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The 21-year-old made his debut for the Tigers in the League Cup first-round tie against Accrington Stanley in August. Dixon was captain of the Championship club's under-21 side. He could make his debut for the Minstermen, who are bottom of the Football League, in Saturday's match against Newport. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

League Two side York City have signed Hull City midfielder Matt Dixon on an 18-month deal.

Thousands of children have been examined every 10 years since 1973. A third of children in Wales were said to have good oral health overall, which compares to 39% in England. Decay was found in 52% of 12 year olds and 63% of 15 year olds, a slight improvement on the 2003 survey. But around 70% of them reported problems with their teeth. Decay was found in 41% of five-year-old children in their primary teeth and in 55% of eight-year-old pupils, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre report. Severe dental problems were worse among children from poorer backgrounds. Around a half (47%) of five year olds could be said to have good oral health. But that declined with age, to around a quarter of 15 year old children. Other findings: The last results in 2003 showed that oral health had improved greatly since the 1970s and 1980s. This time, 12 and 15-year-olds were also asked to fill in a questionnaire on how they looked after their teeth. In 2009 the Welsh government launched a national scheme to encourage better dental health amongst young children. Since then it has invested over £12m in the programme. It also suggested the programme had led to a recent 6% drop in the proportion of five-year-olds experiencing dental decay. Experts point out there could be several reason the health of children's teeth in Wales was still lagging behind those from other UK nations including socio-economic conditions. That survey 10 years ago also showed a big drop in 15-year-olds with obvious decay from 94% in 1983 to 58%. Scottish children are not included in the 2013 survey but Wales has better results than Northern Ireland, where 31% were judged to be in good oral health. The Welsh Government said its own most recent monitoring survey showed a 6% drop in the proportion of five-year-olds with dental decay. "However, there is more to do to improve the dental health of children in Wales especially since the vast majority of tooth decay is avoidable," said a spokesperson. "Parents can help their children by reducing sugar intake and encouraging them to brush their teeth twice a day with fluoride toothpaste. " It has also published its own survey of dental health to identify how much decay among five-years-olds is already present at the age of three.

Only a third of children in Wales have healthy teeth overall and this is lagging behind England, a major survey suggests.

The Swiss bank is suspected of "complicity in illegal sales practices", an official at the Paris prosecutor's office told the BBC. It also allegedly set up a shadow accounting system that masked transfers between French and Swiss bank accounts. UBS said it was cooperating with authorities. Under French law, being placed under official investigation means there is "serious or consistent" evidence to implicate a suspect in a crime. But it does not necessarily lead to a trial, the official said. The latest move follows action taken against the bank's French unit last week which was also formally placed under scrutiny on similar suspicions. The former head of UBS France, Patrick de Fayet, and two other local branch executives are already being investigated. Investigators are examining whether UBS staff broke a French law against "illicit solicitation" by actively approaching potential clients in France. The allegations originally came to light after former staff blew the whistle on the practices that involved hundreds of retail and corporate clients. An anonymous letter was reportedly sent to the regulatory arm of the French central bank suggesting that parallel accounts were opened in Switzerland but undeclared in France, which is illegal under French law. The letter said a special record was kept between 2002-2007 listing undeclared bank accounts that had been opened by corporate clients. According to French daily Le Monde citing former employees, UBS bankers regularly mingled with affluent people at sporting events and musical concerts - including some sponsored by UBS - in order to seek out possible clients for tax evasion. In one example, a former marketing official at the French branch of UBS said Swiss bankers "made trips [to France] to meet 'prospects'" at events, including the tennis tournament Roland Garros. Stephanie Gibaud said she was asked to "destroy a series of sensitive documents containing the names of current or potential clients who had participated in events organised on French territory." Nicolas Forissier, a former internal auditor of UBS' private banking division, also told the newspaper that a special record containing a list of French clients with undeclared bank accounts was sent to the UBS' Swiss headquarters. "It was France that you had to milk. The French branch of UBS was just an excuse to collect [clients] for UBS Switzerland," he told Le Monde. The magistrates investigating the affair have sent a list containing the names of 353 people suspected of having held a Swiss account to Swiss authorities and have requested details, the official at the prosecutor's office told the BBC. In addition to the latest investigation, UBS was also identified as a "supervised witness" on two other allegations related to money laundering and tax evasion, she added. Supervised witness is a less serious status than a formal investigation. It means that a person must be accompanied by his or her lawyer if questioned further in the investigation. UBS said: "We will continue working with the authorities in France within the applicable legal framework to arrive at a resolution to this matter." In a separate statement in French, it said: "The tribunal's decision widens the probe. UBS will continue to cooperate with the French authorities. UBS will not allow any move aimed at helping clients to avoid their fiscal duties." The latest investigation came amid a wider government crackdown on tax evasion in Europe and the United States. In France, former French budget minister Jerome Cahuzac resigned in April after admitting he had squirreled away savings in an undeclared Swiss bank account. His ministry was responsible for tackling tax evasion. UBS was placed under a similar investigation in 2008 in the US when it faced charges for conspiracy to defraud the US tax authority. The bank eventually paid a $780m fine to avoid prosecution and handed over data on some 4,500 bank accounts held by suspected US tax evaders.

French authorities are formally investigating UBS for allegedly helping wealthy clients open undeclared bank accounts in Switzerland.

Writing in Lancet Global Health, they predict cases will rise from 36 million to 115 million by 2050, if treatment is not improved by better funding. A growing ageing population is behind the rising numbers. Some of the highest rates of blindness and vision impairment are in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The percentage of the world's population with visual impairments is actually falling, according to the study. But because the global population is growing and more people are living well into old age, researchers predict the number of people with sight problems will soar in the coming decades. Analysis of data from 188 countries suggests there are more than 200 million people with moderate to severe vision impairment. That figure is expected to rise to more than 550 million by 2050. "Even mild visual impairment can significantly impact a person's life," said lead author Prof Rupert Bourne, from Anglia Ruskin University. "For example, reducing their independence... as it often means people are barred from driving." He said it also limited people's educational and economic opportunities. The worst affected areas for visual impairment are in South and East Asia. Parts of sub-Saharan Africa also have particularly high rates. The study calls for better investment in treatments, such as cataract surgery, and ensuring people have access to appropriate vision-correcting glasses. Prof Rupert Bourne said: "Interventions provide some of the largest returns on investment. "They are some of the most easily implemented interventions in developing regions." "They are cheap, require little infrastructure and countries recover their costs as people enter back into the workforce," he said. The charity Sightsavers, which works in more than thirty countries to try to eliminate avoidable blindness, says it is seeing a rise in conditions such as cataracts, where the eye's lens clouds over. "Due to an ageing population and a rise in chronic disease, we expect the burden of blindness to only grow within the world's poorest countries" said Imran Khan from the charity. He said health systems in developing countries need to be improved, and more surgeons and nurses need to be trained to deliver sustainable eye health care.

The number of blind people across the world is set to triple within the next four decades, researchers suggest.

How a winemaker is taking on Sicily's rural Mafia It's a warm July evening and the surrounding hills glow golden in the setting sun amid the chirruping of swallows and the song of cicadas. It should be an image of rural peace and contentment, but on closer inspection, all is not quite as it seems. Security cameras on high stilts dot the perimeter of his land. The metal gates leading into his winery remain securely shut throughout our interview, and inside the winery's main building, images from across his vineyard flicker on a bank of screens. This, he says, is what it takes to run a modern business in Sicily in 2017. Cesare has been threatened, his land has been repeatedly trespassed on, his buildings have been damaged and trees cut down or set alight. He's even been physically attacked. "The rural Mafia was trying to drive us off our land and destroy our business," he says between careful sips of wine. So who are the rural Mafia? Well, they're shepherds in the main - but some officials believe they're acting in cahoots with local lawyers, accountants and possibly even local politicians. Cesare believes the battle against them pits modern Italy against forces that want Sicily to remain rooted in the ways of the past. Driving out of his winery, he points out wooden stakes in the ground. "See that?" he says. "They're the signs of the rural Mafia" The stakes are dotted across the land around his vineyard. They're about a metre-long, distinctive for the strip of white cardboard wrapped round them. And they're a common sight in rural Sicily. There are more about 100km (60 miles) away from Cesare's winery, in the foothills of Mount Etna, where Sebastiano Blanco is rebuilding a house on his plot of land. "What those stakes say is 'this land belongs to us'," Sebastiano says. "They, the rural Mafia, see all this land as their own, regardless of who has legal title to it." Like Cesare, he says there are local clans who believe that they, and not the Italian state, set the laws. Last year, Sebastiano's house was burnt down. The police and fire brigade said the fire was probably started by a homeless person who'd come inside to warm up. But Sebastiano thinks it's no coincidence that the fire happened soon after stakes appeared on his land. He believes the rural Mafia took revenge when he wouldn't hand over his land. He cuts a forlorn figure, kicking at the blackened rubble strewn across the charred ground of what were once his bedroom, with the early evening's purple sky visible through the exposed beams of his shattered roof. So, what exactly is it that the Mafia wants? Giuseppe Antoci, president of Sicily's largest national park, Nebrodi, and co-ordinator of Federparchi Sicilia, the Federation of Sicilian National Parks, has been investigating the matter for the past few years. What he's uncovered is widespread fraud involving European Union farm and rural development funds. In an investigation conducted together with the deputy police commissioner Daniele Manganaro of the district of Messina, Mr Antoci found that local crime networks were falsely claiming land as their own - or presenting forged documents saying they had leased it - in order to make applications for EU subsidies. "We've seen an evolution of Mafia here," he says. "This is not the Mafia of the illegal drugs trade or the trafficking of arms. It takes a lot of work and research to commit this sort of fraud. We're not talking about the Mafia that existed 30 years ago, where the shepherd demanded a ransom or protection payment from a tradesman. "What we have here is a Mafia whose business is to commit fraud with EU funds. And to carry out this sort of fraud, you need more than just a shepherd. "What it requires is a network of people, people with schooling and education, people who know how the system works, because the first step in perpetrating this sort of fraud is to set up a company," says the police commissioner. Mr Antoci has tried to put a stop to it. He's set in motion a new law that states that anyone claiming EU subsidies on land must now show anti-Mafia certification. In Italy, this means complying with regulations that require that a company's shareholders and directors have no restrictions, limitations and bans according to anti-mafia regulations. Sceptics say this is hardly enough to stop the fraud from being repeated, pointing out that many will simply make use of proxies to make claims on their behalf. The European Union's anti-fraud office, Olaf, says it is reviewing 35,000 applications for agricultural subsidies in Italy covering some 500m euros in disbursements going back all the way to 2006. It has also started nine criminal proceedings, all of which involve a network of organised crime. But this 500m euros (£447m) that the EU is looking into is far less than the 3.5bn euros that Mr Antoci and the local police force say may have been fraudulently claimed. "I can tell you that there is a very strong commitment at the level of the EU as well as the level of national authorities to fight this kind of phenomenon," says Francesco Albore, the head of the Olaf unit investigating the matter. Another 2.2bn euros have been earmarked in EU and Italian government funds for rural and agricultural development in the six years to 2020. So what guarantees are there that all those funds will be properly distributed? Mr Albore says it's difficult to guarantee but points out the EU also demands guarantees that payments go to the correct recipients. Where this is not the case, he says, "payments can be stopped." Meanwhile, back in Sicily, Mr Antoci's efforts to fight this fraud have come at a high personal price. He's suffered death threats and now lives under permanent armed guard. Last year, as he was being driven home through the Nebrodi national park following a late night dinner, his car came under a volley of gunfire. If he's alive today, he says, it's only thanks to his armed guard and the fact that his car was being followed by that of the deputy police commissioner Daniele Manganaro who managed to scupper the attack by firing back. In the aftermath, there were attempts to discredit his investigation. Some Italian media reports questioned the authenticity of the attack, suggesting Mr Antoci and the local police force had made it up. But it's only made him more determined. "You know, afterwards, they found petrol bombs hidden in nearby bushes," Mr Antoci says. "They wanted me dead. But my first thought as I was being saved that night was for my family and for all the police officers who guard me - the sacrifices they have to make for this battle I've chosen to wage." Still, one businessman I speak to, who's been subjected to similar threats for not handing over land, complains that he's had little support from local Sicilian political authorities in his fight to protect his land. Which is why, back in the foothills of Mount Etna, Sebastiano Blanco wears a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: "Rural mafia - a protected species". "It's 2017," he says. "How can this be happening in our day and age?" He gestures at the smoking volcano, looming large in the distance over his land. "This is a Unesco world heritage site," he says. "But as long as we're intimidated this way, how can we possibly build on the economic value of our land and property?" In collaboration with Diego Gandolfo and Alessandro di Nunzio Listen to more from BBC World Service's Business Daily programme here

From the terrace of his winery near the baroque town of Caltagirone in south-eastern Sicily, Cesare Nicodemo surveys his fields of ripening vines - a glass of his finest spumante in hand.

The Channel 4 celebrity winter sports competition ended last night with a showdown between the Made in Chelsea star and Olympic gymnast Louis Smith. Spencer came out on top to win the cow bell trophy as he beat Louis Smith by almost one metre in the final jump. The Made in Chelsea star told fans 'To all those who supported me in #TheJump thank you from the bottom of my heart. Love to all my fellow competitors too!!'

The winner of The Jump 2017 is Spencer Matthews.

Shane Sutton resigned as the body's technical director on Wednesday amid claims of discrimination against elite cyclists, which the Australian denies. Brailsford, Sutton's predecessor, has promised to co-operate with an inquiry into bullying claims. "The British Cycling model wasn't based around motivation through fear or performance through fear," he said. Brailsford, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, added: "You can't get performance on a continuous basis over a long period of time through fear. I just don't believe it." Sutton, 58, was made British Cycling technical director in 2014 when Brailsford stepped down after a decade in charge, but is alleged to have used derogatory words like "wobblies" and "gimps" to describe Para-cyclists. Former European sprint champion Jess Varnish also claimed Sutton made sexist comments towards her and told her to "go and have a baby". Sutton has said he "rejects the specific claims". Brailsford has promised to share his knowledge of the workings of British Cycling with an independent review into claims of bullying and discrimination, to be led by Annamarie Phelps, the chair of British Rowing. "It's really good that this inquiry has been brought in, so we can establish the truth," Brailsford said. "I'm not going to go into the details. What I will do is I'll share everything that I know with that inquiry." Great Britain won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and matched that total four years later at London 2012, when Sutton was head coach and Brailsford was performance director.

Sir Dave Brailsford has dismissed the idea that British Cycling tried to motivate its riders through fear.

Bristow asked on Twitter why victims did not "sort out" their abusers "when they got older and fitter". More than 20 ex-footballers have made allegations of child sex abuse. "He was a contributor to our darts coverage in the past but we will not be using him in the future," said a Sky spokesman. Newcastle United said they had dropped Bristow "immediately" from a scheduled appearance at St James' Park on 6 December and "will not work with Eric Bristow in the future". Former Crewe player Steve Walters, one of the footballers to have come forward, said he was "disgusted" by Bristow's remarks. Several former footballers have waived their right to anonymity in order to go public and raise awareness of alleged historical abuse in football, a step which has won praise from politicians, sport administrators and abuse charities. At least eight police forces are now investigating allegations of historical sexual abuse. Bristow, who was made an MBE in 1989, suggested that darts players were "tough guys" and footballers "wimps". He added the victims should not be able to look themselves in the mirror for not "getting their own back" on their abusers in adulthood. In addition to his comments on sex abuse victims, Bristow caused anger by conflating paedophiles with homosexuals in a tweet that read: "Might be a loony but if some football coach was touching me when I was a kid, as I got older I would have went back and sorted that poof out." Bristow has since deleted each of those tweets. Duncan Craig, chief executive of the charity Survivors Manchester, said he has reported Bristow's tweets to Staffordshire Police as a "hate crime". The charity, which supports male victims of sex crimes, now has Walters as an ambassador. Craig said of Bristow: "His comments are absolutely appalling. "Bristow is ill-educated but that's not a crime. However, calling someone derogatory homosexual terms is a hate crime in my view. "The reason many men don't speak out is because they feel less of man, feel judged, feel ashamed. Bristow is perpetuating those myths to his 93,000 followers - that's why I'm taking such a strong stance."

Former darts world champion Eric Bristow has lost his role with Sky Sports after suggesting football abuse victims are not "proper men".

All 108 MLAs met to sign the roll of membership, with 29 newly-elected members doing so for the first time. The Ulster Unionists announced they will form an opposition. UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said "let battle commence". Mr Nesbitt, said the first and deputy first minister would not have the support of his party at the executive table, as the "Ulster Unionist MLA group have unanimously decided to form the first official opposition of this Northern Ireland Assembly". He said: "This is a big and bold move to bring a better and a more normal democracy to the people of Northern Ireland - let battle commence!". Mr McGuinness said Mr Nesbitt's move was "deeply disappointing" and a "huge mistake". "It will be seen as a lack of leadership," he added. SDLP (Social Democratic and Labour Party) leader Colum Eastwood said they have some work to do before making any decisions. Alliance party leader David Ford congratulated Mr Nesbitt on the "sound bite of the day". "Some of us recognise that government is a bit more substantial than the sound bite of the day" he said. The DUP's Robin Newton has been elected as the new speaker, replacing Mitchel McLaughlin, who announced his retirement before the election. Mr Newton said he wants to "uphold the standards that his predecessors have set". "The people of Northern Ireland are looking to us," he added. "I want to prove to them that we are moving forward." Sinn Féin's Caitríona Ruane, the SDLP's Patsy McGlone and the UUP's Danny Kennedy have been elected as deputy speakers. Ms Ruane has been elected as the principal deputy speaker. People Before Profit Alliance MLAs Eamonn McCann and Gerry Carroll were among the newly-elected members signing the roll. Mr Carroll revealed via social media that when they were asked to designate as "unionist, nationalist or other", he and Mr McCann wrote "socialist". "We will be put in the 'other' camp, but we are clear where we stand," he said. "This isn't the Alliance Party. This is the new socialist alternative." MLAs also undertook to support the rule of law, challenge paramilitary activity and accept no authority but a democratic mandate. Live coverage of proceedings at the new NI assembly The full Northern Ireland Executive will be formed when a programme for government has been agreed. The parties, who were given an outline of a framework for government programme on Tuesday, have until Thursday to make a response. Negotiations on the framework could go on for two weeks. In last week's election, the Democratic Unionist Party maintained the 38 seats it held in the last assembly, while Sinn Féin lost one and now holds 28. The Ulster Unionists have 16 seats, while the Social Democratic and Labour Party lost two and now have 12. The Alliance Party secured eight seats during the election, meaning it does not have enough seats to automatically qualify for a ministerial department.

The DUP's Arlene Foster has been reappointed as Northern Ireland first minister and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness as deputy first minister, with the UUP announcing they will form an opposition at the Stormont assembly.

The "twisted light" approach relies on what is called light's orbital angular momentum, which has been put forth as an unexploited means to carry data. Now a number of researchers, including some formally commenting in New Journal of Physics, say the idea is misguided. Responding in the same journal, the approach's proponents insist the idea can in time massively boost data rates. That promise is an enticing one for telecommunications firms that are running out of "space" in the electromagnetic spectrum, which is increasingly crowded with allocations for communications, broadcast media and data transmission. So others are weighing in on what could be a high-stakes debate. "This would be worth a Nobel prize, if they're right. Can you imagine, if all communications could be done on one frequency?" asked Bob Nevels of Texas A&M University, a former president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Antennas and Propagation Society. "If they've got such a great thing, why isn't everyone jumping up and down? Because we know it won't work," he told BBC News. The disagreement in New Journal of Physics provides a window on the time-honoured practice of open debate in academic journals (as opposed to the increasingly widespread approach of debating issues before they are even formally published): a kind of "he says, she says" with references. The principle behind the idea is fairly simple. Photons, the most basic units of light, carry two kinds of momentum, a kind of energy-of-motion. One, spin angular momentum, is better known as polarisation. Photons "wiggle" along a particular direction, and different polarisations can be separated out by, for example, polarising sunglasses or 3D glasses. But they also carry orbital angular momentum - in analogy to the Earth-Sun system, the spin angular momentum is expressed in our planet spinning around its axis, while the orbital angular momentum manifests as our revolution around the Sun. The new technique aims to exploit this orbital angular momentum, essentially encoding more data as a "twist" in the light waves. That the phenomenon exists is not in question - it has been put to use recently in studying black holes, for example. What makes the current debate devilishly complex is arguing whether experiments by Bo Thide of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and colleagues really do use and benefit from it. The team has carried out very public demonstrations of the idea, sending data across a Venice lagoon in a test first described in a New Journal of Physics article. But even before that article made it to press, other researchers were questioning the approach's validity. In a paper in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Lund University's Ove Edfors and Anders Johansson argued that what was going on was a version of "multiple input, multiple output" - or Mimo - data transmission, a technique first outlined in the 1970s. "I've been trying to have a discussion with these guys, asking for arguments - because all the arguments they have put forward have been perfectly explainable by standard theories," Prof Edfors told BBC News. "What I get back is 'you don't understand, you're not a physicist', and I say 'well, try to convince me'." Julien Perruisseau-Carrier at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL), and colleagues make much the same argument in their comment paper published this week. But it seems clear that the controversy arises as a conflict between the disciplines of physics and engineering. "These people are physicists, they have their own research," Prof Perruisseau-Carrier told BBC News. "But the authors are trying to spin off some of their work into a telecommunications issue. "The fact is they didn't understand that what they were doing, as we explained, is a subset of something very well-known and documented." Detractors argue that the demonstrations so far have only used two "modes" to transmit information, perfectly replicating a Mimo setup - and that if Prof Thide and colleagues try to extend the work - to the promised tens or hundreds of possible modes, they will fail. For his part, Prof Thide insists that it is the engineers who have misunderstood. "The typical wireless engineer, even if a professor, doesn't know anything about angular momentum," he told BBC News. "The points made by these people... are in contradiction to each and every textbook there is in electrodynamics. This is not something invented by us, something we found out on a coffee break - this is on solid theoretical foundations going back through several Nobel prizes." But the groundswell of resistance to the technique seems to be growing. Prof Nevels and his Texas A&M colleague Laszlo Kish have published a paper in PLOS ONE that they believe is the simple, final proof of its impossibility - and more academics are signing on as co-authors. Prof Perruisseau-Carrier says that the idea will prove itself valid or otherwise soon enough. "They mentioned they have some contact with telecoms companies - we were very happy to see that. There's no doubt that as soon as they defer to a real expert, that people will notice [that the idea is flawed]," he said. "We are convinced that this will not go anywhere."

An idea to vastly increase the carrying capacity of radio and light waves has been called into question.

The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has given the award to the George & Dragon at Hudswell, near Richmond, North Yorkshire. The pub, the village's only community facility, closed in 2008. It reopened in 2010 after residents formed the Hudswell Community Pub Ltd group and raised £200,000 to buy the building and land. Read more about this and other stories from across North Yorkshire The group was helped by the Plunkett Foundation which supports community co-operatives in rural areas. Camra said the George & Dragon had a warm and welcoming atmosphere and a strong community ethos. The pub includes a small shop, library, community allotments and free internet access. Paul Ainsworth, from Camra, said: "The George & Dragon is a great example of how a pub has been resurrected as a true community asset." The pub's current manager, Stu Miller, said he was thrilled to receive the award. "It shows that hard work, good beer and the support of the community can help you achieve goals that seemed impossible only a short while ago," he said. Runners up in the UK-wide competition were the Salutation Inn in Ham, Gloucestershire, the Stanford Arms in Lowestoft, Norfolk, and the Swan with Two Necks in Pendleton, Lancashire.

A country pub saved from closure after villagers stepped in to buy it has been named national pub of the year.

BBC pundit Alan Shearer explains why Arsenal's defensive display played as big a part as their attacking power in securing their one-sided FA Cup final win over Aston Villa. Just about every tactical decision that Wenger made for the final came off, starting with him picking Theo Walcott up front instead of Olivier Giroud. Media playback is not supported on this device He also got his team playing at the right tempo. They put their stamp on the game from the start, unlike the way they started against Reading in their semi-final. That day, they struggled to impose themselves against Championship opponents. Against Aston Villa I never thought they were in any danger of losing, right from the first minute. In the past, Arsenal have not always performed under pressure and people have asked whether they can cope when they are expected to win. On Saturday they answered that question and better than ever before. Arsenal were outstanding. They were by far the better team and thoroughly deserved their victory. Starting with Walcott, not Giroud, was a big call - and Wenger would have got a lot of stick if he had got it wrong. After seeing Walcott score a hat-trick against West Brom on the final day of the season, I said on Match of the Day that I thought Wenger should - and would - stick with him. He did and it proved to be the right decision. My only worry about the way Arsenal had started the game was the fact they could not find a finish, but Walcott showed with his goal why he can be an out-and-out striker with his movement into the box and then his ruthless finish. Arsenal could have been two or three goals up by the time Walcott scored and they were great to watch when they came forward. But they were also exceptional without the ball, in the way they stopped Villa from posing any threat whatsoever. They did not even manage a shot that reached the Arsenal goal. None of the things that Tim Sherwood has changed and improved in Villa's attack since he took charge in February were evident at Wembley. Villa were brilliant going forward in their semi-final win over Liverpool but Liverpool allowed them to play like that. Arsenal's defensive discipline did not let it happen. This time we did not see anything of Tom Cleverley, Fabian Delph or Jack Grealish on the ball and that meant Christian Benteke could not do any damage. Villa were totally outplayed. Media playback is not supported on this device I have twice felt the pain of losing an FA Cup final. It will be worse for Villa after a performance like that. The fact Arsenal were so good will not be any consolation to Sherwood because his team did not turn up. I know him well from our days playing in the Blackburn team that won the Premier League title in 1995 and he will be devastated and angry at the way his team performed. He was proud to have reached the final and also of the fact he kept Villa up, which was his main aim, but he will be hurting after that defeat. Could he have done anything differently? I don't think so. There was a gulf in class between the two teams and Sherwood could only play with what he had. He clearly did not have enough to live with Arsenal - sometimes it is as simple as that. Arsenal were by far the better team but they had some brilliant individual displays too. Media playback is not supported on this device I know Santi Cazorla was fantastic but my man of the match was Alexis Sanchez and not just because of his magnificent goal. I am always a bit biased towards forward players but Sanchez's energy has lifted his team all season and it was no different at Wembley. He jinked past players as if they were not there and also leapt above Villa's defence to set up Walcott for his side's opener. It seems he can do just about everything and he is one of the big reasons why Arsenal can look forward to next season with real optimism. Alan Shearer was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan

Arsenal's players put in an outstanding performance to win Saturday's FA Cup final but Gunners boss Arsene Wenger deserves just as much credit.

Filming of the third and final series of the drama has begun, and will continue shooting in Dorset, Bristol and Somerset throughout the summer. Sarah Parish, Charlie Higson, Roy Hudd and former Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh will also appear in the eight-part series. David Tennant and Olivia Colman will return as DI Alex Hardy and DS Ellie Miller. The show will see the detectives reuniting to investigate a serious sexual assault, ITV said. "Broadchurch's final chapter looks at the emotional cost to all of those involved and the irreparable damage to friendships and relationships," the network said in a press release. Writer Chris Chibnall said: "We have one last story to tell, featuring both familiar faces and new characters. I hope it's a compelling and emotional farewell to a world and show that means so much to me." Dorset-based organisations who specialise in dealing with victims of sexual assault and police advisers have been assisting Chibnall with scriptwriting. After Broadchurch ends, Chibnall will be moving to replace Steven Moffat as the head writer and executive producer for BBC One's Doctor Who. Broadchurch launched in April 2013 and reached a peak audience of 8.9 million viewers. It went on to win Bafta and RTS awards, and a second series was shown in January 2015.

Sir Lenny Henry is to join the cast of Broadchurch, ITV has announced.

The 35-year-old, who played six Super League games for Hull KR in 2011 before moving to French rugby union side Toulon, was at Manly last season. He played 290 NRL games during his 15-year career spent with five clubs, including Canterbury, where he won the 2004 Premiership. "Willie knows the job a prop has to do," coach Laurent Frayssinous said. "He is a physical and aggressive player, both in attack and in defence and we have spoken a lot about the quality of our group and he is really excited to join the club." Frayssinous' Dragons side have lost their first two games in Super League this season, with defeats by Wigan and Hull FC. Veteran front-rower Mason scored seven tries and played 24 tests for the Kangaroos, including the famous Great Britain 2006 Tri-Series defeat in Sydney where he struck Stuart Fielden and was involved in a scuffle with tourists captain Jamie Peacock. He also played 13 games for the Blues in State of Origin, scoring once.

Catalans Dragons have signed former Australia and New South Wales prop Willie Mason on a one-year deal.

The animal charity said there were 297 convictions last year in Wales, a rise of 20%, following an increase in the number of animal welfare cases reported. RSPCA Cymru's Steve Carter said workers faced "immense demands". The charity said the economic downturn was probably still partly to blame with some people unable to look after pets. The 100% conviction rate was up from 97.8%. Mr Carter said it demonstrated "how robust our investigative process is". The number of animals rescued or collected also more than doubled, which the charity says is more positive. Other figures reported for 2013: HORSE SUFFERING: A Gwynedd horse breeder allowed his ponies to suffer so much that nine had to be put down. Evan Lloyd Evans, 69, was jailed for 10 weeks after being found guilty of multiple animal welfare offences in October 2013. The conditions the horses were kept in were described as "appalling and completely inappropriate". EMACIATED DOGS: In another case, a married couple from Pembrokeshire were banned from keeping dogs for five years after their dogs were found to be so emaciated that one of them - a lurcher - weighed less than a cat. CATS LEFT TO BREED: A mother and daughter from Wrexham who neglected 17 cats in their care were disqualified from keeping all animals indefinitely. The family had left the cats to breed uncontrollably with only one of their cats being neutered. Several, including the two kittens, had to be put to sleep because of their serious health issues. Both women were given community orders. 'WORST' FLEA INFESTATION: A suspended sentence and life ban were given to a Pontypridd man, 55, who had a cat with the worst flea infestation the vet had ever seen. The cat, which was found living in squalid conditions in an upstairs bedroom, recovered. The man had previously been prosecuted by the RSPCA regarding two of his dogs. Source: RSPCA The RSPCA believes the economic downturn could still be playing in part in the increase in cases reported to it, where people are unable to look after pets which in some cases leads to neglect. The charity said social media was also playing a part in raising the profile of the charity's work. "We are getting people reporting cases on Twitter but we'd really encourage them to contact our helpline as the first port of call, and those messages we receive on social media we refer on to there," said a spokesman. Mr Carter said the rise in cautions reflected how the charity had tried to work with people to educate them. "However, where there is evidence of a crime and serious animal abuse then we will take legal action to protect the animals and prevent further abuse. We also want to see courts taking these offences far more seriously," he said.

The RSPCA has had a 100% success rate for its prosecutions after facing a "growing animal cruelty crisis".

In 2013 a working group, set up by the Scottish government, recommended eligible couples should be offered up to three treatments. But that would only be after health boards had reduced IVF waiting times. Infertility Network UK said it was a "no-brainer" there should now be three cycles as waiting times have fallen. New IVF criteria was introduced in July 2013, following recommendations by the National Infertility Working Group. The changes were designed to standardise fertility treatment across Scotland to prevent a "postcode lottery". Giving evidence to Holyrood's health committee, the charity's chief executive Susan Seenan said: "The group recommended three cycles and said that once the waiting times were down to below 12 months, at the latest early 2015, they would consider moving to three cycles. "It just doesn't seem to be happening as fast as we would like it to. "We just think now that the waiting times are down, that it is a no-brainer - we should move to offering everybody who is eligible three cycles." Susan Seenan added: "Everybody in the group was agreed that...three cycles was the best possible way to move forward for patients. "Why anybody would not want to move forward with that, I have no idea, unless it is finance related." A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said Scotland was "leading the way" in the provision of NHS IVF treatment, with £12m of investment over the last three years. She said the number of IVF cycles that couples were entitled to was under review. The spokeswoman added: "The reconvened expert group has met twice and its review will consider a range of issues, including the number of IVF cycles, to ensure access to IVF treatments remains fair, reliable and timely. "The views of patients and our stakeholders, including Infertility Network Scotland who are part of the Infertility Group, will be instrumental to this process, along with data collection and modelling." Fertility treatment is currently available to those under 40, and is not offered to women who are obese. In addition, couples need to have been in a stable relationship for two years and neither partner can smoke for three months before treatment begins. Both partners also need to be methadone-free for a year before IVF starts. Women aged between 40 and 42 are eligible for one cycle of fertility treatment if they have never previously undergone the procedure.

A charity is calling for couples in Scotland who need help conceiving to have access to three cycles of IVF instead of two.

Media playback is not supported on this device With four rounds of fixtures to go, the Crues are now on the verge of securing back-to-back league titles for the first time in the club's history. Whyte rounded Ross Glendinning and flicked the ball home on 88 minutes. Substitute Forsythe fired the second into the top corner in stoppage time. Linfield went into the crucial top-of-the-table clash on the back of a formidable record of just one defeat in their previous 15 Premiership fixtures. However, Crusaders had suffered only three reverses in the last 16 Premiership meetings between the sides. Goalscoring chances were at a premium in a cagey first half but Ross Glendinning denied Paul Heatley and Jordan Owens fired wide of the post for the hosts. Linfield were the superior team for much of the second period and Sean O'Neill pushed a fine Stephen Lowry drive onto the post. Glendinning produced another fine save as Heatley attempted to find the top corner, before Whyte grabbed his first goal since October and his first in the league at his side's home ground this season. Owens flicked on a long ball out of defence and Whyte ran in behind the Linfield defence, rounded the Blues stopper and flicked the ball into the net. Forsythe caught Glendinning off his line in added time as the Blues pushed for an equaliser which may have kept any realistic hopes of maintaining a title challenge alive. Crusaders are now unbeaten in 15 league encounters on their home patch, their only defeat of the campaign on their own ground coming against Portadown on the opening day of the season on 8 August. Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter: "It was a pulsating game with a great cup-final type atmosphere and it was great to be a part of it. "It is definitely not over as we have two very difficult away games against Cliftonville and Glenavon to come and we have to stay focused. We still have a big job to do. "They are all big matches at this stage of the season but it's important that we won on our home ground and tried to drive our advantage home." Linfield manager David Healy: "We just didn't get the rub of the green today and we missed a few chances, but it's a difficult place to come to and credit to Crusaders, they should go on and win it now. "We needed to win this game but now we must make sure that we finish second and qualify for Europe, plus we have a cup final to look forward to."

Late goals from Gavin Whyte and Jordan Forsythe saw champions Crusaders beat Linfield 2-0 at Seaview and extend their lead over their nearest rivals at the top of the table to eight points.

Hertfordshire Police said it was looking for Aidan Chaves in connection with "an incident of affray" in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. The game between Sawbridgeworth Town and Clapton FC on 25 March was abandoned. It followed reports a player appeared to get a knife out after being spat at by a Clapton fan. Mr Chaves is believed to be in Hertfordshire. Police said the 26-year-old also had connections to London. The Essex Senior League match, taking place at Sawbridgeworth's Crofters End ground, was abandoned after 95 minutes. Following the match Sawbridgeworth Town said a player's registration had been terminated. A spokesman for the club said the player in question would "never represent" them again and had been given a life ban from the ground. Clapton was declared the winner because the score stood as it was at 95 minutes Sawbridgeworth Town 0 - Clapton 1.

A non-league footballer who allegedly brandished a knife at an opposition fan is being sought by police.

A 10ft (3m) scrub python was battling to retain its grip on the wing as a plane made its way between the Australian town of Cairns and Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. It held on the whole 1hr 50 min flight. But on arrival in Port Moresby, ground crew found the snake had died. Passengers first became aware of the reptile 20 minutes after take-off. A woman pointed out the python to fellow passengers and cabin crew. At first only its head was visible, but as it tried to manoeuvre itself back to safety, its whole body was exposed. Time and again it tried to pull itself back into the shelter of the wing, but the wind was relentless. The wind speed was 250mph (400km/h) and the temperature -12C. The snake's body was hammered against the engine, leaving blood stains on the white paint. One passenger, Robert Weber, a website designer in Cairns, told the Sydney Morning Herald: ''The people at the front were oblivious to what was going on but the passengers at the back were all totally focused on the snake and how it might have got on to the aircraft. ''There was no panic. At no time did anyone stop to consider that there might be others on board.'' The president of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, Paul Cousins, said: ''It appears as though the snake has initially crawled up inside the landing bay, maybe housed himself in there, and then crawled into the trailing ledge flap assembly.'' Scrub pythons are Australia's longest snakes. They feed on rodents and often conceal themselves in enclosed space to ambush their prey. The wing of a stationary aircraft may have appeared a likely place to this particular snake.

For excitement it may not have matched the Samuel L Jackson film, Snakes On A Plane, but passengers on a Qantas flight watched with fascination as one snake fought out its own drama.

Jim McCafferty, 71, appeared before Belfast Magistrates' Court charged with eight counts of touching a boy under the age of 16. The crimes are alleged to have happened in Belfast between 2012 and 2015. Mr McCafferty, who previously lived in Glasgow and worked at Celtic more than 20 years ago, was arrested last December. He was also a kit man for other Scottish clubs, including Falkirk and Hibernian, before moving to Northern Ireland about seven years ago. Mr McCafferty, who now has an address at Raby Street in south Belfast, has been on remand at Maghaberry Prison amid fears for his safety. He was escorted into the dock on a walking frame for the hearing at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Thursday. Dressed in a white T-shirt and and grey tracksuit bottoms, the pensioner spoke to confirm he understood the allegations against him. The judge ordered his trial to be held at Belfast Crown Court on a date to be fixed. No application for bail was made and he is expected to remain in custody until the proceedings get underway.

A former Celtic Football Club youth coach and kit man is to stand trial for alleged child sex offences.

The presenter described people involved in hunting and shooting as "the nasty brigade" in an article last year. The corporation received two complaints from readers stating that Packham should not have expressed his personal opinion in a BBC magazine. But the BBC Trust said the strapline had made clear the article was an opinion piece. In a column in the October 2015 issue, the naturalist wrote that conservation groups were "hamstrung by outdated liaisons with the 'nasty brigade' and can't risk upsetting old friends" in the rural and shooting communities. The Countryside Alliance complained Packham was breaking rules by using his position "to spread propaganda" and called for him to be sacked. Packham responded by accusing his critics of trying to "neutralise" him and others who oppose grouse shooting. In its report, published on Friday, the BBC Trust said Packham was a freelancer and therefore not a BBC employee, adding he was not "associated with news or public policy-related output". It also noted that all parties named in the article had been given a right of reply prior to publication, and readers had the opportunity to respond in subsequent issues. Both complainants have had letters published in the magazine in response to Packham's column. The committee added the new editor would not have allowed the term "nasty brigade" to have been published. In its summary, the BBC Trust said there had been no breach of the impartiality guidelines. The committee also looked at whether Packham had breached the BBC's conflict of interest guidelines. But the report stated: "It was clear that Mr Packham had been expressing his personal views as an individual, and that there was no implication that the charities and other causes he supported were endorsed by the BBC." Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

The BBC Trust has said no action is required over comments Chris Packham made in BBC Wildlife Magazine.

Greek officials had been expected to meet representatives of EU creditors in the Greek capital Athens on Friday. But a European Commission spokeswoman later said those representatives would arrive "in the coming days". Separately, Greece formally submitted a request for a new loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a letter to IMF head Christine Lagarde dated 23 July but released to the public on Friday, Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos wrote that Athens was "seeking a new loan". Greece had initially planned not to ask the IMF for more funds, reports say. Greek MPs have approved tough new conditions set by the EU lenders for talks on the bailout. It is unclear when IMF officials will be joining the negotiations. The Washington-based IMF wants Greece's debt burden to be reduced to a level it considers "sustainable", but it faces resistance from reluctant European partners. EU officials said on Friday that there were "logistical issues to solve" before high-level talks with Athens could begin, but that negotiations were taking place at a technical level. The Greek team had been expected to meet top representatives from the European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and European Stability Mechanism (ESM) - the eurozone's main bailout fund. Talks on the bailout package are expected to last a month. Tight capital controls, introduced at the end of June, remain in place to prevent a run on Greece's cash-strapped banks. PM Tsipras faced a backlash from MPs in his own left-wing Syriza party, during two parliamentary votes on austerity measures required by the creditors in order for negotiations to start. But he secured parliament's backing after a second crucial vote passed early on Thursday. The reforms debated this week included changes to Greek banking and an overhaul of the judiciary. Last week, Greece passed an initial set of austerity measures, including tax rises and pushing back the retirement age. Mr Tsipras has said that he is not happy with the measures imposed by creditors but that his government was forced to choose a "difficult compromise" to avoid Greece exiting the eurozone. A decision on more contentious measures - phasing out early retirement and tax rises for farmers - has been pushed back to August. Demonstrations have taken place on the streets of Athens against the bailout deal and trade unions have taken strike action. On Wednesday, the ECB increased its cash lifeline to Greek banks by €900m - the second rise in a week. The IMF confirmed on Monday that Greece had cleared its overdue debt repayments of €2.05bn and was no longer in arrears. The repayments, which included €4.2bn to the ECB, were made possible by a short-term EU loan of €7.16bn. Greece's next major deadline is 20 August, when it must pay €3.2bn owed to the ECB, followed by a payment of €1.5bn to the IMF in September.

Talks between Greece and its European creditors on a third €86bn (£60bn; $94bn) bailout have been delayed due to logistical problems, officials say.

In a town north of Paris, the two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine had been holed up at a printing warehouse. They have now been killed and their hostage freed. In Paris itself, a gunman holding hostages in a Jewish supermarket has been killed, but a number of hostages also died. Here is what we know about the attackers so far. Two brothers accused of carrying out the massacre at the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday were killed two days later when police stormed the building where they had been holding a hostage. Two men, Said and Cherif Kouachi, had been barricaded in a printing factory in Dammartin-en-Goele, 35km (22 miles) from Paris. Cherif, 32, was jailed in 2008 and had long been known to police for militant Islamist activities, prior to the attack on Charlie Hebdo's offices, which killed 12 people. Cherif, who also went by the name Abu Issen, had been part of the "Buttes-Chaumont network" that helped send would-be jihadists to fight for al-Qaeda in Iraq after the US-UK invasion in 2003. He grew up in an orphanage in the western city of Rennes, where he trained as a fitness coach. In the early 2000s, he joined his elder brother at his home near Paris and worked as a pizza delivery man, media say. Police detained him in 2005 just as he was about to board a plane for Syria - at the time the gateway for jihadists hoping to fight US troops in Iraq. Le Monde reports that, following Cherif's imprisonment between January 2005 and October 2006, he first came into contact with the man who would become his mentor - Djamel Beghal. Beghal was sentenced to 10 years in prison in France in 2001 for his part in a plot to bomb the US embassy in Paris. In 2008, Cherif Kouachi was jailed for three years for his role in sending militants to Iraq, but 18 months of the sentence was suspended. Eric Bade, a neighbour living in Genneviliers, north-west of Paris, described Cherif as "well-behaved, friendly, polite, clean-looking and above all, which is very important, he was willing to help old and disabled people". Speaking to the BBC, Mr Bade said Cherif "wasn't aggressive - he wasn't a crazy zealot, he was a calm person". 'Iraq connections' The brothers had allegedly attended a mosque near the Buttes-Chaumont, an area of northern Paris, where they came under the influence of a radical imam called Farid Benyettou. He reportedly encouraged them to study Islam at his home and at a Muslim centre in their area. A key figure in the Buttes-Chaumont network was Boubaker al-Hakim, a militant linked to al-Qaeda resistance against US forces in Iraq, a French expert on Islamists says. A French court jailed Hakim for seven years in 2008, at the same time as Cherif, along with Farid Benyettou, who got six years. That action broke up the jihadist network they had created. In a blog article (in French) Middle East expert Jean-Pierre Filiu says Hakim had recruited militants to fight in Falluja, an Iraqi city that became an al-Qaeda stronghold in 2004. Hakim is also wanted in Tunisia over the murder of two Tunisian left-wing opposition politicians in 2013 - Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi. Hakim claimed the murder in the name of the Islamic State militant group, Mr Filiu says. In 2010 Cherif Kouachi was named in connection with a plot to spring another Islamist, Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, from jail - a plot hatched by Beghal, according to French anti-terror police. Belkacem used to be in the outlawed Algerian Islamic Armed Group (GIA) and was jailed for life in 2002 for a Paris metro station bombing in 1995 which injured 30 people. Said Kouachi, 34, was also named in the Belkacem plot, but the brothers were not prosecuted because of a lack of evidence. Said's ID card was found in the brothers' getaway car which they abandoned after the Charlie Hebdo shooting, police sources say. The gunman who is thought to have killed four people and held a number of others hostage at a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris has been identified as 32-year-old Amedy Coulibaly. Police also believe he killed a policewoman in the Montrouge area of the French capital on Thursday. Coulibaly is believed to have had a long history of criminal activity - including drugs offences - and links to at least one of the Kouachi brothers. Born in Juvisy-sur-Orge on the outskirts of Paris, he is said to have been one of 10 children. He worked for Coca Cola. He met then-President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace in 2009, as part of an employment initiative. In an interview with Le Parisien at the time, he said it would be "impressive" to meet Mr Sarkozy, and that he was not sure what he would say. He had added that his temporary job at the local Coca Cola plant would be over soon, and that he hoped Mr Sarkozy could help him get a job. Reports say Coulibaly - along with Cherif Kouachi - was a committed follower of Djamel Beghal. In 2013 he was jailed for five years for his involvement in the 2010 plot to free Smain Ait Ali Belkacem from prison, following the militant Islamist's conviction over the 1995 Paris metro station bombing. He met Cherif Kouachi while in prison. Coulibaly was released last year. He is said to have told police from the supermarket on Friday: "You know who I am." An acquaintance told AP news agency that he was "totally shocked" when he found out about Coulibaly's role in the attacks. "He never went to prayers or talked about Islam," the fellow drug dealer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. Coulibaly's mother and sister have issued a statement condemning his attacks. They offered "sincere condolences" to the families of the victims, and said: "We absolutely do not share these extreme ideas. We hope there will not be any confusion between these odious acts and the Muslim religion." Meanwhile, police are still trying to trace Hayat Boumeddiene, a 26-year-old woman who was Coulibaly's partner. She is thought to have married Coulibaly in a religious ceremony in 2009 - however, these ceremonies are not recognised in France unless an official civil ceremony is also carried out. She is now believed to be in Syria. She arrived in Turkey in early January, before crossing into Syria on 8 January, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on 12 January. Police had previously identified her as a suspect in Thursday's shooting of a policewoman. Francois Molins, the chief prosecutor in France, said Boumeddiene had exchanged more than 500 phone calls with the wife of Cherif Kouachi in 2014. French newspaper Le Monde published a series of photographs said to show Coulibaly with Boumeddiene in 2010. In one, she is pictured pointing a crossbow at the camera while wearing a full-face veil, which is banned in France. Police questioned Boumeddiene about Coulibaly in 2010. During the interview, she was reportedly asked about her reaction to attacks by al-Qaeda, and responded: "I don't have any opinion", before blaming the US for civilian deaths. Who is Hayat Boumeddiene?

Police in France have brought to an end two hostage stand-offs, killing three attackers.

Media playback is not supported on this device The 35-year-old has 184 goals in 252 matches in an international career spanning 15 years. She was in the 2015 World Cup winning squad and won two Olympic golds. "It's been an amazing, wonderful ride and I can't wait to see what the next chapter of my life brings," she said. Wambach was the 2012 Fifa Women's World Player of the Year and is also a six-time US Soccer Female Athlete of the Year winner. She will be with the US team for all four of its December matches, but her final game will come on 16 December against China in New Orleans as the last match of the 10-game tour. Media playback is not supported on this device "Abby is a player who has transcended our sport and her legacy as one of the world's greatest players is set forever," said US head coach Jill Ellis. "What she has done for women's soccer and women's sports overall with her amazing talents on the field and her personality off it has been inspiring to watch. "I am just extremely happy that she could end her career with that elusive World Cup title and go out on top, right where she deserves to be." In her career, Wambach scored just over 500 goals for her high school, college, professional club teams and the United States youth and senior international sides.

Women's football's all-time international leading goalscorer, United States striker Abby Wambach, will retire at the end of a World Cup victory tour in December.

Judge Aaron Persky has been heavily criticised for giving student Brock Turner six months for assaulting an unconscious woman last year. Two other petitions have reached 115,000 and 175,000 signatures each. The petitions have no legal force but organisers hope they will increase pressure on politicians to act. Mr Persky, a Superior Court judge in Santa Clara County, California, has reportedly received death threats in the wake of the case. The jail sentence he handed down to Turner has been widely criticised as too lenient. Prosecutors had called for six years. Turner was seen by two other students sexually assaulting his victim, now 23, behind an outdoor rubbish bin. He tried to flee the scene but was caught and later admitted to the assault in court. Rights activists and members of the general public have accused Mr Persky of being influenced by Turner's upbringing in a wealthy, white family, and his achievements as a college swimmer. The petition, posted on Change.org, says that Mr Persky had "failed to send the message that sexual assault is against the law regardless of social class, race, gender or other factors". The judge said in his remarks that he was concerned about the "severe impact" a longer sentence would have on Turner's life. Turner's father was also criticised after issuing a statement to the court saying his son was paying a steep price for only "20 minutes of action". Turner, who was a promising swimmer expected to compete for the US at Olympic level, has been banned for life by USA Swimming, the governing body for professional swimming in the US. The victim, who has not been named by the press, read an impact statement in court which was later read by millions. US Vice-President Joe Biden, who is involved in a campaign against campus assaults, wrote her an open letter praising her for her courage and saying he was "filled with furious anger" at the course of events. The cast of the TV show Girls have also made a video backing the woman and other victims of sexual assault.

More than a million people have signed a petition calling for the judge in the controversial Stanford University sexual assault case to be sacked.

Sports Minister Carál Nί Chuilίn said they stood down just before she was due to meet board representatives. They were there to discuss a report by the Head of Internal Audit at the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and the Department of Education. Ms Nί Chuilίn said she advised the remaining members at the meeting "of my deep concerns at the issues raised by their staff" with the internal auditor. On Friday, the minister called for the meeting to consider the findings of the report into "serious allegations" about the "leadership, management and the overall culture" of the organisation. After Monday's meeting, she said she had accepted the board members' resignations, and thanked them "for their efforts in promoting and fostering sport during their time in office". In a statement, she said: "Given the ongoing challenges in Sport NI, I am taking steps to intervene directly to support both staff and the remaining board members. "I also wish to advise staff that their concerns are being taken seriously and that they will be fully addressed." Chair of the culture committee Nelson McCausland said the situation was "shocking and unprecedented". "That is why we need to get Carál Nί Chuilίn in front of the committee as soon as possible," he said. "It tells us something about the department and the way that the minister has been running the department," Mr McCausland told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster. "We also want to talk to the people who resigned, they have a story as well. "It is a whole quagmire, we need to get to the bottom of it. The minister owes that to the public, to Sport NI and to the committee." Ms Nί Chuilίn said she would meet the remaining board members later this week. No-one from Sport NI was available for comment.

Nine members of the Sport NI board have resigned with immediate effect.

It was a week in which trading in China's markets was twice halted by a circuit breaker, before the authorities decided to suspend the measure. The Shanghai Composite closed 2% higher on Friday, but still ended the week down by about 10%. In London, the FTSE 100 was up 55.4 points, or 0.93%, at 6,009.4. In Frankfurt, the Dax was up 1.0%, while the Cac 40 in Paris was up 0.7%. On Thursday, markets in Europe and the US recorded steep losses after trading in China's stock markets closed within the first 30 minutes. The direct financial impact of lower share prices in China is moderate. There is not enough foreign investment in the Chinese market for it to be a major problem. The London consultancy Capital Economics has said foreigners own just 2% of shares. The issue is about whether the financial turbulence shines a light on wider issues about the economic slowdown in China: is the economy heading for what's called a "hard landing", too sharp a slowdown? China is now such a big force in the global economy that it would inevitably affect the rest of the world. It is the second largest economy and the second largest importer of both goods and commercial services. Read more from Andrew. Trading in China was volatile again on Friday, the first day since the suspension of the circuit breaker. The Chinese central bank also took steps to strengthen the yuan after the currency's weakness was taken as a sign of problems for the economy. Connor Campbell, an analyst at Spreadex, said the FTSE's rise on Friday was "nothing to write home about, especially in the context of the near 6% plunge the UK index has witnessed since Monday". However, he added, it did mark an important moment of calm that has been largely absent since 2016 got underway, something that could help matters heading into next week. Market attention now turns to the US unemployment figures, which are due out later on Friday. "It takes quite something to relegate the US employment report to a footnote in this week's trading activity, but the China induced volatility seen over the past few days appears to have done the trick," said Michael Hewson from CMC Markets. "As we come to the end of the week European equity markets look on course to post some of the worst weekly losses since the previous China induced volatility, seen last August." The BBC's Steve Evans in Beijing, says the reason for the volatility in China's mainland markets is that "there's a class of share buyer who treats it almost like the dog track". But these investors cannot fight gravity, and an enormously expensive share market has been brought to heel, he says. Anne Richards, chief investment officer at Aberdeen Asset Management, told the BBC she was "seeing inexperience" in some parts of the regulation of Chinese markets. The addition of inexperienced investors did not help, she said. "That's not a good setup... but over time it will improve." Dr Nikos Paltalidis, a lecturer in Finance at Durham University Business School, added the lack of experience among investors was highlighted by the fact that the first six months of 2015 saw the Chinese stock market soar by about 50%, adding that the rise in stocks was "disconnected from economic fundamentals". "Investors borrowed heavily to speculate on stocks, inflating a short-lived asset bubble. With volatility high in the Chinese markets investing in high-quality, dividend-paying stocks seem to be the safest strategy for the short-term," he added.

Chinese shares have risen and European markets have opened higher at the end of what has been a torrid first week of the year.

Media playback is not supported on this device Three people who know Armstrong well gave their thoughts. The wife of former professional road cyclist Frankie Andreu, she claimed, long before his public confession, that Armstrong took banned substances and bullied team-mates. "When the going gets tough, he turns on the charm. He thinks if he can show he's a changed man it might benefit him. The problem with that is that he has no credibility. His actions speak louder than his words." Andreu believes there should be no way back into cycling for Armstrong. "He should forget it. He's not going back into sport. He should go and enjoy something else, enjoy his family. Everyone deserves a second chance, but how many does he want? What is he? A cat." The Sunday Times journalist first raised questions about Armstrong in 1999. He wrote LA Confidential, a book containing evidence that Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs. "When I see an interview like he's just done with Dan Roan, I just feel this guy hasn't changed one iota. When he's saying everyone was doing it (doping), he's being so unfair to the people who rode the 1999 Tour de France and tours over the following years clean - and plenty did." Walsh believes Armstrong is struggling with being out of the limelight. "This is a guy who would get called up by he president of the United States and asked to go on a mountain bike ride, this is a guy who had direct access to people like Bill Clinton and John Kerry... Bono was a big mate of his. Now, no-one really wants to be associated with him - and that's tough if you were once in the place that Lance Armstrong was in." A former French road cyclist, his career effectively ended when he spoke out against doping in the 1990s. "The fact that he says that he doesn't regret it and that if he went back to the same time, he'd do it again... I think that shows an honesty." Bassons, who clashed with Armstrong after making his doping claims, also thinks the American has changed - or been changed. "When I saw him last year, it wasn't the Armstrong that I knew in the '90s any more. Back then, he was strong, he was hard, he would stare you in the eyes, he was brutal, he was strong and he would never make a mistake. But when I saw him last year, he was alone, he was badly dressed, he avoided eye contact, he didn't seem happy."

In an interview with BBC Sports editor Dan Roan, shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong said he should be forgiven for doping and lying - but also admitted he would probably cheat again.

Some fans and politicians were angry that poppies were not worn by players. In a statement, Ulster Rugby said several other Pro12 clubs had not worn a poppy during games at the weekend. It said its players had observed a minute's silence and it would hold a memorial service on Tuesday. The Belfast Telegraph reported that some fans had described the absence as "shameful". Robert McCartney, a former soldier who runs the Beyond the Battlefield charity, told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme it was "an insult". "I honestly believe they did cause an insult yesterday," he said. "It is a mark of respect, the reason they are able to play the sport themselves is because of the freedom these men gave them and if they can't put the poppy on their shirt for one day and show that respect, then they really did disgrace themselves yesterday. "We lost an awful lot of people in the wars and probably members of their family as well and for them not to wear it was a complete insult to the country." Doug Beattie, an Ulster Unionist councillor and former army captain, said he believed remembrance was a "personal thing". "The Ulster Rugby team had a remembrance service on that day, they had a minute's silence before the match and everybody is complaining about the symbolism of wearing a poppy, well I just don't get it," he added. "I don't like the word poppy fascism or poppy Stalinism, there are people who are passionate about the poppy and remembrance and me and Robert have got more in common than we don't, but on this issue I feel that people should wear the poppy if they want to wear the poppy if they don't then they should not. "I would rather stand beside somebody who is wearing it for a reason than somebody who is wearing it because somebody has told them if you don't you are unpatriotic." The Ulster Rugby statement said "players and supporters respectfully observed a minute's silence prior to the fixture against Newport Gwent Dragons on Sunday". "Kingspan Stadium has a permanent War Memorial Arch, which pays respect to those fallen during WW1 and WW2," it added. "Each year, Ulster Rugby pays respect in its usual and traditional manner with a memorial service at the arch, during which a wreath is laid by the Ulster Rugby President." The statement added that Newport Gwent Dragons and Cardiff Blues were the only Pro12 clubs who wore a poppy on their sleeves at the weekend.

Ulster Rugby has responded to criticism after poppies were absent from players' jerseys during their Pro12 game against Newport Gwent Dragons on Remembrance Sunday.

David McGoldrick volleyed in his first goal since August to put Ipswich ahead. Revell, who recently saved a penalty as an emergency goalkeeper against Preston, levelled from the spot. Brett Pitman's glancing header restored Ipswich's lead, and Revell poked home Josh Murphy's free-kick to equalise before Varney's header sealed victory. Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy: "It was exciting for both sets of fans but frustrating for me. "We have already started thinking about next season - that is an ongoing process." MK Dons manager Karl Robinson: "It was disappointing for us but it summed up our whole season. We were good but also poor in certain key areas. "It has been a massive learning curve. Some of these players deserve to be in the Championship but some don't and that is why we are where we are."

Luke Varney's late winner secured Ipswich's first win in eight games, despite Alex Revell's brace for already-relegated MK Dons.

Hemmings' match-winning brace against Partick Thistle took his goals tally to 25 in all competitions this season. "He's a player that we want to keep but we can't stop speculation and you can't stop players being ambitious. "When we do have him we're grateful for that," Hartley said. Hemmings' goal nine minutes from the end sealed the points for Dundee at Firhill after Kris Doolan had cancelled out the Englishman's opener. Hartley said he was always confident his team would prevail, even after Doolan's leveller 20 minutes from time. "We never want to try and settle for a draw," the Dundee manager told BBC Scotland. "We always try to go and win the game and I felt that today. I felt there were always more chances for us. "For Hemmings again, his 25th goal of the season, it's a fantastic return and a really pleasing performance for us. "Goalscorers are hard to come by and for Kane getting 25 goals for a team that's in the middle of the table has been a terrific return, but he's got his team-mates to thank for that also. "We set him a little target at the start of the season, we said 15 goals. Then we went 20, 25, now I think we've got to go 30. "That's the problem that we will have [keeping him] but we've got two years left with him. We're not a selling club now. I know that might sound stupid but we're not. We want to try and keep our best players. "We're trying to build something good here. We feel we've got a really talented squad. Although we were disappointed not to get into the top six, but I think when we play well we're good to watch." Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald felt his side's display merited something from the match. "I thought we had a good second half," Archibald said. "First half, I didn't think we were at the races but second half was much more positive and I thought we deserved at least a point. "Dundee are always a danger on the break with Hemmings up top but I thought it looked like the game was swaying towards us. Then they got what turned out to be the winner, but I thought we did enough to get an equaliser at the end with [David] Amoo's chance."

Paul Hartley is adamant he wants to keep prolific striker Kane Hemmings at Dundee, but admits his goal-scoring exploits this season will attract interest from other clubs.

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

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

In a study on mice, Hsp90 inhibitors were found to strip cancer cells of defences against hormone treatments. This makes the drugs particularly promising for treating drug-resistant cancers, the research team said. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK. About one in eight men will get prostate cancer at some point in their lives. It mainly affects men over the age of 50. The cancer can sometimes be treated successfully with hormone treatments, which target androgen receptors linked to the growth of male hormones called androgens. But some prostate cancers don't work that way. Instead they create an abnormal form of androgen receptor which is not linked to the growth of hormones and therefore does not respond to standard hormone treatment. This is the most common form of resistance in prostate cancer which leads to aggressive, difficult-to-treat cancers. The latest research, published in the journal Cancer Research, found that a new class of drugs reduced production of both receptors. Professor Paul Workman, study author and chief executive of the Institute of Cancer Research, said it was an exciting discovery. "We call Hsp90 inhibitors 'network drugs' because they tackle several of the signals that are hijacked in cancer all at once, across a network rather than just a single signalling pathway. "These drugs can hit cancer harder than those targeting only one protein, and look promising for preventing or overcoming drug resistance." Prof Workman said the next step was to test the Hsp90 inhibitors in clinical trials on patients with aggressive, drug-resistant prostate cancer. Prof Johann de Bono, a professor of experimental cancer medicine at the Institute of Cancer Research, said: "These drugs are already in clinical trials for several types of cancer, and I am excited that our work suggests they could also benefit men with prostate cancer who have otherwise run out of treatment options."

A new type of drug could benefit men with aggressive prostate cancer that is no longer responding to treatment, researchers from the Institute of Cancer Research have said.

The 4.4-metre-long (14-ft) cloth is on show until 24 June. Viewings are free but must be booked. One million people have already signed up. Some devotees believe the shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. Sceptics point to carbon dating that suggests it is a medieval forgery from the 1300s. Scientists have not agreed on how the image of a man was imprinted on the cloth. Turin Shroud: See it in detail Pope Francis will be among those to view the shroud, during a visit to the northern Italian city on 21 June. The last public viewings were in 2010, when 2.5 million people came to see it. The Church has not officially claimed that Christ's body was wrapped in the shroud, preferring instead to focus on what it means to those who see it. "Whether you believe or don't believe, there is no doubt it is something special," an Italian man who was among the first visitors on Sunday told the AFP news agency. Earlier this week, Archbishop of Turin Cesare Nosiglia said: "What counts the most is that this shroud... reflects in a clear and precise manner how the gospels describe the passion and death of Jesus. "It is not a profession of faith because it is not an object of faith, nor of devotion, but it can help faith." Archbishop Nosiglia said that many of those coming to see the shroud would be returnees. "That means there is a fundamental need in people's hearts to renew this incredible experience that they had the first time they saw it," he said. "Even non-believers will come. It's an occasion that brings everybody together." The shroud is displayed in a climate-controlled case for 12 hours a day in Turin's Cathedral of St John the Baptist.

The Turin Shroud has gone back on public display in the Italian city's cathedral, after a break of five years.

Inspector Harold Stephens said the County Plan, which will be the blueprint for development in County Durham for the next 20 years, was "unrealistic and flawed". The council had wanted him to reassess his findings but he has refused. The authority has now said it will take that decision to court. Ian Thompson, the council's corporate director of regeneration and economic development, said: "It came as a disappointment that the planning inspector has declined to reopen the examination. "We maintain the plan offers the best prospect for economic growth and have explored every option and opportunity in our efforts to demonstrate this, which has included employing independent planning experts to review our business-backed predictions for growth. "We now have no choice but to pursue this matter through the courts by way of a Judicial Review." In the plan, the county council said it wants to build 31,400 homes and create thousands of jobs over the next 20 years, in a bid to attract more businesses and people to the area. But Mr Stephens said the plan was "unsound" and assumptions about job growth were "very ambitious".

Durham County Council is seeking a judicial review after a planning inspector refused to re-examine his criticism of proposals for the county.

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

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

Gary Nixon, 44, fled to Scotland after advertising tickets online for the Sweden v England match in Germany and said he could arrange accommodation. But two victims from Ogmore Vale, Bridgend county, received nothing. Nixon, of Dundee, admitted obtaining property by deception at Bridgend magistrates. Nia James, prosecuting, said: "He left his home address in the south Wales area after realising he was in trouble and couldn't refund the money." The court heard Nixon was forced to "beg and borrow" under false names when he lived in Fintry, Dundee. Magistrates were also told he "had lost everyone and everything over this passage of time" all because of his World Cup con but was now in full-time employment in England and was keen to pay his victims back. A third victim could not be traced. Magistrates ordered him to pay his victims back the sums of £590 and £220 and he must do 80 hours unpaid work.

A conman who went on the run for nine years after staging a £900 scam selling England tickets for the 2006 football World Cup, has handed himself in.

Red Bull motorsport boss Helmut Marko told Germany's Bild newspaper: "The idea of Mercedes is finished. We are now focusing elsewhere." Team principal Christian Horner said he was doing "necessary due diligence" in talking to other manufacturers. With their partnership with Renault disintegrating, the team may be forced to switch to Ferrari engines. Mercedes are understood to be against supplying Red Bull - who are contracted to Renault until 2016 - because they do not want to help a strong rival become more competitive. Media playback is not supported on this device The German giant is also concerned about what it and many other F1 insiders perceive to be Red Bull's history of antagonistic relationships with engine partners. Red Bull's relationship with Renault has been difficult for some time, and appears to have become untenable in recent months as the team's frustrations with the lack of competitiveness of the French engine boil over. Honda is the only other manufacturer in F1, but partner McLaren would almost certainly exercise their veto over any potential deal with Red Bull, who in any case are not believed to be interested in a deal with the Japanese company at this stage. Renault, which supplies only Red Bull and sister team Toro Rosso in F1, is in the final stages of negotiations to take over the financially troubled Lotus team, although no deal has yet been completed. Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene said the Italian company was prepared to supply Red Bull if necessary. He said he was not concerned about their reputation for being able to build highly-competitive chassis in F1, led by their design chief Adrian Newey. Arrivabene said: "In theory they have big names, with Newey as chief designer and it is easy to think that if you give them the engine they will build a scary chassis, which means they will be really competitive. "Concerning my team, my engineers and aerodynamicists know their own jobs. For that reason I don't have a problem, and competition is nice when you have a stronger competitor. "This doesn't mean tomorrow morning we will give our engines to Red Bull or Toro Rosso. "But I don't see any kind of problem to give our engine to any other team or be scared of the competition before they start. "This is not the right spirit of competition or what Ferrari represents. We fight with everybody."

Red Bull have said that their hopes of securing a Mercedes engine supply in 2016 are now over.

Media playback is unsupported on your device 27 July 2015 Last updated at 17:08 BST Ian Drake is British Cycling's chief executive officer, and here he gives his top tips for how you can get involved in the sport.

With Chris Froome's triumph for Britain in the Tour de France, cycling is in the spotlight.

Wayne Maycock, Paul Bromwich and Admi Headley were last seen at HMP Leyhill at about 16:45 GMT on Sunday. Avon and Somerset Police has appealed for anyone who sees them, or knows of their whereabouts, to make contact. HMP Leyhill in South Gloucestershire is the only minimum-security prison in the South West. Headley was sentenced in 2006 for rape and robbery, Maycock was jailed in the same year for GBH, while Bromwich was sentenced in 2001 for rape. Earlier, the police force suggested all three were convicted of rape but this information was later amended. A Prison Service spokesperson said: "Public protection is our top priority. We take absconds from custody extremely seriously. We are working closely with the police and are urgently investigating this incident." According to Avon and Somerset Police: Leyhill, near Wotton-under-Edge, is a category D prison housing more than 500 inmates, including some on life sentences.

Two convicted rapists and a man convicted of assault - all considered to be a "risk to the public" - have absconded from an open prison.

Dugdale, 29, spent a year at the National League club, making 20 appearances and scoring two goals. Liverpool-born Dugdale, whose previous clubs include Morecambe and Tranmere, posted on Twitter that "the distance from home and my young family was too much." Left-back Cole, 23, was recently transfer-listed having signed from Staines Town in January. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Defenders Adam Dugdale and Chinua Cole have left Eastleigh by mutual consent.

The cameras will be operated by the Canadian Urthecast company, which intends to stream high-resolution video of the planet to web users. Russian cosmonauts completed the attachment in a six-hour spacewalk on Monday. It followed an aborted installation attempt in December. On that occasion, there was a difficulty in getting telemetry through to Moscow mission control. In a statement on Tuesday, Urthecast confirmed that both cameras were passing data to the ground following the latest effort. "During the installation, we were able to complete all of the intended tests during the spacewalk," the statement read. "At this time, all telemetry received and analysed is within our expected results." The cameras were made for Urthecast by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, UK. The high-resolution video unit should provide a resolution on the ground of about 1m per pixel. Large crowds and moving vehicles would be visible on this scale. The second camera will provide static imagery at a medium resolution of 5m per pixel. "Testing of every part of the camera system will now follow. Once that's completed, we can expect the first imagery to be released publicly," said Prof Richard Holdaway, the director of RAL Space. "We'll be helping Urthecast. We'll be checking the optical alignment and focus, to see that it is everything we expected," he told BBC News. Urthecast hopes to build a business around space station imagery. One of the customer sectors for the hi-res video, for example, is likely to be news organisations that want moving pictures of major events, such as war zones and regions of the Earth hit by natural disasters. It is hoping also to generate social media buzz around its imagery products, by enabling people to tag and share pictures through a special web portal. Urthecast is one of a group of Earth observation start-ups currently in the process of launching and commissioning space hardware. Skybox Imaging of San Francisco has already started to showcase video of Earth acquired by its small, free-flying SkySat-1 satellite. And Planet Labs, another San Francisco venture, has a "flock" of 28 nano-satellite imagers that are about to be released out of the airlock on the ISS. The station itself is increasingly becoming a platform for Earth observation. This is quite a challenge, however. The movement of the astronauts inside the ISS makes it flex, and there is a constant vibration from onboard equipment. All this requires cameras to have dampers built into their rigs to maintain a steady shot. The US space agency (Nasa) will be launching another two Earth-observing instruments to the station this year. One will study ocean winds and storms; the other will examine small particles in the atmosphere that can influence the climate.

Two British-built Earth-observation cameras have been successfully installed on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS)

Inciting people to harass others online, known as virtual mobbing, could also result in court action, under new Crown Prosecution Service guidance. The director of public prosecutions said it means the CPS would prosecute just as if offences occurred offline. But she stressed this did not mean prosecutors could "stifle free speech". The new guidance aims to help police identify online crimes more easily. It also highlights those who post people's personal information, such as bank details - known as doxxing. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said: "The internet's not an anonymous place where people can post without any consequences. People should think about their own conduct. "If you are grossly abusive to people, if you are bullying or harassing people online, then we will prosecute in the same way as if you did it offline." However, Ms Saunders said context will be an important factor in decisions - for example "if you're offensive, the legislation would say you have to be grossly offensive, and that's quite a high test". One woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said she and her daughter, who has Down's Syndrome, had suffered such severe online abuse over the last six years that they had to move house three times. The abuse started, she said, when a friend wrote a book about trolls - anonymously but mentioning her by name. "The trolls photoshopped images of myself and my daughter on to pornography and posted it on Facebook. They have said I'm a paedophile and called her hateful names like mongoloid; they even set up a website in her name." The woman believes the trolls kept getting hold of her details using official forms she submitted when complaining at the use of images of her daughter. "Even after we moved, they have called us at three of four in the morning threatening to petrol-bomb our house if we will not give up the name of the author. "It's been horrific - this trolling is not free speech; it's hate speech," she said. She added that one of the men stood outside the family home and followed her daughter to school, taking pictures. The incidents are now being investigated by police. Kevin Healey told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he had been abused online for five years over his autism campaign work. He said: "Not even one troll has been prosecuted or jailed, even though I have made complaints to Twitter and the police. "It's been a nightmare; it's been horrific - it doesn't go away. It's with you 24 hours and seven days a week, there's no escape from it". Mr Healey said he doesn't think the changes will make any difference and wants changes to legislation in the UK - and abroad. "With the laws in the UK, if someone is trolling you from outside the UK - and my last batch of trolls were from the US - the police said we can't do anything," he added. The CPS says it will use "considerable caution" before charging those posting "grossly offensive" material. The changes come after a report found that one in four teenagers is abused online over their sexual orientation, race, religion, gender or disability. The CPS also said underage "sexting" between consenting children in a relationship should not be prosecuted, but cases which involve "exploitation, grooming or bullying" may lead to legal action. Ms Saunders told the BBC: "If they are children, they are the same age, there's no suggestion or any coercion or bad motives, then we would not expect that case to be prosecuted. It shows you how careful you have to be about the context of it," she said. Asked about whether guidelines on misogynistic hate crimes would be introduced, Ms Saunders said: "We probably need to think about it." A new law on revenge porn - someone uploading explicit images or film of a former partner to humiliate or embarrass them - has led to the prosecution of 206 people across England and Wales since its introduction in April 2015. The public policy statements on hate crime will be subject to public consultation for 13 weeks.

Internet trolls who create derogatory hashtags or doctored images to humiliate others could face prosecution in England and Wales.

California's court also ordered him to pay $80,900 (£47,160) in damages, serve five days of community service and complete an anger management programme. Bieber, 20, was not present in court for the sentencing. The singer faces two other criminal cases in Florida and Toronto. "Justin is glad to get this matter resolved and behind him," Bieber's representatives said in a statement after the verdict by Los Angeles Superior Court in Van Nuys. "He will continue to move forward focusing on his career and his music." Investigators searched Bieber's Calabasas home in California in January for evidence after the egging apparently caused serious damage. One of the singer's friends was arrested on drug possession charges after that search. The LA County Sheriff's Office say they were looking for surveillance video tapes when they spotted the drugs "in plain view". Surveillance footage seized from the home appears to show Bieber high-fiving friends and celebrating after throwing eggs at his neighbour's home, police said. The pop star could have faced a more serious felony charge if the damage to the home had been greater than $20,000. He has since moved out of Calabasas to Beverly Hills. Two previous investigations into Bieber's conduct by the sheriff's department did not lead to charges. Prosecutors declined to charge him last year after a neighbour complained he drove recklessly through the area, and in November 2012 after a paparazzi photographer accused Bieber of assault. He was arrested by police in Miami in January and charged with driving under the influence and driving without a valid licence and Toronto prosecutors have accused Bieber of assaulting a limousine driver in December.

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has pleaded no contest to misdemeanour vandalism in connection with the egging of his neighbour's home and has been sentenced to two years' probation.

The Egypt-backed plan had envisaged a regional forum which analysts say might have forced Israel to reveal whether or not it has nuclear weapons. The proposal was blocked by the US, the UK and Canada. The next review is set for 2020. Israel neither confirms nor denies it has a stockpile of nuclear weapons. Speaking after four weeks of negotiations, US Under-Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller accused Egypt and other Arab countries of "not willing to let go of these unrealistic and unworkable conditions" for future talks. She also said some participants tried to "cynically manipulate" the whole process. But Egypt warned that the failure to reach a deal "will have consequences in front of the Arab world and public opinion", the Associated Press news agency reports. Last month, Egypt had proposed to stage a regional conference - with or without Israel's participation and without an agreed agenda. Some analysts suggested that this move might have forced Israel - which is not a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) - to publicly clarify its position on nuclear weapons. Decisions at NPT review conferences - held every five years - are made by consensus. The failure of the current talks means the next gathering could only be held in 2020 at the earliest.

A UN conference aimed at preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons has ended in failure after a row over a nuclear-free Middle East proposal.

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

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

Raban Alou, 18, is charged with aiding and abetting the killing of police accountant Curtis Cheng, 58, on 2 October. Talal Alameddine, 22, is accused of supplying the weapon used by Mr Cheng's killer, 15-year-old Farhad Jabar. Neither appeared in court and no applications for bail were made. Mr Alou's lawyer, Moustafa Kheir, told reporters outside the court that his client would be fighting the charges. He said his client had been held for more than 200 hours "for the purpose of interrogation" and that the charges against him relied on circumstantial evidence. Police have alleged that Mr Alou handed the gun to Jabar. They also allege Mr Alameddine supplied the gun to Mr Alou hours before the murder. The case has been adjourned until 10 December. Mr Cheng was killed outside police headquarters in the Parramatta area of Sydney and Jabar was then shot dead by police. Officials described it as a terror attack. More than 200 officers later raided properties in the area. Jabar, an Australian born in Iran and of Iraqi-Kurdish heritage, is reported to have shouted religious slogans as he killed Mr Cheng. In the wake of the killing, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called a meeting with security chiefs. He warned that radicalisation was spreading among the young. "We are dealing with an evolving threat," he said. "The shocking murder of Curtis Cheng, the shocking act of terrorism perpetrated by a 15-year-old boy reminds us yet again that radicalisation, extremism can be seen in the very young." Australia's police chief had earlier warned that the terror threat facing the country was getting worse.

Two men charged in connection with the terrorism-linked shooting of an Australian police worker have been remanded in custody by a Sydney court.

The Conservatives claimed the amount councils are spending on education is at its lowest level for six years. But the Scottish government said the figures being quoted were "inaccurate and misleading". Each council decides for itself just how much to spend on education although some important costs like teachers' pay are set nationally. The Conservatives claimed official government figures said spending on education by councils had fallen to its lowest level for six years. They said councils spent £4.67 billion between them last year - down £140m on the previous year. The government said the Conservatives' figures were wrong as some of the numbers quoted were not directly comparable. Scottish Conservative education spokeswoman Mary Scanlon said: "At a time when the schools budget in England has been protected, these new figures reveal another cut in funding for schools in Scotland. "The cost of this is clear. In England the number of full-time teachers has increased by more than 3,000 between 2010 and 2013. "But in Scotland, over the same period, the numbers have fallen by around 1,000. "This is the price schools are paying for the SNP's failure to take any responsibility for our schools system and undertake the reforms that are necessary to turn it around. "It's not good enough for them to blame others - the cuts to spending and the fall in literacy and numeracy standards is happening on the SNP's watch." But the Scottish government insisted the Conservatives' use of figures is wrong. A Scottish government spokesperson said: "This comparison is completely inaccurate and misleading, as it compares net expenditure in 2014/15 with gross expenditure for past years. Provisional outturn was higher in 2014-15 than it was in 2013-14. "We also know councils are planning to spend 3.3% more on the delivery of education in 2015-16 - the largest increase in six years. "We know spending per pupil is significantly higher in Scotland than England. "Despite Westminster austerity, we remain wholly committed to mitigating the effects of welfare cuts and ensuring our education system is resourced to continue to meet the needs of children, parents, schools and communities." The largest teaching union, the EIS, said education budgets had been under pressure, but had little sympathy for the Conservatives' claims. General secretary Larry Flanagan said: "The damaging age of austerity imposed by the UK government has had a significant detrimental impact on the funding available to public services in Scotland. "Education has not been immune from the downward pressure on Scottish government and local authority budgets, and this had led to serious challenges in our schools owing to declining teacher numbers, lack of school resources and rising class sizes. "The attempt by the Tory party, however, to exploit the impact of an austerity programme which they are imposing seems somewhat hypocritical. "Scottish education needs additional resources but it does not need the type of retrograde policies pursued so disastrously in England by the likes of Michael Gove." Each council decides for itself just how much to spend on education, although some important costs like teachers' pay are set nationally. However, councils receive the overwhelming bulk of their money from the Scottish government. Education is the biggest service councils provide, and the biggest challenge facing councils just now is money. Typically about 80% of each council's budget comes from the Scottish government. Council tax, which makes up most of the rest, has been frozen since 2007. The latest council funding agreement obliged councils to maintain teacher numbers or risk losing money. Some councils objected to this - arguing this amounted to micro-management in their affairs, and claiming there was more to raising attainment in schools than simply maintaining teacher numbers. While the government strongly disputes the Conservatives' use of figures, there is little doubt that some council education budgets are under scrutiny as councils continue to look for savings. In recent months four councils looked at reducing the length of the primary school week, while services such as school libraries have also been under the spotlight. The Scottish government - which currently receives all its money from Westminster - argues it has been trying to do its best for councils in the face of tight funding settlements and believes the council tax freeze has been a help to family budgets. However, critics point out that councils are left with little practical control of the size of their overall budgets.

A row has broken out over claims councils have slashed their education budgets.

People had gathered on the bridge to watch emergency services rescue a man who had jumped into the Sanvordem river in Curchorem. Local media reported that more than 50 people were on the bridge when it collapsed late on Thursday evening. The bridge was reportedly more than 60 years old and was banned from use. A local police officer told the Hindustan Times that more people were likely to be "trapped under the collapsed bridge". Home Minister Rajnath Singh said he was also monitoring the rescue operation. South Goa MP Narendra Sawaikar told the Goa Herald newspaper that "it was an unfortunate tragedy". "The bridge must be demolished as the government had notified it as a dangerous bridge and notices were placed both the side of the bridge not to use it. "Right now the priority is to recover the bodies," he added.

At least two people have died and several others are feared missing after a pedestrian bridge collapsed in the Indian state of Goa.

They want President Dmitry Medvedev to be confronted over a perceived failure to protect business against corruption. In a Sunday Times letter, they also call for the PM to raise the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. The call is from Labour's Margaret Beckett, David Miliband, Jack Straw and Conservative Sir Malcolm Rifkind. The letter says hundreds of thousands of Russian businessmen are detained in jails after falling victim to corruption sanctioned by the authorities. They refer to these people as "victims of an increasingly potent mix of corruption and lawlessness". In their letter, the former foreign secretaries state: "The dangers of this corruption do not stop at Russia's borders and Alexander Litvinenko's murder shows the consequences of such lawlessness hitting British shores. "In this regard the prime minister has both a domestic and international duty to tackle this issue head on during his visit." Mr Cameron is flying to Moscow on Sunday in an attempt to improve relations with Mr Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Strained relations He will be the first UK prime minister to visit the Russian capital since Tony Blair six years ago. Whitehall officials recently revealed that no UK minister or diplomat has spoken directly with Mr Putin for four years. The BBC's James Landale said the prime minister was expected to see Mr Putin but a formal meeting had not been confirmed. Relations between the UK and Russia have been strained since the murder of Mr Litvinenko, an ex-Russian security official who had been living in the UK. Litvinenko killing suspect speaks out Mr Litvinenko - an outspoken Kremlin critic - was fatally poisoned. His death led to both the UK and Russia expelling diplomats. The 43-year-old was found to have been poisoned with radioactive polonium-210. Moscow has refused a long-standing request from the UK to extradite the prime suspect in the case, Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB officer who is now a member of the Russian Parliament and has always denied involvement. In an interview with the BBC earlier this week, Mr Lugovoi suggested a third country should be brought in to re-investigate the murder in an attempt to break the diplomatic deadlock, and suggested MI6 - and even Mr Litvinenko himself - had been behind the killing. There have also been tensions over Russia's attempts to shut down the British Council's offices in Moscow. The UK government's refusal to co-operate and share intelligence since the scandal has harmed counter-terrorism efforts, according to Alexander Yakovenko, Moscow's ambassador in London. Mr Cameron will travel with a group of businessmen, including Bob Dudley, chief executive of BP, whose Moscow office was raided by special forces last week.

David Cameron has been urged by four former foreign secretaries to challenge the Russian government on a number of issues during his visit to Moscow.

9 May 2017 Last updated at 16:05 BST No, we don't mean how you hang your washing up or the letters your parents get through the post. We're talking about the WWE wrestling moves! Ayshah went to Liverpool to find out if she's got what it takes to become a WWE Superstar. Watch her get some help from Finn Balor, Enzo Amore, Big Cass and Bayley! Pictures courtesy of WWE Network

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Complaints have been made across the UK about the fad, which sees people dress up in order to frighten passers-by. Dyfed-Powys Police received about 30 reports over the weekend and North Wales Police said it was aware of incidents. Gwent Police had 18 reports, including clowns "peering through windows". South Wales Police put out a warning at the weekend after receiving complaints about people dressed as clowns "frightening others intentionally". Chf Insp Paul Staniforth of Gwent Police said: "Some of the reports have included, clowns running through gardens and peering through windows, lurking around shopping centres, parks and schools and jumping from trees. "Fortunately, to date, we've had no reports of anyone being harmed during these reports." He said people could be arrested for a public order offence - causing harassment, alarm or distress. The culprits are said to be following a trend that started in the US. Sgt Rhys Williams of Dyfed-Powys Police said while dressing up was not a criminal offence, "deliberately scaring someone, causing harassment, alarm or distress could lead to arrest". Officers were looking into some of the reports, but no arrests have been made. Sgt Williams added: "Please be mindful that what seems like a bit of fun to you, could not be seen the same way by those on the receiving end of this prank. "There is also the possibility that you could attempt to scare the wrong person and they could retaliate. "Anyone who commits a criminal offence should be aware that dressing as a clown does not make them exempt from being investigated and dealt with through the Criminal Justice System." North Wales Police said officers were aware of incidents, but no offences had been reported.

Sightings of "creepy clowns" have been reported across Wales, with police warning people they could be arrested for scaring others.

US researchers say the slow-is-more-accurate rule generally applies. In a series of calculations, they looked at the physics behind releasing a projectile with the human arm. Their equations suggest a slow underarm throw is the best strategy for getting a piece of paper into a nearby bin. Lead researcher Madhusudhan Venkadesan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Yale University, said faster throws tend to be less accurate. This is because the ball travels in a nearly straight line, so any errors in the angle at which the object is released tend to be amplified. In slow and curved flight paths, small errors in the angle of release have little effect, he said. "What we find is that almost the slowest arc is often the most accurate," said Dr Venkadesan. "We've compared these calculations to published data of people throwing into wastebaskets; we've compared it to a study in dart throwing." In sports such as basketball or darts, the strategy depends on conditions and the trade-off needed between speed and accuracy. For example, experienced darts players throw overarm at about 5.5 metres per second, optimally releasing the dart 17 to 37 degrees before the arm becomes vertical. On the cricket pitch, fielders are more likely to strike the wicket with a fast underarm throw. And in basketball, the underhand free throw, nicknamed "the granny throw", has a marginal advantage over overhand, despite almost disappearing from the game. Accurate throwing is uniquely human - a skill relied upon by our ancient ancestors for hunting with spears or stone tools. The researchers say monkeys also throw things, but they are really bad at it. The study is published in the journal, Royal Society Open Science. Follow Helen on Twitter.

Scientists have calculated the optimal strategy for throwing something accurately - whether it's a dart or a crumpled-up piece of paper.

The crash happened at about 17:35 GMT. A woman was also injured in the crash, but her injuries are not believed to be life threatening. Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the crash to come forward.

An 18-year-old man has died after being injured in a two-car road crash on the Lisburn Road in Saintfield, County Down on Wednesday.

West Yorkshire Fire Service said half of Freeston Academy in Normanton, near Wakefield was ablaze at one point, leaving the building badly damaged. More than 50 firefighters attended after the alarm was raised at 09:10 BST. The blaze was brought under control by about 12:00. The fire service said there were no injuries and students were unaffected. Local residents were advised to keep windows closed and stay inside at the height of the fire. Ian Bitcon, area manager for the fire service, said the blaze was in the roof of the school which was "difficult to deal with due to access". He said: "We've been very fortunate in that the school's unoccupied and there's been a very good water supply. "We appear to pretty much have it cracked now." A caller to Radio Leeds said: "I was on my way home when I saw this massive smoke and flames. "They turned us all away and stopped us all going up the street. "There's loads of kids here waiting for their GCSE results and they're all coming away in tears." Students at the school were later directed to the sports hall to collect their exam results. A woman whose daughter had been to collect her exam results at the school said: "It's been a crazy day". She told BBC Radio Leeds: "It's been an emotional rollercoaster. First, getting up and waiting to come in and pick up the results. "But then to hear the school was on fire. It's just been an utter drama." In a statement, the school said: "Our main priority was the safety of our staff, students and contractors working on site, and to ensure that our year 11 students were able to collect their GCSE results. "Following advice from the fire service, all students were able to collect their GCSE results from outside the sports hall. "All staff on the site were accounted for and no one was hurt in the fire."

A large fire broke out a school as students gathered to collect their GCSE results.

Media playback is not supported on this device Dusmatov, 23, was awarded a unanimous points victory - two judges scoring the fight 30-27, and one 29-28. Martinez, 24, is the first Olympic boxing finalist from Colombia. The United States' Nico Hernandez, 20, and 19-year-old Cuban world champion Joahnys Argilagos took bronze after losing in the semi-finals. Find out how to get into boxing with our special guide. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.

Uzbekistan's Hasanboy Dusmatov won Olympic gold in the men's light-flyweight with victory over Colombian Yuberjen Herney Martinez.

The Bosnia-Herzegovina international is bidding for full match fitness after recovering from a hernia injury but is unlikely to start against QPR. The visitors are without midfielder Jordan Cousins, who will miss the rest of the season with a quadricep injury. On-loan winger Kazenga LuaLua is back in training after an ankle injury but is still a doubt for the visitors. Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol: "We move into Friday after a good performance that was much desired against Wolves. Friday is going to be really, really important. "If we can get a win, it really puts everybody else on the back foot, we'll claw another couple in and hopefully we'll push away as well. "It is a massive game. I'm sure the players will give their all. We want to look ahead of us and make sure we overtake a couple of people, with Forest and Burton only a point ahead of us. "Even QPR, six points ahead of us, if we beat them, we cut that gap to three points. That's really important. The more people we draw into it, the better."

Bristol City remain without midfielder Gary O'Neil (leg), but striker Milan Djuric is back in training.

Mr MacAskill made the announcement at HMP Shotts, one of two pilot sites for the technology. The move follows legislation allowing the Scottish Prison Service to interfere with mobile phone signals. The technology should enable prison authorities to detect and prevent prisoners' use of contraband phones. The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) awarded contracts for the installation of the technology at HMPs Shotts and Glenochil. The two pilot sites are expected to be operating the technology by the end of the current financial year. Mr MacAskill said: "This government made it a criminal offence for a prisoner to possess a mobile phone and the Scottish Prison Service has already invested considerably in the use of technology and intelligence capability to detect and prevent the use of mobile phones in our prisons. "This new legislation will allow SPS to further extend their technology to disrupt the use of mobile phones by prisoners and is scheduled to be operational in a matter of weeks." The Scottish Prison Service has linked mobile phone use in prison to criminal activities including the supply of drugs, organised crime and harassment. Possession of a mobile phone by people in custody has been illegal since 2010. The SPS said 1,988 mobile phone handsets had been detected in Scottish prisons since 2011 - 212 of them in HMP Shotts. In 2012 the Scottish Parliament agreed to extend the provisions of the Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Act, which was passed by the UK Parliament, to Scotland and allow prison governors to use jamming equipment.

Mobile phone signal blocking technology will go live in Scottish prisons within weeks, Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has announced.

John Swinney will address MSPs over a legal challenge to information sharing proposals within the Act. The system would appoint a named person - usually a teacher or health visitor - to ensure the wellbeing of every child. But judges at the UK's highest court ruled against the scheme in July 2016, citing concerns over information sharing. The Supreme Court judges said some proposals breached rights to privacy and a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights. However, the court said the aim of the Act, which is intended to promote and safeguard the rights and wellbeing of children and young people, was legitimate. Speaking ahead of his statement to the Scottish Parliament, Mr Swinney said the Scottish government remained "absolutely committed" to the Named Person service as a way to support children and their families. "Last year the Supreme Court ruled definitively that the intention of providing a Named Person for every child to promote and safeguard their wellbeing was 'unquestionably legitimate and benign'," he said. "Their judgement did, however, require us to change the provisions relating to information sharing. "Since the judgement, we have undertaken an intensive period of engagement with children, young people, parents, carers, practitioners and professionals. "I will now update parliament on the next steps in this vital means of supporting, safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of our children and young people." The judges said in July that specific proposals about information-sharing were "not within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament". And they said the legislation made it "perfectly possible" that confidential information about a young person could be disclosed to a "wide range of public authorities without either the child or young person or her parents being aware". The appeal was brought by the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) coalition, which includes the Christian Institute, Care (Christian Action Research and Education), Tyme Trust and the Family Education Trust. The Scottish government has said previously it would not commence the legislation until the problems were fixed.

The deputy first minister is due to make a statement on the Scottish government's Named Person scheme later.

12 July 2017 Last updated at 07:06 BST Can you spot him? Yes, it's the 130th anniversary of the first Sherlock Holmes book, so it's a pretty good choice. Sherlock is famous for solving complicated crimes, and now visitors to Maze can put their own detective skills to the test. They will have to find their way through the maze and collect clues as they go. Elementary!

This is the award-winning Wistow Maze in Leicestershire and this year a very special character is taking over.

Officials have confirmed that of the 184 inmates that escaped, 70 have been captured, leaving 114 still at large. Among those on the run is Brayan Bremer, who posted pictures of himself on the run on social media. About 100 federal officers have been sent to Amazonas to boost the search. Amazonas governor Jose Melo requested the help of the federal government on Sunday, saying Amazonas were "at their physical and psychological limit". The prisoners escaped from the Anisio Jobim jail in Manaus and the neighbouring Antonio Trindad prison as a deadly riot was under way in the former. Brazil prison riots: What's the cause? The director of the Anisio Jobim jail, Jose Carvalho da Silva, has since been suspended over allegations he took money from the Familia do Norte gang in exchange for turning a blind eye to drugs and weapons beings smuggled into the jail. Investigators say the Familia do Norte instigated the riot and specifically targeted members of rival gang First Capital Command (PCC). Mr Silva is also accused of allowing inmates to flee the prison in exchange for money. He had been put in charge of the jail on 28 December in an interim capacity, after serving as deputy head. Two inmates made the allegations against him in separate letters sent to the authorities three weeks before the riot. In the letters, the inmates say that Mr Silva had threatened to move them from a secure area of the jail into a "general population" area, even though they had received death threats and a judge had ordered they be kept separate from the general prison population. The two were among the 56 inmates killed during the riot on 1 January.

Police in Brazil are stepping up their search for more than 100 prisoners who are still on the run after escaping from adjoining prisons in the northern state of Amazonas on 1 January.

Theresa May told the Commons it was a 100% failure rate, as all of the samples submitted so far since the Grenfell Tower fire had failed. She urged local authorities and housing associations to "get on with the fire safety checks". At least 79 people are feared to have been killed in the blaze on 14 June. Meanwhile, regulator NHS Improvement said it has written to all NHS trusts and foundation trusts to ask them to carry out urgent fire safety checks. There are 36 organisations that need additional support to find out if they have cladding similar to Grenfell, it said, and fire safety tests on building material is expected to be completed "by early next week". Mrs May told MPs that she expects to name a judge to head the public inquiry into the disaster soon. She said 282 temporary properties had been identified for residents of the tower, 132 families have had their needs assessed and there have been 65 offers of temporary accommodation. The government has made almost £1.25m of discretionary payments and will be giving an extra £1m to a local group of charities, trusts and foundations, Mrs May said. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the tragedy had "exposed the disastrous effect of austerity" and said: "Fewer inspectors, fewer building control inspectors, fewer planning inspectors - we all pay a price." The blaze, which started in a fridge-freezer, destroyed 151 homes in the north Kensington block and in the surrounding area of the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Questions were raised about the cladding used on Grenfell in the immediate aftermath of the disaster and a nation-wide operation has taken place to identify and test buildings with similar cladding. It has emerged that London Fire Brigade issued a warning to all 33 London councils about panels attached to the exterior of buildings in May this year, in a letter seen by the BBC. On Tuesday, Mrs May said there should be a "major national investigation" into the use of cladding on high-rise towers.

Cladding from 120 high-rise buildings in 37 local authority areas in England has now failed fire safety tests, the prime minister has said.

Knox, 30, has arranged a practice round at Augusta with the 1988 winner. "It's not every tournament you have a fellow Scot and past champion to show you around," Knox told BBC Scotland. "I'm looking forward to it and hopefully he'll give me some great insider tips that he's learned over the years that might help me." Lyle, 58, qualifies as a winner of the Green Jacket, and US-based Knox is the only other Scotsman in the field. Inverness-born Knox leapt up the rankings in November with victory at WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai and is currently No.34 in the world. "I still can't quite believe I'm playing at the Masters," he enthused. "Growing up watching it on TV, now it's my turn to play. It's truly an amazing honour." Knox has had a taste of the other majors, finishing in a tie for 45th at the US Open in 2013, featuring at the US PGA Championship in 2014 and 2015 and making his Open debut as a reserve at St Andrews last year. "I've only been to Augusta once before," explained Knox, one of British golf's most promising players. "It's the most famous course in the world pretty much. Obviously, St Andrews is right up there too. "Being the first major of the year and with all the history, Augusta just has this hype around it and golf is in a great place right now with so many young, amazing players. "There's such a buzz around the tournament. The crowds seem amazing and then there's the condition of the course. "The whole thing is magical, a golfer's dream, and I can't wait to be a part of it."

Russell Knox aims to tap into the experience of former champion Sandy Lyle as he prepares to make his Masters debut next week.

In the first World Series game at Wrigley Field since 1945, Coco Crisp was the Indians' match-winner. The 36-year-old outfielder came off the bench for a pinch-hit single that scored Michael Martinez from third base in the seventh inning. The fourth game in the best-of-seven series takes place in Chicago on Saturday. The Indians are seeking their first World Series title since 1948, while the Cubs are trying to win their first crown since 1908 to end America's record longest sports title drought. "It feels good," said Crisp, whose sister nicknamed him "Coco" after a cereal box character. "You want to do something that can help the team. Fortunately enough for me it was the hit."

The Cleveland Indians edged 2-1 ahead in the World Series with a 1-0 victory at Chicago.

10 February 2017 Last updated at 09:27 GMT Some people are worried hospitals are now getting too busy and overcrowded, meaning patients are having to wait a long time to be seen by a doctor. How is this affecting children who get injured and need to go to hospital? Jenny went to a children's hospital in Sheffield to speak to a doctor and find out. She also meets Lilly and Jake, who have come to hospital needing treatment, to see how their experience went.

Winter is a very busy time of year for hospitals, with more people needing to see a doctor.

Footage emerged online of people appearing to sing the anti-Irish "Famine Song" at the weekend, while a band played along. The council said the right of the Orange Order to march was not "absolute". And it warned future parades could face greater restrictions or prohibition. Police are investigating the footage of the song, which is sung to the tune of the Beach Boys' Sloop John B has previously been ruled to be racist by a Scottish court. A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: "The European Convention on Human Rights enshrines the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression. "However, these rights are not absolute. They must be balanced by the responsibility to ensure the rights of others are not infringed." He added that the council would have a full debrief with police and the parade organisers, and would take into account any issues of public disorder, anti-social behaviour or damage to property resulting from the procession. And the spokesman said the council would also "take into consideration any evidenced issues and, if a future procession notification is received from the organiser, the likelihood of any restriction or prohibition may be greater." The main County Grand Orange Order parade from George Square to Glasgow Green on Saturday saw 4,500 people in 63 bands take part and another 4,000 people spectating. It was in celebration of Prince William of Orange's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Eight arrests were made for minor disorder and alcohol-related offences. Robert McLean, executive officer for the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, said: "At the end of the day, members of the public will sing songs to tunes. "I have been quite clear - if police investigate we will assist with their inquiries. We look forward to the debrief and looking at any incidents that occurred." But David Scott, campaign director for anti-sectarian group Nil by Mouth, said: "If the Orange Order are a religious and cultural organisation, what would be the relevance of a Beach Boys song? "We know that tune also has another certain set of lyrics. The organisers should be speaking to band members and saying what is acceptable." Ch Supt Brian McInulty of Police Scotland said the force operated a "zero-tolerance policy" when it comes to any form of sectarian abuse, and would fully investigate any incidents brought to their attention.

Glasgow City Council will consider banning future Orange Order marches after footage showed members of the public chanting a sectarian song.

The building is to be developed on a site between Longman Road and Burnett Road to the north of Burnett Road Police Station. The new centre would allow the courts service to move out of historic Inverness Castle. The Scottish government is to fund the construction of the new two-storey Inverness Justice Centre. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has proposed that the centre has six courtrooms. It would also have facilities available for supporting and advising victims and witnesses of domestic abuse, sexual violence and provide "an environment for problem solving approaches" to help reduce re-offending and child abuse. Justice Secretary Michael Matheson has said the centre would be an important development for the city and the wider Highlands area.

Plans have been submitted to Highland Council for the new Inverness Justice Centre.

Tall, poised and elegant, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has been described as having a rock-star appeal on the international political circuit. By contrast, Mexico's central bank governor Agustin Carstens, is known for his rotund figure, which is often portrayed in Mexican political cartoons. But Mr Carstens, 53, is by no means a joke candidate in the race to lead the IMF. His economic credentials cannot be doubted. He graduated with an economics degree from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, before collecting both a master's and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago, where deregulation and "laissez-faire" economics were the dominant views. It was there that Mr Carstens, a former Little League baseball star, became a fan of the Chicago Cubs team. It was also in Chicago that Mr Carstens met his wife, economist and author Catherine Mansell, who writes under the pen name CM Mayo. After obtaining his doctorate in 1985, Mr Carstens returned to Mexico where he joined the central bank and rose through the ranks, his roles including chief of staff in the governor's office and director general of economic research. While at the bank, he gained first-hand experience of dealing with financial crises, including Mexico's debt problems in the 1980s and the peso's crash in 1994 - experience which his supporters say make him the ideal candidate for the IMF. He left the bank in 1999 to work as an executive director at the IMF, but returned to Mexico in 2000, serving as deputy finance minister under President Vicente Fox, marking his first ties with the conservative National Action Party. In 2003, he rejoined the IMF as deputy managing director, where he was held in high regard. When he left the role in 2006, again to return to front-line Mexican politics, Rodrigo de Rato, the IMF President at the time, described him as "a superb ambassador for the fund, who carried high credibility with policymakers". Serving as finance minister for three years under President Felipe Calderon, Mr Carstens was responsible for pushing through new taxes to bolster Mexico's revenues. But his biggest gaffe came in early 2009 when a reporter asked him if the economic troubles in the US would affect Mexico. The reporter reminded him of the saying that when the US catches a cold, Mexico usually catches pneumonia. Mexico's economy was in good health at the time and Mr Carstens replied the country would only get "the sniffles". In fact, Mexico's economic output fell by 6.5% that year. Nevertheless, sniffles aside, President Calderon nominated Mr Carstens to be the next head of the Bank of Mexico, a post he has held for the past year and a half. But his pledge to work closely with the government raised questions about the bank's independence. "Being autonomous on monetary policy does not mean you have to be isolated from the national economic debate," he said at his confirmation hearing. Mr Carstens himself acknowledges Ms Lagarde is the favourite to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the IMF. "I'm not fooling myself. It's like starting a soccer game with a 5-0 score," he said on Monday. He says he would bring "a fresh pair of eyes" to the role. A European, he says, could face a conflict of interest, given the continuing debt crisis in some eurozone countries, while he can appreciate what emerging markets can contribute to the IMF. But the fact he is from the Americas could work against him. Robert Zoellick, from the US, currently heads the World Bank and some countries may not be keen to see the two global institutions led by officials from the same part of the world. Traditionally, an American has headed the World Bank while a European has been in charge of the IMF. And while Mr Carstens has the support of most of Latin America, Brazil - the region's largest economy - has yet to say whom it will back. For Mr Carstens to be successful, he would almost certainly need Brazil to back him.

The two candidates competing to be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could not be more different in their appearance.

In an article published on Friday, MacKenzie compared Everton midfielder Ross Barkley, who has a grandfather born in Nigeria, to a "gorilla". He said men with similar "pay packets" in Liverpool were "drug dealers". Merseyside Police are investigating whether his comments constitute a "racial hate crime". The Sun apologised "for the offence caused" and added that it was "unaware of Barkley's heritage". In a statement of his own, MacKenzie reiterated the latter sentiment, adding that it was "beyond parody" to describe the column as "racist". In the article, which has since been taken off the newspaper's website, former editor MacKenzie said: Alongside the article, the Sun published adjoining pictures of Barkley and a gorilla on their website with the caption "Could Everton's Ross Barkley represent the missing link between man and beast?" The picture was later removed. Barkley, 23, was punched in a Liverpool bar last weekend in what his lawyer described as an "unprovoked attack". Police confirmed they were investigating the "full circumstances". Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said he had reported the article to the police for a "racial slur". Speaking to BBC Sport, Anderson said: "Not only is it racist in a sense that he is of mixed-race descent, equally it's a racial stereotype of Liverpool. It is racist and prehistoric." Anderson later tweeted to say he had given a statement to Merseyside Police and reported the article to the Independent Press Standards Organisation. And in a further tweet, he said that "ignorance simply cannot be used as a defence" and that apology is "simply not enough". Furthermore, he criticised Everton for their failure to respond by banning Sun journalists from Goodison Park, calling it "a smack in the face to our city". And he asked fans attending Saturday's Premier League meeting with Burnley to turn their backs on the pitch at 15:06 BST in protest. MacKenzie was editor of the Sun when it published a front-page article headlined 'Hillsborough: The Truth' in the aftermath of the 1989 disaster at Sheffield Wednesday's football stadium. The article claimed Liverpool fans were to blame for the tragedy, in which 96 people died. MacKenzie apologised in 2012. Last year's landmark Hillsborough inquests recorded that the 96 fans were unlawfully killed and that Liverpool supporters at the FA Cup semi-final had played no role in causing the tragedy. This Saturday, 15 April, marks the 28th anniversary of the disaster. Burnley midfielder Joey Barton, who was an Everton youth player, tweeted: "Those comments about Ross Barkley, a young working-class lad, are disgusting. Then add in the fact he is mixed race! It becomes outrageous." Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore tweeted: "Implied racism at its finest." Football's equality and inclusion organisation Kick It Out said they had received complaints about the "insulting and offensive" comments. "We will be contacting Everton and the PFA about their responses in providing support to Ross and his family," they said. BBC Sport has contacted Everton and Barkley's representatives for comment.

Columnist Kelvin MacKenzie has been suspended by the Sun after he expressed "wrong" and "unfunny" views about the people of Liverpool.

Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC), said his "heartfelt sympathies" were with the victims. He was speaking at a Peace Symposium held at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden, south London on Saturday. Five people died and 50 were hurt outside Parliament, last Wednesday. In a message Prime Minister Theresa May praised the conference, which she called "an annual reminder of your community's commitment to promoting peace". MPs Paul Scully and Siobhan McDonagh were among the hundreds who attended the event at the UK's largest mosque. The caliph described the attack in central London a "barbaric atrocity". "No matter what terrorists may claim, under no circumstances are indiscriminate acts, or killings ever justified," he said. He added that Muslims and non-Muslims "must stand up against all forms of oppression, hatred and use all our capabilities to try and foster peace in the world." Three people were killed in Wednesday's attack when Khalid Masood drove his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, before stabbing to death unarmed PC Keith Palmer. Masood was then shot dead by police.

The world leader of millions of Muslims has condemned the Westminster terror attack calling it an "affront to the teachings of Islam".

Hadleigh Parkes and Gareth Owen went over for the Welsh side in the first half and Scarlets were good value for their 15-9 lead at half-time. But three Ian Madigan penalties kept Leinster within touching distance and they dominated the second half. Mike Ross' close-range try and Madigan's conversion soon after the restart put Leinster into the lead and another Madigan penalty capped the win. Leinster coach Leo Cullen had named a completely new starting XV for the game against the league leaders, his options boosted by the return of half-a-dozen Ireland internationals. Scarlets also had returning World Cup stars, with scrum-half Gareth Davies returning to the fold after Wales duty. The Welsh side took an early grip with a series of drives at the Leinster line that allowed centre Parkes the space to barrel over, his try converted by Dan Jones. Leinster responded to put Scarlets under pressure, with lock Jake Ball sin-binned for overstepping the boundaries during some frantic defence. In his absence Leinster closed the gap with two Madigan penalties, although they lost Rob Kearney to injury and there could be a nervous wait to see if the Ireland full-back is fit for Europe next weekend. Back to full strength, Scarlets stretched away again as number eight John Barclay joined the line to put Owen away for an unconverted try. Madigan added a third penalty but Jones responded in kind to ensure Scarlets took a six-point lead into the break, although it could have been more with Aled Thomas wide with a long-range kick. As well as Scarlets had played, they found themselves behind for the first time within five minutes of the restart as Ross went under almost under the posts for a converted try after a series of forward drives. Media playback is not supported on this device Johnny Sexton come off the bench for the home side, with the Ireland fly-half slotting in at centre outside Madigan. The combination almost produced a decisive try as Sexton loped away to the line, only to be denied by a crossing call confirmed by video replays. But Madigan added his fourth penalty to give Leinster a four-point cushion, although Scarlets at least had the consolation of a losing bonus point despite being dominated in the second half. Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac told BBC Radio Wales: "I'm very disappointed, I thought the boys played very well. I'm disappointed the breakdown was refereed one way, I thought. "The stream of penalties against us [made the difference], I thought we got into some really good positions over the ball and every other week we're getting penalties for that. "From where I was sitting, we got into some great positions for turnovers and didn't get the rewards... It should have been seven wins. "I don't think it takes anything out [of the season's momentum], the boys know they can compete with these sides now away from home. "That was the pleasing side of it, that we had an opportunity to win the game at the end but we probably blew it really. We got in behind them when Maselino [Paulino] had the big break and we bombed a try." Leinster: Rob Kearney; Zane Kirchner, Garry Ringrose, Noel Reid, Cian Kelleher; Ian Madigan, Isaac Boss; Cian Healy, James Tracy, Mike Ross, Devin Toner, Tom Denton, Dominic Ryan, Sean O'Brien, Jamie Heaslip (capt). Replacements: Bryan Byrne, Jack McGrath, Marty Moore, Hayden Triggs, Dan Leavy, Luke McGrath, Johnny Sexton, Ben Te'o. Scarlets: Aled Thomas; Tom Williams, Gareth Owen, Hadleigh Parkes, Michael Tagicakibau; Dan Jones, Gareth Davies, Rob Evans, Emyr Phillips, Peter Edwards, Jake Ball, Lewis Rawlins, Aaron Shingler, James Davies, John Barclay (capt). Replacements: Ken Owens, Dylan Evans, Will Taylor, Tom Price, Maselino Paulino, Aled Davies, Michael Collins, Harry Robinson. Referee: Leighton Hodges (WRU). Assistant referees: Leo Colgan, Olly Hodges (IRFU). Citing commissioner: Wayne Sheridan (IRFU). TMO: Seamus Flannery (IRFU).

Scarlets had their 100% Pro12 record ended by Leinster at the RDS in Dublin.

Media playback is not supported on this device Pakistan were bowled out for 234 after Alastair Cook (76 not out) and Joe Root (71 not out) helped England declare on 173-1 to set a target of 565. James Anderson and Chris Woakes took 3-41 and Moeen Ali 3-88 as Pakistan lost their last six wickets for 89 runs to lose on the fourth day. Victory was England's second-biggest against Pakistan in terms of runs. However, all-rounder Ben Stokes will have a scan on Tuesday after injuring a calf while bowling in the afternoon session. Pakistan's highest stand was the 58 Mohammad Hafeez and Younus Khan put on for the third wicket, but both fell to Moeen in the space of six overs. Mohammad Amir was last man out, removed by Woakes for 29. The third Test at Edgbaston begins on 3 August. England, who opted against enforcing the follow-on on Sunday, added 75 runs in nine overs in the morning after resuming on 98-1. Root hit 10 fours in his 48-ball 71 to go with his first-innings 254, while Cook - 49 overnight - brought up his fastest Test half-century, off 55 deliveries. Anderson, on his home ground, made early inroads as he had Shan Masood caught in the slips for the second time in the match before trapping Azhar Ali lbw, but Hafeez and Younus resisted for 15.1 overs. With Stokes, who was injured during his follow-through, off the field, Moeen struck twice. He had Hafeez caught at short leg for 42 and Younus at long-on for 28. Woakes then bowled Misbah-ul-Haq for 35, the skipper having put on 43 with Asad Shafiq. After Sarfraz Ahmed became Woakes' second victim, Anderson and Moeen completed their three-wicket hauls by trapping Shafiq and Yasir Shah lbw respectively. Part-time spinner Root then took a wicket with just his second ball, having Wahab Riaz caught at short fine leg. Amir struck five fours in his 43-ball resistance, but Woakes finished things off by having him caught at mid-off when trying to drive. Man of the match Joe Root on Test Match Special: "It's a great feeling. It's about contributing to wins. It's the most controlled I've played. "The bowlers grafted really hard today and last night. It was a really good effort from all of the team. It sets it up nicely for the series." England captain Alastair Cook: "I was surprised the decision not to follow-on caused such a stir. To me it was a bit of a no-brainer. I think everyone else wanted a day off." Former England captain Michael Vaughan: "It's an absolute hammering. It's been very similar to the Sri Lanka series, where England dominated with this kind of performance." Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq: "We have to improve in every department. We could not build pressure and let them score a massive total in the first innings. "If we had restricted them to 350, we had a chance. But it was difficult to come back from 600."

England thrashed Pakistan by 330 runs in the second Test at Old Trafford to level the four-match series at 1-1.

The woman, believed to be Lithuanian, was struck by a car on the A38 near Burton-upon-Trent around 20:30 BST on 6 July after leaving the man's vehicle. Johnathon Allison, of Colman Street, Hull, has also been arrested on suspicion of murder. Mr Allison was remanded in custody at Cannock Magistrates' Court on 8 July. See more stories from Stoke and Staffordshire here Staffordshire Police said Mr Allison has been released under investigation in connection with the murder probe. He will next appear at Stafford Crown Court on 11 August. Police said the woman left the vehicle as it pulled into a layby, and was hit at "high speed" by an oncoming car. She was airlifted to hospital in cardiac arrest with head, chest and pelvic injuries, but later died. Police are now working with authorities in Lithuania to confirm the identity of the woman.

A man has appeared in court charged with breaching a restraining order following the death of a woman on a dual carriageway.

Media playback is not supported on this device Paul Heatley was sent-off in the 41st minute following an off-the-ball incident with Lyndon Kane. James McLaughlin turned the ball home from six yards midway through the second half after Sean O'Neill had parried Ruairi Harkin's initial shot. Jordan Forsythe was dismissed for a crude two-footed challenge on Kane. The precious point keeps Stephen Baxter's champions within four points of Premiership pacesetters Linfield. Crusaders went into the game on the back of five straight league wins while the Bannsiders' record of just two wins in their previous 21 matches against their visitors suggested they faced an uphill task. Rodney Brown directed a header straight at O'Neill and then Forsythe headed wide and saw a close-range effort cleared off the line by Steven Douglas. Heatley had a low shot parried by Coleraine stopper Michael Doherty, while Jamie McGonigle raced clear and found himself one-on-one with O'Neill, who blocked the Coleraine player's shot with his legs. Heatley was shown the red card by referee Keith Kennedy and when McLaughlin broke the deadlock, Oran Kearney's side looked to be in control. Forsythe's 71st-minute sending-off appeared to seal the Crues' fate but O'Flynn's late intervention after a Craig McClean free-kick earned a last-gasp draw.

Substitute Stephen O'Flynn's final minute diving header salvaged an unlikely point for nine-man Crusaders against Coleraine at Ballycastle Road.

Jordan Hill, Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, all 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24, appeared in a Chicago court on Friday. The four have been charged with hate crimes and aggravated kidnapping and battery, among other things. An online fundraiser for their victim has collected $51,000 (£42,500) so far. Denying the four suspects bail, Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil asked: "Where was your sense of decency?" Prosecutors told the court the beating started in a van and continued at a house, where the suspects allegedly forced the 18-year-old white victim, who suffers from schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder, to drink toilet water and kiss the floor. Police allege the van was earlier stolen by Mr Hill, who is also accused of demanding $300 from the victim's mother while they held him captive, according to the Chicago Tribune. The court was also told the suspects stuffed a sock into his mouth, taped his mouth shut and bound his hands with a belt. In a video made for Facebook Live which was watched millions of times, the assailants can be heard making derogatory statements against white people and Donald Trump. The victim had been dropped off at a McDonalds to meet Mr Hill - who was one of his friends - on 31 December. He was found by a police officer on Tuesday, 3 January, a day after he was reported missing by his parents. Prosecutors say the suspects each face two hate crimes counts, one because of the victim's race and the other because of his disabilities.

Four people accused of kidnapping and torturing a mentally disabled man in a "racially motivated" attack streamed on Facebook have been denied bail.

The government is currently negotiating with the Lib Dems and Greens to strike a deal to get its budget plans passed. Green co-convener Patrick Harvie has asked for concessions over tax, while Lib Dem Willie Rennie has targeted up to £400m of additional spending. Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has said he is "positive" about winning support. With the SNP a minority government, they will need at least one opposition party to help the budget pass, either by voting for it or by abstaining. Mr Mackay has indicated a budget deal with the Conservatives or Labour is unlikely, but said there was "room for manoeuvre" in talks with the Lib Dems and Greens. And while he has said no matters are "absolutely closed", he wants to "adhere as close to the [SNP] manifesto as possible" on tax, making a deal with the Lib Dems the more likely. The Lib Dems said they wanted "substantial changes" made, which would "set Scotland on a stronger, more liberal path". These focus on the party's manifesto pledges around education and mental health. Specific measures include: Mr Rennie said: "Liberal Democrats will not agree to the draft budget as it stands and will need these substantial changes. If we don't get what the country needs then we will walk away. "Our plan invests for a step change in mental health and a transformation in education that will help in the road to a liberal Scotland. A properly funded pupil premium and more money for colleges will create that opportunity and boost jobs and the economy. "New investment in mental health services will boost this Cinderella service and make the whole NHS more sustainable in the future. We have also included support for alcohol and drug services, a higher budget for the police and lower cost transport for the Northern Isles. "I have had a number of meetings and discussions with the finance secretary so far and I am looking forward to receiving his response to our plan." Mr Mackay has defended his tax and spending plans in two meetings of the finance committee, where he also took questions from the public over social media. The committee will submit its report on the budget on Friday 27 January, with the first chamber debate on the budget the following week. The final vote on the budget will follow a separate vote on Mr Mackay's tax proposals, in the week beginning 20 February. This is a decent snapshot of what the final budget deal is likely to look like. Willie Rennie probably won't get absolutely everything he is asking for - one would suspect Derek Mackay is too good a negotiator for that - but this is a far more palatable list of demands for the finance secretary than that put forward by the Greens, who want to see some movement over tax. While he says nothing is off the table, Mr Mackay isn't going to budge on tax. He sees his current proposals as well-balanced, and endorsed by the electorate last May. And with a deal with Labour or the Tories more or less dismissed in advance on political grounds, that leaves Mr Rennie as the clear favourite. He may well have beefed up his demands accordingly - minus any red lines, of course, over tax. There are plenty of talks still to come, but there is also plenty common ground here. Expect a SNP/Lib Dem coalition to usher an amended budget through come the end of February.

The Liberal Democrats have set out funding for education, mental health and transport links as their demands for backing the Scottish budget.

Figures obtained by BBC Scotland show Borders hospitals spent £3.18 per day per patient on meals and snacks. Other health boards such as NHS Ayrshire and Arran and Dumfries and Galloway spent a similar amount. NHS Grampian spent £3.50 per day which it said broke down as 94p for each of the two main meals and £1.62 for snacks and drinks. Nutritional expert Prof Mike Lean said: "There must be a lower limit below which quality will be sacrificed in a variety of ways. "Meal quality has a number of elements: it has to look good, taste good, texture must be good and it has a biological importance - so it must be nutritionally good." A spokeswoman at NHS Ayrshire & Arran said the board provided patients with "high quality and nutritionally-balanced meals, based on a wide menu choice, at an average cost of £3.20 a day". She said food and drink was bought through national procurement contracts to get the best deals possible. NHS Lothian said its spent an average of £3.82 per patient across its hospitals, but costs ranged from £2.70 to just over £5. A spokeswoman said: "We are constantly working to harmonise products, recipes and methods to reduce this cost range. "It is important to note that, in this case, cost is not a reflection of quality since St John's hospital kitchen provides our cheapest meals but is widely recognised for the high quality meals served." Public Health Minister Aileen Campbell said: "We have a set of very rigorous nutritional guidelines that we expect all boards to adhere to. "There will be differences in terms of price but we do expect that the nutritional guidelines will be adhered to." The figures also found that some hospitals were sourcing 50% of their food from abroad. Twelve out of 14 health boards said they were importing chicken from Thailand and carrots from Belgium. Conservative MSP Brian Whittle started asking questions in parliament last year about where patients' food comes from. He said public sector procurement needed to be looked at by the Scottish government. "The massive disparities in local sourcing, spending and food waste across health boards in Scotland is deeply concerning," Mr Whittle said. "If health boards are choosing to ignore high quality, local food in favour of cheaper alternatives from overseas, they're making a false economy." He added: "Eating healthy, high-quality meals when you're in hospital can make a big difference to your recovery. "If patients aren't eating well, they can't get well." A spokeswoman at NHS Ayrshire & Arran said: "To help reduce waste, we ask patients to choose their next meal as close as possible to the meal time - for example, at breakfast, patients choose their lunch. "This means that our rate of unserved meals is, on average, 3%, well below the recommended 10% target for waste. Shetland health board said catering staff were always working to reduce food waste but that it was sometimes unavoidable due to factors such as high fluctuations in bed occupation and delayed discharge. Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS board said it was a challenge to control food waste but action was being taken to ensure it was not too high. A spokeswoman for Glasgow said in recent years it had invested £10m to create two new kitchens which "cook fresh, nutritious, healthy food supplied to all our hospitals". She said: "The move to two new kitchens ensured all meals are now produced locally and brought to an end the contract with Tillery Valley in Wales which previously supplied freeze-cook meals to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. "The reorganisation also saw the closure of a number of older hospital kitchens, which were no longer fit for purpose and were being under-used."

Some Scottish hospitals are spending just 94p per patient meal, the BBC has learned.

Health Secretary Shona Robison announced the funding as she addressed a GPs' conference in Clydebank. She also said work would begin on bringing forward measures to tackle workload pressures. The move came after the British Medical Association warned the GPs were becoming "increasingly burnt-out" by the "mounting pressures" on them. Ms Robison said she was "committing £20m of additional investment, directly into general practice over the next year, because I recognise the need to provide more immediate support". She added: "General practice is a highly-valued part of our healthcare system in Scotland and we must get it back to being the profession of choice for more young doctors. "We must also look after our GPs at whatever stage in their career to ensure the basics are right." The funding announced includes: Ms Robison said the announcement "demonstrates the commitment of me and my government to supporting, sustaining and enabling general practice to flourish." Responding to the announcement, Dr Alan McDevitt, chair of the BMA's Scottish GP Committee, said it would help to alleviate some of the pressures that GPs are facing. But he said more needed to be done, and he welcomed the health secretary's "collaborative approach to finding the solutions". He added: "The cabinet secretary has today demonstrated that she recognises and understands the problems facing general practice. "It is essential that this recognition is also matched by a financial commitment to the future of general practice by investing in a new GP contract." Mr McDevitt had earlier told delegates how family doctors "are increasingly becoming burnt-out by the mounting pressures and demands of running a GP practice". He said that while the new GP contract "will resolve many of the current problems facing general practice", there was "a lack of willingness on the part of the government to actually commit to adequately funding the new contract". Dr Miles Mack, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Scotland, said the funding was "promising news" that looked like a "small but hopefully significant step in the right direction". He added: "We are pleased to see an emphasis on the quality of patient care. Similarly, the £2m for IT infrastructure is desperately needed. "The development of an occupational health service for primary care staff will also be warmly welcomed, such is the pressure those at the front line have been facing for so long." Scottish Labour's health spokesman, Dr Richard Simpson, said any extra funding for primary care was to be welcomed. But he added: "The SNP have cut £1.6bn from primary care in the past decade, so in that context £20m is little more than a sticking plaster. "The SNP government in Edinburgh has presided over the biggest crisis in family doctors for a generation. We are seeing the result of that now, with practices serving communities overstretched and under resourced." Liberal Democrat health spokesman Jim Hume accused the government of adopting a "sticking-plaster approach" which will "not be enough to plug the gaps in Scottish general practices". He said: "Hundreds of practices have GP posts sitting empty for six months or more and we are facing a black hole in practices by 2020 when a third of GPs currently working will have retired. "The health secretary herself revealed the cuts to GP services as a share of total NHS spending and in last month's budget John Swinney cut that share again."

Doctors have welcomed an extra £20m of Scottish government money aimed at easing the pressure on GPs.

Russia's foreign ministry condemned the "atrocious crimes of extremists". Sunday's attacks hit the Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of Syria's capital Damascus, and the city of Homs. So-called Islamic State (IS) said it carried out the attacks. Both targeted areas dominated by Islamic minorities reviled by IS. Four blasts in Sayyida Zeinab killed at least 83 people, according to state media. A monitoring group reported that 57 people, mainly civilians, were killed in a double car bombing in Homs. The UK-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) put the toll from the Damascus attacks at 120 and said they were among the deadliest to occur during the whole of Syria's civil war. SOHR also reported on Monday that heavy fighting had cut off the government's only supply route to the northern city of Aleppo. IS and other Islamist militia had cut the road between Aleppo and the town of Khanasser to the south-east, it said. More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed in the conflict. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe. History of the conflict - how the civil war has spread Maps of the conflict - the shifting territorial gains The Sayyida Zeinab district is the location of Syria's holiest Shia Muslim shrine, said to contain the grave of the Prophet Muhammad's granddaughter. The district was hit by suicide attacks last month that left 71 people dead and which IS fighters also said they had carried out. On Sunday US Secretary of State John Kerry said a "provisional agreement" had been reached with Russia on a partial truce. However he admitted issues remained to be resolved and said he did not expect any immediate change on the ground. Earlier this month, world powers involved in the crisis in Syria agreed to seek a "cessation of hostilities", but the Friday deadline came and went. In Homs, the blasts happened in a predominantly Alawite district, the sect to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs. One of the early centres of the uprising against President Assad, Homs was once dubbed the "capital of the revolution". But rebels left the city late last year under a ceasefire deal, leaving the city in government hands. The latest blasts came as President Bashar al-Assad told reporters Syrian refugees should not be scared of returning home. Mr Assad, who has long been accused of persecuting his own people, said ordinary Syrians who had fled the conflict due to the "standard of living that has been deteriorating drastically" could go back without fear of action by the government.

Russia has said bomb attacks which killed at least 140 people in Syria were aimed at "subverting attempts" to reach a political settlement.

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

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

In the three months to June 2014, there were 960 initial decisions to place a child for adoption, compared with 1,830 in the three months to September 2013. The figures were released by the Adoption Leadership Board (ALB). The ALB says the drop in adoptions may have been influenced by recent court judgements in care and adoption cases. The board, which was established by the government as part of a shake-up of the adoption system, said applications for court orders allowing a child to be placed for adoption had fallen by 34%. There had also been a fall of 54% in the number of placement orders granted by courts, from 1,650 to 750, it said. In recent years, adoption figures had risen to record levels, with an increase of 63%, the ALB said. But last September, the most senior family court judge criticised the "sloppy practice" of social workers when bringing cases for adoption before the courts and said they were not looking closely enough at all the other options. President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, also implied that, at a time of tight budgets, adoption may be seen as a cheaper option than helping troubled families or foster carers and warned about "resource issues" affecting local authorities' thinking. He said there had been four cases during 10 days in July alone in which judges had expressed concerns about inadequate analysis by social services in support of the case for adoption. ALB chairman, Sir Martin Narey, said these court judgements had been "entirely sensible". But he warned that they were being misinterpreted by local authorities who thought the law on adoption had changed. He told the BBC that the recent drop in children being put forward for adoption was primarily due to fewer local authorities deciding adoption was the best option for a child. "It's then been compounded by the refusal of some applications at the court," he said. Sir Martin said some councils seemed to have taken some court rulings to mean that if a child could remain in foster care, then "that will do", when in fact the best interests of the child must be pursued. Sir Martin said the drop followed two years of significant progress in finding more adoptive homes for the thousands of children waiting. The number of children adopted across the UK has risen from 3,100 in 2011 to 5,050 in the last year. The recent fall in children being put forward for adoption in England has prompted Sir Martin to issue guidance to clarify the meaning of recent court judgements. "It is clear from my discussions with social workers and managers in local authorities and in voluntary adoption agencies that there is a belief that the law has been fundamentally changed by a number of court judgements. "So I am pleased to produce this simple myth-busting guide - drafted by a senior queen's counsel - to what those judgements do and do not say. "I am extremely grateful to Sir James Munby, president of the Family Division, for his advice. He has seen the document and is supportive of its aim of dispelling the myths that have arisen." Messages included in Sir Martin's guidance reiterated that the legal test for adoption had not changed, and courts must be provided with expert, high quality, evidence-based analysis of all realistic options for a child and the arguments for and against each of these. Sir Martin said: "The board and I have published this guide to help everyone working for children understand the law around these complex cases, and be confident in making the right decisions for the child."

The number of children put forward for adoption by local councils in England has fallen by almost half in under a year, the latest figures show.

The spelling error was spotted close to the High Street in Warsop, Nottinghamshire on Friday afternoon. Eric Hill quickly photographed the sign, which should have read "right", prior to the error being painted over. A spokesman for the Co-op said the contractors were made aware of their mistake and would amend the spelling "as quickly as possible".

Contractors were left red-faced after incorrectly painting the word "rihgt" on a road off a supermarket car park.

The firm announced it had agreed a deal with the board of California-based Anacor Pharmaceuticals. Anacor's flagship product is crisaborole, a cream for eczema which is awaiting approval by US regulators. The deal comes just weeks after Pfizer scrapped a planned $160bn merger with Irish drugmaker Allergan for tax reasons. "We believe the acquisition of Anacor represents an attractive opportunity to address a significant unmet medical need for a large patient population," said Albert Bourla, head of Pfizer's global innovative pharma unit. Crisaborole can achieve $2bn (£1.4bn) in annual sales if approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, according to Pfizer. Some 18 million to 25 million people suffer from eczema in the US, but currently there are few safe appropriate treatments, Pfizer said. Anacor shares jumped 57%, rising above the $99.25 a share agreed with Pfizer.

US drugs giant Pfizer will acquire the maker of a new eczema treatment in a deal worth $5.2bn (£3.6bn).

He said in a tweet: "I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings." Days after he fired Mr Comey in May, the president had tweeted: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations..." He has been under pressure to produce the tapes amid inquiries into alleged Russian meddling in the election. The House Intelligence Committee had earlier this month asked the White House to hand over any such recordings. James Comey was heading the FBI inquiry into alleged Russian interference in last year's presidential election, and whether the Trump team had any links to Moscow, when he was fired on 9 May. In the days that followed, a succession of stories appeared in US newspapers with allegations surrounding a private meeting Mr Trump had with Mr Comey in the Oval Office in February. They included the claim that the president had asked Mr Comey to drop an investigation into fired National Security Adviser Mike Flynn. It was in that context that Mr Trump sent his tweet, hinting that there were tapes of the conversation. Appearing before Congress earlier this month, Mr Comey confirmed he had been asked by the president to "let go" any possible prosecution of Mr Flynn for lying to federal agents about a conversation with the Russian ambassador. He said he was also asked by the president in no uncertain terms to give assurances that he would be loyal. When asked whether he thought the conversation had been recorded, Mr Comey replied: "Lordy, I hope there are tapes."

US President Donald Trump says he did not make secret recordings of ex-FBI chief James Comey despite an earlier hint to the contrary.

Alex McKechnie, then 16, was in the crowd for that first show and went on to be a regular at the club: "I saw The Beatles a few times in the north end of Liverpool and was working in Liverpool city centre as a messenger boy in a printing works when I heard that they were on at the Cavern in a lunchtime session. "The Cavern was in the basement of a three or four storey warehouse. The public went down one flight of stone stairs and then there were three long arches. "At the end of one of the long arches was a little tiny stage. That's where the Beatles performed 292 times. "I remember it being very highly charged with excitement. The music sounded even more exciting [than the previous gigs] because The Cavern was this little squashed space so the music sounded a bit louder, a bit more exciting and a bit more vital. About 20 to 30 people were there. "The Beatles were the complete package - they didn't just have a great singer, they had two great singers. They always did harmonies right from the very first time I saw them. "They could probably only afford two microphones, and so when one was doing the lead singing the other two were facing each other on the mic, and it was quite charismatic, it was nice to look at. They had a camaraderie about them. "I never heard them singing one of their own songs because they were just a straight covers band at that time, as was everybody else in Liverpool. "The standard songs that they sang - them and the other bands in Liverpool - were [by] Chuck Berry, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly. The sound that I very clearly remember the Beatles playing in the Cavern was a Chuck Berry riff. "As well as doing the stock standards, the Beatles were a bit different because they were better at playing complicated chords. The Beatles were a bit more adventurous. "It wasn't just the music and the singing, it was their lack of respect for the audience. At the Cavern for those first few gigs, they were quite irreverent to the audience and other people. They were sort of the first punk band. The Beatles were a law unto themselves on the stage. "They were still doing that when they went to America - if someone asked them a question they didn't give a serious answer, and that's how they behaved on stage in the Cavern, and that's why I think they liked it in the Cavern. "They were the epitome of rebellion in Liverpool because they weren't trying to imitate Cliff Richard and the Shadows doing little in time steps. They would dance out of step on purpose. "That was their purpose in life - to upset the apple cart. They were so cheeky and so entertaining all around. They were a little bit of a voice for us against authority. I think they were rebels. We were mini rebels supporting them. "Of course when I went back to work I used to stand gazing out of the window thinking about the Beatles and the girls at the Cavern. I couldn't really concentrate on doing any work. "Just in a few weeks they'd gained a bigger following. When word went around, the crowd grew and people kept coming back. Once you'd seen them, not many people didn't go to see them again. "They had big long queues, right down the length of the street and even round the corner at the bottom. But at that stage I'd dumped them. "They started talking about going to London and making records and things like that. Betrayal. "I wasn't the only one. I think the ones who thought that they'd discovered them were a little clique and really did give up on them when the masses found them. It was only when I heard Love Me Do on the radio that I started getting interested in them again. My wife subsequently bought all the LPs but that first era of The Beatles was over for me." Alex McKechnie was speaking to BBC News entertainment reporter Ian Youngs. The Cavern is celebrating the anniversary with a series of tribute events on Wednesday. A documentary about the first gig will be broadcast on ITV1 at 2240 GMT on Wednesday.

It was 50 years ago today that The Beatles played their first gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool - the venue where the band built their reputation and where Beatlemania was born.

Jamie Cox was sentenced to 26 weeks for common assault after he attacked Viktoria Gribovskaja at her home in Lambeth, south London last year. The Swindon-based WBO European super-middleweight title holder had denied assault. His sentence was suspended at an appeal at Croydon Magistrates' Court. The 29-year-old boxer, who appeared in court under his real name Jamie Russan was told his conviction still stands, but that his prison sentence will be suspended for 18 months. Recorder Joseph Boothby told him he should treat the suspended sentence as "a turning point" and said: "Change your ways and think before you get angry with a girlfriend, or anyone else for that matter." Cox had been sentenced to 26 weeks in prison for the assault and harassment charges, 20 weeks for violence to secure entry and 12 weeks for criminal damage, to run concurrently. He is currently ranked number four in the world and is also a Commonwealth Games light welterweight champion. After the hearing, Cox said: "I just want to get back to normal and to fight for world titles. I do not really treat today as a success."

A champion boxer who was jailed for breaking into his ex-girlfriend's flat and attacking her has had his sentence suspended.

There have been calls for Carroll, 27, to make an international return after his recent hat-trick against Arsenal. But Hodgson said: "Every time someone scores a goal and he's English it is 'why is he not playing for England?' "I'm certainly not going to pick him on the basis that he scored a hat-trick so therefore has to be in the England team." Ex-Newcastle and Liverpool forward Carroll has scored two goals in nine England appearances, but has not featured for the national side since October 2012. Tottenham's Harry Kane, the Premier League's top-scorer with 22 goals this season, and Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, who has netted 21 times, have established themselves in the England set-up and both played in last month's friendlies against Germany and the Netherlands. Arsenal forwards Danny Welbeck and Theo Walcott and Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge were also in those squads, while captain Wayne Rooney has now returned to the Manchester United side following injury. Media playback is not supported on this device Carroll has scored seven league goals this season and Hodgson will name his 23-man squad for this summer's tournament in France on 12 May. "We know Andy, we know his qualities," added the 68-year-old. "In an ideal world, if you had a lot of places at your disposal, you'd always include a guy like him because he is exceptional in the air - but whether or not I'd be able to include him with all these others, I don't know." The England boss hinted that even skipper Rooney might not be assured of a place after his two-month lay-off with a knee problem. "There's no disguising the fact that people like (Arsenal midfielder) Jack Wilshere, (Manchester City forward) Raheem Sterling, (Liverpool midfielder) Jordan Henderson, (Arsenal midfielder) Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Wayne Rooney - a year ago they were five players who were getting into every squad," said Hodgson. "Things have happened to them and we have to reassess. "If we can be sure they are at the level of fitness and capability to produce the performances they produced a year ago they will be serious contenders. If we are not convinced, we have to give it some thought."

England manager Roy Hodgson has played down West Ham striker Andy Carroll's chance of being selected for Euro 2016.

Media playback is not supported on this device The Blues boss says his side have "almost" won the Premier League title after their 1-0 win at Stamford Bridge moved them 10 points clear at the top. United dominated possession and had more chances than the league leaders. Mourinho said: "We prepared for it to be like this. It was the game we wanted and expected." Chelsea will be champions if they win at Arsenal and Leicester in their next two matches, having beaten third-placed United with a first-half goal from Eden Hazard. Visiting manager Louis van Gaal said it was his side's "best display of the season" but Mourinho insists it was part of the game plan. "It was difficult, but less than you think," he said. "Control their direct football to Marouane Fellaini and control the wingers from making crosses on the inside foot. "When we know Wayne Rooney plays in midfield, we control his progression into the box. Control set-pieces and don't give away direct free-kicks as they have three specialists. "Wait for a mistake and score a goal. We were able to make their important players disappear. Nobody saw them. They were in our pockets." United went into the match knowing they needed to win for the first time in five league visits to Chelsea to have any realistic hope of winning the title. But, despite big celebrations at the end of the match, Mourinho was careful to point out his side are not champions yet. "We are not celebrating," he said. "Football is not about 'ifs' and 'almosts', it is about mathematics. When it is done, it is done, and until that moment we don't celebrate. "The celebration is because we have beaten one of the biggest clubs in the world. The celebration is because they have everything to win that game and the result is because of the work they did all week to prepare for this game. "I feel we are almost there but there are no 'almosts' in football."

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho said Manchester United's important players were "in our pockets" in a match that went "exactly" as they wanted.

It is understood civil claims have been made against the car owners, even though they were not involved in the thefts or crashes. The officers are claiming for injuries sustained when stopping the cars. The owner's no-claims bonus can be affected and their car insurance premiums can increase as a result. Bill Rooney is one of those affected. He had his car stolen from his north Belfast home last July. He was still awake in the early hours of the morning when he heard his car being driven away from his house. After a police chase, two men were arrested and his car was so badly damaged that it was written off. He had arranged a new car through his insurance and believed the matter to be closed until he received an unexpected letter. "I received a letter from a solicitor saying he was suing me for personal injuries on behalf of his client... and I later found out this client was a police officer who had been hurt when retrieving my car," he said. "I was very angry and disheartened by the fact that a police officer was suing a victim. "I'd already had my house broken into, I'd had my car stolen and I had had to replace it. "I did feel sorry for the police officer if he was hurt doing his job but I felt that he should be insured in his own place of work." Mr Rooney's case has not yet been settled and he believes the police officer is prepared to take it to court. The BBC has been unable to discover how many claims individual police officers have pursued or how much money they have received. In a response to a Freedom of Information request, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said they did not have a record of such claims. "The PSNI would not hold any information in relation to police officers making a compensation claim against the owner of a stolen vehicle," they said. "This would be a private matter between the officer and the solicitor and the information would not be recorded or required by police. "Neither are they required to inform PSNI of their intention to pursue a claim." Stormont's justice committee, where the matter was first raised, also requested information from the PSNI. In a letter, Supt Ryan Henderson said victims of car crime may or may not be penalised depending on their insurer and the terms of their policy. He said that police officers, like any individual, could decide to pursue a claim through the Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB) if they were in a crash where the driver of the other vehicle was at fault and could not be traced or was not insured. "When claims against the MIB are settled, the MIB can seek to recover the cost incurred from the actual party at fault, i.e. the person who stole and was driving the vehicle," he said. "In reality this probably seldom happens as car thieves do not generally have the financial assets to repay what MIB have had to pay out in damages and costs. "It is a matter between the person who insures the vehicle and the insurance company as to whether or not in the event of their vehicle being stolen and involved in a collision, the insurance company will treat that incident as a claim under their policy." SDLP MLA Alban Maginness, who brought the matter to the attention of the justice committee, said two of his North Belfast constituents had received claims. "Here are cases where victims of crime are actually penalised financially as a result of the act of criminals," he said. "It seems to them and me to be totally unjust and quite unfair that they have to carry the burden of the criminal's actions."

The owners of stolen cars are being sued by some police officers in Northern Ireland who were injured when chasing car thieves.

In a Facebook posting, Collins claimed "a close mutual friend" said Mitchell "is walking, talking, painting some, doing much rehab every day". Folk singer Mitchell has been undergoing treatment since she was found unconscious in her home in March. She is known for songs like Big Yellow Taxi and Case of You. "I have another friend who went through something similar," Collins' post continued. "It does take a long time, three years for my friend, who has really totally recovered professionally and personally. I will try my best to see our songbird when I am in LA in the coming weeks." In June, singer David Crosby - who dated Mitchell in 1967 - said she was not speaking. He told the Huffington Post: "She took a terrible hit," he said. "She had an aneurysm, and nobody found her for a while. And she's going to have to struggle back from it the way you struggle back from a traumatic brain injury." However, her lawyer Rebecca J Thyne, who visited Mitchell at her Los Angeles home contradicted that assessment saying: "It was clear that she was happy to be home and that she has made remarkable progress. "She has physical therapy each day and is expected to make a full recovery." Mitchell's friend Leslie Morris, has been acting as her temporary conservator. Tyne has recommended that she remain under a conservatorship until Mitchell fully improves.

Singer Joni Mitchell is recovering from a stroke and brain aneurysm earlier this year, her friend and fellow singer Judy Collins has said.

Duns, Hawick, Peebles and Selkirk saw numbers rise with a regionwide increase of 1% last year compared with 2015. There was a drop in footfall recorded in Galashiels, Jedburgh, Kelso and Melrose. Eyemouth - which has only been included in the figures for the past five years - also saw its figures decline compared with last year. Stuart Bell, executive member for economic development on Scottish Borders Council, said the results painted a "very mixed picture". However, he said it was good to see a "substantial increase" in Hawick where the council was working with a range of partners on an action plan to boost the town's economic fortunes. "The co-operation of local community groups and businesses is a key element of that work, and particularly so in areas around tourism and positive promotion of the town, which would hopefully drive even more people to visit," he said. "The recently-established town centre resilience index uses a range of statistics, including footfall and retail vacancies, to help us target council resources for maximum impact in the towns in greatest need. "These latest figures confirm that we must extend our efforts in Jedburgh and Eyemouth to help their economies." Ron Smith, executive member for planning and environment, said the results, when read with other indicators showed "consolidation" which he said was positive in itself in "tough economic times". "However, there are certainly indications that some of our town centres are struggling, particularly Jedburgh with a further fall in footfall and an increase in vacant shops, and we are already investigating steps to address such issues," he said. "The council alone cannot revive our high streets and our partners, community groups, businesses themselves and the public have a role to play in ensuring that bustling Borders towns are not a thing of the past. "On a personal note, I must welcome the improvement in the figures for Hawick, which brings with it an optimism that a corner may be turning."

A town centre footfall study across eight main Borders towns has recorded its highest figures since 2012.

He has written to the parliamentary speaker criticising her for passing it in December without a quorum. Homosexuals were "abnormal" or were so for "mercenary reasons" and could be "rescued", a local paper quotes his letter as saying. The bill provides for life imprisonment for homosexual acts and also makes it a crime not to report gay people. The promotion of homosexuality - even talking about it without condemning the lifestyle - would also be punishable by a prison term. The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga in the capital, Kampala, says the president is aware that if he signs the bill there will be an international outcry, which could see some countries suspend aid to the country. His spokesman told the AFP news agency that Mr Museveni believes that gay people are sick but this does not mean they should be killed or jailed for life. "What the president has being saying is that we shall not persecute these homosexuals and lesbians. That is the point," said Tamale Mirudi. By Catherine ByaruhangaBBC, Uganda Uganda already has legislation banning gay sex, specifically between men, lesbianism wasn't considered under a provision of the 1950 Penal Code. The new law would add female-to-female sex to banned practices. The Penal Code also never made it an offence for someone to identify himself or herself as a homosexual. It was the act that was illegal. Gay activists have been able to state their sexuality in public and advocate for their rights without being prosecuted. This, legislators felt, endangered Uganda's culture and family structure, centred around marriage between a man and woman. There's been a battle here, well captured in the international media, between gay activists and Evangelical Christians over the rights and wrongs of homosexuality. So what MPs are trying to do is to create the "idea" of homosexuality in the law. Once you specify that homosexuality is wrong, you then ban its promotion. If the law is passed, standing up saying "I am gay" would become illegal. Citizens would also have to report anyone who they believe is gay to the police. And it would be illegal to provide advisory services to homosexuals. He denied that the president had changed his mind under pressure. "The president's position has been the same for a long time, nothing has changed," he added. Our reporter says Mr Museveni is trying to reach a compromise with MPs, because if he refuses to sign the bill, parliament can still force it through with a two-thirds vote. But in contrast to Nigeria, where earlier this month the president signed a bill banning same-sex marriages, gay groups and shows of same-sex public affection, Mr Museveni is politically strong and so more able to resist pressure from conservative groups, she says. Mr Museveni said the bill was forced through despite his advice to shelve it until the government had studied it in depth, Uganda's private Monitor newspaper reports. "Even with legislation, they will simply go underground and continue practicing [sic] homosexuality or lesbianism for mercenary reasons," he is quoted as saying. The president's eight-page letter to speaker Rebecca Kadaga said they could be "rescued" by improving the economy. He also disputed the view that homosexuality could be described as an "alternative sexual orientation". "You cannot call an abnormality an alternative orientation. It could be that the Western societies, on account of random breeding, have generated many abnormal people," he said. He said another reason women became lesbians was because of "sexual starvation" when they failed to marry, the Monitor reports. Ugandan gay rights activist Pepe Julian Onziema told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme he had mixed feelings about Mr Museveni's comments. "Him not assenting to the bill makes us happy but him calling us 'abnormal', 'nothing-doers', 'sexually starved', that is so derogatory," he said. "It encourages the community to attack people like me." There is meant to be a caucus meeting of ruling party MPs later this month to discuss the bill. The government will try to persuade them to reject it, but some have already said they would go against their government's wishes, our correspondent says. Human rights activists say the bill highlights the intolerance and discrimination the gay community faces in Uganda. One gay activist was killed in 2011, although the police denied he was targeted because of his sexuality. The bill has been condemned by world leaders since it was mooted in 2009 - US President Barack Obama called it "odious". The private member's bill originally proposed the death penalty for some offences, such as if a minor was involved or the perpetrator was HIV-positive, but this clause has been dropped. Correction 19 January: An earlier version of this story referred to Pepe Julian Onziema as a woman. The BBC is sorry for any offence caused.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has refused to approve a controversial bill to toughen punishments for homosexuals.

In the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel beat Hamilton, who hopes to turn the tables at the Chinese race on Sunday. "They won it fair and square and that's what makes it exciting," Hamilton said. "The good thing is it is closer and it is going to be margins like that. It's cool to see the racing is that close." Hamilton admitted Ferrari "did a better job" than Mercedes in Melbourne. "There are going to be races where that fluctuates," he said, "where perhaps they are ahead and we're behind or the other way around, but we hope to make it that we are ahead more. "Their car is stronger in certain areas and ours is stronger in certain areas and that is what's going to make the season exciting." Vettel, meanwhile, insisted that beating Mercedes "is not easy at all". "We have had one race and managed to beat them but as a global installation or infrastructure they are the team to beat," said the German four-time world champion. "It is clear what we want to do - whether we will be able to time will tell, but i think the team is on the right path. "Mercedes has to be still the favourite. We had a very strong first race but the way we look at it in the team is we go race by race. "We know we have a good package, which puts us in a strong place. We know there are a lot of things we need to do to keep up with them and keep the position we are in now to fight for good races."

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton says he expects a close season-long battle with Ferrari in which the advantage fluctuates between the two teams.

The union announced in August that Glasgow Warriors boss Townsend would replace Cotter in June. Former Clermont head coach Cotter has subsequently secured a return to France with Montpellier for next year. "Holistically, I understand," said Cotter, who has named his squad for November's autumn Test series. "As a competitor, you're always disappointed if you're doing something and you want to go somewhere and you've got objectives in mind, naturally, but that's the deal and that's done. "The decision was made to put Gregor in place. I think it's a good decision and the executives made their decision. I respect it and just move on." Cotter, whose side face Australia (12 November), Argentina (19 November) and Georgia (26 November) in his last autumn internationals as Scotland head coach, says the "big year" ahead should keep the players focused. "There's more important things than just us," he said of himself and Townsend. "It's a Lions year, there's places to be taken on that trip in June against New Zealand. "The players are professional and they'll be wanting to play well for their club, whether it's Glasgow, and then shifting through to international stuff - whether it's a young player or established players. "Look at [Edinburgh hooker] Ross Ford. It could be his 100th game [for Scotland]. Those sort of things take precedence. "It's not about us, it's about the bigger picture."

Vern Cotter is "disappointed" he is leaving his job as Scotland head coach but "respects" Scottish Rugby's decision to appoint Gregor Townsend.

A police source told the BBC that an infiltrator from the Taliban had allowed militants into the police station in the regional capital of Lashkar Gah last night. The infiltrator fled the scene with the Taliban, he said. A spokesperson for provincial governor Omar Zuak confirmed the incident, but did not provide details. No group has officially claimed responsibility. Lashkar Gah has come under increased pressure from the Taliban in recent months. The city of 200,000 people is seen as strategically important, and the key to holding Helmand province. The province is both a fertile farming region and a centre for opium production, bordering Pakistan on one end and covering major routes between cities. Thousands of people fled the rural areas to shelter in Lashkar Gah last August, before the city itself came under attack in October. The city was previously the scene of heavy fighting between the Taliban and Nato-led forces before their withdrawal in 2014.

At least 13 policemen were killed by one of their own in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.

A boiler house was set for demolition by Coleman & Company when it collapsed at the site in February. Ken Cresswell, 57, John Shaw, 61, Michael Collings, 53, and Christopher Huxtable, 34, died in the collapse. RWE NPower said a procurement process has been under way since the demolition company's contract ended in October. Debris from the part of the building brought down in a controlled explosion in July still remains. However, all clearance work on the spot where the boiler house collapsed has been completed. RWE NPower closed the coal-fired facility at the site in March 2013 after 43 years of service, and a programme of demolition work followed. A major incident was declared on 23 February after the boiler house collapsed. The last of the bodies was not discovered until September. The cause of the collapse is being investigated jointly by police and the Health and Safety Executive. Coleman & Company had been working at the site for two years before the collapse, but lost its contract in October, which it agreed was in the "best interests of all parties".

A new contractor should be in place to clear debris at Didcot Power Station by the end of the month, the site's owner has said.

5 January 2016 Last updated at 10:38 GMT It is not known how the swan got trapped on the rooftop of Agatha's Boutique but it could not fly off as it did not have enough space to take enough of a run up. A spokeswoman for the RSPCA said: "Happily we were able to rescue this swan and release it back into the wild just a short distance away." Staff at nearby soundLINCS managed to record the successful rescue.

An RSPCA worker has rescued an adult male swan from the roof of a building in the centre of Lincoln.

Wiggins and Cavendish are among eight medallists from the 2016 Olympic Games to be involved, along with Dutch road race silver medallist Tom Dumoulin. Owain Doull, who won team pursuit gold with GB in Rio and was third in the 2015 Tour of Britain, will also race. The eight-day event concludes in London on 11 September. "The field for this year's Tour of Britain is without parallel, with star quality wherever you look among the teams," said race director Mick Bennett. Thirty-time Tour de France stage winner Cavendish will make his first appearance since winning omnium silver at the Olympics, in a field that also features omnium gold medallist and Team Sky rider Elia Viviani of Italy, as well as the Manxman's sprint rival Andre Greipel of Germany. Wiggins is joined by Dylan van Baarle as former Tour of Britain winners in the field. A total of 21 teams will take part, including 11 UCI World Tour outfits, the highest number to have competed in Britain since the 2014 Tour de France Grand Depart. Seven British teams will compete, led by Team Sky and also including Team Wiggins and a Great Britain national team. The rider list also includes six current national road race champions, led by British champion Adam Blythe, who will ride for Great Britain. There are also six national time trial champions, including former UCI world hour record holders Alex Dowsett and Rohan Dennis and three-time world time trial champion Tony Martin.

Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish have been confirmed among 126 riders for the 2016 Tour of Britain, which begins in Glasgow on Sunday.

Ahead of the main procession, marchers and bands paraded around the city's historic walls. It is one of the biggest parades held in Northern Ireland and marks the anniversary of the ending of the Siege of Derry in 1689. Thousands of supporters from across the UK turned out to watch the 145 bands taking part. Having completed a circuit of the walls, members of the Apprentice Boys made their way to the Diamond for a wreath laying ceremony. A thanksgiving service, "to give thanks to God for the deliverance of the city," was then held at St. Columb's Cathedral. The memorial ceremony is held on the second Saturday in August each year, to commemorate the ending of the 105-day siege of the city in August 1689. Also known as William of Orange, or King Billy, the new monarch was supported by Protestants in Derry, who shut the gates of the walled city to keep out the advancing Jacobite army.

The annual Apprentice Boys demonstration has taken place in Londonderry.

The original film saw Tom Hanks play a man saved from drowning as a boy by a mermaid, whom he meets 20 years later. Tatum - who will presumably be a merman - is set to co-star with Jillian Bell, according to Hollywood Reporter. They starred in 2014's undercover cop comedy film 22 Jump Street, which topped the box office on its release. The original film's director Ron Howard is set to produce the film, along with Tatum. The film, a rom-com about whether the man will choose to remain on land or join the mermaid in the sea, was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay. This version will be written by Maris Lewis-Ryan and follows on from Ghostbusters, which was remade this year with an all-female lead cast. Tatum recently starred in Hail Caesar! with George Clooney and Josh Brolin, while Bell is to appear in Office Christmas Party later this year.

Magic Mike star Channing Tatum is to play the mermaid in a remake of 1984's film Splash, taking the role played by Darryl Hannah, according to reports.