near to where the attack occurred.
Wildlife officials classified the killing as a predatory attack, saying the boy did nothing to provoke the alligator.
"He was in the water not more than ankle deep," the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a report, describing how the boy had been gathering water for a sandcastle.
His father, Matt Graves, jumped in the water to try to pry open the creature's mouth, but "the alligator thrashed and broke Matt's grasp and went under the water," according to the report.
A Disney spokesperson said they hoped the monument would spread awareness for the Lane Thomas Foundation, which also uses the lighthouse as its logo.
Who is liable for alligator boy's death?
"The lighthouse sculpture has been installed to help spread awareness of the Lane Thomas Foundation, which was established to provide assistance and support to families whose children need organ transplants," Walt Disney World said in a statement.
After the death, Disney was criticised for not having posted signs warning of the danger along the man-made lagoon, which borders Magic Kingdom.
Public notices have now been added to the area, Florida media report.
The Lane family announced a month after the boy's death that they would not sue Disney, and would instead "solely be focused on the future health of our family". | Walt Disney World has unveiled a lighthouse memorial for a young boy who was killed by an alligator while on holiday at the Florida theme park. | 40855910 | [
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According to three separate analyses, a flood of automated comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was detected over the weekend.
More than 400,000 comments with remarkably similar wording have been detected in recent days.
Net neutrality proponents argue that all internet traffic should be equal.
This means that no content provider should be able to, for example, charge more for faster access to certain data.
One expert described bot activity as a new form of protest.
"Someone has gone out of their way to make these seem like real submissions," wrote Chris Sinchok in a blog post about the apparently automated activity.
Having downloaded the comments and associated data, Mr Sinchok noticed that the names and email addresses associated with thousands of them also turned up in lists of personal data stolen from websites.
He told the BBC that this suggested someone might be using information collected from breached databases to make the submissions look more authentic.
"It really seems like this is getting pooled from some place in an automated fashion and it's coming in at unreasonable rates," he said.
He added that the uniformity of the data was also a possible giveaway.
For example, many comments are essentially identical save for the occasional, small difference - such as the exact same sentence appearing in multiple comments, but with different letters capitalised each time.
And the rate at which comments were posted also seemed suspicious, starting and stopping in bursts, he added.
Other watchers, including a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and another at Harvard University, have also tracked a boom in apparently automated activity directed at the site in recent days.
Earlier this month, the FCC said it had been targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that led to downtime for the comments system.
This followed a television appearance by comedian John Oliver in which he urged people to post comments against the proposals on the FCC's website.
"Net neutrality is such a hot-button issue and it's one of the few examples of online activism that's actually amounted to something," noted Prof Phil Howard at the Oxford Internet Institute.
He cited the 2014 online protests, after which President Obama stepped in to recommend that the FCC drop earlier proposals to curtail net neutrality.
"This is how people protest these days," said Prof Howard, referring to the apparently automated comments.
He also pointed out that a growing number of people had the necessary programming skills to do it.
However, Mr Sinchok is concerned that the bot activity will create the impression that genuine opposition to the FCC's current proposals does not really exist.
"There are people that care about this issue a lot," he told the BBC.
"Activity like this is really muddying the waters - and I don't want it to give [the FCC] an excuse to say, 'Hey, there's mixed support for this.'"
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Schools are asked to create a dedicated page on their school website and send the web address (or URL) to schoolreport@bbc.co.uk and we will link to it from the map of participating schools.
You can use the official School Report graphics, which can be found at the foot of this page.
Then, on School Report News Day on 16 March 2017, schools can upload their reports to their websites.
Here are some frequently asked questions and answers about setting up web pages.
If you're not technically minded, don't worry! The best thing to do is to speak early on to your school's IT department or the people who look after the school website.
You need to create a dedicated School Report web page on the school website so that people can find the students' work. It has to be accessible to the public, so don't use internal websites (or intranets) or pages that need a password.
Until your pupils' reports are ready, the page should contain a "holding" or "come back later" message. You can copy and paste this:
Students from this school will be making the news for real on 16 March 2017 as they take part in BBC News School Report. We aim to publish the news by 1600 GMT on News Day, so please save this page as a favourite and return to it later.
Have a click through to examples from our School Report map if you want an idea of how other schools have gone about it.
Once the page is live, email the web address (URL) to the School Report team via schoolreport@bbc.co.uk so we can link to your webpage.
As soon as possible! It saves a lot of hassle in the busy run-up to News Day when you and the School Reporters would probably rather be focusing on getting great interviews than sorting out technical issues.
As soon as your page is ready, the School Report team can link to your website from the map of participating schools. - as long as both pieces of School Report paperwork have been returned!
Once live, some schools use the page to reflect what's happening in the build-up to the News Day, for example adding team photos and encouraging pupils to post news reporting ideas.
No. It is important to create a dedicated web page, so the BBC can link directly to the students' journalistic work. The fewer the clicks, the more likely you are to retain the audience.
Also, after the News Day, the homepage of a school website will inevitably change, but creating a dedicated page means there is a permanent record of their work.
Yes. If your school has participated in School Report in previous years, you can use the existing web page, but remember to label it clearly.
Remember, you risk losing people's attention if they think your web page is out of date. A simple message at the top of the page can be helpful, such as the example mentioned above.
If you can't publish School Report content on your school website, all is not lost!
You could look at hosting stories on another website that you consider appropriate and that is in line with your school's policy. See if your local council or academy sponsor could help host your content.
Some schools have used websites such as Makewaves, a website designed to host video and audio material for educational purposes.
You could create a web page using a number of different programmes, with many people using software such as Microsoft Expression or Adobe Dreamweaver.
If you do use a site other than your school site, check the terms and conditions to make sure it is suitable for 11 to 16-year-olds and that there are no advertisements on the site.
The golden rule is to use first names only. For child protection reasons, the BBC cannot link to a page which contains the surnames of anyone younger than 18. This also applies to blog entries and comments posted on the page.
Refer to the School Report guidelines on staying safe and legal which highlight some of the issues anyone should consider when publishing content which features children. This page also offers guidance about media law issues such as copyright, libel and contempt of court as well as editorial issues such as taste and decency.
Be aware that the BBC website is very popular. By virtue of a link from the BBC, students will have a large audience but people will also be able to access other pages on the school website.
At the bottom of this page, there are some School Report graphics you can use on your dedicated web page. However, they can only be used by schools who have completed their paperwork, and within the context of the project.
It is also a good idea to incorporate the design of your school website to create a uniform look.
It is best to avoid a design which relies on large pictures as it will make pages slow to download and could put off potential viewers. However, you might like to add photographs of students taking part in School Report or the school logo.
Our agreement with the head teacher of every school taking part explicitly states that the school, not the BBC, is responsible for the school website. Teachers need to decide on the most suitable way of hosting content according to their school's social media, internet safety and child protection policies.
For this reason, we are happy to link to school websites which use YouTube (or similar video-sharing websites) to embed content, provided the school website complies with our guidelines in all other ways. We will not, however, link directly to YouTube.
Some schools have used websites such as Makewaves, a website designed to host video and audio material for educational purposes.
Providing the school website complies with our guidelines in all other ways, we are happy to link to school websites containing links to social media.
Generally though, we do not recommend including links to social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter from your school website, as they are designed to be used by children aged 13 or over. There is a risk of students experiencing cyberbullying via such sites.
If your school website contains an automated Twitter feed, you may want to look into deactivating it or at least monitoring it during the busy time around News Day.
A dedicated page means the audience can find students' work easily and quickly. It also provides a permanent archive of students' reports and makes it clear that the reports are new and not from previous years. The page can also help avoid any potential child protection issues.
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However, the 2018 event, set to showcase art, design and innovation, will not be the first in the region.
In 1929, the North East Coast Exhibition was opened by the Prince of Wales in Newcastle amid great fanfare.
So, will organisers take inspiration from the grand event, which attracted four million visitors?
Responding to the Newcastle and Gateshead announcement, the North East Chamber of Commerce said: "The Great Exhibition looks set to be the launch pad of real growth in our regional economy."
The Prince of Wales - later King Edward VIII - opened the 1929 event and said: "The industries of the North are not yet knocked out of the ring.
"They are fighting back gallantly with a good Northern punch."
And the "northern punch" included cutting-edge technology, such as a cow milking machine, a telescope brought down from Edinburgh University, and the local newspaper using a newly-designed electric sign to flash out the latest news items.
Industry and consumer items were represented, some of them household names that remain, such as Hoover vacuum cleaners, Singer sewing machines, and Pyrex glass ovenware.
Andrews Liver Salts showed off its brand with a 15ft "fountain of health".
For entertainment there was an amusement park, a Himalayan Railway, and an African village.
More than four million people passed through the turnstiles between May and October that year, including King Alfonso of Spain and the Sultan of Zanzibar. Each millionth visitor was presented with a gold watch.
When the exhibition ended, the pavilions were dismantled and the area reverted to a public park.
Unfortunately, that "northern punch" would fall victim to the economic depression a few years later, in the 1930s. | One of the reasons the Great Exhibition of the North was awarded to Newcastle and Gateshead was because of the "ambition" of organisers. | 37619510 | [
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Adam Ashe, Stuart Hogg and Henry Pyrgos have all committed to Warriors until 2019.
However, fellow Scotland internationals Mark Bennett, Alex Dunbar, Tommy Seymour and Josh Strauss are out of contract this summer.
"It's really important," said Blair of the need to arrange new deals.
"It's difficult with the rugby contracts, you don't often get contracts longer than two years so it seems that every year there's half the squad who are pretty much out of contract. We'll be working hard to keep the guys here.
"There's a lot of money being thrown around in England and France but the product that Glasgow can give - the coaching team, the crowd that we've got, the fact that we beat Racing home and away, we're playing against the best teams in Europe and doing well - hopefully that's a big pull for the guys as well."
Dave Rennie will replace Gregor Townsend as Glasgow head coach this summer when the latter becomes Scotland head coach.
"Dave Rennie's going to have a say in what's happening here," said former Scotland and Edinburgh scrum-half Blair.
"He's watched a lot of the games from the last two or three seasons to get a handle on what players we've got here and what he likes and what he could potentially bring in."
American lock Greg Peterson, like Ashe, Hogg and Pyrgos, has signed a new deal at Scotstoun and is nearing a return to the first team following long-term injury, along with Tjiuee Uanivi, Scott Cummings and Richie Vernon.
"We're expecting to see them back in the next two or three weeks," explained Blair.
"They're taking part in all the non-contact stuff so they're progressing well.
"Pete Horne's showing good progress. He's another couple of weeks before he can step up and we'll see how he reacts to that.
"It's good timing for us. We've got some good quality players coming back. They'll be in a good place when they come back in.
"We've got some big games coming up and some big games during the Six Nations as well once the guys are away on [Scotland duty]."
Glasgow host Cardiff Blues in the Pro12 on Saturday with the Warriors, who are fifth, nine points ahead of the Welsh province.
European Champions Cup encounters with Munster and Leicester Tigers follow, with Townsend's men currently top of Pool 1.
"We're really pleased with how things have gone recently," said Blair. "We've done well to be where we are, despite having the home losses [earlier this season].
"We're in a reasonable position. We're in a better position than we were this time last year."
Meanwhile, Glasgow say Ryan Grant remains their player after Brive announced he was joining the French Top 14 side on loan.
And Blair said: "Ryan's said that's not the situation at the moment. He's training with us today, training well." | Glasgow Warriors assistant coach Mike Blair believes it is vital the Pro12 club sign up more of their squad on new contracts. | 38513663 | [
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The official data prompted the government to upgrade growth forecasts for the second time in a week and to promise no new austerity measures.
Last week, growth for 2014 was up-rated to 3% from 2.1%, but will now be around 4.5%, Ireland's finance minister said.
Michael Noonan said the economy was in "a catch-up phase... after recession".
The year-on-year growth of 7.7% was the strongest recorded in Ireland since the early 2000s, Mr Noonan told reporters. By comparison, the eurozone recorded growth of just 0.7% over the same period.
Along with Greece, Spain and Portugal, Ireland was among the eurozone's worst hit economies, with the bursting of its property bubble and soaring unemployment.
The 1.5% quarterly rise beat the 0.5% expected by economists polled in a survey by the Reuters news agency.
Mr Noonan said the faster growth would mean Ireland's budget deficit falling to about 3.5% of GDP this year against a target of 4.8%. That meant 2bn euros of tax rises and spending cuts planned for next year would no longer be needed to reach the EU limit of 3% by the end of 2015, he said.
The economic improvement comes after years of austerity, a bailout from international lenders, and relentless austerity measures.
"At face value, the numbers suggest that the boom is back," said Austin Hughes, chief economist at KBC Bank Ireland.
"It shows a clearly improving economy. It's very encouraging to see the improvement in consumption, in construction. So a domestic recovery is taking hold, if a lot less intense that the headline number would suggest," he said. | The Republic of Ireland's economy grew 1.5% in the second quarter of the year, figures show, and was up 7.7% on the April-to-June period in 2013. | 29252950 | [
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But the message may take some time to reach India.
The country had a lone shining moment with Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda's silver medal in Men's High Jump F42 class for athletes with an impairment that affects their arms or legs.
And deservedly the nation cherished Girisha's feat as medals have generally eluded India's Paralympians. But now questions are being raised at the country's ability to translate the congratulatory tone into awareness of disabled rights.
India is not known for being friendly towards the disabled and most public places still lack basic facilities to help them in everyday life.　
'Second-class' citizens
Even before Girisha won his medal, Indian media was abuzz with stories about problems at the Athletes' Village.
Several athletes complained that the Paralympics Committee of India had failed to book accommodation for escorts and coaches at the facility. This made the lives of the athletes very tough as they were denied precious time with their coaches.
Taking to CNN-IBN, weightlifter Farman Basha said his preparation was severely affected because he could not move freely in the village without his escort. "I was confident of a medal and now all my training has gone in vain," he said.
The channel's editor, Rajdeep Sardesai, ran a special show to discuss whether India treats its Paralympians as second-class citizens. Many other channels and newspapers followed suit.
It's an irony that the controversy received more coverage than the Games themselves.
India may have won just one medal, but the Games were full of inspiring stories. The media seems to have clearly missed a chance to tell these stories to Indians in detail.　
Speaking on the CNN-IBN show, Olympic silver medallist Rajyawardhan Singh Rathod said he was not surprised with the treatment of India's Paralympians.
He said much needs to be changed to give equal rights to Paralympians and millions of disabled people in India.
"It's an over-all attitude shift that we need to bring about in our country," he said.
There is another thread to the story that the India media seems to have missed. The Indian contingent at the Paralympics did not have a single female athlete.
While officials say this boils down to qualification woes, the problem runs much deeper.
Most schools and colleges lack basic sporting facilities for the disabled and the ones which do rarely encourage disabled women to participate.　
While stories about the controversy continue to make headlines, nobody can take anything away from Girisha. The athlete certainly fought against the odds to make sure India did not return home from London empty handed.
He hails from the south Indian state of Karnataka and belongs to an average middle class family. But his determination to win a medal set him apart from others.
His training in Bangalore took place away from the glare of the media and fan recognition. With support from an NGO and government, Girisha quit his bank job six months ago to concentrate on training.
Today the result is there for everyone to see. And he hopes that his achievement will transcend the boundaries of sporting achievement and change the attitude of people towards disabled in India.
BBC Monitoringreports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here | Record-breaking performances and packed venues made the London Paralympics the most successful ever and many say it has changed the way people look at disability. | 19541955 | [
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Surman, 28, arrives back at Dean Court having previously spent two spells on loan at the Championship club.
He spent last season with Bournemouth, making 39 appearances, and was also at the Cherries during the 2005-06 season.
The former England Under-21 international started his career at Southampton before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2009.
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A total of 1,400 tickets have sold out for the opening weekend at Bramall Hall in Stockport, Greater Manchester after renovation work began in 2014.
Stained glass windows and ceilings have been restored, while the public will be able to visit the dining room and butler's pantry for the first time.
Councillor Kate Butler, from Stockport Council, called it the "jewel in the crown" of the town's heritage.
The manor dates back to the reign of William the Conqueror when he bestowed the lands upon one of his followers, Hamon de Masci, who became the first Baron of Dunham Massey.
Since then the estate has been under the ownership of just three families: the Davenports, De Bromales and Nevills.
In 1936, the timber-framed hall and its surrounding parkland was handed over to the local council.
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When Google paid $3.2bn (£2.1bn) to buy Tony Fadell's start-up Nest in 2014, it got much more than just an internet-connected thermostat and smoke detector.
It got the man dubbed the "the iPod's father" - the engineer/designer who sold Steve Jobs on his vision of a portable music player, and then worked alongside Jony Ive to build it, update it and then repeat the process with the iPhone.
Now, the two men are set to go head-to-head. First with wearable tech, and then later, perhaps, with competing car designs - more of which later.
Tellingly, Mr Fadell reveals he recently started testing Sir Jonathan's latest product, the Apple Watch, although he was not wearing it at the time of interview.
"I've had mine for about two weeks now," he says.
"I think they did a tremendous job on the hardware components of it.
"They are trying many different things with that platform - some are going to be great, and some are not."
When Mr Fadell agreed to sell Nest to Google, the reason he gave was that joining forces would accelerate his "thoughtful home" master plan - he hates the term "internet of things", which he says does a "disservice" to his products.
But in January, it became clear that Google's chief executive, Larry Page, had wider uses for his hardware expertise, and the troubled Glass computer was added to his duties.
"It wasn't handed to me and said, 'Tony clean it up,'" Mr Fadell clarifies, "I offered."
"I remember what it was like when we did the iPod and the iPhone. I think this can be that important, but it's going to take time to get it right."
The $1,500 (£965) "explorer edition" of Glass was soon pulled from sale, and Mr Fadell made clear that future test versions would be kept in-house.
That was widely seen as a shift in strategy for Google - a company that took five years to take its Gmail service out of "beta" status, and that still invites users to "play" with preview versions of other products.
Moreover, it caused anger among developers who had sunk time and money into making apps for a product that no longer existed.
But Mr Fadell defends the shift, saying a distinction needed to be drawn between hardware and software.
"If you are only doing services based on electrons, you can iterate quickly, test it, and modify it and get it right," he says.
"But when you are dealing with actual atoms - hardware - and you have to get manufacturing lines and it takes a year or more to develop that product, you better understand what it is and what it's trying to do and specifically what it's not going to do.
"Customers have to spend money to buy those atoms.
"They want something that delivers value or you end up with a real disappointment and you can spoil the market."
For now, that leaves Mr Fadell's reputation dependent on his Nest line-up.
It is limited to three products, including the recently launched Nest Cam.
The motion-detecting camera streams live footage and sound from the owner's home to an app and can save memorable moments in the cloud.
If you get over the creepiness factor of effectively spying on your family, it's fair to say the device shares the crisp, stylish look of the Nest's other products, and reviews have been positive.
But the camera is actually an upgrade to an earlier device made by Dropcam - a company Nest acquired.
That means Mr Fadell's division has not created a new product category of its own since joining Google.
Bearing in mind, Mr Page told him to "keep doing what you're doing, and do it as fast as you possibly can", it raises the question: what's taking so long?
"Talk to me about the number of home product companies who have come out with three different product categories in less than five years... are shipping and they are the number ones in their category," says Mr Fadell, slightly bristling.
"I would love to have more, faster.
"But it takes time - it really takes time to make these products to the level of design and near-perfection that we achieve."
He adds that Nest's biggest goal right now is to expand the range of third-party products its devices talk to - for example its Thermostats can switch LG fridges into energy-saving mode when no-one's in, and its Protect sensors can make Philip's Hue lights flash red if they detect smoke or carbon monoxide.
But such advances have less impact than a new product.
"Despite his substantial success to date and involvement in key products such as Apple iPod, Mr Fadell has arguably not yet reached the truly iconic status bestowed upon Jonathan Ive," Ben Wood, from the tech consultancy CCS Insight, says.
"Given the huge amount Google invested in the acquisition of Nest to secure his services there must be an expectation that he too can deliver his own portfolio of truly disruptive devices with mass appeal.
"Google still lacks a smash-hit consumer electronics device of its own - it would be sensible to assume it hopes Mr Fadell can deliver that missing element."
The two men worked together on first iPods and iPhones, but are credited with different achievements.
With the iPod, Mr Fadell first convinced Steve Jobs of the wisdom of developing a portable music player and then worked out how to incorporate a hard drive - a fragile component - into a device that could be thrown about, sat on and generally abused.
Jony Ive's breakthrough was his design of its thumb-wheel, which scrolled through songs more rapidly as it was spun more quickly.
With the iPhone, perhaps Mr Fadell's greatest feat was finding a way to shrink the tech necessary to offer a multi-touch user interface on a handheld device.
Jony Ive's skill was best summed up by one writer as making the final product look almost more like "a piece of jewellery than a gadget".
In post-Jobs Apple, Sir Jonathan's influence has grown further - extending to the look of the company's operating system software, the creation of its Watch and even the design of its new headquarters.
By contrast, Mr Fadell has thrived beyond - building and selling a multi-billion dollar company, reinventing mundane household devices as desirable gadgets, and becoming one of Google's key figures.
This leads to thoughts about whether Mr Fadell could become involved in other Google projects.
A question about working on its growing roster of robots is rebuffed on the grounds that they are still a long way from leaving the lab.
But self-driving cars, he adds, are much closer to launch and a "big curiosity".
"I don't think you've seen anything of what the design of the car could look like when it first materialises," he says.
"How do you make those occupants feel like they are safe and make sure they are safe?
"How does the car exude safety [and be] fashionable as well?
"How does this 'utility' self-driving car also be a reflection of you, right, as well as itself and also be transparent about its safety?
"Those are very interesting questions that still need to be dealt with."
He adds that he has "some thoughts" about the answers and is sharing them with others involved in Google's self-driving car project.
"We are having discussion about them all the time," he says.
"I always have ideas - it's whether or not people want to hear them."
So, nothing official yet.
But it would not be a surprise if Google eventually announces Mr Fadell is adding automobile design to his list of duties.
And if, as rumoured, Sir Jonathan and his team are also working on their own electric car concept, that could set up a fascinating clash between the two former colleagues in the future. | Is Tony Fadell destined to eclipse his former Apple workmate Sir Jonathan Ive? | 33551340 | [
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The UK stage of the race comes to the city on 7 July.
Cycling enthusiast Rad Wagon is recruiting people to knit 3,000 miniature "Tour jerseys" and wool-covered bicycle wheels.
Schools and knitting groups have already offered to start knitting and the council was "interested", he said.
A similar "mini-jersey" idea is being promoted by Harrogate Borough Council for the Yorkshire stage of the race.
The public response to that was so overwhelming the council had to ask people not to send any more knitting to them.
"It's a bit copycat but we can do so much more," Mr Wagon said.
"The city's well-known for its knitters and 'yarn bombers' who cover everything from bikes to trees to lamp-posts. It's 'very Cambridge'.
"I think knitting is in Cambridge's DNA," he added.
Mr Wagon, a cycling skills and bicycle maintenance trainer from Outspoken Training in the city, said he was a fan not only of the Tour de France, but the cultural activities surrounding it.
"It isn't just a bike race. Its history is all about promoting your town and region and that's something we can do.
"The world's eyes will be on us and it's a chance for us to show that Cambridge can do things slightly differently, and perhaps slightly oddly," he said.
A knitting shop owner has offered to give knitting lessons and collect the tiny pullovers, Mr Wagon said.
A cycle shop in the city has also offered a collection of battered wheels which Mr Wagon hopes can also be turned into knitted decorations.
He said he was discussing suitable places his knitted bunting might go, with the city council. | A man who admits he "cannot knit a stitch" is hoping to cover the streets of Cambridge with knitted bunting and wool artwork during the Tour de France. | 26564061 | [
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Oxfordshire County Council said two independent studies found having one organisation to run all services could save £100m over five years.
But the plan is opposed by the county's five district councils, who have argued in favour of three councils instead.
All the authorities have been criticised for engaging in a "turf war" over their rival devolution plans.
County council leader Ian Hudspeth said public money should be spent on providing services, rather than running "six separate organisations".
The district councils have argued the county needs an elected mayor, rather than fewer councillors, to get more money from Whitehall.
Oxford City Council leader Bob Price said the county's plan was "the wrong proposal at the wrong time".
He added: "For the people of Oxford, a unitary council would be a disaster.
"The needs of a multi-ethnic and socially mixed urban community are very different to the more rural parts of the county."
Leader of West Oxfordshire District Council James Mills said the aim of the district councils' devolution bid was to get more money from central government.
He said: "A mayor gives a strong voice to Oxford, single point of contact to government and is accountable to the people of Oxfordshire."
But Mr Hudspeth said the proposal was needed because the county council "cannot continue to make savings without further cuts to local services".
He said: "One council for Oxfordshire would be more efficient and simpler for residents, with one phone number, one website and one point of contact."
Residents are being asked for their views before the final proposal is considered by the county council's cabinet on 14 March. | A proposal to abolish six councils and create one county-wide local authority for Oxfordshire has been published. | 38672009 | [
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The move by Flintshire council is partly aimed at increasing recycling rates to meet Welsh Government targets.
A report to the council's cabinet said if enforcement action fails, it will need to reconsider introducing three-weekly bin collections.
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The 50-year-old Dubliner won two league titles with the Crues in 1995 and 1997 and began his managerial career at Seaview before taking charge of several League of Ireland clubs.
His most recent position was as Roddy Collins' assistant at Waterford United.
He replaces Kieran Harding, who quit last month after Carrick lost seven of their opening nine games.
Callaghan was capped for the Republic of Ireland at Under-21 level.
The defender played for Shelbourne, St Patrick's Athletic and English clubs Stoke City, Oldham, Crewe and Preston as well as having a successful spell in the Irish League with Crusaders.
After replacing Roy Walker as manager for the 1998/99 season, he gained further managerial experience in the League of Ireland with Athlone Town, Longford Town, Bohemians and UCD.
"I would like to transfer the identity of the club onto a professional platform and I look forward to working with all key stakeholders to achieve this objective," he said.
"It's a league I have achieved great success as a player and a manager.
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The 24-year-old has agreed a two-year-deal and will arrive following his commitments with the Stormers and Western Province in South Africa.
He is the son of former Springbok Guy Kebble and won the 2012 Under-20s World Championship with South Africa.
"I try and bring an edge to the game and make an impact," Kebble told the Pro12 club's website.
"I've watched all of the Glasgow matches in the Champions Cup this season and northern hemisphere rugby is getting very exciting. I'm looking forward to playing in a competitive European league.
"I know Dave Rennie is one of the best coaches in the world, so it's an exciting prospect to work under him next season."
Kebble will join current team-mate Huw Jones in Glasgow, with the Scotland centre signing a two-year contract with the Warriors earlier this month.
"Huw and I live together in Cape Town," he explained. "We didn't really talk about it too much before it happened, but now it's nice to know there will be a familiar face in Glasgow."
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