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President Ian Khama told the Reuters news agency that he had personally ordered his arrest. "We don't want hate speech in this country. Let him do it in his own country," he said. Last week, South Africa barred Mr Anderson from visiting because of his critical remarks about homosexuality. Homosexual acts are illegal in Botswana, as in many African countries. After his visa for South Africa was rejected, Mr Anderson had posted on his Facebook page: "Thank God we still have a wide open door in Botswana." Mr Anderson was taking part in a morning show hosted by GabzFM station together with a local pastor and an LGBT activist. The show's presenter Reginald Richardson told the BBC that Mr Anderson expressed disdain for homosexuals during the show saying that they should be killed. Botswana's private Mmegi newspaper reported that security agents apprehended the pastor after the radio show. "I am not being arrested. I am leaving Botswana voluntarily," Mr Anderson told witnesses at the radio station, Reuters reports. Onkokame Mosweu, a commentator on gay and lesbian affairs, commended the government's action but said that the pastor should not have been allowed into the country. Mr Khama said that the pastor had been put on a visa watch list after he was banned from travelling to South Africa, but the order had not been communicated to all officials manning the country's borders. The preacher had arrived in Botswana late last week and had given a sermon at a local church that he helped set up, Mr Richardson said. Mr Anderson runs the Faithful Word Baptist Church, which says that homosexuality is an abomination punishable by the death penalty. His church is based in the US state of Arizona and describes itself as an "old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, soul-winning Baptist church".

Botswana is to deport controversial US pastor Steven Anderson after he said on a local radio that homosexuals should be "stoned to death".

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Patrick Joseph Connors said Michael Hughes was allowed to eat with the family and use their swimming pool. Mr Connors, 59, Patrick Dean Connors, 39, William Connors, 36, and Lee Carbis, 34, deny several offences. They are accused of forcing Mr Hughes, 46, and another man - referred to as Mr K - to work for tiny sums. Mr Connors senior described how he had met Michael Hughes when he was 18, and offered him work. He said Mr Hughes, originally from Aberdeen, had stayed in his daughter's bedroom, then moved to a converted garage with a shower. The court heard that Mr Hughes was paid £20 a day, which went up to £50 as he became a more skilled labourer. Mr Connors senior described how Mr Hughes used to buy sweets for the youngest of his children, who called him brother. He denied assaulting Mr Hughes during the time he was working with him. The court has previously heard evidence from the alleged victims that they were only paid £10 per day or less, sometimes in the form of alcohol or tobacco, were beaten or threatened if they did not do as they were told and were hunted down if they tried to get away. All four defendants deny one count of requiring another person to perform forced or compulsory labour between 2010 and 2013. Patrick Joseph Connors, of Rumney, Cardiff, has also pleaded not guilty to eight counts of causing actual bodily harm, four of kidnap and one of conspiracy to kidnap. Elder son Patrick Dean Connors, of Rumney, denies kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap. William Connors, also of Rumney, has pleaded not guilty to causing actual bodily harm on a man between 2009 and 2013. Patrick Joseph Connors' son-in-law Carbis, of Trowbridge, also denies one count of kidnap between 2001 and 2002. The trial continues.

A man accused of forced labour charges told a Cardiff Crown Court he treated the alleged victim, "like a member of the family".

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He is one of 249 men suing the Catholic Church over alleged historical sexual abuse at St William's residential school in Market Weighton. Only one man out of five initial cases heard at the High Court in Leeds has been awarded compensation. In December, a judge ruled in favour of one claimant and ordered the church to pay £14,000 in damages. At the same hearing, His Honour Judge Gosnell dismissed three other claims. More on this and other East Yorkshire stories In January 2016 the former head of St William's James Carragher was jailed for the third time after he was found guilty of sexually abusing boys. Carragher, 75, had already been sentenced to 21 years in prison for sexually abusing boys and was jailed for a further nine years in January. He was jailed for seven years in 1993 and a further 14 years in 2004 for offences he committed at St William's, which closed in 1992. Co-defendant Anthony McCallen, 69, a former chaplain at St William's, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a series of historical sex offences. He was acquitted of eight other charges at the same trial. The De La Salle Brothers, a Christian order of lay teachers, which ran the school in conjunction with the Diocese of Middlesbrough, has apologised "unreservedly" for the abuse. Another set of compensation claims is expected to be heard in late 2017.

A man who claimed he was abused at an East Yorkshire Catholic school has lost a legal action for compensation.

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Labour MP for Bassetlaw, John Mann, a Leave campaigner, said people voted to leave because of immigration, zero-hour contracts and job prospects and said a "divide in Britain" had been exposed. Mansfield voted most strongly to leave, with 70.9% backing Brexit. Rushcliffe, which includes the towns of West Bridgford and Bingham, was the only area to vote for Remain. It saw the East Midland's highest turnout. Meanwhile, the turnout in Nottingham was the fifth lowest in the UK at 61.8%. Leave won by a tiny margin of just over 2,000 votes in the city. Mr Mann said his party was "somewhat out of touch". "With the middle classes largely voting remain because they see it as benefiting them and the working classes largely voting to leave because it dis-benefits them - that's the divide in Britain," he said. Latest reaction and updates from Nottinghamshire Like large parts of England, Nottinghamshire overwhelmingly voted to leave the European Union. The margin of victory in Bassetlaw, Ashfield and Mansfield was huge, with less than a third of people voting remain. Arguably the biggest surprise came in Nottingham, which narrowly backed Brexit. Affluent Rushcliffe was the only area to vote Remain. Overall Nottinghamshire voted 57.9% for Leave and 42.1% for Remain. Conservative Anna Soubry, the MP for Broxtowe and a Remain campaigner, tweeted it was "a dreadful decision". "People like me were told you're scaremongering, we don't want to listen to the experts," she said. "All that has been unfortunately proved to be accurate. We have made a very, very, very bad mistake." Labour MP for Nottingham North, Graham Allen, said David Cameron had "gambled with Britain's future" by calling for a referendum, saying people voted to leave "in protest" at the current government. Turnout was 81.5% in Rushcliffe - the highest in the East Midlands and the only council area to vote Remain. The vote was close elsewhere, including in Nottingham, where the split was 50.8% Leave, 49.2% Remain. Alice, a caller to BBC Radio Nottingham from the Carrington area of the city, said she felt "frightened of the future". "It potentially gives a mandate for a lot of prejudice against people who have immigrated here, whether from the EU or elsewhere," she said.

All but one council area of Nottinghamshire, including Nottingham city, has voted to leave the EU.

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Kevin Standing's vehicle was taken from his home in Patcham, East Sussex, on Saturday morning. It did not have a tracker and there was no CCTV evidence. He said he had wrongly assumed an officer would visit him, but he was told there were no lines of inquiry. Sussex Police said they focused on crimes that "cause most harm". Mr Standing said he received a letter from the force on Tuesday saying the "investigation was closed" and to check the CCTV footage of local garages. "It basically says to car thieves in Sussex, 'carry on stealing cars because there's very little chance you're going to get caught'," he said. Ch Insp Bruce Mathews said proportionate inquiries had been completed. "Our investigations teams focuses its efforts on the crimes which cause the most harm. "Operating with new demands against a shrinking budget, we can't do everything but that doesn't mean we will be ruling out certain types of crime such as shoplifting or vehicle crime. "We will continue to do so where there are lines of inquiry." The force said a marker had been placed on the vehicle to bring it to the attention of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras.

A motorist whose £40,000 Jaguar car was stolen from his driveway has said he is "astounded" after police said they would be closing the case.

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Camden Glass, part of the Camden Group, has started a 30-day consultation with staff on the closure of its factory in Benburb, according to Unite. The firm produces and supplies PVCu window and door products. Camden Group has told Unite it will be creating 50 new jobs at a new plant in Antrim. Unite's representative Joanne McWilliams said Camden Group's investment in the Antrim plant was "cold comfort to the workforce in Benburb". "Many workers in Benburb have longstanding service at the plant - one of our members has worked there for 43 years," she said. "Many of the workers facing redundancy have built the company's success long before the current management took over. "To compound [the] decision, management have offered the workforce only the bare minimum, statutory redundancy. "Camden Group must live up to their social responsibilities and fully compensate their workforce for a decision driven by corporate priorities."

Sixty-five workers at a County Tyrone manufacturing company are set to lose their jobs, a trade union has said.

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Attempt saved. John Swift (Reading) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Offside, Fulham. Ryan Fredericks tries a through ball, but Chris Martin is caught offside. Attempt missed. Paul McShane (Reading) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Liam Kelly with a cross following a corner. Corner, Reading. Conceded by Tomas Kalas. Attempt blocked. John Swift (Reading) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Liam Kelly. Attempt blocked. Garath McCleary (Reading) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by John Swift. Goal! Reading 1, Fulham 0. Roy Beerens (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation. Penalty saved! John Swift (Reading) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner. Penalty conceded by Tim Ream (Fulham) after a foul in the penalty area. Penalty Reading. Liam Moore draws a foul in the penalty area. Garath McCleary (Reading) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Tim Ream (Fulham). Second Half begins Reading 0, Fulham 0. Substitution, Fulham. Lucas Piazon replaces Michael Madl. First Half ends, Reading 0, Fulham 0. Offside, Reading. Garath McCleary tries a through ball, but John Swift is caught offside. Danny Williams (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Stefan Johansen (Fulham). Liam Kelly (Reading) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Stefan Johansen (Fulham). Corner, Reading. Conceded by David Button. Attempt missed. Roy Beerens (Reading) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Danny Williams. Attempt missed. John Swift (Reading) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Roy Beerens with a cross. Paul McShane (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Chris Martin (Fulham). Attempt saved. Danny Williams (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by John Swift. Attempt missed. Stefan Johansen (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Attempt missed. Sone Aluko (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Tom Cairney. Paul McShane (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Paul McShane (Reading). Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Chris Gunter (Reading). Scott Malone (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Offside, Reading. John Swift tries a through ball, but Garath McCleary is caught offside. Offside, Reading. Roy Beerens tries a through ball, but Garath McCleary is caught offside. Attempt saved. John Swift (Reading) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Roy Beerens. Attempt blocked. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Stefan Johansen. Foul by Garath McCleary (Reading). Tim Ream (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner, Reading. Conceded by Kevin McDonald. Boss Jaap Stam has no new injury worries but may make changes after the Royals suffered back-to-back league defeats to drop to fifth in the table. Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic has no new injury worries following Saturday's 1-1 draw at local rivals QPR. Forwards Floyd Ayite and Neeskens Kebano are away on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations. The Whites travel to the Madejski Stadium six points behind Reading and five points off the play-off places. The fixture has been rearranged after the original meeting on 30 December was abandoned because of fog at half-time, with the score 0-0. Reading manager Jaap Stam told BBC Radio Berkshire: "Sometimes you lose a couple of games in succession, that's football. But it's about the mentality in the team. Are you mentally strong to turn it around and start winning games again? "Fulham have got a great team, play very good possession football as well and we know that and everyone else is aware of it. "We need to make sure we play well and try and make it difficult for them. "There's a lot of games coming up at the moment, but after a loss, it's good to play again quickly as you have a chance to redeem yourself." Fulham goalkeeper David Button told BBC Radio London: "The abandonment was a bit strange. It was lucky the game was level because otherwise I'm sure it would have been a bit controversial. "We have to show Reading respect because they are ahead of us in the table. They play a similar passing style to us, so we are wary of them. "We are hopeful we can get in the play-offs. They are in our way to achieving what we want. We want their play-off spot and are not afraid of talking about it." BBC Radio Berkshire's Tim Dellor Reading's meetings with Fulham over the last couple of years have never been dull. Last year the two sides drew 2-2 at the Madejski Stadium. Reading's most recent trips to Craven Cottage have ended in heavy defeats. Expect goals. According to the BBC Weather forecast, we should also expect mist. Reading go into the game having lost two consecutive Championship games for the first time since August. Jaap Stam will want to avert any slide quickly. Defensively, Reading have looked particularly vulnerable lately. Fulham have a play-off spot in their sights and will move to seventh with a win. The stats and the history point to this being a huge game in the context of both sides' seasons.

Reading will be without left-back Jordan Obita who is suspended following his sending off against Derby County.

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Rankin suffered cramp in his sole Test appearance against Australia in January 2014 then dropped out of favour with the country he switched to in 2012. "I'm grateful to England for the chance to play Test cricket," said Rankin, 31. "But with few opportunities in the last two years, I felt it was time to move on at this stage of my career. I'm delighted to be returning for Ireland." He met with Cricket Ireland last week to seal what is a timely comeback given the imminent World Twenty20 in India. Rankin's last appearance for England was on 17 January 2014, making him eligible under ICC regulations to play again for Ireland on 18 January 2016. The Londonderry-born player will therefore be available for the InterContinental Cup match with Papua New Guinea in Australia from 31 January to 3 February and then the ICC World Twenty20 in March. He made the last of his 82 appearances for Ireland during the 2012 World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, taking 112 wickets at an average of 24.12 before appearing for England 11 times between 2013 and 2014. "There's a real opportunity for Ireland to get Test status now, and that prospect was a real lure for me - I'd love to be part of history," he added.

Warwickshire bowler Boyd Rankin will play for Ireland in the World Twenty20 after switching back from England.

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The Flying Scotsman took to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) heritage line after a decade-long, £4.2m refit. Its first of six daily services from Grosmont to Pickering started at 09:30 GMT with stops at Goathland, Newtondale and Levisham on route. A total of 8,500 tickets were purchased for the sold-out locomotive service, which runs until 20 March. Tickets were sold at £38 for an adult and £25 for a child for a full return journey between Grosmont and Pickering, a spokesperson for the NYMR said. All 8,500 tickets went on sale on 26 October last year and were sold out by Christmas, they added. NYMR declined to disclose how much money it had made from the sales, but said some of the funds would pay for the "upkeep" of its heritage line. General Manager Chris Price said: "We're understandably incredibly excited about Flying Scotsman arriving and I'm sure that many others will be too, although we do urge anyone wanting to take photographs to do so from a safe distance and refrain from straying onto the railway itself. "After recent events, British Transport Police has confirmed that if people are seen trespassing on the tracks, they risk being brought before the courts, a fine of £1,000 and a criminal record." The engine, which retired from service in 1963, has been restored for the National Railway Museum (NRM). It made its inaugural run last month when it travelled from London King's Cross to York before going on display at the NRM. Thousands of rail enthusiasts flocked to see the locomotive on route with fans venturing on the tracks to catch a glimpse of the engine as it passed by. After a number of disruptions, the locomotive arrived into York an hour later than expected.

One of the world's most famous locomotives has started its first series of passenger journeys.

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After chewing through five prime ministers in as many years, the world is left wondering whether Malcolm Turnbull will soon be mauled too. The reality, of course, is far more complicated - there are many more power games at play in Canberra's Parliament House. The annual Bald Archy Prize for satirical art is a colourful way to get to know some of the main protagonists. Warning: Readers may find some of the images offensive The National Party leader made his mark on the world's social media timeline in 2015 when he threatened to put down Johnny Depp's pet dogs, Pistol and Boo. As deputy prime minister in the coalition government, his role is often as an attack dog, barking down the opposition during a raucous Question Time debate. The one thing missing from this picture is the broad-brimmed hat Mr Joyce regularly wears for interviews when outdoors. Last year he revealed a different side when he spoke openly about receiving treatment for melanoma, warning "big hats might look silly, but skin cancers look sillier". The far-right Queensland senator is the subject of several Bald Archy entries. Here she's depicted celebrating Donald Trump's election victory with a glass of champagne and a pretty direct hand gesture. After 18 years outside federal politics, Ms Hanson also tasted victory in 2016 by winning a seat in parliament. Many link her One Nation party's brand of populism with President Trump's policies, especially her call for a ban on Muslim immigration into Australia. But with just three senators and no members in the lower House of Representatives, her party's influence is sometimes overstated. The Labor Party leader came within a whisker of winning last year's election, but his stature has suffered since. Painted by his opponents as a man struggling to hold on to his job, Mr Shorten was recently the subject of a withering attack by the prime minister. Mr Turnbull described Mr Shorten as "a simpering sycophant, blowing hard in the House of Representatives, sucking hard [on hospitality] in the living rooms of Melbourne." This picture shows how Mr Shorten is also unafraid to caricature his opponents, with a reference to right-wing senator Cory Bernardi, who he once described as a homophobe. Peter Dutton, Minister for Immigration The former police officer is in charge of immigration, and so is responsible for Australia's controversial offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. His candid comments regularly make the headlines, not least the suggestion that it was a mistake to resettle Lebanese Muslims in Australia. But this image of a volcanic, man-mountain can be read in different ways. Some insiders suggest he is best positioned to be the next PM if Mr Turnbull was toppled... there may be trouble brewing. Being prime minister of your nation should mean you're having a ball, right? Despite winning last year's election, Mr Turnbull's time in office has been beset with difficulties. A wafer-thin majority in the House of Representatives, and the ever-present threat of a revolt in the party room will make it hard to create much of a legacy. Plus having the White House press spokesman refer to you as "Mr Trumble" can't be much fun. The winner of the Bald Archy Prize 2017, a spoof of Australia's prestigious Archibald Prize, will be announced in Sydney later this year.

To an outsider, Australian politics looks like an unfettered blood sport, where the only aim is to savage the leader.

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Wolves started brightly and Nouha Dicko gave them the lead, beating Rob Green with a low first-time shot on the run. Leeds turned up the pressure after the break, but Andy Lonergan saved from Souleymane Doukara and Kortney Hause cleared off the line to keep it 1-0. Fulham's 3-1 win over Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday's 2-1 victory at QPR sees Leeds drop into seventh place. Despite losing their past two Championship matches, Wolves dominated the opening exchanges, with Green having to come out quickly and make a low save one-on-one from Andreas Weimann. Dave Edwards forced another Green stop and Dicko went close, cutting inside and firing narrowly wide before the goal their pressure deserved finally came. The 24-year-old striker latched onto Ben Marshall's clever through-ball behind the defence and found the bottom corner before Green could set himself. Leeds rallied, but Pontus Jansson could not hit the target with a free header and Lonergan produced a reflex save to keep out Doukara's header from Kemar Roofe's cutback. Wolves sat back and invited pressure, with Hause clearing Roofe's looping header off the line from a corner and Chris Wood heading over late on, but the away side hung on to claim the points. The win secures Wolves' Championship status for another season on 54 points, while Leeds' third loss in five games puts them out of the play-offs on goal difference with three matches remaining. Leeds manager Garry Monk: "We're disappointed with that result. "We didn't want that to happen at this stage of the season but we've had the mentality for so long where we've been in the play-offs quite comfortably and have kind of been in that protective mode of trying to stay in there. "Now we have to change that mentality to be a team that goes on the hunt and lets it all go. "It's still a really good situation for us. We've got no time to feel sorry for ourselves, that doesn't get you anywhere." Wolves manager Paul Lambert: "We were excellent and should have been two or three up in the first half. "We were strong defensively in the second half and a threat on the break." Match ends, Leeds United 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Second Half ends, Leeds United 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Charlie Taylor (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Attempt missed. Chris Wood (Leeds United) header from the left side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a cross. Foul by Pontus Jansson (Leeds United). Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing. Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by David Edwards. Attempt missed. Hadi Sacko (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner. Attempt blocked. 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Leeds United dropped out of the Championship play-off places as Wolves clinched a narrow win at Elland Road.

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Due to travel to Cardiff to pose for photos and answer questions at a Heineken Cup press launch, Saracens told him he had to be at an "important squad meeting" in Munich the same day. He complied. Perhaps unsurprisingly considering the "important squad meeting" was a day-trip to the city's Oktoberfest beer festival. With the skipper alongside them, the first-team squad made so merry that one of their number failed to make the midnight flight home. European rugby officials were not amused, however. They fined Saracens £4,250 for instructing Borthwick to snub Heineken Cup matters for the business of sinking steins. We're trying to be a little bit different, which will always raise eyebrows. Maybe others should look at what we're doing Saracens chief executive Edward Griffiths was unapologetic, and Bavaria drinking music pumped out of the speakers before the team's win over Leicester the following weekend. "We're trying to be a little bit different, which will always raise eyebrows," he said. "Maybe others should look at what we're doing." This was the autumn of 2010 and Griffiths had been in his job a little over 18 months, having arrived, along with South African director of rugby Brendan Venter, in a series of sweeping changes. The suggestion that Saracens should be the template for others did not seem justified by the north London's club history. True, they had been denied their first Premiership title the previous season only by a dramatic late Dan Hipkiss try. But for many years Sarries had been a middling club, rarely competitive when the going got tough and rarely threatening to win anything. Eight months after the Oktoberfest jaunt, they won their first Premiership title. Three years further on and they were within two games of a Heineken Cup and Premiership double, facing Toulon and Northampton on successive Saturdays. Defeat by the French side on Saturday denied them the first of those, but success in the second remains within their grasp. Before taking up his role with Saracens, Edward Griffiths was chief executive of the South African Rugby Union. He has been credited with ensuring that the 1995 World Cup-winning Springboks side learned all the verses of the new national anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, and coming up with the slogan 'one team, one country'. The 'cult of Saracens' - as some have dubbed their way of doing things - is certainly taken seriously now with Griffiths as its charismatic, unorthodox high priest. While most sports administrators are usually caught between the demands of the balance sheet and the score sheet, he describes himself as merely "interested" in the outcome of both finals. And even that sounds like a stretch. "Too much of sport operates under the tyranny of the result," Griffiths tells BBC Sport. "The core principle at Saracens is that we gather talented people together, treat them unbelievably well and in return they try unbelievable hard. That is it. "Everything else - winning or losing matches, winning or losing Cups - are just outcomes. They are not the primary aim. "We exist to have a positive impact on as many people as possible." It sounds like the philosophy of a smoothie company or perhaps an idealistic Silicon Valley start-up - not the hard-nosed, shape-up-or-ship-out approach of most high-level sport. But it works and Saracens pay much more than lip service to the concept of treating their staff "unbelievably well". Their regular foreign jaunts are an obvious part of the process. Since 2010 the players have sunned themselves in the Italian resort of Rimini, hung out in Miami, hit the ski slopes in Switzerland and returned to Munich for a longer stay at Oktoberfest - all while their rivals are slogging it out on the training field. One trip involved the players separating into groups to make their way from their Hertfordshire base to a rendezvous in Barcelona by whatever means they chose. On another, they climbed Cape Town's Table Mountain together. This year they went to New York, taking in an ice hockey match at Madison Square Gardens. While the destinations are exotic, what goes on upon arrival is old-fashioned: no team-building larks, no trust exercises, no flipcharts. Instead, lots of eating, drinking and laughing. "Other clubs look at these trips and think they are stag parties," says Griffiths. "It is far from that. It is a carefully-planned process to develop a group of people who will do whatever is necessary for each other and ultimately love each other." Chris Ashton is a recent convert. The England winger, who arrived at Saracens via rugby league side Wigan and Premiership rivals Northampton, says the atmosphere is unlike any other dressing room he has been part of. "When you are at a rugby club every day, you come in, do your work, train and go home to your families," he says. "You don't really get to spend that much quality time as a group together. "Those trips give everyone the opportunity just to get to know everyone a little bit better, and spend quality time together." Saracens' interpretation of quality time is different from what Ashton had experienced before. It is not just a question of banter. In fact, it isn't really banter at all. A natural extrovert, Ashton had a reputation at Northampton - and still has one with England - for being one of the loudest members of the dressing room. At Saracens, however, humility is prized as one of the club's four key values and Ashton has reined in his boisterous, bantering instincts. "When I was at Northampton I was in the middle of it, giving all the abuse out, but that is not a big part of what goes on here," he tells BBC Sport. "It's a bit hard to explain, but the environment is different and how the group want to be treated is different." Within the Saracens staff there are 29 undergraduate degrees, 11 Masters degrees, one doctorate, two doctors and a professor. Brad Barritt (above) is soon to complete a Masters in business administration. The globe-trotting mini-breaks are only the most eye-catching part of an approach that is designed to care for people as well as players. The club require all their players to develop themselves off the pitch - through studying, work experience or running their own business - to prepare for life after rugby. So centre Brad Barritt is about to complete a Masters in business administration, full-back Alex Goode has donned a shirt and tie to see how the insurance industry works and prop James Johnston's fledgling pie company is open for business at half-time at Allianz Park. Every month on a Tuesday lunchtime, a speaker - after an introduction by a nervous young academy player - talks to the club as a whole. Former England cricket captain Andrew Strauss, Formula 1 legend Sir Jackie Stewart and transatlantic rower Debra Searle are among those to appear at Saracens' St Albans training ground. There are workshops to learn negotiating and networking skills, charity partnerships and social events for players' partners and creches and personalised Christmas gifts for their children. Paul Gustard was a player at the club before the arrival of Griffiths and Venter and has remained as defence coach. "To a man, we have changed as people. Not only have we become a better rugby side, but we have become better people," he says. "Nobody really comes to Saracens and leaves two years later like they did in the old days. They come here, play their career, retire and move on with a job we've helped them get. "If you can have something that is over and above being a team-mate and be a genuine friend that I can ring up in 10 years' time, that is what I think Saracens is about." The inevitable internal competition among a stellar squad could derail all these good intentions. But each player is subjected to four separate psychological profiles. The results are shared with coaches and senior players, so instructions and advice can be delivered in the most constructive way possible. Before taking up residence at their purpose-built Allianz Park home in 2012, Saracens had lead a nomadic existence, playing out of various London venues: Nobody is ever "dropped", they are "rotated". It may sound like semantics, but scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth won his starting place in Saracens' last Premiership final appearance only on a coin toss, with Neil de Kock replacing him in the 50th minute regardless of the state of the game. Reducing results to a secondary concern and caring for, as well as paying, players requires healthy finances and a solid grounding towards the top of the Premiership table. But Saracens have been well-backed before. Former owner Nigel Wray, who remains chairman of the club, brought in World Cup winners Francois Pienaar and Michael Lynagh and French stars Thomas Castaignede and Thierry Lacroix on big contracts. The 1998 Tetley's Bitter Cup was the only silverware to follow. Now Saracens are regular challengers for silverware, Griffiths and his staff are aware how their approach may come across. "The Saracens way is our way and it suits us, but we are not pious and preaching about it in any way at all," says Griffiths. "I would never tell Leicester, Harlequins or Northampton how to run their clubs." He doesn't need to. Players and coaches at all three clubs cannot fail to have been impressed by Saracens' record-breaking 46-6 Heineken Cup semi-final win over Clermont Auvergne. Griffiths says: "The dividing line between success and failure in professional sport is incredibly thin; it is literally a matter of inches. "If you get to know someone well - their wife, their children, what excites them, what concerns them - when you are defending your line in the last minute the bond between you and the man outside you is going to be stronger. "If we can find an extra inch in that bond, in the depth that players are prepared to go for each other, in Miami, New York or anywhere else, that is where we will go."

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Media playback is not supported on this device Isaac Makwala told BBC Sport his "heart was breaking" after being denied entry to Tuesday's 400m final in London. The 30-year-old, who was withdrawn by organisers the IAAF "due to a medical condition", questioned how officials could know he was ill, without tests. He said he felt he was "sabotaged". Tuesday's race was won by Olympic champion and world record holder Wayde Van Niekerk, who - in the week eight-time Olympic sprint champion Bolt retires - has been described as the "new superstar of athletics". "There is something fishy they do not want to tell us," said Makwala. "It is not that I was sick, there is something more to it. "How can they just look at you and see you are sick? If they had tested me I would not have that problem, but they just assumed. "Usain Bolt is out now so the IAAF wants someone to be the face of athletics." In response, athletics' governing body told BBC Sport: "There is nothing we want more than extraordinary competition in these championships. "We freed up the competition schedule to allow this to happen, specifically between these two athletes by allowing the opportunity to double up at 200m and 400m." Media playback is not supported on this device Van Niekerk's winning time was 43.98 seconds. At a Diamond League meeting in Monaco in July, Makwala ran 43.84, but still finished behind the South African (43.73). "After I saw him cross the line on Tuesday I was like, this was my time. He ran a normal time. I was on shape for a faster time," Makwala said. "The British would never have allowed it if I was Mo Farah or Wayne Rooney. "In Botswana we have to pay to train, this is not like Britain. I feel this has been a waste of money and training." Briton Farah won his third consecutive gold World Championship 10,000m gold on Friday. Media playback is not supported on this device The IAAF acknowledged Makwala's absence was "a sad case" but said its medical staff examined the athlete, and notes taken by a doctor showed he had been vomiting over an 18-hour period. It said it was under instruction to quarantine athletes who showed symptoms of a "very virulent" norovirus outbreak. Pam Venning, head of medical at the IAAF, told BBC Sport on Tuesday: "I have to trust my doctors. My role is to ensure the healthcare of all the athletes here and it's a very infectious and very virulent disease." In a later statement, the governing body said: "The team doctor, team leader and team physio had been informed following the medical examination that the athlete should be quarantined for 48 hours and would therefore be missing the 400m final on Tuesday." Venning said "all the other teams" with affected athletes had adhered to IAAF instructions. Public Health England says 30 athletes and support staff have been affected by sickness at the Tower Hotel in London - though the hotel is not the source of the outbreak. The IAAF has insisted it gave clear communication to the Botswana delegation that Makwala would not be allowed to run following a medical examination. But Botswana officials said they had received no explanation as to why Makwala was not allowed entry, and had not been told to keep the runner in quarantine. The country's Olympic boss Falcon Sedimo told BBC Sport: "There has been no official communication, no formal communication from the IAAF at all. We found out from the media. "There have been no medical tests at all, it's just generalised assumptions because of the outbreak of sickness and he has just one of those symptoms." Botswana medical team member Simon O'Brien said Makwala showed no symptoms of the bug and blamed "poor communication" from the IAAF for the athlete missing the race. "He's fit, he's very well, he's prepared to run, and he's just being kept away by the IAAF," said O'Brien, who insisted there was no sign of the illness during the time he spent with Makwala. After winning gold, Van Niekerk said: "I would love him to have his fair opportunity. I believe he would have done very very well. I've got so much sympathy. I really wish I could give him my medal." British former 400m runner Dai Greene tweeted: "I was really ill in the build-up [to the 2010 Commonwealth Games] in Delhi as were so many others. But nobody stopped us racing or tested us." BBC commentator Allison Curbishley, another former 400m runner, defended the IAAF's decision to bar Makwala from competing, but described its handling of the situation as "a real mess". "When he presented himself as being ill, of course the IAAF had to go to their protocols. Illness had already been an issue as of the Sunday, so they were clearly on edge and didn't want it to spread," she told BBC Sport. "The whole thing comes down to communication. The IAAF did not handle it brilliantly, and if the situation arose again I think it would be dealt with very differently. "As athletics fans we were robbed of a great head-to-head, and what we might see happen now is if an athlete has the same symptoms later this week they may well keep it quiet." Several German and Canadian athletes staying at the Tower Hotel fell ill last week. A further 30 Germans due to arrive on Tuesday were moved to other hotels. German triple jumper Neele Eckhardt collapsed but was well enough to compete on Saturday, and took part in Monday's final. The Ireland team, who are also staying at the hotel, have confirmed that one athlete - 400m hurdler Thomas Barr - has been affected. The Tower Hotel said investigations conducted with environmental health officers and the IAAF had shown the hotel was "not the source of the illness". That has also been confirmed by Public Health England.

The Botswanan athlete who was barred from running at the World Championships as organisers tried to halt a norovirus outbreak says the same would not have happened to Mo Farah or Usain Bolt.

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President Omar al-Bashir's government likes to keep a tight rein over Sudan's media and cultural institutions, with state-endorsed competitions and publications trying to replace a once-thriving poetry scene. A heavy police presence in the capital has discouraged the spontaneous poetic outbursts that were once commonplace on the streets of central Khartoum or the tree-lined pathways of its historic university campus. But in typical Sudanese fashion, coercion has only spurred resistance. Intimate gatherings and online forums have sprung like roses from the concrete. NWN is one group that has successfully carved out a space. Founded five years ago, the spoken-word poetry event has relied on mailing-list invites and donated venues to escape censorship and police intervention. A platform for free expression, where Arabic and English-speaking poets enjoy what my friend Sara Elhassan describes as an open mic that is actually "open". A luxury in the heavily guarded city, the event has survived raids, threats and scrutiny from National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), which reserves the right to disband public gatherings. It has even resonated around the world when a video of a poetic performance in Arabic and English by Ms Elhassan went viral in 2014. The poem, a response to a Sudanese professor's comment on television that he was unhappy about the unsatisfying levels of beauty exhibited by his country's women, put fresh air into the stale public arena of discussion and expression. "Apparently, we're nothing but… pretty faces put on display, to be bought and sold, and later stored as after-thoughts. Pretty faces mounted and hung on the wall like deer heads. Prizes prized, till the novelty dies - then later casually thrown into conversations," reads an excerpt from the piece. Each time these words were shared on Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter, social commentary, usually monopolised by politicians and academics, was broadened. Yousra Elbagir: Sudan's youth now sing along to their own tune to fight censorship and control, with the world as their stage. The performance not only represented a new era of debate but inadvertently paid homage to Sudan's history of oral poetry as a battle cry and assertion of identity. In World War Two, famous poet and praise-singer Aisha Al-Falatiya took to the battlefield to support Sudanese soldiers fighting Axis powers under British rule, motivated by the prospect of independence. The troops were cheered on by her lyrics, which likened the power of fascist leaders Hitler and Mussolini to "a foreign coin with no value in our market". Once used to provoke national feeling, poetry is now used by contemporary Sudanese poets to wrestle with a conflicted national identity. The Arabisation campaign under President Bashir has shaped the social landscape, leading popular culture in the East African nation towards the Arab world. Grappling with African, Arabic and Islamic identities, many poets like Al-Saddig Al-Raddi turn to the nuances of their own heritage in resistance. His political voice saw him censored and thrown in prison in Sudan. He now lives in London and is considered one of Africa's best contemporary poets. Award-winning Sudanese-American poet Safia Elhillo tours the US, inviting audience members to ponder her complex concept of "home", weaving images of her grandparent's home in Khartoum with her childhood home in Maryland in both Arabic and English. In 2015, Darfur-born Yale poet Emitihal Mahmoud won the Individual World Poetry Slam with a poem called "Mama". A tribute to her mother and striking recount of how she led their escape from their burning village in Sudan. Similar to how olden spoken poetry transformed into folk songs, a whole genre of classic mainstream Sudanese music - known as al-Haqeeba - is rooted in the landmark poems of Wad Al-Rabi, Omar Al-Bana, Khalil Farah and Sayed Abdelaziz. Spurred on by revolutions against British colonial powers, Al-Haqeeba took off in the 1920s and was the soundtrack for popular uprisings and cultured resistance in the capital. In what can only be described as a modern renaissance, Haqeeba songs have recently been remixed by young Sudanese producer Sammany. The collection, called Briefcase, has been played more than 250,000 times on Soundcloud. It samples classic songs that borrow lyrics from love poems or poems on national pride. The collection, blends reggae, electro and house beats with Sudanese music in a way that epitomises how many young people in the country feel: connected to their nation's rich culture but also mainstream global trends, sounds and tastes. Just as its soldiers historically marched to lyrics of resistance, empowerment and heritage against foreign ruling powers, Sudan's youth now sing along to their own tune to fight censorship and control, with the world as their stage.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Yousra Elbagir looks at how Sudan's young poets are reviving the nation's tradition of lyrical resistance.

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A controversial firmware change made earlier this month meant HP printer owners using unofficial, usually cheaper, cartridges discovered they would no longer work. A campaign calling on HP to reverse the move was launched, backed by rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). In a blog post, HP admitted it should have done a "better job of communicating” the change. An optional update that removes the restriction on unofficial cartridges will be available “within two weeks”. The firm added: “We are committed to transparency in all of our communications and when we fall short, we call ourselves out." But while making the apology for how it informed users, HP defended the move, saying it did so to protect users from counterfeit products. "When ink cartridges are cloned or counterfeited, the customer is exposed to quality and potential security risks, compromising the printing experience,” wrote Jon Flaxman, the company’s chief operating officer. However, campaigners argued HP’s motivation was less about security, and more about protecting the large profit margins it adds to official ink cartridges. As consumers took to online forums and social networks to express anger, the EFF came down hard, saying HP had betrayed the public's trust. "Customers should be able to buy an HP printer without fear that the company will later place artificial limits on the printer’s use,” the group said. "It would be a security nightmare for customers to avoid installing security updates for fear of unwanted and unannounced feature changes." It also called on HP to explain how it planned to tell customers who may have been affected about the revised update. "Right now,” the EFF said, “the vast majority of people who use the affected printers likely do not know why their printers lost functionality, nor do they know that it’s possible to restore it. "All of those customers should be able to use their printers free of artificial restrictions, not just the relatively few who have been closely following this story." Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC or on Facebook

HP has backtracked on a software update that blocked some ink cartridges made by third parties.

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In an open letter to the girls, she criticised Nigeria's authorities and the international community for not doing enough to secure their release. The Boko Haram militants caused global outrage after abducting the girls from Nigeria's north-eastern Chibok town. The UN estimates that the insurgency has now displaced 800,000 children. "We cannot imagine the full extent of the horrors you have endured. But please know this: we will never forget you," Ms Yousafzai said in the letter to the 219 girls who were abducted during a night-time raid on their boarding school. She added that there were reasons for "hope and optimism", after recent successes by Nigeria's military in regaining territory from Boko Haram. "I look forward to the day I can hug each one of you, pray with you, and celebrate your freedom with your families," Ms Yousafzai said. In Nigeria, campaign group Bring Back Our Girls has launched a week of events encouraging people to remember the girls ahead of the first anniversary of their abduction on Tuesday. A vigil and candlelit procession is due to be held in the capital Abuja. The UN children's agency, Unicef, said the abduction of the schoolgirls from Chibok was "only one of the endless tragedies being replicated on an epic scale across Nigeria and the region". The number of children fleeing the Boko Haram insurgency has doubled in the past year and more than 1.5 million people have now been displaced in the six-year conflict, Unicef said in a report.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has called for more action to free schoolgirls abducted by militant Islamists in Nigeria a year ago.

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The woman had withdrawn her pension from a bank in Altrincham on Monday before heading into the Iceland store. While shopping she was approached by a woman who grabbed her trolley and demanded her money. Not willing to give up without a fight, however, the octogenarian hit the woman over the head with the bacon before the would-be thief fled empty-handed. Greater Manchester Police said while the 86-year-old was "safe and well", she was "shook up about the incident". Update 20 July 2016: A video of the incident obtained by Altrincham Today and released later revealed the incident was less dramatic than previously reported by Greater Manchester Police.

An 86-year-old woman fought off a would-be thief with a packet of bacon in a Greater Manchester supermarket.

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Some reports put the number even higher. The roof of the church caved in on worshippers who had gathered for the ordination of a bishop on Saturday. Those inside the Reigners Bible Church included Akwa Ibom state governor Udom Emmanuel, who survived the disaster. The church was still under construction and workers had rushed to complete it for the ordination, witnesses said. Mr Emmanuel said there would be an investigation into whether safety standards had been compromised. Eyewitnesses told Reuters news agency that they had seen more than 100 bodies at the local morgue. Etete Peters of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital told the AP news agency that at least 160 people had been killed. Many more victims may have been taken to private mortuaries across Uyo, AP adds. President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed "deep sorrow" over the incident. An unnamed survivor quoted by Nigeria's Channels TV said: "Suddenly, the roof fell on worshippers. The governor was quickly rescued. But others were not that lucky." Building collapses are relatively common in Nigeria, mainly due to the use of sub-standard materials and the violation of building regulations. In 2014, scores of people were killed when a church hostel belonging to a Nigerian TV evangelist collapsed in the city of Lagos.

At least 100 bodies have been recovered from a church that collapsed in the south-eastern Nigerian city of Uyo.

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Valentine, who had been suffering from Parkinson's disease, died "peacefully" in the early hours of Wednesday morning, his agent Derek Webster said. In the BBC's World War Two drama series Colditz, he played Luftwaffe officer Major Mohn and the title role of the aristocrat jewel thief AJ Raffles. Valentine was also known as a theatre and film actor, director and writer. Mr Webster described him as "brilliant" and "talented". "In 2012 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In spite of this diagnosis his sense of humour never failed him and he continued to live a full and happy life," he added. Valentine's wife, the actress Susan Skipper, said: "Tony was my best friend and it was a privilege to know, love and care for him." The couple first met on Yorkshire Television's Raffles and then appeared together three years later on the television film of Ivor Novello's show The Dancing Years. They married in 1982. As well as his starring role in Colditz - which centred around the inmates of the notorious German prisoner-of-war camp - and Raffles, Valentine was also known for playing the character of upper-class thug Toby Meres in the secret agent drama series Callan, starring Edward Woodward. The actor was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, but went to school in London. He began his acting career at the early age of 10 and appeared in several BBC children's TV shows, including an adaptation of the classic Billy Bunter stories. He worked pretty much continuously from the 1950s and had roles in TV dramas throughout the decades, including Lovejoy, New Tricks, The Detectives, Heartbeat, Casualty and Coronation Street. His last TV role was as a voice actor for the animated series Chuggington: Badge Quest in 2011. Valentine was also a regular face on the West End stage, most notably in Hans Anderson at the London Palladium and, more recently, Art at the Wyndhams theatre.

Actor Anthony Valentine, best known for the 1970s TV series Colditz and Raffles, has died at the age of 76.

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The beach where Seifeddine Rezgui stood on Friday, pulled a Kalashnikov from his parasol and unleashed Tunisia's worst ever terror attack, has already reopened. Camera crews capture the spot; passers-by pause for a moment. But the emotional scars of the tragedy that took place will live on for a generation. For 57-year-old Sabi, they're still raw. He runs the boat club on the beach, used principally by customers of the Hotel Imperial, targeted that day. He points to the spot where the gunman opened fire, appearing first to make a phone call, before throwing his mobile into the sea and beginning his killing spree. "People all around me were falling", he recalls, "and I just grabbed as many customers as I could and ran." They went through a staff gate to a basement of the hotel - but Sabi returned to bring more to safety. "I saw six of our loyal customers die, people who always came to this hotel. They were like brothers to me. This beach should be full of life now. But it's deserted." Sabi pauses, looking at the rows of empty sunbeds. "We will fight", he says, his lip quivering, tears welling up. "At least we can still smile". Tunisia is a nation in shock - and its tourism lifeline is under serious threat. Thousands of holidaymakers have already left on emergency flights laid on by tour operators. I watched as another busload from the Hotel Imperial arrived at the local Enfidha airport on Saturday night, heading for Manchester. Among them was one man whose fiancee had died in front of him. Most were too traumatised to talk. But in the hotels beside the Imperial, dozens are staying put. "I wanted to leave early", says Isabelle Campbell from Gateshead, "but my husband said: if we go, they win. I'm not relaxed though, I'm nervous about going to the beach." Her husband, Bob Taylor, says they ventured down earlier and saw a speed-boat manoeuvring in the water, revving its engines towards them. "For a moment, we thought: Oh God, something is going to happen again. We used to go to Egypt but changed to Tunisia because of the security threat there", he adds. "Now we don't know what'll happen here." One in ten Tunisians works in the tourism industry. It took a hit after the attack on the Bardo museum in March - and is now widely expected to plummet. The fear of that has only added to Tunisians' anguish over a worrying rise in Islamist attacks. The birthplace of the Arab Spring, which was widely praised for its largely peaceful transition to democracy, now has more people fighting in Syria and Iraq than any other country: an estimated 3,000 Tunisians are thought to be there, many feared to have joined so-called Islamic State (IS). A once peaceful Arab democracy has been shaken by the chaos and civil conflict of neighbouring Libya, where IS has taken root and is thought to train increasing numbers of Tunisians crossing a porous border. It is all a vast challenge for Tunisia's new coalition government, which has scrambled to announce a security clampdown, including the closure of 80 mosques suspected of being breeding grounds for radical Islam. Critics say the reaction has been too late. "These people want to destroy Tunisia," says Dorra Brahem, a local student, walking on the beach with her sister Aisha and friend Fatma. "They have misunderstood Islam. Something serious is happening here". Has the joy of Tunisia's revolution died, I ask? "Yes", says Dorra. "At least now we can wear headscarves and go to mosques - with the old dictator, it wasn't like that. But we miss something. We miss peace." 6.1 million the number of tourist arrivals to Tunisia in 2014 15.2% the total contribution of travel and tourism to Tunisia's GDP 473,000 the number of jobs supported by travel and tourism (13.8% of total employment) We are seeking your stories relating to the Tunisia attacks. If you or anyone you know has been affected please contact us in the following ways. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.

There's little trace of the horror - just a sunbed draped in flowers.

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From next season, the Championship winners will go up automatically if they meet 'minimum standard criteria'. Jersey and Yorkshire Carnegie are among clubs that are in favour of the change. "I hope it doesn't lead to the Championship becoming a non-entity," said Pirates chairman Paul Durkin. "If you're relegated from the Premiership you're put in the naughty boys corner, which is in the Championship, for a year and expected to come back up. "That's what it feels like to us, the way that it's going - it takes away from the competition, I think." As part of the new agreement between the Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby, Championship clubs will be given increased funding. Durkin told BBC Radio Cornwall that second-tier sides will share £2.7m between them over three years, but relegated Premiership sides will receive a parachute payment of "over £3m". "While first past the post is a good idea, and I would be in favour of that if there was a level playing field, this is not a level playing field," he continued. The majority of Championship sides, including Jersey Reds, are not eligible for promotion, as they lack the required ground facilities. "You've got London Irish sitting top of the Championship, 15 points ahead of Yorkshire Carnegie - they're undefeated," Reds chairman Mark Morgan told BBC Radio Jersey. "It would be very unfair to get to the end of the season and, just because they have one bad game in a knock-out situation, they don't go to the Premiership." The 2015-16 Championship play-off final was held on 25 May, with the new Premiership campaign starting 100 days later. "To be in the middle of May recruiting for a new season that is just two or three months away is impossible - and we can see the result that's had on Bristol," Morgan added. "Although they would not say that they have ring fenced the Premiership, to all intents and purposes on a financial basis that's really what's happened." Yorkshire Carnegie were in the top flight as recently as 2011 - they are now second in the Championship, which will put them in the promotion play-offs this term but count for nothing from next season. Although scrapping the play-offs could arguably make it more difficult for them to go up, executive president Sir Ian McGeechan, the former British & Irish Lions coach, supports the RFU change. "Having been part the play-off system for a number of years, I am pleased to see the return of the first-past-the-post system," he said. "The decision to make this announcement now is particularly welcome for all the clubs and allows the Championship sides the opportunity to get their financial and personnel planning in place for 2017-18 at the right time of year." The Championship play-offs were introduced for the 2009-10 campaign, with Exeter Chiefs the side to gain promotion despite finishing second in the regular season. Bristol - the side Exeter defeated in the final - have been the side most affected by the play-offs, finishing top of the league on five occasions before finally reaching the Premiership last year. "Most people would probably say [scrapping play-offs] benefits the Premiership - I wouldn't disagree with that," Exeter head coach Rob Baxter told BBC Radio Devon. "It'll be a tougher scenario and a different management situation for the regular Championship clubs, because they can't focus on seeing if they can create some moments in a final. "They now have to create a good pre-season that builds a good start to the season, because they'll need to be up and challenging from day one."

The Championship has become a "naughty boys corner" for relegated Premiership sides, according to the Cornish Pirates chairman, after the scrapping of play-offs from the second tier.

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The 2016 Rio Olympics GB Sevens silver medallist appeared to use a gesture and swear at referee Greg Garner. Scarlets have condemned Davies' "abusive language or actions". In a statement, the player said: "I would like to apologise to my team-mates, the fans, the Scarlets, my family and the rugby community." In the 28th minute at Stade Felix Mayol, Garner called over Davies and Scarlets captain Ken Owens and told Davies: "If you use that language again on the pitch, I'll send you off." Davies said he had apologised to English official Garner during and after the game. He added: "During the heat of battle I lost my composure and said and did things I deeply regret. "I apologised to referee Mr Garner both during and after the game but would like to reiterate my sincerest apologies publically." A Scarlets spokesperson said: "The Scarlets hold the unique values of rugby union in the highest regard. "Our players are all aware of their responsibility as role models and custodians of those values. "We unreservedly condemn any foul or abusive language or actions like those displayed by James Davies on Sunday." Davies could now face disciplinary action that could affect his chances of facing Toulon in their rematch at Parc y Scarlets, Llanelli on Sunday. Scarlets say they will comply fully with "disciplinary procedures" and conduct an internal investigation into the incident.

Scarlets flanker James Davies has apologised for his "unforgiveable actions" in their European Champions Cup defeat at Toulon on Sunday.

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The retailer has been refurbishing the 160,000 sq ft store since last year, as work continues on a £1bn redevelopment of the shopping centre. It is creating an additional shopping floor, a new cafe and a tech product area as part of the revamp. The redevelopment includes a new entrance on Leith Street and parking spaces outside the shop. The layout of the premises is also being reconfigured, as the store prepares to be reconnected to the redeveloped St James Centre ahead of its scheduled opening in 2020. John Lewis said it expected most of the changes to be completed by the end of this month, with the final touches due to be completed by August. Barry Blamire, head of branch at John Lewis Edinburgh, said: "This is one of the biggest refurbishments the shop has seen in its 43 years and an incredibly exciting moment in our history."

John Lewis has unveiled details of the £24m revamp of its anchor store at the St James Centre in Edinburgh.

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The London trio are up for best UK act and best album, as well as getting two nominations in the best song category. "We got told like this morning 'Oh I think you're nominated'", said Dappy. "And I was like 'Oh yeah, which one?' And now we've got nominated for four awards. I mean, wow!" Bandmate Fazer added: "We thought it's best of us to come down and mingle with everyone and say hello to the cameras. And now we find we've got four nominations." The band have two shots at the best song prize, getting the nod for their Tynchy Stryder collaboration Number One, and single Strong Again. Their album Uncle B will also go up against records by the likes of Beyonce and Kanye West. N-Dubz picked up the best newcomer Mobo in 2007, but female member Tulisa said they wouldn't be too disappointed if they didn't win this time around. "At the end of the day we're grateful to be where we are in our careers. "If it don't happen then it don't happen - live to fight another day and keep on making albums and hits for the fans." Dappy also revealed they could be performing live several times on the night. The group will be doing Number One and also a possible rendition of the War Child single, I Got Soul. The charity song is a re-working of The Killers' All These Things That I've Done and is set to feature artists like Chipmunk, Ironik and Pixie Lott. This year's Mobos will be held outside of London for the first time, in Glasgow on 30 September. N-Dubz said they were looking forward to performing for their Scottish fans and boasted about their recent shows north of the border. "We just done Edinburgh the other day," said Dappy. "We smashed up an N-Dubz show over there. We done Aberdeen about three or four months ago - we smashed up that show over there! Everywhere we go we smash it up!"

N-Dubz have told Newsbeat they are shocked to have picked up four nominations for the Mobo awards.

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The incident happened near Corbett Place and Calais View at about 08:30 on Thursday. Officers are now urging anyone who saw the man to get in touch. He is described as being in his late teens or early 20s with dark, curly, short hair. He is about 5ft 9in and was wearing a dark top.

Police in Fife are searching for a man who was seen exposing himself in Dunfermline.

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That is the unusual sporting journey Sophie Hitchon, 25, has made on her way to competing in her second Olympics, in Rio, this summer. At the age of 14, Hitchon, from Burnley, had been practicing ballet for over 10 years. Three years later, she would be crowned Commonwealth Youth Games gold medallist in the hammer. "It was a bit of a whirlwind," her father Michael told BBC Sport. "In the space of 12 months she'd gone from not being able to throw, to an Under-17 British record." After improving on her British record at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing last summer, she is hoping for even more in Brazil. "Ballet takes a lot of strength in yourself and it helps to develop that from a young age," she told BBC Sport. "It teaches dedication to sport and how to control your direction." Initially focusing on sprint events when she first started track and field, Hitchon took the opportunity to try the hammer throw and has never looked back. "There are plenty of local clubs to have a go at different events, it's all about finding a local club and seeing what's available," she added. "There are lots of young girls getting into it and we'll hopefully see lots of young girls coming through soon." Setting a new Under-17 Women's national record in 2007, she won European Under-23 gold in 2013 and took a bronze medal at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games two years ago. At the World Championships in Beijing last summer, she improved her British record with a throw of 73.86m. Sophie's father is a former English Schools champion in the 100 metres and initially coached Hitchon when she took up the sport. "The strength aspect of dancing came in really well for a future in sport through balance, poise and strength building," Michael Hitchon added. "It sets the mind and performing in front of people at a young age does all really help." Hitchon is currently coached by former hammer Olympian Tore Gustafsson and trains twice a day, five days a week - this includes throws, weights, running and plyometrics. "It's probably one of the most difficult events in athletics, if not the most difficult," Michael Hitchon continued. "I think the event is under appreciated. They have to be everything really - a sprinter, a jumper and a thrower. "You can get a hammer thrower that can run really fast, throw a long way and jump a long way. It's a bit like being a multi-eventer really. "We estimate she's probably done one-and-a-half-million throws in training. "Her whole mentality is about competing for her country. When she pulls on a British vest it's a massive thing for her." From the competitors of the hammer final at London 2012, gold medallist Tatyana Lysenko along with 11th-placed Maria Bespalova, both from Russia, have since tested positive for banned substances. Sophie Hitchon says she will not let this affect her mentality. "There are a lot of issues in athletics and hopefully the people that can sort it are doing the right things," Hitchon stated. "I can only focus on myself and make sure I'm doing the right things." Michael Hitchon added: "I think a lot of people have known for a long time the situation with drugs. I think a lot of people knew what was going on but refused to deal with the problem. "The girl who suffers is the one who comes 13th and doesn't get a chance to compete for an Olympic medal." The countdown to the Opening Ceremony of Rio 2016 begins this Friday at 20:30 BST on BBC One. Hammer throw qualifying begins at 00:40 BST on Saturday 13 August.

From ballet beginnings to hammer heights.

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The Taylors will, we are assured, make "quite an entrance" when they arrive in Albert Square this summer, giving the resident Walfordians "a rude awakening". EastEnders executive producer Sean O'Connor describes them as "noisy and brash" who "lack cash" but "have love and warmth in spades". The announcement has split opinion among fans on the soap's Facebook page, with some worried they are a stereotypical white working-class family and/or a pale imitation of the Millers. Others have said there should be more ethnic minority families instead, or have questioned whether they would be able to afford to live in the East End these days. But some are looking forward to what O'Connor described as their "explosive" impact on Walford life. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Two real-life brothers, an actress who has played TWO previous roles in EastEnders, a bloke from Benidorm and a bearded dragon called Rooney - this is the new "not-to-be-messed-with" EastEnders family.

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The petition calls on the EU and its member states to stop the talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP. It also says they should not ratify a similar deal that has already been done between the EU and Canada. It says some aspects pose a threat to democracy and the rule of law. One of the concerns mentioned in the petition is the idea of tribunals that foreign investors would be able to use in some circumstances to sue governments. There is a great deal of controversy over exactly what this system, known as Investor State Dispute Settlement, would enable companies to do, but campaigners see it as an opportunity for international business to get compensation for government policy changes that adversely affect them. This kind of provision exists in many bilateral trade and investment agreements. Friends of the Earth have published new research on the impact they have had on EU countries. Information about these cases is not always made public, but the group says that going back to 1994, foreign investors have sought compensation of almost €30bn (£24bn) from 20 states. Where the results are known (a small minority of the total), the tribunals have awarded total compensation of €3.5bn (about £2.8bn). In Britain, the possible implications of this provision for the National Health Service have been especially controversial. Campaigners believe that the investor tribunals would make it harder to reverse any decisions to contract services out to international healthcare firms. John Hilary of War on Want said: TTIP "will make it impossible for any future government to repeal the Health & Social Care Act and bring the NHS back into public hands". The petition lists a number of other areas where its signatories believes European standards would suffer if the TTIP negotiations are completed and the Canada deal is ratified: employment, social, environmental, privacy and consumer protection. The European Commission says the EU will not have to sacrifice its high standards. It also says investor protection provisions are important for investment flows and have in general worked well. But it accepts there is a need for improvement and is trying to achieve that in its bilateral negotiations. The petition has been organised as an exercise called a European Citizens' Initiative which can lead to a public hearing in the European Parliament and require the European Commission to give a formal response explaining why it is accepting or rejecting what the petitioners call for. The European Commission has already said that the petition doesn't qualify as such an Initiative. Campaigners have launched a legal challenge to this decision.

A campaign group website says over a million people in the European Union have signed a petition against trade negotiations with the United States.

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US prosecutors had been expressing their wish to put him on trial in a US court since his arrest in February 2014. Guzman, who was named Public Enemy Number One by the Chicago Crime Commission in 2013, has been indicted by at least seven federal district courts. As the head of the Sinaloa cartel, he is accused of overseeing the smuggling of huge amounts of drugs from South and Central America to the United States. He is also facing charges of money laundering, racketeering and arms trafficking in courts as far apart as Arizona and Texas. But since his 2014 arrest in his home state of Sinaloa, Mexico, there has been little movement on the extradition front. While US courts were arguing about who had the best case against Guzman and should therefore get priority putting him on trial, Mexican officials were making it clear they were in no rush to send him across the border. Mexico's attorney general at the time, Jesus Murillo Karam, said as early as April last year that he had "no intention" of handing Guzman over to the US authorities. In an interview with Mexican daily El Universal, Mr Murillo Karam said he was annoyed at a plea bargain an extradited Mexican drug dealer had struck with the US authorities. Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, also known as Vicentillo, pleaded guilty in a court in Chicago to smuggling tonnes of cocaine and heroin to the United States. In exchange for promising the US authorities "full and truthful co-operation", his sentence was reduced from a potential life sentence to 10 years. The US authorities believed Vicentillo could prove a key witness if Joaquin Guzman was ever extradited to the United States. The son of Guzman's number two, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, and a key player in the drugs trade himself, Vicentillo was seen as a valuable asset. But Mr Murillo Karam said he felt "uncomfortable" with the deals the US reached with "criminals" such as Vicentillo. The then-attorney general pointed out that there were plenty of charges Guzman faced in Mexico as well as in the US and that he wanted to see him tried in his homeland. He reiterated his position in January of this year, when he again stated that he wanted to see Guzman serve his sentence in Mexico first. 'El Chapo [Guzman] has to stay here to serve his sentence and then I'll extradite him. That could be in about 300 to 400 years, there's still a long time to go." At the time, he said that he thought a formal extradition request by the US was imminent, but it seems that following Mr Murillo Karam's strong words, the request was not filed. He argued that keeping Guzman in Mexico was also a question of sovereignty. But Mr Murillo Karam is more likely to regret another statement he made back in January. He said that extradition should be considered in instances where there was a flight risk, something he said did "not exist" in the case of Guzman. Given the fact the Guzman had escaped from another top security jail in 2001 and was on the run for the next 13 years, this was a surprising assurance. Comparisons have been drawn between Joaquin Guzman and the late infamous Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Both made immense fortunes in the illicit drug trafficking trade, and through bribery and intimidation managed to sway huge power and infiltrate parts of the security forces. Both have also mounted successful and spectacular escapes from jail. It was Pablo Escobar's jail break that played a major part in changing the Colombian approach to extradition. In a 1991 deal with the Colombian authorities, Escobar agreed to hand himself in to the Colombian police and to serve five years in a jail built to his own specifications in his hometown of Medellin. La Catedral (the cathedral), as the luxury jail was known, boasted a football pitch, a jacuzzi and a bar among its many amenities. After little more than a year, Escobar escaped from the jail and went on the run, much like Guzman did on Saturday. He was eventually killed a year later while still on the run. But before he was jailed, Escobar had threatened and cajoled members of a constitutional assembly to enshrine a ban on extraditions in the Colombian constitution. It remained in force until December 1997, when a constitutional amendment reversed the ban. Since then, Colombia has extradited many drug dealers to the United States saying that it is both a cheaper and safer option for the Colombian justice system. Colombian officials argue that in the US, Colombian drug dealers will find it harder to intimidate guards and their families or to access their riches to bribe prison staff. With 30 prison staff and the warden under questioning over the escape of Chapo Guzman at Mexico's Altiplano jail, this argument may well be met with more open ears in Mexico, too, now.

The escape on Saturday of Joaquin Guzman, one of the world's most wanted drug lords, from a maximum-security jail in Mexico, has reignited the discussion about whether he should have been extradited to the United States.

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Visitors to Jane Austen's House Museum, in Chawton, Hampshire, can view a rarely seen letter in which Austen says the novel is "my own darling child". Also featured are illustrations first included in an 1894 edition, dancing slippers and first editions. The Story of Pride And Prejudice exhibition is open until May. The museum's Madelaine Smith said the enduring appeal of the novel is its perennial themes and that the "characters are real". The museum will also stage a contemporary art exhibition of works inspired by Pride And Prejudice from June to September. Another display later in the year of the original costumes worn in the 1995 BBC adaptation of the novel, will include the white shirt worn by actor Colin Firth as Mr Darcy when he emerged from a lake. "We're not sure if we're going to have it on display wet, but if we do we'll have to spray it daily with water," Ms Smith said.

A museum in the house where Jane Austen completed Pride And Prejudice has opened an exhibition as part of the novel's 200th anniversary celebrations.

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The blaze at Wythenshawe Hall, which broke out at about 03:30 GMT, destroyed the roof and caused extensive damage to an upper floor. Insp Luke Breakspear, of Greater Manchester Police, said the fire investigation was in its infancy. More than 50 firefighters tackled the fire at the timber-framed Tudor hall, which was built in 1540. Wythenshawe was home to the Tatton family for about 400 years. It was donated to local people in 1926 and was previously run as a museum and art gallery. Peter Lamb, Incident Commander with Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, said having a sprinkler system would have made a difference to quenching the fire. "We recommend sprinklers in all buildings where possible - it did have an automatic fire alarm system and thankfully that gave us the early warning which got us here within minutes, whereas if it hadn't had that would have been in serious trouble," he said. Paul Selby, vice-chair of the Friends of Wythenshawe Hall, said: "As a result of the amazing work of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service the hall is safe - obviously it will need a new roof and some cosmetic work inside." Source: Friends of Wythenshawe Hall

A fire that badly damaged a 16th Century hall in Manchester is "suspicious", police have said.

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Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), which has issued the advice, had previously heard complaints about "significant problems" with irresponsible owners. Farmers said some were unable to control their dogs around livestock and let the pets run through crops. The advice includes opening up less sensitive areas to dog walkers rather than trying to ban them completely. Drawing on the experiences of farmers and estate owners, the guidance also encourages landowners to explain why certain places should be avoided. The reasons include ground-nesting birds using the land and areas being used for rearing young lambs or calves. NFU Scotland, Scottish Land and Estates, The Kennel Club and The Scottish Kennel Club were consulted by SNH. Bridget Finton, SNH recreation and access officer, said almost four million adults visited Scotland's outdoors every year and about 48% of those people brought a dog with them. She said: "These high numbers show how dog walking helps lots of people get healthy outdoor activity, but it's really important to minimise the number of occasions when dogs cause land managers' concerns. "This guidance aims to influence the behaviour of the minority of dog walkers who act irresponsibly - actions that can have a big impact on livestock and wildlife, as well as those who are trying to enjoy the outdoors without getting dog dirt on their shoes." Gemma Thomson, of NFUS, said: "NFUS has been aware of increasing issues experienced by members as a result of dog access. "There have been a number high profile instances which have occurred recently. "NFUS is pleased to support the guidance, which should go some way to helping some land managers in ensuring that they are clear about access rights, and also assist them in finding innovative ways to address issues where they occur." Anne Gray, policy officer with Scottish Land and Estates, said a variety of problems related to dog walking were reported to her every year. She said: "These issues range from people not picking-up after their dog has gone to the toilet to dogs disturbing livestock, game birds or wildlife. "We hope this guidance will give landowners, farmers and other land managers helpful tips on how to manage dog-walking on their land in a positive and effective way. "We want everyone to have a good experience of being out and about in the countryside."

New guidance has been offered to landowners to help them avoid clashes with dog owners.

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It was taken by ex-students and staff from UWC Atlantic College in the Vale of Glamorgan who also stayed to help. The boat will be used to try to ensure the safe landing of boats from Turkey. A narrow stretch of water has become a crossing point for people from Syria and other countries which has claimed many lives. College alumni Robin Jenkins and Lily Eckersley-Jones helped transfer the rescue boat to Lesbos with college tutor Michel Creber where another former student, Dr Annegret Berne, had been volunteering. Mr Jenkins, originally from Llantwit Major and a lecturer at University of the Arts London, said: "The faces of the people on board when we come alongside is something that I cannot put in to words. "We were a reassuring sign of safety. "We must do more and we will start on constructing another boat." The first vessel, named LB1 Red Mist, had formerly been used by the college at St Donat's, near Llantwit Major, and its students before being sent to Lesbos. It is now being used by a group called the Lifeguard Hellas Training Centre. Its design is the same as the original rigid hull inflatable boat (RIB) made in the early 1960s by students from the college and which has become the model for RNLI inshore boats across Britain - known as the Atlantic class. Mr Jenkins set up a help group called the Atlantic Pacific Rescue Boat Project to deliver a boat to Japan to assist lifeguards and now others are being made to help rescuers in Lesbos. He said college students working with tutor Michel Creber have already began work on a second RIB and he had also received a donation on Tuesday to cover the cost of making a third.

A Welsh lifeboat has been sent to Lesbos to help people trying to ensure the safety of refugees and migrants arriving by boats on the Greek island.

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Michael Sandford, 20, from Dorking, Surrey, was accused of trying to grab a police officer's gun to shoot Mr Trump at a Las Vegas rally on 18 June. He pleaded guilty to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and disrupting an official function. Lynne Sandford said she feared Mr Trump would "make an example" of her son. Sandford had previously pleaded not guilty to charges of disrupting government business and official functions, being an illegal alien, and possession of a gun. He had been due to stand trial before he signed a plea agreement at a hearing in September. He is due to be sentenced on Tuesday in Las Vegas. Sandford's lawyers said he suffers seizures, obsession-compulsion anxiety and autism spectrum disorders. Mrs Sandford said: "I'm apprehensive and nervous not knowing what the sentence might be. "Michael is terrified. He phoned me 15 times through the night with severe anxiety over what the judge is going to say to him and the sentence he will be given," she said. "Although he signed a plea agreement, which should mean he receives between 18 and 24 months, the judge is able to overrule that. "Michael is afraid that because Donald Trump is now president-elect, it may have some bearing on the judge's sentencing." Sandford may have faced up to 20 years in a US prison if he had been convicted at trial. Mrs Sandford said: "Michael is remorseful over what he did. He fears Donald Trump may intervene and choose to make an example of him."

The mother of a British man accused of trying to shoot Donald Trump says he is "terrified" of a lengthy prison sentence.

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Jimmy Carlson, 64, from Islington, north London, has been appointed OBE for helping to improve services. The former alcoholic became homeless after he was discharged from the Army. Doctor Daniel Moynihan, who runs 13 academies across London, has been knighted, while Emma Colyer has been appointed MBE for charity work. Mr Carlson served with the Royal Pioneer Corps (RPC) - which later became part of the Royal Logistic Corps - for five years. When he was discharged in 1973, he became an alcoholic and lived rough on the streets and in hostels until 1996 when he stopped drinking. Since then he has worked with Groundswell, a self-help organisation for the homeless, and has also helped to bring homeless people together with government ministers. Mr Carlson has also raised £100,000 for The Haven, a club where people in recovery from substance misuse can meet in an alcohol and drug-free environment. He said he was humbled to receive the honour. "I have been to the very bottom and never would have imagined this day then. "Lots of people have helped me on the way and I can only hope that my story can inspire others - the same way I have been helped." He added: "My message is, 'never give up on anyone'. You would have walked over me in the street 15 years ago and thought I was a lost cause, just another drunk. "However, I picked myself up and turned my life around and I have gone on to make a decent contribution to my community." Metropolitan Police PC Mark Edwards, who helped raise more than £350,000 for terminally ill children, has been appointed an MBE. PC Edwards ran a series of marathons in New York and took on other challenges to help raise money for Jack Brown, the seven-year-old son of two of his colleagues, who needed specialist treatment in New York. Jack, who suffered from neuroblastoma, died in 2009, but the officer has continued to raise funds for children with cancer. He said: "When my wife told me I'd got an MBE I nearly fell off my chair. This award is for the whole team who has helped raise the money - not just me." A 74-year-old woman, Jane Warwick, also received an MBE for what the Met described as her "tireless work alongside police" in Lambeth to help set up a firearms and knives amnesty in 1995, which was "incredibly successful". Others honoured include Ruth Owen, from the Victoria-based charity Whizz Kidz, who has been appointed OBE; Paul Elliot MBE now becomes a CBE for services to equality and diversity in football while Maxine Room, principal of Lewisham College, is appointed CBE for her work in education.

A former soldier who spent 23 years sleeping rough in London has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for helping the homeless.

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The 71-year-old was crushed under the vehicle as she crossed Princes Street opposite the Waverley Steps and beside the Balmoral Hotel on Thursday. The crash happened at about 12:15 and the road was closed for two hours. Sgt Iain Blain, of Police Scotland, said: "This collision has left a woman with serious injuries and we are keen to hear from anyone who witnessed it."

A woman who was knocked down by a taxi in Edinburgh city centre is in hospital with multiple serious injuries.

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South Wales Police said it was called to near Llantwit Major beach shortly after 20:30 BST on Tuesday. A force helicopter was used during the search with help from the coastguard. Police said the death is not being treated as suspicious and the coroner has been informed.

A man's body has been recovered near a beach in the Vale of Glamorgan.

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Amos dislocated a shoulder in the 32-8 defeat by Australia and will have an operation in the next week. The 22-year-old Dragons wing tweeted: "Operation set for Monday, aiming to be back in February". "It's unlucky for Hallam... but a great opportunity for Keelan," said Wales assistant coach Neil Jenkins. Find out how to get into rugby union with our special guide. Wales have already selected Cardiff Blues pair Cory Allen and Tomos Williams as injury replacements. They are waiting to discover the extent of scrum-half Rhys Webb's ankle injury suffered against the Wallabies. Amos injured his left shoulder stretching for the try-line late in the game against the Wallabies. But it is not the same shoulder he dislocated playing against England in the 2015 World Cup. Dragons backs coach Shaun Connor the region were upset by Amos' injury. "It's devastating for us, but even more so for Hallam," said Connor. "We're going to miss him, but back-three is a position where we have strength in depth." Giles has been in outstanding form for Ospreys, scoring eight tries in five appearances for the region this season. His pace, footwork and small stature - he is 5ft 8in (1.73m) and 12st 1lb (77kg) - have led to comparisons with Wales' record try scorer Shane Williams, which Jenkins acknowledged. "I think he has a little bit of X-factor about him," said Jenkins. "He's different to the other guys that we've got. I know a lot of people will point out similarities to Shane. "He's not the biggest of players but he's quick and he's electric on his feet and he's brave. "So we'll see how the next couple of weeks go - you never know. "He's got to take his chance with both hands and show the coaches and the players involved what he's all about. "He's already done that with the Ospreys and I'm sure he'll do it in our environment."

Wales have called up uncapped 18-year-old Ospreys wing Keelan Giles for the rest of the autumn international series following an injury to Hallam Amos.

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The pair appeared to spit at each other during Wednesday's Premier League game at St James' Park. Referee Anthony Taylor spoke to Evans and Cisse after the first-half incident, but neither was booked. The Football Association says it is waiting for Taylor's report before deciding whether any action is needed. Last season, George Boyd was given a three-match ban for spitting at Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart. But from this season, FA disciplinary guidelines dictate that the penalty for such an offence is double that. Cisse's punishment could be even greater, given he was sent off for violent conduct in December for elbowing Everton's Seamus Coleman. FA guidelines indicate Cisse could receive an additional one-match ban. A number of ex-players believe Evans and Cisse should be punished. Former Newcastle midfielder Dietmar Hamann described the acts as "not acceptable" and "disgusting", while former Manchester United defender Phil Neville added: "Both those players will be embarrassed." Speaking on BBC's Match of the Day, Hamann added: "There are kids watching. Something has to be done. The behaviour towards each other and the referee is deteriorating on a weekly basis." Former Magpies midfielder Jermaine Jenas told BBC Radio 5 live: "I am completely disgusted. The game does not need to see this." Television replays appeared to show Evans spitting towards Cisse, who was on the ground. The Senegal forward then appeared to spit in the direction of Evans. Neither Newcastle manager John Carver nor Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal said they saw the incident. "I can't comment on it," said Carver, whose side were beaten 1-0. "I just know there was a fracas on the halfway line." Van Gaal said: "I don't think Jonny Evans is a spitter. Maybe spitting on the floor, but we were on the bench and you cannot see from there."

Manchester United defender Jonny Evans and Newcastle United striker Papiss Cisse could face six-match bans if found guilty of spitting.

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International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach is urging the tour to adhere to World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) rules. The PGA Tour has a doping policy but it is not as strict as Wada standards. "I can only encourage the PGA Tour to follow and finally accept the Wada code and to be compliant with this," said Bach at St Andrews during The Open. Bach added that he wanted "a harmonised anti-doping regime there for all the golf players and... a level playing field for all golfers". Asked if non-compliance might put golf's Olympic future in jeopardy, he replied: "Of course, we'd have to take this into consideration." Neither the PGA Tour or European Tour publishes details of the number of drug tests it carries out during a year. Governing body the R&A does not publish details of how many tests it conducts at The Open Championship. Asked earlier this week for a specific figure, R&A chief executive Peter Dawson would only say that the number was significant. Golf is returning to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 at Rio next summer. The sport's ruling bodies were criticised by two-time major winner Greg Norman for not taking the threat of doping seriously enough. The International Golf Federation (IGF) will run the drug-testing programme for the Olympics, beginning 13 weeks before the Games. It will include blood testing (at the moment there are only urine tests in golf), out of competition testing and an introduction of the whereabouts rule. All Olympic golfers - male and female - will have to inform anti-doping officials where they are going to be for one hour each day between 5am and 11pm so they can be tested. Bach added: "The athletes will have to accept the Olympic standards during the next year prior to the Games and, of course, during the Games the first five will be tested on top of the random-testing and the targeted-testing during the Olympic period." David Howman, Wada's director general, said on Wednesday: "No sport can be complacent on the doping issue." He added that the Wada system was the "gold standard" and the best way to ensure that "clean athletes and the watching public can have full confidence in the anti-doping system".

The US PGA Tour has been warned over its stance on doping before golf's return to the Olympics in 2016.

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This hard-fought-for policy united local political parties, but doubt now hangs over it. There are several reasons why. Firstly, although the legislation is in place, it needs a final green light from government. The Northern Ireland Executive must demonstrate its finances are on a sustainable footing. Does a potential £490m blunder over the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme undermine that? This is, perhaps, arguable. We are talking about finding £20-30m a year for 20 years to cover an RHI overspend, a small part of a £10bn annual block grant. But the crisis has put other hurdles on the horizon. The Northern Ireland Assembly must pass a rate recommended by the finance minister in the year before it applies. How soon will there be an executive or assembly the other side of an election? And will there then be a greater reluctance about paying for corporation tax with a £200m cut to the block grant? Any return to direct rule from Westminster might not offer an immediate solution either. European Union state aid rules apply until Brexit and they only allow devolution of corporation tax to a region which has "institutional autonomy". It is premature to pronounce Northern Ireland's big economic idea as dead. But in the here and now, things look mightily challenging - can Invest NI promote a rate and a date to overseas companies with any certainty? Even before the political crisis, some experts felt 2018 was ambitious anyhow for companies to adapt to new rules. And all the while, the main UK rate of corporation tax is falling, blunting the attractiveness of what Northern Ireland wants to offer.

Northern Ireland's political crisis could kill off plans to cut corporation tax to 12.5% in April 2018.

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Media playback is not supported on this device Al Hasawi, who took control of the Reds in the summer of 2012, would not reveal the identity of the buyers. However, BBC Sport understands that a United States consortium, led by millionaire John Jay Moores, is on the verge of securing a £50m deal. The takeover would see the former San Diego Padres owner take an 80% stake in the Championship club. Moores' consortium were previously interested in buying Premier League side Everton, and the potential new owners met club staff last week.

Nottingham Forest owner and chairman Fawaz Al Hasawi says he is close to agreeing a deal to sell the club.

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Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness said his mother Peggy was "traumatised" to learn the truth. He was talking to BBC journalist Peter Taylor for a TV documentary to be broadcast on Monday, 29 September. The former IRA commander from Londonderry joined the IRA in 1970, shortly after the Troubles began. He said he had not told his parents about his membership of the paramilitary organisation. "My mother found, I think it was a black beret or something like that, in the house and it immediately traumatised her, I think," he said. His mother, Peggy McGuinness, died in 2008 aged 84. Looking back on the moment when she found out, he said: "She did not hit me with it or anything like that or if there were gloves, there was no smack across the face with the gloves. "I think that it was a moment in time and she was obviously annoyed at the prospect that all of our lives were changing and maybe mine more dramatically than anybody else's." On 30 January 1972, the Army shot dead 13 innocent civil rights protesters in Derry on Bloody Sunday. Martin McGuinness was second in command in the IRA at that time. He later addressed the Saville Inquiry, set up to establish why those people were killed. The inquiry found that Mr McGuinness was present at the time of the violence and "probably armed with a sub-machine gun" but did not engage in "any activity that provided any of the soldiers with any justification for opening fire". He rose to become a senior figure in the IRA and Sinn Féin and was involved in negotiations with the government that led to paramilitary ceasefires and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. In June 2012, he shook hands with the Queen on her visit to Northern Ireland - a photograph that became a symbol of reconciliation. Earlier this year, Mr McGuinness attended a Windsor Castle banquet hosted by the Queen marking the state visit to Britain of Irish President Michael D Higgins. The deputy first minister has also called for a border poll in Northern Ireland on unification with the Republic of Ireland and said he was fighting politically for reunification. In recent years, Mr McGuinness has insisted his job had become a political one. "My war is over," he said. "My job as a political leader is to prevent that war and I feel very passionate about it. "I want to build a better future for all our people. It is a political project, not a military one." The documentary Who Won The War will be broadcast on BBC One NI on Monday 29 September at 21:00 BST.

Northern Ireland's deputy first minister has said his mother discovered he was in the IRA when he left a beret in her house in the 1970s.

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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.

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Even though Cuba is less than 100 miles away from the US, the two counties fell out in 1959, and no American president has visited since then. The fall out was because two brothers called Fidel and Raul Castro took power in a revolution. America did not agree with how they ran the country. Since being president, Obama has tried to make America's relationship with Cuba more friendly, and in 2015 he re-opened the US embassy which was closed 54 years earlier.

President Obama has arrived in Cuba, an island in the Caribbean, for an historic three day visit.

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Fleetwood shot a four-under-par 68 to keep pace with fellow overnight leader Brooks Koepka at Erin Hills, while Harman carded a 67 to lead on 12 under. Paul Casey, who also started on seven under, fell away with a three-over 75. Justin Thomas is tied for second after becoming the first man to shoot a nine-under-par round at the US Open and the fifth 63 in its 117-year history. There had been four other 63s in US Open history before this week. Jonny Miller hit the first on the par-71 Oakmont in 1973, while Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf's efforts came on the par-70 Baltusrol in 1980. Fiji's Vijay Singh also recorded a seven-under 63, at Olympia Fields in 2003. The US Open tournament organisers have historically prided themselves on trying to make the winning score as close to level par as possible. However, heavy overnight rain dumped an inch of water on the course and that undoubtedly helped low scoring with players able to take advantage of receptive greens and attack the holes. Thomas opened his round with two birdies before dropping a shot on the fourth. Four more birdies followed on the front nine before another bogey on the 10th looked to have put paid to his chances of breaking Miller's 44-year-old record. But after three birdies in six holes, he eagled the 667-yard par-five 18th, hitting his second shot to eight feet from 300 yards and rolling in the downhill putt. Southport's Fleetwood, who finished tied for 27th on his only other US Open appearance in 2015, appeared to be heading towards his second bogey-free round of the tournament after laying up with his second shot on the par-five 18th. However, he left his chip to the green short and then putted through the green and off it with his fourth shot. A sublime chip to three feet allowed him to escape with just his third bogey of the week. "That was the best shot I hit all day," Fleetwood told BBC Sport. "I hadn't been out of position all day and suddenly I was staring double bogey in the face. "Bad shots make bogeys and 18 was a good example. I could still have been there now, hitting the ball over the green. But I hit the perfect shot and I was made up when I got on the green. "Three days down and so far so good." Fellow Englishman Casey was one of the four overnight leaders but he fared the worst, posting a triple bogey for the second day running as he dropped out of contention. His downfall began with an errant second shot on the par-four third into deep rough. That led to a seven and a further shot went on the next hole. On Friday, the 39-year-old responded with a run of five successive birdies but he was unable to replicate that on Saturday, as he ended the round on four under par. Home players occupy 12 of the top 16 places on the leaderboard and with six shots separating them, any one could still win on Sunday. None of the dozen have won a major, and neither have the four non-Americans (Fleetwood, Kim Si-woo, Bernd Wiesberger and Hideki Matsuyama). Harman, who is bidding to become the first left-hander to win the US Open, knocked in six birdies. The 30-year-old, who won the Wells Fargo tournament last month, said: "I've been striking the ball so well and giving myself chances so I'll just try to keep doing what I've been doing. "I'll definitely think about the mindset I had in winning Wells Fargo a few weeks ago." Big-hitting Koepka, who averaged 320 yards with his driver on Saturday, had five birdies in his four-under round. Rickie Fowler had a run of three successive birdies from the 14th as the leader from the first round shot a four-under 68 to get to 10 under and just two off the lead. Patrick Reed's seven-under 65 featured eight birdies and one bogey as he improved to eight under. He said he felt like he "hit the ball better" in Friday's second round, despite taking 10 fewer strokes on Saturday. Reed explained: "I was really seeing the lines and had the speed. And most of my birdie putts were uphill and I could attack. On Friday it was the opposite." Russell Henley (67) and Charley Hoffman (68) are all in a group four off the lead on eight under. However, not all Americans fared well. Jordan Spieth, the 2015 champion, started the day level par and was still on that mark after a couple of birdies cancelled out two bogeys in his opening 11 holes. Two more bogeys followed though and a double-bogey on the par-five 18th saw him finish four-over after a 76. "It's been an off-week for me with the putting," said the former world number one. "I've been striking the ball well. "It's just been trying to figure it out on and around the greens. And I feel like once the can gets open, I'll start pouring them in." Germany's Martin Kaymer, winner in 2014, took 41 shots to complete the front nine and although he picked up two birdies on the back nine, his three-over 75 saw him drop back to level par. And two-time winner Ernie Els, who was two under after round one, dropped five shots in his opening six holes on Saturday. The South African rallied with an eagle two on the par-four 15th but had a triple-bogey seven on the 17th to drop to five over after a 79. England's Eddie Pepperell, 26, had five birdies and two bogeys in his three-under-par 69 to get to four under and remain in with a chance. After dropping three shots in his opening six holes, Matt Fitzpatrick holed five birdies in eight holes to post a two-under 70 to climb to three under. Fellow Englishman Andrew Johnston mixed three birdies with four bogeys as he slipped back to one under with a 73. And Scotland's Martin Laird is putting together a solid tournament with nine birdies and nine bogeys in his opening three rounds. However, it looks like Lee Westwood's wait to win a major will go on to The Open in July. The Englishman was three under after round one, but he followed Friday's 75 with another 75 today to drop to three over. More to follow.

England's Tommy Fleetwood is one shot off Brian Harman's lead going into Sunday's final round of the US Open.

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The angel shark, once widespread across Europe, is now listed as critically endangered, with waters around the Canary Islands the only place they are frequently seen. But there have been increasing sightings off the Welsh coast. Fishermen are being asked to report all accidental catches of the shark. They are also being given advice by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) scientists on how to safely handle and release them. Angel sharks can grow up to about 2.5m (8ft) in length. They are also known as monk or monkfish by fishermen in the region. They are not threatening to humans, living mainly on sand or mud at the bottom of the sea and preying on small fish and molluscs. Ben Wray, marine biodiversity ecologist at NRW, said: "We know very little about the ecology of the shark in Welsh waters at the moment - the population could be present all year round, or only for part of the year. "The fact that commercial fishermen and anglers along the coast of Wales are helping us with this research is really important. "We hope that the data we gather will help us build a much better picture of the situation and help our work to conserve these amazing creatures."

Scientists and fishermen are teaming up to try to find evidence of one of the world's rarest sharks off the Welsh coast.

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Firefighters were called to the scene in Craigton Place, Winchburgh, at about 01:30 after a wheelie bin was set on fire. The bin had been resting against the house, which caused the fire to take hold quickly. Firefighters swiftly extinguished the blaze, when it was discovered that a gas pipe had been damaged in the fire. Thirty homes in the area were evacuated, with 38 residents temporarily housed at a local community centre. They were eventually allowed to return home at about 06:30. 'Young children' Police are treating the blaze as wilful fire-raising and appealed for information about the West Lothian incident. They are keen to trace anyone who may have seen someone in the area just before the bin was set alight. Det Con Adrian Wallis said: "This was a serious incident which could have had devastating consequences. "It also resulted in the evacuation of over 30 people, including young children and elderly residents. This caused much alarm and upset to those who had to leave their homes in the middle of the night. "Anyone who saw anything suspicious at around 01:00, or has any other information regarding this incident, is asked to contact us immediately."

Thirty homes had to be evacuated after a gas pipe was damaged in a fire that was started deliberately.

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At the close the Dow was 0.1% lower at 19,918, the broader S&P 500 was down 0.2% at 2,260 and the Nasdaq was 0.4% lower at 5,447. With a 2% fall, Wal-Mart was one of the big losers. Investors stepped back from a recent rally fueled by optimism that President-elect Donald Trump will invigorate economic growth. Analysts said the market appears to be winding down before the holiday period.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average continued to back away from Tuesday's record close.

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Mr Drumm, who resigned in December 2008 as the bank was collapsing, was brought before Dublin District Court on Monday to be charged with 33 offences. They include false accounting linked to transactions worth 7bn euros (£5.4bn). He was arrested in the early hours of Monday after arriving at Dublin Airport on an overnight flight from Boston. Gardaí (Irish police) accompanied the former chief executive on the transatlantic flight and shortly after landing he was brought to a Dublin police station, and then escorted to the court. The hearing was told that Mr Drumm made no reply when police officers put the charges to him at the station. Sixteen of the charges relate to the alleged provision of unlawful financial assistance to 16 wealthy investors, in a bid to prop up Anglo's share price before the collapse. Mr Drumm moved to the US in 2009, the same year Anglo Irish Bank had to be bailed out by Irish taxpayers. Police objected to his bail application, claiming the accused is a potential flight risk. A sergeant told the court police believed Mr Drumm had the capacity to flee the jurisdiction and seemed to have access to large sums of money when required, despite owing millions in debts. A prosecution lawyer told the court the accused had fought tooth and nail against his extradition from Boston and had been leading the authorities a "merry dance" during the process. However, Mr Drumm's solicitor said his client had offered to surrender his passport, be tagged and sign on twice daily at his local police station. The defence lawyer added that the accused had offered to provide a "relatively large" amount of cash and had several family members who were willing to "put their houses on the line" so he could be granted bail. The judge granted bail on Mr Drumm's own bond of 50,000 euros (£39,000) and two independent sureties of 50,000 euros. Mr Drumm ran Anglo Irish Bank from 2005 to 2008 and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in the US. However, the bankruptcy bid failed and a Boston court ruled that he could be held liable for debts of 10.5m euros (£8.34m). It was alleged during the bankruptcy case that the 48-year-old former bank boss secretly transferred money and assets to his wife, so they could not be seized during bankruptcy proceedings. Authorities in the Republic of Ireland issued an extradition request last year and he was arrested at his American home in October. At a hearing in Boston last month, Mr Drumm agreed to return to the Republic of Ireland as soon as possible. Bailing out the bank cost Irish taxpayers about 30bn euros (£22bn: $34bn), close to one-fifth of annual output. Its downfall played a large role in the collapse of the Irish economy in 2008 and the ensuing bailout from its eurozone partners two years later.

David Drumm, former boss of the Anglo Irish Bank, has been granted bail by an Irish court after he was extradited from the US to face fraud charges.

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"Donor fatigue" had led to funding for SW Radio Africa drying up, its manager Gerry Jackson told the BBC. The station was launched when President Robert Mugabe faced strong opposition to his rule from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party. After four years in coalition with the MDC, Mr Mugabe fended off his rivals and was re-elected to office last year. Ms Jackson said the long crisis in Zimbabwe, and the "massive disarray" in the ranks of the MDC, had contributed to "donor fatigue". Seizing radios The European Union (EU) had also decided to "re-engage with Mugabe and the ruling Zanu-PF party, which may have influenced some donors who do not want a critical voice out there", she added. BBC World Service Africa editor Richard Hamilton says SW Radio Africa's final news bulletin, from an office outside London, was tinged with sadness. Although the Zimbabwean government jammed some of its short wave broadcasts, SW Radio Africa still had its loyal listeners - estimated at one point at around one million, he says. "We are gone so our voice is completely gone," Ms Jackson told the BBC.

A radio station opposed to Zimbabwe's government has shut down after 13 years of broadcasting from the UK.

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The Latics lost 1-0 at home to fellow relegation candidates Bristol City on Saturday to leave them four points from safety with nine games remaining. Former Manchester United Under-21 manager Joyce, 52, took over in November after Gary Caldwell's sacking but only won six of 24 games in charge. Assistant manager Graham Barrow will take charge for the rest of the season. "It is unfortunate that we have made this decision but with the team in such a perilous position in the league, we need to act now because we cannot afford to fall any further behind," said chairman David Sharpe. "Results and performances have simply not been up to standard often enough in recent matches. "Although we acknowledge the difficulties faced in managing a team in a league where we are competing against clubs with much larger budgets, the nature of some of our recent defeats, especially against close rivals, has fallen short in terms of what we as a club, and all our supporters, expect." Former Bolton, Preston, Plymouth, Burnley and Hull City midfielder Joyce signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Wigan, but has left along with first team coach Andy Welsh. After winning the League One title last season, the Latics have struggled in the second tier, and are the lowest scorers, having failed to find the net in 10 of their last 14 home matches. Barrow, 62, is a former Wigan midfielder and manager who returned to the club in 2009 to work as a coach under Roberto Martinez.

Championship strugglers Wigan Athletic have parted company with boss Warren Joyce after only four months.

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The West End singer and presenter has previously won two Oliviers - for best actor in a musical in 2008 for Hairspray and in 2013 for Sweeney Todd. The Olivier Awards, which are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, will be held at London's Royal Opera House on 3 April. Ball will also be hosting the nominations announcement, taking place at noon on 29 February. The announcement will be streamed live at www.olivierawards.com. Ball, who was made an OBE last month, previously co-hosted the awards in 2011 and 2012. Last year's big winners were Kinks-inspired musical Sunny Afternoon and drama A View From the Bridge, with Dame Angela Lansbury winning her first Olivier Award for her role as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, her first West End role in nearly 40 years. Voting opened on Tuesday for the Magic Radio Audience Award, the only Olivier voted on by the public. The 16 shows in the running for the award are: Beautiful - The Carole King Musical; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Jersey Boys; Disney's The Lion King; Mamma Mia!; Matilda the Musical; Les Miserables; The Mousetrap; The Phantom of the Opera; The Railway Children; Stomp; Sunny Afternoon; The Play that Goes Wrong; The Woman in Black and Thriller Live.

Michael Ball is to host this year's Olivier Awards, it has been announced.

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Janet Jordon, 48, her daughter Derrin, aged six, and her partner Philip Howard, 44, were found in a house in Vicarage Road, Didcot, on 23 May. The body of murder suspect, Janet's son 21-year-old Jed Allen, was found two days later in woodland near Marston Ferry Road, Oxford. The private funeral is being held at Oxford Crematorium. The families of the murder victims described their deaths as an "unimaginable" tragedy. Post-mortem examinations confirmed all three died from multiple stab wounds.

A funeral is being held for a family who were found stabbed at their home in Didcot, Oxfordshire.

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More than 20 firefighters were sent to the Westmorland Shopping Centre in Kendal just after 08:00 BST when smoke was spotted by a member of staff. A cordon was put in place around the split-level complex, which houses about 30 shops and an indoor market. A fire service spokesman said the blaze was quickly extinguished and no-one was injured. He said the site would remain closed for a time for smoke to be ventilated from the building.

A Cumbria shopping centre had to be evacuated after a fire started in a shop storeroom.

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It's more serious and darker, a bit like Doctor Who in its last series. Not everyone was happy with that change, but the team behind Atlantis say they are prepared for any criticism. "The show is made to work pre-watershed," says executive producer and co-creator of Atlantis Johnny Capps. "I think audiences now are a lot more sophisticated than they used to be. "Children are exposed to a lot more darker and interesting material than they used to be. "So I think you have to reflect that in the fact that your audience is more sophisticated." He says that thanks to their later time slot of 8.30pm, they're hoping to catch adults and children. And making the programme darker isn't necessarily a bad thing. "I think it's a good thing because your showing the complexities of life and emotional stories," he says. "So I think they are richer and I think a family audience will learn more about life, because the shows are darker. "So they show the light side and the dark side. They show the consequences of emotional stories." Jason, who is played by Jack Donnelly, says he was worried about the changes and how they would be received by the audience. "It's nothing like series one," he tells Newsbeat. "I was chatting with Mark (Addy) and Rob (Emms) about it the other day, and it's not even really a follow-up. "They've pretty much rebooted the entire series. "It's a lot darker, a lot more serious, all the episodes are serialised, one leads into the other, leads into the other. [They're] not standalone stories any more." But are the team prepared for the backlash? "Slightly, yes," admits Jack. "I will be honest, Mark, Rob and myself, we were concerned in the beginning because we'd sort of built up a rhythm with each other last year. "We knew what we were doing, and there was a humour that undercut all the serious moments. "And we've sort of had to step away from that, under the producer saying, 'You know this is a new direction we are going in.' "And having seen some of the episodes, just only rough cuts, I would say it might not be suitable for all the younger members of the audience [like] it was last year. "But I do think overall, the show has improved. "I think it is a positive thing, where they've taken it. And it just makes it more interesting. "So for everyone we lose, I'm hoping we're going to gain someone else." Atlantis is on BBC One on Saturdays from 20:30 GMT Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

The new series of BBC One's drama Atlantis starts on Saturday night, but fans are being warned to gear up for a very different show.

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The council has been consulting on a new protection order which would ban dogs from play areas and sports pitches, and require them to be kept on leads on public roads and pavements. The RSPCA said the order could create a "negative view of dog ownership". Wrexham council said it recognised that dogs must have space to exercise and the recommendations allow this on informal open space and country parks. The council currently has three dog control orders and wants to replace them with a new Public Spaces and Protection Order (PSPO). The order recommends: Responding to the consultation, the RSPCA said banning dogs from sport pitches was "restrictive," especially if there was no other spaces nearby. It said dogs need to have exercise off the lead, allowing them to express "their normal behaviour". The charity recognised that dog faeces can be "a nuisance" to people that use the pitches, but said it can be removed. "Imposing the restriction would punish responsible dog owners," it said. Councils were given powers to introduce PSPOs in the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. RSPCA Cymru public affairs manager Paul Smith said: "We don't want these powers to accidentally create a negative view of dog ownership by implementing undue restrictions, or inadvertently demonise responsible dog owners." Councillor David Bithell, Wrexham council's lead member for environment and transport, said they have had "an extensive consultation" and listened to all views about the proposed PSPO. "Dogs have been excluded on marked sports pitches since 2009, and we recognise that dogs must have space to exercise," he said. "The recommendations allow this on informal open space and country parks, although around the visitors areas and car parks, we are asking that they are put on a lead."

The RSPCA is urging Wrexham council not to "demonise" responsible dog owners.

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Communities across Wales were hit by Sunday's deluge and North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said they received 30 calls. In Wrexham, homes and streets were hit in Llay, Rossett and Gresford. Residents in at least four properties on Llay New Road are being rehoused while repairs are carried out. Brother and sister Peter and Mandy Jones spent Monday surveying the damage at their father's home. He is being rehoused for the next several months until repair work is completed. They described the situation as "distressing" saying cars passing through Sunday's floodwater sent waves of water into their father's home on Llay New Road. Wrexham council said it was assisting tenants at five council houses in Llay and two in Rossett and knew of other private homes affected by the floods. In Pembrokeshire residents described an "ocean of water" after a river burst its banks near homes in Narberth. And in Whitland, Carmarthenshire, five people were rescued by boat after their car was submerged in flood water.

The clean-up operation is continuing in Wrexham after heavy rain caused flooding.

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He said the prime minister's position owed less to "great philosophers" than the hapless sidekick from the 1980s BBC TV show Blackadder. Mrs May noted Sir Tony Robinson, who played Baldrick, was a Labour member. Sir Tony later described the pair as "a beardy man and a grumpy lady". During Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Corbyn and Mrs May argued over the government's yet-to-be-announced stance for when negotiations for leaving the European Union begin next year. The Labour leader accused the prime minister of presiding over a "shambolic Tory Brexit" and called for clarity and warned of the effect of it might have on the Irish border. Mrs May pledged no return to the "borders of the past", saying a Common Travel Area had existed since 1923, and accused Mr Corbyn of trying to "frustrate the will of the British people" over the EU referendum. The government has said it will formally trigger Brexit talks by the end of next March, but has consistently refused to offer a "running commentary" on its negotiating stance. Prime Minister's Questions took an unusual turn when Mr Corbyn made reference to Baldrick, the turnip-loving and intellectually challenged servant to Rowan Atkinson's 1980s historical comedy character Edmund Blackadder. He said: "When you're searching for the real meaning and the importance behind the prime minister's statement (on the recent European Council summit), you have to consult the great philosophers. "The only one I could come up with is Baldrick, who says, 'Our cunning plan is to have no plan."' This was a reference to Baldrick's frequent claim to have a "cunning plan" to deal with the trickiest situations, but which nearly always turned out to be less than brilliant. Mrs May responded: "I'm interested that you chose Baldrick. Of course, the actor playing Baldrick was a member of the Labour Party, as I recall." Sir Tony is a long-serving activist who has chaired proceedings at the party's annual conference - he has also been a recent critic of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. The reference prompted him to tweet, mocking Mrs May's oft-used pledge that "Brexit means Brexit", by saying "Baldrick means Baldrick". "I'm in the hairdresser's," he later added. "Suddenly a lot of people seem to want to talk to me!" Returning to his put-upon alter-ego, he wrote: "I never said nuffin' at PMQs, it was the beardy man and the grumpy lady. Baldrick x"

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has likened Theresa May to the comedy character Baldrick over her approach to Brexit negotiations, telling MPs her "cunning plan is to have no plan".

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There were also celebrations for Bayern Munich, while Zlatan Ibrahimovic was lauded in Paris and Gonzalo Higuain broke a long-standing Serie A scoring record. But what else happened in Europe this weekend as further champions were crowned and others didn't have it quite as good? BBC Sport rounds up the stories you might have missed. Club Brugge are Belgian champions for the first time in 11 years thanks to a 4-0 hammering of title rivals Anderlecht. There are still two games to go in the play-off system used to determine the title winners. But Brugge's victory on Sunday means Michel Preud'homme's side are now six points clear and, thanks to finishing top of the regular-season standings, cannot be overhauled. Top scorer Abdoulay Diaby scored twice within five minutes in the first half, before Hans Vanaken and Timmy Simons added goals after the break to spark Brugge's title celebrations. Benfica secured a third successive Portuguese title as they held off the challenge of Lisbon rivals Sporting on a fluctuating final day. The defending champions were two points ahead of Sporting going into Sunday's closing round of games. Sporting threatened to take the title thanks to a better head-to-head record after they scored their opening goal in a 4-0 win over Braga to go top of the table briefly. But that situation lasted just three minutes as Benfica then went in front against Nacional through captain Nicolas Gaitan, before going on to complete a 4-1 victory. Jonas scored the second goal to take the Brazilian's total for the season to 32 as he finished as the league's leading scorer. Gaitan added the third and Pizzi the fourth as Benfica, who at one point trailed Sporting by eight points, secured the title with a record number of points and club record total of 87 goals for an 18-team division. Besiktas are the new Turkish champions after they sealed their first title since 2009 with a 3-1 win over Osmanlispor. Their victory keeps them six points clear of second-placed Fenerbahce, who beat Genclerbirligi 2-1, with one game to go in Turkey's Super League. Germany international Mario Gomez, 30, fittingly led Besiktas to their 14th championship success as the league's leading scorer added his 26th goal of the season. On-loan defender Marcelo had earlier scored twice for Besiktas, who last month moved into a new 42,000-seater stadium. Stuttgart has enjoyed better days than the finale of the regular season in Germany as the city suffered three relegations. The senior team - three times Bundesliga champions - ended a 39-year stay in the top flight as they were relegated. It also spelled the end of head coach Jurgen Kramny's spell in charge. Kramny, 44, replaced Michael Zorniger in November, but will revert to his former job as coach of the reserves, who finished bottom of the German third division. They therefore drop into regional football, along with Stuttgart Kickers, who were relegated after finishing third from bottom of the third tier. Steven Fletcher hasn't pulled up many trees in France but marked what may be his last Ligue 1 game for Marseille in eventful fashion as he scored and missed a penalty. Fletcher's loan move from Sunderland was one of the more surprising January transfer deals and the Scot made an early impression with a cup goal on his first start. That was it, though, until the former Hibernian, Burnley and Wolves striker, 29, claimed his first league goal in his 12th appearance in a 1-1 draw at bottom club Troyes in Saturday's final round of league fixtures. There was to be no happy ending as Fletcher then missed a spot-kick inside the last 10 minutes, but he has a chance of salvation and a possible big finish in next weekend's Coupe de France final against Paris St-Germain, who are seeking to complete a domestic treble. Sevilla obviously enjoy their trips around Europe, if not across Spain. Unai Emery's side will be bidding to win the Europa League for the third year running when they face Liverpool in the final in Basel on Wednesday night. Sevilla therefore played a weakened team for their final La Liga fixture on Saturday and lost 3-1 at Athletic Bilbao, meaning they finished the season without a single away league win. Timothee Kolodziejczak was sent off as Sevilla finished the season in seventh place, with their Copa del Rey final against Barcelona to come next Sunday. At the bottom of La Liga, Sporting Gijon saved themselves on the final day as they beat fourth-placed Villarreal 2-0. That meant Getafe, beaten 2-1 at Real Betis, went down with Rayo Vallecano and Levante. A running sideshow of Italian football this season has been the "will he stay or will he go?" saga of Roma legend Francesco Totti's future. The former Italy international, 39, is out of contract this summer after 23 years at the Stadio Olimpico. Totti has been a bit-part player under Luciano Spalletti as Roma finished third in Serie A. But reports in Italy suggest Roma's record appearance maker has been offered a new deal. "We have offered Totti another year's contract as a player," Roma director Mauro Baldissoni is quoted as saying in the Italian media. So... is Totti staying? "We're waiting for a response," Baldissoni reportedly said. "He'll want to think about it." On the pitch, Palermo secured their Serie A survival with a final-day 3-2 win over bottom club Hellas Verona. Carpi's 2-1 victory at Udinese was therefore not enough to give them a second season in Italy's top flight. Elsewhere, Miroslav Klose marked his final game for Lazio by scoring a penalty in his side's 4-2 home defeat by Fiorentina. The Germany international, 37, leaves after scoring 60 goals during his five seasons in Rome.

Barcelona kept Real Madrid at bay to retain the La Liga title as silverware was dished out around Europe.

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The plant was connected to the grid on Tuesday, Press Trust of India reported. In May, India's Supreme Court ruled that the power station could start operations as it was "safe and secure". Opponents of the plant, which is on the coastline hit by the 2004 Asian tsunami, fear a disaster similar to the one at Fukushima in Japan in 2011. Last year, Kudankalum was the scene of mass protests over safety concerns. But the government says the joint Indo-Russian project, which is seen as critical to India's energy needs, is "necessary for the welfare and economic growth of India" and is "completely safe". The plant is one of many that India hopes to build as part of its aim of generating 63,000 MW of nuclear power by 2032 - an almost 14-fold increase on current levels. The plant became operational during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's two-day visit to Moscow. Mr Singh was expected to finalise a deal with Russia for more reactors for the plant, but it fell through as Russia has refused to sign India's nuclear liability law. The law stipulates that nuclear firms aiming to set up plants in India will have to pay huge sums of money in case of an accident and Delhi and Moscow have not been able to agree on this clause.

The controversial Kudankulam nuclear plant in India's Tamil Nadu state has begun producing electricity after years of delays and protests, officials say.

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Nearly a third of those making applications wanted to put all their debts in one place, a survey for Lloyds Bank suggested, with another third wanting to buy cars and bikes. It said 84% of borrowers were confident about making future repayments. Debt charities urge debtors to budget for interest rate rises. People should also consider how they would repay were they to have a significant change in their life, such as the addition of a child or the loss of a job. Lloyds said that while major purchases might prompt loan applications, there was a fall in the share of loans used to fund home improvements. It added that borrowers were more confident in the second quarter of the year than the first when it came to making repayments on unsecured loans. The proportion rose from 81% to 84%. The bank said that this signalled that people were increasingly "in control" of their finances. Many analysts have warned that this confidence could take a knock when the Bank of England raises interest rates. Such a move could come as early as the start of the new year.

Borrowers are applying for personal loans mostly to consolidate existing debt or to buy cars and bikes, a lender has suggested.

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A batch of pills with the superman logo containing the chemical PMMA may still be in circulation according to the police. Dr Adam Winstock from the Global Drugs Survey, a drugs research organisation, says if the people making the pills are ruthless "they will be changing the colour and the logo". "Don't assume that because a pill has a different logo, it is safe," he says. "I guarantee if there is someone dodgy out there, they won't be pressing more pills with the superman logo on." Suffolk police are searching for ecstasy pills containing PMMA following the deaths of three men in Suffolk and one in Shropshire. ParaMethoxyMethylAmphetamine (PMMA) is a highly toxic class-A drug. Dr Winstock describes it as "a potent hallucinogenic stimulant" that has been around for about 20 years. It acts more slowly than MDMA (the main component of ecstasy), he warns, so people often think it isn't working which makes it very easy to overdose. "Early warning signs are that you feel more agitated and less nice than usual," he says. "And then you get the other things like nausea, shaking, blurred vision, overheating, anxiety, agitation - symptoms you also get with pills that have a very high dose of MDMA in." He says PMMA is not a drug that people take intentionally. He believes it's possible that "someone has made a large batch of PMMA, is trying to get rid of it and is flogging it off to various groups who unwittingly are packaging it as MDMA tablets". The rogue pills may have come from the Netherlands, he says, as they appear to "be the same 'superman' pills that were found in Amsterdam a couple of months ago". Dr Winstock says most pills and powders sold as MDMA do contain MDMA - and pills containing PMMA are rare. He says last year his team at the Global Drugs Survey "searched high and low to find tablets that had PMMA in and it was really, really hard. "So my guess it that there are just pockets of the drug out there." Dr Winstock says there's no way of testing if a pill contains PMMA - and claims home-testing kits are not effective. "If you're not coming up after an hour, it's not MDMA, so bin it," he says. "Don't think taking more of a rubbish drug is going to take your night better." He says "old school things" like staying well hydrated and keeping your temperature down much harder if you've taken PMMA, as the drug makes you overheat and dehydrate more than MDMA. "The most important thing is to look out for your mates", he says. "Don't take people's word for it if they say they are ok. If you're worried - you act. Call an ambulance." He says it's safer for one person in a group of friends to take a small amount of a drug to tests its effects, than for a whole group to take a full dose at the same time. Dr Winstock says: "There has been an increase in deaths involving PMMA in the last three years." He believes the chemical has been implicated in at least 22 deaths in the past year. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

A leading drugs expert is warning the rogue ecstasy pills linked to four deaths this year, may have changed brand or colour.

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Tom Rogic, who levelled in extra time for Celtic, missed the vital spot-kick, blazing high and wide. Rangers striker Kenny Miller fired in the opening goal, with Celtic replying through an Erik Sviatchenko header. A wonderful long-range strike from Barrie McKay had Rangers in front on 96 minutes before Rogic swept home to set up a tense Hampden shootout. James Tavernier and Nicky Clark failed to convert from the spot for Rangers, while Callum McGregor and captain Scott Brown could not hit the target for Celtic before Rogic's miss made it 5-4 on penalties to the Championship winners. Minutes before the penalties, a thunderous free-kick from Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths crashed off the crossbar and bounced off goalkeeper Wes Foderingham before slipping narrowly wide. Foderingham also made a good stop to deny Rogic from close range after the Australian substitute had scored to make it 2-2. A pulsating, engrossing and always combative Old Firm game ended with several players out on their feet, barely able to move. The game had been a relentless affair from the outset. The pitch seemed a clutter of players in the opening spell, as play ranged from one end to the other. Defenders had to rely on their wits and hope that their composure would survive the sense of being under siege. Celtic's back four were certainly soon aware of the nature of the threat they would face, when McKay - who was lively and impressively dangerous throughout - speared a ball through to Miller, whose shot was well stopped by Craig Gordon. Rangers began to impose their game plan, passing the ball swiftly and adroitly and taking the set-pieces short, particularly corners. Yet Celtic could be incisive on the break, and Brown ought to have opened the scoring from the edge of the area, only to tug his shot wide. Amid the breathlessness, Rangers found good fortune on their side. The breakthrough came when Tavernier delivered a poor corner kick that led to the ball breaking to Andy Halliday. His cross in turn was also mis-hit, but the ball cannoned off Brown into the path of Miller, who finished coolly. With Halliday and Jason Holt pushing forward in central midfield, Rangers were composed and assertive. The strategy was effective but Celtic could still rely on individuals to be bold and they should have equalised when Griffiths' shot bounced off the post, with the rebound landing at the feet of Patrick Roberts. With an open goal in front of him, the on-loan winger skewed wide. The miss would have galled Celtic, but so too would the way Rangers often passed the ball around them, even at close-quarters. Kieran Tierney, so solid, dependable and with such sound defensive instincts, was a one-man resistance for the Premiership leaders for a period before half-time. Fiery words would certainly have been spilled inside the Celtic dressing room during the interval. It was effective, since the team was aggressive, intense and irrepressible at the start of the second half. Celtic won four corners in succession and scored with the last of them, when Roberts' delivery was headed high into the net by Sviatchenko. Sviatchenko and Nir Bitton both came close with headers before players tired and became more conservative. No quarter could be given, though, and every aspect of the game was contested. Celtic certainly believed that a throw-in early in extra should have gone their way. Instead, Rangers worked the ball to the edge of the area, where McKay hammered a shot into the top corner. For all that the players were drained and sore, the rivals could not be separated and the excellent Tierney made space to cross and Rogic converted low into the corner. Penalties followed a frantic finish and Halliday, McKay, Nicky Law, Lee Wallace and Gedion Zelalem held their nerve to score and set up the the first final to be contested by two teams outside the top flight. Match ends, Rangers 2(5), Celtic 2(4). Penalty Shootout ends, Rangers 2(5), Celtic 2(4). Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot is high and wide to the left. Tomas Rogic should be disappointed. Goal! Rangers 2(5), Celtic 2(4). Nicky Law (Rangers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Goal! Rangers 2(4), Celtic 2(4). Mikael Lustig (Celtic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Goal! Rangers 2(4), Celtic 2(3). Gedion Zelalem (Rangers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Goal! Rangers 2(3), Celtic 2(3). Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner. Goal! Rangers 2(3), Celtic 2(2). Lee Wallace (Rangers) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner. Penalty saved! Scott Brown (Celtic) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner. Penalty saved! Nicky Clark (Rangers) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the top left corner. Goal! Rangers 2(2), Celtic 2(2). Nir Bitton (Celtic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal. Goal! Rangers 2(2), Celtic 2(1). Barrie McKay (Rangers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Penalty missed! Still Rangers 2(1), Celtic 2(1). Callum McGregor (Celtic) hits the bar with a left footed shot. Penalty missed! Bad penalty by James Tavernier (Rangers) right footed shot is too high. James Tavernier should be disappointed. Goal! Rangers 2(1), Celtic 2(1). Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner. Goal! Rangers 2(1), Celtic 2. Andy Halliday (Rangers) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner. Penalty Shootout begins Rangers 2, Celtic 2. Second Half Extra Time ends, Rangers 2, Celtic 2. Barrie McKay (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Patrick Roberts (Celtic). Attempt missed. Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Patrick Roberts with a cross following a corner. Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Wes Foderingham. Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Andy Halliday (Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Andy Halliday (Rangers). Tomas Rogic (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Andy Halliday (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Tomas Rogic (Celtic). Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Kieran Tierney. Attempt saved. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tomas Rogic. Attempt missed. Jason Holt (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Nicky Law. Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Wes Foderingham. Attempt saved. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum McGregor with a through ball. Attempt missed. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Goal! Rangers 2, Celtic 2. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney. Second Half Extra Time begins Rangers 2, Celtic 1. First Half Extra Time ends, Rangers 2, Celtic 1. James Tavernier (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Patrick Roberts (Celtic). Attempt saved. 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Rangers set up a Scottish Cup final with Hibernian after a thrilling tussle with Celtic was settled on penalties.

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They include developments in Edinburgh, Haddington, Strathaven, Glasgow, Linwood, Aberdeen and Newmachar. Last year, Barratt built 1,390 new homes in Scotland, nearly half of which were constructed on brownfield land. The company said its building programme reflected "a continued recovery in Scotland's economy" and the health of the new-build housing market. Barratt said the new sites would "underpin" more than 300 extra local jobs. Douglas McLeod, regional director for Barratt Developments in Scotland, said: "We have seen demand for new homes across Scotland remain high and our new sites will provide more choice for buyers looking to purchase in some of Scotland's most sought-after residential locations. "It's also good news for the Scottish economy not just in terms of supporting local construction jobs, but also through the generation of local revenue from new residents spending in local shops and on local services. "We know the positive social and economic impacts that our developments can make and we'll be working closely with all the communities in which we're building, to make sure we maximise those impacts as we progress."

House builder Barratt has announced plans to create 1,420 homes at 14 new sites across Scotland this year.

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At first, it is hard to say exactly why. It is just that something doesn't feel quite right. Ulsan feels like a place you vaguely know but can't quite figure out how. And then it hits you. It is reminiscent of old photographs of European shipbuilding towns on rivers whose names are redolent of their history: in Britain, the Clyde, Tyne, Wear, Tees or Mersey. In those pictures cranes and partly built ships towered over houses. Thousands streamed from work together the moment a shift ended. Nobody could forget how work enabled their lives because they saw, heard and smelled the place of work in every corner of the town. It was their skyline. That world of the heaviest of industry is no longer prominent in Europe. Even the biggest shipyards that remain (in Romania, Poland and Germany) are minnows compared to the yards of Asia. If you look at the league table of shipbuilding companies in the world, five of the top 10, including all of the top four, are South Korean. The other five are Japanese and Chinese. But the Hyundai Heavy Industries yard at Ulsan is the biggest of them all, giant cranes (aptly called Goliaths) dominating the skyline. The city pulsates with work and wages and the activities of far from idle hands. The yard stretches for 2.5 miles (4km). More than 60,000 people are employed there, constructing a huge ship every four or five days. These ships are the length of three football fields and are built in pieces each weighing hundreds of tonnes and then assembled around the clock. In the dark, the yard glows across the town. By day, the clang of construction rings out. In the old European pictures and newsreels, workers would stream home on foot or maybe bicycles. At Ulsan, they swarm out on motor scooters. And when they are out, they drive the company car, eat in the company restaurants, laugh and cry in the company theatre, shop in the company department store, have their children in the company hospital, learn in the company schools, cheer for the company football team. One of the longest-serving workers, Lee Sang-bok, told the BBC: "Everything here is Hyundai. The highway I drive on is named after the founder of the company. The hospital and university is funded by Hyundai too. "There's a town joke that it's just like the Hyundai Kingdom." He started work at the yard soon after it opened in 1974. "I joined this company when I was just 16. In the past 40 years, shipbuilding really has become the centre of my life. I devoted all my youth to this company. It's become my identity". When South Korea industrialised in the 1960s and 1970s, setting in train its breathtaking transformation from poverty to affluence, it was done in a way to make Western "free-market" economists disapprove (though there is an argument that when the United States and Britain industrialised, they broke their own rules, too). Government direction and government subsidy was the order of the day. South Korea's leader at the time, Gen Park Chung-hee, said "do it" and the corrupt rich he had jailed and threatened had no choice but to create the industries the government decreed. It was "directed capitalism". Under Park Chung-hee, scores of businessmen were arrested and charged with "illicit profiteering". Property was confiscated. Some were paraded with signs round their necks saying: "I am a corrupt pig." In return for freedom and renewed access to their money, the country's richest people were told to invest in new industries. They had to sign an agreement stating: "I will donate all my property when the government requires it for the construction of the nation." Initially, the plan focused on six key industries (cement, synthetic fibre, electricity, fertiliser, oil refining and iron and steel), but in the early 1970s it turned to shipbuilding. And this is where construction magnate Chung Ju Yung came in. It should be said that he was not in that first wave of corrupt business leaders. He earned his money the hard way, born a peasant who left home to labour on building sites and then to form his own construction company. With the Korean War, he thrived. Initially, he made cars in Ulsan but then turned to shipbuilding. He was supremely ambitious and supremely confident - legend has it that he toured London seeking finance and when it was pointed out that South Korea had no shipbuilding industry, he took out a Korean bank note on which was a famous ship from the 16th Century. He was also supremely careful with money. In the company museum at the Ulsan shipyard, there are two pairs of shoes which Mr Chung is said to have worn for 30 years, getting them constantly repaired despite being a multi-billionaire. Read more stories from the South Korea Direct season: The woman who liberated Korean housewives In Pictures: Fish, fruit and veg in South Korea's markets How good are Kim Jong-un's hackers? His parsimony has paid off. It used to be said that Asian manufacturers competed with Europeans and North Americans on price but not on quality. That is no longer so. The Ulsan yard is a builder of sophisticated vessels into which goes a lot of top research. Metal gets bashed but lab mice get pushed, too. It is heavy industry in which research and the latest technology is incorporated. Lee Sang-bok is now an inspector at the yard. His role is important. Some of the vessels built there are carriers of liquefied natural gas. Inside these ships go huge containers. A leak of LNG would be catastrophic, igniting a huge explosion, so welds have to be inspected in microscopic detail. This is what Mr Lee does. It is a working life that has lasted 40 years. It has given him and his family prosperity and pride.

To a European visitor, the city of Ulsan on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula seems like a throwback to some lost world.

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The left-arm seamer, 26, dismissed Kusal Perera with the final ball of the 46th over before removing Angelo Mathews and Thisara Perera in the 48th. Faulkner finished with 3-45 as Sri Lanka made 288 in Colombo. They bowled Australia out for 206 in reply to win by 82 runs and level the five-match series at 1-1. Slow left-armer Amila Aponso, who made his debut in the opening match of the series, finished with 4-18 in 9.2 overs, with Matthew Wade's 76 the top score for the tourists. Bruce Reid, Anthony Stuart, Brett Lee, Clint McKay and Dan Christian are the other Australians with ODI hat-tricks.

All-rounder James Faulkner became the sixth player to take a one-day hat-trick for Australia as Sri Lanka won the second match of the series.

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Alasdair McCrone, of Mull Theatre, and Gordon McLean, of the arts centre An Tobar, were among three directors of the umbrella body Comar. It looks after a number of arts organisations on the island. Comar's board said funding restrictions made it necessary to reduce three posts to one. It said the three existing directorial posts - in theatre/dance, visual arts/film and music/literature - would be replaced by one artistic director who would lead the entire creative programme Comar, which was created two years ago, said it hoped to continue to work with both Mr McCrone and McLean. Equity blames poor business planning and is calling on the board to resign. A public meeting about the decision is to be held in Tobermory next week. High-profile Scottish actor Alan Cumming tweeted: "This makes me so sad. Another example of the accountants take over at the expense of the art. And in Mull too." Former Scottish culture secretary and SNP MSP for Argyll and Bute, Michael Russell, tweeted: "Making Alasdair & Gordon redundant is an extraordinary wrong-headed decision and must be opposed."

The actors' union Equity has hit out at the decision to remove two of Mull's best-known creative directors from their posts.

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Adrian Simut, 35, travelled to Newport train station, where he thought he was meeting a 14-year-old girl called Sam. But he was confronted by so-called "paedophile hunters" and later arrested, Newport Crown Court was told. He admitted attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and meeting a child after online grooming. He also pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act. The court heard Simut started messaging the teenager in an online chat room in June, saying she looked "cute and beautiful". But she was in fact an adult belonging to a group called Petronus. The operation was captured on film by the BBC Wales Week In Week Out programme, which investigated the role of paedophile hunters in Wales. The court heard that Romanian national Simut arranged to meet "Sam" in Newport and suggested she bring a friend for sexual activity. Sentencing him, Judge Michael Fitton QC said: "You were the subject of an exchange conducted by those who are looking to attract paedophiles." He was also made the subject of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order. Paedophile hunting groups have drawn criticism from both the Home Office and police, who have said it was inappropriate for the public to conduct undercover work. They have urged anyone with information to instead pass it to them instead.

A paedophile who travelled from London to south Wales has been jailed for three years.

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Italian media say two families were living in the four-storey building that collapsed in Torre Annunziata district. Two children are among those missing. The cause remains unclear. Neighbours did not report hearing any explosion - just the crash of masonry at dawn. Some masonry fell on the nearby Naples-Salerno railway line, so traffic on it has been suspended. It is a seismically active area but there is no suggestion that an earth tremor jolted the building. There are suspicions that the collapse could be linked to vibrations from the railway, or to renovation work that was under way on the lower floors.

Rescuers in southern Italy are trying to find eight people missing after an apartment block collapsed in Naples.

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When former US pro-basketball star and all-round character Dennis Rodman met with North Korea's sports minister this week he took along gifts for the country's authoritarian leader, Kim Jong-un. Mr Rodman has in recent years forged an unlikely friendship with Mr Kim, a big basketball fan who is alleged to have executed hundreds of people, including close family members, to cement his authority. The North Korean leader reportedly lives a hugely extravagant life, paid for with vast funds from the state coffers. All in all, a tricky man to shop for. Here's what Mr Rodman bought the man he called his "friend for life". Gift one was President Donald Trump's 1987 ghostwritten bestseller The Art of the Deal, a guidebook on how to negotiate some of the best deals. The copy wasn't signed by the author. Or Mr Trump. Mr Kim has at his disposal ways and means of negotiating which would be unpalatable even to a New York real estate developer. In fact, the North Korean leader, who occupies a semi-religious position in the country's political firmament, and whose every word is taken down in real time by a cadre of notebook-carrying assistants, probably has very little call to do any effective negotiating at all. Gift number two: a copy of Where's Waldo. A seemingly bizarre gift for a world leader. Then again, could this somehow allow Mr Kim to practise for when he needs to pick a friend out of the crowd? As for buying him the Totally Essential Travel Collection, Mr Kim has no known friendships with foreign leaders and rarely - if ever - leaves the country. Mr Rodman famously married himself in a public stunt, so we know he has a sense of humour. Mr Kim is known to be a big fan of basketball, despite his singular dislike for the country that made the sport famous. He is said to have inherited the eccentric obsession from his father, the supreme leader, Kim Jong-il. In a failed diplomatic effort in 2000, then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presented the elder Kim with a ball signed by Michael Jordan. During a visit in 2014, Mr Rodman played - and sensibly lost - an exhibition game against a Korean side in honour of Mr Kim's birthday. He also sung him happy birthday from the court. This is probably the most sane gift of the lot. Both the Rodman camp and the Trump administration have said publicly that Mr Rodman is not travelling on state-sanctioned 'basketball diplomacy'. So either they're both lying, and the mermaid puzzle, ingeniously, once completed, carries a coded message, or they're telling the truth, and one of Dennis Rodman's gifts to the leader of North Korea was a mermaid puzzle. So he panicked and grabbed a couple of things at the airport - you've never done that?

What do you give the man who has an entire country at his mercy?

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BBC Radio 5 live found football ticket-touting laws are being flouted, leaving fans vulnerable to online brokers. Some ticketing websites have deals with clubs but others could be "duping" customers on "an industrial scale". The FSF says supporters "would not mind paying an administration fee" to clubs to keep secondary ticket prices down. "Any company that gets between fans and a club will try to make a profit," Michael Brunskill, FSF spokesperson, which represents the rights of football supporters in England and Wales, told BBC Sport. "We understand fans might want to sell on tickets because they can't make it to a game, but our preference would be that clubs manage that." Arsenal are one club that already provides an in-house service where season ticket holders who cannot attend a game can resell tickets to members. The club says that 50,000 tickets were redistributed through their exchange last season, with 44,000 so far this season. The general resale of football tickets was banned in 1994 because of safety fears over the possibility of rival fans mingling together. Only outlets officially authorised by clubs can offer unwanted seats, with Everton and Tottenham having deals with one firm, Stubhub. Another website, Twickets, has a deal with Crystal Palace where tickets cannot be sold for more than face value. But overseas firms can avoid UK consumer law and the Society of Ticket Agents & Retailers warns the online trade allows unscrupulous firms to "dupe unsuspecting ticket buyers". Under UK law, tickets advertised must include the cost and location of seats in the stadium, but during its research 5 live Investigates found many examples where this did not happen or the tickets arrived late. The investigation also found that Premier League tickets with a face value of £23 were being be resold for as much as £130 each. In a bid to clamp down on illegal trading, Manchester United have seized more than 1,750 tickets during the past two seasons. One firm, Ticketbis, was found to have distributed season tickets and it was also claimed it was reselling tickets associated with people already banned from a stadium. When asked to respond to the allegations, Ticketbis, which is based in Spain, said it is a "secure online platform that works as an intermediary between individuals that want to buy and sell tickets in 40 countries". The company did not comment on the illegal sale of football tickets. Brunskill added: "It's important fans understand there are different types of secondary ticket companies. Some have no affiliation with football clubs, and are often based offshore so are not subject to UK law. "If anyone is planning to buy tickets, do your research because with these companies there is a danger that your tickets don't turn up. "There is a place in the market for the fair reselling of tickets and we would like clubs to use their own in-house systems."

Clubs could prevent fans being ripped off by creating their own secondary ticket exchanges, says the Football Supporters' Federation (FSF).

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South Wales Fire and Rescue Service put out the blaze at Alexandra Docks which came after 20,000 tonnes of wood caught alight on 5 December. The service said four appliances, an aerial platform, two water tankers and a pump had to be sent on Monday after it burst into a fresh blaze. The fire was eventually was brought under control at about 17:30 GMT. Six crews remain at the scene damping down. The fire had been smoking since it started 16 days ago, with Natural Resources Wales saying on 10 December it could continue to smoulder for "weeks".

A wood chip fire which first ignited at a Newport dockyard more than two weeks ago has flared up again.

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Rocket Lab's 17m-long (56ft) Electron lifted off from the Mahia Peninsula, in the North Island, the firm said. The test flight was the first launch from New Zealand and is a major first step in an emerging market: launching cheap disposable rockets to carry small satellites and other payloads. The company plans to start frequent commercial launches later this year. Poor weather conditions had pushed the launch into the fourth day of a 10-day window and the Electron finally cleared its pad at 16:20 local time (04:20 GMT). The launch was conducted with no media or spectators permitted, but the company released a video of the lift-off on its Twitter page. "It was a great flight," chief executive Peter Beck said in a statement after the launch, adding though that the rocket did not quite reach orbit, the path on which its future cargo would embark on its revolution of the Earth. "We'll be investigating why, however reaching space in our first test puts us in an incredibly strong position to accelerate the commercial phase of our programme, deliver our customers to orbit and make space open for business." The test launch, one of three planned, did not carry a payload as such, although it was packed with sensor equipment to help engineers understand how the flight performed. Eventually, Rocket Lab says it will be lofting payloads up to 150kg (331lbs) into a 500km-high orbits that go from pole to pole. We're on the cusp of something quite exciting. Innovative companies are packaging really capable technologies into very small, low-cost satellites. Their data will drive myriad new services - from helping city officials keep track of urban development to giving farmers information about the performance of their crops. But if this new wave is to succeed it needs cheaper access to space. At the moment, the economics and flight schedules of these small satellites are still being defined by the availability and price of a ride on a big rocket. Rocket Lab aims to change that. And there others, such as Richard Branson's LauncherOne project. Rocket Lab's second vehicle is already built and set to fly in the next couple months. Keep an eye on the end of the year too because this US/NZ outfit even has a contract to send a small lander to the Moon. Rocket Lab's founder and chief executive Peter Beck is from New Zealand and the firm has a New Zealand subsidiary. The country has less air traffic, compared to say the US, so there is less need for flights to be rerouted every time a rocket is sent to space. New Zealand is also positioned well to get satellites into a north-to-south orbit around Earth. The trajectory takes the rocket out over open water, far from from people and property. The country hopes these favourable factors will help it become a low-cost space hub. Nice touch: The Electron has nine engines on its first stage and one engine on its second stage. They are called Rutherford engines - after the great New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), who famously split the atom in 1917. Private and commercial rocket launches are becoming more and more common - the most famous example being Elon Musk and his SpaceX Falcon rockets. But the SpaceX vehicles are huge and are aimed at following in the footsteps of Nasa missions, delivering cargo to the international space station and eventually sending people to Mars. Rocket Lab's goal is to launch what, by comparison, is a tiny rocket for a fraction of the price, but with much more frequency. The Electron is a mere 17m long and 1.2m in diameter. Each launch only costs about $5m. Rocket Lab wants to conduct 50 or more a year. Just to put this all into perspective: SpaceX's current Falcon rocket is a towering 70m and can carry 22,800kg into low-Earth orbit for a standard price of $62m. Rocket Lab's website already allows you to book a slot for your satellite. The cheapest deal is a small cubesat on a rideshare option - prices start at $77,000 (£59,280).

An American company has launched a rocket into space from New Zealand, the first from a private launch facility.

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Sixth seed Wozniacki, the champion in 2010, saw off unseeded American Stephens 6-2 6-3 in the first semi-final in Toronto. Defending champion Simona Halep was thrashed 6-1 6-1 by Ukraine's Elina Svitolina in the second semi-final. The pair played twice in the day after rain disrupted the schedule. Svitolina lost the first set against Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza before the rain arrived on Friday night, and the fifth seed fought back on Saturday to win 4-6 6-4 6-3. Romanian second seed Halep swept past France's Caroline Garcia 6-4 6-2 in the last of the quarter-finals. None of Wozniacki's 25 career titles have been won this year - losing all five finals she has played in 2017. "I had one year where I went to six finals and I won all of them," she said. "I guess it's a give and take sometimes and just that I keep myself in these situations is awesome." Svitolina said she was "a little bit tired" after the rain affected her schedule, but is ready for the final. "I didn't expect this type of day but I'm very happy that I could stay very focused," she said. "Yeah, I'm very happy."

Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki will try to win her first title of 2017 after reaching her sixth final with victory over Sloane Stephens at the Rogers Cup.

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The Stanford University analysis of 68 million days' worth of minute-by-minute data showed the average number of daily steps was 4,961. Hong Kong was top averaging 6,880 a day, while Indonesia was bottom of the rankings with just 3,513. But the findings also uncovered intriguing details that could help tackle obesity. Most smartphones have a built-in accelerometer that can record steps and the researchers used anonymous data from more than 700,000 people who used the Argus activity monitoring app. Scott Delp, a professor of bioengineering and one of the researchers, said: "The study is 1,000 times larger than any previous study on human movement. "There have been wonderful health surveys done, but our new study provides data from more countries, many more subjects, and tracks people's activity on an ongoing basis. "This opens the door to new ways of doing science at a much larger scale than we have been able to do before." The findings have been published in the journal Nature and the study authors say the results give important insights for improving people's health. The average number of steps in a country appears to be less important for obesity levels, for example. The key ingredient was "activity inequality" - it's like wealth inequality, except instead of the difference between rich and poor, it's the difference between the fittest and laziest. The bigger the activity inequality, the higher the rates of obesity. Tim Althoff, one of the researchers, said: "For instance, Sweden had one of the smallest gaps between activity rich and activity poor... it also had one of the lowest rates of obesity." The United States and Mexico both have similar average steps, but the US has higher activity inequality and obesity levels. Global sleeping patterns revealed by app data Has wearable tech had its day? Is that fitness tracker you're using a waste of money? The researchers were surprised that activity inequality was largely driven by differences between men and women. In countries like Japan - with low obesity and low inequality - men and women exercised to similar degrees. But in countries with high inequality, like the US and Saudi Arabia, it was women spending less time being active. Jure Leskovec, also part of the research team, said: "When activity inequality is greatest, women's activity is reduced much more dramatically than men's activity, and thus the negative connections to obesity can affect women more greatly." The Stanford team say the findings help explain global patterns of obesity and give new ideas for tackling it. For example, they rated 69 US cities for how easy they were to get about on foot. The smartphone data showed that cities like New York and San Francisco were pedestrian friendly and had "high walkability". Whereas you really need a car to get around "low walkability" cities including Houston and Memphis. Unsurprisingly, people walked more in places where it was easier to walk. The researchers say this could help design town and cities that promote greater physical activity. Follow James on Twitter. Reporter conflict of interest: I made 10,590 steps yesterday but clocked up only 129 on Sunday, I left my phone on the kitchen table all day - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

US scientists have amassed "planetary-scale" data from people's smartphones to see how active we really are.

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The data, published in the Lancet, shows that only one in 200 women - or 0.5% - is still doing any degree of breastfeeding after a year. That compares with 23% in Germany, 56% in Brazil and 99% in Senegal. The researchers said it was a "widespread misconception" that breastfeeding was beneficial only in poor countries. In the UK, 81% of mothers had tried breastfeeding at some point, but only 34% were breastfeeding at six months and 0.5% at 12 months. In the US, 79% started, 49% were still going after six months and 27% after a year. It is the worst record in the world. Breastfeeding is far more common in developing countries, but the UK figures are behind even similar countries in Europe. Women in the UK are advised to feed their baby exclusively on breast milk for the first six months and then a combination of breast milk and other foods, however, it does not give a recommend end-point. Breastfeeding is good for the health of the baby and lowers the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Prof Cesar Victora, report author from the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil, said: "There is a widespread misconception that the benefits of breastfeeding only relate to poor countries. "Nothing could be further from the truth, our work clearly shows that breastfeeding saves lives and money in all countries, rich and poor alike." The Lancet report said breastfeeding in developed countries reduced the risk of sudden infant deaths by more than a third. And in poorer countries, half of cases of diarrhoea and a third of respiratory infections could be avoided by breastfeeding. Overall, the report's authors said that near-universal breastfeeding could save over 800,000 children's lives a year. A commentary, signed by Save the Children UK and the World Health Organization, was critical of formula milk being promoted at the expense of breastfeeding. It said: "The active and aggressive promotion of breast milk substitutes by their manufacturers and distributors continues to be a substantial global barrier to breastfeeding. "Promotion and marketing have turned infant formula, which should be seen as a specialised food that is vitally important for those babies who cannot be breastfed, into a normal food for any infant." Commenting on the findings, Sarah Redshaw, from the BabyCentre website, said: "It is crucial to bear in mind the various barriers and challenges faced by mums when it comes to breastfeeding. "Generally mums are aware that breastfeeding is best for their baby but often don't get the right support if they encounter problems in the early weeks - which many, many do. "As a result, significant numbers give up on breastfeeding." Follow James on Twitter.

Rates of breastfeeding in the UK are the lowest in the world, an international study shows.

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The origin of the giant 'A' at Playhatch Roundabout on the A4155 Reading to Henley road is not yet known. The roundabout is near Sonning-on-Thames, where a red letterbox 'appeared' on a bridge last year. A BBC Radio Berkshire reporter saw the 'pin' and posted an image on a BBC Facebook page. "I was just driving to Sonning to go play touch rugby on Monday night and the sign caught my eye as I went round Playhatch Roundabout," said reporter Catherine Bolsover. "I asked around on Twitter but no-one knew where it had come from or who had made it. "One suggestion was that it's linked to whoever put a postbox on Sonning Bridge." In response to her Facebook photograph, one person commented: "Noticed this yesterday nearly drove on to it!" Anita Trif, a waitress at The Crown pub nearby, said no-one knew where the sign had come from. "I first saw it on Friday or Saturday," she added. "We have all seen it but have no idea where it's come from. We have all been wondering about it."

A sign resembling a large, red Google Maps pin has been spotted on an Oxfordshire roundabout.

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Hythe Ferry runs between Hythe and Southampton, serviced by a train which runs along a 640m (2,000ft) pier. The presenter lent his support to a community group's aim to take over the management of the pier and train. Its current operator said numbers using the ferry had been falling. Earlier this year, Hythe Ferry Ltd warned staff about possible redundancies, having suffered a "year-on-year decline" in passenger numbers and faced with higher operating costs. More than 9,000 people have signed a petition calling for the service to be saved. Peter King, of the Hythe Hythe Pier Train and Ferry Action Group, said members wanted to create a "viable modern ferry" by a charitable trust taking over the management of the Victorian pier and "relieving" the ferry operators of the costs of maintaining it. He said a redevelopment project could cost £2-3m but a trust would be able to access other sources of finance, including lottery grants. Mr Snow said: "This train is the oldest running pier train anywhere in the world, so I'm campaigning to keep it open. We need to do everything we can to keep this extraordinary piece of our past running."

A Hampshire pier and ferry service facing an uncertain future is a "national treasure" which should be saved, television historian Dan Snow has said.

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Germany's Lisa Brennauer was edged into second as Vos came third to move three seconds clear of Christine Majerus of Luxembourg. Majerus, who came fifth, had pipped Vos to victory on the opening leg of the five-stage race on Wednesday. Lizzie Armistead was the highest-placed Briton, in 18th, on the 140km ride from Atherstone to Stratford-Upon-Avon. The 27-year-old reigning world, Commonwealth and national road race champion took the Best British Rider jersey as she continues her preparations for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August. Find out how to get into cycling with our special guide. 1. Amy Pieters (Ned/Wiggle High5) 3hrs 36mins 55secs 2. Lisa Brennauer (Ger/Canyon-SRAM) same time 3. Marianne Vos (Ned/Raboliv) same time 4. Gracie Elvin (Aus/Orica-AIS) same time 5. Christine Majerus (Lux/Boel-Dolmans) same time 6. Emma Johansson (Swe/Wiggle High5) same time 7. Giorgia Bronzini (Ita/Wiggle High5) same time 8. Floortje Mackaij (Ned/Liv-Plantur) same time 9. Leah Kirchmann (Can/Liv-Plantur) same time 10. Anna van der Breggen (Ned/Raboliv) same time Selected others 18. Lizzie Armitstead (GB/Boels-Dolmans) same time 19. Dani King (GB/Wiggle High5) same time 32. Laura Massey (GB/Drops) +1min 42secs 45. Jessie Walker (GB/British National) same time 46. Rebecca Durrell (GB/Drops) +4mins 57secs 48. Annasley Park (GB/British National) same time 53. Grace Garner (GB/British National) same time 1. Marianne Vos (Ned/Raboliv) 7hrs 1min 26secs 2. Christine Majerus (Lux/Boel-Dolmans) +3secs 3. Amy Pieters (Ned/Wiggle High5)) +7secs 4. Lisa Brennauer (Ger/Canyon-SRAM) +11secs 5. Giorgia Bronzini (Ita/Wiggle High5) +13secs 6. Leah Kirchmann (Can/Liv-Plantur) same time 7. Gracie Elvin (Aus/Orica-AIS) +14secs 8. Lizzie Armitstead (GB/Boels-Dolmans) +16secs 9. Floortje Mackaij (Ned/Liv-Plantur) +17secs 10. Emma Johansson (Swe/Wiggle High5) same time

Marianne Vos moved into the overall lead at the Women's Tour as her Dutch compatriot Amy Pieters won stage two.

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The board of ARM is expected to recommend shareholders accept the offer - which is around a 43% premium on its closing market value of £16.8bn on Friday. The Cambridge-based firm designs microchips used in most smartphones, including Apple's and Samsung's. ARM, which was founded in 1990, employs more than 3,000 people. Shares in the UK technology firm surged by 45% at the open of the London Stock Exchange to 1,742.85p per share, adding £7.56bn to ARM's market value. ARM said it would keep its headquarters in Cambridge and that it would at least double the number of its staff over the next five years. Softbank is one of the world's biggest technology companies and is run by its founder, Japanese entrepreneur Masayoshi Son. It has previously acquired Vodafone's Japanese operations and the US telecoms company Sprint. The $20bn deal was the biggest foreign acquisition by a Japanese firm at the time. The new deal will be funded by Softbank's own cash reserves and a long term loan from Japan's Mizuho Bank. It's hard to exaggerate just how important ARM is to the UK tech sector - and the shock many are feeling this morning at the news that it is about to lose its independence. Its brilliance was to realise that if chips were about to come with everything, you didn't have to make them - designing them was the key. Five years ago, Cambridge was home to at least three world-beating UK-owned technology firms, ARM, Autonomy and Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR). Then Autonomy was swallowed up by HP in an ill-fated deal, last year the chipmaker Qualcomm bought CSR, and now the biggest and best, ARM, is about to have a Japanese owner. And in Softbank, ARM may well have found a good parent. The Japanese firm bought France's Aldebaran robotics business and has gone on to give it a global profile. But there will still be sadness this morning in Cambridge, and beyond, that Britain's best hope of building a global technology giant now appears to have gone. Softbank-ARM deal is a bet on the future Softbank intends to preserve the UK tech firm's organisation, including its existing senior management structure and partnership-based business model, ARM said. Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive of Softbank, said: "This is one of the most important acquisitions we have ever made, and I expect ARM to be a key pillar of SoftBank's growth strategy going forward. However, the co-founder of ARM Hermann Hauser said: "This is a sad day for me and a sad day for technology in Britain." "ARM is the last British [technology] company that has a global reach," he said. "It gave Britain real strength. It was a British company that determined the next generation microprocessor architecture." ARM Holdings is arguably the most precious jewel in the crown of British technology, its microchip designs are used in billions of devices. Sources close to the deal say the Japanese company considers ARM well placed to exploit the so called "internet of things" which may see microchips embedded in whole new categories of household and business devices. Prime Minister Theresa May recently questioned whether foreign takeovers of UK firms are always in the national interest. However, Softbank has committed to doubling the size of ARM's UK-based workforce over the next five years and new Chancellor Philip Hammond welcomed the deal. That allure has been boosted by the fall in the value of the pound since Brexit - making UK targets cheaper and many industry watchers are predicting a new wave of foreign takeovers. ARM has until recently argued that its future was better served as an independent company. However, Stuart Chambers, ARM chairman since March 2014, is no stranger to making it big in Japan. He was responsible for selling Pilkington, another blue chip UK company, to Nippon Sheet Glass in 2006. Prime Minister Theresa May said the deal between Softbank and ARM Holdings showed the UK economy could be successful after the country voted to leave the European Union. A spokeswoman for the prime minister said Mrs May believed the deal was in the country's national interest - a gauge that she will use to assess any future foreign takeovers. "This is good news for British workers, it's good news for the British economy, it shows that, as the prime minister has been saying, we can make a success of leaving the EU," the spokeswoman added. Dan Ridsdale, analyst at Edison Investment Research, said "An increase in inbound merger and acquisition activity was one of the obvious consequences of Brexit and weakened sterling, but few expected it to manifest itself so quickly or at so large a scale." Former Business Secretary Vince Cable told the BBC there was usually very little the government could do to prevent takeovers. "We don't have a system of defence against takeovers if they prove to be unsatisfactory," he said. Mr Cable added the government had few legal powers to stop takeovers unless it could be demonstrated there was a national security issue.

UK technology firm ARM Holdings is to be bought by Japan's Softbank for £24bn ($32bn) it confirmed on Monday.

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The US posted annualised growth of 2.6% for the fourth quarter - lower than the 3% projected by economists. The figure was weaker than the 5% growth in the third quarter of 2014. However, the dramatic slide in fuel prices in recent months has put more money in consumers' pockets and allowed them to spend more. Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of US economic activity, rose by 4.3% in the fourth quarter - the fastest rise in nearly nine years - and higher than the 3.2% for the third quarter. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said: "It took us a while to get here, but I think the economy is finally off and running. "We are seeing a number of positive developments. Businesses are hiring aggressively and the big drop in gas prices means that people have more money to spend on other items." The near-60% slide in oil prices in the plast seven months has cut the price of petrol to about $2 per gallon, or the equivalent of £1.32 for 4.5 litres. That is little more than British drivers pay for just one litre of petrol. The fall has saved Americans about $175bn, Mr Zandi said: "A big part of growth this year will be people spending their gas savings." For 2014 as a whole, the economy expanded by 2.4% - better than the 2.2% for the previous 12 months. The report came two days after the Federal Reserve said the US economy was expanding at a "solid pace", but said it will "remain patient" in determining when to raise interest rates. The main rate has been held at close to zero since December 2008. Some economists believe an increase could come in middle of the year, but Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said Friday's data could delay a rise until late this year or even early 2016. He feared that the US economy was too reliant on consumer spending given that business investment fell by an annualised rate of 1.9% - the biggest decline since the second quarter of 2009. "Ideally, a sustainable economic upturn requires business spending to be rising alongside consumer expenditure." "While Markit's Flash PMI survey data signalled a further robust expansion of private sector business activity in January, the latest reading was the second weakest for 11 months and points to GDP growth sliding to 2% in the first quarter," Mr Williamson added. "Companies also reported the weakest monthly increase in new orders since the recession, suggesting the pace of economic growth could weaken even further in February."

The world's largest economy expanded less than expected in the final three months of 2014 despite lower fuel prices boosting consumer confidence.

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Hend, 43, carded a one-over-par 73 to finish on nine under after the third round at Wentworth. Hatton, 24, birdied five of his last eight holes to shoot a six-under 66. England's Lee Westwood (68) and YE Yang (75) are tied for third on seven under, while Masters champion Danny Willett (76) is a shot further back. Hend complained after his round about the behaviour of some spectators towards him over the closing holes, as he played in the final match with Willett. The Australian said: "Danny was getting all the crowd support and I had no problem with that. But there were a couple of guys out there who were really over the top and it wasn't very nice what they were saying. "It was quite rude and personal and if it was up to me I would have had them thrown out. "Danny and I are mates. I've played with him before and he wants me to do well and I want him to do well. But when you get hecklers in the crowd saying pretty rude things as they were, I was ready to punch them." Willett again struggled on the back nine. Having coming home in 39 after a tournament record first-nine of 29 in his second round, Willett took 41 strokes on Saturday. The 28-year-old Englishman said: "It's disappointing to be somewhere there or thereabouts and then to play poorly on the back nine like we did yesterday. "We had everything under control nicely and then a couple of loose shots, a couple of bad decisions, a couple of missed putts and very quickly it kind of slipped away." Hatton, who has finished fifth, 13th and 12th in his last three events, set the clubhouse target more than two hours before the leaders finished after firing the day's lowest score. He said: "I've been walking around this place since (I was) a five-year-old and I was in awe of the guys inside of the rope. "For me now, playing my third BMW PGA, it's great. I love this event." England's Westwood is playing the event for a 23rd year in a row and is targeting a first win after a second-place finish in 2000 and losing a play-off to Luke Donald in 2011. Westwood, who finished second to Willett at the Masters in April, maintained his ever-present run after taking painkillers to help overcome a foot ligament injury sustained while running on Tuesday. He said: "For a pro to win the PGA at any stage in their career is special. But to do it at 43 years old, in my 23rd appearance and having been in contention a lot before, would be great. "I've played well here in the past and having finished second in the Masters and 10th in the Irish Open, I was surprised to be 33-1 going into this week. "I haven't played a lot at the start of the year, so I'm pretty fresh coming into this part of the season. Normally I would have played 15 events and I've only played six. I'm looking forward to a run of golf now." We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter ahead of the Euros and Olympics, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.

Australia's Scott Hend eagled the 18th hole for the second successive day to take a one-shot lead over England's Tyrrell Hatton at the PGA Championship.

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Shaun Ritchie, 20, was last seen with friends at a remote woodland area near Strichen on the night of Friday 31 October into the Saturday morning. Police Scotland said it had been one of the biggest ever search operations carried out by the force. There was no evidence, said the police, that he had been the victim of a crime. Insp Stewart Drummond said: "The searches carried out to locate Shaun have been extensive and also challenging due to the difficult terrain. "Items of Shaun's clothing were recovered as part of the early stages of the enquiry which would have placed him in the Greenburn area. "If Shaun has walked on from this area, as appears to be the case, we have no indication of the direction he has taken, which compounds further searches due to the size of terrain already searched." He explained: "We have interviewed a number of people, including those who were with Shaun on the night he was last seen. "Although we will always keep an open mind as to the circumstances, there is no evidence to date which would indicate that Shaun has been a victim of any crime. "We understand this is a difficult time for Shaun's family who just want answers and not knowing where he is or what has happened to him is beyond frustration for them. "We are therefore again appealing for any information which may assist us in finding Shaun and ask people to come forward and contact Police Scotland." A CCTV image released earlier showed Mr Ritchie wearing dark grey skinny jeans, a white t-shirt, a grey hoodie and brown trainers.

Police investigating the disappearance of a Fraserbugh man have launched a fresh appeal for information six months after he was last seen.

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His brother Glyn confirmed the death on Twitter, saying his "big brother and hero" had died in New York City. Dillon was a prolific artist who began professional work at age 16, drawing for Marvel UK's Hulk magazine. He was best known for his US collaborations with writer Garth Ennis, creating classic cult comic titles. In his Twitter profile, Dillon, originally from Luton, describes himself as: "A comic book bloke. Co-creator/Artist of Preacher. Co-founder/Editor of Deadline magazine. Artist on Punisher, Judge Dredd and many others." He was born in Luton in Bedfordshire in 1962. When he was 16 he embarked on his first professional job, drawing the character Nick Fury for Hulk Weekly. In the 1980s his career started to take off and he regularly contributed to Doctor Who Magazine, creating the character Abslom Daak. More work followed and he was on the comic anthology Warrior from its inception in 1982. He also drew for the British sci-fi and fantasy comic 2000AD, where he was perhaps best-known for his work as an artist on Judge Dredd. Dillon arrived in the United States in the late 1980s, where some of his most popular strips were created. The Hollywood Reporter says it was at DC's Vertigo imprint that he collaborated with author Garth Ennis, first on the critically acclaimed Hellblazer and then on Preacher. Vertigo Comics paid tribute on Twitter, saying: "We lost a giant among creators and artists today. He will be missed by all of us here." The Preacher strip inspired the US television series of the same name. In a statement, TV company AMC said: "Steve Dillon was an enormously talented illustrator who, with Garth Ennis, created a cult classic comic we were so proud to bring to television." Dillon and Ennis then worked together on multiple series of the Punisher at Marvel, who have described the artist as "a great storyteller" on Twitter, and said they will remember his "incredible work". On his blog of British comics, Lew Stringer who describes himself as one of Dillon's "legions of fans", paid tribute, saying he had: "A natural talent for drawing pages that were easy on the eye and told the story superbly with a fantastic drawing ability."

Steve Dillon, the legendary British comic book artist, known for his work on Preacher, Punisher, and 2000AD's Judge Dredd has died aged 54.

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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) says it should be made more obvious, before viewers click play, that clips contain promoted products. The regulator wants to see warnings - like "ad" or "sponsored" - in the video's title or a symbol in the thumbnail. But Ebony Day and Fleur DeForce think that would be a step too far. Fleur de Force has more than one million YouTube subscribers. Lots of her videos are about products and shopping. She told Newsbeat it's important to be open about sponsorship but thinks putting that information in top section of the info bar is enough. "I've been very vocal about disclosing sponsored content and it does need to be regulated," she explained. But she reckons highlighting the fact a video is sponsored in the title would "distract from the content and send out a bigger message than it needs to". "If you're producing a 30 second piece of sponsored content within a 10 or 15 minute video it's not necessarily the focus of the content," she said. "It almost ruins the content from a creative point of view." She added: "It does need to be clear but we need to work out a better way than putting it in the title." Fleur compared vlogging to "advertorials" in magazines where it doesn't specifically say "advert" in the title. Meanwhile, Ebony Day, who has around 300,000 followers, told Newsbeat: "The word 'advert' on YouTube makes it feel less genuine, you'd hope the person doing it actually likes the product. I probably wouldn't watch it, I'd expect the whole thing to be an advert". She thinks it's different to when TV programmes use a logo to let viewers know there is product placement. "On TV I feel like it's expected but when it comes to YouTube it's not a big company, it's an individual in their bedroom." So why is it suddenly a big talking point? The new advice comes after the ASA decided some of Britain's YouTube stars broke advertising rules. In June a group of UK vloggers, including Dan Howell and Phil Lester, were paid to feature a brand of biscuits. However, the videos weren't clearly labelled as adverts. CBBC's Newsround raised the issue with the ASA, which said Newsround had to make a complaint for it to investigate further. After investigating, the watchdog now says the videos should not appear again in their current form. Newsbeat contacted a number of YouTubers and agencies about the new guidance. Many of the content producers seemed concerned, with some seeking legal advice on how to manage their channels in future. Lynsay Taffe from the ASA told Newsbeat: "We think it's a fundamental right that you can distinguish between when you are watching something that's someone's opinion and when someone is actually trying to sell you something because they've been paid to do that". YouTube says vloggers themselves are responsible for making videos that stick to their local laws and regulations. The vloggers affected by the ASA ruling have now changed the descriptions of their videos to make it clear they are paid advertisements, but the ASA said it would be looking at online videos much more closely in future. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

Two of Britain's biggest YouTube stars tell Newsbeat they're worried about new guidance for adverts in their videos.

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The Dolomedes plantarius spiderlings were released into suitable dykes at Castle Marshes between Lowestoft and Beccles on Wednesday. About 4mm, they are hybrids between species found in Sussex and Suffolk. The 1,600 spiderlings were hand-reared in the kitchen of project leader Dr Helen Smith, with the surplus reared at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. Dr Smith said: "The hybrids bring the advantage of increased genetic variability to the new population. "This... should give the new population at Castle Marshes the best potential to adapt to its surroundings and to cope with the impacts of climate change." The project was organised by Natural England and Suffolk Wildlife Trust and was aided by a grant from the BBC Wildlife Fund.

More than 1,000 young spiders from a hybrid species have been released into the Suffolk broads.

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John Kelly, whose brother Michael was killed in the 1972 atrocity, said the march was a "deliberate insult" to the people of Derry. Veterans for Justice UK expect about 100 former soldiers to take part in a march through the city next month. Organisers said it was to highlight "injustices against soldiers". Mr Kelly said the march by British Army veterans on 4 March "must not be allowed to happen". "Clearly, this is an act of pure provocation and is totally insensitive to the nationalist population. It's a deliberate insult," he said. "Its organisers should think carefully about the effect this could have on bereaved families here, families still reeling from the crimes of the past, not to mention the ordinary citizens of this city." Thirteen people were shot dead on 30 January 1972, and a 14th victim died later, after troops opened fire on a civil rights march. Speaking on behalf of the Bloody Sunday Trust, Minty Thompson said holding the march in Derry was a "deliberately provocative act". "This city has clearly been chosen because it was the scene of one of the most horrific acts of state violence in our history, Bloody Sunday, and because soldiers who were involved in that event, who shot down innocent and unarmed people on our streets, are at long last being investigated for their actions," he said. The Northern Ireland branch of the Veterans for Justice UK group was established in December 2015. Anto Wickham, who is organising the Derry march, said their aims were to protect soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan facing "false prosecutions". "If soldiers break the law then they face the rigours of the law and rightly so, and it's the same as it should be for any other member of the community," he said. "But where's the investigation into my colleagues and friends who were murdered? It just seems to be forgotten about." The former Royal Irish Regiment soldier added the marches were planned in 2016 as part of a larger campaign to put pressure on the government. Mr Wickham said he was "upset" by suggestions the march was planned to raise tensions in the city. "I understand the families and the victims are still really hurt and they want prosecutions. "If that's the case, and there is evidence, then you have to face the rigours of the law but that should also be the same with the IRA." The prosecution of those involved in killings is a major stumbling block in efforts to deal with the legacy of Northern Ireland's Troubles. Last month, the director of public prosecutions for Northern Ireland said critics who accused him of treating former soldiers unfairly had insulted him and his office. Barra McGrory QC said he was mystified by claims he did not act impartially when he brought charges against a small number of ex-soldiers. Meanwhile, lawyers representing former soldiers facing prosecution have said they are being 'unfairly treated'.

Relatives of Bloody Sunday victims have called a march by military veterans in Londonderry "an act of pure provocation".

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One of the highest ranking military officials of his time, more than 30 places around the world now bear his name. In Guernsey, where he was governor for 24 years, a school, a road and a former hospital were named after him. However, in the US Lord Amherst has become a dubious figure because of his connection with biological warfare. Earlier this year students at liberal arts institution Amherst College, Massachusetts, voted to remove 'Lord Jeff' as their unofficial mascot in light of accusations he approved the wiping out of Native Americans by deliberately giving them smallpox via infected blankets. As the commander-in-chief of the British army in pre-independence north America, Jeffery Amherst is said to have "both despised and hated his enemy" according to the historian Henry Morse Stephens. In a postscript to a fellow British officer Henry Bouquet, he appears to have written: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race. "I should be very glad your scheme for hunting them down by dogs could take effect, but England is at too great a distance to think of that at present." Other higher education institutions including the University of Cape Town and Oxford University have faced student protests because of their association with another colonial figure, the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. The 'Rhodes Must Fall' campaign led to UCT removing a statue of the 19th Century politician. Professor Elizabeth Fenn, an historian at the University of Colorado, who researched the Amherst smallpox incident told the BBC: "I am relieved and delighted to see the wholehearted rejection of Jeffery Amherst. "He advocated genocide, the 'total erxtirpation' of native peoples. The question we should ask is why did it take us so long?" In Montreal more than 6,500 people signed an online petition to rename the city's Amherst Street after a former Premier of Quebec Jacques Parizeau, who died in 2015. The campaign, launched that year, continues. Some researchers have argued that the British general deserves an honourable position in history for his personal achievements, one of which was the capture of Montreal in 1760. Morse Stephens wrote: "Though not a great man... his personal qualities were undeniable, and he could not have been an ordinary man to have risen from page to Duke of Dorset to be field-marshal commanding-in-chief." Whether Sir Jeffery Amherst ever visited Guernsey during his time as governor of the island is not known, but his legacy lives on today in several places; Amherst Primary School, Amherst Road and the Amherst Room at Castle Cornet. There was an Amherst Maternity Hospital in St Peter Port but the site was redeveloped for housing. Local historian, Colonel Richard Graham, said that Lord Amherst had been viewed as a national hero "in whose reflected glory Guernsey bathed over the 24 years of his time in office". So have recent events overseas had any bearing on the general's reputation in Guernsey? Mr Graham said historical figures like Jeffery Amherst should be judged by the standards of their time. "I believe strongly that they should be judged and accepted by the mores of the time they lived rather than by ours. "In a hundred years' time, our actions will be similarly scrutinised and there will be some judgemental souls who will see evil in stuff we currently regard as harmless. "That is not to say that hideous conduct as seen in the evils of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot are any the less hideous for having taken place when they did and within the world as it was. "But even these abominations need to be explained and understood as if from their time if the appropriate lessons are to be drawn from history." The island's Education Department and a St Peter Port Parish official told the BBC that no one had approached them about renaming local places called Amherst.

Lord Jeffery Amherst, an 18th Century British general, is one of the figures at the centre of a global debate on the legacy of colonialism.

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A spokesman for the zoo said it was hard to predict a specific date for any cub being born, and that the breeding season can last until late September. Tian Tian, who arrived at the zoo as part of a breeding pair with Yang Guang in 2011, was artificially inseminated earlier this year. The zoo said she was being closely monitored. This is the fifth time Tian Tian has been artificially inseminated. She had previously given birth to twins in China but all attempts to produce a cub at Edinburgh Zoo have failed. A spokesman for RZSS Edinburgh Zoo said: "Giant panda breeding is a very complicated process but we believe that Tian Tian is pregnant. "Although a specific date was suggested, like all babies it's hard to predict precisely and the panda breeding season can last until late September. "Tian Tian is being closely monitored by our expert team and we will be the first to share any news as soon as we can." A spokesman for animal rights campaigners OneKind said: "This poor panda cub will never be introduced to the wild and will only ever know a life in captivity. "To make matters worse, to produce a cub, Tian Tian has been subjected to repeated invasive procedures since coming to Edinburgh. "This has not been in the interest of pandas or conservation, and appears instead to be driven by the pursuit of PR and gate fees. "If you want to help pandas, you don't need to go and see one at a zoo. Just make a donation to conservation charities conserving pandas in their natural habit instead." News of the pregnancy came to light after documents were released to the Edinburgh Evening News under the Freedom of Information Act. If a cub was born, it would be returned to China at the age of two - mimicking natural dispersal age in the wild. Panda reproduction is a notoriously difficult process, with females only ovulating once a year. Tian Tian (Sweetie) and Yang Guang (Sunshine) are the only giant pandas living in the UK. They arrived on loan from China in December 2011 and are due to remain at Edinburgh Zoo for a decade. The zoo first announced it was in negotiations to bring a pair of giant pandas to Scotland in 2008. The pair were brought to the UK under a historic agreement between the UK and Chinese governments. Described as a gift from China, they were the first giant pandas to live in the UK for 17 years.

The UK's only female panda, Tian Tian, is believed to be pregnant, according to Edinburgh Zoo.

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The site - which is owned by Google - is launching a competition for teenagers to create an experiment that could be carried out in space. Two winning ideas will be tested by the crew of the International Space Station. Google chairman Eric Schmidt recently criticised science and technology education in the UK. Delivering the annual McTaggart lecture in Edinburgh, Mr Schmidt said the country needed to reignite children's passion for subjects such as engineering and maths. In addition to having their experiment run in space, the winners will get to experience weightlessness on a zero-g airplane flight, and have the option to either undergo astronaut training in Russia, or to watch the rocket launch in Japan which takes their idea into space. When the experiments are eventually run, the results will be streamed live on YouTube. The competition is divided into two age groups. 14-16 years, and 17-18 years. Alongside Prof Hawking, the judging panel consists of former Astronauts Leland Melvin, Frank De Winne, Akihiko Hoshide and noted "space tourist" Guy Laliberté.

YouTube has enlisted the help of Prof Stephen Hawking in the hunt for budding young scientists.

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The incident at Neil McEvoy's office took place on Thursday morning. The AM said no valuables were taken but files had been "gone through". He said metal bars had been cut to access the property at Cowbridge Road East. South Wales Police said an investigation had been launched. "For a long period, there has been a concerted campaign of political harassment against me," the South Wales Central AM claimed. He said that less than 12 months ago his home had been "ransacked", with paperwork taken. Mr McEvoy said that in the early hours of Thursday "the criminals involved went through two outside doors, down a lane, removed a screwed in hard wood cover on the back window, cut through a PVC window frame and cut through metal bars to get in the window". "Once again, valuables were ignored in the office, but drawers were broken into and files gone through in the back office which wasn't alarmed. "Thankfully, they couldn't gain access to the main part of the office without tripping the alarm." "I put in place new safety procedures for staff at the end of last term, because I am aware of serious cages being rattled," he said. "Some people would like to silence us, but this intimidation has just added to our motivation." A South Wales Police spokesman said that the break-in was reported after 09:00 GMT on Thursday. He said that investigations were ongoing and that no arrests had been made. A Plaid Cymru spokeswoman said: "Neil McEvoy has now been the subject of two break-ins, one at home and one at his office. "Plaid Cymru is supporting him and his staff at this time and is keen that the police establish whether these intrusions are linked. "All elected representatives and their staff deserve to operate in a democratic way without fear of harassment or intimidation. "The National Assembly is working with Neil and his staff to ensure their safety and security, and we strongly urge that this continues."‎

A Plaid Cymru AM has claimed he has been a victim of "political harassment" after a break-in at his constituency office in Cardiff.

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The Save Oxfordshire Children's Centres Campaign "baby blockade" is against Oxfordshire County Council plans to cut the number of centres to save £8m. Organiser Jill Huish said more than 500 people were "definitely seen and heard" when they took part in the march through Oxford on Saturday. David Cameron had been invited to join the protest after saying he was "disappointed" by the cuts. The council has said it will continue to support the most vulnerable families in Oxfordshire. Under the proposals, the authority would replace 44 existing centres with eight "children and family centres" located in the neediest areas of Oxfordshire. The PM wrote to council leader Ian Hudspeth last month calling it "counter-productive" and urging the authority to "move cautiously in setting out its budget plans". In his response, Mr Hudspeth said the council's grants from government had fallen and that it had already made back-office savings. Ahead of the protest, Jill Huish, on behalf of the campaign group, wrote an open letter to Mr Cameron saying: "We welcome your efforts to help protect these services, however perhaps like us you are rapidly losing confidence in government." "Please join us in the streets," her letter urged. "Cameron can't plead not guilty. Let's be clear, he is not just a local constituency MP, he is the prime minister. "It's just not good enough.... we cannot keep mum and watch the 44 children's centres in Oxfordshire be closed down," she said. When asked to comment on the open letter, a government spokesperson said: "There is still significant scope for sensible savings across local government to be made by back-office consolidation, disposing of surplus property and joining up our local public services. "The government continues to work with councils to help deliver these savings and protect frontline services."

A protest has taken place opposing cuts to children's centres in Oxfordshire.

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The 20-year-old said she was returning home from a night out in November 2014 when she was attacked in the Meadows. She said she passed out after being choked and woke to find a man lying on top of her. He then raped her. Steven Davidson, 23, of Newtongrange, Midlothian, denies rape. The trial at the High Court in Edinburgh continues. The woman told prosecution lawyer Jane Farquharson that she had been walking through the Meadows shortly before 07:00 on 15 November. She had spent the previous evening with friends at parties and at a nightclub in Edinburgh. She told Ms Farquharson she had taken drugs during the previous evening but that they had "worn off" at the time she was allegedly attacked. The woman said she heard footsteps and thought it was a friend who was coming up behind her. She said: "I thought it was just a friend who was approaching me. He was running straight behind me. He was grabbing me by the neck with his arm. "I couldn't get any breath. At that point, I realised it was an attack." The woman told the court she then passed out. When she regained consciousness, she said she was lying on the ground with her attacker on top of her. She told the court: "When he started pulling my leggings down - that's when I realised what he was going to do. "I think I shouted 'stop'. I didn't shout 'help'. It was a weird moment. I think I shouted 'please don't do this here'. "He grabbed my neck again so I couldn't speak or breathe and that's when I started to fight against him. "It was a struggle for life. I had this moment that I couldn't breathe. There was this moment that I started shaking myself to get some air." The woman also told the court the alleged attack had continued consequences on her life. "I still get scared when I hear somebody running behind me," she said. The woman was giving evidence on the second day of proceedings against Steven Davidson, who also denies a second charge of being involved in supplying drugs at various locations in Edinburgh in November 2014.

A student who was allegedly raped in an Edinburgh park has told a court how she fought for her life after a man ran up and grabbed her from behind.

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His solicitor Julia Cooper has asked Surrey Police to explain a statement that he had confessed to the murder. Bellfield, 47, was given a whole-life prison sentence in June 2011 for murdering the schoolgirl. Surrey Police confirmed it had received a letter from Bellfield's solicitors but said it was standing by its statement on the confession. Milly was kidnapped while on her way from school to her home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002. Ms Cooper said Bellfield, now known as Yusuf Rahim, believed a "covert tape" may have been used to record his response to a police interview in prison. She said "my client denies giving a confession". She has written to Surrey Police requesting the tape recording and notes from the meeting. Ms Cooper said Bellfield contacted her very soon after Surrey Police distributed its press statement relating to the Dowler case. She said Bellfield denies all the crimes for which he has been convicted. Last month, Surrey Police revealed Bellfield had made the admission during an investigation into whether he had an accomplice involved in the abduction and rape, but not murder, of Milly. The force said it stood by its original statement. A police source speaking to the BBC would not comment on how the admission was recorded. Milly's body was found 25 miles away from where she was kidnapped, in Yateley Heath, Hampshire. Experts could not say how she died. Bellfield was found guilty of abducting and murdering the teenager following a trial at the Old Bailey where a judge described him as a "cruel and pitiless killer". He was already in jail for the murders of Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18, when he went on trial accused of killing Milly. He lived 50 yards from where Milly vanished but did not become a suspect until he was arrested by police in London for the other crimes in 2004. On Wednesday, the Dowler family revealed harrowing details of Milly's final hours, saying they had been made aware of her suffering last year after Bellfield had spoken to police.

Serial killer Levi Bellfield has denied confessing to the abduction, rape and killing of 13-year-old Milly Dowler.

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Bingham, who won the World Championship in 2015, reached the semi-finals of the 2016 event before being knocked out by eventual winner Ronnie O'Sullivan. The 39-year-old told BBC Essex he would play in this year's tournament if his wife gives birth before his first-round game against Joe Perry on Monday. "The only question I'd ask myself is if she actually went on the day," he said. "Obviously it could happen and even now I still haven't got an answer to that question. I'd have to talk it over with my wife and see where we go." Bingham, the current world number two, said his wife has been supportive in wanting him to play at the tournament, which gets under way on Sunday. He continued: "She's had two previous babies and she's been in labour for 10 hours, so obviously if that's the case then I've got a bit of time to 'pot some balls and hurry up' sort of thing. "As I say, we need to talk the next day or two because we thought it'd be out by now. "But being the stubborn Little Miss Bingham it's going to be, I think she's a bit too comfortable in my missus' belly."

Stuart Bingham may pull out of the Masters if his wife goes into labour with their third child.

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Hooker Vicky Fleetwood will also remain in England for the next few days to undergo rehab for a minor injury. Forward Poppy Cleall, who has won 12 caps for England, including their 2017 Six Nations Grand Slam, has been called up as a replacement. England begin their campaign against Spain in Dublin on Wednesday. England women head coach Simon Middleton said: 'While it's disappointing for Emily, we know she will rehab diligently and we hope to have her fit and ready on standby if required later in the tournament. "With Vicky remaining in England for the time being, we have opted to call up Poppy, who offers us a bit more balance in the forwards" England squad in full: Forwards: Zoe Aldcroft, Sarah Bern, Rochelle Clark, Amy Cokayne, Vickii Cornborough, Sarah Hunter (C), Heather Kerr, Justine Lucas, Alex Matthews, Harriet Millar-Mills, Izzy Noel-Smith, Marlie Packer, Abbie Scott, Tamara Taylor, Poppy Cleall. Backs: Rachael Burford, Natasha Hunt, Megan Jones, La Toya Mason, Katy Mclean, Amber Reed, Leanne Riley, Emily Scarratt (VC), Lydia Thompson, Danielle Waterman, Kay Wilson, Amy Wilson Hardy.

England fly-half Emily Scott has been forced to withdraw from the squad through injury five days before the Women's World Cup starts in Ireland.

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Jason Van Dyke was heckled as he arrived at court where he denied six counts of first-degree murder. Video released earlier this year showing the shooting of Laquan McDonald sparked an outcry and the resignation of the chief of police. A federal investigation into the city's police is under way amid a national debate about the police use of force. The inquiry will explore whether race plays a part in the police use of force and whether officers are properly held accountable. McDonald, who was 17 at the time, was armed with a knife when he was stopped by police. But the dashcam footage showed him moving away from police when Mr Van Dyke opened fire. Step-by-step guide to what happened How a whistleblower brought down the police chief Days of protests followed the release of the video, which President Barack Obama said was "disturbing". There were calls for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy quit his job. On Saturday, Mr Emanuel said the city "deserved answers" after a police officer accidentally shot and killed a 55-year-old woman when responding to a domestic disturbance. According to the Washington Post, Bettie Jones was also known as a community activist who spoke out on issues such as police brutality.

A white Chicago police officer has denied murder over the death of a black teenager who was shot 16 times in 2014.

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That phrase hinted both at an ideal flexible arrangement in the future and an ideal shared approach from both the UK and Irish governments, together stressing to the EU the paramount importance of doing nothing that might constitute any kind of risk to the political progress made over recent decades. But is that seamless approach unravelling and could Brexit become a source of greater friction between the two governments? Both the Brexit Secretary David Davis and DUP leader Arlene Foster have been fond of talking about technology as the answer to Ireland's post-Brexit problems. Yes, they acknowledge, putting old-style customs checkpoints right on the border would be unacceptable for both political and security reasons. However, they then go on to suggest that provided businesses co-operate with computerised trusted trader schemes, and cameras with number plate recognition capability are installed some distance away from the frontier, all will be well. By contrast, the Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has now warned that technology isn't the answer. Instead, he argues there is a need for a wider political agreement. What does that mean? On the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Fine Gael Senator Neale Richmond hinted that the Irish favour moving customs controls to seaports and airports, rather than anywhere near the land border. This might sound geographically sensible, but the political implications should not be underestimated. Arlene Foster has previously said that putting a border down the middle of the Irish Sea, creating a divide between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, is something her party will not tolerate. So long as the DUP-Conservative parliamentary arrangement survives, that is a concern David Davis and Theresa May will have to take very seriously. But, if the DUP has the ear of the British government, then similarly as a loyal EU member state, Dublin has the ear of Michel Barnier's negotiating team. Since becoming foreign minister, Simon Coveney has not been shy about making his differences with the UK clear. He voiced his concern for Northern Ireland having special EU status, which contrasted with the position of his predecessor Charlie Flanagan. Some surmised this might only have been a slip of the tongue. However Mr Coveney's decision to let it be known he favoured a bespoke Irish Language Act (Sinn Féin, the SDLP and Alliance's preference) over a hybrid bill (the DUP's suggestion) was a clear move to distance Dublin from the Northern Ireland Office's studied neutrality on the issue. If the border after Brexit becomes a more open source of arm wrestling between the two governments, that could have consequences - not just for the continuing UK/EU negotiations, but also for the Stormont talks when they resume in earnest in the autumn.

For months, it's been the joint mantra from both Dublin and London - that after Brexit, the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland should be as "seamless and frictionless as possible".

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Mr Jepson, who died in August, began his affiliation with the club in the 1960s and was named president in 2004. The service took place at Headingley Stadium earlier. Rhinos chief executive Gary Hetherington said: "Harry had a wonderful life and touched the lives of so many others." Mr Jepson's love of the sport dated back to the 1920s when he first watched Hunslet at their Parkside Stadium. Leeds players past and present were amongst those to pay tribute to Mr Jepson during the service. Among those who spoke during the ceremony were Jamie Jones-Buchanan and Tony Currie, while former Leeds Rhinos and England captain Kevin Sinfield read Rudyard Kipling's poem 'If'. The service was brought to a close by Lizzie Jones singing the Challenge Cup anthem 'Abide With Me' as the hearse carrying Mr Jepson's coffin left the ground for a family service. Mr Hetherington said: "He knew people who had been involved in the formation of the game in 1895, and his death coincides with the 121st anniversary of the game he loved so much. "He was a Rugby League legend, despite never playing the game and his passing is so sad." A book of remembrance has been opened for fans in the club shop.

A memorial service has taken place to remember the life of Leeds Rhinos president and life-long rugby league fan Harry Jepson OBE, who died aged 96.

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