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Matthew Daley, 35, killed Donald Lock, on the A24 in Findon, near Worthing, last July after the 79-year-old ran into the back of his vehicle. He was convicted of manslaughter after he admitted stabbing Mr Lock to death, claiming diminished responsibility. Daley was told he would initially serve his time in a secure mental hospital. Lewes Crown Court heard Daley was a paranoid schizophrenic whose mother, Lynda, had pleaded with mental health experts to have him sectioned. She told the court the day she heard Mr Lock had been killed was "the day that all your nightmares came true". Daley was charged with murder, but never denied killing Mr Lock on 16 July last year. Daley will be held in Hellingly medium-secure psychiatric hospital in East Sussex under the Mental Health Act. Should his health improve, he will then be transferred to prison. Mr Justice Singh said the killing was a "violent, unprovoked attack" in front of members of the public, aggravated partly by Mr Lock's age and the use of a weapon. "It's clear from the verdict that the defendant's responsibility for the homicide was substantially impaired," he said. "It does not follow that it was completely extinguished." Prior to the start of the trial, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust apologised for not doing more. It has since announced an independent review into 10 killings involving patients known to the Trust, including the case of Matthew Daley. Mr Lock's son Andrew said the sentencing of Daley did not did not remove from the family's memories the horror of what happened. "However, at least we can move on knowing that the public are properly protected from a man who, whilst badly treated by the NHS by a catalogue of failures, is a danger to the public if not properly supervised and medicated," he said. "It is important to note Mr Justice Singh's observation this was not a public inquiry into the failings of the NHS. "But it is now up to the NHS that the systematic arrogance that exists in the medical world changes for good and that they wake up to the fact that we all deserve to be listened to."

A man who stabbed a retired solicitor 39 times after a crash between their cars has been given life and will serve at least 10 years.

Mr Ashley failed to appear before a business select committee regarding working terms and conditions at the company's warehouse in Derbyshire. In a letter, he accuses MPs of "abusing parliamentary procedures" in order to "create a media circus at Westminster". Chris Bryant MP said the House could "force" Mr Ashley to attend a meeting. The row follows a BBC investigation into the work practises at the company's warehouse in Shirebrook. Updates on this story and more from Derbyshire The Newcastle United FC owner was given a deadline of 21 March to respond to a letter from MP Iain Wright - who chairs the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) select committee - following his no-show. The letter said the committee reserved the right to "take the matter further" should he not attend future dates. In response, Mr Ashley said: "I was disgusted to learn that you have adopted a stance that is deliberately antagonistic. "By refusing to visit Sports Direct to see things with your own eyes, you are missing out on a genuine opportunity to gain a detailed and balanced understanding of the matters you wish to discuss. "I believe you are abusing parliamentary procedure in an attempt to create a media circus in Westminster, which is not in the best interests of any of the people who work at Sports Direct." It is thought that no one has been charged with contempt of Parliament since the 1950s. Mr Bryant said in the Commons on Thursday: "[Mr Ashley] may be the 22nd richest man in Britain, but he is running a modern day sweatshop and this House will get to the truth." The committee is due to meet on Tuesday to discuss the next steps following Mr Ashley's correspondence.

Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has accused MPs of being "deliberately antagonistic" after he was threatened with being in contempt of Parliament.

Rangers say the defender slipped over during the squad get-together the day after Saturday's 2-0 win over Burnley. The Sun claimed Caulker was injured after a fight broke out at a pub that Crystal Palace players were also at. But QPR's head of communications Ian Taylor insisted: "Steven Caulker was not involved in an altercation." Taylor added: "He suffered a cut to his head, which he received treatment for at hospital before being discharged the same evening." Taylor also explained that players had been given permission to have Sunday lunch together given QPR's next game against Everton was not until Monday, 15 December. QPR owner Tony Fernandes took to Twitter to comment on the claims. "Steven Caulker slipped over and hurt his head and is fine," wrote Fernandes. "Nothing else to report." Former Tottenham and Cardiff centre-back Caulker, who has one England cap, has made 15 appearances this season, scoring once.

QPR have denied Steven Caulker was involved in an altercation and say he was taken to hospital after cutting his head during a lunch with team-mates.

I feel like I'm playing well right now and can't wait for the second week. I'll be back on Centre Court on Monday but before the action starts again, I thought I'd use this column to answer some of the questions you sent using Twitter and Facebook. Q) What did Seppi say to you to make you laugh at the end? (John Parsons) I didn't really hear exactly what he said, but he said it and then laughed, so I laughed as well. Q) Does Ivo Karlovic have the best serve and how do you prepare for facing it? (Alan Bingle) He has one of the best for sure. It's difficult to pick who has the best. To prepare for it I usually have my coach or whoever it is I'm hitting with stand just behind the service line and basically just serve from there and try to react. I ask them to try and ace me for 10 minutes so I get used to seeing the ball go past me, and also reacting to a serve coming at me from that height. Media playback is not supported on this device Q) What do you think about Wimbledon's dress code? (Danyal Khan) It is very strict but I do like that it's all white because it's different. We don't have that the rest of the year and that is one of the things that makes Wimbledon unique. Q) Should the rules of tennis be changed since toilet breaks & medical time-outs are being increasingly used to break up sporting momentum, and the integrity of the sport? (James Walker) Yes, they should be. Why not? They could get rid of the medical time-outs, for sure. You can't get rid of toilet breaks but you could have them at the end of the set. Normally the toilets are right by the side of the court. Maybe on the outside courts it's not the case but normally they are right there and there's no reason for a toilet break to last 10 minutes. But sometimes we play for four or five hours and you're drinking so many fluids, you can't get rid of them altogether - what if someone needs to go? You don't want to see what might happen on the court! Q) What is your pet preference after dogs? (Alexander Broadbean) That's a good question. We talked about having a cat before but none of my family ever had cats while I was growing up. I think with what I do for a living, having cats is actually not a bad thing because they don't need as much attention as dogs. I had a hamster when I was a kid, called Whisky. He escaped down the floorboards never to be seen again and I was absolutely devastated. Q) Who would win a fastest sausage-eater contest between your dogs Maggie May and Rusty? (Amanda C) Rusty's a quicker eater. He's just bigger. He's a boy and wolfs his food down. Q) Would you ever consider Grand Slam doubles? (Jake) I would like to. I couldn't at Wimbledon because the doubles is best-of-five sets. You look at some of the matches, you can be out there for three-and-a-half or four hours. There's no way physically I would be able to do that here. But I would like to play because I love the Grand Slams and doing well in the doubles is good. I respect the doubles players, my brother's one, and often doubles matches can be very exciting, especially in the latter stages of Grand Slams. It is a part of our game that a lot of club players play and I think it should be shown more on the TV. Q) Where did you watch Heather Watson's match against Serena Williams and were you on your feet shouting? (Rachel Grace) Media playback is not supported on this device I watched it at home. I watched the first set and the beginning of the second, and then I snoozed for 20 minutes and woke up at 5-4 in the second set. Then I watched the whole of the end of the match. I don't really jump up and scream when I'm watching because of the dogs - Kim was doing that and the dogs were going crazy. I normally go very quiet and quite insular when I'm watching matches that I'm into. With boxing I do that as well - individual sports. With team sports it's different, but with individual sports and when I care about the outcome, I tend to not say a whole lot. Q) Who would play you in a movie and why? (Sandy) Andrew Garfield - I've been told we look alike. Q) Who was your sporting hero growing up? (Greg) Andre Agassi. I loved watching him when I was a kid. He had a great personality - very charismatic, very different. Q) Do you prefer scrambled eggs or fried? (Josh) Scrambled. I've just got into cooking them on my own and I do them pretty well. I learned from watching Gordon Ramsay on the internet. Andy Murray was speaking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery. You can follow Murray on Twitter,Facebook and Instagram.

Saturday's match against Andreas Seppi was a tough one but I got through it, and the crowd on Centre Court really made a difference.

The PM revived a line used during her Tory leadership campaign to respond to claims the two clashed over dinner. She also declined to commit to settling the issue of expats' rights by June. EU sources claim UK misunderstanding of the talks process, and ignorance about how Brussels works, could lead to no deal being agreed on the UK's exit. According to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, the prime minister and Mr Juncker clashed last Wednesday at Downing Street over Mrs May's desire to make Brexit "a success" and whether the issue of protecting the rights of expat UK and EU nationals could be agreed as early as June. Speaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mrs May said there were a lot of similarities and common ground in the two sides' positions. She added: "But look, I think what we've seen recently is that at times these negotiations are going to be tough. "During the Conservative Party leadership campaign I was described by one of my colleagues as a bloody difficult woman. And I said at the time the next person to find that out will be Jean-Claude Juncker." The "bloody difficult" quote came from former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke, who was recorded discussing her after a TV interview last year. Asked about the German newspaper report, Mrs May said: "I don't recall the account that has been given of the meeting that took place, I think that a lot of this is Brussels gossip." But she said that the talks would be tough and would involve either her or Jeremy Corbyn lining up for the UK against the other 27 EU leaders. Theresa May's comment is revealing about her strength, and also her weakness. No political leader wants to be seen to be pushed around. When the UK talked tough as a member of the EU the others had no choice but to listen. But now the UK is on the way out, the incentives for the others to pay attention - let alone do our bidding - is very different. Refusing to be pushed around is one thing, refusing to show any sign of compromise or listen quite another. Read more from Laura Pressed on whether she did believe the issue of the rights of EU nationals in the UK - and Britons abroad - could be settled in June, she said: "I've always said that I want this to be an issue that we address at an early stage." "I've always said that there are complexities to this issue and lots of details that will need to be agreed. What people want to know is to have some reassurance about their future. I believe we can give that at an early stage. I've got the will to do this," she added. She also said she would have "no intention of doing anything other" than serving a full term until 2022 if she wins the 8 June general election. Opposition parties have accused the Tories of pursuing a "hard Brexit" strategy, with the PM insisting no deal is better than a bad one and planning to withdraw the UK from the EU single market. The first edition of the London Evening Standard published under the editorship of ex-chancellor George Osborne was headlined "Brussels twists knife on Brexit", with an editorial warning the PM against seeking a "blank cheque" from the EU. Launching his party's Brexit strategy, ex-Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said Mrs May had "chosen to pursue the most extreme and damaging form" of EU departure. He said his party would offer another EU referendum in which it would campaign to Remain. Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning

Theresa May says she will be a "bloody difficult woman" towards European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker during Brexit talks.

The water pipes in the town are old and prone to leaks and bursts, Severn Trent Water said. Part of Milford Road is expected to be closed until the summer as a metal water pipe is replaced. Diversions will be in place. The road is "just too narrow" in parts to be kept open as large machinery will be used, a spokesman said. More than 12 miles (20km) of new water pipes are being laid from the Shugborough area into Stafford town centre. In the first phase, which began in September, pipes were installed on Tixall Road for a new housing development nearby.

The second phase of a £15m project to upgrade the water and sewer pipes in Stafford is under way.

From this year, schools are being judged by new measures, which take greater account of pupil progress and their basic ability than raw results. The Department for Education says the measures present a clearer picture of how well schools are performing. Head teachers say the results come amid a funding and recruitment crisis. Up until this year, schools have been rated predominantly by raw GCSE results - based on what proportion of pupils get five A* to C GCSEs, including English and maths. Last year, under the old measures 312 schools were considered to be failing. Now, a new measure is being used, based on GCSE results from grades A* to G across eight subjects, known as Attainment 8, along with another measure, known as Progress 8. These changes mean this year's results cannot be compared with previous years, as this is the first year that schools and pupils have been assessed under the new system. Progress and Attainment 8 measure how a student progresses through secondary school, taking into account their ability at the end of primary school. Most schools will achieve a score between -1 and 1, with 0 being average. This year, secondary schools are considered under-performing if their Progress 8 score is below -0.5 (well below average) and below a further complex calculation that shows government statisticians are confident that score is accurate. Depending on individual scores, schools will be placed in one of five bands for progress - average, above average, well above average, below average or well below average. Parents are likely to find these descriptors easier to read than the raw numbers. The data shows wide variations in regional performance. In the North West of England, one in six secondary schools is under-performing, while at the other end of the scale, London has the lowest proportion of under-performing schools. In total, 3.1% of the capital's secondary schools fall below the new threshold, while just 2.2% of its secondary-age pupils are at a school that failed to make the target. Knowsley on Merseyside was the worst performing local authority, with all six of its secondary schools falling floor below standards, while in Darlington, 42.9%, of schools are labelled failing and 38.5% sub-standard in Oldham. Looking at the gender gap, girls made more progress on average than boys, despite any higher prior attainment they may have had. Girls made above average progress, at 0.11, while boys made below average, at -0.17. Disadvantaged pupils (those qualifying for free school meals) made significantly less progress on average than non-disadvantaged pupils nationally during secondary school. The Progress 8 score was -0.03 for all pupils in all state secondary schools, compared with -0.38 for disadvantaged pupils. This is significant because it shows that disadvantaged pupils are held back at secondary school by more than lower prior attainment. The national average result for Attainment 8 was 49.9 - this is expressed as points out of 80. It is a total of the raw results across individual pupils' best eight GCSE subjects at grades A* to G, including English and maths, with more points attached to higher grades. Girls got better results nationally than boys. They scored an average of 52.3 and 47.7 respectively. School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said the results "confirmed that the hard work of teachers and pupils across the country was leading to higher standards". He added: "Under our reforms, there are almost 1.8 million more young people in good or outstanding schools than in 2010, and through our new, fairer Progress 8 measure, we will ensure that even more children are supported to achieve their full potential." Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said schools and pupils should be congratulated on the results, which had been achieved "against a national backdrop of a funding and recruitment crisis". He said Progress 8 was a fairer way of measuring school performance as it better reflected the fact that children start secondary school at different levels of academic ability. But he warned that parents should remember no system of measuring school performance was perfect. "It is their [parents'] judgement which is most important and they should base that judgement on the whole picture of the school's curriculum and culture and whether it is the best fit for their child," he said. Kevin Courtney, head of the National Union of Teachers, said a majority of teachers questioned the validity of Progress 8, as they believed the Key Stage 2 results used to provide children's prior attainment did not provide a reliable benchmark from which to measure. "Key Stage 2 tests are not just narrowly based, but notoriously unreliable. Yet this benchmark is being used to hold schools accountable. "The union is concerned that in progress 8 the DfE has introduced another measure that simplifies learning, boils down progress to a single number, and prevails upon teachers and the school leaders to organise their work around it."

A total of 282 secondary schools in England are deemed to be failing by the government, as they have not met a new set of national standards.

The deaths plunged the community in the town of Arnstein into mourning. The five young men and a woman, all aged 18 or 19, were found on Sunday by the landowner whose son and daughter were among the victims. Police say a wood-burning stove was in use at the hut, but other possible causes are still being investigated. "The six adolescents... died from carbon monoxide poisoning," said a police statement. "The cause of the leakage of the toxic gas remains under investigation." The owner of the hut said he had gone there after his children failed to return from the party the night before. A neighbour told German media that his daughter had been celebrating her 18th birthday. The brick building is some distance outside the town and the area was covered in snow. The tragedy has caused an outpouring of grief in the town, which is about 30km (18 miles) north of the city of Wuerzburg. An area has been set aside in the local church for flowers, candles and other tributes to the teenagers. A gathering for friends and relatives was held there on Monday "for grief, remembrance and prayer".

Six teenagers found dead in a garden hut in the German state of Bavaria died from carbon monoxide poisoning, police have said.

Media playback is unsupported on your device 23 July 2013 Last updated at 06:00 BST The baby was delivered at 16:24 BST at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London, weighing 8lb 6oz. The duke is based at RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales, where he and his wife share a cottage. Flt Lt William Wales - who, as monarch, will one day be head of the armed forces - has spent recent years flying rescue missions, and qualified as a helicopter captain in 2012. Here is what his colleagues had to say to him. Wales welcomes 'joyous' royal birth

RAF crewmates of Prince William have sent their congratulations to him and the Duchess of Cambridge after the birth of their son.

The day before saw a strike ballot on career progression with the part-time Night Tube drivers and a dispute over a "breakdown in industrial relations" with maintenance workers. Why? Well it seems that industrial relations are being redrawn. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he would bring in a more constructive relationship with the unions. He also promised "zero strikes". That didn't happen. But I know for a fact the mayor, the transport commissioner, the TSSA and the RMT unions have met - that is in stark contrast to the previous administration. However, with this new relationship there are now new tensions. Transport bosses seem bemused the unions are upset over the relocation over eight drivers from Essex depots to Earl's Court. They claim it is in black and white in the contracts agreed by the unions themselves. They have quoted the contract: "Your normal work location will be Leytonstone Train Crew depot Central Line. "[London Underground Ltd] will endeavour to allocate you to an operating location convenient to you, but reserves the right to require you to work at any place it may from time to time determine within the area served by [London Underground Ltd] and London Bus Services." Bosses also say the new Night Tube contracts (agreed by the unions) set out that drivers must stay in their new positions for 18 months. I put it to Peter McNaught - an Operations Director at London Underground - that this was meant to be a new era of friendlier industrial relations. "I don't know," he replied. "This one and the dispute that's just been announced on Night Tube, these are long standing agreements we have with the trade unions. "The ink is still wet on the Night Tube agreement. The unions signed up to it and now we're in dispute about something they only agreed to five months ago." "I think it goes beyond London Underground and what we're doing. It's quite strange." The unions are clearly empowered by the new relationship. They think the extra 325 staff agreed after the recent strikes over the station staff closures was a victory and are now pushing to achieve more for their members. I asked John Leach from the RMT if he felt his union was now trying it on under the new mayor. He said: "I think it's the opposite. "There is a disconnect between the senior management and their superior people at City Hall in my opinion. "We're hearing that we should have better industrial relations and then when we talk to management we're up against the same old, same old." Redrawing industrial relations is not straight forward. It could be a bumpy road ahead. And the worry for commuters is it could come at a cost.

Yesterday there was a strike over driver relocation on the Central Line.

On 26 October 1914 Alice Parr arrived at the government's imposing War Office in London, seeking answers about her missing teenage son. Seventeen-year-old Private John Parr had last been seen in August, on the eve of the Battle of Mons. He had been sent to search for two missing platoons and his anxious mother feared the worst when she made her way to Whitehall. "The youngest, the baby," says Iris Hunt, one of Alice's great nieces. "She must've been desperate." As a quarter of a million other boys would go on to do, 14-year-old John had lied about his age to join the Army in 1912. The Parrs shared their small terraced house in Barnet, north London, with another family - overcrowded conditions the youngest brother left behind. He was five years below the legal age at which he could be sent overseas to fight. "He was probably looking for proper clothes and decent meals," according to policeman turned local historian Michael Crick, who has followed Private Parr's paper trail. The brown-haired, brown-eyed boy was working as a caddie at his local golf course when he signed up. "He was looking for adventure and something to do with his life," great-niece Iris says. His life - like more than 700,000 others from the British Isles after him - was cut short on continental Europe. But unlike those whose bodies were never found and who have no headstone, Private Parr entered history as the first of his comrades to die fighting Germany. He would miss the horrors of the trenches, poison gas and mechanised warfare - shot and killed shortly after his 17th birthday. "He's almost an iconic symbol of that first contact of the British Army with that massive German juggernaut crashing through Belgium on its way into France," says military historian Jon Cooksey. There are no known photographs of the 5ft 3in teenager from the north London suburbs, described by his superiors as "clean, sober and intelligent" but "inclined to be insubordinate". After joining his local regiment, the Middlesex, he became a reconnaissance cyclist, trained to ride ahead to retrieve information quickly for commanding officers. When war broke out he and 1,100 other men in his battalion were shipped from Southampton to Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France as the German army was advancing into Belgium. The first major engagement of German and British troops in Europe came at the Battle of Mons on 23 August 1914 and there are conflicting reports of when exactly John went missing around this time. As far as the military was concerned, he was still with his regiment almost half a year later. "According to the records here, the man is still serving with his battalion," an official at the Infantry Records Office wrote on 27 January 1915. Amid the administrative chaos at the start of the war, John's worried mother seems to have known more than those in charge. "I've not heard from him at all and the War Office can tell me nothing," she wrote to the official, underlining the word "nothing". "I have heard from Berlin," she went on. "The address is from a prisoner of war - one of my son's chums - to say that my son was shot down at Mons." And this is where the mystery of Pte Parr's death begins. It has long been thought that he came across German cavalry after heading off on his bike on a reconnaissance mission from where his unit was based near Bettignies - a French village on the border with Belgium - before the August battle. Almost 70 years later, the curator of Pte Parr's local regimental museum recalled L/Cpl W Beart, one of the soldier's fellow cyclists, saying that, on 21 August 1914, the men had caught a "glimpse of Uhlans" - a German regiment. L/Cpl W Beart made it back but the comrade he called "Old Parr" was never seen again. Was one of the Uhlan soldiers responsible for the death of "Old Parr"? The shooting was apparently witnessed by an eight-year-old Belgian girl. Andy Robertshaw, a historian who traced the girl as an elderly woman, says she remembered Private Parr waving his comrade away when the two men were shot at. "Parr was in a ditch, shooting down her road to the east to give his mate time to get back to base," he says. The first British soldier died, the woman said, after a German soldier ran through her garden to shoot him. But on that night, according to Jon Cooksey, there is no way the men could have encountered any enemy soldiers. "Looking at all the documents," he says, "it's more likely he was killed on the 23rd at the Battle of Mons." He adds that John Parr's burial by the Germans in St Symphorien Cemetery, "just three miles from where his battalion fought that day", backs this up. Given the battle claimed some 1,600 British casualties, this raises the prospect that Private Parr may not have been the first to fall. Jon Cooksey has studied troop movements and war diaries on both sides. He says if Pte Parr was killed on the date on his headstone, it must either have been by a trigger-happy Belgian "terrified of the German hordes", so-called friendly fire from a French cavalry patrol or, worse, from his own side. "The point where he is supposed to have been killed couldn't by any stretch of the imagination have been correct," the author and broadcaster says. On 21 August, according to the battalion war diary, John Parr's regiment was 11 miles south of the position it would take up to fight at Mons - German units did not cross the Mons-Conde Canal until the afternoon of 23 August. There is no mention in any of the brigade or divisional diaries of any contact with the enemy, Jon Cooksey says. Nor is there any record of contact with the British in the Germans diaries. "And what a coup that would have been for that German soldier," he adds. "No such record exists." Andy Robertshaw acknowledges it could actually have been a Belgian who unwittingly fired the shot that killed Pte Parr. "If you're a Belgian, you've never seen a British soldier before," he explains. The first contact the Germans and British report is on 22 August 1914, just after dawn, when cavalry patrols from the two sides meet. And this, according to Jon Cooksey, is still another two miles north of where Pte Parr is supposed to have been killed. Back in London, it is now January 1915 and a fraught Alice Parr has heard nothing from those running the war. She received a letter from the captain of John's regiment. "He informed [me] that my son Private John Parr has been missing from the regiment since August the 23rd 1914 and has not been heard of since," she wrote again to the records office. "I should be very grateful for any information as to his whereabouts." There is nothing to indicate when Alice or her family were finally told John Parr would not be coming home. "They didn't get any closure at all," says ex-policeman turned local historian Michael Crick. "And even when they did learn months later that he was killed, they were never able to find out the circumstances." Official records refer to the "late" Private Parr almost a year after his death, on 19 August 1915 but shed no light on what actually happened to him. "In truth, the mystery is probably never going to be solved," Jon Cooksey says.

A ceremony is being held at the WW1 grave of Private John Parr - a teenager thought to have been the first British soldier killed in action in Europe - but 100 years on mystery still surrounds how he died and who killed him.

Jack Mackreth and Chris Holroyd both fired wide as the visitors pressed for an opener in the first half. Danny Rowe finally put the Silkmen ahead after the break with a deflected strike, and Mitch Hancox slotted in to make it 2-0 shortly after. Danny Whittaker's shot put the result beyond doubt, before Wrexham's Jordan White put a late penalty over the bar. The result lifts Macclesfield up to seventh in the table, seven points outside the play-off places, while Wrexham remain 15th. Match ends, Wrexham 0, Macclesfield Town 3. Second Half ends, Wrexham 0, Macclesfield Town 3. Curtis Tilt (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card. Goal! Wrexham 0, Macclesfield Town 3. Danny Whitaker (Macclesfield Town). Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Jack Sampson replaces Jack Mackreth. Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Richard Brodie replaces Chris Holroyd. Substitution, Wrexham. Jordan White replaces Paul Rutherford. Substitution, Wrexham. Antony Barry replaces Jordan Evans. Goal! Wrexham 0, Macclesfield Town 2. Mitch Hancox (Macclesfield Town). Jordan Evans (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Goal! Wrexham 0, Macclesfield Town 1. Danny M. Rowe (Macclesfield Town). Second Half begins Wrexham 0, Macclesfield Town 0. Substitution, Wrexham. Rekeil Pyke replaces Gerry McDonagh. First Half ends, Wrexham 0, Macclesfield Town 0. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

Macclesfield scored three second-half goals to earn a comfortable win at Wrexham in the National League.

Germany, Australia, Nepal and Pakistan now offer a third gender option on official forms with other countries set to follow suit. And scientists are finding more evidence to suggest that even biological sex is a spectrum. Do we need to re-imagine our binary world and rethink one of the most basic parts of our identity? Four experts talk to the BBC World Service Inquiry programme. Brin Bixby was brought up as a boy, and went on to get married and father children before coming out as bigender. She set up Bigender.net, which reflects the view that gender is a spectrum. "In college I wore a dress on Halloween, and it was supposed to be a joke, and the people helping me thought it was going to be hyper-real, exaggerated. [But] I didn't want to be a drag queen, I wanted to be a woman, and I think it took people by surprise. "It was the first time I looked in the mirror and saw myself. People interacted with me as a woman: they saw me the way I wanted them to. "I would be most comfortable if I didn't have to think about my gender, but unfortunately that's not how it works for me and a lot of other non-binary people. "We have a cultural understanding of what gender is and looks like, and in the west we have a very binary view of it. My sense of gender as a part of my identity shifts. "I present as a woman everywhere I go, except for at work and at my children's school, because it gets very exhausting to have to explain gender fluidity to everyone I meet. "Ideally we would not make gender such a huge focus of our culture, which would give people the freedom to inhabit their gender in ways that feels most comfortable to them. "What we're seeing now is a relaxation of the sense of binary amongst younger people and internet-savvy people who are inhabiting much more fluid spaces." Writer Mark Gevisser explores gender identities across different cultures. "We know there's a gender continuum, because there have always been effeminate boys and masculine girls. Transgender is certainly not a western phenomenon. In many cultures all over the world there are traditionally third gender or gender-fluid identities. "There are the Hijras in India, what are known as two-spirited people in Native American culture, Muxe in Mexico, and the Bakla in the Philippines. The space these people have occupied has receded with the spread of the Judeo-Christian ethic and western culture, but they're still very much there. "There's a tendency in the west to idealise these. But the truth is that if you're Bakla or two-spirited, there are only certain things in your culture you can do. In India, the Hijras are basically cast out of society, only good for begging and sex work. So it's not necessarily a great life. "I was talking to a remarkable gender therapist named Diane [Erinsaft] and I suddenly started worrying that if she'd been around when I was a little boy, I might have been turned into a little girl. She laughed and said 'No, you're definitely a guy'. "But we started talking about the potential risk of the transgender movement establishing new binaries where, if you have a girly boy, and you're worried about how effeminate this child is, you could very easily solve the problem by taking the child to the doctor and the doctor can wave a wand and say 'Your girly boy is now a princess'. "Wouldn't it be better if we had a society that just raised children so that it was okay to be a tomboyish girl, or a girly boy, and to explore that? "Diane speaks about 'gender smoothies'; she got this from one of her patients who said 'I'm not a girl or a boy, I'm a gender smoothie, I mix it all up together'." Dr Imran Mushtaq is a consultant paediatric urologist who works with children with differences in sex development (DDS) at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Around 1 in 1500 babies are born with DDS but up to 1 in 100 people have less obvious differences. "Absolutely sex is a spectrum. It's not binary in any way and we are slowly coming to understand this. "As a specialist working in this area for the last 12 years, I've seen us transitioning so much in the way we think about sex and the way we treat children in whom the sex is not clear, and we are increasingly becoming aware how complex the issue is. "How do you define what sex a child is? Is it the physical characteristics, the genitalia - do they have testicles, do they have ovaries or do they have both? Is it their chromosomes, is it their hormones? "You can have a child whose chromosomes are XX, typical of what you'd associate with being female, yet their genitalia looks like a boy. "Ten or 20 years ago when children were born with these kind of problems, there was very little discussion about not doing surgery. It was almost a given that the child would need surgery to make it a boy or a girl. "As a doctor and surgeon, I'm increasingly uncomfortable about undertaking what is irreversible surgery. "We know that the outcomes of surgeries that were undertaken 10, 20 years ago are not necessarily as good as we would like them to be. Now is the next stage: in 10 or 20 years' time we will find out the outcome of not doing the surgery or maintaining these children in a certain sex, whereas previously they would have been changed to a different sex. "I don't think we should have gender categories. I don't think that sex should be on birth certificates, I don't think sex should be on driving licences and I don't think sex should be on passports. "We are just what we are. We have a name, we have a date of birth, give us a number." Tamara Adrian is Venezuela's first transgender congresswoman although since it has not been possible legally to change your gender in Venezuela since 1998, she was sworn in under her old name, as a man. "I've been saying for more than 15 years that gender as a legal category must be suppressed, because it is a way to deny rights or grant rights to male or female. Gender has the same effect that race or religion had in the past: there were two groups, one that was privileged and had rights, another that was underprivileged and didn't have rights. "It is exactly the same with gender. If you are male, you have rights that females don't have, and this legal category of male and female is still being used to prevent equal rights: for instance, when you advertise a job and ask for someone you say female or male. "I think [the idea of a legal third gender] will be the first test for this future solution in which gender will be suppressed in the legal document. "It could be a solution because initially some of the [gender fluid] people in Nepal or India or Pakistan were not able to legally exist. They were not able to vote or go to school, and in general they were deprived of any basic rights. So it is an alternative in these countries. "In other countries such as Australia which do not categorise a person within the male or female boxes, it's the first step in order to have a much more gender fluid world. But in Australia, for instance, they are allowing people to choose not to be considered legally male or female. But in those cases, you are deprived of the right of marriage. "We see a little of the possibility [of a less binary future] when you talk about a metrosexual man, or you see women that allow themselves a suit one day and the following day to use a dress with high heels. "That's part of this gender fluid world in which you are not prevented to use the clothes that you want or to express your gender in the way you want." The Inquiry is broadcast on the BBC World Service on Tuesdays from 12:05 GMT. Listen online or download the podcast.

A growing number of people refuse to be put into male or female categories, either because they do not identify as male or female, or because they are going through transition to the opposite gender.

Residents awoke from a night of colourful fireworks to find the city covered in a thick grey blanket of smog and authorities warned that pollution levels were critically high.

Diwali celebrations in the Indian capital Delhi have seen air pollution rise to hazardous levels after many firecrackers were set off.

Eileen Maguire, 69, died after the three-car crash on the Belfast Road in Fivemiletown in November 2013. Her family told BBC News NI that they were disappointed with the sentence. Damien Maguire, 43, from Knockonny Road, Ballygawley, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving. He also admitted causing grievous bodily injury to Mrs Maguire's husband and son, as well as his own wife. The judge told Mrs Maguire's family "nothing I can say or do can bring back Eileen Maguire". In all of the circumstances the Dungannon Crown Court judge said he was "left with the firm view" that justice could not be served by a custodial sentence. The court had also heard that Mrs Maguire, the owner of a restaurant from Lisnarick, was being driven home by her husband and son after attending her brother-in-law's funeral in Belfast. Earlier, the judge told Maguire that while he had no "visual cue" in the eight to ten seconds before the crash, he had seriously failed to appreciate that the cars in front "were getting closer and closer and closer" regardless of "whether or not brake lights were illuminated". The judge said that as a result, "there was a serious head-on collision" and such were the injuries of Mrs Maguire, she "unfortunately passed away". Prior to the tragedy, said the judge, Maguire "lived an absolutely blameless life, he has succeeded in business, and contributed to the community, engaged in charitable work". Reading from a statement written by Maguire, his lawyer acknowledged he could "never turn back the clock", and accepted there was nothing he could do to mitigate the loss of Mrs Maguire. "I am deeply sorry for the pain and anguish I have caused that family," read the statement.

A County Tyrone car dealer, whose driving caused the death of a pensioner, has been given a community service order and a three-year driving ban.

Although 14 candidates are contesting the election, these two men are the frontrunners with most eyes on them. The elections in Africa's biggest oil producer come at a politically sensitive time, with the rise of Islamist group Boko Haram in the north-east meaning security is at the centre of the campaigns for votes. Nigerians discuss their experience of the election campaign with the BBC and say whom they plan to support. I am voting APC this time, though I voted People's Democractic Party (PDP) in the last presidential election. This is because PDP has been in power for over 15 years and we haven't really progressed. Our leaders need to understand Nigerians decide who leads them. I have no sympathy for any political party. I simply want the best for my country. We have tried PDP and they have failed. Now is time for change. Nigeria has abundant resources (human and natural) to be amongst the world's greatest nations. We need a compassionate, visionary, strong-willed leader to lead us to our rightful place. Kill corruption and Nigeria will not only live but prosper. Buhari is certainly not the "Messiah" but he surely can be the forerunner. He can help lay the right foundations for a new corrupt-free Nigeria. I'm supporting President Goodluck Ebel Jonathan because he is a true democrat. He is building institutions in Nigeria and giving them the free hand to tell between good and evil. He is a true Nigerian - patriotic and loyal. No past leader compares to GEJ in democracy, performance and transformation. I am not voting because of the candidates. They don't meet my standards. Corruption is the biggest problem in the country. Goodluck Jonathan is weak because there is a lot of corruption in the land and he hasn't confronted it. Muhammadu Buhari could not deal with it in my opinion - he doesn't have enough brains. I would prefer a balance of 50% ability to fight corruption and 50% ability to handle the economy. The other guys aren't popular, the more well-known candidates over-shadow them. People are eager and are waiting to see what happens. This election is divided. Now people don't see themselves as Nigerian but rather by their ethnic group.

Nigeria's presidential elections, taking place this Saturday, will see a showdown between incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) party.

Sevilla, winners of the tournament in 2014 and 2015, led early on through Vitolo's close-range strike. Marlos equalised with a composed finish from 18 yards before Taras Stepanenko headed the Ukrainian side in front before half-time. But Kevin Gameiro's late penalty earned the Spaniards a draw. The French attacker showed no signs of nerves, converting confidently from the spot after Facundo Ferreyra fouled Vitolo just inside the area. The result leaves Sevilla on course for a third consecutive Europa League success, with the two away goals making them firm favourites to advance to the final in Basel. No team has won three consecutive European titles since Bayern Munich achieved the feat 40 years ago, and if Unai Emery's side progress from next Thursday's second leg in Spain, only Liverpool or Villarreal stand between them and a piece of history. The first leg of that tie ended 1-0 to Villarreal. Sevilla have not won away from home all season in La Liga and have managed just one victory on their travels in this competition, so a draw in Lviv represents a fine achievement. But their home form is excellent - they have won 14 of 18 league games at their Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium - meaning their bid to become the first team to win the Europa League three times in a row remains very much alive.

Holders Sevilla came from behind to earn a draw against Shakhtar Donetsk in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final in Lviv.

The world number two won 6-2 6-0 in 66 minutes and will next play Rafael Nadal, who beat Stan Wawrinka 6-1 6-4. It was a much improved performance from Murray, who broke 10th seed Raonic's serve five times. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Roger Federer 6-3 2-6 7-5, and fellow Frenchman Gael Monfils beat Marcel Granollers 6-2 6-4. "It's the most challenging surface for me every year," said Murray. "It normally takes me a few weeks to remember what I need to do, how to move, the way to build up the points and making sure you don't rush." Murray needed almost three hours to beat Benoit Paire on Thursday and had struggled for form since the Australian Open in January - but he was close to his best against Raonic. The Scot, 28, dominated all aspects of the game but was especially aggressive on the return, denying the big-serving Raonic a single ace and breaking five times. "The two most important shots in tennis I did really well," added Murray. "I was getting a good read on the serve and, when he missed the first serve, I was being very offensive on the second serve return and putting him under pressure. "The serve and the return for me were the best they've been for a while and I'm glad, because they weren't so strong the last couple of matches." Jamie Murray boosted his hopes of hanging on to the doubles world number one spot for a while longer as he and Brazil's Bruno Soares reached the semi-finals. The pair beat sixth seeds Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea 6-2 6-3, despite Murray requiring treatment on his thigh at one stage. Murray leads Marcelo Melo by just five points in the rankings and will face the Brazilian, and partner Ivan Dodig of Croatia, in the last four on Saturday. Andy Murray and Dom Inglot had a match point but could not convert as they lost 6-4 3-6 12-10 to France's in-form Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues. Never want to miss the latest tennis news? You can now add this sport and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home.

Britain's Andy Murray is through to the Monte Carlo Masters semi-finals following an impressive win over Canadian Milos Raonic.

29 March 2017 Last updated at 15:43 BST Lee O'Donnell, whose nickname is the 'Mad Scientist', pulled it off at the Monster Jam World Finals in Las Vegas, USA. Watch this flipping fantastic stunt!

This is the first time a monster truck driver has completed a front flip in the sport's history.

Inspired by the lily pond in Monet's garden at Giverny in France, the painting was the top lot at Sotheby's sale of modern and impressionist works. It totalled just under £122m, including £15.2m for Piet Mondrian's 1927 Composition with Red, Blue and Grey. Sotheby's said it proved collectors are still keen to acquire "trophy art". Paintings by Sisley, Picasso, Manet and Kandinsky were also among the 46 works, with only four pieces failing to find buyers as many sold close to the top end of the pre-auction estimates and sometimes above. "The Nympheas selling for such a huge sum is again a reflection that this is still a market that is driven by trophies, that the great works by the major masters are still really sought after," said Philip Hook from Sotheby's. The auction house said the bidding for the Monet work attracted buyers from Asia and all over the world and went on for 10 minutes, going up in £250,000 increments in its final stages. It said the painting, from the "most iconic and celebrated of Monet's painting series, can be counted among the artist's greatest achievements". It once belonged to Paul Durand-Ruel, the legendary art dealer who championed the Impressionists and represented Monet. The same work had been offered for auction in 2010 but failed to reach its reserve price. Sotheby's said this time it had carried a more "realistic" estimate of £20m to £30m. The sale price of £31.7m included a buyer's premium. Two other Monet paintings were also offered in the sale, La Seine a Argenteuil which sold for £8.5m and Antibes, vue du plateau Notre-Dame, which sold for £7.9m.

A 1906 Claude Monet water lilies painting, Nympheas, has sold for £31.7m in London, the second highest price ever paid for the artist at an auction.

Mr Turnbull said the titles were "not appropriate" in modern Australia, and that Queen Elizabeth had accepted the cabinet's recommendation to drop them. Former PM Tony Abbott reintroduced knighthoods and damehoods in 2014. His controversial decision to grant Prince Philip a knighthood in January was widely seen as one of the factors which ended his term as leader. Mr Abbott at the time said Australia was honouring the Duke of Edinburgh's lifetime of "service and dedication", but later said the decision was "injudicious". He was ousted as leader of the centre-right Liberal Party by Mr Turnbull in September. Analysis: Jon Donnison, BBC News, Sydney The decision to give Prince Philip a knighthood was hugely unpopular in Australia and seen as one of the biggest blunders of Tony Abbott's brief time in office. Now the new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who in 1999 led Australia's unsuccessful campaign to abandon the monarchy and become a republic, has dropped knights and dames. The prime minister will have the chance to discuss the matter with the Duke of Edinburgh's son later this month, when Prince Charles comes to Australia on a royal visit. Mr Turnbull has recently said he remains a republican but says he does not regard the issue as a priority for his government. End of 'Knightmare' poses republican question In a statement, Mr Turnbull said the Order of Australia awards were "an important way of honouring the achievements and service of many Australians, including those unsung heroes who might not otherwise be recognised outside their local communities". But he said his cabinet had recently reviewed the system and decided that the knighthoods and damehoods were "not appropriate in our modern honours system". Existing knights and dames would not be affected by the change, he said. The opposition Labor party welcomed the move, with shadow treasurer Chris Bowen describing the titles "a national disgrace". But he said it was "not appropriate" for Australia to be "clinging onto imperial Britain through our honours system". "We shouldn't be celebrating the fact that knights and dames are gone, we should be lamenting the fact that they came back under this government," ABC News quoted him as saying. However, monarchist groups in Australia criticised the decision. Prominent Australian monarchist David Flint accused Mr Turnbull of trying to get "revenge" for the failed 1999 republic referendum, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Mr Flint, the head of the Australians for Constitutional Monarchy organisation, said scrapping the titles means Australia can't give international recognition to its best soldiers, sportsmen and singers. Australia's honours system Commonwealth honours systems Alongside Prince Phillip, three people have received the honour since 2014 - former New South Wales governor Marie Bashir, former Governor-General Peter Cosgrove and the former Chief of the Defence Force Angus Houston. Australians rallied together online under the hashtag #KnightsAndDames to welcome Mr Turnbull's announcement. Many agreed that this was a step forward for Australia. Others felt there were more pressing issues to be dealt with.

Australia will no longer appoint knights and dames under its honours system, PM Malcolm Turnbull has said.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid told the Green Investment Bank's annual meeting he would start "exploring options" to bring in private investors. The bank, thought to be the first of its kind, has invested about £2bn of public money in about 50 projects. But critics called the sale "reckless" and questioned the government's commitment to a low-carbon economy. It is unclear how much of the GIB the government might sell, although the Financial Times has reported that it could be about 70%, with a sale price of well above £1bn. The move is part of the government's plan to sell off assets to pay down the deficit, and comes after the disposal of stakes in Royal Mail and Lloyds Banking Group. The Edinburgh-based GIB was launched in 2012, pledging loans to "green" projects that have also attracted private sector money. It has invested in wind power, bio-energy, and renewal projects. The bank said it became profitable in the 2014-15 financial year, making a £100,000 pre-tax profit. But there are restrictions on its borrowing, and Mr Javid hopes that full access to the capital markets will increase its lending powers. Speaking at the GIB's annual review event in London on Thursday, Mr Javid said: "The bank will be able to access a much greater volume of capital and deploy it across a much wider array of green projects." He added that the privatisation would mean "more money going into green innovations" and more support for "environmental entrepreneurs". Mr Javid said the GIB had debunked the idea that green investment was incapable of making a profit. "Its rigorous, commercial approach to investment has helped attract sovereign wealth funds, pension schemes and private equity investors to the sector for the very first time," he said. Chancellor George Osborne said in an earlier statement: "We want the Green Investment Bank to attract more investment and we will use the money we raise to pay down the national debt and deliver lasting economic security for working people." Mr Javid's department has hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch to advise on the financial details and timetable for the sale. Critics argue that a sale would dilute the bank's purpose and undermine the UK's commitment to the green economy. Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, called the sell-off plan "rash and irresponsible" and said any such move called into question the UK's commitment to investing in a low-carbon economy. "The government should keep at least a majority stake in the Green Investment Bank to ensure investor confidence is upheld and the commitment to low-carbon lending remains," she said. Think-tank E3G, which advised on the original plans to established a green bank, said a sell-off would be "reckless" and damage investor confidence. Chief executive Nick Mabey said: "The Green Investment Bank is not just the government's most lauded innovation in the war against climate change. It has kept investment in the real economy going at a time when bank lending had fallen to an all-time low. It has played a critical role in supporting the UK economic recovery.

The UK's "green" bank, which invests in environmentally-friendly infrastructure projects, is to be part-privatised.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's World At One programme, General Lord Dannatt said it was wrong to "talk up" the incidents. Five Afghan soldiers died in an assault on the former UK base Camp Bastion and capital city Kabul has been attacked. Lord Dannatt said the Afghan government must retain the support of the West. The last UK combat troops left Afghanistan in October, with Camp Bastion in Helmand Province being handed over to local armed forces. But there has been a surge in insurgent attacks over the past month, targeting Afghan forces, foreigners and civilians. It has raised concerns about whether Afghan security forces will be able to protect the country when the bulk of the other foreign troops depart this month. Three South Africans were killed in a Taliban attack on a compound used by a US-based charity on Saturday in Kabul, the third such incident on foreigners in 10 days. Ahead of a conference this week on Afghanistan's future in London, Lord Dannatt said: "It is important the new government shows it has competence and confidence to govern... it is absolutely critical to show international determination to go on financing and supporting the developing Afghanistan." He said: "The security situation is an important element in this but don't let's fall into the trap of playing the Taliban's game and talking up the number of attacks... "Of course there are going to be attacks... a low level, even a medium level degree of insecurity and a continuing insurgency is quite likely, but let's keep the wider picture in mind." The Ministry of Defence said Afghan security forces are providing effective security and the recent incidents do not represent the situation across the country. Lord Dannatt's predecessor, General Sir Mike Jackson, has reiterated his view that the UK withdrew from Afghanistan too soon. Interviewed on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "The war, conflict, call it what you will, wasn't over. I'm left feeling there was no victory despite what the politicians say." But he said that while the recent attacks were "somewhat depressing... I don't see certainly at the moment, and I hope never, that the Taliban will be in a position where they can overthrow the elected government of Afghanistan". He said "great effort" has been put into training and mentoring the Afghan security forces. Sir Mike, who led the Army between 2003 and 2006 at the height of the UK's involvement in Afghanistan, added: "Afghanistan is not a military problem per se, the root of it is political. It seems to me there can only be, in the longer term, a political outcome."

Recent attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan are not a sign it is making advances as the last foreign troops prepare to withdraw, the former head of the British army has said.

The victim, named by police as Ali Nasrollahi, 22, was found collapsed in Barnet on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Nasrollahi, who was found at the junction of Woodside Grange Road and Grangeway, was treated by paramedics for a single stab wound but died soon after arriving at hospital. Police have launched a murder inquiry and have appealed for witnesses to come forward. No arrests have been made. Det Insp Julie Willats said: "We know that the victim had driven to Woodside Grange Road with one of his friends and met up with another friend, who had also driven there. "At some stage, the victim interacted with a group of up to four suspects, during that interaction we believe he was stabbed. "The group of suspects then ran off down Grangeway and into an alleyway that leads on to Woodside Avenue." The victim's friend Mohamed Musalam said: "I'm shocked... I had to call 10 people to confirm because it was just unreal. "He didn't deserve it at all, he wasn't that sort of a person where he hangs around with the wrong crowd or anything like that. "He was a happy guy, the sort of guy that comes into a group and makes everyone laugh. I am heartbroken." Officers are carrying out a forensic search in the area.

A man has been stabbed to death in a street in north London.

Michael Fallon said the date for cutting the first steel would safeguard hundreds of skilled jobs until 2035. He also announced that a contract for two new offshore patrol vessels would be signed shortly, securing jobs before the Type 26 frigate work is under way. Unions welcomed the news but said the UK government had not delivered on all promises made to the Clyde shipyards. Mr Fallon also announced a £100m contract with the consortium MBDA to deliver the Sea Ceptor missile defence system for the ships. The Type 26 frigate is principally designed for anti-submarine warfare and will partially replace the current Type 23 frigate. Each ship will carry a crew of 118, have a top speed of more than 26 knots and a range of 7,000 nautical miles. The first vessel is due to enter service in the early 2020s. An £859m initial development deal to build the combat ships, at BAE's Govan and Scotstoun yards on the River Clyde in Glasgow, was signed in February 2015. But the project has been scaled back from an initial 13 ships to eight and hit by repeated delays, with concerns that jobs could be lost as a result. Mr Fallon, who is visiting the BAE yard at Govan, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the announcement was a "huge moment for the Clyde". "We are confirming we are going ahead with the steel cut next summer, quite a bit earlier than some suggested, of the first of the eight Type 26s that we pledged to in the strategic defence review last year," he said. "This is work for the next 20 years building these eight Type 26 anti-submarine frigates." The defence secretary added: "We also hope to conclude, before Christmas by the way, the negotiations on the two offshore patrol vessels that were also promised in the strategic defence and security review last year, which will help fill in the gap before the work on the Type 26 starts." The promise of new Royal Navy orders to secure the Clyde shipbuilding industry was made before the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. The number of planned new frigates was later scaled back from 13 to eight in the Strategic Defence Review, with the MoD now planning to build five smaller Type 31 warships in addition to the Type 26 fleet. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomed the announcement but pointed out that it was not the same deal that was promised before the referendum. "The promise hasn't been kept in full, so the number has reduced and there has been a real delay in getting this work started," she said. Ms Sturgeon described the delay as "regrettable" and "disappointing" and said it had been a source of anxiety for the workforce at both yards. She added: "Nevertheless, it's a welcome announcement and I really hope now that it doesn't slip any further and that the commitment that has been made today is delivered in full." Gary Smith of the GMB union said it was "fantastic news" for the upper Clyde shipyards - though he said the UK government had not delivered on all its promises. He told Good Morning Scotland: "We were told there was going to be a 'frigate factory' built on the Clyde that would allow us to deliver ships more efficiently. "It would perhaps have given us the facility to build ships that could be exported. "And Michael Fallon in truth was dragged kicking and screaming to this announcement today after we exposed the fact that his government did plan to move some of the work originally planned for the Clyde, down south. "But cutting through it all, great news for the workforce and great news for the economy in greater Glasgow as well." The Unite union said the announcement safeguarded shipbuilding at the two Clyde yards "for the next generation". The union's regional coordinating officer, Kenny Jordan, said: "Our members have been living with uncertainty for too long and this is a testament to the lobbying and campaigning that they have done over the last two years. "We have a workforce at Govan and Scotstoun with world-class skills who are eager to get on with the job - and eager to see more work coming in the future. "This announcement secures the future of shipbuilding on the upper Clyde, supports skilled jobs in manufacturing and will provide opportunities for apprentices and trainees, making sure that we safeguard skills for the next generation." The defence secretary said design work on the Type 31s was ongoing and he was unable to promise the work would come to the Clyde yards. But he told the BBC that BAE systems would be in "pole position" to win the orders. Work on the frigates was originally due to start this year. Unions raised concerns in April that up to 800 jobs could be lost at the Clyde shipyards if there was any backsliding on commitments. The yards currently employ more than 2,500 people, though hundreds of jobs have been lost over the past two years as BAE has reduced shipbuilding capacity. Scottish Economy Secretary Keith Brown also welcomed the news as a "tribute to the skilled and dedicated workforces at Govan and Scotstoun", but criticised the "continuing wait" for the MOD's basing review in Scotland to be completed. The Scottish government has written to Mr Fallon asking for a meeting to discuss plans for base cuts in Scotland, with sites like Fort George and Kinloss facing an uncertain future. 25 March 2010: BAE signs £127m contract to design Type 26 frigates for Royal Navy 11 October 2010: Sixth and last of the Royal Navy's new Type 45 Destroyers launched on the River Clyde 6 November 2013: Scottish Secretary warns that plans to build new Royal Navy vessels in Glasgow could be endangered by a Yes vote in independence referendum 1 December 2014: Defence Secretary Michael Fallon confirms the UK's new warships will be built on the Clyde 20 February 2015: Ministry of Defence signs £859m initial development deal on Type 26 Frigate. Manufacturing phase is expected to begin in 2016. 23 November 2015: Prime Minister David Cameron announces in defence review that eight new Type 26 Global Combat Ships will be built on the Clyde, scaling back on initial plans for 13 warships 23 April 2016: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon calls for "cast iron assurances" jobs will not be lost at Clyde shipyards because of contract delays 27 June 2016: No deal to build new generation of Royal Navy warships will be signed until it offers "value for money", Mr Fallon says 19 October 2016: UK government refuses to say when the next generation of Royal Navy warships will be built 4 November 2016: Defence secretary confirms first steel on the new frigates will be cut in the summer of 2017 with contracts for two offshore patrol vessels to be signed shortly.

Work on building eight Type 26 frigates at shipyards in Glasgow will start next summer, the defence secretary has said.

Martin will replace Bruce Anstey in the team, who won last year's race. McGuinness had been on his way to a third straight victory before suffering a technical issue, and eventually finished fourth. The team said the duo, who will also be team-mates at Honda at the TT races, will target the first 120+mph lap. McGuinness still holds the lap record for the class of 119.279mph (18:58.743), which he set on way to victory in 2015. Martin, from Grimsby, missed last year's TT and North West 200 to compete in the 2,712-mile Tour Divide mountain bike race in the United States. The 35-year-old has not raced since suffering multiple broken vertebrae and a fractured sternum in a crash in the Dundrod 150 Superbike race in 2015. The truck mechanic and TV personality is still looking for his first TT victory, having finished on the podium 16 times.

Guy Martin and John McGuinness will race for the Japanese-based Mugen team in this year's TT race for electric-powered machines.

Having won the toss and chosen to bat against the pink ball, the hosts got through the opening session untroubled. But Craig Overton (2-35) struck, removing Jimmy Adams (47) and Rilee Rossouw in quick succession, before Jack Leach (2-54) and Tim Groenewald (2-27) hastened the decline. Hampshire then put Somerset in to face six overs, but they closed on 18-0. Overton, who was unused by England in last week's three-game T20 series with South Africa despite being called up to the squad, bowled a crucial spell to turn the tide. With Liam Dawson (53) and Adams going well in their patient opening stand, the fast bowler found the latter's outside edge before Rossouw top-edged through to Steven Davies to go for a fifth duck in his last eight County Championship innings. Dawson fell lbw soon after to Lewis Gregory (3-51) and, despite James Vince's 47, Hampshire's batting fell apart as Leach's accurate left-arm spin gave nothing away. With a batting point secured, Hampshire captain George Bailey declared, but Marcus Trescothick (10 not out) and debutant Eddie Byrom, who was unbeaten on one, had no troubles reaching stumps under the floodlights. Hampshire all-rounder Liam Dawson told BBC Solent: "The crowds haven't changed. We haven't had any more people in. But it is early days and it is something that might work. "From my first experience of it, they need to have a good look at what balls they are going to use. If you are going to keep on using those balls then you are going to get some pretty boring cricket. "It was fine to see. It just goes very soft, very quickly." Somerset fast bowler Craig Overton told BBC Radio Bristol: "The ball was strange. It swings and then goes really soft. It didn't really do much maybe a little bit in it for the bowlers but because it is so soft and slow it is tough to score on. "We knew it was going to be tough batting after lights so it is perfect to be nought down with Tres and Eddie. "It was nice to be with the England boys and see how it all works. I've had a couple of experiences with it now and hopefully next time I'll get a go."

Hampshire collapsed from 84-0 but then declared on 211-9 as Somerset took control on day one at Southampton.

One of the first out of the blocks is a touring production of All My Sons by black-led theatre company Talawa. The story centres on all-American couple Joe and Kate Keller, whose son is missing after World War Two. Its director Michael Buffong tells arts correspondent Tim Masters what makes the play a 20th Century classic. What does it mean to you to be taking All My Sons on the road in Miller's centenary year? The fact that it's a centenary year shines an even brighter spotlight on what is an amazing piece of work and an amazing writer. We originally performed this in 2013 and I'd love to say I planned the tour for the centenary, but the truth of it is that it's a coincidence. What makes All My Sons an American classic? The themes are so universal. On one level it's about chasing the dream and the cost of trying to live it. The themes that come out of the play are issues of loyalty and trust and betrayal, and secrets within families and how people collude and how ultimately everything can come falling down. The themes are so universal - what would you do for your family? Joe Keller thinks anything is forgivable because it's been done for his family but he doesn't have a wider social responsibility. That's his downfall. The 2013 production earned five star reviews - does that add pressure to taking it out two years later? I haven't thought about it. If I did I might not sleep too well. I guess it might add a bit of pressure. I read reviews, you can't help it. One has to be able to take them - the good and the bad. Given that it was such a hit, how much are you tweaking this time round? Like with any fantastic play once you get to revisit it you realise its depth - we are finding so many new things. Half the cast are different so it can't be the same because they bring new elements. It just goes to show the quality of the text: there's always more to unearth. Does having a black cast give the play a new perspective? It certainly gives it a nuance. If you think of a black family trying to achieve the American dream suddenly the stakes become higher still because of black history in the US. But it essentially remains the same story: it's a family drama, and this family is an all-American family. You took over Talawa in 2012 - are there still things you want to achieve? I'm just at the beginning. The past three years have been great and we are starting to achieve some of things we set out to do. It's great that we get do do All My Sons, and we get to work with the companies like the National Theatre as we did last year with Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. We've got a writers' programme working with the Bush and Soho Theatres and the BBC, and we have a space we are desperate to develop into a 100-seat venue. We are looking for funding to do that. What's the latest on workshops you've had with Lenny Henry on a play about the American comedian Richard Pryor? We are still in the workshopping process. It's in development. I hope it will come to the stage. We are both keen to see it happen. All My Sons, with a cast led by Ray Shell and Dona Croll, has opened at Ipswich's New Wolsey Theatre, and tours until 25 April. A full list of tour dates is on the Talawa website. Following its sell-out run at the Young Vic, A View from the Bridge, with Mark Strong leading the cast, opens at the West End's Wyndham's Theatre on 16 February, and is now in preview. The RSC's production of Miller's 1949 Pulitzer prize-winning Death of a Salesman begins previews in March at Stratford-upon-Avon, with Antony Sher and Alex Hassell as father and son, Willy Loman and Biff. Sian Phillips leads the cast of Sheffield Theatres' revival of Arthur Miller's Playing for Time from 12 March - 4 April at the Crucible. A drama originally written by Miller for the big screen, The Hook - about corruption in New York's docks - has its world premiere at Northampton's Royal and Derngate theatre on 5-27 June.

The centenary year of playwright Arthur Miller's birth is being marked with an explosion of productions around the UK in 2015.

The Chesterfield striker denies raping a 19-year-old woman at a Premier Inn in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, on 30 May 2011. Mr Evans, 27, was found guilty of rape at Caernarfon Crown Court in 2012, but his conviction was quashed in April. Mrs Justice Nicola Davies told the jury at Cardiff Crown Court to decide the case "calmly, objectively and without emotion". Mr Evans denies having sex with the woman while she was too drunk to consent. He insists she agreed to let him "join in" while she was having consensual sex with fellow footballer Clayton McDonald, 27, after a night out in Rhyl. The prosecution and defence have now both presented their evidence and the judge is directing the jury before each side presents their closing arguments. She said: "Your task as a jury is to consider the charge made against this defendant, namely the charge of rape. "You must do that by assessing only the evidence you have heard in this case. "You are not here to judge the morals of any person who has given evidence in this case. And this includes the complainant and the defendant." Closing the case for the prosecution, Simon Medland QC told the jury Mr Evans treated the complainant "with a callous, self-centred indifference". "At the end of the 19th Century poet and writer Oscar Wilde was moved to remark that everything in life is about sex, apart from sex itself which is about power," he said. "I accept, of course, that Oscar Wilde at the end of the 19th Century is a long way removed from room 14 in the Premier Inn in Rhyl, but you might think, considering this case, that it was one of his more insightful remarks." He added: "This wealthy, successful young footballer felt entitled to have her and he did so regardless of whatever she might have wanted, and in doing so, we submit, made this rape." Judy Khan QC, making the defence's closing statement to the jury, said the case against Mr Evans was "built around a myth". "If [the complainant] cannot remember, she must have been incapacitated through drink and, in other words, the crown say, lack of memory equals lack of capacity, equals lack of consent," she said. "We say that when you look at all of the evidence, that is wrong." Miss Khan told the jury evidence given by two men who had sex with the complainant around the time of the alleged offence was "similar". She added: "It totally undermines the prosecution case. It totally undermines the suggestion that it was without consent." The trial continues.

The jury at Ched Evans' retrial for rape has been told not to judge the "morals" of those involved.

"It was an emotional time," he says. "Often we would ask Lebanese people in the bombed south to also take their dogs off their hands… and they would agree only on the condition that we took a child as well". Then, as a warden of the British embassy in Beirut, he appeared to have found his vocation - finding new homes for over 300 dogs and cats left behind by fleeing British expats. Remarkably, he along with a US animal charity managed to find the funding to charter a 747 airliner to get them to America, where they were taken in by new owners. That act was the start of what would eventually become a voluntary organisation called Beta (Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). But now, 10 years later, the organisation is facing its own abyss - struggling to house 500 dogs and over 150 cats. For the past two years, traditional supporters - mainly from the US and Canada - have stopped sending money, resulting in Beta facing possible closure due to mounting debt from food suppliers. Just recently a campaign raised over $50,000 (£40,000), mainly from Lebanese sponsors, but Mr Barrett does not know if Beta can carry on, as its running costs are around $10,000 per month. He believes that the Syria war is chiefly to blame for a drop in individual funding from the US, as people prioritise sending money to groups which support Syrian refugees. The economic cost of the influx of almost two million refugees has also indirectly fuelled a rise in the number of abandoned dogs. Unregulated dog-selling - a fast-buck business - has led to a growth in breeding farms, and dog-fighting rings have also increased - booming ventures at a time of financial uncertainty. "It's all business," says Mr Barrett, with a wave of his hand. He is particularly contemptuous of irresponsible pet owners, citing cases of dogs being bought for a child but becoming a burden, with new owners even unaware of the need to toilet-train puppies or take dogs on daily walks. The result is a gargantuan number of dogs - around 40,000, according to Beta - on the streets in this tiny country. "Most people want pure bred dogs, it's the 'show-off' factor. A huge problem here," he says. "Impulse buying is a real problem and the Lebanese are really affected by Paris Hilton and other celebrities as they like to copy the stars. All the people I know who have dogs tell me that they bought if from South Africa or Russia. Showing off is a big part of it." The problem is with a section of Lebanese society - as the amount donated to Beta's recent campaign shows, many Lebanese care that animals are well-looked after. Beta's dog pound was previously a pig farm in Beit Meri in the hills overlooking Beirut. It looks ramshackle and, like many of its residents, abandoned and unloved. Helena Hesayne, an architect who gives most of her time to working for Beta, is excitedly greeted by many of the dogs, whom she knows by name. "We just rescued a dog which was being used as 'bait' for fighting dogs in Saida, who will probably have to lose his leg," she tells me. "He's too thin at the moment to operate on." "Recently an adult man shot a dog in front of children, although often it's the case that men in Lebanon force children to do acts of cruelty against animals as a way of toughening them up," she explains. One case, in which a video clip showed a child being goaded to push a kitten off a roof-top, was hotly debated on a local television programme. Many of the dogs which are rescued are sent to the US, where there is a better chance of them finding new homes, Ms Hesayne says - especially dogs with three legs. On the day we meet, she is preparing to take six on an Air France flight to a new life in the States. As we walk through the pen she recalls several of the dogs' heartbreaking ordeals. "This one has a leg missing, that one was tortured, this one was shot. In fact, we have a number of dogs who have bullet wounds from pistols," she adds calmly. "The recent fund drive helped us pay about a third of our food bill which was at about $120,000," she says. "But we need more adopters and more regular sponsors. The problem is that people think we are rich just because we have 500 dogs and 150 cats, but it's not the case at all." Martin Jay is a journalist based in Beirut reporting for a number of British newspapers and Deutsche Welle TV. Follow him @MartinRJay

While Israeli jets pounded Lebanon in the summer of 2006 in its brief war against Hezbollah, John Barrett was breaking into abandoned pet shops to rescue starving animals in cages.

Norman Rimmington, also known as "Rimmo", signed with Barnsley in 1945, earning £3 a week as a goalkeeper. He worked for the football club in many roles after he hung up his gloves, including coach, assistant manager, groundsman, physio and kit man. Fans of the club applauded as the funeral procession passed the Tykes' Oakwell stadium. Mr Rimmington, who was born in Staincross, was described by the club as a "fearless" keeper who made 27 appearances for the side, before moving to Hartlepool United in 1947. The goalkeeper, who also worked as a pit fitter and a mechanic, returned to the South Yorkshire side in 1952 and never left. He died in late December aged 93. Family members, friends, colleagues and former team-mates attended a service at All Saints Church, Darton, followed by a ceremony at Barnsley Crematorium. In an interview with BBC Sport, Mr Rimmington said he "used to get some stick as a goalkeeper" during his playing days. "They could knock you into back of net and it were a goal; it's not the same game," he said. "Now they go down as if they've been shot and there's nothing wrong with them." Shortly before his death, he was informed he had been awarded the British Empire Medal for services to football. Discussing his deep connection with the club, he said: "I were born in Barnsley, brought up in Barnsley and played at Barnsley. "I love the club and everything I've done here." In a statement, the club said: "Rimmo was a true club legend and a man who represented the club with the upmost pride and dedication throughout his life." •Born: 29 Nov 1923, Staincross, near Barnsley •Occupations outside football: Pit fitter and mechanic •1946-47: Barnsley FC (27 appearances) •1947-52: Hartlepool Utd (127 appearances) •1952-61: Barnsley 'A' team coach •1961-1972: Head coach and physio •1972-1978: Groundsman and physio •1978-1980: Assistant manager and physio •1980-1985: Physio •1985-2016: Kitman and laundry

The funeral of a "club legend" who worked for Barnsley FC for more than 65 years has been held.

Media playback is not supported on this device The 20-year-old was born in the Eastern Cape province, but his family moved to England when he was nine. He had trained with Olympic silver medallist Louis Smith at Huntingdon Gym, but believes returning home will improve his Olympic prospects. "It will open a lot of doors for me," the former British senior squad member told BBC Look East. MacKenzie is a European junior team gold medallist with Britain and finished second in the vault and sixth in the all-around at last year's national championships. He has also represented the senior squad at national level, but the prospect of competing for Team GB at major international events was being restricted by the country's world-class roster, with Smith, Max Whitlock, Sam Oldham, Kristian Thomas and Dan Keatings all rivals for selection. "I would say I feel more South African than British," said MacKenzie, who was born in the coastal town of Jeffreys Bay. "I won a competition for GB in South Africa in 2010. I remember standing up there on the podium with the British anthem playing and thought it didn't quite feel right. "I've been here 11 years. I have a British passport, but I can't really forget I was born in Africa and my parents were. I can't forget my heritage that quickly." MacKenzie has already made an impact on South African gymnastics, winning a Commonwealth Games qualifier in October to secure his place at Glasgow this summer and, under the British flag, finished highest at the 2013 national championships. And he will compete in the Africa championships at the end of March, in the hope of making the qualifying scores needed to become the first South African artistic gymnast to go to the Olympics since 1956. MacKenzie, who is now based at the Centurion Gymnastics Centre, intends to continue working with his Huntingdon coach Paul Hall and will send videos of his progress to receive tuition. "I can really make a difference to gymnastics as a whole there and maybe kickstart something," he said. "I can see what Louis Smith has done for the sport in this country and he's a great role model. I think it's definitely an achievable ambition to win the African champs, but there will be stiff competition."

British gymnast Cameron MacKenzie has chosen to represent South Africa in a bid to qualify for Rio 2016.

Australia are in a commanding position after two days of the second Test at Lord's as they look to square the series after England's win in Cardiff. Johnson, 33, was named man of the series following Australia's Ashes win in 2013-14 when he took 37 wickets. "I hope so. That'd be nice, to have those scars come back out," he said. Left-arm paceman Johnson had a chastening time at the first Test in Cardiff as he finished with match figures of 2-180. But he looked back to something like his best at Lord's with 2-16 from a six-over spell as England recovered from 30-4 to reach 85-4 after Australia had declared on 566-8. "Nothing's changed for me. It's always nice to go out there and perform and to bowl at good pace," Johnson added. "The ball's been swinging over here too and I've really enjoyed that. When the ball swings at good pace it makes it a little more difficult." He also appeared to make light of England's talk of playing a more attacking style of cricket under new coach Trevor Bayliss. "We were hoping they would come out and play the aggressive brand they've been talking about," he said. "We hope they come out in the morning and do the same thing." And he added: "I guess Ben Stokes is a very aggressive player anyway so we'd like to see him play some shots and hopefully get a couple of quick wickets in the morning. "I can't decide for them, if they want to play aggressive cricket or if they want to go the other way." England paceman Stuart Broad, who took four for 83 in Australia's first innings, accepted his side had succumbed to the pressure of the tourists' huge total. "It's always a tricky period when you've conceded a lot of runs to then go out and bat for 30 overs," he said. "It's always a big test for you and I think mentally we didn't switch on for 20 minutes - and lost four wickets. "We'll have a few batsmen in that changing room wishing they could face their balls again and play them pretty differently, I think."

Fast bowler Mitchell Johnson says Australia's attack can reopen the scars of England's batting struggles from their 5-0 Ashes whitewash down under.

They have increased the cash component of their bid by 1.2bn euros to 8.2bn euros (£6.6bn; $11.2bn). The improved offer raises the valuation of Alstom's energy business by 400m euros to 14.6bn euros. The move by Siemens and Mitsubishi comes just a day after rival bidder General Electric sweetened its offer. On Thursday, GE offered to create a joint venture with the firm's nuclear and energy businesses and to sell its profitable rail signalling business to Alstom. However, it did not increase its $17bn bid. Alstom, which also makes the high-speed TGV train, is seen as one of France's key industrial firms. The French government can therefore block a foreign takeover of the firm. As a result, all parties have discussed their offers with French President Francois Hollande, who is concerned about the break-up of Alstom and the loss of jobs. The rival bidders have also been sweetening other parts of their bid. GE's previous offer had been for a straight purchase of Alstom's power business. But it has now proposed to also create a joint venture with Alstom in the nuclear and energy business and to sell its rail signalling business to Alstom. "The alliance will retain and strengthen France's presence in the energy business and reinforce Alstom Transport," said GE's chief executive, Jeff Immelt. "It creates jobs, establishes headquarters decision-making in France and ensures that the Alstom name will endure." On Friday, Siemens also offered to enter into a "immediate" joint venture with Alstom in mobility management for the rail business, including signalling. "The specified proposal continues to preserve Alstom's current perimeter in almost all its activities, enhances its industrial sustainability, strengthens its financial structure," Siemens and Mitsubishi said in a joint statement.

Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have upped their offer to buy the energy business of France's Alstom, in the latest move by competing bidders.

The US and UK have announced new carry-on restrictions banning laptops on certain passenger flights. The so-called Islamic State group (IS) has been working on ways to smuggle explosives on to planes by hiding them in electronics, US sources tell ABC. The tip-off was judged by the US to be "substantiated" and "credible". Inbound flights on nine airlines operating out of 10 airports in eight countries are subject to the US Department of Homeland Security ban. Phones and medical devices are not affected. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is hosting a two-day meeting of ministers and senior officials from 68 nations to discuss the threat from IS. The Washington talks will be the first full meeting of the coalition since December 2014. The BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher looks ahead to the Washington meeting: This will be a chance for the Trump administration to put its stamp on the global battle against the Islamic State group, and for the reticent secretary of state to put his stamp on a foreign policy issue that the president has identified as a priority. The State Department says the meeting aims to accelerate efforts to defeat IS in its remaining strongholds: the Iraqi city of Mosul and the Syrian city of Raqqa. On the campaign trail Mr Trump claimed to have a secret plan to obliterate the group. But his Pentagon has largely stuck with Barack Obama's strategy of supporting local ground forces, albeit with increased US military participation as the assault on Raqqa nears. Coalition members will also discuss how to stabilise and govern the cities after the conflict; and they're looking to see if Washington remains committed to a longer term effort to secure the region. Eric Swalwell, a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC News there was "a new aviation threat". "We know that our adversaries, terrorist groups in the United States and outside the United States, seek to bring down a US-bound airliner. That's one of their highest value targets. And we're doing everything we can right now to prevent that from happening." Another member of that committee, Republican Peter King, told the New York Times he was forewarned about the ban. "It was based on intelligence reports that are fairly recent. Intelligence of something possibly planned." The restriction is based, we are told, on "evaluated intelligence", BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner writes. That means that US intelligence has either intercepted discussion of a possible extremist plot or has been passed word of one by a human informant. Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning The nine airlines covered by the US ban are Royal Jordanian, EgyptAir, Turkish Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Kuwait Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Qatar Airways, Emirates and Etihad Airways. The British ban, announced hours after the American measure, is similar but applies to different airlines, including British Airways and EasyJet. It covers direct passenger flights to the UK from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia. The 10 airports affected by the US ban are: The airlines included in the US decision have been given a deadline of 07:00 GMT on Saturday to impose the ban, officials said, adding that the restriction had no end date. However, an Emirates spokeswoman told Reuters news agency the airline understood that the US directive would come into effect on 25 March and remain valid until 14 October 2017. What do you want to know about the electronics flight ban? Send us your questions and a BBC journalist will investigate and answer the most popular. Use this form to ask your question: If you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.

An aircraft cabin ban on large electronic devices was prompted by intelligence suggesting a terror threat to US-bound flights, say US media.

Gary Neville, from Cupar Way, Belfast, raised £930 at a charity fundraising music night he organised last year. He was prosecuted for failing to give the cash to the Neuroblastoma Children's Cancer charity. Oscar Knox, a five-year-old boy from Glengormley, County Antrim, died from the rare and aggressive cancer in May. The child's story captured the attention of the Northern Ireland public as each step of his cancer battle was followed on social networking sites. Neville's solicitor told the court his 33-year-old client was "utterly ashamed" of his actions. The lawyer said he had got into financial difficulty and was under threat of eviction from his home. He added that Neville had written a letter of apology to the the Knox family. Sentencing him to eight months in prison, the judge said it was absolutely shocking he would use circumstances such as a child's death for financial gain. Neville, who is currently in prison for other offences, was told his term will run concurrently with his sentence. The Knox family set up the Oscar Knox Appeal and still use the networking sites to raise awareness and funds for organisations helping children with Neuroblastoma.

A disc jockey has been jailed for eight months for stealing money from a children's cancer charity linked to the Oscar Knox appeal.

British Transport Police said the 15-year-old was attacked by a man and woman in their 40s. The incident happened at Patterton station at about 23:30 on Saturday 3 October. The teenager was punched from behind and stamped on as he lay on the ground, suffering facial injuries, including an injury to his eye. He did not require hospital treatment. His mobile phone was also stolen. The boy had been with a group of friends on the 23:05 service between Glasgow Central and Neilston. Det Con Ryan Tierney, of British Transport Police, said: "This would have been a busy service and I am aware there was an altercation between the group of younger boys and a group of older people shortly before the assault took place at Patterton. "Anyone who was on the train and has information regarding those involved who remained on until it arrived at Neilston at 23:40 is urged to get in touch as a matter of urgency."

A teenager was assaulted and robbed as he got off a train in East Renfrewshire.

It marks the final instalment in British director Christopher Nolan's trilogy, starring Christian Bale. The Telegraph said "a breathless, bravura final act" brings the story to "a ferociously satisfying close". However the Daily Mail branded the film, released in the UK on 20 July, "humourless" and "overlong". Awarding The Dark Knight Rises just two stars, the paper said new baddie Bane, played by Tom Hardy, was "practically inaudible" because of the character's facemask worn throughout. But Bane "steals the show" according to The Mirror : "The headline act may be a man in a black rubber suit but the real star of The Dark Knight Rises is Batman's nightmarish nemesis, Bane." Reviewer David Edwards called the film, "the sulky, brooding brother of the recent Spider-Man flick". The Telegraph writer Robbie Collins singled out Joseph Gordon-Levitt's rookie cop John Blake as the character Bruce Wayne is forced to share the limelight with. He called the film : "A lucid, sinewy crime epic closer to Michael Mann's Heat and Coppola's second Godfather film than anything Marvel Studios has yet produced". The Guardian agreed the film stands apart from other recent comic book movies, calling it "a corrective to the jumpsuit antics of The Avengers". "Here is a film of granite, monolithic intensity; a superhero romp so serious that it borders on the comical, like a children's fancy-dress party scripted by Victor Hugo and scored by Wagner," wrote Xan Brooks. Many praised Nolan's directing skills, along with Anne Hathaway's turn as cat burglar Selina Kyle, while Matthew Leyland from Total Film magazine was impressed with the action film's more tender moments. "Gruff, gritty and gothic though it is, TDKR may bring a lump to your throat that isn't popcorn-related," said Leyland. He also championed Christian Bale's performance as "never more vulnerable, likeable or willing to get his gloves dirty, pushing to new emotional depths for his final Gotham go-around". Giving the film another five star review, Empire magazine called it "superhero filmmaking on an unprecedented scale". Referencing the other films in Nolan's trilogy, Nev Pierce said: "Rises may lack the surprise of Begins or the anarchy of Knight, but it makes up for that in pure emotion. A fitting epitaph for the hero Gotham deserves."

Critics have rushed to praise new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, calling it "spectacular" and "bleak, black and brilliant".

"There should be no baseball season this year," Alfredo Pedrique, a former Major League Baseball player, said during a radio interview. He said he had seen people eating out of rubbish bins, and cited the "number of children who are dying because of the lack of food and medicine". Pedrique said it was a humanitarian issue, not a political one. The baseball coach appealed to the team owners in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP) to support his call "out of respect for the Venezuelans who are sacrificing their lives for the freedom of this country, for the benefit of all". Baseball is Venezuela's most popular sport - outdoing football, unlike many of its neighbours in South America. The call comes days after Venezuela lost the right to host the 2018 Caribbean Series tournament, which will now be played in Mexico instead. Tournament organisers did not specify a reason, but Venezuela has been hit by consistent political instability and street protests for months, which have led to dozens of deaths. Angry demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro, which have taken place on an almost daily basis since April, show no sign of abating. The opposition claims Mr Maduro's government has severely damaged the country's economy, and is calling for early elections. The government has blamed the opposition for the violence at the protests saying it uses teenagers and children as "cannon fodder".

Venezuela's baseball season should be cancelled due to the country's ongoing crisis, a leading coach has said.

Adrian Fatchett, 52, was injured at a house in Highfield Avenue, Athersley South, said South Yorkshire Police. Mr Fatchett died on Saturday night despite being treated at the scene by paramedics, officers said. A 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of murder has been bailed and investigations continue, said police.

A man who died after he suffered a serious head injury at a party in Barnsley has been named.

They are the first duo to host the Saturday night show; they replace Dermot O'Leary who announced he was leaving last month after eight years. The pair previously co-hosted the spin-off show The Xtra Factor on ITV2 for two years from 2011. Murs was a contestant on the show in 2009, when he was runner-up to Joe McElderry. Since then he has gone on to sell 13 million records in five years. Flack has also found further fame after winning last year's Strictly Come Dancing. Murs said he was "incredibly excited and proud" to be returning to The X Factor alongside Flack. "I love the show and it kick-started my career in music which has given me the opportunity to do what I love. I already have the best job in the world and it's about to get better - I can't wait to get started and be part of finding some amazing new talent," he said. Flack said she was "beyond excited" about presenting the show with him. "To have the privilege of doing this with someone who makes me laugh out loud is a massive bonus," she said. "I'm also incredibly lucky to have the best tips and support from my showbiz big brother Dermot. I'm not sure how I can live up to his long-term residency but I know I can't let him down!" X Factor boss Simon Cowell said he was "absolutely delighted" that they were returning to the show. "When they were on Xtra together, they were a brilliant double act. Since then, Caroline's gone from strength to strength - and Olly has become one of Britain's biggest stars. So now I'm looking forward to them fronting the main show." The new series of The X Factor returns to ITV in the autumn and open auditions are currently under way.

Olly Murs and Caroline Flack have been confirmed as the new presenters of The X Factor.

It means the Wales international is free to play in the Grand Final should Wigan make this season's showpiece. Flower, sent off in the first minute of the 2014 Grand Final against St Helens and subsequently banned for six months, will miss the final Super Eights game against Catalans and the semi-final. A disciplinary panel also fined the 28-year-old £300 for the grade C offence. In its findings the panel said it accepted Flower's elbow had not been deliberate but added: "This was a reckless act that had contact with the opponent's head and with obvious risk of serious injury." Despite the loss of Flower, the Warriors went on to win the game Halliwell Jones Stadium 35-28. It was the first time he had been dismissed since receiving the longest ban in Super League history for punching St Helens' Lance Hohaia two years ago. Wigan have already secured a play-off semi-final place and could yet win the League Leaders' Shield.

Wigan prop Ben Flower has been given a two-match ban for a "reckless" elbow against Warrington's Declan Patton.

15 September 2016 Last updated at 12:38 BST The facility, inside the old Granada studios building, is being used by a new generation of musicians to make music videos for the internet. The studio was formerly used by bands to record tracks they could mime to on television, with the theme tune for the Brideshead Revisited series among the pieces recorded there. Clare Fallon reports for BBC North West Tonight.

A former Manchester recording studio once used by bands including Joy Division and the Sex Pistols has been brought back into use.

The knee-high footballers, based at the University of Hertfordshire, are not exactly pacey. And they are not very good at gaining possession - especially if they spot someone such as me, wearing red shoes, which they mistake for the similarly red, but round, ball because they have been programmed to spot colour rather than shape. When they do get to the ball, they stop to look around before they kick it And once they have kicked it, they are liable to fall over. They also kick each other, although I'm assured that will not count as a foul. "The kicking is most likely unintentional," says their manager, Prof Daniel Polani. "We don't yet have robots that understand that kicking will hurt other robots. He thinks that he has seen the ball." The robots are pre-programmed - an estimated 50,000 lines of code go into preparing for a match - but there is also an element of learning. They "speak" to their trainers as they play, explaining what they are seeing. And when they are configured for the next match all that information can be used to raise their game. These robots have form. In last year's competition, in Brazil, they were runners up. But there is no room for complacency. "We would like to win, but every game needs to be won," says Prof Polani. "It is much harder this year, and many of the rules have changed, so we have to start again from the beginning and work our way up." Changes include making the playing surface more like Astroturf, meaning it will be even harder for the robots to stay upright. And the ball will be white, making it harder for them to spot. The RoboCup has been running since 1997, and each year sees ever more sophisticated robots taking part. And it has grown from 38 teams from 11 countries to over 500 teams taking part from more than 45 countries. It may not have as big a fan base as the World Cup, but there is no shortage of supporters cheering on the robots. Originally conceived as a way of advancing the development of artificial intelligence, the ultimate aim is for a team of robots to take on and beat their human World Cup winning counterparts in 2050. Watching the little guys perform, this seems unlikely - but Prof Polani remains hopeful. "Ten years ago, this would have seemed difficult - but we have made such huge progress in the last 10 years, that it is definitely possible," he said. "It is not entirely unrealistic."

The whistle blows and the beautiful game begins, but this is no ordinary football match - it is a training session for a team of robots, which on 19 July will compete at the RoboCup World Championships, hosted this year in the Chinese city of Hefei.

Adam Burton, 23, and a French tourist were caught posing naked on Wednesday by surveillance workers and were removed from the Unesco World Heritage site, Cusco police said. A police spokesman told the Press Association the pair were questioned over minor offences "against morality". The Foreign Office said it was in contact with the Peruvian authorities. It is understood the men have not been arrested or charged. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are in contact with local authorities in Peru following an incident involving a British national in Machu Picchu." Surveillance was increased at Machu Picchu in March 2014 after nude photos and streaking became increasingly common at the site. The Machu Picchu citadel, built by the Inca Empire in the 15th Century, stands at 2,430m (7,972ft) above sea level. Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit the site, which is one of Peru's main tourist attractions, each year. In June, four tourists who posed naked on a mountain in Malaysia, including one Briton, were given jail sentences of three days for causing a public nuisance.

A British man has been been questioned in Peru after posing naked at the Machu Picchu ruins, local police have said.

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said Kulbhushan Jadhav was "kidnapped" and tried on "concocted charges". Mr Jadhav was arrested last year and convicted on Monday of "espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan". Shortly after his arrest, Islamabad released a video in which he was shown admitting involvement in spying. India has always questioned the alleged confession, saying that it was extracted under duress. There are differing accounts of how and where Kulbhushan Jadhav was detained. Pakistan says he was detained on 3 March 2016 in the restive Balochistan province, which has been hit by a separatist insurgency that Islamabad accuses India of backing. India says he was kidnapped by Pakistan while he was in Iran. Speaking in the Indian parliament on Tuesday, Ms Swaraj described the death sentence as "an indefensible verdict" and warned Pakistan to "consider the consequences". Home Minister Rajnath Singh promised that the government would do "whatever it takes to make sure Mr Jadhav gets justice". On Monday, Pakistan said he had been tried by a military court and sentenced to death. Pakistan said he told the court he had been ordered to "plan, coordinate, and organise espionage/sabotage activities aiming to destabilise and wage war against Pakistan". He has 40 days to appeal to the court, Pakistani media report. No date was given for his execution. The nuclear-armed neighbours have a long history of diplomatic spats and Delhi and Islamabad often accuse each other of sending spies into their territories. In November, Pakistan withdrew six officials from its mission in Delhi after they were outed as suspected spies by India. It later leaked to the press the names and photos of eight alleged Indian spies working from India's mission in Islamabad. But executions for spying are rare. In 1999, Pakistan hanged Sheikh Shamim 10 years after his conviction for spying. Sarabjit Singh, an Indian man sentenced to death for spying in 1991, died in prison in 2013 while on death row after an attack by other prisoners.

India says it will do "whatever it takes" to ensure justice for a former navy officer sentenced to death in Pakistan on charges of spying.

The Age UK review identified more than three million people aged over 65 with a care need, but found just two-thirds of them were actually getting help. The charity warned that the lack of support for the ageing population was risking their health. But ministers said steps were being taken to provide more help. The review used official data and existing research to identify how many people were struggling with everyday tasks and how many were getting help. There are 10 million people over the age of 65 in England, the review said, and more than 3 million struggle with tasks such as washing, dressing, eating and going to the toilet. Just over one million pay for care or rely on family and friends with another 850,000 supported by their local councils. But that leaves another one million who have to fend for themselves. The report also warned that community NHS services and GPs were struggling to meet demand from the ageing population. And Age UK warned there were signs this was affecting the health of older people. It cited an 88% rise in hospital admissions for urinary tract infections among the over-75s between 2005-06 and 2013-14 to 4,173 per 100,000. Meanwhile, admissions for pneumonia among the over-60s have more than doubled over the same period to 2,621 per 100,000. Age UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said it was a "destructive vicious circle" where the lack of support was worsening the health of the most vulnerable older people in society. "If an older person asked us today how confident we were that their health and care needs will be met well in the future we would be whistling in the dark if we gave a wholly reassuring answer." But a Department of Health spokeswoman said "significant action" was being taken to improve the support given to older people. She pointed out that all over-75s should now have a named GP to co-ordinate their care, while a £5.3bn pot of money - mainly from NHS funds - has been set aside this year for joint projects between councils and health services. Follow Nick on Twitter.

A million older people in England struggling with everyday tasks, such as washing and dressing, are being left to fend for themselves, campaigners say.

The 22-year-old agreed a four-and-a-half-year deal with the Italian club and completed a medical on Wednesday. Media playback is not supported on this device "I will always have a very special place in my heart for City, it's a great club with a great future," he told the Manchester club's website. "I thank them for all of their support of me. Maybe one day we will see each other again." City signed Balotelli from Inter Milan for £24m in 2010 and he scored 30 goals in 80 appearances for the club. He helped City to the Premier League title last season, but has managed only three goals in 20 matches this time round. "I think to win the Premier League was a very special moment, and I am proud to have been a part of that," he added. The forward also revealed he bid farewell to his team-mates at the pre-match dinner before the 0-0 draw at QPR. I love Roberto, he has been very important for my career, and I will always thank him for having trust and faith in me "Yes, I said goodbye to everyone at the meal in London before the game at Queens Park Rangers. It was very emotional for me," Balotelli continued. "I spoke with [manager] Roberto [Mancini] before I went to speak to the players. We spoke for some time about lots of things. He was sad, and I was too. But it was a good conversation. I love Roberto, he has been very important for my career, and I will always thank him for having trust and faith in me. "Being at City was an important part of my life and career. I needed to grow up like a player and as a person and it has been a very good experience for me." Balotelli flew to Milan by private jet on Wednesday afternoon with the Italian club's vice-president Adriano Galliani. Galliani said: "With his arrival, we have reinforced our team a lot. He's a dream come true, wanted by [AC Milan president Silvio] Berlusconi and the club. "Mario has been in our hearts for many years and finally we've managed to get him." Milan reached an agreement with City on Tuesday and Balotelli will sign a four-and-a-half-year contract, subject to passing his medical.

AC Milan have signed striker Mario Balotelli from Premier League champions Manchester City for £19m.

Media playback is unsupported on your device 10 November 2014 Last updated at 03:26 GMT While there's a big focus on the meetings between some of the world's largest countries, there is a second, parallel conference going on. This one features the CEOs of some of world's largest corporations with big operations in the region, like the US retailing giant Walmart. The BBC's Celia Hatton reports.

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit begins in Beijing today.

Three Victorian hotels will go to make way for a six-storey, four star hotel and two assisted-living apartment blocks, at East Cliff in Bournemouth. English Heritage strongly objected to the scale of the development in what is a designated conservation area. But, councillors voted seven to three in favour saying it would help tourism. Chair of the planning board and Conservative ward councillor David Kelsey, said the buildings earmarked for demolition were nice but no longer "necessarily functional". "They've come to the end of their working lives, we need to preserve the tourism aspect while improving living for older people in the town," he said. "The loss of buildings and trees are always regrettable but we can't stand still, we need to move forward." The site on Grove Road and East Overcliff Drive will get a 90-room hotel along with a nine-storey and seven-storey building, comprising 122 assisted-living apartments. Applicants The East Cliff Project LLP will demolish Bay View Court, The Cottonwood and the Ocean View hotels. The council received 246 letters supporting the plans. Forty-nine residents and the Ancient Monuments Society wrote to object to the demolition, stating that despite being altered, they still "give a sense of the historic character of the area". English Heritage said the scale of the development would cause "severe harm" to the conservation area.

A hotel and apartment complex in Dorset has been approved despite English Heritage stating it would be a "hammer-blow" to the area.

Mr Corbyn told the BBC Labour would consider the question "as a party". Ministers have been talking to Labour MPs to try to persuade them to back intervention ahead of a Commons vote expected by Christmas. Mr Corbyn is against military action, but a number of his MPs support it and may rebel if ordered to vote against. On his first visit to Wales as party leader, Mr Corbyn said the priority should be a political settlement in the war-torn country, in order to "isolate" so-called Islamic State. Asked whether he would allow his MPs a free vote - which means they would not have to follow the chosen party line - he said: "No, we would have to consider it as a party, consider it as a group and decide how we would react at that point, I can't predict at this stage." Events in Syria are "beyond appalling" he said, adding that "there has to be a political solution - all wars end with a political solution". Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed suggestions a UN resolution - which Labour is calling for - would be needed before the UK takes action in Syria. MPs rejected air strikes on Syria in 2013, when the target was President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, but later approved British participation in air strikes against Islamic State extremists in Iraq. The BBC has been told ministers are increasingly confident they will have the numbers to secure Commons backing to extend the campaign into Syria. Mr Cameron has said he will set out a detailed case for intervention and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is planning to brief Labour MPs collectively at an open meeting. Some Labour MPs have already said they will refuse to vote with Mr Corbyn if ordered to oppose air strikes.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not allow his MPs a free vote on whether to extend UK air strikes into Syria.

Match ends, Macclesfield Town 0, Dover Athletic 0. Second Half ends, Macclesfield Town 0, Dover Athletic 0. Corner, Dover Athletic. Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Chris Sutherland replaces Chris Holroyd. Substitution, Dover Athletic. Duane Ofori-Acheampong replaces Ricky Miller. Attempt missed. Kristian Dennis (Macclesfield Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Corner, Macclesfield Town. Corner, Dover Athletic. Kristian Dennis (Macclesfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, Dover Athletic. Liam Bellamy replaces Sean Raggett. Corner, Dover Athletic. Foul by John McCombe (Macclesfield Town). Nicky Deverdics (Dover Athletic) wins a free kick. Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Kristian Dennis replaces Reece Styche. Sean Raggett (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Sean Raggett (Dover Athletic). Danny M. Rowe (Macclesfield Town) wins a free kick. Foul by Nicky Deverdics (Dover Athletic). Danny M. Rowe (Macclesfield Town) wins a free kick. George Pilkington (Macclesfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by George Pilkington (Macclesfield Town). Nicky Deverdics (Dover Athletic) wins a free kick. Foul by Jack Parkinson (Dover Athletic). Danny Whitaker (Macclesfield Town) wins a free kick. Corner, Macclesfield Town. Attempt missed. Chris Holroyd (Macclesfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Second Half begins Macclesfield Town 0, Dover Athletic 0. First Half ends, Macclesfield Town 0, Dover Athletic 0. Corner, Dover Athletic. Foul by Nicky Deverdics (Dover Athletic). David Fitzpatrick (Macclesfield Town) wins a free kick. Reece Styche (Macclesfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Richard Orlu (Dover Athletic) is shown the red card. Foul by Richard Orlu (Dover Athletic). Reece Styche (Macclesfield Town) wins a free kick. Attempt saved. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved. Attempt saved. Stefan Payne (Dover Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved. Attempt saved. Stefan Payne (Dover Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved. Assisted by Sean Raggett with a cross. Attempt saved. Danny M. Rowe (Macclesfield Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved. Offside, Macclesfield Town. Chris Holroyd tries a through ball, but Chris Holroyd is caught offside. The decision was taken following an early morning inspection when standing water was found on the playing surface. "As a result of standing water on the pitch and the forecasted heavy rain the game has been postponed," said a statement on the Macclesfield website. A new date for the fixture has yet to be agreed.

The National League game between Macclesfield Town and Dover Athletic has been called off because of a waterlogged pitch.

The incident happened on the 20:14 service, between Keith and Elgin, on Friday 16 June at about 21:20. The suspect - believed to be travelling with about seven other men - then got off the train at Elgin. He was white, about 25, and 6ft tall. He was wearing a black and white top and sunglasses. Det Con Nick Ritchie, of British Transport Police, said: "No-one has the right to treat another person like that. "We're determined to stamp out this kind of behaviour from our rail network, so please, if you know this man, let us know." Anyone with information can text 61016 or call 0800 40 50 40, quoting reference 682 of 16 June.

An appeal for witnesses has been made after a woman was inappropriately touched on a train travelling between Aberdeen and Inverness.

Ross Thomson and Graham Simpson filled in a giant ballot paper outside Holyrood to underline their support for the Vote Leave campaign. Fellow Tory MSP Margaret Mitchell also backs Brexit, but party leader Ruth Davidson is in favour of remaining in. Meanwhile, the Scottish remain campaign highlighted how much research funding universities receive from the EU. Campaigning outside the Scottish Parliament alongside Scottish Vote Leave director and former Labour MP Tom Harris, the two newly-elected MSPs underlined their support for Brexit. Mr Thomson said that with moves towards further centralisation, "Europe is going in a direction that Britain can't follow". He said: "I think if we had a Europe where there was real reform and was focused again on our trading relationship, that's something I could have supported. But I just feel that at the moment, the direction of travel in the EU is about further political centralisation, further political union. "I've always been fairly Eurosceptic, but when the Prime Minister said he was going to have a referendum and get a better deal it was something I was really keen on, and in fairness to him he put a Herculean effort in. "But I'm concerned that there's no treaty change. I'm concerned that heads of state are temporary - if the German chancellor loses an election or isn't returned, and the same with the other heads of state, that negotiation we've achieved isn't long-term." Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has voiced support for the UK remaining in the EU, but Mr Thomson said she was "really relaxed" about her MSPs taking the opposite view. He added: "She said, 'I've made a personal decision based on my experience - I want to stay in but I respect that you and others will make their own personal decision'. "Ruth is really relaxed, saying we're going to have a grown-up, adult debate about the facts and our visions for the future, and I look forward to engaging in that properly." Meanwhile, the Scotland Stronger in Europe campaign have been highlighting the contribution the EU makes to university research funding. Writing in the Herald newspaper, Glasgow University principal Prof Anton Muscatelli said there was "unequivocal" evidence that "universities in Scotland and the UK benefit massively from our membership of the EU". He said: "Scotland's universities receive £88.8m a year from EU sources, which is about 13% of our total research funding. "This includes research to fight malaria, research on space, and vital medical research which benefits us all." Dundee University principal Prof Pete Downes has also warned of an impact on funding from Brexit, saying universities would be "impoverished" by a vote to leave the EU. Scotland Stronger in Europe spokesman John Edward said: "Being in the EU is clearly fundamental to pan-European academic collaborations and the success of Scotland's universities, which in turn underpins jobs and investment."

Two new Conservative MSPs have joined the campaign for the UK to leave the European Union.

Bendtner required oxygen as he was carried off the field on a stretcher, having landed awkwardly in a collision with Blues defender Michael Morrison. The Dane had set up Eric Lichaj to open the scoring and Apostolos Vellios made it 2-0 from Henri Lansbury's cross. Lukas Jutkiewicz headed a goal back for Blues but Hildeberto Pereira finished Ben Osborn's low pass to seal victory. A Birmingham win could have taken Gary Rowett's side as high as second in the table, but their first away loss of the league campaign means they may be outside the top six by the time they host Rotherham on Tuesday. Lichaj's powerful angled shot, the defender's first goal for almost a year, lit up a flat first half at the City Ground. The only other talking point before the interval was Lansbury's disallowed free-kick, with referee Jeremy Simpson initially awarding a goal and then reversing his decision following consultation with his assistant. Forest's win came hours after owner Fawaz Al Hasawi announced he is close to agreeing a deal to sell the club. Al Hasawi, who took control of Forest in 2012, would not reveal the identity of the buyers but BBC Sport understands that a United States consortium, led by millionaire John Jay Moores, is on the verge of securing a £50m deal. Head coach Philippe Montanier told BBC Radio Nottingham: "I enjoyed the victory. We've worked hard during the international break and we applied what we worked on during that period. "Bendtner's injury is a bad point of this evening. We don't know how serious it is. I hope it is not very serious. "When you go off on a stretcher, you always worry. We hope to have more news on Saturday." Birmingham manager Gary Rowett told BBC WM: "We weren't anywhere near the standards we've set so far this season, certainly in the first half. We were a little bit too predictable. "We wanted to do much better in the second half and there was a real determination to do that. We ended up at 2-1 and we looked as though we had put them under some real pressure. "I wasn't overly happy with one or two decisions, but I thought Forest deserved it. They showed more energy and desire." Match ends, Nottingham Forest 3, Birmingham City 1. Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 3, Birmingham City 1. Henri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Stephen Gleeson (Birmingham City). Foul by Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City). Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City). Thomas Lam (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. David Cotterill (Birmingham City) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top centre of the goal. Hildeberto Pereira (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card. Diego Fabbrini (Birmingham City) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Hildeberto Pereira (Nottingham Forest). Diego Fabbrini (Birmingham City) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Hildeberto Pereira (Nottingham Forest). Attempt missed. Henri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ben Osborn. Attempt missed. Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Reece Brown. Foul by Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City). Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Reece Brown (Birmingham City). Chris Cohen (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Birmingham City. Reece Brown replaces David Davis. David Davis (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by David Davis (Birmingham City). Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City). Chris Cohen (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the left wing. Goal! Nottingham Forest 3, Birmingham City 1. Hildeberto Pereira (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Osborn with a cross. Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Thomas Lam replaces Mustapha Carayol. Foul by Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City). Chris Cohen (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City). Vladimir Stojkovic (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Paul Robinson (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Paul Robinson (Birmingham City). Mustapha Carayol (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the right wing. Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Hildeberto Pereira replaces Armand Traore. Attempt missed. Michael Morrison (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Lukas Jutkiewicz with a headed pass. Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Vladimir Stojkovic. Attempt saved. Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom left corner. Diego Fabbrini (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Nottingham Forest beat Birmingham but their 3-1 win was marred by an injury suffered by striker Nicklas Bendtner.

Growing up in diamond-rich eastern Sierra Leone, it was the natural thing to do. Jobs were, and still are, few and far between, so the gemstones were a magnet. They persuaded many to drop out of school, but I worked as a miner mostly during school holidays and sometimes at weekends. The Kono District was densely populated because the sparkling stones could be found virtually everywhere, sometimes through sheer luck. My parents joined thousands of people from across the country, as well as The Gambia, Mali, Senegal and even Lebanon, to go to Kono in the hope of making a quick fortune. Blistered palms I grew up there and my work as a miner was hard. I dug the river beds for gravel and extracted the often muddy earth looking for diamonds. The pickaxes and shovels would blister my palms and the sieve would harden or even deaden my fingers, often breaking my fingernails. And because I had to also lift sacks full of dry red tropical gravel, my head and neck were almost always in pain. Diamond deposits were sometimes so close to the surface in parts of Kono that it was common for people to pick up tiny gemstones that had been loosened by a heavy downpour. I found a tiny stone once or twice in my birthplace, Bumpeh. I did not know their true worth, but got enough money to see me through for about a week. 1. Cullinan Diamond, found in South Africa in 1905, weighed 3,107 carats 2. Lesedi La Rona, found in Botswana in 2015, weighed 1,111 carats 3. Excelsior Diamond, found in South Africa in 1893, weighed 995 carats 4. Star of Sierra Leone, found in Sierra Leone in 1972, weighed 969 carats 5. Incomparable Diamond, found in DR Congo in 1984, weighed 890 carats Source: Mathew Nyaungwa, Rough and Polished After doing my school-leaving exams, I took to full-scale mining to help pay for my university studies. Apart from mining in Kono, I also went to Tongo Fields in neighbouring Kenema District. There, I discovered that the life of an artisanal miner was like that of an indentured labourer. Diamond diggers generally had two layers of sponsorship, and still do. The Group of Geng, or Gang, is what the diggers are called. In language which harks back to the days of slavery, each group has a Master who looks over them. He is also in charge of providing food, accommodation and medicine. But when I was there, conditions were such that only one square meal a day was assured - and please do not ask how the sauce tasted. We often slept on the floor of a room or veranda, with bedbugs and mosquitoes biting us in turns. As for health care, Panadol was all we would get if we fell ill. Then there was the Supporter - the person who would provide the funds for the Master. We rarely got to know him personally. He tended to be a big businessman or diamond dealer, and he provided us with tools and monthly allowances. Like me, most diggers did not know - and still do not know - the real value of their diamonds. So, it was easy for the Master and the Supporter to connive and dupe us about the price. There is a group known as Gado Geng. They prefer to sponsor themselves and sell their diamonds on their own. But my three-member team had a Master. We worked on a licensed plot. However, one day, we went to do illicit mining at an abandoned site belonging to the then state-owned National Diamond Mining Company. Two of us were on the sieve, the third shovelling the pile of gravel. I was busy shaking the sieve under the water to wash the mud off the stones. Then I saw a sparkling object right in the middle of the sieve. I was not sure if it was a diamond or corundum, a sparkling stone that has little value. I brought up the sieve, to be sure. I went straight to the spot to try to separate it from the rest of the stones and sand. My heart pounded. I excitedly muttered to my colleagues: "Na diamond," a Krio phrase for "It's a diamond". I made sure that I did not say it loudly for fear that someone in the distance would hear me. My colleague, Yarpo, dropped the bucket and shovel to verify my find. He agreed that it was a diamond. We flung the tools away and dashed into the tall swampy grass. We then fled before anyone could catch us. Obviously, we kept our Master in the dark and sold the two-carat diamond to a local dealer for 100,000 leone. I am not sure how many US dollars that was worth in 1991, but it was a lot of money. I was the youngest, but the other two diggers treated me fairly. We split the money, and they gave me 34,000 leone, a little more than my share. Unlike many other diamond diggers, I did not waste any of it on buying brightly-coloured sneakers, jeans, shirts or cassette players. I had a clear idea what I was going to do with it - pay my first year university fee of around 24,000 leone. Dream fulfilled As I was still awaiting my school exam results, I gave the money to my aunt to add to her capital and do some business. I went back to concentrate on mining, but it turned out to be the last time that fortune would smile on me as a digger. I always wanted to become a journalist as I was born with the BBC World Service blaring in our home. My dad, who never went to school, was addicted to it. And there were old newspapers and magazines lined up under his mattress and piled up elsewhere in his tiny bedroom. However, Sierra Leone's Fourah Bay College did not offer journalism at the time. So, my instinct told me to study English and French for an international edge. I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and went on to work as journalist. Like me, my children have grown up with the BBC World Service , except that my voice is among the voices that they hear.

In my teens, I worked as an artisanal miner, waist deep in water, sieving the gravel to find a diamond.

But now, for the first time, the dirt has been dug up by archaeologists eager to find out more about our ancestors. Perhaps the most interesting find has been the foundations of a house dating back to the 1300s. The archaeologists said it is a hugely significant find, opening another door into the past and allowing us to learn more about how people used to live. A flint scraper, used by people living more than 3,000 years ago, was also found. It would have been used to scrape animal skins, and as a sort of tool for eating food. The dig was organised by the Belfast Hills Partnership and Queen's University Belfast. First-year archaeology students were given their first chance to explore an ancient site. Some of those taking part said it had made them even more eager to follow this career path. The dig has been going on for several weeks, but at the end of next week it will all be covered up again and restored to how it was before the archaeologists dug their trowels into the previously untouched land. Lizzy Pinkerton from the Belfast Hills Partnership said they want to make sure it remains in good condition. They will now analyse all of the data and artefacts they have found. It is unclear how many other potted sites like the one in Slievenacloy are waiting to be explored all over Northern Ireland, but the enthusiastic archaeologists say they are determined to find out.

From the neolithic to the medieval period, a host of historical artefacts have been hiding in the Belfast hills.

Noel Conway, who is 67 and has motor neurone disease, wants a doctor to be allowed to prescribe a lethal dose when his health deteriorates further. He said he wanted to say goodbye to loved ones "at the right time, not to be in a zombie-like condition suffering both physically and psychologically". Any doctor who helped him to die would face up to 14 years in prison. Mr Conway was too weak to attend the court in person. His lawyer, Richard Gordon QC, told the High Court in London that Mr Conway faced a stark choice either to seek to bring about his own death now whilst still physically able to do so, or await death with no control over how and when it comes. Mr Gordon said the change to the law that Mr Conway wanted would apply only to adults who are terminally ill with less than six months to live and who have a settled wish to die. Mr Conway, of Shrewsbury, told the BBC: "I will be quadriplegic. I could be virtually catatonic and conceivably be in a locked-in syndrome - that to me would be a living hell. That prospect is one I cannot accept." MPs reject 'right to die' law British man dies at Dignitas centre Assisted dying debate: The key questions Mr Conway, a retired college lecturer, was once fit and active but motor neurone disease is gradually destroying all strength in his muscles. He cannot walk and increasingly relies on a ventilator to help him breathe. As his disease progresses, he fears becoming entombed in his body. Mr Conway is being supported by the campaign group Dignity in Dying, but the issue polarises opinion. Baroness Jane Campbell - a disability rights campaigner - says changing the law would send all the wrong signals. The last major challenge to the law was turned down by the Supreme Court three years ago. It ruled that while judges could interpret the law it was up to Parliament to decide whether to change it. In 2015 MPs rejected proposals to allow assisted dying in England and Wales, in their first vote on the issue in almost 20 years. Supporters of the current legislation say it exists to protect the weak and vulnerable from being exploited or coerced. The case is expected to take up to four days. Assisted suicide - helping or encouraging another person to kill themselves - is illegal under English law. Under the terms of the Suicide Act (1961) for England and Wales, it is punishable by up to 14 year's imprisonment. In Scotland, helping someone take their own life could lead to prosecution. There have been several unsuccessful attempts to change the law, as well as some high-profile cases that have challenged it. 2001: Diane Pretty, who had motor neurone disease, fought a long, and unsuccessfully, legal battle to win the right for her to end her life. She took her case to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that her husband should be given immunity from prosecution should he help her to die. She lost and died at a hospice near her home in 2002. 2009: Debbie Purdy, who had multiple sclerosis, won a landmark ruling in 2009 when the courts agreed that it was a breach of her human rights not to know whether her husband would be prosecuted if he accompanied her to a Swiss clinic where she could end her life. That prompted Keir Starmer - the then Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales - to publish guidelines setting out what was taken into consideration when weighing up a prosecution. Debbie died in a hospice in England in 2014. 2012: Two men suffering from locked-in syndrome lost their legal fight to be helped to die. Tony Nicklinson and a man known only as Martin - both left paralysed after a stroke - had argued that doctors should be allowed to end their lives without punishment. Martin argued that the DPP policy on encouraging or assisted suicide was not clear enough for people such as carers to know how they could provide assistance without the risk of being prosecuted. Tony Nicklinson died in August 2012 after refusing food. 2016: The family of deceased locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson and paralysed road accident victim Paul Lamb lose their right-to-die challenges at the European Court of Human rights. They campaigned that disabled people should have the right to be helped to die with dignity.

The High Court has begun hearing the legal challenge of a terminally ill UK man who wants the right to die.

The winning proposal will be "connected to" the University of Chicago, although the site has not been decided on yet, NBC in Chicago reports. The president was a law professor at the university and still has a home on the city's South Side. The library will store his papers and help frame his legacy as president. A formal announcement will be made the week after next, reports CBS. It says the president indicated he was leaning towards choosing his hometown in a recent phone call with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, once his closest adviser at the White House. Mr Obama met his wife, First Lady Michelle, when working at a law firm in the city in 1989. The losing cities also have strong connections to the Obama story - he grew up in Hawaii and attended Columbia University in New York. The other Chicago bid that completed the shortlist of four was from the University of Illinois. The 13 presidential libraries - spanning from Herbert Hoover to George W Bush - are administered by the US National Archives. Former President Bill Clinton's presidential library is in Little Rock and George W Bush has one at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. All five living presidents gathered for the dedication of the Bush library in 2013, a ceremony that moved Mr Bush to tears.

Chicago has beaten New York City and Hawaii as the chosen location for President Barack Obama's library, according to US media.

Wildsmith, a product of the club's academy, has made 18 appearances for the Owls in all competitions. The 21-year-old had a loan spell with then-League One side Barnsley in 2015, making two appearances. "I'm delighted to sign for the club long term, it's great that the club believe in me and see me as part of the future," he told the club website.

Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Joe Wildsmith has signed a new deal to stay with the Championship side until 2022.

A consultation prompted 620 responses, with 98% saying owners should clean up after pets and 69% saying dogs should be excluded from play areas. But 70% did not want to see dogs excluded from beaches. The council's environmental and public protection scrutiny committee will consider proposals on Monday.

Plans that could see owners compelled to put their dogs on a lead and a ban on the animals in playgrounds will be discussed by Carmarthenshire council.

The 25-year-old has been with Carlisle since 2008, making 160 appearances for the club and turned down a new deal to join the Saddlers. "We knew he was after a new challenge. He can come in and be a dominant number one for us," Walsall manager Jon Whitney told the club website. Meanwhile, 22-year-old goalkeeper Liam Roberts has agreed a new one-year deal. The contract signed by former Chester loanee Roberts, who has made one senior appearance for Walsall, includes the option of a further year in the League One club's favour. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Walsall have signed goalkeeper Mark Gillespie on a two-year contract from Carlisle United on a free transfer.

The tourists face three one-day internationals and three Twenty20 matches after a 4-0 Test series defeat. The batting line-up for Sunday's first ODI in Pune is expected to be Alex Hales, Jason Roy, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Eoin Morgan and Jos Buttler. "There's a couple of wickets there for the spinners," said Swann. "We play spin horrifically on the whole." The tourists, who are without a one-day international series victory in India since 1984, have won one and lost one of their warm-up matches against India A - the defeat coming after they slipped from 116-1 to 165-6 when batting first in Mumbai. Bairstow top-scored with 64 in that second match and he disputes Swann's assertion that England will struggle with the bat. "Everyone has different methods for batting against seam and spin," said the Yorkshire wicketkeeper. "We scored a lot of runs in the Test series - posting 500 once and 400 twice. "And in these warm-ups we've scored around 300 in both matches despite the collapses, so I don't think we're far off to be honest." Swann, speaking to BBC Test Match Special, did exempt Bairstow and Root from his criticism while conceding that a limited-overs tour of India is one of the hardest assignments in world cricket. "It's not a very pleasant experience," said the 37-year-old. "I don't think I ever won there. "The teams I played in were clueless in how to cope with the noise, the intensity, the armed guards. "I remember being on the tour that ended because of the attacks in Mumbai. In a weird way, it was a relief that we could go home - we were getting hammered left, right and centre. "The crowds definitely play a part - you can't hear yourself think for three and a half hours. It envelops you. "When you get back into the changing room - it's like a day spa. There's total silence." India will be led by star batsman Virat Kohli, who replaces World Cup-winning captain MS Dhoni, in the three-match ODI series which also includes matches in Cuttack (19 January) and Kolkata (22 January). Dhoni will, however, remain in the team as a wicketkeeper-batsman, with the 35-year-old warming up for the challenge with an unbeaten 68 off 40 balls for India A in England's first warm-up game earlier in the week. Only Dhoni's fellow Indians Suresh Raina and Yuvraj Singh and Australia's Dean Jones have a better one-day average in home conditions against England than him. "You could sense experience dripping off MS Dhoni," said Swann. "He'd never panic, even when the required rate reached eight or nine an over. "He'd just smack 20 off an over without breaking sweat. "Over there, the grounds are tiny and the outfields are rapid. What we construed as being a big score - 270 or 280 - they'd just knock off in no time whatsoever. "Virat Kohli was born to play ODI cricket and MS Dhoni is the best finisher I've ever seen." While Swann is fearful of another series defeat for England, he is glad to see the fresh outlook that has been adopted under captain Morgan. Swann, who played at the 2011 World Cup, says he belonged to a "dinosaur" age of one-day cricket in England and says the team were "backward in their thinking" and "arrogant". It is only since a chastening early exit at the 2015 World Cup that England have adopted a more positive gameplan that has seen them twice pass 400 in 50 overs. "They've finally got all the youngsters playing who think nothing is impossible," said Swann. "The likes of Ben Stokes, Jason Roy and Alex Hales have never thought 280 was a good score. They happily think 400 is gettable. "They also have a coach who encourages aggressive cricket."

England's batsmen will continue to fail in India if they persist in playing slow bowling "horrifically", says their former off-spinner Graeme Swann.

The pledges are included in the party's five-year plan for government. Increased free child care and more apprenticeships are promised, along with an M4 relief road and a South Wales Metro public transport network. Plaid Cymru said the programme was "lacklustre", while the Conservatives said Labour had let Wales down. The most expensive commitments cover 30 hours of free childcare a week over 48 weeks for parents of three and four-year-olds, and 100,000 apprenticeships open to people of all ages. The programme covers what the Welsh Government will try to achieve, while the first indication of what will be cut will emerge when its draft budget is published in October. The main pledges include: A Welsh Government source said there had been a "full and frank assessment of every pound, shilling and pence that we spend" in light of the financial uncertainty surrounding Brexit. He added: "Some tough decisions will have to be made in the first year. "Salami slicing is not going to get the job done this time round. There will be areas and programmes that will be cut." Responding to the claims on BBC Radio Wales, the first minister said: "There are going to be cuts... I'm not going to pretend otherwise. "Of course, our budget is shrinking, it has been for many years and that means very difficult decisions have to be taken. "We are going to have to look at some of the schemes we have delivered for many, many years and make a judgement." A programme, called Taking Wales Forward, reflects many of the pledges outlined in Labour's manifesto for the Welsh Assembly election in May. Mr Jones said Labour would see through its election promises, including building an M4 relief road and a South Wales Metro. He said: "The UK's withdrawal from the European Union creates some uncertainty and challenges, but our mandate is clear. "The Welsh Government's relentless focus will be on driving improvement in our economy and public services, which are together the bedrock of people's daily lives. On local government reform, Mr Jones said many services would have to be delivered "on a wider basis" in future, but he would not say whether this meant council mergers were still on the cards. Plaid Cymru AM Rhun ap Iorwerth said the programme for government portrayed the "gulf" between the two parties. That was despite pledges that were part of a deal struck in return for allowing Carwyn Jones to be re-elected as first minister back in May. "It should come as no surprise that a lacklustre manifesto has led to a lacklustre programme for government," said Mr ap Iorwerth. "Yes, it's good to see the elements that Plaid Cymru drove through in our post-election one-off agreement, including a pledge to create 100,000 new apprenticeships and a new drugs and treatments fund, but Labour's lack of innovative ideas shines through again." As the official opposition in the assembly, Plaid said it would be "challenging Labour to do better". The Conservatives said it was "difficult to disagree" with the plans but said Labour had "let Wales down" since devolution. Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "As usual we are left with little by way of detail, and Carwyn Jones's claim that Wales is punching above its weight is delusional. "In spite of our many and varied talents, the evidence suggests that the exact opposite is true. "Under Labour, the Welsh education system ranks behind Vietnam; large swathes of Wales are poorer than parts of Bulgaria, Romania and Poland; and Welsh NHS waiting times are the longest in the UK. "If the Labour Party thinks that Wales punching above its weight, then they have a very low opinion of our country indeed." Janet Jones, Wales policy chair for the Federation of Small Businesses, said: "We welcome the commitment in the Programme for Government to supporting innovation and providing additional support for businesses. "Key to that commitment must be a new economic development strategy which meets the challenges facing the Welsh economy in the coming five years. "That strategy needs to contain fresh thinking and should place a focus on growing small firms into the successful and grounded medium-sized businesses that Wales needs to put our economy on a stronger footing." Brexit will cast uncertainty over the next five years, says Carwyn Jones. But as someone who campaigned for a Remain vote, he is bound to talk up the risks - as he sees them - of leaving the EU. Whatever comes from Brexit, we know for certain there are plenty of hurdles that will make life difficult for Mr Jones if he is to deliver this five-year programme. Labour has no majority in the Senedd. Today's statement is a chance for him to explain how he will make Labour's manifesto a reality. But in doing so, he must keep other parties on side to maintain his grip on power. And we know there will be growing pressure on the Welsh Government budget. More cuts loom and sources close to the first minister say they have already had to wield the axe to raise the funds necessary to pay for expensive manifesto pledges.

Labour will keep its election promises despite uncertainty over Brexit, but cuts to some services are inevitable, the first minister has warned.

Police Scotland's dog branch and air support unit have been deployed in the Irvine area in an effort to trace Gordon Speirs. His disappearance was said to be totally out of character. Mr Speirs is described as being 5ft 10in tall, of medium build, with red hair and blue eyes. At the time of his disappearance he was wearing navy coloured combat trousers, a black waterproof jacket and timberland boots. Insp David Carballo of Ayrshire Police Division said: "This is totally out of character for Gordon and his family are understandably very worried. "With the deteriorating weather conditions and concerns for his health, we are keen to have him back home safely as soon as possible. "I am appealing to anyone who may have seen him or indeed for Gordon himself to contact us by calling 101."

Police have launched an extensive search for a 53-year-old man who has been missing from his home in North Ayrshire since Thursday morning.

The 35-year-old joined the Iron from Blackpool in 2013 and has made 119 league appearances for the League One side. He helped them to a third-placed finish this season, before they were beaten by Millwall in the play-off semi-finals. Bishop told the club website: "With the way the season finished, it's a sense of unfinished business and it was disappointing for all of us."

Scunthorpe midfielder Neal Bishop has signed a one-year contract extension.

The crash happened outside Castle Bytham, south of Grantham, on Wednesday afternoon. The 73-year-old pilot, from Thurnby, Leicestershire, is being treated for back and leg injuries. A 52-year-old tanker driver was treated for minor injuries and the 61-year-old occupant of the property was unhurt. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has said it is aware of the incident and is making inquiries. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said the man who lives in the bungalow was in the garden and pushed the tanker driver out of the way, to prevent them both being hit. The pilot became stuck in the plane, which was embedded in the building, and the aircraft's landing gear broke off and landed on a bed. A police guard remains in place at the bungalow while recovery work is carried out. Pete Wiles, from the fire service, said: "If they hadn't moved... they would have been hit. "It's a fairly miraculous escape... there's an overhead power line nearby which it missed as well."

An investigation into how a small plane narrowly avoided two men and then struck a bungalow on a farm in Lincolnshire is continuing.

Haile Gebrselassie - Olympic gold medallist, winner of more than 20 sporting records, businessman and activist - pulled out of his first appearance at the New York marathon with a knee injury and told journalists afterwards that he was quitting competitive sports. Ethiopian state television carried the announcement on Monday morning. "We love Haile very much, every Ethiopian loves him," Eyoseyas Daniel, 23, told the BBC on the streets of the capital Addis Ababa. He said he was sorry to hear of Haile's retirement and that he hoped he would reconsider. "He is our hero and I don't think there is any runner who runs like him and I don't think any runner who will come like him. He is just a hero." Abebe Abebaw said he was a model for the country, while another Addis Ababa resident Walelgn Tamir recalled how he had been at the forefront of Ethiopia's long-distance running rivalry with neighbouring Kenya. But he recognised that Gebrselassie's career could not go on for ever. "He is getting old, older and older, so it is getting difficult after this time for him because of age," he said. Haile Gebrselassie, 37, leaves the sport he dominated for the last two decades with a string of records. But he has also made a name for himself outside the sporting world, as a businessman, educator, philanthropist and art collector. He and his wife, Alem, have three daughters and one son. He told a local magazine last year that he would like his children to become runners, to achieve more than he has and to make their own names. The couple also own a construction business and built the country's first private cinema, which shows only Ethiopian films. Alem Cinema is in the same building that houses the gym where he trains, Alem Fitness Centre. He has built and owns two schools, and his resort in the southern tourist town of Hawassa opened earlier this year. Gebrselassie's influence even stretches into politics. He is one of the Elders, a group of Ethiopians who have mediated in political crises in the country since 2005. The Elders helped negotiate the release of the people imprisoned in the aftermath of the bitterly-disputed 2005 parliamentary election. They also helped broker the pardon and release last month of the opposition leader, Birtukan Mideksa. Gebrselassie apparently allowed Ms Birtukan to recuperate at his resort, free of charge, with her mother and young daughter. He is aware that his achievements in sports have made him an international legend, and told me last year that he would use that platform to make a difference in the world. And so, beyond national politics, Gebrselassie is involved in international campaigns against climate change and malaria. He feels strongly that athletes must be taught to manage their finances, and spent one week last November training with and mentoring young runners. Ten years ago, he founded the Great Ethiopian Run, which has since become known as Africa's biggest road race. The contest is open to amateur and professional runners and is recognised as a show of talent from the continent's next generation of runners. So beloved is Gebrselassie in Ethiopia that in 2001, the country's best known musician Tedi Afro composed a song in his honour and with his name. Given his status both nationally and beyond, there are some who believe that Gebrselassie may not have finished running - but that his next race may well be a political one.

News of the retirement of one of Ethiopia's national icons caught most in the country unawares.

The Windsor attraction has been busy during half term. One visitor told the BBC his family queued for more than two hours as they tried to leave the park. Legoland said it had spent more than £10,000 in the last year developing alternative entrance and exit routes. Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council said road signs had been altered recently to prevent traffic travelling through the centre of Windsor. "The problem is Legoland is very popular," said councillor Colin Rayner, cabinet member for transport. "I'll be working very closely with the park to ensure the system we've developed is working. We want to support them as it does bring a lot of employment and business to the area." Ian Calkin, from Croydon, took his two children to the park on Wednesday. "We left at 6pm when the park closed and were ready to go 10 minutes later," he said. "But, we didn't get through the car park barriers to scan our exit pass until well after eight o'clock. "It was then another 30 minutes before we hit the main roads." Legoland said it had worked incredibly hard with the council over recent years on traffic management and would continue to do so. "We understand a delayed exit from the car park would be frustrating," a spokesman said. "We have employed a number of additional staff to help and provided guests with instructions to turn right out of the park to utilise the new routes."

Legoland has apologised to people who have spent hours stuck in its car park.

Officials at Grade II listed Guildford Cathedral said last year it was at risk because of deteriorating plasterwork, which contained asbestos. A £7m fundraising campaign was launched and now has only £500,000 left to meet the final target. Preparatory work will begin next month before building starts in October. The building, which is the last Church of England cathedral to be consecrated on a new site, is visible for miles from its Stag Hill location. Earlier this month, the cathedral was awarded a £4.6m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It has also raised funds from donations and a "buy a brick" campaign, which more than 200,000 people took part in. "Guildford Cathedral is a unique and vital community resource that brings people together," Mayor of Guildford David Elms, told a benefactor reception on Tuesday. "So many have already responded - because saving the cathedral matters." Repairs and improvements will include restoration of the cathedral's organ, better disabled access, new lighting and sound system and making its archive materials more easily available to the public.

A 1960s-built cathedral that was "at serious risk of closure" has raised more than 90% of its £7m target for urgent repairs and development.

Two other injured men were taken to hospital, where a 25-year-old with knife wounds is in a critical condition, West Midlands police said. A 22-year-old is being treated for gunshot injuries that are not thought to be life-threatening. Four of the arrested men are suspected of violent disorder, and the fifth man of possessing a class-A drug. The dead man has been named locally as Ikram Elahi. One witness claimed "about 200 to 300 lads" had gathered in the area around Stratford Road in Sparkbrook prior to the killing on Wednesday evening. 'Pool of blood' The A34 Stratford Road was closed throughout Thursday morning but reopened at lunchtime. Farm Road and Grantham Road remain sealed off as part of the police investigation. Supt Bas Javid, from Birmingham East Police, said it was unsettling for communities when guns or knives are used. "There is nothing to suggest there will be any further issues," he said. "We would encourage people not to speculate and I would reiterate that there is nothing to suggest this will spark any further disorder." Following a private meeting held for residents at the Christ Church centre on Sampson Road, Mohammed Ashraf, a member of the Sparkbrook Faith Forum, said: "We urge all families to look carefully into their hearts in this holy month of Ramadan and hand in any information they have. "Any individuals involved in this, could they please report to the police." One shopkeeper, who did not want to be named, said he had been leaving the area on a bus when he spotted the scene. "I saw a man lying in a pool of blood by the side of the road," he said. "People were surrounding him and trying to help. I didn't understand what I was seeing, whether he had been shot or stabbed. "It has made me scared. I'm worried about my shop." Ann Taylor, who lives locally, said she also was worried about the area: "I'm not surprised what happened here really, it's not very nice. "I'm not very happy now. I feel like I can't go out at night any more. " A second shopkeeper, who also did not want to give his name, said he had been locking up for the day at about 19:20 when he saw a "large group" had gathered. "There were about 200 to 300 lads hanging around, it was a large number," he said. "Then after that lots of police came down. He added: "It does happen around here, groups fighting among themselves. "You do see large groups of young lads hanging around, but it doesn't usually escalate to this kind of violence." Birmingham City Councillor Mariam Khan said: "Any loss of life is a waste, especially young life." She said, as chair of the social cohesion and community safety committee on the council, she would look closely at issues around gun and knife crime and "focus on what makes young people turn to violence". Parish priest of the Small Heath area of Birmingham, Father Oliver Coss, offered his condolences and said: "The only thing we harvest from the guns and knives on our streets is another generation of orphans and widows." A post-mortem examination will take place in due course to determine the cause of death, officers said.

Five men remain in police custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old man in Birmingham.

Jamie Vardy's crisp finish from a lightning break gave Leicester the lead on 18 minutes - but he was then sent off after getting a second yellow card for diving when he tangled with Angelo Ogbonna early in the second half. Referee Jonathan Moss made himself even more unpopular when he awarded West Ham a penalty with six minutes left. There had been pushing and pulling in both penalty areas but he decided to punish Wes Morgan for pulling back Winston Reid at a corner. Analysis: MOTD2 pundits on referee's 'mind-boggling inconsistencies' Substitute Andy Carroll slotted home to end Leicester's run of 574 minutes without conceding a league goal and Aaron Cresswell looked to have opened the door to the Foxes' title rivals Spurs with a stunning left-footed finish two minutes later. As the game went into injury time, Moss produced another controversial decision when he pointed to the spot once more after Carroll made the merest contact with Jeff Schlupp. West Ham clearly felt Moss had evened things up after earlier decisions in their favour, but Ulloa was not concerned as he took the chance to secure what might yet be a vital point - although Leicester will be without Vardy for next weekend's home game with Swansea. Relive the action from the King Power Stadium Leicester's fans celebrated at the end before turning their anger on referee Moss - although it was his very questionable decision that allowed them to earn that point at the end. Psychologically, this point could be vital because a loss might just have produced a few doubts and given Spurs just a little more wiggle room going into their game at Stoke on Monday. It means Leicester's last Premier League defeat is still that last-minute loss at Arsenal on Valentine's Day and their spirits will be lifted by the manner in which they earned a point when it seemed certain they would end up empty-handed. Referee Moss was surrounded by players of both sides and escorted from the field by stewards to jeering from the home fans at the final whistle. Moss's eventful second half began after 56 minutes when he penalised Vardy for simulation as he tumbled theatrically under a challenge from Ogbonna. Having already given Vardy a yellow card, he felt obliged to give a second. Vardy made the most of the contact and ran the risk of punishment. And he has been accused of doing this before this season. Opinion was split but plenty felt Moss was right. For West Ham's penalty, there was undoubtedly pulling and pushing between Morgan and Winston Reid - so again Moss had justification. The difficulty, the inconsistency, is that similar behaviour had been going on in both penalty areas all afternoon without punishment - so why did Moss decide this was the time to penalise it? Too often, these decisions seem arbitrary, as was demonstrated when Ogbonna dragged Huth to the floor even more unceremoniously a few minutes later and no foul was given. Finally, in injury time and with an atmosphere of chaos engulfing the game, Moss pointed to the spot for the slightest touch from Carroll on Schlupp. It was incredibly harsh and the Hammers clearly felt Moss had punished them to make up for earlier decisions given against Leicester. It is a tough job - as the abuse directed the referee's way at the end proved. Not as much as there might have been had Ulloa not scored at the end, but they can apply pressure and move to within five points of Leicester if they win at Stoke. Leicester at least have the point in the bag but Mauricio Pochettino and his players will just feel the door is ajar, even if they know time and games are running out. Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri: "It was a very tough match. We were lucky at the beginning when they touched both posts. After that we scored a great goal and we had an opportunity to finish the match at the beginning of the second half. Media playback is not supported on this device "After then sending off it changed our match. "I never spoke about the decision of the referee. Two yellow cards, that's it. "Our performance 11 v 11 and 10 v 11 was fantastic." West Ham manager Slaven Bilic: "It was a good game of football. We showed determination, character and quality. We turned the game around. We were dangerous, and after sending off we totally dominated the game. Media playback is not supported on this device "After our second goal I thought we had done enough to win the game, maybe we could have coped with added time better in terms of keeping the ball but they took the risk. "It was extremely hard for referee, but I mean that was no penalty at all." Leicester - minus the suspended Vardy - are at home to Swansea next Sunday. The Hammers host Watford on Wednesday. Match ends, Leicester City 2, West Ham United 2. Second Half ends, Leicester City 2, West Ham United 2. Goal! Leicester City 2, West Ham United 2. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Penalty conceded by Andy Carroll (West Ham United) after a foul in the penalty area. Penalty Leicester City. Jeffrey Schlupp draws a foul in the penalty area. Offside, Leicester City. Danny Simpson tries a through ball, but Leonardo Ulloa is caught offside. Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by N'Golo Kanté (Leicester City). Attempt missed. Emmanuel Emenike (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Attempt missed. Robert Huth (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Fuchs. Foul by Andy Carroll (West Ham United). Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Angelo Ogbonna (West Ham United). Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Goal! Leicester City 1, West Ham United 2. Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner. Goal! Leicester City 1, West Ham United 1. Andy Carroll (West Ham United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner. Penalty West Ham United. Winston Reid draws a foul in the penalty area. Penalty conceded by Wes Morgan (Leicester City) after a foul in the penalty area. Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Wes Morgan. Attempt missed. Enner Valencia (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cheikhou Kouyaté. Attempt missed. Cheikhou Kouyaté (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Aaron Cresswell with a cross. Enner Valencia (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Jeffrey Schlupp (Leicester City). Attempt missed. Dimitri Payet (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick. Substitution, Leicester City. Daniel Amartey replaces Riyad Mahrez. Wes Morgan (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Andy Carroll (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Wes Morgan (Leicester City). Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by N'Golo Kanté. Attempt missed. Emmanuel Emenike (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Substitution, West Ham United. Enner Valencia replaces Victor Moses. Hand ball by Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United). Foul by Winston Reid (West Ham United). Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Manuel Lanzini (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Dimitri Payet. Substitution, West Ham United. Manuel Lanzini replaces Mark Noble. Winston Reid (West Ham United) hits the right post with a right footed shot from very close range. Assisted by Dimitri Payet with a cross following a corner. Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Robert Huth. Substitution, Leicester City. Leonardo Ulloa replaces Shinji Okazaki. Foul by Michail Antonio (West Ham United).

Leonardo Ulloa's injury-time penalty rescued a point for Leicester in a controversial encounter with West Ham as the Foxes went eight points clear at the top of the Premier League.

In the late 1960s/early 1970s, the ice fields slipping down Mont Blanc and the surrounding mountains of the European range covered some 375 sq km. By the late 2000s, this area had fallen to about 275 sq km. The research has been presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the world's largest annual gathering of Earth scientists. It mirrors some findings of retreat occurring in other sectors of the Alps which sit across the borders of several nations, but predominantly Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, France, and Italy. The new French Alps glaciers inventory was produced by Marie Gardent, from the University of Savoie, and colleagues. It assessed the roughly 600 glaciers in broad areas incorporating the Ecrins, Belledonne, Vanoise, Ubaye and Grande Rousse Arves massifs, as well as the famous Mont Blanc Massif in the north. The team drew upon map archives, past satellite imagery and aerial photographs. Manual inspection was used to check the automatic delineation methods employed in the pictures was correct. "We use manual delineation to verify the satellite data because there can be a problem with debris cover on a glacier," explained Ms Gardent. "Automatic delineation from satellite data will sometimes say there is no glacier when in fact we know there is one there. Also, deep shadows can hide the glacier margins." The only existing glacial inventory from the French Alps was published four decades ago within the context of the World Glacier Inventory. It found the overall area of ice to be about 375 sq km. By 1985-86, in spite of a short advancing period in the late 70s/early 80s, glacial coverage had decreased to a value close to 340 sq km, the new survey shows. Since then, the withdrawal has accelerated, with the area being reduced to about 275 sq km in the late 2000s. This represents an average loss of some 26% over the last 40 years. The retreat is not uniform across the French Alps, however. The greatest losses have been seen in the southern sectors. In the Belledonne Massif, for example, glaciers have almost completely disappeared; and in the Ecrins Massif, glacial retreat is more than three times stronger than in the Mont Blanc Massif. "The glacier retreat is less important in the northern Alps than in the southern Alps," Ms Gardent emphasised. "We think this is because of the lower elevation of the mountains in the south, but also because of climatic conditions which are different. There is more precipitation in the north and there is also more cloud." The northern region includes the biggest French glacier of all - La Mer de Glace, which falls over a 1,000m in altitude down Mont Blanc itself. Its area today is just over 30 sq km, a shade smaller than the 31.5 sq km in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Efforts to assess and monitor glacier health are going on across the Alpine region. At this very meeting three years ago, Swiss researchers reported that glaciers on their part of the European range were also losing mass at an accelerating rate. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk

Glaciers in the French Alps have lost a quarter of their area in the past 40 years, according to new research.

The plan, likely to come into force in 2017 and the first in the UK, has already divided opinion among health and medical groups, including some anti-smoking campaigners. But ministers say it is a "balance of risk" and will stop children smoking. Tattoo parlours will also need licences under the Public Health Bill. In taking the decision to bring in the e-cigarette ban, ministers have argued they did not want to take the risk of seeing smoking "normalised" again after the success of the smoking ban. The new tobacco and e-cigarette measures will mean: This final measure is proving the most controversial and is likely to come into force in 2017, but a precise date has not been given. Public Health Wales, local health boards and the BMA are in favour of the e-cigarettes curbs. But anti-smoking campaign group ASH Wales, Cancer Research UK and Tenovus are among those opposed and the British Heart Foundation, British Lung Foundation and Royal College of Physicians want more evidence. In a public consultation on the proposals last year, 79% of responses were opposed. 19% of adults in Wales smoke 16% target by 2020 70% of smokers want to quit 44% tried to quit in past year 2.6m British adults use e-cigarettes 61% of vapers want to quit smoking There have been concerns that it might make it more difficult for smokers using e-cigarettes as a way of stopping. George Butterworth, tobacco policy manager for Cancer Research UK, said there was no evidence of normalisation of e-cigarettes with young people - and those using them were "very, very small numbers". "Those that are, are the type of people who would try alcohol or tobacco cigarettes anyway - so without that evidence we wouldn't support a ban on the use of e-cigarettes indoors under the idea of normalisation," he said. "E-cigarettes are an opportunity for people to move away from tobacco smoking which is very, very bad for their health, and we wouldn't want to put up any barriers to prevent people from quitting cigarettes. " By Nick Triggle, health correspondent E-cigarettes have really divided health opinion - and that in turn has caused confusion. However, the arguments for and against them are in fact typical of many that have been heard down the years in the field of health. That is to say it is all about balancing risk and benefit - and as evidence is still emerging it is only natural to find a variety of opinion. On their own, there is little to recommend the use of e-cigarettes. They contain some toxins and, therefore, in theory are potentially harmful - both to those using them and, possibly, through passive smoking. But this debate is further complicated by the fact that it is not just the merits of e-cigarettes that are being discussed, but their impact on smoking tobacco products. Some, for example, have argued they act as a gateway to real smoking. But, of course, e-cigarettes cannot be seen in isolation. Smoking them - and this is about the only thing that is not disputed - is less harmful than tobacco products. That, in a nutshell, is why some claim they should be treated sympathetically. Officials acknowledge there is divided opinion but believe the evidence is now growing to support a ban. Although the numbers of children using e-cigarettes are low, ministers do not want to take the risk of children seeing smoking "normalised" again after the success in banning smoking. There are similar e-cigarette restrictions in countries like Belgium, Spain and Malta, with proposals in France and Ireland. But this would be a first for the UK. The BMA says it is "vital" that e-cigarettes do not undermine tobacco control and they are particularly worried that the way they are marketed is making them attractive to children. It also says more research is needed to find out whether e-cigarettes actually help smokers to quit. TATTOOS AND PIERCINGS A licensing system is also being drawn up with the tattoo and piercing industry - to produce enforceable professional hygiene and health standards by 2017. There are already around 350 tattoo premises with licences in Wales but there are many others, including self-taught tattooists called "scratchers". It is a recognition that times have changed dramatically since the last legislation in the early 1980s, with tattoos and piercings more popular. There will also be a ban on intimate piercings for the under-16s. Ministers say the industry welcomes the new system - backed up by the threat of prosecution and fines - which will see tattooists having to show they are competent. BETTER ACCESS TO TOILETS Councils will also be expected to produce a local toilets' strategy and to involve shops and other businesses in providing "creative solutions" to meet local needs. It recognises the budget constraints to councils and that it has become an issue of access to "toilets in public" rather than public toilets - those owned and run by local authorities. Health Minister Mark Drakeford said they wanted to get the balance right between all the things that would make a big difference to people's health in the future "while not wanting to intrude on the legitimate rights people have to run their own lives." He added: "The Welsh government has a responsibility to create the conditions which enable people to live healthy lives and avoid preventable harm to their health." Attempts to bring in a minimum price for alcohol are still being worked on but will not be included in the bill until the outcome of a European Court of Justice hearing on similar legislation in Scotland. REACTION Shadow Conservative health minister Darren Millar AM said he feared some aspects of the bill interfered in individual rights. "E-cigarettes are a staging post for many smokers on the road to quitting and moves to restrict them will make it more difficult for smokers to kick the habit," he said. Plaid Cymru health spokeswoman Elin Jones said the assembly now needed to "consider all of the evidence that relates to the effect of e-cigarettes on public health, most of which is newly-emerging". "E-cigarettes are used widely by people who are trying to give up smoking, so we should be very careful not to halt that trend," she said. Welsh Lib Dems leader Kirsty Williams AM said the e-cigarette ban was completely unjustifiable. "The evidence for this decision is wafer thin," she said. "Banning things just for the sake of it isn't a position any government should take." The Royal College of Physicians was disappointed there was no firm action on tackling obesity and physical inactivity "which has a huge impact on health and chronic illness".

People will be banned from using e-cigarettes in enclosed places such as restaurants, pubs and at work in Wales, under a new public health law.

A row erupted after council proposals for new contracts for more than 2,000 staff that would result in wage cuts of up to 23%. The authority fears it could face equal pay claims from other employees if it does not make the cuts. Hundreds attended a rally to "celebrate the work of Durham's teaching assistants". Claire Williams, Northern Regional Secretary of Unison said: "There is positive progress being made... we are really keen to get a resolution to this dispute quickly for our teaching assistants as it's been a very stressful year for them." The new contracts were originally proposed for January but after industrial action in November the plan was suspended. Members of the Unison and ATL unions were due to strike again for three days in December but that was called off to restart talks. The council says its review of the matter should be completed in September.

Talks held between teaching assistant unions and Durham County Council are "progressing positively", Unison said.

Hatton made eight birdies and three bogeys in his five-under-par 67, while Fitzpatrick carded a level-par 72. They are tied with Australia's Marc Leishman (71) at Bay Hill, three shots behind American leaders Charlie Hoffman (71) and Kevin Kisner (68). Rory McIlroy moved up to a tie for eighth after a seven-under-par 65. World number three McIlroy scored the joint-lowest round of the day, along with American Rickie Fowler - who moved into a tie for 11th. The 27-year-old Northern Irishman started the round 11 shots behind overnight leader Hoffman, but five birdies on the back nine moved him up the leaderboard. "I just played better, held some putts, which was nice to see. I just had to put it all together and I did," McIlroy told the PGA Tour. "Hopefully I can be in with a shout and then if I get off to a fast start tomorrow, I can be right in there."

England's Tyrrell Hatton and Matthew Fitzpatrick are both three shots off the lead going into the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Under the agreement, a national unity government will be installed and a presidential poll will be held by the end of the year. The deal, reached after mediation by EU foreign ministers, also sees electoral reform and constitutional changes. Ukraine's parliament has voted to reduce the president's powers. It also approved laws which could see the release of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. The deal follows hours of talks and months of demonstrations on the streets of Kiev and other cities. Dozens of protesters were killed by security forces on Thursday. The deal has been met with scepticism by some of the thousands of protesters who remain on Independence Square in Kiev, with some saying they still did not trust President Yanukovych. The opposition leaders who signed the deal were booed and called traitors by a crowd in Independence Square, the focal point of the protests, the BBC's Gavin Hewitt reports from Kiev. The agreement, published by the German foreign ministry, includes the following: By Olexiy SolohubenkoUkraine analyst. BBC News The primary aim of any new government - which could be in place with a week or two - will be to restore peace and political stability to a country that has been on the brink of civil war. Alongside the political changes is the challenging task of reforming the police and dismantling the whole apparatus of repression. Corrupt prosecutors and judges will have to be replaced. And then there's the economy. The Ukrainian currency, the hryvnya, has tumbled in value. There have been reports of some shortages of petrol, bread and even cash. International ratings agencies have warned of the country defaulting on its debts. Ukraine cannot survive without help - but where should it come from? Russia has promised a $15bn (??9.2bn; 10.9bn euros) loan, lent in dribs and drabs. Now the EU has woken up to the importance of Ukraine, the question is whether it will commit to a multibillion-pound bailout package of its own for just a single country - one which may join the EU one day, but not soon. The agreement was later signed by Mr Yanukovych and opposition leaders Vitali Klitschko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Oleh Tyahnibok at the presidential administration headquarters in Kiev. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski tweeted that the deal was a "good compromise for Ukraine" which would open the way "to reform and to Europe". Mr Sikorski told reporters on his return to Warsaw that Russia had played a constructive role in reaching the agreement. The White House has welcomed Friday's deal, praising "the courageous opposition leaders who recognised the need for compromise". President Barack Obama is due to speak to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, later on Friday. UK Prime Minister David Cameron also welcomed the agreement and called on all sides in Ukraine to "get behind this deal and deliver it according to the timetable set out". Shortly after the deal was signed, Ukraine's parliament approved the restoration of the 2004 constitution, with all but one of the 387 MPs present voting in favour. By Mark LowenBBC News, Lviv Any political deal between President Yanukovych and the opposition movement will have to pass the test here in Lviv. It is a city that has been at the forefront of the protests, sending busloads of demonstrators 500km east to Kiev on a nightly basis. Lviv has always looked west rather than east: a city for centuries under Polish and Austrian rule, it only fell to the Soviets during World War Two and has remained fiercely proud of its Ukrainian identity ever since. The writ of the Kiev government does not extend here. Every regional administration building is now under the control of the protest movement. I visited the police headquarters, taken on Tuesday night by the opposition and ransacked. At the security service office, burnt out cars lie in the courtyard. The mood here is one of defiance: that President Yanukovych must step down now. Mr Yatsenyuk said the vote was "the first step to restore order in Ukraine". Parliament also approved an amnesty for protesters accused of involvement in violence and voted for the dismissal of Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko. MPs voted for a change in the law which could lead to the release of Tymoshenko, an arch-rival of Mr Yanukovych. She was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2011 for abuse of power. Her supporters say this was simply Mr Yanukovych taking out his most prominent opponent. "I think what we're witnessing is the collapse of this absolutely bizarre and terrible dictatorship which was building up in the country," opposition politician Andriy Shevchenko told the BBC from the floor of parliament. Dozens of MPs from Mr Yanukovych's own Party of Regions voted for the motions, in what correspondents say will be a humiliation for the president. Despite the agreement, isolated outbursts of violence were reported in central Kiev on Friday morning. It remains to be seen whether the deal will be enough to placate more radical elements of the opposition, including many in the west of Ukraine, who have been demanding Mr Yanukovych's resignation. The protests first erupted in late November when President Yanukovych rejected a landmark association and trade deal with the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia. The deal comes after the bloodiest day since the unrest began. Police opened fire early on Thursday after protesters tried to push them away from the makeshift camps they have been occupying in central Kiev. The health ministry said 77 people had been killed since Tuesday, and another 577 were injured.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders have signed a deal to try to end the political crisis in the country.

Police said they received a report of the fire at a property in Castle Mews at about 03:30 BST on Saturday. A tyre had been put against the front door of the house and set alight. The blaze caused smoke damage. A man, a woman and two boys inside the property were not injured. Det Insp Tara Nicholls said: "I would appeal to anyone that was in the area and noticed any suspicious activity between the times of 01:30 and 03:30 BST to contact CID at Cookstown Police Station on the non emergency number 101."

Four people have escaped injury after an arson attack in Cookstown, County Tyrone.

Seven firms, including major supermarkets such as NTUC FairPrice and IKEA, have been asked declare they are not doing so within a week. The forest fires in Indonesia have deteriorated Singapore's air quality, causing a blanket of haze in the city. FairPrice has said it removing products from one Indonesian firm. The state-owned supermarket giant said that it was removing all paper products sourced from Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP), following the notification from the government. APP has been named by Singapore authorities as one of the companies suspected of contributing to the haze. What is behind the South East Asia haze? In a joint statement, the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) and Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) said they had asked the retailers to declare that they have "not procured or used wood, paper and/or pulp materials" from firms accused of contributing to the fires. The SEC said retailers were "a good starting point" for firms to show their commitment to sustainable procurement processes and "for consumers to show their support for brands that have environmentally friendly practices" The haze has caused hazardous air quality across the region. It has led to the cancellation of public events and schools closure over the past month, in Singapore as well as in Malaysia and Indonesia. Anger has been rising in the region, with increasing pressure on the Indonesian government to control the annual burning of forests to clear land for palm oil and rubber plantations.

Singapore is putting pressure on major retailers in Singapore to not use or sell materials produced by firms linked to fires in Indonesia.

We asked some of those taking part in the Online Influence Conference 2015 for their thoughts on what's going on - and what's next. You can follow too on Twitter at #Oi15 @OiConf John Watton, EMEA marketing director at Adobe Marketing Cloud who is returning to his home city for the conference; Amanda Neylon, head of digital at Macmillan Cancer Support, whose career has included Vauxhall Motors and the Met Police; Dr Jonathan Deacon, reader in marketing and entrepreneurship at University of South Wales, with a background in business, and Andrew Grill, global partner social business at IBM and previously CEO of Kred. Marketing on social media - is it about big bucks or can even the smallest business do it well? John Watton, EMEA marketing director at Adobe Marketing Cloud, @jwatton: "What I love right now is that the old barriers to marketing - money and technology - no longer exist. Marketing is accessible to everyone and it has become more about a company's willingness to do these things and their understanding how it can help to meet your business goals. Saying that, if you are able to invest in social media marketing you will be able to go far beyond just the likes and follows, and tie every piece of data to your bottom line." Amanda Neylon, head of digital at Macmillan Cancer Support, @amandaneylon: "I believe with the right insight driving the decisions anyone can do great social media marketing on any budget. Many of our social media marketing successes have been around amplifying amazing user-generated content rather than creating specific assets, because that is where the powerful stories are. For example, promoting tips from The Source - our site designed to help us reach friends, colleagues, neighbours who may want to help someone with cancer but don't necessarily know what to do or say - has been a powerful way to reach new audiences." Dr Jonathan Deacon, reader in marketing and entrepreneurship at University of South Wales, @UniSouthWales: "No, like a lot of things in life the more cash you throw at something does not mean that it will get better. Social media is about three key things in my mind. Who you want to talk with, what you want to say and what you want them to do once you have said it. "Firstly, do you know your audience? Not just bland agglomerations of 'people' but an in-depth understanding of the individuals that make up an audience. What type of content do they read/share and why? How is it written? "Secondly, what do you want to say to this audience? What are you trying to achieve? Writing content is critical. Will the content that you share have meaning to the audience you want to communicate with and will they respond? "And thirdly, do you want someone to share your content, act upon it or perhaps just be amused by it? "If you take a closer look at these three things you will probably see that small firms are just as able as large firms to achieve a meaningful outcome with social media. I always think that small firms are better able as they have an intimate knowledge of the audience - they may even be part of the audience themselves." Andrew Grill, global partner social business at IBM, @AndrewGrill: "Just as 12 years or so ago when the internet first appeared, smaller companies that took advantage of this new tool could appear much larger than existing companies. "With social media, even the smallest company can have a global presence. I've seen companies of all sizes become successful with social media because they take the time to understand the language of social and engage authentically with their customers and fans. "My tip is don't treat social as a marketing channel, treat it as a conversation you would have with someone at the conference. You need to have something of value to exchange with your audience and not just interrupt a conversation. "I often challenge conference participants to go up to two other people at a networking break and see how long it takes to be invited into the conversation. If by listening closely you see where what you might say will add real value to the conversation, you will be welcomed in. If you just want to sell something you will be waved away. This is the same with social." People are already saying, 'ads are spoiling my social media experience' - are there lessons for brands/businesses to learn? JW: "A big learning for brands is that just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Even with all this new technology, not a lot has really changed and the basic principles of marketing remain - understand your customers, what they want and when they want it. Online marketing is all about the right time, right place and right message. If it doesn't deliver on this, it could have a negative impact on your brand." AM: "I think relevance is the key here. We as brands have access to so much data about our customers these days and it's important we use that when making marketing decisions. Personalised ads then have the capacity to become more useful additions to our customers' experience rather than intrusive." JD: "Yes, if the audience is dissatisfied with the content then you should listen and do something else. Social media is just that, social and therefore conversational, informal and individualistic. Advertising belongs in the age of mass market and mass communication - in the past." AG: "As I will explain during my Oi keynote [speech], social media is just like real life. My fear is that many companies see social as just 'another channel' and they try and push products on to people without understanding that they are interrupting existing conversations. We may never get away from 'ads' of some form. However, with social now being such a powerful tool, companies cannot simply reformat a marketing message for a social network. The lessons to learn are that companies that choose to engage with consumers and fans rather than advertise to them will be more successful in the longer term in my opinion." What's the best example of a good campaign on social media you've seen recently? JW: "Each year Adobe runs a digital marketing summit in the US and here in EMEA. While we work really hard to put together a great physical event, we make sure the experience starts long before and after the summit has taken place through our social channels. It's a great example of how a traditional marketing channel has been given a new lease of life through digital technology." JD: "For the very best execution of how to use social media take a look at Hiut Denim. They understand their audience, what they are trying to say and what they want people to do." AG: "Too many to choose from - but those that work across multiple platforms with a credible call to action get my attention." What's your favourite social media and how often do you use it? JW: "Twitter is the first thing I fire up when I get up in the morning. I probably use it every hour for news and sharing content I find interesting with my network." AM: "I still use Twitter a lot, mostly listening to keep up on what's new in digital (and the world) but I do try and tweet something useful at least once a day." JD: "LinkedIn - every day." AG: "Twitter! I wouldn't be at the Oi conference without Twitter - famously my "one tweet" in January 2011 lead me to working for IBM. I tweet whenever I have some downtime, in between meetings or walking home." When you eat, is your phone/tablet switched off? JW: "When I'm on my own, no. When I'm with my family, yes. It's a rule to never bring our phones to the table." AM: "Nope I tend to be always connected - though I don't take photos of my food." JD: "Mine is, but my wife keeps hers on, although she only answers once we have eaten." AG: "#SocialNeverSleeps" What's the last non-work related app you downloaded? JW: "This was the new Apple watch game 'Rules!' I'm expecting my new wearable to arrive anytime soon." AM: "My Apple watch has just been delivered so I'm spending quite a bit of time right now playing with all the apps I can have on it." JD: "A tilt-shift photo app which makes everything in your photos look miniature - very clever." AG: "WhatsApp - I'm one of the 700 million people sending 30 billion WhatsApps each day." What's the next big thing? JW: "One of the problems with social has long been proving its ROI (return on investment). We are now starting to think of social as a data-driven science, which is a great first step in helping to prove its value and starting to have meaningful conversations with other data-driven marketing teams." AM: "Data! I'm genuinely excited about data, or rather ways of using it. I think that we need to really develop the ways that we use all the data available to us to personalise customer experience across digital channels. Whether that's gathered from our social activity or newer areas like ibeacons or wearables, we can gather so much valuable data to make online experiences more impactful. Making connections between our online social interactions and all the offline data we're gathering about our lives will enable truly personalised, useful and interesting digital experiences." JD: "I see a lot of developments around 'EdTech' and I'm pretty sure that some of that will be successful when taken to market. I also think that the very smart and probably small firms will begin to better integrate social media with personalised communication. I can foresee firms mixing high-end social media with low-end hard copy, with great effect. For example, Twitter feeds backed up with occasional and highly personalised written letters, cards and the like - authoritative and authentic." AG: "Corporate Social Networks - we've only just scratched the surface of how companies can collaborate using social techniques and allow employees to be more productive, and more satisfied at work because they can share in the corporate wisdom of hundreds and even thousands of colleagues around the world. While this will be huge, it requires a massive cultural change, and will become the #NewWayToWork. This is something that clients are keeping me and my team at IBM very busy."

It's the "social" social media event of the year in Wales - hundreds of people involved in digital marketing are in Cardiff to hear insights from the likes of Google, Twitter, YouTube, and IBM.

Since being drafted in 2003, he has won two Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers and was awarded the 2010 defensive player of the year. Last year he missed four of the last seven games of the season because of a knee injury. He says that ending his professional career will give him a chance to "enjoy" his family. The Pittsburgh Steelers, the only team he has ever played professionally for, had asked him to retire earlier this year but he said he only agreed to the idea this week. "What it came down to was definitely family," he told Scout.com, revealing that he did not want to play elsewhere in the US. "What am I going to do now? I think the best I can do is make up for lost time, and that's with my family." Polamalu has two sons, aged seven and five, with his wife Theodora. "Thank God football has provided me the ability to be able to sit back and see what the options are. But I'll definitely be the best father I can possibly be." Born in the US, Polamalu is of Samoan descent. He is known for his iconic hairstyle, which he used to advertise shampoo. Speaking in 2010, he revealed that he had not cut his mass of hair for about a decade. Polamalu is part of the Greek Orthodox faith and he said that some of the numbers surrounding his retirement also appealed to him. "Thirty-three is obviously significant because of Christ being 33; and 12 years, 12 apostles," he said. "I'm not superstitious by any means but I always thought that if I played 12 years and retire from football at 33 and give my life and give my body and give my blood to this game, I think that would be a pretty significant landmark in my life." Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

Troy Polamalu, one of the best safeties in history, is retiring from the NFL after 12 seasons.

He made the claim at a rally. His team admitted it was incorrect, only for Mr Trump to repeat it at another rally. The money was paid at the same time US hostages were freed, but the president said it was a payment linked to the landmark Iranian nuclear agreement. Mr Trump said the video he saw was of the hostage transfer, not the payment. The White House announced in January it was making payments to Iran - a total of $1.7bn (£1.3bn) to settle a decades-old dispute over a failed military equipment deal - as part of the nuclear accord. A newspaper this week revealed that $400m of that was delivered in cash, flown to Iran at roughly the same time as four Americans were released in a prisoner exchange. The timing of the transfer brought attacks from Republicans, including Mr Trump. President Barack Obama denied any connection between the cash and the prisoner swap, saying: "We do not pay ransom for hostages." He said the payment had to be in cash because strict financial sanctions precluded other methods. Being Donald Trump means never having to say you're sorry - or mistaken. The candidate has made a habit of steadfastly sticking by comments whose veracity, to put it mildly, has been called into question. For instance, assertions that Muslim-Americans celebrated after 9/11, that neighbours didn't tell authorities they saw the San Bernardino shooters making bombs and that Mexico has a policy of sending criminals into the US have been roundly debunked by fact-checkers, yet all have been fixtures in Trump speeches. This track record makes it noteworthy that on Friday morning Mr Trump backed away from his recent claims that he saw a video of Iranians unloading crates currency from a US plane. Perhaps cooler heads in the Trump camp prevailed. Perhaps Mr Trump realised that his remarkably detailed misstatements were burying what could have been an effective campaign issue - the perception that the Obama administration was exchanging money for hostages. It's become conventional wisdom that there isn't a tactical political advantage - on foreign affairs, Clinton emails, etc - that Mr Trump can't mishandle. Republicans can only hope Mr Trump's backtracking here is a sign of new, more disciplined candidate emerging. However, the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher in Washington says it did not help that Iranian defence officials had described the money as a ransom payment. Mr Trump insisted on Wednesday he had seen video showing the money being delivered. His team on Thursday acknowledged this was not the case, saying Mr Trump was referring to cable news file footage of hostages being released. But Mr Trump repeated his claim at another rally later on Thursday. On Friday, his tweet was echoing the campaign team, saying: "The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!" Donald Trump has had a difficult week. His rival, Hillary Clinton, has seen a significant opinion poll boost since the Democratic convention. He has also run into trouble by rowing with the parents of a Muslim US army captain who was killed in Iraq and was criticised for calling Mrs Clinton "the devil". A number of high-profile figures, including Republicans, have come out against him. Republican Congressman Mike Coffman was one to air an anti-Trump advertisement. Former director of the CIA, Michael Morell, not affiliated to either party, said in the New York Times that he would "do everything I can to ensure [Mrs Clinton] is elected our 45th president". Citing Mr Trump's positions on Russia, Mr Morell called the New York billionaire an "unwitting agent" of Vladimir Putin. Endorsed Mrs Clinton Not voting for Mr Trump On Thursday, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan told fundraisers the party had to protect its majority in Congress or "we could be handing President Hillary Clinton a blank cheque". It echoed the "Let's not give Clinton a blank cheque" phrase used by Republicans in 1996 when it became clear Bob Dole would not defeat Bill Clinton. However, Mr Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, stood firmly behind him on Friday, telling NBC: "Donald Trump and I are standing shoulder to shoulder to say to the American people, 'we can be strong again'."

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has backtracked on a claim that he saw video footage of a US cash payment to Iran.

Some 450,000 asylum seekers have entered Germany already this year and up to a million are expected in 2015 - by far the most in the EU. The government in Berlin has broadly welcomed refugees, relaxing EU rules so that it no longer sends back Syrians to other EU countries. But it introduced temporary border controls on Sunday after admitting that its capacity had been stretched to the limit. Until now, the federal government has insisted it can cope with the high numbers of asylum seekers but wants the burden shared between EU countries. Authorities have been giving assistance to new arrivals at stations in Munich and other German cities before taking them to reception centres. The "Koenigsteiner Key" is used to distribute asylum seekers across Germany's 16 federal states, calculated according to their tax revenue and their population. For example, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, will be expected to take 21% of all asylum seekers, while Thuringia, the focus of several attacks on asylum accommodation, is set to receive under 3%. With a huge build-up of asylum seekers in the Bavarian city of Munich, and reception centres apparently reaching capacity, authorities in affected states have been calling for the federal government in Berlin to do more. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told radio station Bayern 2 that stricter controls were needed because "many en route here are not really refugees". "It's got about in the last few days that you are successful if everyone claims to be Syrian," he added. The dispute has seen Chancellor Angela Merkel come under increasing pressure particularly from political allies in the Christian Social Union (CSU), which has ruled Bavaria, Germany's wealthiest state, for nearly 60 years. State Premier Horst Seehofer described the decision to open the borders as "a mistake that will occupy us for a long time". German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told Tagesspiegel newspaper on Sunday that the problem was "not the number of refugees but the rapidity at which they arrived". He said "Europe's inaction in the refugee crisis had driven Germany... to the limit of its capacity". The government ordered police to begin checking travel documents on Sunday from anyone entering from the southern frontier with Austria, and federal police set up roadblocks on motorway networks. Rail services to Munich were affected by the changes, too. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the border controls would remain in place until further notice. "The aim of this measure is to limit the current influx to Germany and to return to orderly entry procedures," he said. "This is also urgently necessary for security reasons." The move goes against the principle of the Schengen zone, which allows free movement between many European countries. However, the Schengen agreement does allow for temporary suspensions. There have been warnings that the restrictions could make conditions worse for the thousands of migrants continuing to make the perilous journey across Europe to Germany. "These measures will not create more order but only much more chaos," said Katrin Goering-Eckhardt, the parliamentary leader of the opposition Greens, according to Reuters. But the government argues that the new measures will not affect the rights of refugees coming to Germany. The temporary border controls were introduced hours before an emergency meeting of European interior ministers and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said they were "a signal to Europe". "Germany is facing up to its humanitarian responsibility, but the burdens connected with the large number of refugees must be distributed in solidarity," he said. EU ministers were to vote on a May 2015 plan to redistribute an initial 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea through mandatory quotas. The EU has since raised the total number of people it seeks to share out through quotas to 160,000 asylum seekers across 23 EU states. But Germany says this still is not enough. Speaking in the German parliament last week, the vice chancellor described the plans as "a first step, if one wants to be polite". "Or you could call it a drop in the ocean." An application for asylum is made at the reception centre on arrival, where personal details, fingerprints and photographs (for those over 14) are taken. A temporary permission to stay is granted. The asylum seeker will then be invited to an interview to decide his or her case. The current average time from application to decision is 5.3 months, according to the German government. If granted refugee status, a residence permit for three years will be granted. After this time a permanent residence permit can be applied for. Germany designates all EU states plus Ghana, Senegal, Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as "safe countries of origin" - which means that asylum claims from nationals of these countries are likely to be rejected. On 7 September the government announced that Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro would be added to this list. Asylum seekers normally stay at reception centres for up to six weeks. After that they are offered either communal accommodation, or housed individually, depending on the policy of the federal state. People who are unable to support themselves financially "receive what they need for their day-to-day life", the German government says. Support varies from state to state, but generally includes non-cash benefits covering food and accommodation costs, plus limited spending money. After being in the country for three months, asylum seekers can apply for permission to start work, subject to various restrictions. Anyone given a residence permit has unrestricted access to the labour market after four years. No - Germany has a long and complicated history of population movement. After Germany's defeat in World War Two, millions of ethnic Germans were forced to leave areas of Poland, former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Russia and resettle in West and East Germany. The booming economy of post-war West Germany required more workers, and huge numbers of "guest workers" arrived from Mediterranean countries such as Italy, Spain and - most significantly - Turkey. Communist East Germany also took on temporary workers from "fraternal socialist countries", including North Vietnam, Cuba and Mozambique, although most returned after German reunification. In 1991 the country enacted laws enabling Jews from the former Soviet Union to move to Germany - more than 200,000 Jewish people and their families immigrated in this way. Around 350,000 people fleeing the Bosnian conflict were given temporary refuge in Germany in the 1990s, but most have since left. In total, 20.3% of Germany's population now have "a migration background" - the term German officialdom uses to describe immigrants or their children. But Germany's population is shrinking, due to its low birth rate, and it has been argued that it needs migrants to keep its economy going.

Germany has become the preferred destination for thousands of people reaching Europe in search of a better life.

Rezgar Zengana posed as a taxi driver to pick up his 25-year-old victim in Argyle Street before raping her at a flat in Cessnock on 10 December 2006. The 33-year-old Iraqi national fled after being convicted of the attack. Zengana features in a most-wanted list of nine UK suspects who are thought to be in the Netherlands. The list has been put published by the UK charity Crimestoppers and the National Crime Agency (NCA). Dave Allen, from the NCA, said: "Those who believe they can use the Netherlands to evade capture or continue illegal activities soon find out that it is not a safe haven."

One of Scotland's most wanted fugitives is still believed to be hiding in the Netherlands almost 10 years after he raped a woman in Glasgow.

Yn ffodus, roedd camera Cymru Fyw yna i ddal y broses hir ac weithiau araf!

Unwaith eto fe wnaeth Cymru fwynhau rhaglen Cân i Gymru nos Sadwrn 5 Mawrth, ond cyn y darllediad byw roedd rhaid i lawer o bobl weithio, ac ymarfer, yn galed drwy'r dydd.

The FTSE 100 index rose 77 points, or 1.1%, to 6,911.4, with similar rises seen elsewhere in Europe. Most analysts had expected the Fed to hold rates on Wednesday, although the US central bank indicated rates could rise before the end of the year. The dollar fell after US rates were held, which pushed commodity prices up. That led to rises in shares of mining companies, as the price of copper hit a one-month high and other metal prices increased. Shares in Glencore and Fresnillo led the FTSE 100 higher, with both seeing rises of more than 5%. "Given the rise across the spectrum for commodities, it comes as no surprise that the FTSE leaderboard is headed by some of the biggest names in mining," said Joshua Mahony, market analyst at IG. In the FTSE 250, shares in Kier Group rose 1.3% after the construction group reported a 45% increase in underlying full-year pre-tax profits to £125m. On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.55% against the dollar to $1.3104, but was little changed against the euro at €1.166.

(Close): UK shares joined in the global rally triggered by the US Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rates unchanged.

The 25-year-old, who left Arsenal to join the Bundesliga team in December 2010, has signed a five-year deal with the Hammers. "It has always been a dream to play in the Premier League and now I have a big opportunity to do that," he said. Nordtveit, who made his Norway debut in 2011, has 28 international caps. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

West Ham will sign Norway midfielder Havard Nordtveit on a free transfer on 1 July after his contract with Borussia Monchengladbach runs out.

The 25-year-old claimed her maiden able-bodied national title on Sunday and won team gold with England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. But to qualify for Rio, Brown would have to switch from her favoured compound bow to the recurve, something she will "absolutely not" do. Media playback is not supported on this device "I love shooting the compound and think I still have a lot to give," she added. "Paralympic sport is my job and I have to go out there and perform well, so that's the main thing." Brown's stance is backed by ArcheryGB Paralympic head coach Michael Peart, a former world number two in the compound who swapped to recurve in 2001 but was never able to reach the same heights before his retirement earlier this year. "Going to recurve would be a major change and it would take many years of training to go from the top of one [discipline] to the top of another. I tried, and in 10 years I never got there," Peart, who narrowly missed out on selection for London 2012, told BBC Sport. "I think she has to concentrate on trying to maintain this Paralympic success and build on that stockpile of gold medals." Brown will not be able to add to the team title she won at the 2010 Commonwealths in Delhi at Glasgow 2014 after archery was left out of the programme. "It's pretty tough knowing that archery isn't going to be in Glasgow because I had such a great time in India and it was one of my first major able-bodied events," she told BBC Sport. "It's a big shame, but I think it's one of those cases where you have to focus on what you can do rather than what you can't." Brown is preparing to compete in both the able-bodied World Championships in Antalya, Turkey (29 September-6 October) and Para-archery Worlds in Bangkok, Thailand (1-7 November). Long-term, though, her focus is on further success in 2016. "I'm aiming for Rio and it should be amazing," she said. "It'll be my third Paralympics and hopefully third gold medal."

British two-time Paralympic champion Danielle Brown has ruled out attempting to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

It has announced changes to the heavily criticised and regularly overspent Cancer Drugs Fund, which pays for drugs the NHS has deemed unaffordable. The new system will start in July 2016 and have a fixed budget of £340m. No patients receiving drugs on the old Cancer Drugs Fund will have their medication stopped. At present, the CDF can choose to pay for innovative drugs the health watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), has rejected for widespread use on the NHS. But under the new system, NICE will make all the decisions. By the time a drug comes on to the market, NICE will give it a yes, no or maybe rating. Those given the go-ahead will be routinely offered across the NHS while those given a maybe rating can be considered for the CDF. However, there will be "clear entry and exit criteria" to ensure money is spent on only the best breakthrough drugs. Bruce Keogh, medical director at NHS England, said: "Improving cancer care is an absolute priority for NHS England... that is dependent on access to treatments. "[The CDF] will provide faster access for patients, I think that's really important, and I think it will bring clarity to which drugs are the most effective sooner than we know at the moment." The fund, which was established in 2011 and covers England, has seen its costs rise to £340m in 2015-16 from an initial annual budget of £200m. An NHS official said: "Drug companies will need to price their drugs responsibly, and we make no apology for maintaining the pressure on this point on behalf of the public. "Companies keen to work with the NHS for patients will get a new fast-track route to NHS funding for promising new drugs, backed by a speeded up and more transparent NICE assessment process." Dr Paul Catchpole, from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said: "If cancer medicines go through more or less exactly the same NICE appraisal process that was in place five years ago - which necessitated the setting up of the CDF in the first place - we will largely get the same answers as before - the majority of medicines will be turned down. "Without substantial changes the ABPI estimates that under the proposals two thirds of existing CDF medicines are likely to no longer be available to NHS patients by the end of the year." Target Ovarian Cancer chief executive Annwen Jones said: "Important questions remain unanswered with this proposal. "The Cancer Drugs Fund must retain the power to make a real difference to people's lives in the face of budget cuts." Follow James on Twitter.

Cancer patients have been promised faster access to innovative medicines by NHS England.

Emma Morano was born on 29 November 1899 in the Piedmont region of Italy. She was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living. She had attributed her longevity to her genetics and a diet of three eggs a day, two of them raw. Ms Morano was the oldest of eight siblings, all of whom she has outlived. She died at her home in the northern city of Verbania. Her life not only spanned three centuries but also survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and more than 90 Italian governments. Ms Morano had admitted that her longevity was partly down to genetics: her mother reached 91 and several sisters reached their centenary. But it was also down to a rather unusual diet of three eggs - two raw - each day for more than 90 years. It was a regime she took up as a young woman, after the doctor diagnosed her with anaemia shortly after World War One. She had cut down to just two eggs a day, and a few biscuits recently. Her doctor of 27 years, Carlo Bava, had told AFP news agency that she rarely ate vegetables or fruit. "When I met her, she ate three eggs per day, two raw in the morning and then an omelette at noon, and chicken at dinner." Ms Morano also credited her longevity to her decision, in 1938, to kick out her husband - a year after her baby boy died at just six months old. The marriage had never been healthy, she said. She had been in love with a boy who was killed during World War One, and had no interest in marrying someone else. But, she told La Stampa newspaper in an interview when she was a spritely 112 that she was left with little choice. "He told me: 'If you're lucky you marry me, or I'll kill you'. I was 26 years old. I got married." Eventually, it became too much. Though they separated in 1938, they remained married until he died in 1978. Ms Morano, who worked until she was 75, chose never to marry again. "I didn't want to be dominated by anyone," she told the New York Times. She had only taken on a full-time carer a couple of years ago - but had not left her small two-room apartment for 20 years. According to the US-based Gerontology Research Group (GRG), the world's oldest human being is now Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on March 10, 1900.

The world's oldest person has died in Italy at the age of 117, reports say.

The changes come as part of what the police force has called the "biggest shake-up" in policing in years. The PSNI said the teams will "deal with community problems" and give "advice". The first LPTs to launch will be based in Lurgan and Armagh city police stations in County Armagh. They will be supported by four mobile neighbourhood policing teams (NPTs). The roll-out of all 26 LPTs is expected to be completed by 1 October. Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin said policing in Northern Ireland is in a process of "transformation" due to "significant budget pressures" and new council structures. He said "normal policing will carry on" and the new teams will respond to calls, conduct investigations, and "deal with community problems". "They will provide advice and reassurance and spend time learning about what most affects communities in order to work with them to improve safety and quality of life," he said. The 34 NPTs, which will be based in areas with higher levels of crime and deprivation, are to be set up with the aim of providing "an additional dedicated policing presence, reassurance and commitment to communities where it is most needed". ACC Martin said restructuring means the number of police stations currently in existence is under review. "The reality is that nearly all policing services are delivered outside of stations," he added. "Policing isn't about buildings it is about officers working with the community in the community."

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has started to phase in local policing teams (LPTs).

Alexander Young crashed his Iveco Daily van into Andrew Nisbet's parked car on 25 November 2015. Mr Nisbet, 58, suffered fatal injuries when he was struck by his own vehicle Young pled guilty to a careless driving charge at Livingston Sheriff Court. The collision happened on the B7066 Whitburn Link Road near Polkemmet Country Park. The court was told that Mr Nisbet's car was parked with its hazard warning lights flashing when the accident happened. Young, 62, of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, admitted failing to observe Mr Nisbet's car and colliding with it. Police said at the time that the van driver had suffered only minor injuries in the crash. Mr Nisbet, from Sauchie, Alloa, was married with a family. He was described him as "a much loved husband and father" who would be sorely missed.

A van driver who crashed into a stationary car, fatally injuring its driver, has admitted careless driving.

Murray, who won the men's doubles at the Australian Open, is made an OBE. Along with with brother Andy - a former recipient - he also helped the British team win the Davis Cup for the first time in almost eight decades. Singer Rod Stewart has been given a knighthood, while Prof Sue Black, a world-leading expert in forensic anthropology, becomes a dame. Prof Black, 55, originally from Inverness, has helped secure convictions in several high-profile criminal cases, including one of Britain's worst paedophiles Richard Huckle, who was given 23 life sentences earlier this week for abusing up to 200 children. She also helped to convict Scotland's largest paedophile ring in 2009. She was previously awarded an OBE for her work in exhuming mass graves in Kosovo. The Dundee University professor said she was "deeply honoured" by the recognition, "if a little embarrassed". Rod Stewart, 71, who is famous for songs such as Maggie May and Sailing, was born in London, to an English mother and a Scottish father. The famous Celtic supporter receives his knighthood for services to music and charity. Lord Smith of Kelvin, the man tasked by the prime minister with chairing the cross-party commission on Scottish devolution in the wake of the 2014 independence referendum, is being made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, which is "conferred on persons for having done conspicuous national service". Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour - Lord Smith of Kelvin (for public service, particularly in Scotland). Knighthoods - Rod Stewart (for services to music and charity), Labour MP David Hamilton (for political and parliamentary service), Alex Fergusson (For services to politics, Scottish Parliamentary process and public life). Damehoods - Sue Black (For services to forensic anthropology) Dr Denise Coia (for services to mental health and the NHS), Prof Anna Dominiczak (for services to cardiovascular and medical science). Read the full honours list here. The Smith Commission produced a package of recommendations which has led to new tax and welfare powers being devolved to Holyrood. Lord Smith also had a key role in delivering the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Labour MP David Hamilton, a former miner who spent two months in jail on remand during the miner's strike in the 1980s before being cleared, is given a knighthood for political and parliamentary service. Alex Fergusson, former presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament is also given a knighthood for services to politics. He has now retired as a Conservative MSP. Dr Denise Coia, is being given a damehood for services to mental health and the NHS while Prof Anna Dominiczak is being given the same honour for services to cardiovascular and medical science. Another tennis star being recognised this year is Glasgow-born Leon Smith, captain of the successful Davis Cup team, who also receives an OBE. Award-winning composer John McLeod, from Edinburgh, is honoured with a CBE for his services to music. Born in Aberdeen, he is said to be one of the UK's busiest and most prolific composers, although he initially studied the clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music in London before later changing direction to take up composition. Dr Brian Lang, who stepped down as chairman of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) in 2015, also receives a CBE. The honour comes after his seven years in the post saw audience figures rise to the highest in a generation. Steven Torrie, former HM Chief Inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, is awarded a CBE for services to fire and rescue in Scotland. Shirley Spear, a well-known figure in the food-and-drink industry is being awarded on OBE. She is the founder and former head chef of the Michelin-star winning Three Chimneys restaurant on Skye. Businessman Sir Ian Wood, who was knighted in 1994, has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire for services to the oil and gas industry. Many local people who have contributed to Scottish life were also honoured by the Queen with MBE's and British Empire Medals.

Tennis star Jamie Murray is among the Scots being honoured in the Queens Birthday Honours list.

Toilet roll, chocolate biscuits, orange juice and antibacterial wipes were all on the list of shrinking items reported by Which?. The consumer group argued that making products smaller was a "sneaky way" of increasing prices. It is further evidence of a trend towards shrinking products. In January Unilever revealed that a number of ice creams it makes would be getting smaller. The latest list from Which? includes: Most brands, responding to the Which? research, said it was up to supermarkets to set the price. However, they would not disclose if they had charged the stores a lower wholesale price. "Shrinking products can be a sneaky way of increasing prices. We want manufacturers and supermarkets to be upfront about shrinking products so consumers are not misled," said Which? editor Richard Headland.

A consumer group has revealed its latest list of shrinking supermarket items that still cost the same, or more.

She told The Sun her three rivals were all "continuity Miliband" candidates who would not connect with aspirational low and middle income voters. It come as another contender, Yvette Cooper, sets out a plan to create two million high tech jobs. Ms Cooper, Ms Kendall, Andy Burnham and Jeremy Corbyn will take part in a leadership hustings later. The four MPs are vying to succeed Mr Miliband as Labour leader, with the result of the election to be announced in early September. The campaign so far has been dominated by the candidates' attitudes to Labour's election defeat and how far they are willing to distance themselves from the policies put forward by Mr Miliband. Claims by Ms Kendall and her supporters that only she would break from the past have led to a war of words between their rival camps. In an interview with the Sun, Ms Kendall said she made no apology for calling for a complete change of approach, claiming that "if we stick with what we have been saying for the last five or eight years, we will have the same result". "I think I am the only person in this race that isn't continuity Miliband," she said. "The other candidates haven't spelled out how they would be different from Ed Miliband." In a direct appeal to readers of the Sun, which was highly critical of Mr Miliband's leadership, Ms Kendall said Labour needed to show it could be trusted with people's money and had more to say to homeowners and those who run their own business. "We have got to get back to the values of the British people - work, responsibility, wanting to get on, wanting to be a success, and being proud of that - not making people ashamed or think somehow that they are doing something wrong." During a campaign visit to the University of Manchester, Ms Cooper will argue that Britain is being "left behind" as a country, with its spending on research and development and science lagging behind that of other comparable European economies. Even when major scientific discoveries are made in the UK, such as with graphene - a material that has been been touted as having the scope to transform electronics - she said the UK has often been slow to exploit their commercial potential. Acknowledging that Labour's relationship with business is in "real need of recovery", she said a future Labour government must aspire to spend 3% of the UK's national output on science and R&D to bring it into line with the likes of Germany. Such a financial commitment, backed by a 10-year plan, was needed to create two million high-skilled manufacturing jobs, she said. "Britain can't compete with Brazil or Indonesia on low-wage, low-skills jobs," she said. "But with high-skilled jobs in emergent technologies, in the harnessing of new technologies such as graphene, we can do what we've done before: punch well above our weight as a small island off the coast of Europe. That should be Labour's mission." All small businesses, she argued, should have guaranteed access to high-speed broadband since the digital economy was crucial to Britain's future long-term competitiveness. Stressing that Labour must be the champion of innovation as the route to greater productivity, she recalled Harold Wilson's famous prediction in 1963 that a new Britain would be forged in the "white heat" of a scientific revolution. "Just as Labour championed the white heat of technology in the 1960s, so today we need to champion the white flashing constellations of the networked world". The Conservatives have pledged to spend 2.5% of GDP on science and R&D by 2020 while Chancellor George Osborne has said Manchester will be heart of a northern powerhouse, underpinned by investment in world-class science and research facilities. The four candidates will take part in a hustings in Manchester later, organised by trade union Unison.

Liz Kendall says she is the only Labour leadership candidate who would fully break with Ed Miliband's leadership.

The early birds will all be vying for the prime camping spots next to the main stages where Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Stormzy and Lorde will perform over the weekend. They'll be joined by 177,000 other revellers, musicians, stall holders and volunteers, who make the annual pilgrimage to Worthy Farm to drink in the proceedings before proceeding to the drink. And while the only thing you can predict about Glastonbury is its unpredictability, here are 12 things we're 99% certain will happen over the next five days. Yes, the UK is in the middle of a heat wave. Yes, the forecast says it will be dry. But if you turn up to Glastonbury with nothing but a pair of flip-flops and a floaty dress, you only have yourself to blame. Playing the Pyramid Stage is a huge honour and a terrifying prospect, all rolled into one globally-televised gift box. We've seen experienced bands like U2 and Gorillaz come unstuck and walk away humbled. But we've also seen underdogs like Pulp and Florence + The Machine triumph after being bumped into headline slots at the last minute. Who's going to get it right - and wrong - this year? Like these ones. Every year, festival founder Michael Eavis holds a press conference. And every year he claims the latest Glastonbury festival is better than every other Glastonbury festival ever, full stop, no comebacks. He will also drop a hint about next year's headliners ("they have six legs and they're from Cardiff"), prompting at least seven speculative articles on the NME website. In 2014, we stumbled across a Korean funk band called Sultans of Disco playing in The Rabbit Hole at two in the morning. Wearing matching dogtooth suits and playing an exuberant cover of the Ghostbusters theme, they were literally the best thing we saw all weekend. And yes, we were sober. That's the magic of Glastonbury: at any given moment your new favourite band could be around the next corner. (It could equally be a doughnut van - there seem to be a lot of those too.) If we had to single out a few rising acts, we'd say Norwegian pop singer Sigrid, gravel-voiced soul singer Josh Barry and folk trio Wildwood Kin will be among the acts winning people's hearts this year. Every year, thousands of mangled tents and sleeping bags are discarded by campers who can't be bothered to clean up after themselves. It costs the organisers £780,000 to clean up the mess, money that would otherwise be going to charity. So have some respect and bring your rubbish home with you. OK, so Galway Girl is essentially an insult to the people and music of Ireland. But Ed Sheeran just about makes up for it with his impressively charismatic and likeable stage shows. With years of incessant gigging under his belt, he's adept at working a big crowd - armed with just a microphone and his teeny, child-sized guitar. Eschewing a backing band, he builds his songs from scratch on stage, using a sampler and a foot pedal to build inventive layers of loops. The fact the technology could fail at any moment gives his gigs a sense of peril that more polished headline acts lack. Expect him to convert a few sceptics when he closes the festival on Sunday night. Where does it come from? How does it stay upright? What if someone gets trapped under it? Bonus points if it's taller than the bus. This always precedes a video of someone juggling. Which is the perfect time to put the kettle on and be thankful you're not at Glastonbury, being forced to watch someone juggling. Our mate heard it from the security guy on the Avalon Stage, who saw the setlist and swears it's true. Also, Rihanna is doing guest vocals on Get Lucky and we saw Bryan Ferry having a kebab in the Stone Circle. Don't try to retrieve it, whatever you do. 2017 has been almost uniformly rubbish, but standing in a field with 100,000 strangers, drinking sambuca from a plastic cup while Katy Perry belts out Firework in a spangly leotard will leave you with an enormous sense of well-being. Parklife! The BBC will broadcast more than 30 hours of Glastonbury on TV this weekend, with further coverage on Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3 and 6 Music, the BBC iPlayer and online. Find out more on the official BBC Glastonbury website. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Glastonbury has opened its gates and fans have started to trickle in.

Duminda Silva was found guilty with four others of shooting dead Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and three of his supporters during local elections in Colombo in 2011. The two men were both members of the then governing party. The defendants are likely to serve long jail terms because of Sri Lanka's moratorium on executions. Their lawyers said they would appeal against the sentences. Silva sustained gunshot wounds and was flown out of the country, apparently for treatment, after the shooting. He was a close ally of the powerful Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whose brother Mahinda was president until losing elections in 2015. Many hailed the verdict as proof that judicial independence had been restored in Sri Lanka. "This verdict was only possible because we have a new president," Hirunika Premachandra, the murdered man's daughter who is now an MP herself, told reporters. "I hope there will be justice for all the murders that happened during the previous era, including the killing of former editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, disappeared journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda and rugby player Wasim Thajudeen, so their families can get justice."

A Sri Lankan court has sentenced a former MP to death for the murder of a rival politician five years ago.

A police source told BBC Radio WM a passenger was seen pouring a liquid into a box, which then started smoking. The 48 passengers on the Megabus Preston to London service were led off the coach and forced to sit apart in a cordon on the opposite carriageway. Police said a report of vapour escaping from a bag which led to the security alert was caused by "a health improvement aid for smokers". The motorway was closed between junctions T3 and T4 near Lichfield before police said they were no longer treating the incident as suspicious, but it has now reopened. Staffordshire Police said the coach stopped on the hard shoulder "of its own accord" at 08:20 BST. About four hours after armed officers arrived, police confirmed the scene as safe. Shortly before 1500 BST the M6 Toll reopened. The passengers have been allowed to continue their journey to London, although some have chosen to return north, to Manchester. A police spokesperson said: "We received a report from a genuinely concerned member of the public about suspicious activity on a coach travelling on the M6 toll at Weeford, near Lichfield. "Given the nature of the report we responded swiftly and proportionately, treating the information as credible and extremely seriously. "The M6 Toll carriageways were closed in both directions, the coach was directed to the hard shoulder of the motorway and armed officers calmly evacuated passengers with their full support and co-operation. "Following an initial assessment, we can confirm that no-one has been injured and that there is no danger to passengers at the scene or any other travellers who were on the motorway at that time. "We are also not treating anyone as a suspect." A Megabus spokeswoman said the coach had left Preston at 05:10 and was due in London at 10:55. Earlier, armed police officers could be seen next to the single-decker coach on the southbound carriageway, as passengers were led off one by one. Passengers were made to sit on the northbound carriageway, apart from one another, while surrounded by officers. Sniffer dogs and forensic officers were also brought in to aid the search, as officers in forensic suits and others in military fatigues checked the area. The Ministry of Defence confirmed military personnel were assisting police, at their request, under routine procedure. One of the passengers on the bus told the BBC that she had no idea what was going on, that she didn't see anything supsicious, and wasn't told why they were pulled over. She was made to sit cross-legged on the tarmac and still was not told what was happening. She said the whole experience had been very "scary and frightening". The fire service, police from the West Midlands and Staffordshire forces and ambulance crews were all involved in the operation. Nick Jones, a sales manager from Cambridge, said he was about four vehicles behind the coach when police stopped traffic. "I've never seen so many ambulances turning up, also armed police, helicopter and dozens of police cars. "We were told to stay in our cars, keep windows up and not put air conditioning on. "Police were looking in hedgerows and verges on the northbound carriageway. "It all just took off, ambulances left right and centre and armed police in black caps." Another eye-witness Barry Jarvis told the BBC that cars were cleared from toll booths. He said: "It was very puzzling as to what was going on at first as there weren't that many police there. "It was only after 20 minutes or so when all these unmarked cars [were] coming through that we thought something major was happening. "As we were diverted, we could see armed police at the toll booths, and the fire brigade." Motorists on the M6 itself are experiencing delays of up to two-and-a-half hours. In a statement, Staffordshire Police said: "We would like to apologise for any inconvenience and hope that the public understand that we have our duty to safeguard public safety."

Armed police swooped on a coach on the M6 Toll motorway in the West Midlands.

The competition which takes place on the Clyde this weekend, between Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, was first staged 140 years ago. It is the third oldest race of its kind in the world, just behind Oxford-Cambridge and the Yale-Harvard Regatta in the United States. Preparing for the race means lots of early morning training sessions. One such dawn chorus greeted the Glasgow University rowers as they arrived for their 06:45 session on the river Clyde by Glasgow Green. Those taking part are students from a wide variety of courses but they are linked by a passion for rowing. The first Scottish boat race took place on the River Clyde in 1877. Both Edinburgh and Glasgow University rowing clubs were formed 10 years earlier than that, so it is a rivalry which is more than a decade older than that of football's Old Firm of Celtic and Rangers. In an extraordinary winning streak Glasgow won every year between 2000 and 2012 but for the past four years Edinburgh has triumphed. Glasgow 1st VIII captain Gavin Shields says they have been working hard to regain their form. He says: "We've had a really good few years of developing some guys coming straight from beginner level. "It's definitely a work in progress. Edinburgh have have some really good results but it just makes us work harder to try to beat them." Gavin is studying psychology but the person who really has to get inside the heads of the crew is the 1st VIII cox and French student Rebecca Vest. She is the lone woman in the men's boat. Rebecca says: "You are one of the team but you are also in charge. "You have to make sure you have that respect which is earned throughout the year. "Sometimes it's difficult and it might take some months before some people in your crew accept your role and trust you to do your job properly." Glasgow's Women's 1st VIII won their race last year and the university's club captain and chemistry student Stuart Mitchell says the men are on course to win again in the future. He says: "People who take part in the sport are incredibly passionate about it and there's a lot of self starters in the club. "I think the club is only going to get bigger and better." Meanwhile at Scottish Rowing's impressive facility at Strathclyde Park near Hamilton athletes from Edinburgh University arrive for their training session well aware there are quite a few rising stars among their ranks. The standard is high, reflected in the recent selection of Maddie Arlett from the Women's 1st VIII for British Rowing's GB World Cup team. And of course another woman - five time Olympic medal winner Katherine Grainger - began her extraordinary rowing career while at Edinburgh. On the men's side Josh Armstrong, a first year sports management student, has a long term ambition to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. But in the more immediate future he is aiming to extend the winning streak of Edinburgh's 1st VIII over Glasgow from four years to five. Josh says: "This is the first time I'm going to be competing in it so I'm really looking forward to it. "The rivalry will be massive as both universities are in a really strong place just now. "But I think we'll be looking to get the win and would be slightly disappointed if we didn't get that." Some rowers like Josh are part of the university's elite performance sport department but coach Colin Williamson, who heads up Performance Rowing, insists that is only part of the explanation for Edinburgh's recent success. He says: "I don't really think there is a secret to it. We just put it down to hard work. "The guys train very hard and they train very consistently. "And with the good support services we have at Edinburgh, with our strength and conditioning and physio and Scottish Rowing and Sport Scotland, everything is there for the guys to reach their full potential." Last year Glasgow's women beat Edinburgh and the crew from the east coast are determined to settle that score this time round. Medical student Laura McDonald who coxes Edinburgh women's 1st VIII says the team is a better unit than before. She says: "I think there is a better bond within the crew this year. "Last year people were frustrated and there seemed to be something missing. This year everyone is in it together." The approaches of both teams to the sport might be slightly different but they match each other in their desire to win. When they meet on the Clyde beside the Riverside Museum on Saturday they will bring with them 300 years of history as rowing clubs, not to mention 140 years of the Scottish boat race itself which is the third oldest in the world. That is rather a lot of water under the bridge.

It is certainly not the country's most famous sporting event but the Scottish Boat Race is one of the oldest.

They found that targeting a part of the brain called the parietal lobe improved the ability of volunteers to solve numerical problems. They hope the discovery could help people with dyscalculia, who may struggle with numbers. Another expert said effects on other brain functions would need checking. The findings are reported in the journal Current Biology. Some studies have suggested that up to one in five people have trouble with maths, affecting not just their ability to complete problems but also to manage everyday activities such as telling the time and managing money. Neuroscientists believe that activity within the parietal lobe plays a crucial role in this ability, or the lack of it. When magnetic fields were used in earlier research to disrupt electrical activity in this part of the brain, previously numerate volunteers temporarily developed discalculia, finding it much harder to solve maths problems. The latest research goes a step further, using a one milliamp current to stimulate the parietal lobe of a small number of students. The current could not be felt, and had no measurable effect on other brain functions. As it was turned on, the volunteers tried to learn a puzzle which involved substituting numbers for symbols. Those given the current from right to left across the parietal lobe did significantly better when given, compared to those who were given no electrical stimulation. The direction of the current was important - those given stimulation running in the opposite direction, left to right, did markedly worse at these puzzles than those given no current, with their ability matching that of an average six-year-old. The effects were not short-lived, either. When the volunteers whose performance improved was re-tested six months later, the benefits appear to have persisted. There was no wider effect on general maths ability in either group, just on the ability to complete the puzzles learned as the current was applied. Dr Cohen Kadosh, who led the study, said: "We are not advising people to go around giving themselves electric shocks, but we are extremely excited by the potential of our findings and are now looking into the underlying brain changes. "We've shown before that we can induce dyscalculia, and now it seems we might be able to make someone better at maths, so we really want to see if we can help people with dyscalculia. By Fergus WalshMedical correspondent, BBC News Read more in Fergus's blog "Electrical stimulation is unlikely to turn you into the next Einstein, but if we're lucky it might be able to help some people to cope better with maths." Dr Christopher Chambers, from the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, said that the results were "intriguing", and offered the prospect not just of improving numerical skills, but having an impact on a wider range of conditions. He said: "The ability to tweak activity in parts of the brain, turning it slightly 'up' or 'down' at will, opens the door to treating a range of psychiatric and neurological problems, like compulsive gambling or visual impairments following stroke." However, he said that the study did not prove that the learning of maths skills was improved, just that the volunteers were better at linking arbitrary numbers and symbols, and he warned that researchers needed to make sure other parts of the brain were unaffected. "This is still an exciting new piece of research, but if we don't know how selective the effects of brain stimulation are then we don't know what other brain systems could also be affected, either positively or negatively." Sue Flohr, from the British Dyslexia Association, which also provides support for people with dyscalculia, said the research was welcome. She said: "It's certainly an under-recognised condition, but it can ruin lives. "It makes it very hard to do everyday things like shopping or budgeting - you can go into a shop and find you've spent your month's money without realising it."

Applying a tiny electrical current to the brain could make you better at learning maths, according to Oxford University scientists.