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The £42m MV Loch Seaforth made its first passenger sailing last month but is still in a "test period" and not fully in service. Thursday's fault took five hours to fix and the ferry was cleared again for sailings. Another ferry, the Isle of Lewis, took the passengers involved. Bad weather has led the cancellations of Friday sailings on the Stornoway-Ullapool route and other services on Scotland's west coast. Ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne said withdrawing the Loch Seaforth had been an operational decision and the fault would not have prevented the ship from sailing. A spokesman said: "Yesterday evening an issue arose with an engine room ventilation fan which required attention and an operational decision was taken to remove her from the route while it was fixed. "While passengers were delayed, and we regret any inconvenience to them, no-one was stranded." A spokesman added: "This was not a major issue but it required around five hours of work as the fan was in a difficult to reach location."

A new ferry built for the Stornoway to Ullapool route was temporarily withdrawn from passenger duties because of a faulty ventilation fan.

New head coach Paul Clement had confirmed club legend and former caretaker boss Curtis would no longer be involved with the first team. Curtis, 62, played more than 350 games for the Swans, has been caretaker manager three times and has also served the club as first-team coach. The new role will see him monitor players from the first team and Under-23s on loan at other clubs. Curtis will also assist the likes of scout Brian Flynn in the identification and recruitment of young players. The Premier League has made the loan player manager's role a requirement for all clubs. "I'm delighted to take up the new role," said Curtis. "It was an opportunity I jumped at following very amicable discussions. It's a very important role and one that excites me." Former Derby County boss Clement was appointed on Tuesday following the departure of Bob Bradley last week. Curtis was in charge for the 2-1 win at Crystal Palace, the day Clement's arrival was confirmed. Ex-Wales international Curtis has held a number of coaching roles with Swansea, and was appointed first-team coach by Michael Laudrup - a role he subsequently kept under Garry Monk, Francesco Guidolin and Bradley. The former Leeds and Southampton forward has previously been assistant manager, youth team manager and Football in the Community officer at Swansea. As a player he scored 32 goals during the club's promotion season in 1977-78 and was part of the team managed by John Toshack that won promotion to the old First Division in 1981. "While Alan has stepped away from a direct first-team coaching role, we felt it was imperative we kept him as part of our footballing structure and have his presence around the club and training ground," said Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins. "Not only does he have a wealth of knowledge and experience, he is respected throughout the game, not just in Swansea." Swansea have had as many as 12 players out on loan at one time this season. Bafetimbi Gomis (Marseille), Franck Tabanou (Granada), Kyle Bartley (Leeds United), Matt Grimes (Leeds United), Marvin Emnes (Blackburn), Ryan Hedges (Yeovil) Liam Shepherd (Yeovil), Josh Vickers (Barnet) and Josh Sheehan (Newport) are currently on loan, while Connor Roberts (Bristol Rovers), Kenji Gorre (Northampton) and Adam King (Southend) have recently returned.

Swansea City have named Alan Curtis as the club's first loan player manager.

Photographs of the endangered Magnolia dealbata, held by Bristol-based Arkive, were seen by a botanist at a Mexican university more than 5,500 miles away. The plants were tracked to Mexico's Serra Gorda Biosphere Reserve and identified. Lucie Muir, chief executive of Arkive, said they were "thrilled" by the discovery. After seeing pictures of the flowers, botanist Dr Jose Antonio Vazquez asked the original photographer for more images of the plant. Photographer Roberto Pedraza Ruiz said he then made several more trips to the forest "documenting the flowers and fruits of the trees until finally receiving confirmation that I had photographed not only one but two completely new species of magnolias". The first specimen was named Magnolia rzedowskiana, after emininet Mexican botanist, Dr Jerzy Rzedowski, while the second is to be named Magnolia pedrazae, in honour of its photographer. Mr Ruiz said: "This is without doubt the highest honour that a conservationist and nature photographer can receive." The Arkive website, run by the charity Wildscreen, hosts 16,000 images of flora and fauna. It claims to be the world's largest online encyclopaedia of life, receiving donations of images from wildlife film-makers, photographers, conservationists and scientists.

Two new species of magnolia flower have been identified after being spotted on "Noah's Ark" online archive.

Bakewell man Stephen Downing was convicted in 1974 for killing Wendy Sewell but that was overturned in 2002. Chris Clark said he has uncovered a crucial pathology report showing she was strangled, which was never told to the jury. The Home Office said it would send any new criminal evidence to the police. Evidence of police misconduct would be referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the Home Office added. Derbyshire police said the case was closed after a reinvestigation in 2002. Mr Clark, a retired Norfolk police officer, said he has sent his findings to the Home Office after obtaining the original pathology report last month. He said he believed the report showed Mrs Sewell had clear signs of being strangled. She was found battered in a Bakewell cemetery in 1973 and died in hospital two days later. Mr Downing admitted beating her with a pickaxe handle but later retracted that statement, only to be found guilty by a jury. "I'm reporting the facts as I see them. The pathologist had evidence in his report that could have exonerated Stephen Downing," Mr Clark said. He said the pathologist's report showed bruising on her neck consistent with a "knotted ligature" used to garrotte her and a rash in her lungs and airways, possibly caused by strangulation. Mr Clark said none of this was used in Mr Downing's trial. He added the evidence may mean her death was linked to the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe. Mr Downing was 17 at the time of Mrs Sewell's murder but was assessed as having a mental age of 11. His father Ray Downing and Matlock Mercury editor Don Hale campaigned for his release and in 2002 the Court of Appeal found his conviction unsafe because of "procedural reasons". Mr Hale said the pathology report directly conflicted with the evidence the police presented at the time and called for an independent investigation into the murder. "This information was available within two or three days of Mr Downing being arrested and it completely contradicts this so-called confession," he said. But Derbyshire police said the murder was reinvestigated following the quashing of the conviction and it considered the matter closed. "All possible lines of inquiry were exhausted during the re-investigation. Twenty two people were ruled out of the enquiry but officers were unable to eliminate Stephen Downing as a suspect," a spokeswoman said. She added there was no evidence to suggest Peter Sutcliffe - the Yorkshire Ripper - was involved.

A retired police officer has reported Derbyshire police to the Home Office over claims they withheld evidence in a 1973 murder case.

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

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

The IMF's steering committee, made up of 25 of the world's largest economies, said the global outlook was fraught because of weak trade and a series of risks including a UK exit from the EU. It urged countries to boost public spending and avoid deflation. The IMF last week made its second cut to global growth forecasts this year. Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, described the talks between finance ministers and central bankers in Washington DC as "collective therapy" to deal with the gloomy prospects. But she said calmer financial markets since February had reduced the nerves at the IMF spring meeting. "There was not exactly the same level of anxiety but I think there was an equal level of concern, and a collective endeavour to identify the solution and the responses to the global economic situation," she said. The IMF now predicts global growth of 3.2% this year and 3.5% in 2017, having previously forecast 3.4% and 3.6% respectively. "Downside risks to the global economic outlook have increased since October, raising the possibility of a more generalised slowdown and a sudden pull-back of capital flows," the IMF steering committee said. It said countries' tax policies and public spending should be "as growth-friendly as possible". But it also pledged to "refrain from all forms of protectionism and competitive devaluations", amid concerns that some countries are keeping their currencies weak to boost exports.

Key countries in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have pledged to pursue "growth-friendly" policies to kickstart the slowing world economy.

It wants to redress the balance from the university's walls being lined with pictures of "dead white males" by adding more women and ethnic minorities. The portraits include broadcasters Dame Esther Rantzen and Reeta Chakrabarti. Oxford's head of equality Trudy Coe said it was "sending a signal". This commissioning of portraits is one of the biggest projects by the university to create a more diverse range of people portrayed in its public places - including more women, people from ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians and people with disabilities. The university faced a high-profile controversy last year over whether a statue of Cecil Rhodes should be removed - after claims that the Victorian colonialist's attitudes on race made him an unsuitable figure to be commemorated. The new pictures on the ancient walls will include scientist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and author Jeanette Winterson. There will also be some men, including film maker Ken Loach. "We're not taking anyone down - but the portraits have been almost exclusively men and we're just beginning to redress the balance," says Ms Coe, head of the university's equality and diversity unit. "It will allow students to look up and see people who look like them. It's sending a signal to a wider range of students that they belong here," she says. Ms Coe says the new pictures will reflect the modern reality of university life - and the people who have been painted or photographed have been nominated by current staff and students. The people depicted have links with the university - such as being former students or academic staff - with the criteria that they were examples of excellence and widened the range of pictures from the "narrow and traditional" and "challenged stereotypes". Among the people to be represented will be criminologist and disability rights campaigner, Marie Tidball. "Symbols are important," she said. There are millions of people with a disability in the UK, Ms Tidball said, but they have a "lack of visibility in public spaces". The commissioning of a picture of an academic with a disability was a "very significant" step towards making sure that all kinds of students could feel at home at the university, she said. "I really hope that this speaks to kids now doing their GCSEs," said Ms Tidball. And she rejected suggestions of an excess of political correctness as "absolute nonsense". BBC journalist Reeta Chakrabarti said it was a project which reflected the university's current staff and living alumni. These are people who are "alive and kicking, a representation of modern day Britain," she said. "You could just continue to portray the same people, but it wouldn't be a reflection of how the university and society have changed," she said. "Different ages, different societies celebrate different values." As a student at Oxford, she said "there weren't many people there who were like me, from my sort of background". But she had an "overwhelmingly positive experience" and "nothing about Oxford made me feel out of place". Oxford University has faced questions about whether it is admitting enough poorer students and state-school pupils. Admissions figures published earlier this year showed that Oxford had one of the lowest proportions of state school pupils of any UK university. This showed that universities such as Bristol, Durham and Cambridge were admitting a higher proportion of state school pupils than Oxford. The new portraits:

Oxford University is revealing the identities of more than 20 people whose portraits will be put on display to try to "promote greater diversity".

"CETA is done and we will not reopen it," said EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom. Ms Malmstrom was speaking as EU trade ministers met in Slovakia to discuss CETA and a similar deal with the US, TTIP, which has also faced criticism. A draft CETA deal has been agreed, but parliaments could still delay it. Thousands of activists protested against CETA and TTIP in Germany on Saturday and thousands more in Brussels - outside the EU's headquarters - on Tuesday. Activists fear that the deals could water down European standards in the key areas of workers' rights, public health and the environment. There is also great anxiety about proposed special courts where investors will be able to sue governments if they feel that legislation hurts their business unfairly. Critics say the mere existence of such courts - an alternative to national courts - will have a "chilling" effect on policymakers, leading to slacker regulation on the environment and welfare. Would CETA be a good model for the UK? European Parliament briefing on CETA TTIP: The EU-US trade deal explained Are US-Europe TTIP trade talks tanking? Ms Malmstrom said CETA would dominate Friday's meeting in Bratislava. The Commission hopes the deal can be signed with Canada at the end of October, so that it can then go to the European Parliament for ratification. But it will also need to be ratified by national parliaments across the EU. "What we are discussing with the Canadians is if we should make some clarifications, a declaration so that we can cover some of those concerns," Ms Malmstrom said. She acknowledged fears in some countries that politicians might see their "the right to regulate" diluted. "Maybe that [right] needs to be even clearer in a declaration," she said, admitting that the CETA negotiations were still "difficult". Karoline Graswander-Hainz, an Austrian Socialist MEP, said the EU's top court - the European Court of Justice - must first examine the proposed Investment Court System (ICS) to check its legality. CETA holds "great risks" for Europe, she warned, adding that some of her fellow MEPs thought likewise. German Vice-Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel called CETA "a model for future deals". But he was pessimistic about TTIP. "The Americans were not prepared to make Europe offers that Canada made, and so there will definitely not be a [TTIP] deal this year," he said. Supporters of CETA and TTIP say such deals could set global trade standards, warning that failure could mean China setting the standards. CETA and TTIP promise to remove tariffs and non-tariff barriers, boosting growth on both sides of the Atlantic, free trade advocates say.

The European Commission has ruled that a controversial EU-Canada free trade deal - CETA - cannot be renegotiated, despite much opposition in Europe.

Dear Alison I am compelled to write and seek review of an historic case of rape. Unusually, and contrary to current practice and the ACPO/CPS Guidance on the Investigation and Prosecution of Rape Cases, the investigation into the serious allegations in this case was dropped before the suspect was interviewed. The elements of lack of freedom and capacity to consent - which may even have triggered the "no consent" legal presumption - make the decision highly irregular. This is shocking in itself. It further troubles me that the senior police officer who dropped the case revealed to the victim he apparently took a series of worthless stereotypes and other irrelevant points into consideration. He did this after apparently consulting with an unnamed CPS official. Most of these stereotypes have been blown out of the water in recent months. Or so I thought. There has been a sea change in the climate surrounding rape, historic cases in particular. Why is it that the tide has not reached this case? I am driven to the unpalatable conclusion that the identity of the alleged perpetrator - Leon Brittan - may in some way have influenced treatment of the case. I hope I am wrong. But in my view the case demands your personal attention and an immediate review by the CPS Area Head of Sexual Offences. As you know, I have been working with the Metropolitan police on a number of cases involving sexual crimes over the last 18 months. I have been the recipient of a considerable amount of information from victims directly, much of which I have passed on to the police. You will know that some of this information has already led to arrests. I anticipate that, under your leadership, more work will follow. I enclose a contemporaneous note written by victim _________ of a rather blunt conversation she had with DCI Settle concerning his decision to drop the case. I invite you to note, in particular, that he told the victim - who had been locked in a flat and tried to escape from the bathroom window: "There is no evidence he asked you for sex, forced you to have sex, or asked you to take off your clothes, which you did voluntarily" This was apparently considered to be a fatal deficiency. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the victim has not has this confirmed in writing as promised. I asked _______ to share her thoughts after her experience of reporting a crime. These are her words: "My feelings are that I have been brutally misled having been encouraged by the DPP statements to come forward with my historical case following the Savile affair. All the public pronouncements after Savile suggested that these investigations would be treated sensitively, non-judgmentally and in a victim-centric way. I have been interviewed twice in long, harrowing video sessions first by ______ Police, then MPS [Metropolitan Police Service]. I have been encouraged by the MPS to believe that my evidence is both credible and corroborated. I have repeatedly had to relive the most harrowing night of my life, long pushed to the back of my mind. Then, when I had the temerity to question a police decision I have been turned on by a senior police officer, apparently with the support of the CPS. I have been implicitly accused of making an allegation against someone because 'it is all about who he is'. I have been implicitly accused of being a slut because I sat on a bed. These are attitudes that women of my generation associate with the police and prosecution authorities of the sixties and seventies, not an enlightened and publicly accountable twenty- first century service. It was these attitudes that made me think I would get nowhere if I proceeded with the case when the rape happened. It seems nothing has changed". I have found myself appalled at the conduct of this investigation. I would like to believe that it is not typical of the CPS and Metropolitan police as a whole. However the case raises some very serious questions which are likely to remain unanswered without your attention. In the light of this, please could you confirm to me that: Everyone is complicit in the failures of the past. But we have an opportunity now to put matters right. Any attempt to perpetuate a CPS in which a victim's acquiescence in or inability to escape rape is a barrier to prosecution would fail, with grievous consequences, and would be wrong. There is a strong public interest in getting this right. I have every confidence that your leadership, and personal intervention in this case, will take the CPS in an altogether better direction.

Below is the full letter that deputy Labour leader Tom Watson sent to the director public prosecutions Alison Saunders in April 2014 urging her to look again at the Lord Brittan allegations.

He was minister of information for the group, and oversaw the production of propaganda videos showing executions. A statement posted online did not say when, where or how he had died. The Pentagon last month said an air strike killed him near Raqqa in Syria on 7 September. He was among the few remaining founding members of IS, and had reportedly played a leading role in setting up the jihadist group's key media outfits, including Amaq news agency, and in launching its multilingual magazines, such as Dabiq. Born Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad in Iraq, his nickname 'al-Furqan' is thought to be derived from his reported role in running al-Furqan Media Foundation - IS's long-standing media arm. The media chief, who was known as an ultra hard-liner, had also been a member of the IS leadership group, the Shura Council. Experts say he had no public profile prior to his death, nor was he officially mentioned by IS before. Such secrecy is thought to be in line with the group's policy on most of its top figures during their lifetime. The confirmation of his death comes at a time when research shows that the volume of IS propaganda is in decline. A new study, by the Combating Terrorism Centre of the US military academy at West Point, logged fewer than 200 items in August, down from a peak of more than 700 the year before. Abu Mohammed al-Furqan was a close associate of another one of the group's propagandists, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, who was killed in an air strike in August. Adnani was one of the group's most high-profile figures with a $5m (£4m) bounty on his head. "The removal of ISIL's senior leaders degrades its ability to retain territory, and its ability to plan, finance, and direct attacks inside and outside of the region," the Pentagon said in a statement, using an alternative name for IS.

The Islamic State group (IS) has confirmed the death last month of one of its most senior leaders, Abu Mohammed al-Furqan.

Toulon's Halfpenny, 26, ruptured anterior cruciate knee ligaments during Wales' 23-19 win over Italy at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Scrum-half Rhys Webb, also 26, suffered an ankle injury in the match, but there is no news yet on the extent of the damage. Halfpenny's likely replacement at full-back, Liam Williams, has not played since having foot surgery in June. The other two full-backs in Wales' 31-man squad - Bristol's Matthew Morgan and Dragons' Hallam Amos - have six caps between them. Halfpenny has scored 508 points in 62 appearances for Wales. The Welsh Rugby Union has not said who will replace Halfpenny. Wales start their World Cup campaign against Uruguay in Cardiff on 20 September, before playing co-hosts England, Fiji and Australia their remaining Pool A matches. Former Wales Shane Williams has questioned coach Warren Gatland's decision to select Halfpenny against Italy. Halfpenny started the game with strapping on his right leg, suggesting he was already carrying an injury. Record Wales try-scorer Williams said the victory over Italy was "just horrendous for Wales". "Webb has been the form player for Wales and to lose Halfpenny as well, it's just a massive blow," he said. "You kind of thought 'do we need Halfpenny on the field? Let's wrap him up in cotton wool and roll him out when we really need him'. "Wales is in mourning already. Especially with Halfpenny, he was strapped up on his leg anyway." Props: Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs), Paul James (Ospreys), Aaron Jarvis (Ospreys), Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Samson Lee (Scarlets). Hookers: Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Ken Owens (Scarlets). Locks: Jake Ball (Scarlets), Luke Charteris (Racing 92), Dominic Day (Bath), Bradley Davies (Wasps), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys). Back-rows: Taulupe Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons), James King (Ospreys), Dan Lydiate (Ospreys), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues, capt). Scrum-halves: Gareth Davies (Scarlets), Rhys Webb (Ospreys), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues). Fly-halves: Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Matthew Morgan (Bristol), Rhys Priestland (Bath). Centres: Cory Allen (Cardiff Blues), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Scott Williams (Scarlets). Wings: Hallam Amos (Newport Gwent Dragons), Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), George North (Northampton Saints). Full-back: Liam Williams (Scarlets).

Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny is out of the Rugby World Cup.

Mr Cowen had to deny being drunk or hungover during the RTE interview. The taoiseach was interviewed live from his party's conference, which is taking place in Galway. On Wednesday he said: "I'm sorry that it emerged in the quality it did. There was a hoarseness in my voice throughout the day yesterday." He added: "It wasn't my best performance and I would like to apologise for that. "I would hate to think the reputation of the country or the office of taoiseach would in any way be affected by what I had to say." Mr Cowen again denied any suggestions he was hungover. "The assertions made subsequent to it were without justification, without foundation, were not correct, were not true," he said. Mr Cowen had attended the Fianna Fail party dinner at the Ardilaun Hotel in Galway on Monday night. Following the interview, the finance spokesman for the Republic's opposition claimed there were concerns over the leadership of the country. "There was a feeling this morning that this can't continue, the game is up," said Fine Gael's Michael Noonan. Simon Coveney, also of Fine Gael, who said in a Twitter message on Tuesday that Mr Cowen sounded "half-way between drunk and hungover" in the interview, has said he accepted the taoiseach's apology. Mr Coveney said that he believed Mr Cowen, but added that he did not regret his previous tweet. He said it took "a big person to apologise when big mistakes are made as was the case yesterday morning and the Taosieach should be recognised for that."

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has admitted that a controversial radio interview he gave on Tuesday was not his "best performance".

The 2012 Tour de France champion's assertion was questioned after leaked World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) documents revealed he had been given three injections of allergy medication. "Brad stands by his comment concerning the use of illegal intravenous needle injections," a spokesman said. Wiggins' medical records were leaked by the 'Fancy Bears' hacking team. The records show Wiggins was given permission to take two banned substances on several occasions between 2008 and 2013, prior to competitions including the 2011 and 2012 Tours de France and the 2013 Giro d'Italia. One of the substances, triamcinolone, was taken for an allergy to pollen, according to the certificates. It is the same drug for which disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong tested positive at the 1999 Tour de France. However, Wiggins' use of the substance was legal as it was covered by a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) relating to his asthma. In his 2012 book My Time, Wiggins said he had "never had an injection, apart from I've had my vaccinations, and on occasion I've been put on a drip, when I've come down with diarrhoea or something or have been severely dehydrated". In a statement, Wiggins' spokesman said his comments in the book referred to the "historic and illegal practice of intravenous injections of performance-enhancing substances, which was the subject of a law change by [cycling's governing body] the UCI in 2011". "The triamcinolone injection that is referred to in the Wada leaks is an intramuscular treatment for asthma and is fully approved by the sport's governing bodies." Wiggins also denied controversial Belgian doctor Geert Leinders had had any involvement in the decision to apply for TUEs before major races. Leinders was hired by Team Sky, Wiggins' team at the time, in 2011 and worked for them on a consultancy basis until his name appeared in the United States Anti-Doping Agency's investigation into Armstrong in 2012. Leinders was subsequently banned for life for multiple doping violations carried out when he worked for the Rabobank cycling team between 1996 and 2009. "Brad has no direct link to Geert Leinders," the statement added. "Leinders was 'on race' doctor for Team Sky for a short period and so was occasionally present at races dealing with injuries sustained whilst racing such as colds, bruises, etc. "Leinders had no part in Brad's TUE application; Brad's medical assessments from 2011-2015 were processed by the official Team Sky doctor, and were verified by independent specialists." A TUE allows an athlete, for medical reasons, to take a prescribed substance or undergo treatment that is otherwise prohibited. British athletes must contact their national governing body or follow UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) guidance before applying for a TUE. There are strict criteria for one to be granted: Ukad says it has "a number of robust controls in place to make it as difficult as possible" for athletes to misuse the system.

Sir Bradley Wiggins has defended claims made in his 2012 autobiography that he had never received injections.

Just as David Letterman had his painfully awkward "Uma, Oprah" routine and Seth Macfarlane his catastrophically misjudged song We Saw Your Boobs, Harris will be recalled mostly as the guy who presented in his pants. It was certainly an arresting image, the How I Met Your Mother star clad only in socks, shoes and what are referred to in America as "tighty whiteys." It was a reference to a scene from Birdman, and - like any time Johnny Depp sings - you had to admire the courage, if not the execution. And at least it was memorable, unlike almost anything Harris actually said. Bafflingly, given the amount of potential material to work with - the Sony hack; the Interview row; the #OscarsSoWhite Twitter campaign - the script saw Harris referring to Reese Witherspoon as someone he could eat "with a spoon." The actor was one of a team of 12 Oscar writers. Just think - one of them worked on that humdinger. The other 11 approved it. Even more puzzling, things had started brilliantly. The first line was by far the best - "tonight we honour Hollywood's best and whitest - sorry, brightest" - a reference to the #OscarsSoWhite debate that followed the nominations. Then there was the opening song, about the wonder of "moving pictures", featuring Harris, Anna Kendrick and Jack Black - and dancing Stormtroopers. Harris, a Tony Award-winner on Broadway, pulled it off like Steve Martin or Billy Crystal at their best, putting himself into classic movie scenes while pulling off clever rhymes like "Argo / And Fargo / Or when Marty made his car go". Having nailed it, he turned to the camera and smiled. "That whole thing? Completely improvised." It was pretty much the last big laugh he achieved. From there on, flat setups began crashing into flubbed punchlines with the alacrity of a drunk sailor inviting the entire pub to have a go if they think they're hard enough. There was a predictable joke about Harvey Weinstein (there always is); a bit where he started to talk to the seat fillers and then seemed to immediately lose heart; a routine about his Oscar predictions so laboured it was on the verge of setting up its own union. By halfway through there was terror in Harris' eyes whenever the camera came to him. A part where he asked David Oyelowo to read an insult about the remake of Annie - which had recast the lead with a black actress - was fist-gnawingly uncomfortable. It's worth noting, however, that it was this undercurrent of racial politics that gave the night its most memorable moments. Oyelowo was in tears as he listened to the performance of Glory by John Legend and Common from Selma. It was an intense, powerful performance which had the entire audience on their feet as it finished. When Glory shortly afterwards gained Legend and Common (under their real names of John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn) the best song trophy, they electrified with a passionate joint speech. "Nina Simone said it was an artist's duty to reflect the times we live. Selma may be 50 years ago, but it is now, because the struggle for justice is right now," they insisted, and the music that normally strikes up to urge the winners off the stage stayed silent. Indeed it was a night for politics. Best Actress Patricia Arquette called for equality for women; Best Adapted Screenplay winner Graham Moore urged young people confused about their sexuality to "stay weird"; Best Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu spoke about the Mexicans "who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation". Meanwhile, at the end - in every sense - Harris fluffed a gag about mispronouncing Chiwetel Ejiofor's name. In the context of what had preceded it, it struck a particularly flat note. The Oscars aren't going to stop being seen as white and elitist if every year the writers insist on mining this seam of "exotic names are weird and hard to say." That is hardly Harris' fault. Nevertheless, it really did highlight the contrast of the night: That between black politics and white pants.

Neil Patrick Harris' debut turn as Oscars host was one of the most forgettable for years - although one moment will define him forever.

The newly minted millionaire was reported to have just returned from a holiday with his family when they were told the news. "My husband was literally pumping the air when he was on the phone," said the unnamed child's mother, according to local media. It is not known how the winner reacted. Bonus Bonds are an investment that pays out thousands of prizes to savers, lottery-style, every month. NZ$1m is the biggest monthly prize. The child's Bonus Bonds account was reportedly set up when he was born with just NZ$250 ($180; £140) worth of bonds, given by a relative. ANZ bank, which runs the scheme, confirmed the win but said it was respecting the family's wishes by not giving further information about the winner.

A New Zealand toddler has won NZ$1m ($726,600; £560,700) in Bonus Bonds prize money - the youngest ever winner of the investment lottery scheme.

Media playback is not supported on this device Webber led after the final pit stops and the drivers were told to hold position to the end of the race but Vettel passed Webber after a tussle with 13 laps to go. Vettel has since apologised for the incident. Media playback is not supported on this device Lewis Hamilton took third ahead of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, who obeyed an order to stay behind. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso crashed on the second lap after breaking his front wing. The Spaniard's team-mate Felipe Massa took fifth, fighting past the Lotus cars of Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen in the closing laps after the Lotus team's gamble to try to do only three pit stops rather than four failed. Grosjean finished sixth ahead of Raikkonen, who won the first race in Australia last weekend. McLaren's Jenson Button was on for a points-scoring finish, possibly in fifth place, before he was sent on his way from a pit stop with a loose front wheel. The Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg took eighth ahead of McLaren's Sergio Perez, with Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne 10th. It was a race full of drama as the intra-team battles at Red Bull and Mercedes played out live. "The Malaysian Grand Prix team orders controversy at Red Bull is only the latest episode of a long-running drama between Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. "It goes right back to 2010, when the two crashed while Vettel tried to pass Webber for the lead of the Turkish Grand Prix. "Since then, there has been a litany of further incidents at the team as the two men, both intensely determined and tough but very different in other ways, have battled for supremacy. "Adding spice to it is Webber's belief that, while they profess to allow them to battle it out on the track, the team is more behind Vettel than him. "The belief - widely shared within F1 - is founded on the way the team have responded to the various situations between their drivers. "In their battle in Malaysia there may even have been a bit of residual revenge on Vettel's part - the German and his champion at Red Bull, motorsport chief Helmet Marko, felt Webber was obstructive in last season's title-deciding Brazilian Grand Prix." The battle between the Red Bulls was resolved in an intense scrap as Webber rejoined from his final pit stop. Vettel was warned by team boss Christian Horner that he was being "silly" but the two then battled wheel-to-wheel around Turns One and Two onto Turn Four, where Webber appeared finally to yield to his team-mate despite having the inside line. Webber said: "After the last stop the team told me the race was over and we turned the engines down and go to the end. The team made their decision. Seb made his own decision and he will have protection as usual." Vettel was told over the radio after the race: "Good job, Seb. Looks like you wanted it bad enough. Still you've got some explaining to do." Webber had initially taken the lead at the first stops as the drivers came in to fit dry-weather tyres following a wet start. He had led the race throughout, with the two Red Bull drivers using the two available tyre compounds in different orders. Vettel chose to end the race on the softer 'medium' tyre while Webber was on the hard. Vettel said: "Obviously it is very hot and if there is something to say we need to say it internally." Red Bull motorsport chief Helmut Marko, a powerful champion of Vettel, admitted the battle had "got out of control". Meanwhile, there was controversy at Mercedes as Rosberg followed Hamilton closely in the final laps. Media playback is not supported on this device Rosberg asked the team to let him pass Hamilton, but was told "negative" by team boss Ross Brawn. When he complained again, Brawn told him that Hamilton - who had earlier been told to save fuel - was also being "controlled" and could also go faster. Hamilton admitted on the podium: "I can't say it's the best feeling being up here today. If I'm honest I really feel Nico should be standing here." Hamilton had provided an amusing diversion when, coming in for his second stop, he headed into the pit box of former team McLaren before being waved on towards Mercedes. "I did a Jenson," he said. "He did it a couple of years ago and I've done it today. Apologies to my team." The result puts Vettel into the championship lead by 11 points from Raikkonen. Webber is five points further adrift and ahead of Hamilton, Massa and Alonso, who is already 22 points behind Vettel, the man who narrowly beat him to the title 2010 and 2012. Alonso started third and was up to second, past Massa, by the first corner. But he tapped the back of Vettel's car in Turn Two. It was the lightest of touches but enough to break the front wing mounts. He held onto second place throughout the first lap but did not stop to change it and it collapsed heading into Turn One on the second lap, sending him into the gravel trap. Ferrari said the decision not to stop was made in the pits. Alonso wrote later on Twitter: "Bad luck today. As always over 19 races we will be compensated and we are ready to recover good points in the next race." Result: 1. Sebastian Vettel (Ger), Red Bull, 1hr 38min 56.681secs 2. Mark Webber (Aus), Red Bull, 1:39:00.979 3. Lewis Hamilton (GB), Mercedes, 1:39:08.862 4. Nico Rosberg (Ger), Mercedes, 1:39:09.321 5. Felipe Massa (Brz), Ferrari, 1:39:22.329 6. Romain Grosjean (Fra), Lotus, 1:39:32.245 7. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin), Lotus, 1:39:45.160 8. Nico Hulkenberg (Ger), Sauber, 1:39:49.725 9. Sergio Perez (Mex), McLaren, 1:40:09.038 10. Jean-Eric Vergne (Fra), Toro Rosso, 1:40:23.805 11. Valtteri Bottas (Fin), Williams, 1:40:25.291 12. Esteban Gutierrez (Mex), Sauber, 1:39:01.194 13. Jules Bianchi (Fra), Marussia, 1:39:55.128 14. Charles Pic (Fra), Caterham, 1.40:29.370 15. Giedo van der Garde (Ned), Caterham, 1:40:38.354 16. Max Chilton (GB), Marussia, 1:39:14.486 17. Jenson Button (GB), McLaren, 1:35:35.060 18. Daniel Ricciardo (Aus), Toro Rosso, 1:32:16.617 Did not finish Pastor Maldonado (Ven), Williams, 45 laps. Adrian Sutil (Ger), Force India, 27 laps. Paul di Resta (GB), Force India, 22 laps. Fernando Alonso (Spa), Ferrari, 1 lap.

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel ignored team orders in the Malaysian GP to win an intense battle with Mark Webber.

That was a 20% increase on the same period last year. The profit was achieved on turnover of £152m, up from £117m the previous year. First Derivatives makes financial analysis software used by investment banks all over the world and the firm now employs more than 1,750 people. They also provide consultancy services and are diversifying into new markets, primarily marketing technology and utilities. Chairman Seamus Keating said they have made an encouraging start to the current financial year. "We are engaged in numerous discussions across industries and believe our products and services are well placed competitively. "Consequently we anticipate another year of strong growth," he said. The firm was founded by Brian Conlon in 1996 and floated on the stock market in 2002. At that time, it had just 26 employees and a turnover of less than £2m. It is understood that the company is planning to develop a significant amount of new office space close to its existing headquarters in Newry. That will be largely to accommodate the growth in its managed services business

First Derivatives, the financial technology firm based in Newry, County Down, made £12.5m profit before tax for the year to the end of February.

The group were convicted of Tuesday of assaulting social worker and activist Ken Tsang as he took part in the 2014 pro-democracy rallies. TV cameras caught the officers removing Mr Tsang from the protest area to a nearby park and kicking and punching him as he lay on the ground. The incident, at the height of the protests, caused public outrage. Police in Hong Kong are generally well-respected and incidents of police violence are rare, though there were accusations of heavy-handedness during the protests. The 2014 protests saw 79 days of student-led demonstrations and street occupations by protesters seeking freedom from mainland Chinese intervention in elections for the territory's leader. Defence lawyer Lawrence Lok had argued that the protests had affected police morale, saying that one of the officers who watched the violence had been physically and verbally abused by protesters. But in sentencing, Judge David Dufton noted the men had been working under "immense stress" but that there was "no justification" for their actions. The "vicious assault" had "brought damage to Hong Kong in the international community", he said. Tuesday's ruling said Mr Tsang suffered injuries to his face, neck and body, but that these did not amount to the original charge of "grievous bodily harm". Last year Mr Tsang was himself found guilty of assaulting and resisting officers on the same evening. He splashed an unknown liquid on police and was handed a five-week sentence. Hong Kong has been part of China since 1997 but enjoys a high degree of autonomy under a principle of "one country, two systems". But many Hong Kong locals are concerned about what they see as growing Chinese influence in the city's affairs, with some activists even calling for independence from China.

Seven Hong Kong police officers have been jailed for two years each for beating a handcuffed protester.

Trinity led 16-10 at the break after tries from former Cas centre Joe Arundel (2) and stand-off Jacob Miller. Cas had mustered two first-half scores by Greg Minikin and Oliver Holmes But they added six more after the break through Andre Savelio, Luke Gale, who also kicked seven goals, Junior Moors, Ryan Hampshire, Minikin and Holmes. It was a debut try for forward Savelio, who only joined the Tigers on loan from St Helens on Wednesday, but Cas lost Rangi Chase with a back problem while Super League's leading try scorer winger Denny Solomona pulled out with food poisoning.. Wakefield, who lost centre Bill Tupou, second rower Jonny Molloy and loose forward Mickey Sio with injuries, managed just one score in the second half, from winger Reece Lyne, while Liam Finn failied to add to his two first-half kicks. The Tigers' storming finish, in which they scored five tries in 22 minutes, secured a fourth successive derby win to climb a place into sixth above Wakefield. Trinity drop to eighth thanks to Widnes beating fifth-placed Catalans, although they were all already guaranteed a top-eight finish ahead of the Super 8s split. But for Salford's six-point deduction, the injury-hit Wildcats would have ended up in the Qualifiers. Instead, they can now turn their attention to next Saturday's Challenge Cup semi-final against Warrington at Leigh Sports Village - and their bid to reach a first Wembley final for 37 years. Wakefield coach Chris Chester: "We had one guy fit on the bench for the last 35 minutes and that really hurt us. We had a front-rower (David Fifita) who played 65 minutes in the middle which was a great achievement. "It was a good even contest for 50 minutes then we get a penalty, miss touch and we give a penalty away and concede. It took it away from us. "I'm not overly disappointed because there was bags of effort out there but we just ran out of troops, and Castleford were too good for us. "Bill came off with a hamstring injury, Jonny Molloy has got a pectoral issue and Mickey Sio got a sternum injury so those three couldn't come back." Castleford coach Daryl Powell: "It's been an incredible effort for us over 23 rounds. 14 players couldn't play today. It's been really tough. "So for us to end up finishing sixth is an awesome achievement. I'm really proud of the players. We'll reap the rewards in the long run from what's happened this year." "We were a bit helter-skelter at times but it was really pleasing how we grabbed the game in the second half. "Savelio did really well. He's trained with us a couple of times and he handled himself really well. He's a good player. I've always rated him - and he fitted into our team really well." Wakefield: Jowitt; Lyne, B Tupou, Arundel, Hall; Miller, Finn; Scruton, Sio, Fifita, Walton, Ashurst, Molloy. Replacements: Crowther, Arona, Moules, A Tupou. Castleford: Hampshire; Flynn, Crooks, O Holmes, Minikin; McShane, Gale; Springer, Milner, Patrick, Mariano, Millington, Moors. Replacements: Savelio, T Holmes, Cook, Maher. Referee: Joe Cobb (RFL).

Castleford ran in eight tries to win the Super League derby at neighbours Wakefield and move above their West Yorkshire rivals in the table.

The blackout lasted just over an hour and started just before midnight on 17 December. The cyber-security company Information Systems Security Partners (ISSP) has linked the incident to a hack and blackout in 2015 that affected 225,000. It also said a series of other recent attacks in Ukraine were connected. The 2016 power cut had amounted to a loss of about one-fifth of Kiev's power consumption at that time of night, national energy company Ukrenergo said at the time. It affected the Pivnichna substation outside the capital, and left people in part of the city and a surrounding area without electricity until shortly after 01:00. The attack took place almost exactly one year after a much larger hack on a regional electricity distribution company. That was later blamed on the Russian security services. The latest attack has not publicly been attributed to any state actor, but Ukraine has said Russia directed thousands of cyber attacks towards it in the final months of 2016. ISSP, a Ukrainian company investigating the incidents on behalf of Ukrenergo, now appears to be suggesting a firmer link. It said that both the 2015 and 2016 attacks were connected, along with a series of hacks on other state institutions this December, including the national railway system, several government ministries and a national pension fund. Oleksii Yasnskiy, head of ISSP labs, said: "The attacks in 2016 and 2015 were not much different - the only distinction was that the attacks of 2016 became more complex and were much better organised." He also said different criminal groups had worked together, and seemed to be testing techniques that could be used elsewhere in the world for sabotage. However, David Emm, principal security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said it was was "hard to say for sure" if the incident was a trial run. "It's possible, but given that critical infrastructure facilities vary so widely - and therefore require different approaches to compromise the systems - the re-use of malware across systems is likely to be limited," he told the BBC. "On the other hand, if a system has proved to be porous in the past, it is likely to encourage further attempts." In December, Ukraine's president, Petro Poroshenko, said hackers had targeted state institutions some 6,500 times in the last two months of 2016. He said the incidents showed Russia was waging a cyber-war against the country. "Acts of terrorism and sabotage on critical infrastructure facilities remain possible today," Mr Poroshenko said during a meeting of the National Security and Defence Council, according to a statement released by his office. "The investigation of a number of incidents indicated the complicity directly or indirectly of Russian security services."

A power cut that hit part of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, in December has been judged a cyber-attack by researchers investigating the incident.

"It gives me a lot of confidence and a lot of good friends," says one of the players on a five-a-side football pitch in the north of Glasgow. He's moving around nimbly on crutches, putting everything into the training and drills. There are shouts for the ball, plenty of laughter but lots of hard work. After all some of the players here have their next competitive game in just over a week. Many of them do play on crutches, others with prosthetic limbs. The sport of amputee football has been going for many years south of the border and now a charity is now trying to form a Scotland-wide league. It is holding the first amputee football Scottish Cup in Edinburgh next month. This team I am watching is linked to Partick Thistle. "I wish, looking back, I hadn't let it stop me," says Brian Murray, who lost his leg to cancer at the age of 10. He says that, although as a youngster he did play on crutches with his pals, when he went to secondary school he lost confidence and began wearing his prosthetic leg all the time. His introduction to amputee football was in England, regularly travelling to Everton to get a game. It is rough at times - he broke his collarbone last year, but did not let that put him off. He describes the sport now being in Scotland as "brilliant". "That's what I want to give to youngsters," he says. "Don't let anyone stop you, just go for it." He adds that if he is still playing at the age of 47, then "it doesn't matter what age you are". Amputee football is played all over the world. In Turkey, for instance, there is a professional league, aired on television with 600 players. Scotland is hoping to play some friendlies against other European countries later in the year. "Amputee football is just about getting people out and playing football," says Ashley Reid of the Amputee Football Association Scotland (AFAS). "The limb difference, the amputation is not relevant at all when people are here training. It's just about playing football." She says she saw a clear demand for the sport in Scotland. The task now is to try to spread out across the country. In among the men on the pitch is one woman. In fact, she is the only woman playing in the amputee football league in the UK. "All amputees are used to being the odd one out in the crowd," Rebecca Sellar explains. "So coming into this as the only woman, you get on with it and over it." She would like to get more women involved. Rebecca says that since she started she has been welcomed into the game and on a personal level has gained fitness as well as the enjoyment of taking part in a team sport. She says: "Our numbers are growing and the more word we can get out there to encourage people to get involved the better we can have it as a sport for Scotland."

Amputee football is played all over the world but it is in its infancy in Scotland, where organisers are trying to form a new league.

Jemma Beale, 25, claimed she was raped by nine men and sexually assaulted by six, all strangers, in four encounters spanning three years. One allegation led to the conviction of a man who was jailed for seven years. Beale from Hounslow was found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice at Southwark Crown Court. Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith told Beale, who was in a relationship with a woman: "This trial has revealed, what was then not obvious, that you are a very, very convincing liar and you enjoy being seen as a victim. "The prosecution described your life as a 'construct of bogus victimhood'. "These offences usually began as a drunken attempt to get your partner's sympathy or perhaps to arouse her jealousy. "They each began impulsively, but what is particularly chilling is the manner in which you persisted in making allegations which you knew were untrue even to the extent of committing and repeating perjury." Prosecutor Madeleine Wolfe told the court police spent 6,400 hours investigating Beale's lies at a cost of at least £250,000, and the trial cost at least £109,000. "Cases such as this bring a real risk that a woman who has been raped or sexually assaulted does not complain to the police for fear of not being believed", the judge added. "False allegations are likely to have the perverse impact of increasing the likelihood of guilty men going free." In a victim impact statement, Mahad Cassim, who was wrongly convicted of raping Beale in 2010, told the court he had been hugely affected by the false claim. "One of my goals is to be a successful businessman, to have a nice family and be happy," he said. "I am working on the happiness - I have a long way to go." Beale had also falsely claimed she was groped by a stranger, Noam Shahzad, in a pub in July 2012. She alleged she was then gang-raped by him and other men, and even self-inflicted injuries to back up her claims she was assaulted with barbed wire. The following year Beale fabricated similar allegations against six other men. She claimed two strangers sexually assaulted her and said she was gang raped again, by four others, two months later.

A "serial liar" who made a series of bogus sexual assault allegations against 15 men has been jailed for 10 years.

Vikki Thompson, 21, died at HMP Leeds on 13 November. She had been awaiting sentencing for robbery. Her partner Bob Steele said the letter should have alerted officials to her apparent distress, and added he had been "robbed of the love of my life". A Prison Service spokesman said an inquiry into her death is ongoing. In the letter, seen by BBC Look North, Ms Thompson said: "I just feel like I don't want to be here no more." She signed off the letter saying: "I'm going now because I can't stop crying." A post-mortem examination found the cause of Ms Thompson's death was thought to be hanging. At the opening of an inquest into her death it was revealed Ms Thompson was considered to be "at risk of self-harm" and was being monitored regularly. Mr Steele said: "She didn't like being in there. She hated it, people saying things to her. "She was moved onto a wing with people who were sex offenders, and she had been abused as a child. "She's wrote this letter and numerous other letters implying she's going to harm herself. She's told them she's going to harm herself. Why did they allow it to happen? "I think the prison have robbed me of the love of my life." Following Ms Thompson's death, Minister for Prisons Andrew Selous said a review of the policy relating to the care of transgender prisoners had begun earlier this year. A Prison Service spokesperson said: "There is an investigation under way by the independent prison and probation ombudsman as well as an inquest into her death. "It would be inappropriate to comment further while these are ongoing."

A transgender woman found dead in a men's prison wrote to her partner just days before her death saying "I don't think I can last very long in here".

The Court heard that a further pregnancy would be a "significantly life-threatening event" for both the mother and child. Mr Justice Cobb said the woman had the "same human rights" as everyone else and this was not a case of "eugenics". He has authorised health and council services to intervene and perform the sterilisation. The name of the woman has not been released, to protect the identify of her children. The Court of Protection, which rules in cases when people are unable to make decisions for themselves, heard the woman has no contact with any of her six children. All are being raised by carers. The 36-year-old's history was described as "extraordinary, tragic, and complex". Two of the children were born at home in conditions described as "unhygienic and overrun by pets". There is evidence that barbecue tongs were used as forceps, although this was denied. In another birth, the woman - known only as DD - contested there was no father and the pregnancy resulted from a "tablet from a health food shop". Mr Cobb's judgement said: "The ethical, legal and medical issues arising here are self-evidently of the utmost gravity, engaging, and profoundly impacting upon DD's personal autonomy, privacy, bodily integrity, and reproductive rights." It said there were considerable concerns about the woman's safety. Doctors said the wall of her uterus was "tissue-paper thin" and likely to rupture in childbirth, leading to almost certain death of the infant. Mr Cobb insisted: "Those who lack capacity have the same human rights as everyone else. "This case is not about eugenics, this outcome has been driven by the bleak yet undisputed evidence that a further pregnancy would be a significantly life-threatening event." He has authorised a sterilisation operation, but there will be no notice given to the woman or her long-term partner, who also has learning disabilities. Rebecca Schiller, the co-chairwoman of the human rights in childbirth charity Birthrights, said: "Taking away a person's ability to have a child is truly draconian. "It may be justified in extreme circumstances, but immense care must be taken to safeguard the rights of people with mental health conditions."

A mother of six with an IQ of 70 should be sterilised for her own safety, the Court of Protection has ruled.

The 37-year-old made 64 appearances for his country, including three at the 2006 World Cup, and is Poland's most-capped goalkeeper. Boruc has been mainly used as a back-up keeper to Lukasz Fabianski and Wojciech Szczesny in recent years. "It has not been an easy decision for me and has been one that I've taken incredibly seriously," he said. "However, after much thought and consideration I feel that now is the right time in order to focus fully both on my family and club career at AFC Bournemouth."

Bournemouth's Polish goalkeeper Artur Boruc has announced his retirement from international football.

Media playback is not supported on this device MacNiallais' first goal contributed to Donegal's early 1-5 lead to 0-3 lead. Fermanagh cut the margin to two and had a chance to lead before the break after Neil McGee's red card but Mark Anthony McGinley saved Sean Quigley's penalty. However, MacNiallais's second goal on 44 minutes put Donegal in firm control as Fermanagh's play became ragged. MacNiallais was perhaps fortunate to register the second goal after a superb move with his left foot appearing to be in the small square after taking a pass from Martin O'Reilly. Donegal's win sets up a provincial semi-final against holders Monaghan on 25 June as the teams involved in the last three Ulster deciders meet again. Fermanagh, meanwhile, will face Wexford away in the qualifiers in two weeks. Media playback is not supported on this device Quigley's penalty miss was the key moment of the contest as Donegal championship debutant McGinley was able to make a comfortable save. Donegal were leading 1-6 to 0-7 when the penalty was awarded after McGee had been red carded by Maurice Deegan for landing a retaliatory punch on Ruairi Corrigan after he had been fouled by the Fermanagh man. The missed penalty was the final play of the opening half as Donegal remained ahead at the break. Despite being a man down, Donegal took control in the second period as MacNiallais palmed to the net in the 44th minute following a sweeping move after a Fermanagh attack had broken down. Key Fermanagh defender Che Cullen, who had bossed a struggling Michael Murphy in open play in the first half, was black carded moments later and Donegal added a further three unanswered points to put the outcome beyond doubt. Ryan Jones had a goal chance with 10 minutes remaining which would have cut Donegal's lead to only four but his shot skimmed over the bar and with that, went Fermanagh's last chance to get back into the game. Media playback is not supported on this device MacNiallais' two goals came at crucial times - particularly his 44th-minute palmed effort - and he also picked a further point from play Late choice Eoin McHugh also shone for Donegal as he kicked two scores while Frank McGlynn must also have been a contender for the man of the match award as he produced several charges into opposition territory following turnovers. Martin O'Reilly was another strong-running presence for Rory Gallagher's side. Donegal manager Rory Gallagher: "We were disappointed to lose Neil to a red card as he is one of our leaders. "I felt we should have been more than two ahead at half-time but we dug ourselves out of it and now plan ahead for meeting Monaghan in the semi-finals." Fermanagh manager Pete McGrath: "In the second half of the first half, we played exceptionally well. We had them on the back foot and we were playing with confidence and energy. "But Donegal's second goal punctured the life out of us." Donegal: MA McGinley; P McGrath, N McGee, E McGee; R McHugh, F McGlynn, A Thompson; R Kavanagh, E McHugh; L McLoone, M McElhinney, O MacNiallais; P McBrearty, M Murphy, M O'Reilly. Fermanagh: C Snow; M Jones, C Cullen, M O'Brien; D McCusker, J McMahon, B Mulrone; E Donnelly, A Breen; P McCusker, R Jones, R O'Callaghan; R Corrigan, S Quigley, T Corrigan. SUNDAY'S CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS Leinster SFC quarter-finals Meath 0-20 1-13 Louth Westmeath 0-13 0-12 Offaly Munster SFC semi-finals Tipperary 3-15 2-16 Cork Kerry 2-23 0-17 Clare Connacht SFC semi-final Roscommon 4-16 2-13 Sligo SATURDAY'S RESULTS Leinster SHC semi-final Dublin 0-16 1-25 Kilkenny Christy Ring Cup relegation/promotion play-off Derry 1-14 1-21 Mayo Nicky Rackard Cup relegation/promotion play-off Fermanagh 0-12 7-19 Louth

The Ulster Football Championship finally came to life as two Odhran MacNiallais goals helped 14-man Donegal subdue Fermanagh in a fiery contest.

Orla Galton, from Blackmill, Bridgend county, was diagnosed with leukaemia at three and blood transfusions helped save her life. She endured them for years, but her mother, Sharon, said they were a lifeline. The Welsh Blood Service wants 200,000 more donors to replenish stocks. "When Orla was having chemotherapy her bloods hit so low that she became anaemic, she would have no white blood cells so she couldn't fight any infection," she said told BBC Radio Wales. "It's quite a dangerous time as while their bloods are going down, they can't carry on with the treatment. Orla needed blood transfusions so she could keep having the chemotherapy." Orla, who has now been given the all clear, paid tribute to the donors who helped her. "I would just like to say thank you," she said. "I can't thank you more." The Welsh Blood Service said:

A 12-year-old cancer survivor has urged more people to give blood, as the number of new donors has dropped by 40% over the past decade.

Scott Ludlam, 46, who is deputy leader of the Australian Greens party, made the announcement in a Facebook post. He said he had been dealing with mental health issues "for a while". "I will return to work as soon as I'm able to give the commitment the work demands," Senator Ludlam wrote. "I am fortunate to be getting the very best of care from my friends and family, and my health professionals," he added. Figures from across Australian politics wished Mr Ludlam well on social media, praising his honesty. "Wishing my dear friend and colleague @SenatorLudlam all the best for a speedy recovery. We love you Scott," Australian Greens chief Richard Di Natale tweeted. Western Australia Labor Leader Mark McGowan wrote: "Thinking of you @SenatorLudlam. A brave thing to do today. All WA parliamentarians wish you the very best. MM." As the news spread on Twitter, many Australians spoke of their respect for the Greens leader, suggesting that his openness would help others who are fighting mental health battles. During his absence, Senator Ludlam will be offered a "pair" in the Australian Senate. This means a single vote on the opposing side of debates will be cancelled out for as long as he is on leave. Mr Ludlam is a popular figure among young left-wingers in Australia, and has been vocal about online privacy issues. In 2015 he branded the Australian government's new national security legislation a privacy invasion, and provided a list of ways for people to circumvent data retention laws. The senator said his work for Western Australia - which includes communications, international aid, defence, foreign affairs and nuclear technology spheres - would be handled by "senate colleagues" and "the team in my office". According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a large number of Australian MPs have admitted privately that they struggle to cope with alcoholism, feelings of isolation, and stress from marriage breakdowns or scandals. Warren Entsch, a Liberal party leader and former MP, told the Herald he was left in "absolute hell" back in 1999 when the opposition Labor party were pursuing him over a defence contract they said was dodgy. "I was sick. I was devastated. I had to go to Canberra Hospital for chest pains. There were a couple of days where I couldn't get off the couch in my office," he said. "I always feel for someone who is getting beaten up by the media - what you go through from a mental health perspective is absolutely intense." Former MP Doctor Malcolm Washer, a qualified GP who was known as "the doctor in the house", has claimed there is a "significant" amount of depression among Australian politicians, adding that the job is "very isolating". He has estimated that around 20% of people working in Parliament House are taking anti-depressants, and many more are on sleeping pills. Mr Ludlam is not the first senior leader to go public about his depression. Former Liberal MP Andrew Robb took leave for six months in 2010 to address the condition, and is now a passionate advocate for mental health. Scott Ludlam is one of a number of high-profile figures who have spoken about their mental health issues in recent days. Singer Zayn Malik, a former member of the wildly successful boyband One Direction, has talked about his battle with "extreme anxiety", saying: "Anxiety is something people don't necessarily want to advertise because it's seen, in a way, like a weakness." The 23-year-old said he had pulled out of several live performances earlier this year due to mental health struggles. Why do pop stars struggle with anxiety? Anxiety 'seen as weakness' says Malik 'So did I': The words that helped a mum through postnatal depression "I speak about it so that people understand that it doesn't matter what level of success you have, where you're from, who you are, what sex you are, what you do - you can still experience these things," Mr Malik told ES magazine. Another world-famous singer, Adele, shared her experience of postnatal depression after the birth of her son Angelo. She told Vanity Fair that while she "loves her son more than anything", she sometimes felt she had made "the worst decision" of her life as she struggled to adjust to motherhood. She told the magazine a breakthrough came when she opened up, admitting: "One day I said to a friend, 'I ****** hate this,' and she just burst into tears and said, 'I ****** hate this, too."

An Australian senator has been flooded with support after announcing he is taking a leave of absence to treat depression and anxiety.

Phase one of the project will take 10 weeks to complete and will see demolition of the rear function room of the Ship and Anchor pub. An old library building will also be knocked down and a new car park built. Pembrokeshire council also wants to create a one-way system, footways and a public transport hub, with work starting later this year. The master plan includes a new link road, retail units and the demolition of buildings, including the derelict Fishguard Junior School, on 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres) of land. Councillors hope it could encourage further investment in the town.

Work has begun on plans to alleviate traffic congestion and regenerate Fishguard town centre in Pembrokeshire.

Karen Jacquet, 59, was pronounced dead at the scene after officers were called to an address in Mill Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire, on Wednesday. Yousef Mohammed, 65, of Mill Gate, Newark, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court charged with her murder. He was remanded in custody and will appear via a video link at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday. Neighbours have spoken of their shock and floral tributes have been left at the scene.

A man has appeared in court facing a charge of murdering a woman.

They seized the regional government's headquarters and prosecutor's office before opening fire with automatic weapons at the main police station. Interim President Olexander Turchynov criticised local police for their "inaction" and "criminal treachery". The US accused Russia of seeking to "change the security landscape" of Eastern and Central Europe. By David SternBBC News, Kiev The pro-Russian gunmen in Ukraine's east seem to be following a strategy of constant expansion and pressure on the Kiev government. Hardly a day goes by without another incident. Just recently, official buildings in Kostyantynivka have been taken over, Western military monitors detained, peaceful demonstrators in Donetsk attacked, and now the regional administration building in Luhansk has been seized. It is difficult to say what their ultimate goal is. Perhaps it is to keep government officials in Kiev on the defensive, forcing them to put out a number of fires at once, while others pop up throughout the region. Or else it is simply to keep the situation unstable, in order to prevent the presidential election scheduled to take place on 25 May. Or it could be just the opposite, as many in Kiev and throughout the country fear: to provoke the Ukrainians into a full crackdown, which would in turn spark a Russian invasion. The militants have called on Moscow to intervene on more than one occasion. In a speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry told the Kremlin to "leave Ukraine in peace" and warned: "Nato territory is inviolable we will defend every single inch of it." In other developments on Tuesday: Moscow has said it has no intention of invading eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russia activists have seized government buildings in more than a dozen towns and cities. Until now, only the local office of the State Security Service (SBU) in Luhansk, a city of 465,000 people less than 30km (20 miles) from the Russian border, had been targeted. But on Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of people shouting "Russia, Russia" gathered outside the headquarters of the regional government to demand a referendum on greater autonomy. A group of men armed with sticks and metal bars broke into the building. They pulled down the Ukrainian flag flying from the roof and replaced it with a Russian tricolour and the flag of Donetsk People's Republic. Crowds of pro-Russia activists then overran the building housing the prosecutor's office before attacking the headquarters of the interior ministry's police force. Hours later, an AFP news agency journalist reported that officers had abandoned the police station and been taken away in buses, as an angry crowd shouted at them to "Go home". Activists also went into a regional television station, but decided not to take it over after they were allowed to make a live broadcast. Following the takeovers, President Turchynov demanded the dismissal of the police chiefs in Luhansk and the other eastern city of Donetsk. "The overwhelming majority of law enforcement bodies in the east are incapable of fulfilling their duty to defend our citizens," he said. Pro-Russia activists control much of the neighbouring Donetsk region. Sanctions By Daniel SandfordBBC News, Moscow Sanctions screw is tightened Eastern Ukraine, which has a large Russian-speaking population, was a stronghold for former President Yanukovych before he was overthrown by protesters in February. The interim government has rejected the pro-Russian activists' demands for greater autonomy, fearing they could lead to the break-up of the country or more regions being annexed by Russia, as happened with Crimea last month. Pro-Russian activists continue to detain some 40 people, including seven military observers linked to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) seized last week. On Tuesday evening, the self-styled "mayor" of the town of Sloviansk, where the observers are being held, said "good progress" had been made at talks with OSCE representatives. Vyacheslav Ponomaryov had earlier warned that they would only be released if the EU dropped its sanctions against separatist leaders. Earlier, the EU published a fresh list of 15 individuals facing travel bans and asset freezes. It included the chief of the Russian General Staff, the head of Russian military intelligence, and a Russian deputy prime minister, as well as separatist leaders in Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk. On Monday, the US announced sanctions against seven individuals and 17 companies it said were linked to President Putin's "inner circle". President Putin warned that new sanctions might have an impact on the operations of Western companies in Russia. "If this continues, we will of course have to think about how they work in the Russian Federation, including in key sectors of the Russian economy such as energy," he said, adding that there were "neither Russian instructors, nor special units, nor troops" in Ukraine. US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the sanctions, first imposed by Washington and Brussels after Crimea was annexed, had so far caused "a quite substantial deterioration in Russia's already weak economy".

Pro-Russia activists have stormed several official buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk.

They had no phone signal so were only able to contact the emergency services by using Facebook. The coastguard received the alert just before 23:00 GMT on Saturday and said they found the women from the pictures they sent. A police helicopter took them to hospital for treatment. Dawn Petrie, from the coastguard, said weather conditions at the time were not favourable. "Whenever we got the photograph through, there had been heavy rain, it was misty, it was cold, it was damp," she said. "Fortunately that cloud actually cleared to allow the police helicopter to attempt to attend should the ambulance not have been able to reach them."

Two women, one with a suspected broken leg, have been rescued from Divis Mountain in Belfast.

The NHS Information Centre data shows more than eight out of 10 newborns are now breastfed at least once after birth, up from six out of 10 in 1990. Experts said the increase was welcome and partly due to public awareness that "breast is best" for mother and child. But the figures do not reveal how many mums stick at it for the recommended first six months of a baby's life. Many women struggle to continue to exclusively breastfeed. And the Royal College of Midwives is concerned that some new mothers are not getting the support they need to encourage breastfeeding. Spokeswoman Jane Munro criticised the Department of Health in England for axing funding for National Breastfeeding Awareness Week, which runs this week. "We do not want to see the ground we have gained lost." She added: "We know that many women stop breastfeeding when they leave hospital. "This is why it is so important that they are able to get advice and support from their midwife, and that there are enough midwives with the time to offer these women the help they need." The government said it was committed to training up to an extra 4,200 health visitors by 2015 who would "be able to help support women who want to breastfeed but may find it difficult". According to the latest figures, breastfeeding rates were higher in England than in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, although rates have risen in most areas. And the percentage of women who are choosing to smoke either before or during pregnancy has fallen.

More new mothers are opting to try breastfeeding their babies, latest UK figures reveal.

Those detained include players and directors from around 30 clubs from Italy's third and fourth divisions. More than 70 people are also under investigation in the inquiry led by prosecutors in the southern town of Catanzaro. Police said that some of those charged had links to mafia organisations. Catanzaro prosecutors said they had uncovered an alleged network between club presidents, coaches, players, and some management members. Those arrested are suspected of "conspiracy to commit sporting fraud", ANSA news agency said. Police said they were studying suspicious results in dozens of matches. Reports say that the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate is believed to be behind some of the match-fixing. The syndicate is a network of clans in Calabria - in the 'toe' of Italy - that dominates the country's cocaine trade. Local media said that one police officer was also involved in the scandal. It is not yet clear whether Tuesday's police inquiry is linked to a previous anti-match-fixing operation. Police had already placed more than 100 people under investigation for suspected match-fixing since 2011. But prosecutors in the cities of Cremona, Bari and Naples had been focusing on Serie A and B matches.

Police have arrested more than 50 people as part of an investigation into suspected match-fixing in Italian football.

The mile-long Northern Inner Distributor Road (NIDR) now links the east of the town with the west. It was estimated in January that technical issues involving a bridge increased the cost of the £21m project by a further £10m. The council is in a legal dispute with the contractor Carillion about the extra costs and who should pay. Somerset County Council said the delays had been "enormously frustrating". Cabinet member for highways, John Woodman, said the new road will "unlock" the old cattle market Firepool site for development and ease traffic in the town. He added: "The dispute is ongoing and we will work hard to make the best result for all the people of Somerset and the people of Taunton." Mike Rigby, independent councillor for Bishops Lydeard, said the council had "a lot of questions" to answer about how the project was managed. "How has it been that the council signed a contract that enabled a contractor to take more than twice the amount of time to build what should be a fairly straight-forward job? "It worries me, it's [an] example of how the county council has not well-managed a large contract." Carillion had nothing to add to the council statement.

A multi-million pound road scheme to ease congestion in Taunton has opened more than two years behind schedule.

"It was extraordinary to have found yourself a symbol of freedom of expression, though for the wrong reasons," the 73-year old Bogdanov tells the BBC World Service's Witness programme on the 30th anniversary of his trial. Accused of procuring an act of "gross indecency" likely to cause offence for his production of The Romans in Britain at London's National Theatre, Bogdanov says he felt "enormous relief" when the case collapsed and the prosecution withdrew its evidence on the third day of the hearing. He also says he felt "very angry" that the private prosecution brought by the morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse had been allowed to happen at all. Mrs Whitehouse, he says, "confused reality with an illusion" on the stage. If he had been convicted, Bogdanov could have been jailed for up to three years. Written by the playwright Howard Brenton, The Romans in Britain, which opened in London in October 1980, was always likely to provoke controversy. With vivid imagery, strong language and violence, the play sought to draw graphic parallels between the Romans' invasion of the British Isles and the presence at the time of British soldiers on the streets of Northern Ireland. But it was one short scene involving the attempted rape of a young Druid called Marban by a Roman soldier ("a metaphor for the rape of one culture by another," according to the director), that eventually landed Bogdanov in court. When he was first handed the play by the National's then artistic director, Sir Peter Hall, Bogdanov says he thought it contained some of the best new writing he had read. The attempted rape scene, to be performed with naked actors in full light and centre-stage, was "brilliantly written". But though nudity was not uncommon on the stage - and Bogdanov was careful that no sexual contact was actually made between the actors (the Roman used his bunched up fist and thumb as a substitute for his erect penis) - Sir Peter was clearly worried. He asked Bogdanov to consider moving the scene upstage, in half light. The director stood his ground, arguing the scene's artistic merit. Sir Peter eventually acceded, but not before warning that there could be trouble ahead. Though playing to packed audiences, the play's nudity and strong language attracted fervent media attention. But more ominously, it quickly came to the notice of Mrs Whitehouse, then head of the National Viewers and Listeners' Association. She refused to attend a performance in person but in December 1980 sent her solicitor to watch the play in order to collect evidence. He came back convinced there had been a sexual act on stage likely to cause offence. Listen to the programme Download the podcast Having tried and failed to force the Attorney General to initiate a prosecution against the National, the morality campaigner then began her own proceedings under the 1956 Sexual Offences Act, accusing Bogdanov of being the "pimp" who had allegedly procured the act on stage. Three decades on, Bogdanov's memories of those days are still vivid. He and his colleagues had initially dismissed the possibility of being taken to court, believing their defence of dramatic effect would be enough to discourage a prosecution. But a magistrate and then an Old Bailey judge both ruled that the case should be heard. Bogdanov became increasingly concerned: "I can't pretend it was easy, it felt like some huge juggernaut rolling over me, especially when they spent hours discussing whether I should be kept in the cells overnight," he says. Anonymous letters arrived at the family home, while his children became the object of unwanted attention at school. "At one point I was the only thing on the front pages." The collapse of Bogdanov's trial three days after it began was one more act in the long-running drama of The Romans in Britain. Keen to establish what Mrs Whitehouse's solicitor, and chief prosecution witness, had actually seen on stage, Bogdanov's defence team asked him to tell the jury where he had been sitting in the theatre. "At the back," came the answer - much to everyone's amazement. Lord Hutchinson, lead defence counsel, leapt up: "What if I told you that what you thought you saw was not an erect penis, but a thumb?" And he proceeded to bunch up his fist and thumb under his robes, pulling them aside to reveal his hand to the witness and jury. Bogdanov, looking on from the dock, says members of the jury burst out laughing, while the prosecution barrister went pale and immediately requested an adjournment. The prosecution withdrew its evidence, and the court set Bodganov free. Outside the court, Mrs Whitehouse claimed victory. The case, she said, had set an important legal precedent that the Sexual Offences Act could be applied to events on stage and that simulated sex could amount to gross indecency. But for Bogdanov, the play that got him into trouble has left other lessons. The Romans in Britain, he says, is just one in a long line of stage productions down the years that have caused controversy. "The thing that gives me most pleasure is that the theatre still has the power to shock," he says. Mike Lanchin spoke to Michael Bogdanov for the BBC World Service programme Witness. Listen to the programme at 0950 GMT on the BBC World Service,via i-playerordownload the podcast.

Thirty years after he went on trial at London's Old Bailey for staging an act of simulated male sex in the play The Romans in Britain, the renowned British theatre director Michael Bogdanov, says he is proud to have been "among those people willing to stand up and be counted".

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

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

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin Dempsey said the shipment "will embolden the regime and prolong the suffering" that has killed 80,000. The sophisticated anti-ship missiles could be used to counter any future foreign military intervention, US officials told The New York Times. Some 1.5 million people have fled the conflict, says the UN refugee agency. Most have fled to Jordan and Lebanon, but not all have been registered yet, meaning the true total is likely to be far higher, according to the UNHCR. Meanwhile, Syria's national production has dropped by 40% and the number of people living below the poverty line has risen from two million to five million in just two years, according to the man in charge of the UN's plans for reconstructing Syria after the conflict. Abdullah al-Dardari, a former deputy prime minister in President Bashar al-Assad's administration, told the BBC that rebuilding what has been destroyed would cost up to $80bn. Gen Dempsey's description of Moscow's decision to send missiles to Syria as "ill-timed and very unfortunate" comes amid growing alarm that chemical weapons may have been used in the country, something US President Barack Obama has said would be "a red line". Statistics: IISS Why Russia sells Syria arms Russia is one of Syria's few remaining allies and a long-term arms supplier to the Assad regime. Over the years, in contracts worth billions of dollars, it has sold thousands of tanks, artillery units, aircraft, helicopters and defence systems to Damascus. In 2007, the two countries signed a deal on the supply of Yakhont missiles which, with a range of 300km (200 miles), could prove a threat to warships in the Mediterranean. Although there have been growing calls for arms to be channelled to the rebel fighters in Syria, there has so far been very limited enthusiasm in the West for outright military intervention. But there is concern that the presence of sophisticated Russian-supplied weaponry will make it much harder to agree and carry out such intervention, implement a blockade or conduct targeted airstrikes in the future. Without confirming reports of the missile shipment, Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said the supply of missiles did not break any international rules. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met Mr Lavrov in Sochi on Friday to discuss plans for an international conference to try to find a way of ending the Syrian conflict, which would aim to bring together the Syrian opposition and members of Mr Assad's government. The UN estimates that 80,000 people have died in the uprising, and that some 4.25 million people have been displaced within the country. The simmering conflict has raised tensions on Syria's borders: On Friday, Turkish state media reported at least 10 people were killed when a fuel tank exploded in the southern town of Altinozu in Hatay province, where car bombs killed 50 people last week. The fuel tank was set alight by smugglers during a raid by police, officials said. Frustrated by the lack of international consensus on Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has had talks this week with President Obama in Washington where he was expected to call for a more assertive stance. Mr Erdogan said on Friday the UN should discuss imposing a no-fly zone inside Syria at the international conference being mooted. "With respect to a no-fly zone... it is not a decision that could be taken between the United States and Turkey. It is something that would have to come through the UN Security Council," he said.

The US has chided Russia for what it calls an "unfortunate decision" to send missiles to the Syrian government.

Producers of precious metals were particularly hard hit. Analysts blamed falling prices for gold and silver and adverse currency movements. Fresnillo, which owns the world's biggest silver mine, was down 4.5% and Randgold was down 4.2%. "Gold is in no man's land," said Alastair McCaig, market analyst at IG Index. He says that investors are concerned that gold could fall below $1,200 dollars an ounce, which would make some gold mines unviable. Gold is currently trading at $1,266 dollars an ounce. In China iron ore prices fell to the lowest level in almost five years, which hit shares in other miners. Rio Tinto fell 0.73% and BHP Billiton was down 0.37%. BP was 2.59% higher. Shares had slumped 6% on Thursday after a US judge found the firm "grossly negligent" over the 2010 oil spill. The ruling has made investors cautious over the firm. "I'm not buying BP here. The ruling opens up the door in the United States to more fines for BP," said Beaufort Securities sales trader Basil Petrides. "The US government has got its knife out for BP and it's sharpening the blade," he said. On the currency markets the euro was trading 0.13% higher, but still below the $1.30 level. It fell below the $1.30 level on Thursday in reaction to a surprise cut in interest rates by the European Central Bank. The Bank also launched a programme to buy private sector debt, in another effort to boost European economies. The pound was down 0.10% against the dollar at $1.6314.

(Close): The FTSE 100 index of leading blue-chip shares closed the day down by 0.36% at 6853.40.

A merger of the Royal Liverpool and Aintree University hospitals has been proposed in the draft Sustainability and Transformation Plan for Merseyside and Cheshire released on Wednesday. It aims to address a potential funding gap of £908m in the area by 2021. Councillor Andy Moorhead said Liverpool City Region "will not support" the plan, which was "completed in secrecy". Louise Shepherd, who is chief executive of Alder Hey Children's Hospital and led the work, said the hospitals have been "talking together for over three years about what they can do better together". The hospitals "said their intention would be to try and bring the two organisations together", Ms Shepherd said, but "what that actually means for services is still to be determined". The plan suggests merging the Royal, Aintree and Liverpool Women's Hospital into one new trust by April 2018 - but also "reconfiguring" the women's hospital by 2021. "New models of A&E", which could mean reduced opening hours, are also being considered at Southport and Ormskirk Trust, which runs Southport and Formby Hospital A&E - rated inadequate on Tuesday by the health watchdog. Mr Moorhead, in charge of health, wellbeing and social care for the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, said "any decisions by the NHS to reconfigure hospitals" should "be the subject of transparent and open debate" and "have the support of local communities and NHS staff... this has just not happened". Shadow health minister and Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston Justin Madders said the process has been "completely lacking in transparency and accountability" and "mired in confusion". NHS England has split the country into 44 geographic areas - called "footprints" - each of which must soon produce a five-year sustainability and transformation plan. Merseyside and Cheshire is the second largest, incorporating Knowsley, Sefton, Liverpool, Halton, St Helens, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Warrington, Wirral. Labour MP for Wallasey Angela Eagle said Wirral seems to be "particularly hard hit" and the plan "seems to be more about meeting the deficit than actually looking at what kind of health services we need". The report's publication marks the start of a consultation period during which people will be asked for their opinions.

Two Liverpool hospitals could merge under cost-cutting plans unveiled by health bosses.

Craig Harvey, 31, denies assaulting consultant radiologist Marcel Strauss at Wishaw General on 24 February. He is also accused of assaulting a prison officer and wrestling with three others before trying to escape from the ultrasound department on the same day. Mr Harvey pled not guilty to all the charges during an appearance at the High Court in Glasgow. It is alleged that he repeatedly struck Dr Strauss on the arm with a blade, which was attached to a piece of plastic, to the doctor's severe injury and permanent disfigurement. Prosecutors also say that he assaulted prison officer James Muncie when he was "in lawful custody" and that he tried to detain the guard against his will in a toilet while holding the razor blade. The charge further alleges that Mr Harvey demanded the prison officer remove his handcuffs and attempted to strike him with the blade before struggling with him, which resulted in Mr Muncie striking his head. It is also claimed that he struggled with three other prison officers and attempted to escape from their custody in an attempt to defeat the ends of justice. Mr Harvey faces a third charge of being in possession of a weapon. He is due to stand trial on 27 September at the High Court in Livingston.

A prisoner is to go on trial accused of attacking a doctor at a hospital with a razor blade.

Dr Ian Paterson denies 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and one man at Nottingham Crown Court. He said he had never told alleged victims they had "a ticking bomb" of cancer inside them. He said the phrase appears in three witness statements which was "clear evidence" statements have been coached. "It's a scary thing, why would I intentionally scare a patient, that you've got a time bomb?" he said. More updates on this and other stories in Birmingham and the Black Country The 59-year-old also said one patient, John Ingram, who had a double mastectomy after tests showed only potentially abnormal cells, was a "quivering mass of anxiety", convinced he would get cancer. Nothing he told him would have changed his mind, Mr Paterson said. Mr Ingram gave evidence saying Mr Paterson, who worked at hospitals run by the Heart of England NHS Trust and Spire Healthcare, told him in 2006 he was "on the road to developing breast cancer". But Mr Paterson, of Ashley, Altrincham, Greater Manchester, said on Wednesday that Mr Ingram's memory had become "confused" over time. He described his patient as a "troubled gentleman with multiple phobias - one of them breast cancer, because his mother had died of breast cancer, aged 42". "So the minute he had an abnormality in his chest wall, in his head he was on the way to getting breast cancer," he said. "Very little I told him thereafter would disavow him of that view." Prosecutor Julian Christopher QC asked whether it was "quite wrong" to say he would "travel in time towards cancer". Mr Paterson said: "I doubt I said that, simply because nobody has a crystal ball." The trial continues.

A breast surgeon accused of carrying out unnecessary operations has told a court that witness statements against him have been "coached".

Sir Steve Webb, director of policy at Royal London, wants the government to encourage more people to claim them. Parents who give up work are given NI credits while their children are under 12, to help them get a state pension. If they return to work, relatives can claim the credits instead. To qualify for the so-called grandparents' credit, such relatives need to be of working age, while caring for the child in question. In the year to the end of September 2016, only about 1,300 people claimed the credits, according to a response to a Freedom of Information request. However, Sir Steve said that as many as 100,000 relatives could get them, if only they were made aware. "The scheme is not much use if hardly anyone takes it up," he said. "The government needs to act quickly to alert mothers to the fact that they can sign over the National Insurance credits that they do not need." Any close relative can apply for the National Insurance credits, but it's most likely to be a grandparent, as long as they're under pension age. Each year of caring for a child under 12, qualifies them for an extra £231 of annual pension. Which is valuable if they don't have a full National insurance record and aren't earning enough to pay National Insurance anyway. If families think they've missed out, they can make backdated claims for all the years back to 2011. A grandparent or other relative who takes part in the scheme for a full year is able to claim an extra 1/35th of the state pension. That is worth £231 a year, or about £4,600 over a 20-year retirement. In response, the government said that as many as 5,000 people in total had benefited from the scheme - officially known as Specified Adult Childcare credits - since it started in 2011. "These credits are available to people in a small number of specific circumstances," said a spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). "As with all credits, details of the Specified Adult Childcare credits are well publicised on GOV.UK and are promoted through a number of consumer websites." Those who have missed out on the scheme can make back-dated claims. The application form can be found on the government's website.

Tens of thousands of grandparents are missing out on National Insurance (NI) credits which could be worth more than £230 a year when they retire, a former pensions minister has said.

The Spaniards won 22-19 with a try in the last seconds to seal the 12th and final spot for this summer's Rio Games. They join Fiji, South Africa, Great Britain, Australia, United States, Argentina, France, Kenya, New Zealand, Japan and Brazil in the men's event. "I am still trying to take it in. This is a dream for us. We are going to be Olympians," said Spain's Angel Lopez. "We believed that we were good enough, but wow, this is pretty special. "We now have to prepare. We will be very motivated and determined to do our nation, our family and Spanish rugby proud."

Spain qualified for the Olympic sevens with a dramatic late victory over Samoa in Sunday's repechage tournament final.

A High Court judge in Belfast had ruled that the PSNI should not have facilitated illegal parades, and was wrong to think it did not have legal powers to stop them. The ruling was quashed after an appeal. The UK Supreme Court has now been asked to overturn the decision. There were widespread loyalist protests across Northern Ireland after Belfast City Council decided not to fly the Union flag at the City Hall every day of the year in December 2012. The protests included a weekly parade between east Belfast and City Hall, which passed the nationalist Short Strand area. Critics accused the police of being too soft as some of the protests descended into violence. The PSNI insisted it did not have the legal powers to stop them, and warned that doing so might have made the situation worse. In April 2014, a judge in the High Court in Belfast upheld a claim by a Short Strand resident, who cannot be named to protect his safety, that the PSNI had failed in its legal duty to stop the parades. The judge said the police had not understood the full scope of their powers and had facilitated illegal and sometimes violent parades, in breach of their legal duties. That ruling was appealed by then Chief Constable Matt Baggott, and quashed by the Court of Appeal. The legal battle moved to the UK Supreme Court in London on Tuesday. A lawyer representing the unnamed resident, told five judges the PSNI had failed in its duty to enforce the law as set out in the Public Processions Northern Ireland Act (1998). She argued that the Court of Appeal had no grounds to interfere and overturn the original trial decision as "the evidence before the court was unimpeachable". The lawyer said there were "evident flaws" in the Court of Appeal decision and its analysis of the evidence. Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, asked her: "So you say that we should go back to the trial judge and, provided we concluded that there was evidence on which he could fairly reach the decision that he did, that we should reinstate his decision?" She replied: "Yes." But a lawyer representing the PSNI said the Court of Appeal had made the correct decision. He said the context of the time the protests had taken place was important. He told the court the police had been dealing with a series of sporadic unplanned protests at more than 80 locations across Northern Ireland. He insisted there had been "no error of law" and that the police fully understood that they could have stopped the parades, but took an operational decision not to so. He said the police believed that "robust action" could have made the situation worse and took a deliberate decision to secure evidence of offences committed and to prosecute offenders afterwards. The lawyer referred to research by Queen's University, which recorded that 306 people had been convicted of flag-protest-related offences across Northern Ireland in the months after the protests. "Many would have considered the police approach to policing these parades was successful, and that their policy of de-escalation succeeded," he said. The judges said they would announce their decision "in due course".

A resident of the Short Strand area of east Belfast has challenged a decision to overturn a court ruling that the PSNI was wrong not to stop union flag protests.

The 30-year-old joined Cobblers on a one-year deal last summer, making 25 appearances in all competitions. But boss Justin Edinburgh said the club were unable to "get comfortable" with his commitments to DR Congo. "Gaby is a top professional, we wish him all the very best for his future career," said Edinburgh.

League One side Northampton Town have released defender Gabriel Zakuani after contract talks broke down over his international commitments.

Scotland cap Burke, 19, left Forest to join RB Leipzig in a deal that made him the most expensive Scottish player. "It's a massive step," said McGovern, a club ambassador for Forest. "He's got masses of potential. He has to be consistent and he has to get better at one or two of the things that he's not so good at." Burke's move to the Bundesliga came after just 31 appearances for Forest, during which time he scored six goals. "He's an impact player with fantastic pace," said McGovern, who played all his club football in England and played at Under-23 level for Scotland. "I think he might even give Usain Bolt a run for his money. "You need to be able to have an end product to that pace and he's been scoring one or two goals for the first team." Unlike England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Wales, Scotland missed out on Euro 2016 with the Gareth Bale-inspired Welsh team reaching the semi-finals. But McGovern tempered comparison between Burke and Real Madrid's Bale, saying: "Gareth Bale wasn't playing for Real Madrid at 19 years of age and being outstanding for Wales in international competitions. "If £13m is the fee for someone who's played a few games then obviously it's quite unusual but the transfer fees have gone right through the ceiling anyway so you should never be surprised with anything in football. "It is an awful lot of money and it will be well spent if he realises his potential. He's got a good chance of becoming a very, very good player. "The other thing about him going abroad is that perhaps, in some ways, it might benefit him because the thing he's got to keep away from is too much publicity and then perhaps starting to believe that publicity. "Football can be a cruel game." Meanwhile, James McFadden, who won 48 caps for Scotland between 2002 and 2010, believes the move to Germany will benefit both the player and the national squad. "He'll learn a new culture and develop in a good way, hopefully, for Scotland," said Motherwell player-assistant manager McFadden, 33. "Going over to a different country and learning a new way of playing the game will be great for his development. "He's got a great physique and he looks as though he's got all the attributes to become a real top player. The fact that he's made the move at such a young age will tell you all you need to know about him. "[RB Leipzig] will be hoping to challenge for the [Bundesliga] title because of the ambitions they've got. When players are doing well in Germany, Bayern Munich will snap them up, so that's got to be the next aim for him."

Former Nottingham Forest player John McGovern has cautioned against placing too much expectation on Oliver Burke following his £13m move to Germany.

It became one of the UK's first post-war settlements in 1947 following the previous year's New Towns Act. It is credited as having the first modern high-rise residential tower block, The Lawn, which opened in 1951. Designed for 60,000 by English architect, Frederick Gibberd, the town also included the first all-pedestrian shopping precinct. In April 1964, councillor Reginald Ward, chairman of the Harlow Urban District Council, showed off Harlow to visiting Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, from the roof gallery of the Town Hall. Today, Harlow is a thriving town with a population of 85,500, which includes residents from a wide range of countries. A mural featuring Harlow citizens, including its MP Conservative Robert Halfon, was created by Polish artist Jola Kudela for the book festival this month. The artwork, called "We're all the same boat", was created after a Polish man was killed in the town. The artist Ms Kudela said: "The message is just relax guys and let's live together peacefully and quietly." A large number of events are being planned to celebrate the town's 70th birthday and more information is available on the Harlow 70 council website.

Harlow is celebrating the 70th anniversary of being designated a new town.

Of the 863 men who died, an estimated 120, known as "the Jersey Pals", were killed during the Battle of the Somme. Made from Jersey granite, the memorial stone was officially unveiled by Bailiff William Bailhache in the French village of Guillemont. The delegation from the island also included the Lieutenant Governor, Chief Minister and the Dean of Jersey. Ian Ronanye, an author and historian, said the memorial would be a permanent reminder of the role Jersey played in the great war, although part of it would return to the island. "A core has been removed from the middle of the stone - about the height of a person's heart - and that is being brought back to Jersey to become part of a monument in Royal Square," he told BBC News. In July, hundreds of people attended a ceremony to reveal the memorial stone.

A memorial dedicated to the Jersey men who died in World War I has been unveiled in the Somme region of France.

Having earlier agreed to sit down with us, Shannon has gone out. She is just 19, and is barely coping. "She doesn't want to live here any more," says Julie. "It's all the memories of Kayden, this is where he lived." Shannon is sometimes suicidal. "I listen to my daughter and I cry, because of what my daughter's going through. She'll ring me and say she's going to take her own life and things like that," Julie says, tears in her eyes. 'How many more children like Kayden must die?' The living room is a shrine to Kayden. On the wall, in large letters, are painted the words: "Because someone we love is in heaven, there's a little bit of heaven in our home." Photos of Kayden paper the walls, along with mementoes - the hat he used to wear, the 3D glasses he wore to watch his favourite film. Framed too is the Mr Men book his grandmother read to him as he lay dying in Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Julie tries to cling to the happy memories - Kayden chasing his cat around, or waiting excitedly for his beloved grandfather to come home from work. But she has been deeply affected. "I work 24-7," she told us. "I go to work to block it out. I don't ever take a day off." When Kayden fell on to a bed at home last April, banging his mouth on his bottle, Julie thought little of it, but his lips turned blue, so eventually she called an ambulance. Staff at nearby Stepping Hill Hospital took a chest X-ray, and told Julie and Shannon that Kayden had a hole in his diaphragm, a hernia that he had probably had since birth. They told her not to worry, but that he needed a simple operation to mend the hole. They were, after an overnight delay, sent to Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, where they were admitted to a ward and, in Julie's words, "basically put in a room, and left". Days passed, and with each one Kayden's operation was postponed. Because his bowels and stomach had entered his chest through the hole in his diaphragm, he was in pain. The family stayed by his bedside day and night, pushing the hospital staff to find an operation slot for him. "I was just so angry with them because nobody would listen. Nobody would listen to how much pain he was in, and he was in a lot of pain," says Julie. Finally, on Friday night, five days after Kayden first fell ill, Shannon rang Julie. "She told me he was grunting in his sleep," says Julie. "I told her to get a nurse." Kayden was going into cardiac arrest - his eyes became fixed on the ceiling, and staff rushed to save him. The internal call system for summoning help failed though, and there were delays. It took almost 30 minutes to resuscitate him. Finally, the hospital sprang into action, and Kayden was taken into surgery. It took four hours of surgery to fix his hernia, and the family was taken to see him in intensive care. Tragically, he had been starved of oxygen for too long, and his brain was irreparably injured. After a weekend of saying their goodbyes, Shannon had to agree to turn off his life support. He died minutes later in her arms. "I wanted to strangle somebody," says Julie. "You don't expect to take a baby to hospital and come away without one. Especially when you've got one hospital telling you that it's such a simple operation." She says: "His care, up to him cardiac arresting, was appalling. He was basically put in a room, and left. And all we got, nearly every day, was, 'He's not having the operation today, he's not having the operation today.' "They were coming up with excuses, 'There's no bed, or a car crash victim's come in, they've took his bed.' That's all we got, all the time we were there, was excuses, which resulted in Kayden cardiac arresting." A hospital investigation has admitted failings in the run-up to Kayden's death, and senior staff have apologised to the family. But, as Julie says: "He's gone, and nothing's going to bring him back. It doesn't matter how much they admit what they've done, it's not going to bring him back, is it?"

Entering the flat where Shannon Bancroft brought up her son Kayden with the help of her mother, Julie, it's clear the trauma Kayden's death has wrought on the family.

It is the first time a country has considered the DNA-altering technique in embryos and approved it. The research will take place at the Francis Crick Institute in London and aims to provide a deeper understanding of the earliest moments of human life. It will be illegal for the scientists to implant the modified embryos into a woman. But the field is attracting controversy over concerns it is opening the door to designer - or GM - babies. DNA is the blueprint of life - the instructions for building the human body. Gene editing allows the precise manipulation of DNA. In a world-first last year, scientists in China announced they had carried out gene editing in human embryos to correct a gene that causes a blood disorder. Prof Robin Lovell-Badge, a scientific advisor to the UK's fertility regulator, told the BBC: "China has guidelines, but it is often unclear exactly what they are until you've done it and stepped over an unclear boundary. "This is the first time it has gone through a properly regulatory system and been approved." The experiments will take place in the first seven days after fertilisation. During this time we go from a fertilised egg to a structure called a blastocyst, containing 200-300 cells. The work will be led by Dr Kathy Niakan, who has spent a decade researching human development. Earlier this year, she explained why she had applied to edit human embryos: "We would really like to understand the genes needed for a human embryo to develop successfully into a healthy baby. "The reason why it is so important is because miscarriages and infertility are extremely common, but they're not very well understood." Out of every 100 fertilised eggs, fewer than 50 reach the early blastocyst stage, 25 implant into the womb and only 13 develop beyond three months. And at the blastocyst stage, some cells have been organised to perform specific roles - some go on to form the placenta, others the yolk sac and others ultimately us. How and why this takes place is unknown - but some parts of our DNA are highly active at this stage. It is likely these genes are guiding our early development, but it is unclear exactly what they are doing or what goes wrong in miscarriage. The researchers will alter these genes in donated embryos, which will be destroyed after seven days. The regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has given its approval and the experiments could start in the next few months. Paul Nurse, the director of the Crick, said: "I am delighted that the HFEA has approved Dr Niakan's application. "Dr Niakan's proposed research is important for understanding how a healthy human embryo develops and will enhance our understanding of IVF success rates, by looking at the very earliest stage of human development." Dr David King, the director of Human Genetics Alert, said: "This research will allow the scientists to refine the techniques for creating GM babies, and many of the government's scientific advisers have already decided that they are in favour of allowing that. "So this is the first step in a well mapped-out process leading to GM babies, and a future of consumer eugenics." Dr Sarah Chan, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "The use of genome editing technologies in embryo research touches on some sensitive issues, therefore it is appropriate that this research and its ethical implications have been carefully considered by the HFEA before being given approval to proceed. "We should feel confident that our regulatory system in this area is functioning well to keep science aligned with social interests." Follow James on Twitter.

UK scientists have been given the go-ahead by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos.

The Conservatives finished second overall on 25%, with Labour on 20%, the figures showed. The SNP's share of the vote was unchanged from 2012, with the Conservatives increasing by 12 percentage points. Overall turnout was 46.9% - higher than the 39.6% recorded in 2012. The highest turnout was in East Renfrewshire at 57.8% while Glasgow recorded the lowest at 39%. The SNP secured 610,454 first preference votes in last Thursday's election - an increase from the 503,233 it won in 2012. But the higher turnout this time around meant the party's share of the vote was 32.3% in both elections. The SNP also won 431 seats, finishing as the biggest party in 16 of the 32 council areas and joint largest in a further three, although it lost its overall majorities in Dundee and Angus. Meanwhile, the Scottish Conservatives won 276 seats - 22.5% of the total - after receiving 478,073 first preference votes. In 2012 the Tories won just 115 seats and received 206,599 votes - a 13.3% share. The Conservatives finished as the largest party on six councils, and were joint largest alongside the SNP in Stirling. Scottish Labour saw its share of the first preference votes fall from 31.4% to 20.2% and its number of seats from 394 to 262. Labour also lost overall control of all four councils where it previously had a majority - including Glasgow - and is now the largest party in just three local authority areas and joint biggest in a further one. Despite the higher turnout, the party received 100,000 fewer first preference votes than in 2012, dropping from 488,703 to 380,957. The Scottish Liberal Democrats received a 6.8% share of the first preference votes as they won 67 seats, with the Scottish Greens winning 19 seats on 4.1% of the votes. Almost 200,000 people - 10% of the total - gave their first preference votes to independent candidates, who won 168 seats across the country. More than 4.1 million people registered to take part in the election - of whom 1.9 million turned out to vote. At first glance the SNP scored another remarkable success in last week's local elections. The party won 431 seats, 155 more than their nearest rivals, the Conservatives. Meanwhile, Labour, who once dominated local government in Scotland were even further behind. Equally, the official tally of the parties' share of the first preference vote across Scotland as a whole, which was published today, confirms that the SNP was well ahead of the rest of the pack. However, the task facing the SNP next month is to defend its remarkable success in winning 56 out of Scotland's 59 seats, a success based not on winning a little less than a third of the vote, as on Thursday, but rather on securing 50%. So, the fact that the party won only 32% in the local elections would seem to raise questions about the SNP's ability to repeat that feat. But in truth the two figures, the 32% the party won last week and the 50% it secured two years ago, are not directly comparable with each other. Read more from Prof Curtice SNP MSP Derek Mackay, who has been announced as the party's campaign director for next month's general election, said the council election results would be an "excellent springboard". Mr Mackay, the Scottish finance secretary, added: "The SNP has won the local elections emphatically, with more seats than any other party, an increased and higher share of the vote than any other party and as the largest party in more councils than any other party." A spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives said the results proved it was the only party capable of challenging the SNP across Scotland in the general election. He added: "Our message is clear. We say No to a second referendum - so we can get government focussed back on the things that matter." Scottish Labour claimed the results showed that the "Sturgeon surge has turned into a Sturgeon slump". The party's James Kelly MSP said: "How can Nicola Sturgeon claim to speak for all of Scotland having secured less than a third of the vote? In 2015 the SNP secured half of the Scottish vote, and these official figures show that has now plummeted by 18 points." Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has previously said that the council results suggested his party could challenge the SNP in key constituencies in the general election. And the Scottish Greens hailed their "breakthrough" in areas such as Glasgow and Edinburgh, with the party winning a total of 19 seats - five more than in 2012.

The full results of last week's Scottish council election have been published - showing the SNP won 32% of the first preference votes.

Arlene, who was 15 and from Castlederg in County Tyrone, went missing after a night out in County Donegal in 1994. The main suspect in her disappearance, Robert Howard, died in prison last year. Kathleen Arkinson said she she felt police had missed opportunities to question some witnesses. She complained to the Police Ombudsman in 2006 about the police investigation, the inquest heard. She said police searched her house, breaking her door down with a sledgehammer, dug in her garden, and arrested her partner, adding "insult to injury already caused by the lack of investigation". Ms Arkinson also felt Howard's trial in 2005 for Arlene's murder was mishandled because the jury was unaware of his many convictions. She added that after Arlene went missing, false rumours grew worse. "The rumours were that I killed Arlene," she said. "The whole world was talking about it." Later, Ms Arkinson was questioned by counsel for the Police Service of Northern Ireland, who asked if it was the service's "duty to investigate every opportunity to find out what happened". "It should have been," she replied, "but they didn't do it." Ms Arkinson also said she became more protective of Arlene after an incident when Arlene was abused by a man in 1993. The man was jailed for that assault. Their mother had died three years earlier. Ms Arkinson told the inquest of the last time she saw Arlene when she left for a disco in Bundoran, and how she had given her an money to buy chips on the way home. She never saw her sister again. She described confronting Howard and a family, the Quinns, who she believed had taken Arlene to Bundoran, and that she had become convinced they were telling lies over her disappearance. Earlier, the mother of one of Arlene's friends told the inquest she became scared of Robert Howard after he told her he had killed a six-year-old girl. Bernadette Timoney, giving evidence via videolink, said in the years before Arlene went missing she thought Howard was "an evil-looking man with drink in him". "I didn't like the look of him," she later said. "I didn't want to be in his company - he was very scary." She added that she had daughters of her own and wanted to protect them. She also said that two months before she went missing, Arlene had told her she wanted £200 to go to England for an abortion and insisted her family should not know. She said Arlene became hysterical when she asked her if she had gone to get the money from a bank machine with Howard, or if Howard had done anything to her. Ms Timoney said she had not told social services or the police about the incident because she did not want to get involved.

A sister of Arlene Arkinson has told the inquest into her death police did not treat her disappearance with the "seriousness and credence" it deserved.

It means bloggers with more than 3,000 daily readers must register with the mass media regulator, Roskomnadzor, and conform to the regulations that govern the country's larger media outlets. Internet companies will also be required to allow Russian authorities access to users' information. One human rights group called the move "draconian". The law was approved by Russia's upper house of parliament in April. It includes measures to ensure that bloggers cannot remain anonymous, and states that social networks must maintain six months of data on its users. The information must be stored on servers based in Russian territory, so that government authorities can gain access. Critics see it as the latest in a series of recent moves to curb internet freedom. Hugh Williamson, of New York-based Human Rights Watch, has called the law "another milestone in Russia's relentless crackdown on free expression". "The internet is the last island of free expression in Russia and these draconian regulations are clearly aimed at putting it under government control," he added. Opposition figures have used the internet to air their views, with some gaining millions of followers. Commentators opposing Vladimir Putin often face restrictions in broadcast outlets and newspapers. Analysis: Famil Ismailov, news editor, BBCRussian.com Russian bloggers are bracing themselves for the moment when Russia's new "information security law" comes into force on 1 August. Some already share advice on how to use proxy servers in order to access social media sites that, in their view, are under threat of being closed. It is hard to see how the law will be enforced. The servers for most of the popular social media platforms that many Russians use are based outside Russia. Many popular bloggers are already looking for, and apparently finding, ways to "cheat" the feature that counts page visits and keep their daily unique visitor numbers just under 3000, or to make sure that the statistics are hidden altogether. Anton Nossik, who is considered Russia's "internet guru", wrote in his LiveJournal blog that the new law didn't threaten individual bloggers directly, but provided legal grounds to block popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal and Google. "The issue of banning all these platforms in Russia is a political one and it will be decided by only one person", Mr Nossik wrote, with a thinly veiled reference to President Vladimir Putin. Earlier in the year, Russia enacted a law that gave the government powers to block websites without explanation. In March, Moscow blocked the blog of Mr Navalny, along with two news sites and a organisation run by Garry Kasparov - a vocal critic of the Russian government. In a statement, Russia's prosecutor general's office said the blocks were imposed because of the sites' role in helping stage illegal protests. Earlier this week, Twitter blocked access to an anti-Kremlin account that often publishes leaked government documents, following a request by Russia's federal communications agency Roskomnadzor. For many years, Russia had relatively lax internet laws. However Moscow has recently changed its tune, with Mr Putin branding the internet an ongoing "CIA project". He also claimed that the popular Russian search engine Yandex was controlled by foreign intelligence. Two years ago, Russia enacted a law enabling authorities to blacklist and force certain websites offline without a trial. The government said the legislation was designed to protect children from harmful internet content, such as pro-suicide or pornography websites. On Thursday, lawyers for US intelligence officer Edward Snowden said the whistleblower had filed for refugee status in Russia. Mr Snowden received temporary shelter in Russia last year. He had evaded US authorities after he leaked classified government documents revealing mass surveillance programmes undertaken by the NSA in the US and GCHQ in the UK.

A new law imposing restrictions on users of social media has come into effect in Russia.

A man died after he was struck by a car on the N2 at Balrath in County Meath at 01:30 local time on Sunday. Elsewhere, a man in his 30s died after the car he was driving hit a fence at Knockanour, Castlebar, County Mayo. The incident happened shortly before 19:30 local time on Saturday.

Two men have died in separate crashes in the Republic of Ireland.

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

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

The woman told Sheffield Crown Court she was just 12 when she was picked up from a children's home and abused by Basharat Hussain and two other men. She also said she had been taken to Blackpool and raped by several men. Mr Hussain, who denies the claims, is one of seven people on trial over alleged child abuse in Rotherham. The witness, who cannot be named due to the nature of the allegations, told jurors said she was first abused after she and a friend were taken out for a meal by Mr Hussain and a number of other Asian males. She said: "I felt very grown up. They took us out and paid for the meal. I did not feel I could say no." She went on to tell the court that she was taken to Blackpool aged 16 and made to work in a restaurant, in a move prosecutors say was orchestrated by Mr Hussain. She said that she was kept there for several months and was forced to have sex most days. She said that when she returned to Rotherham she discovered she had several sexually transmitted infections. Arshid Hussain, 40, High Street, East Cowick, Goole, faces 30 charges, including five counts of rape. Qurban Ali, 53, Clough Road, Rotherham, faces four charges, including rape and conspiracy to rape. Majid Bostan, 37, Ledsham Road, Rotherham faces one charge of indecent assault. Sajid Bostan, 38, Broom Avenue, Rotherham faces seven charges, including four counts of rape,. Basharat Hussain, 39, of no fixed abode, faces 15 charges including two counts of rape. Karen MacGregor, 58, Barnsley Road, Wath, South Yorkshire, faces four charges, including conspiracy to rape. Shelley Davies, 40, Wainwright Road, Kimberworth Park, Rotherham, faces three charges, including conspiracy to rape. Cross-examining the witness on behalf of Mr Hussain, Gillian Batts said: "The truth of the situation is you've never met Basharat Hussain have you?" The witness replied: "Yes I have." It is alleged Mr Hussain was one of seven people involved in the sexual exploitation of children between 1987 and 2003. It is claimed the children were "targeted, sexualised and, in some instances, subjected to acts of a degrading and violent nature". The trial continues.

An alleged victim of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham said she felt she had no choice when asked to perform sex acts on several men.

The man, 31, approached Police Community Support Officers guarding a cordon in Albert Road in Plymouth on Thursday evening. Devon and Cornwall Police said it was believed he was assaulted in nearby Exmouth Road. Two men have been arrested in connection with the stabbing. More on this and the latest on what's happening in Devon here A force spokesman said the injured man was in a "critical condition" in Derriford Hospital. Two men, aged 58 and 46, were arrested on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm with intent. They are awaiting questioning.

A stabbing victim walked a third of a mile (480m) to the scene of a fire to find help, police have said.

In 2014, Sarah Rochira published the results of a major review of the experience of care home residents. The use of antipsychotic drugs was a recurrent theme which she has branded a "national scandal". Health boards and care homes have said changes are being made. The commissioner is asking them to show significant improvements in practice. "I know professionals don't like this phrase, but across Wales older people in care homes, through the inappropriate use of these drugs, are being 'chemically coshed'. That's the reality of it. "It is a national scandal. I made that clear when I published my review. I was very clear I would come back and look for evidence of changes and I've now begun that process. "I will publish the findings from the health boards later this year and I cannot be any clearer in my expectation that they understand how inappropriate the current situation is and that they can evidence real progress." Antipsychotic drugs are primarily used to treat conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. A survey last November by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found nearly one in five - 18% - of dementia patients were being prescribed antipsychotics. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales published its own report into the use of medicines in care homes following the Ms Rochira's report. The society's director in Wales, Mair Davies, told BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme that there were examples of expert practice. "What we need is to make sure that happens in every care home in Wales," she said. Steve Ford, the dementia care lead for Care Forum Wales, which represents more than 450 independent care homes in Wales, believes progress is being made. "We need to look at the underlying reasons for unwanted behaviour that challenges, rather than picking up the phone to the GP and requesting those prescriptions," he said.

Evidence of progress on reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medication in care homes has been demanded by the Older People's Commissioner for Wales.

Wilson rejoined Championship side Forest from Celtic for £2.5m in August 2013, but has been without a team since being released in May. The 30-year-old made 51 appearances in his second spell at the City Ground, having spent four seasons at the club prior to signing for Celtic. He has also previously had spells with Preston North End and Notts County. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Rotherham United have signed former Nottingham Forest centre-back Kelvin Wilson on a one-year contract.

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

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

Libor - or London inter-bank offered rate - is used by banks to set the cost of lending money to each other. The New York attorney-general, Eric Schneiderman said government bodies and not-for-profit organisations had been defrauded of millions of dollars. The Libor scandal has already cost Barclays $453m. That sum was paid to the US Justice Department, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the UK's Financial Services Authority in 2012. As part of the latest legal settlement, Barclays admitted what had already been firmly established; that some of its dealers rigged Libor rates in a system of mutual back-scratching between 2005 and 2009. Mr Schneiderman said: "There has to be one set of rules for everyone, no matter how rich or how powerful, and that includes big banks and other financial institutions that engage in fraud or impair the fair functioning of financial markets." Other banks that have reached settlements with the US authorities in similar Libor cases include UBS, which paid $1.5bn (£940m), RBS, Deutsche Bank and ICAP. But Mr Schneiderman said Barclays was the first bank to settle cases brought by individual US state authorities. For its part, Barclays said it was "pleased" to have settled this latest legal threat in the US. "We believe this settlement is in the best interests of our shareholders and clients," it said.

Barclays bank has paid a further $100m (£77m) to settle a claim by 44 US states that it rigged the Libor rate system between 2005 and 2009.

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

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

The 61-year-old joined the Canaries from Atlanta United in December 2016. Money managed Walsall, Luton Town and Cambridge United between 2006 and 2015 before working for MLS side Atlanta. "Watching [head coach] Daniel Farke over the past six weeks has rekindled my appetite for management and it's something I'd like to be considered for once more," Money said.

Richard Money has left his role as Norwich academy boss by mutual consent to try to return to club management.

Colonel Steve Warren said more than 20 strikes have been carried out in the past four days, destroying IS positions. The raids are in support of Iraqi forces who are trying to retake Falluja from IS. Meanwhile there are dire warnings about conditions in the city. The IS commander in the city, Maher Al-Bilawi, was killed in bombardments targeting IS fighter positions and gun emplacements, Col Warren said. However, the colonel warned that it was unclear how long the battle to retake the city would last. Islamic State: The full story Some 50,000 civilians remain trapped in the city and have been told via leaflet drops to avoid IS areas and put white sheets on their roofs, Col Warren said. The UN says it has reports of people dying of starvation and being killed for refusing to fight for IS. "We have dramatic reports of the increase of the number of executions of men and older boys, refusing to fight on behalf of Isil," said Melissa Fleming, a spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, using an alternative acronym for IS. "Other reports say a number of people attempting to depart have been executed, or whipped. One man's leg was amputated reportedly." The UN says hundreds of families were able to flee the city on Friday with the help of government forces. The assault is being carried out by a combined force comprising thousands of Iraqi army troops, the federal police and Sunni tribal fighters, Col Warren said. Militia forces were also involved but had pledged to remain outside the city, he added. Falluja fell to IS in 2014, a key moment in its rise that saw it declare a caliphate across swathes of Iraq and Syria.

The Islamic State group's commander in the besieged Iraqi city of Falluja is among 70 militants killed in coalition air strikes, the US military says.

American Hoffman, 40, carded a three-over 75 to drop to four under overall, before Spain's Garcia, 37, shot a 69. Belgium's Pieters hit a 68, while American Fowler shot a day's best 67. Rory McIlroy (73) is one over as he seeks a career Grand Slam but defending champion Danny Willett missed the cut. Englishman Willett ended one over the cut line on seven over after shooting 78 in blustery winds that made conditions tricky at the Georgia course, although most players did find scoring easier than on the opening day. Only two players - Hoffman and compatriot William McGirt - shot under 70 on Thursday, but seven men managed the same feat in the second round - including Garcia, Fowler and Pieters. "I felt like I played great, I felt like I hit the ball better than the first day," said Garcia, the world number 11. "The course is still very difficult, and I made a couple of stupid mistakes but I can be happy because of the way the course is playing," he added. Garcia has been one of the game's leading players since bursting onto the European Tour scene as a teenager, consistently hovering in and around the world's top 10 and challenging for leading honours. But his failure to win one of the four majors, after several near misses in 22 top-10 finishes, is a blemish on an otherwise stellar career. Two impressive rounds at a blustery Augusta have left him well-placed to shake off the unwanted tag of being one of golf's most famous 'nearly men'. Garcia made a flying start to his second round with birdies on the first three holes before dropping his first shot of the tournament on the fourth. Then came total confusion after a mistake on the Masters scoring system. Garcia scored a bogey on the par-four 10th, but it was changed on the scoring system to a triple-bogey seven - dropping him down the leaderboard. The mistake was eventually rectified by tournament officials about an hour later, moving him back into tied second and two behind Hoffman. Two more birdies at the 15th and 17th wiped out Hoffman's lead, although the Ryder Cup stalwart missed a six-foot birdie putt on the last to take the outright clubhouse lead. "I've shown myself many times that I can contend and I truly feel I can not only win one major, but more than one," said Garcia. On the scorecard mix-up, he added: "I saw it on the leaderboard on the 13th but the main thing was I knew where I stood." Hoffman, 40, caused a shock when he shot a stunning seven-under 65 to lead on Thursday but, unsurprisingly, the Californian was unable to replicate this remarkable feat. His round was ruined by five bogeys in six holes around the turn, although he recovered to birdie the 13th and stay in the hunt. "Any time this place firms up, it plays its hardest just because it's hard to control your golf ball," said Hoffman, who has only previously claimed one top-25 finish at a major. Belgium's Pieters - considered one of the rising stars on the European Tour - moved into contention with another impressive showing on his Augusta debut. The 25-year-old began the day level and, after bogeying the first, stormed back with three birdies and an eagle on the 15th. Media playback is not supported on this device Fowler, two groups behind Pieters, set the tone by holing his bunker shot for an eagle on the par-five second and adding a birdie on the next. He rolled in three more birdies to record the day's lowest round. Two-time major winner Jordan Spieth birdied three of his last six holes to finish level par alongside two other former Masters champions, Adam Scott and Phil Mickelson. In three appearances at the Masters, American Spieth has finished second, first, tied for second. World number two McIlroy, 27, is aiming to become only the sixth man to win all four majors - at his third time of trying at Augusta. McIlroy, who has three consecutive top-10 finishes in Georgia, is seeking a first Masters title following victories at the US Open and the Open Championship and two US PGA Championship titles. Media playback is not supported on this device He shot a scrappy level-par 72 on Thursday and followed up with a similarly-scruffy round on Friday. He struggled to find rhythm in a card littered with five bogeys, salvaging four birdies to keep him within touching distance. However, McIlroy felt aggrieved to walk off the 18th with a bogey after his approach shot hit the flagstick and bounced off the green. "The shot at the last looked like a tap-in birdie and I made five. I got two bad breaks with hitting the pin and the wind then caught me out on the putt as well," he said. "It was another day where you had to battle, make a lot of pars and pick off the odd birdie here and there. "I feel I can put a 31 or 32 together a couple of times over the weekend and get closer to the leaders. "Hopefully these are the toughest conditions we have played in and hopefully I can go a lot lower over the weekend." England's Danny Willett became the first Briton to win the Masters in 20 years when he claimed his first major 12 months ago - this time there was no cause to celebrate ending another barren run. The Yorkshireman, 29, is the first defending champion to miss the cut since Canada's Mike Weir in 2004. Willett began the day at one over par, but his second round got off to a shocking start when he recorded a quadruple-bogey eight on the first. Two more bogeys arrived at the fourth and 11th holes, in addition to a solitary birdie at the 10th, leaving him perilously close to missing the projected cut of six over. And a bogey on the 18th pushed him to seven over par. "We've had two fabulous years and then you have a little bit of a downturn and it feels like the world is coming to an end," Willett said. "Playing Augusta at the weekend would be nice with the good weather coming in, but we had that in our own hands and unfortunately we let that slip." Other big names who missed the cut include reigning Open champion Henrik Stenson, plus former Masters winners Bubba Watson and Zach Johnson. Seven other Britons - Chris Wood, Tommy Fleetwood, Russell Knox, Ian Woosnam, Tyrrell Hatton, Sandy Lyle and amateur Scott Gregory, plus Ireland's Shane Lowry - also failed to make the weekend. Media playback is not supported on this device Twelve months after Bernhard Langer rolled back the years at Augusta, another veteran former champion is dreaming of a fairytale finish. Fred Couples, who won the Masters in 1992, is three shots behind the leading group after shooting a two-under-par 70. The 57-year-old former world number one is now ranked 1,893, but showed that experience counts for everything at Augusta. The American carded six birdies during a round punctured by a double bogey and two bogeys, and almost holed his approach on the 18th but walked off with a tap-in birdie. Find out how to get into golf with our special guide. "I feel like I can play the course well but in conditions like this I feel I have a better chance than if it was sunny and less windy," he said. "It would be hard for me to shoot a 68 like some of the better players. In bad weather I feel I could battle. "The only real disappointment was my second on 17 which led to a bad bogey." Another former winner, 58-year-old Larry Mize, became the oldest player to make the cut at six over par on the 30th anniversary of his 1987 victory.

Charley Hoffman's overnight advantage was wiped out as Sergio Garcia, Rickie Fowler and Thomas Pieters pegged him back for a four-way tie at the halfway stage of the Masters at Augusta.

Drugs such as tamoxifen and bulsufan are now 10 times more expensive despite no longer being under patent. The British Generic Manufacturers Association said trusts often paid much less than the list price. The Department for Health said it has plans to cut generic drug costs. The UK researchers said NHS negotiations with drug companies were failing to contain costs, and getting access to cheaper drugs would allow more people to be treated with more modern medicines. They estimated that the cost of these price rises to the NHS in England was around £380m a year - which only included community-based prescribing, not hospital prescribing. Drugs start off being on-patent, and their high prices allow pharmaceutical companies to profit from their investments in research and development. After patents have expired and generic versions are sold, the theory is that drug prices should fall close to the cost of production. However, because of high drug prices, the NHS is often not able to approve some new cancer drugs for use. New treatments then have to be rationed. Dr Andrew Hill, senior research fellow in pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Liverpool, and Melissa Barber from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, collected prices on medicines available on the NHS for their presentation at the cancer conference. They discovered that busulfan, which is used to treat leukaemia, cost 21p per tablet in 2011 and £2.61 in 2016. Tamoxifen, used to treat breast cancer, cost 10p per tablet in 2011 and £1.21 in 2016. Of 89 cancer medicines looked at in the analysis, 21 showed price rises from 2011 to 2016 - with 17 of those classified as generic. Fourteen generic cancer drugs showed price rises of more than 100%. And compared with prices for the same drugs in India, the UK drugs were roughly 20 times more expensive. Dr Hill said he was surprised to find several companies had consistently raised the prices of cancer treatment. "We have found that some companies take over the supply of some generic cancer medicines and then raise the price progressively," he said. He said this was "worrying", particularly when the Cancer Drugs Fund is under pressure from high prices. But Warwick Smith, director-general of the British Generic Manufacturers Association, said the actual prices paid by hospitals were usually much lower than the list prices. He said the tendered price paid by hospitals for tamoxifen 10mg tablets is £4.85 for a pack of 30, or 16p per tablet. "Generic competition in the oncology market has produced very significant savings for the NHS and generated access for patients to medicines such as tamoxifen which can be used to reduce the risk of breast cancer and not just to treat it. "In the case of generic medicines used in hospitals, it is important to distinguish between the actual price paid by trusts and the much higher list prices often quoted." The Health Services Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill, currently going through Parliament, is designed to allow the NHS to regulate prices in the future. As a result of the bill, companies found to be raising prices with no clear justification will be referred to the Competition and Markets Authority, and could face fines. A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "We will continue to work closely with the pharmaceutical sector to make a success of these new measures, and all the money saved will be invested in the NHS to help provide the highest quality of care for patients." Other European countries have taken similar measures. In Spain and Italy, failure to accept the high prices demanded for some generic treatments has led to warnings from companies that they could stop their supply. "At a time when cancer patients are living longer and better lives due to effective treatments, this situation is particularly worrying," Dr Hill said.

UK prices for generic cancer drugs have risen sharply in the past five years, restricting their use in treating NHS patients, research from the European Cancer Congress has found.

A few weeks ago we reported very real concerns about the choreography in the aftermath of the summit from Eurosceptic cabinet ministers, worried that the PM would be setting the pace and terms of the debate in its vital early hours. While they didn't commit officially to a position, the sense in Downing Street was that there was no need to shift cabinet from its usual Tuesday spot. They hoped and expected that cabinet ministers who wanted to campaign for exit would keep their counsel until then, when the government had adopted its official position. But in truth, at least one senior figure had already resolved to break their silence and reveal their plan to campaign for Out over the weekend, in defiance of Number 10. With that knowledge, and several frank conversations with Eurosceptic ministers, David Cameron's team have decided to relent. This is not just a story for political process nerds (honest), but it illustrates how Eurosceptics, although in a clear minority in the cabinet, have been able to force Downing Street's hand. This week's summit and now, the 24 hours that follow, are shaping up to be some of the most important in David Cameron's political career.

This afternoon Number 10 has bowed to the inevitable, and conceded that if (and it is still an if) the deal is done at the EU summit in Brussels this week David Cameron will hold a cabinet meeting as soon as he returns to London early on Friday evening.

The oil giant said the majority of the staff and contractor posts would go this year, with the rest expected to be lost by the end of next year. The job losses amount to about a fifth of BP's North Sea workforce. BP said it was taking the step in the face of "toughening market conditions" but added that it remained committed to the North Sea. The cuts are among 4,000 posts BP plans to shed from its global oil exploration and drilling business. The announcement comes a day after oil firm Petrofac said up to 160 UK jobs could go under a restructuring plan. Mark Thomas, regional president for BP North Sea, said: "We are committed to the North Sea and see a long-term future for our business here. "For example, in 2016, we are continuing to invest around $2bn of capital into North Sea projects and a further $2bn in running our North Sea operations. "This will sustain many hundreds of jobs both in BP North Sea and our supply chain going forward. "However, in toughening market conditions and given the well-documented challenges of operating in this maturing region, we need to take specific steps to ensure our business remains competitive and robust. "An inevitable outcome of this will be an impact on headcount and we expect a reduction of around 600 staff and agency contractor roles by the end of 2017, with the majority of these taking place this year. "We are speaking to our staff and agency contractor management and will work with those affected over the coming months." The UK government's Scottish Secretary, David Mundell, is expected to hold talks soon with the Scottish government's energy minister, Fergus Ewing, over the announcement. Mr Mundell said: "The UK government will work with the Scottish government to ensure help is provided to those affected, including through the Job Centre Plus network. "The UK government recognises the huge importance of the North Sea, to Scotland and the whole of the UK." First Minister job Nicola Sturgeon described the job losses in the North Sea as a "crisis" for those affected but insisted that the sector had a "strong future ahead". She said: "I think it is important to note and to welcome BP's continued commitment to the North Sea. "BP has reiterated today its investment plans, both in capital investment and operational investment in the North Sea this year and has said that it sees a long-term future for its business." She said she would ensure the taskforce, which was set up last year and is chaired by Lena Wilson from Scottish Enterprise, was doing everything it could for individuals facing the prospect of redundancy and the industry as a whole. Lewis Macdonald, Scottish Labour MSP for the North East of Scotland, said the job cuts were "another huge blow" for Scotland's oil industry. He added: "With so many jobs being lost in the north east, and no sign of a recovery any time soon, it is time to reconvene the oil summit held just under a year ago and for the SNP government to spell out what their strategy is for dealing with this major crisis." Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for North East Scotland, Alison McInnes, said "real support" was needed from the UK government if the North Sea oil and gas industry were to overcome the challenges it faced. Maggie Chapman, Scottish Greens spokeswoman on social justice, said the "need for a plan to transition the Scottish economy away from dependence on fossil fuels" had become "ever more important". John Boland, from trade union Unite, said: "This morning's announcement shows the crisis which has gripped our oil and gas sector for over a year now is far from over. It's another hammer blow for jobs and skills. "We need an emergency convention of all the industry stakeholders - government, employers and trade unions - to tackle this crisis so we have a safe and sustainable industry for the next generation." Aberdeen City Council leader Jenny Laing said: "This is very disappointing news and a sign of the continued difficulties facing the sector, but we welcome the commitment from BP that the company still sees a long-term future in this area and is continuing to invest heavily in the North Sea." Industry body Oil and Gas UK said the plummeting oil price had impacted heavily on activity across the UK Continental Shelf. Chief executive Deirdre Michie said: "While Oil and Gas UK cannot comment on the commercial decisions made by its members, companies are having to take very difficult decisions in what continues to be a challenging time, and we, as an industry, must be thoughtful and supportive of our colleagues who are being made redundant or facing uncertainty."

BP has announced plans to shed about 600 jobs from its operations in the North Sea.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has 285 full-time vacancies across three sites, which cover Surrey and Berkshire. The high cost of living in the south of England is said to be a factor affecting recruitment. Each successful applicant will receive a maximum of £1,340 in subsidies. Nurses will be offered accommodation at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Frimley Park near Camberley and Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot. Marko Novosil moved from Croatia to become a nurse at Wexham Park after hearing about the incentive. "The crucial thing for coming here was the support. I realised that when I started I would get the free accommodation which helped me settle in", he said. Wexham Park Hospital matron Helen Noakes said: "Rental prices are higher in this area, which means people do struggle and the one thing that we can offer people is the free accommodation when they start. "Longer term we would look to help them find somewhere in the local area to live." Currently the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom property in Slough is £897, whereas the average for the same sort of property in Camberley is £930. The average cost for a room in both areas ranges from £500 to £550.

Nursing job applicants are being offered two months free accommodation in a bid to quell staff shortages at a hospital trust.

Mr Newman was detained in Melbourne on Thursday after entering Australia without a visa. Australia had cancelled his visa while he was still in the US on the grounds that his presence in the country could incite violence. Mr Newman has previously called for the execution of abortion doctors and said women who have abortions are murderers. On Friday, Justice Geoffrey Nettle in Melbourne ruled that the cancellation of Mr Newman's visa was justified, reported the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. While Mr Newman may have had a case to challenge the cancellation, he should not have boarded a plane to Australia without a visa, said the judge. "Acting as he did means he does not come to this court with clean hands," he said. Mr Newman, also known as Troy Newman-Mariotti, had been due to speak at events run by the group Right to Life Australia. But he was prevented from boarding a connecting flight in the US city of Denver on Tuesday after Immigration Minister Peter Dutton cancelled his visa. It came after it emerged he had called in a 2000 book for doctors who perform abortions to face execution . His wife Mellissa had presented his appeal to the high court in Melbourne. "I don't know what they're afraid of. I don't know what they think he's going to do here," she was quoted as saying earlier by ABC News. In a posting on Facebook ahead of his arrival in Melbourne, he said the decision to revoke his visa "was based on a pile of lies, including the idea that I promote violence". "My 25-year history of peaceful, prayerful action speaks for itself," he said. Earlier this week, Australian Labor MP Terri Butler wrote to Australia's Mr Dutton to ask that Mr Newman's visa be denied, calling him an "anti-choice extremist". But the website for Mr Newman's organisation, Operation Rescue, insisted that he "has never advocated violence and in fact, urges pro-life activists to work within the governmental and legal system to accomplish change".

US anti-abortion campaigner Troy Newman is to be deported from Australia after losing a high court appeal.

But she has just won Taiwan's presidency and is steely in her belief that Taiwan's future should be determined by its people. This is a direct challenge to China, which still sees the island as a province to be reunified by force if needed. What Beijing will have to decipher is where exactly Ms Tsai stands on the issue of Taiwan's sovereignty and what her next move will be. She has skilfully avoided clarifying this. She is not just a mystery to China. Many Taiwanese see her as a quiet enigmatic force, difficult to predict. She has described herself as someone who likes to walk next to walls to avoid the spotlight and characterised her rapid ascendency in politics as an "accidental life". Why does this election matter? Is it all about the economy? What's behind the China-Taiwan divide? Ms Tsai is Taiwan's first female leader but unlike other Asian women who rose to the top, she didn't come from a political family. The youngest of 11 children born to the last of her father's four wives, she grew up in a well-to-do family. Her father ran a successful car repair business and made money investing in land, but insisted she attend public schools to expose her to wider society. She spent the first 30 years of her life deep in academic pursuits: getting a bachelor of law at National Taiwan University, a master's in law at Cornell University in the US and a PhD at the London School of Economics, eventually becoming a law professor. Her area of expertise and English proficiency meant she was called upon in the 1990s to become a legal consultant for Taiwan's World Trade Organization (WTO) entry negotiations. So began her entry into public life. As national security advisor to former President Lee Teng-hui, she helped draft his special state-to-state relations doctrine, in which he defined relations between Beijing and Taipei as that of two countries - a move that angered China. But under the next president Chen Shui-bian and at one of the worst times for cross-strait relations, Ms Tsai, as head of the Mainland Affairs Council, found a way to work with a hostile China and launched the landmark "Small Mini Links" programme in 2001, which allowed direct ferry transport and trade links between Taiwan's outlying islands and mainland China. She later pushed for the first-ever chartered flights between the two sides. And in 2003, despite concerns about Taiwan opening up too much too soon to China, Ms Tsai convinced Mr Chen and legislators to revise Taiwan's law governing relations with China, making it legal for Taiwanese businesses to invest in the mainland. "From her perspective, since this was something people needed and were already doing illegally, she thought the government should develop a law and let people do it legally," said Ho Mei-yueh, a former economics minister who worked closely with Ms Tsai. Those who know her say she is practical and flexible with a knack for building consensus. "She's not someone who will take the initiative to go on stage, but once she sits down at the meeting table, she's the leader, said Mr Ho. But even those who know her are unclear about her stance on Taiwan's independence. "She's not anti-China, not deep-green (the colour of the pro-independence DPP), and she's never said she favours Taiwan's independence," said Chang Jing-wen, who has written a book about Ms Tsai's career. But Ms Tsai makes clear that she holds Taiwan's democracy dear; she agreed to take over the DPP in the throes of crisis in 2008, because she believed that a strong opposition was crucial for democracy. In a clue to what turned her from a reluctant politician to embracing her destiny, she described in her recently published book how she felt when an elderly restaurant worker donated her entire month's salary of NT$20,000 (US$600) to her campaign: "I will always remember. She said she doesn't ask for anything in return, and only hopes that the DPP will help her protect Taiwan's sovereignty; she wants to keep being a Taiwanese person." Few expect her to push for independence. Yet, despite intense pressure from China and the establishment KMT party, Ms Tsai has not accepted what Beijing insists is the only basis for future relations - a consensus reached with Taiwan in 1992 that there is only one China, with each side free to interpret what that means. Beijing takes that to mean Taiwan and the mainland are one China. Yet she has also moved away from her party's and her previous position that no such consensus exists. She will know better than many that China remains paramount: Taiwan badly needs economic agreements from its biggest trade partner, particularly when export markets remain uncertain. Kou Chien-wen, a political science professor at National Chengchi University, speaks of her flexibility: "I don't think she's someone who is strongly ideological. She is very clever." In a sign of this, when Chinese netizens posted tens of thousands of messages on her Facebook page criticising her during her campaign, Ms Tsai simply posted: "I hope this rare opportunity can help our 'new friends' get a complete view of the democracy, freedom, and diversity of Taiwan. Welcome to the world of Facebook!" Ironically, Ms Tsai could turn out to be a better partner for Beijing than current President Ma Ying-jeou, who is not trusted by some because his parents came from mainland China and his party is pro-unification. Agreements signed with Ms Tsai will not likely face opposition. Being a mixture of Taiwan's different ethnic groups, and the descendant of a long-time Taiwanese family, has helped her win the trust of voters. Her father was Hakka, her mother Minnan, and her paternal grandmother was from the Paiwan indigenous tribe. But if she is unable to win China's trust, her term could be marked by stalemate, or Beijing could shrink or sever official ties. Tensions could resurface, worrying regional neighbours and affecting ties between Beijing and Washington, which is bound by law to help Taiwan defend itself. Her book offers a clue to her philosophy. Quoting German sociologist Max Weber, she compared politics to the strong and slow boring of hard boards: "We have to be more patient [and work] steadily, practically, and accurately to achieve the ideal. This is my style."

With slightly hunched shoulders and an unassuming manner, 59-year-old Tsai Ing-wen doesn't look like a threat to Beijing.

The 22-year-old midfielder returns to his native Denmark, having been unable to establish himself as a first-team regular since his arrival from FC Midtjylland in January 2012. He made his Fulham debut in 2014 and played a total of 68 games for the club, scoring seven goals. Christensen ended last season on loan at Burton Albion, along with Fulham forward Cauley Woodrow. He featured for Denmark in this summer's European Under-21 Championship. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Lasse Vigen Christensen has left Fulham to join Brondby for an undisclosed fee.

Pools, who were relegated from the English Football League last season, lost their opening game at home to Dover on Saturday but started well at Moss Rose, with Cassidy and Jack Munns both firing inches wide. Macclesfield hit back, with Danny Whitaker's volleyed effort superbly tipped away by goalkeeper Scott Loach. The home side took the lead in the 38th minute when Elliott Durrell's ball into the box was headed home by Whitaker. There was a let-off for Hartlepool at the start of the second half when a mistake from defender Scott Harrison set Tyrone Marsh clear but he shot straight at Loach. Pools levelled after 58 minutes when Cassidy nodded in a cross from Ryan Donaldson and came closest to winning it when the striker's flicked header was saved. Match report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 1. Second Half ends, Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 1. Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Koby Arthur replaces Elliott Durrell. Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Scott Wilson replaces Scott Burgess. Substitution, Hartlepool United. Blair Adams replaces Jack Munns. Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Kieran Kennedy replaces George Pilkington. Goal! Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 1. Jake Cassidy (Hartlepool United). Second Half begins Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 0. First Half ends, Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 0. Jack Munns (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card. Goal! Macclesfield Town 1, Hartlepool United 0. Danny Whitaker (Macclesfield Town). Tyrone Marsh (Macclesfield Town) is shown the yellow card. Liam Donnelly (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

Jake Cassidy's second-half equaliser earned Hartlepool their first point in the Vanarama National League as they drew against Macclesfield.

The owners said their planned £80m development at the site in Bewdley, Worcestershire, would create between 300 and 500 jobs. Wyre Forest District Council granted planning permission for the water park, including seven slides. The park said it hoped this would open by 2017. The hotel was given outline planning permission. Some people living in Bewdley have raised concerns about traffic congestion and the impact on the environment. Managing director Ivan Knezovich said: "If we see the safari park as a destination, the whole idea of creating a destination is for people to say 'well let's go to Bewdley, let's go to the safari park and we'll have a two or three days stay'. "(That) means it'll encourage people to travel out into the Wyre Forest, to the River Severn." Stephen Williams, who chairs the planning committee on the council, said the positives outweighed the negatives. He said: "This is a very, very major development and it will bring a great deal of employment."

Proposals for an indoor water park and a hotel at West Midland Safari Park have been approved by councillors.

Visiting striker Harry Kane fired home from the spot in the second half after Raheem Sterling was controversially penalised for handball. Yaya Toure struck a 20-yard free-kick against the bar before teenage substitute Kelechi Iheanacho levelled. But Spurs earned a fifth league win in a row as Eriksen slotted in. The Dane was played through on goal by substitute Erik Lamela to coolly finish, after Iheanacho had shot high into the net to restore parity. Arsenal's win over leaders Leicester earlier in the day temporarily moved the Gunners into second place but Spurs have gone back ahead of their north London rivals on goal difference. Analysis: Spirit, fitness and belief - why Spurs can win title Relive Tottenham's win at Manchester City Listen: Ramon Vega - "I have no doubts Spurs will grab the league" Media playback is not supported on this device Manuel Pellegrini's side won 21 points from their opening nine league games but have claimed just 26 points from their subsequent 17 matches. They are six points off the Premier League summit after losing two consecutive home league matches for the first time since December 2008, and have lost ground to Arsenal and Tottenham, who are in third and second respectively. City know the gap is not insurmountable, having been eight points behind Manchester United in April 2012 before snatching the Premier League title on the final day. But they are 11 points worse off than Leicester and Tottenham during this 17-game period and need to find form quickly. City will point towards the penalty as a key moment against a Tottenham side who have not won a top-flight title since 1961. Both sides struggled to create chances in a tight encounter but, despite Tottenham having more of the ball, the hosts will feel they deserved at least a point as David Silva scooped over late on. Media playback is not supported on this device Manchester City were absolutely furious at Mark Clattenburg's decision to penalise Sterling and you could understand why. The England forward had turned his back as he jumped to block Danny Rose's cross, with the ball hitting him as he was looking the other way. Former Wales and Leicester midfielder Robbie Savage told BBC Radio 5 live: "I think that is harsh, very, very harsh. It has hit him on the elbow." However, in a match of few chances, City should ask questions defensively as they levelled before leaving themselves wide open seven minutes from time for Eriksen, on his 24th birthday, to win the match. England manager Roy Hodgson was at the Etihad and would have welcomed the earlier news of scoring returns for Arsenal's Danny Welbeck and Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge. In the first two games of the day, six of the nine goals scored had been netted by English players and his options before Euro 2016 were further demonstrated in Manchester as Kane scored his 16th Premier League goal of the season. The 11.9km covered by England's 19-year-old midfielder Dele Alli was more than all but one of Manchester City's side, as he continues to impress, while compatriot Eric Dier, 22, was solid in the holding midfield role. Another England forward, Sterling, was quiet for the most part for City, although he did almost break the deadlock with a volley that was bravely blocked by Rose early on. Man City boss Manuel Pellegrini told BBC Sport: "It was a penalty that referee Mark Clattenburg wanted to sign for and he gave the sign. It was absolutely the wrong decision, it hit the back of Raheem Sterling then his elbow. Sterling was not even seeing the ball. It was the same referee in the first game where there were two clear goals in offside and we lost 4-1. "It was the key moment that decided thee game; before that they did not shoot towards our goal and did not have any chances. We took the risks, the spirit of the team was good but it was not enough." Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino told BBC Sport: "I think that it was a game that was very important. You could feel it was not a normal game and a real test for us; for that we feel very pleased for the players. "The mentality was good and a perfect performance against a team with a lot of quality players who are top class. Full credit to my players. "From my point of view, I did not see the penalty incident. Sometimes in football it happens, it goes for you and against you in the season." Manchester City travel to Chelsea in the FA Cup fifth round next Sunday (16:00 GMT), before a last 16 Champions League tie at Dynamo Kiev the following Wednesday (19:45 GMT). Tottenham travel to Fiorentina in the last 32 of the Europa League on Thursday (18:00 GMT), before entertaining Crystal Palace in the FA Cup fifth round on Sunday (15:00 GMT). Match ends, Manchester City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Second Half ends, Manchester City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Hugo Lloris (Tottenham Hotspur) because of an injury. Attempt missed. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range is too high. Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nicolás Otamendi. Attempt missed. Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Aleksandar Kolarov with a cross following a corner. Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Tom Carroll. Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Nacer Chadli replaces Harry Kane. Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur). Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing. Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Attempt missed. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left. Goal! Manchester City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Erik Lamela with a through ball. Offside, Manchester City. Raheem Sterling tries a through ball, but Sergio Agüero is caught offside. Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Danny Rose. Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho with a headed pass. Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela replaces Dele Alli. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Dangerous play by Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City). Offside, Manchester City. Yaya Touré tries a through ball, but Sergio Agüero is caught offside. Attempt saved. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Kelechi Iheanacho. Tom Carroll (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Manchester City. Aleksandar Kolarov replaces Gaël Clichy. Goal! Manchester City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 1. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Gaël Clichy with a cross. Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Tom Carroll replaces Son Heung-Min. Hand ball by Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur). Substitution, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho replaces Fernando. Offside, Manchester City. David Silva tries a through ball, but Sergio Agüero is caught offside. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Gaël Clichy (Manchester City). Attempt missed. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Gaël Clichy. Attempt blocked. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Fernandinho. Foul by Kevin Wimmer (Tottenham Hotspur). Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City). Attempt saved. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Kevin Wimmer (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

Tottenham moved to within two points of Premier League leaders Leicester as Christian Eriksen struck a late winner at fourth-placed Manchester City.

"We do not have plans to develop a successor Reader model at this time," the Japanese firm told the BBC. The PRS-T3 was the last version made and will exist as long as supplies remain in Europe. Earlier this year, Sony pulled out of selling e-books and directed its users in the US and Europe to the e-bookstore of rival Kobo. North American customers using Sony Readers have been directed to buy books from Kobo since February this year, and European and Australian customers since May, a Sony spokeswoman said. But users in Japan, Sony's home country, can continue to still get its line of Readers and access Sony's Reader Store. The news was first reported by German site Lesen. The dominance of Amazon's range of Kindles and the growing smartphone, tablet and so-called phablet market have made it hard for Sony's suite of e-readers and rivals like Nook to carve out a niche for themselves. According to The Bookseller, Amazon has around 90% of the dedicated e-reader market in the UK. Canadian firm Kobo was bought by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten, which is looking to grow its business globally in a bid to challenge Amazon. The global market in dedicated e-readers peaked in 2011 with 23 million devices sold, but is expected to fall to 10 million by 2017 as phones and tablets eat into the overall market, according to the research consultancy Gartner. Still, the sale of printed books will be outstripped by e-books by 2018, a report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers suggested.

Sony has given up selling its line of Reader devices for e-books after failing to find a big enough market.

Donations have poured in to 34-year-old Paul Gallihawk's JustGiving page since he disappeared during a 750m open water swim on Saturday. He was reported missing after he failed to collect his bike at Leybourne Lakes in Kent for the cycling stage. A two-day search for Mr Gallihawk, from Maidstone, ended when rescue teams found his body in the lakes on Monday. He wrote on his JustGiving page that he was competing to raise money for King's College Hospital in London, which had looked after his father. Since his disappearance was announced, donations on the page have risen to over £12,500 - more than 4,000% of the target. Messages of condolence on the page include: "Stars shine bright, yours will shine the brightest tonight! RIP Paul. Thoughts are with your loved ones." The cause of Mr Gallihawk's death remains unclear but Kent Police is not treating it as suspicious. Mr Gallihawk's girlfriend, Hayley, said: "He was the most amazing and thoughtful partner. I loved him to bits and always will. "He was incredible in every way and he always put others before himself." In a statement, his family said: "[Paul] had such a caring nature and will be sadly missed by all the family, extended family and friends. "Paul was a brilliant son and brother to Nick - he would do anything to help anyone and would always put them first." The triathlon event was organised by Ocean Lake Triathlon, based at Leybourne Lake Country Park, near Larkfield, and Simon Langton School in Canterbury.

A fund set up by a man who died in his first triathlon race has exceeded his £300 target by more than £12,000.

The EU's Brexit guidelines state that Irish border issues should be tackled before talks on a trade deal can begin. Mr Davis said it was "wholly illogical" to think that the border issues can be separated from a trade deal. He was speaking on ITV's Peston on Sunday. Mr Davis said that the phasing of the negotiations would now be "the row of the summer". The Brexit Secretary said that the UK is seeking a "very ambitious" trade deal with the EU, alongside a customs arrangement. He said: "How on earth do you resolve the issue of the border unless you know what the customs agreement is, what the free trade agreement is, whether you need to charge tariffs at the border?" Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said that Mr Davis's remarks are "a direct challenge to the Irish government and to the negotiating stance that was outlined by Michel Barnier when he visited Dublin last week". Mr Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, reiterated the EU's preferred phasing in a speech to the Irish parliament, saying that "sufficient progress" must be made on the preliminary issues before moving onto a trade deal. Mr Adams said Mr Davis's remarks "emphasise the need for the Irish government to urgently press the European Council to secure for the north special designated status within the EU". Speaking in the Republic of Ireland on Friday, Tony Blair warned that a hard border on the island would be a "disaster". The former UK prime minister told a meeting of MEPs in County Wicklow he believed there was a "common desire" to make Northern Ireland a "special case" in Brexit talks. The UK and Irish governments have both said they do not want a return to customs posts on the border after the UK leave the EU. The EU's negotiating guidelines call for a "flexible and creative" approach to the customs issue. Mr Barnier visited a food export business in County Monaghan on Friday, saying that he wanted to "work with all these people on the ground to find solutions" to the border question. He described the forthcoming Brexit talks as "extraordinary and very complex and difficult". "This negotiation will not only be financial, legal or technical - in my view, it will first [be] human and social and economic," said the French politician. On Thursday, Mr Barnier said the Irish border issue would be one of his three priorities in the negotiations, adding that he would work to avoid a hard border. But he emphasised that there would have to be some form of customs controls as a result of Brexit.

The Brexit Secretary David Davis has said he does not accept that Irish border issues can be resolved in the first stage of the UK negotiation with the EU.

"Dependency on giving that only appears to be charitable must end," he said in a tweet ahead of this weekend's African Union summit in South Africa. The BBC's Robert Kiptoo in Kenya says it is not a government policy but a rallying cry for African leaders. Aid is believed to account for 5-6% of Kenya's total income. Mr Kenyatta said that foreign aid "often carries terms and conditions that preclude progress". "It is time to give it up," he wrote.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged fellow African leaders to stop receiving foreign aid, saying it is not an acceptable basis for prosperity.

David Cameron said a stadium would "inspire young people, brings jobs and wealth" to the county. Labour said it was a "cynical" attempt to distract voters, the Liberal Democrats questioned where the funds would come from, and Mebyon Kernow said it did not believe the Tory's promise. Recent planning rows have left the future of the stadium in question. In March, Cornwall councillors deferred a decision to grant permission to build a supermarket that would have paid for the facility, which supporters claimed had put the plans in jeopardy. Revised proposals for the stadium at West Langarth are expected to be submitted to the council in May. Mr Cameron said he planned to get the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to work with Sport England, Cornwall Council and local sports teams to find a way to get it built. "The stadium proposal is an exciting one. If it takes some extra money I'd make that money available," he added. However, Stuart Roden, Labour candidate for Truro and Falmouth, said: "This announcement today is a cynical empty promise and will come to nothing. "It is simply more smoke and mirrors and people won't be taken for fools by this unfunded distraction." Simon Rix, who is standing for the Lib Dems in the constituency, told BBC News: "I'm massively in favour of a stadium in the right place if we can get the money. "But it's like the Conservative promises on the NHS, they're not saying where the money's going to come from." Stephen Richardson, who is standing for Mebyon Kernow in Truro and Falmouth, said: "You have to excuse me if I don't believe a single syllable of any David Cameron promise during the election campaign." Click here for more information on the constituency and a full list of candidates.

The Prime Minister has given his public backing to a stadium in Cornwall if the Conservatives are re-elected in May.

The minnows - in their first season in the top flight - picked up just two points from their opening 10 games and were eight points adrift of safety at the start of April. But a run of six wins and two draws in their final nine games kept them up. They would have gone down had Empoli won, but they lost 2-1 to Palermo to suffer relegation. Crotone's chances before kick-off did not look good as they faced fifth-placed Lazio, but they were deserved winners. Andrea Nalini and Diego Falcinelli - their only player to score more than four goals this season - gave them a 2-0 lead before Ciro Immobile pulled one back from a penalty. But Bastos was sent off for Lazio and Nalini scored a second as Crotone celebrated one of the most famous days in their history. Match ends, Crotone 3, Lazio 1. Second Half ends, Crotone 3, Lazio 1. Substitution, Crotone. Andrej Kotnik replaces Aleksandar Tonev. Substitution, Crotone. Giuseppe Borello replaces Diego Falcinelli. Corner, Crotone. Conceded by Giorgio Spizzichino. Attempt saved. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ciro Immobile. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Substitution, Crotone. Djamel Mesbah replaces Andrea Nalini. Delay in match Andrea Nalini (Crotone) because of an injury. Alessandro Rossi (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Marcus Rohden (Crotone). Attempt saved. Gianmarco Ferrari (Crotone) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Andrea Barberis. Foul by Alessandro Murgia (Lazio). Diego Falcinelli (Crotone) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Alessandro Murgia (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Andrea Barberis (Crotone). Attempt missed. Aleksandar Tonev (Crotone) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Andrea Barberis following a corner. Corner, Crotone. Conceded by Giorgio Spizzichino. Corner, Crotone. Conceded by Giorgio Spizzichino. Substitution, Lazio. Giorgio Spizzichino replaces Wallace. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Andrea Nalini (Crotone). Ciro Immobile (Lazio) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Federico Ceccherini (Crotone). Foul by Luca Crecco (Lazio). Marcus Rohden (Crotone) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Wallace (Lazio). Andrea Nalini (Crotone) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Lazio. Alessandro Rossi replaces Felipe Anderson. Substitution, Lazio. Luca Crecco replaces Lucas Biglia. Attempt missed. Diego Falcinelli (Crotone) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Wallace (Lazio) because of an injury. Delay in match Aleksandar Tonev (Crotone) because of an injury. Foul by Wallace (Lazio). Diego Falcinelli (Crotone) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt blocked. Ciro Immobile (Lazio) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Felipe Anderson. Alessandro Murgia (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Aleksandar Tonev (Crotone). Andrea Nalini (Crotone) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.

Crotone completed one of the greatest escapes Serie A has seen by beating Lazio on the final day to stay up.

The outgoing vice-president spoke during a state dinner and took the opportunity to praise America's northern neighbour. "The world is going to spend a lot of time looking to you, Mr Prime Minister", he told the Canadian leader. Mr Biden has been highly critical of US President-elect Donald Trump. "Vive le Canada because we need you very, very badly," he told the dinner guests. He went on to describe the self-doubt that liberal leaders across the world are currently experiencing after several political defeats. But he praised "genuine leaders" including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying such statesmen and women are in short supply. Mr Trudeau reportedly became emotional during Mr Biden's remarks when the American spoke of his late father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. "You're a successful father when your children turn out better than you," Mr Biden said. This is the second state dinner shared by the two North American nations this year. President Barack Obama hosted Prime Minister Trudeau at the White House in March and later in the summer visited Canada to give a speech in parliament. Canadian officials say the visit is not about "specific policy", but rather "an opportunity to show the depth of the relationship", said Kate Purchase, Mr Trudeau's director of communications. The dinner ensures "that there is continuity in the relationship" with the new American administration, she added. Experts say Mr Biden will seek to assure Canadians that the US-Canada relationship will remain strong during President-elect Donald Trump's presidency. On Friday Mr Biden is meeting with Canada's provincial premiers and indigenous leaders to discuss climate change.

US Vice-President Joe Biden told an audience in Ottawa that the world needs "genuine leaders" such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Media playback is not supported on this device Guy, 20, took third behind winner Dutchman Sebastiaan Verschuren in the 200m freestyle after missing out on the men's 400m final. Tutton, 19, claimed bronze in the 100m women's breaststroke race won by world record holder Ruta Meilutyte. "That race was amazing," Tutton told BBC Sport. "I'm just over the moon." Meilutyte triumphed in one minute 6.17 seconds, ahead of Iceland's Hilda Luthersdottir. The Plymouth-based Lithuanian was winning back at the pool where she took the 2012 Olympic title aged 15. Tutton edged out Irish swimmer Fiona Doyle for third in 1:07.50, with Tutton's team-mate Molly Renshaw in seventh. Media playback is not supported on this device In the 200m freestyle, Verschuren won gold in a time of 1:46.02, with Serbia's Velimir Stjepanovic second in 1:46.26 and Guy finishing in 1:46.42. "For me, that was a great swim and a season's best," said Guy. "Rio is going to be a real scrap to the finish line." Britain's Max Litchfield and Dan Wallace were seventh and eighth in the men's 200m individual medley final won by Greece's Andreas Vazaios. Scot Ross Murdoch breezed through to Thursday's 200m breaststroke final with a winning time of 2:09.72.

England's James Guy and Welsh swimmer Chloe Tutton won bronze medals at the European Championships in London.

They advocated positivity and harmony - expressed through the medium of funk. "From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher," said bandleader Maurice White, who has died at the age of 74. "Being joyful and positive was the whole objective of our group. Our goal was to reach all the people and to keep a universal atmosphere. All of our songs had that positive energy. To create uplifting music was the objective." Blending jazz, Latin and soul with an infectious rhythmic pulse, Earth Wind & Fire they sold more than 90 million albums around the world. Several of their records went multi-platinum, and songs like September, Fantasy and After The Love Has Gone remain gold-plated disco classics. One of the 1970's most accomplished live acts, they regularly featured 16 players on stage, all of whom could turn on a dime. They even incorporated pyrotechnics, lighting effects and magic tricks (floating pianos, disappearing acts) into their set. A young Michael Jackson could often be found in the audience, taking notes. "We were playing highly sophisticated music, and we had to figure out a way to keep people's eyes on the stage," White recalled. "I figured if people were listening to something they hadn't heard before, we had to do exciting things." White's death robs the band not just of their founder member, but their driving force - a musician who steered the band through multiple line-up changes, and honed their sound for crossover appeal. Even when Parkinson's disease robbed him of the ability to play in the 1990s, White took care of the band's business affairs, and devotedly guarded their legacy. Announcing his death, White's brother and bandmate Verdine simply called him his "hero and best friend". Born in Memphis on 19 December 1941, Maurice White was the son of a doctor and grandson of a New Orleans honky-tonk pianist. He moved to Chicago with his family and sang gospel from a young age, but didn't learn to read music until he was 18, when he enrolled at the Chicago Conservatory of Music as a percussion scholar. Upon graduating, he earned his stripes as a session drummer at Chess Records, playing for Etta James, Muddy Waters and Fontella Bass, before leaving to join popular jazz group The Ramsey Lewis Trio, where he learned to play the Kalimba - an African thumb piano that later featured on several Earth Wind & Fire hits. "Ramsey helped shape my musical vision beyond just the music," White later recalled. "I learned about performance and staging." In 1969, he struck out on his own, forming a songwriting partnership with keyboardist Don Whitehead and singer Wade Flemons, which evolved into a band called the Salty Peppers. The group scored a local hit with the effervescent party track La La Time but when a follow-up flopped, he took his bandmates to Los Angeles, adding singer Sherry Scott to form the first version of Earth Wind & Fire, naming the group after the elements on his astrological chart. Critics found their first two albums intriguing but derivative - with many noting a heavy debt to Sly & The Family Stone. "What they lack, though, is Sly's sense of derision and irony," said Rolling Stone in its review of their self-titled debut. "The lyrics, unwisely printed inside, are as preachy and lovepeace cloying as anything Motown has done recently." Taking note, White abandoned the line-up, save his brother, and formed a new band based around younger musicians - notably singing percussionist Philip Bailey, recruited from a Denver R&B outfit called Friends & Love. It marked the beginning of the group's imperial phase. 1973's Head to the Sky brought new audiences while the 1974 follow-up, Open Our Eyes, was their first genuine hit. A year later, they scored their only number one single with the slinky, irresistible Shining Star. The song came to White when he took a night-time walk in rural Colorado, where the band were recording their landmark 1975 album, That's the Way of the World. Overwhelmed by the beautiful clarity of the night sky, he came up with the chorus - "Shining star for you to see / What your life can truly be" - and brought it to the rest of the band. They spent days perfecting the track, with White and Bailey layering vocal upon vocal to create the stark a capella fade at the end of the song. Speaking to MixOnline in 2004, the band said they had been determined to make a crossover hit. "This was an important album - one that signaled whether we would go on and become a mainstream group or just be an R&B act," Verdine White said. "At that particular time, they didn't really cross a lot of black acts over to mainstream radio. We already had two Gold albums but still, most of the mainstream didn't know who we were." The success of the song, earned the band a Grammy nomination for best R&B vocal performance - but the band weren't enamoured with the ceremony. "At the time, African-Americans didn't get their Grammys on television, so we didn't go," said White. "We didn't think too much about the awards. We just stayed focused on the music." By the end of the decade, the band was a regular presence on the pop charts, with melodic hits like After The Love Has Gone and Boogie Wonderland (a collaboration with The Emotions). Their 1978 greatest hits collection The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 sold five million copies in the US, and was their first top 10 record in the UK - thanks in part to a cover of The Beatles' Got to Get You into My Life. They worked hard and toured hard, with White enforcing a zero tolerance policy on showbusiness excess. "No, we don't deal in drugs in any way," he said in 1975. "It's not necessary if your spirit is clear and your mission is positive. Yes, it is true that a lot of entertainers don't follow these kind of guidelines - that is many times because they are in it for the wrong reasons." After weathering the thinly-veiled racism of America's "Disco Sucks" movement, Earth Wind & Fire continued to score hits in the 1980s, adotping a new, electronic edge to keep up with prevailing musical trends. But 1983's Electric Universe was an unexpected flop, and Philip Bailey embarked on a solo career - scoring a global hit with Easy Lover, his duet with Phil Collins. That redressed an imbalance within the band, that allowed them to reform on a more equal footing in 1987. "We were a little inhibited to say things for fear of bruising Maurice's ego," Bailey told the LA Times. "He was sensitive to the fact that we were growing up [musically] and that we were disenchanted about certain things. But he was still in the driver's seat to make decisions. It created a lot of tension." The slimmed-down band scored yet another number one R&B single in 1987, System of Survival, and continue to tour and release albums to this day. White had been battling Parkinson's disease since 1992, and announced his diagnosis in 2000, the same year the band were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But he remained a passionate advocate for his band, and their cosmic message. "It's important to put the emphasis on the positive aspect," he told The Chicago Tribune. "I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope."

To understand Earth Wind & Fire, you just had to look at their song titles: Mighty Mighty, Happy Feelin', Boogie Wonderland.

Speaking in Seattle at the start of his state visit to the US, Mr Xi said foreign firms were welcome in China, and that Beijing would not manipulate its currency to boost exports. He also denied Beijing engages in hacking but said China would co-operate with Washington on the issue. Both issues have led to strained ties. Hacking and economic reforms are expected to come up when Mr Xi meets his US counterpart Barack Obama at the White House on Friday. James Cook, West Coast Correspondent, BBC News Xi Jinping's speech at a banquet in Seattle was wide-ranging, friendly and colourful, sprinkled with Chinese proverbs and references to American culture. From Sleepless in Seattle to Walt Whitman, Mr Xi lavished praise on the culture of his hosts. He was particularly taken, he said, with Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea which follows a fisherman's epic struggle to land a huge marlin. The president talked about China's struggles too, giving a personal account of his tough teenage years working with peasants in a poor village, with no meat to eat for months on end. Now the village had an internet connection, as well as plentiful meat, he said. It was a subtle rebuke to rich Westerners who criticise China's rise, reminding them where his country is rising from. Pointedly for an American audience, he referred to the Chinese Dream which was linked, he said, to his people's yearning for a better life. When pop met political: Sleepless in Seattle and other things about Xi's speech Ahead of Mr Xi's visit, business leaders had re-iterated the difficulties US firms have operating in China and the deteriorating outlook for the economy. China's economy, which has grown rapidly in recent years, is beginning to slow, causing global concern about a fall in demand for global goods. Recent dramatic losses on the Chinese stock markets, despite government interventions, have led to questions over how well the government is managing the slowdown. But Mr Xi told a dinner meeting of business leaders on Tuesday night that ensuring robust international trade was a top priority for China. "China will never close its open door to the outside world," Mr Xi said in Chinese. He called for "more understanding and trust" between the US and China, and "less estrangement and suspicion". "Should they enter into conflict and confrontation, it would lead to disaster for both countries and the world at large," he said. The US has recently alleged that the Chinese state was behind a massive data security breach of government databases as well as attacks on private firms. But Mr Xi said China was "a strong defender of cyber security" as well as a "victim of hacking". "The Chinese government will not, in whatever form, engage in commercial thefts or encourage or support such attempts by anyone," he said. "Both commercial cyber theft and hacking against a government's networks are crimes that must be punished in accordance with law and relevant international treaties." Mr Xi is meeting a number of prominent business and technology leaders during his time in the US, and will be visiting the major Boeing aeroplane construction site in Everett, Washington state. Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday that Boeing has signed deals to supply 300 jets to Chinese airlines and leasing firms during the visit. It also signed an agreement with a Chinese state-owned company to set up a completion centre for Boeing 737 planes, said Xinhua. Mr Xi will be hosted at the White House for a state dinner on 25 September, and is due to give a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York on 28 September.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought to reassure US business leaders, in a wide-ranging speech covering China's economic reforms and cyber crime.

Sir Harry Burns is to chair the study, which will consult NHS staff and patients to ensure targets and performance indicators are producing the best results for patients. An initial report and recommendations are expected in spring 2017. Mr Burns, who stepped down as chief medical officer in 2014, said it was vital that staff felt "empowered". The review of targets was announced by Health Secretary Shona Robison in June. She said she was "delighted" to welcome Mr Burns to the job, adding: "We want to ensure we have a national measurement framework across the whole health and social care system. "As I have said before, targets have an important place in our NHS and there are certain standards, such as those in emergency care and cancer, which patients have the right to expect. "We need to ensure that we also understand how our caring services are performing in a way that takes account of people's experience of different kinds of care, and the extent to which their care is well joined-up." Sir Harry stepped down as Scotland's top doctor after nine years in the job to focus on fighting health inequalities, taking up a post as professor of global public health at Strathclyde University. He said: "Ministers are rightly clear that health and social care services must deliver the best possible outcomes for Scotland's people. "I believe also that health and social care staff want to provide effective and compassionate care to those they serve. It is vital that the information we gather allows those working in health and social care to feel empowered to improve outcomes. "I am looking forward to engaging positively with people on this important review." The Scottish government is also planning on reviewing the number, structure and roles of health boards, and wants GP practices to become more of a community service, involving teams of health professionals and others working together under the guidance of a GP.

A former chief medical officer has been appointed to lead a review of the approach to targets in Scotland's NHS.

The fishermen aboard the St Apollo escaped into their life raft during the incident early on Monday. A rescue helicopter was sent from Prestwick but the group were reached first by the Oban lifeboat at about 03:30. They were taken ashore at Oban. It's thought no one was been injured.

Five people have been rescued after their fishing vessel ran aground and capsized in the Sound of Mull.

Bath and North East Somerset (Banes) Council said a pay dispute between the Unite union and the contractor Kier was over following successful talks. The council said a backlog of waste would be cleared by the weekend. Only half of scheduled collections have taken place recently due to industrial action over what Unite called a "glaring pay inequality".

Further planned strikes by waste collection workers around Bath have been called off.

NHS Digital confirmed so many NHS staff use the search engine that it had started asking them to take a quiz to verify they were "not a robot". News site the Register reported one NHS Trust had told staff to "use Bing" instead. Google indicated its systems were designed to spot unusual traffic and were working as intended. Detecting suspicious traffic from one network can help defeat potential cyber-attacks, such as attempts to try to overwhelm a website. The BBC understands Google is not deliberately singling out NHS traffic. A Google spokeswoman said: "Our systems are simply checking that searches are being carried out by humans and not by robots in order to keep web users safe. Once a user has filled out the Captcha [security check], they can continue to use Google as normal." The NHS is one of the biggest employers in the world, with more than a million members of staff. An email sent by an NHS system administrator suggested the number of staff using the search engine was "causing Google to think it is suffering from a cyber-attack". NHS Digital told the Register: "We are aware of the current issue concerning NHS IP addresses which occasionally results in users being directed to a simple verification form when accessing Google. "We are currently in discussion with Google as to how we can help them to resolve the issue." NHS Digital was unable to suggest what NHS staff may be searching for using Google.

NHS staff using Google's search engine has triggered one of its cybersecurity defences.

The detentions come less than a week before a visit to Cuba by Pope Francis. Most of the activists were members of the predominantly Catholic dissident group, Ladies in White. They walked through the streets of Havana holding up pictures of political prisoners, before they were rounded up by police. According to Cuba's main dissident website, 14yMedio, members of Ladies in White and activists from other opposition groups were handcuffed and pushed into police cars and buses on Sunday afternoon. A number of them were released hours later, it said. Cuba says the protesters are financed by right-wing American groups to destabilise the government. Cuban dissidents are planning to protest during the Pope's visit to the island, which begins on Saturday. They have accused the Cuban Catholic Church of becoming too cosy with the government of Raul Castro and failing to speak out against human rights abuses. "The Church should be concerned about this or any time human rights are involved. It's their duty," said Jose Daniel Ferrer, head of leading dissident group Patriotic Union of Cuba. He told the Reuters news agency he was handcuffed and taken to a police station after Sunday's protest. Police later dropped him off at a bus terminal, he said. The Cuban Catholic Church says it defends the respect of human rights but cannot take up individual political causes. Pope Francis played a key role in facilitating the historic negotiations between Cuba and the United States, which led to diplomatic relations being restored after more than five decades of hostilities. Senior Cuban and American officials met in secrets for months at the Vatican before Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro surprised the world last December by announcing they had agreed to mend relations.

Cuban police have detained more than 50 people who took part in a march calling on the island's communist government to release political prisoners.

Malorie Bantala, 21, was 32-weeks pregnant when she was assaulted by two people in Peckham on 15 June. A boy, 17, was charged on Tuesday with child destruction and grievous bodily harm. He is due to appear at Barkingside Magistrates' Court later. Kevin Wilson, 20, was charged in June with child destruction and causing grievous bodily harm with intent. The teaching assistant, of Longfield Estate in Bermondsey, who is believed to be the baby's father, denies the charge and will face a trial in November.

A second person has been charged over an attack on a pregnant woman in south London after which she lost her baby.

Collymore, 46, expressed an interest in the role at a meeting with Forest owner Fawaz Al Hasawi on Tuesday. But after "time to reflect" on the meeting and feedback from fans, he has now "withdrawn from any involvement". He had said: "I'm not convinced change will happen quickly or thoroughly enough under Fawaz's ownership." But following his decision to withdraw his interest, he explained: "As for fans which questioned my motive, I want the club to be in safe hands, competitive and in the top division. "My current business, career and health are way more important to me than pushing against a tide of doubt, spite and rabble rousing, so I'll stick to the odd Q&A in Nottingham now and again to say hello to those who supported me back in the day." Collymore was involved in a protest against Al Hasawi on 21 January, which followed the collapse of a proposed takeover of the club by a US-based consortium led by John Jay Moores. "I believe Fawaz will stay in the short/medium term," Collymore wrote on his blog. "Unless JJM [Moores] meet the asking price of £50m or as Fawaz said "the Chinese offer silly money", it is my belief that he feels he has the resources, passion and plan to move the club forward." Forest are currently 19th in the Championship, just five points above the relegation zone. They sacked manager Philippe Montanier on 14 January, making the Frenchman the seventh to leave the City Ground since the Al Hasawi family took over in July 2012. Meanwhile, the Nottingham Forest Supporters' Trust have been given an assurance by the city council that the land on which the City Ground is built will never be sold. The stadium is owned by the club, but the land still belongs to the council. The Supporters' Trust have also applied to register the City Ground as an Asset of Community Value, meaning they would have first refusal to purchase the stadium if it were ever to be sold, with six months to raise the required funds. "This is a key safeguarding measure for the future of our football club," a spokesperson said. "With our membership now live and having already seen hundreds of members join up, we have a huge wealth of skills to call upon to continue to push further initiatives forward."

Former Nottingham Forest striker Stan Collymore says he is no longer interested in a role as sporting director at the Championship club.

After Katie Zelem's first-minute opener for Liverpool, goals from Karen Carney, Fran Kirby, Drew Spence and Eniola Aluko put Chelsea 4-1 up at half-time. Caroline Weir and Emma Lundh's second-half strikes gave the visitors hope. But Kirby and Spence both added goals to restore the three-goal lead and keep pressure on leaders Manchester City. Zelem, who netted twice in Liverpool's 3-2 loss at Notts County last time out, stunned the defending champions with a fine strike from range in the early stages. But the floodgates opened after England winger Carney rounded the goalkeeper to level and the scoreline could have been bigger as Carney struck the crossbar with a free-kick late on. Chelsea - who won 2-1 at Liverpool in their previous match - remain second, three points behind first-placed City, who have played a game more. Emma Hayes' side face Arsenal in the Women's FA Cup Final at Wembley on Saturday, looking to defend the trophy they won for the first time last season. Chelsea Ladies midfielder Drew Spence: "It was a bit like a basketball match, the way the goals were going in for both sides. I was pleased with my two goals. "But we're disappointed we didn't manage the game better after coming from behind to go 4-1 in front by half-time. We've got to learn how to not concede before we turn on the gas. "That's something for us to work on in training this week in the build up to the FA Cup final. "We beat Arsenal 2-0 in the league recently but we can't have any complacency because of that, it's going to be a tough game." Liverpool Ladies midfielder Caroline Weir: "Scoring three goals is fine, but if you concede six you can't expect anything out of a game. "We made too many defensive errors and that's just not good enough against a team as good as Chelsea. "This is a tough place to come, but it was so disappointing for us after making a great start with a brilliant goal by Katie Zelem. "We conceded some poor goals after taking the lead, and going in at half-time 4-1 down we knew that wasn't good enough."

Chelsea Ladies won a nine-goal thriller at home to Liverpool Ladies to maintain their 100% winning start to the Women's Super League One season.

One of the 11 children described how the trailer went "really fast down the hill" at the farm in Nottinghamshire before it "launched us off". Two members of teaching staff from Halam Primary and a farmer were also injured in the accident on 11 March. The acting head teacher of the school has apologised. One of the children, Ben, said he was frightened and the other children were crying. "The trailer gone like really fast down the hill and it gone sideways and it launched us off," said Ben. When asked how it made him feel, Ben said: "It feels like sad." Ben's mother, Sheree Cockayne, said he has been struggling to sleep since it happened and has been having nightmares and flashbacks. Mrs Cockayne, who was told about the accident by a school nurse, said: "I rushed to the QMC (Queen's Medical Centre) and Ben was brought in. He had blood all over his face. "He just laid there really shocked. He had to stay in [hospital] overnight for observation every four hours because he had concussion and felt really sick. "He's still got bruises to his head, his ribs and his chest, so he still has a few pains." Nottinghamshire County Council said another child was discharged from hospital after a check-up and one was brought into hospital later in the day for a scan, then released. A teaching assistant sustained a broken wrist, a teaching student sustained a head wound requiring stitches and the farmer, who was also in the trailer, dislocated his shoulder. The assistant will be off work for four weeks. The children were on a trip at Hills Farm in Edingley and the accident happened on Carver's Hollow. Nottinghamshire Police is investigating the incident, rather then the Health and Safety Executive, because the area where it happened is a highway. The force has asked anyone with information to contact them. Hills Farm in Edingley, where it happened, said it would not comment while an investigation is ongoing. The school's acting head teacher, Paul Nolan, said: "We are very sorry this unfortunate incident happened and we wish the children and adults who were injured a speedy recovery. "This incident has affected the whole community and everyone is supporting each other as a result." Marion Clay, the council's acting service director for education standards, said: "This is an established trip for reception pupils and as far as we know at this time all the appropriate procedures were carried out."

A group of primary school children were injured on a trip to a farm when the trailer they were in became detached from the tractor pulling it.

Gillian Triggs told a senate committee that she had been asked to resign and offered a new role. The shadow attorney general has written to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) seeking an immediate investigation. The HRC released a report condemning the treatment of children in detention. Their report said that detaining children of asylum seekers violated international human rights law, and called for their release. Speaking to journalists in Sydney on Wednesday, Mr Abbott repeated his earlier statements that the government had lost confidence in Ms Triggs as president of the HRC. "What she does is a matter for her," said Mr Abbott in response to a question about whether she should resign. "As the secretary of the Attorney General's Department has made clear, she was not asked to resign and no inducement has been offered." On Tuesday, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott launched a scathing attack on the HRC report, saying that it was a "political stitch-up". Earlier in a senate hearing, Ms Triggs said that she had been asked to resign during a meeting on 3 February by the secretary of Attorney General George Brandis' department. "I rejected it out of hand," she said, as quoted by ABC News. Ms Triggs told the hearing that the department's secretary, Chris Moraitis, had said that she would be offered another job with the government. She added that she had been "very shaken and shocked" by the "disgraceful proposal" and had reminded Mr Moraitis that she had a five-year statutory position. In a letter to the AFP commissioner, Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus said: "The attorney general's offer to an independent statutory officer of an inducement to resign her position as president, with the object of affecting the leadership of the [HRC] to avoid political damage to the Abbott government may constitute corrupt and unlawful conduct." ABC News reported that Mr Dreyfus said that Ms Triggs preferred not to use the term "inducement" but that she had made it clear that the resignation request and the offer of a job had been connected. Local media reported that Mr Moraitis has denied asking Ms Triggs to resign but said they had discussed the possibility of her taking on another role. The attorney general admitted to the senate committee that he had lost confidence in Ms Triggs because of the timing of the inquiry into detained children, according to local media. He added that "as a matter of goodwill" he had told Mr Moraitis that he hoped that she could be encouraged to serve the government in other capacities. The HRC report, entitled The Forgotten Children, was published earlier in February. It said a third of detained children had developed mental illnesses of such severity that they required psychiatric treatment. The number of children in detention has fallen under Mr Abbott's government. He has questioned why the HRC did not launch an inquiry when the Labor government was in power and there were almost 2,000 children in detention centres. Successive Australian governments have been criticised over their harsh asylum policies, under which asylum seekers are detained for long periods in offshore camps while their applications are processed.

Australia's opposition Labor Party has asked police to investigate whether the government tried to induce the president of the Australian Human Rights Commission (HRC) to resign.

The crash happened on Monday in Nord Troendelag county, 700km north of Oslo. Photographs show the concertinaed car surrounded by debris on the road next to the undamaged tank. About 15,000 troops from Nato and partner countries are in Norway taking part in the Cold Response exercise. The 50-tonne tank involved in the accident was a Norwegian "armoured recovery vehicle", Lt Col Aleksander Jankov of the Norwegian Armed Forces was quoted by the AP news agency as saying. "The military is exercising to protect national security. Accidents are always tragic and we think it is particularly sad that a person has died in connection to the military exercise," he said. He said two military personnel inside the tank were unhurt and that the accident 22km (13.5 miles) south of Snasa is now being investigated by police and military police. "There was only one person in the car, while there were two people from the Norwegian armed forces in the tank," Rune Reinsborg from Troendelag Police told the NTB website. "We don't know the circumstances surrounding the accident yet." The Norwegian armed forces began the large-scale Cold Response exercise on 19 February in Troendelag. Troops taking part come from 14 countries. The exercise lasts until 22 March.

A motorist was killed when his car collided with a tank on a rural road during a major Nato military exercise in central Norway, police and military officials say.

The 35-year-old schoolteacher told the court that her digestive system sometimes converts food into alcohol. After her arrest, her doctor conducted tests that found that high levels of yeast in her intestines ferment high-carbohydrate foods. Prosecutors are seeking to have the charges against the woman reinstated. "She can register a blood alcohol content that would have you or I falling down drunk, but she can function," her lawyer Joseph Marusak told the Buffalo News. Mr Marusak declined to name his client, citing medical confidentiality laws. The woman was arrested near Buffalo in October 2014 after police said she was driving erratically. A Breathalyzer test showed that her blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit. The arresting officer said she failed several field sobriety tests. Medical and legal experts say the condition, also known as gut fermentation syndrome, is being raised more frequently as a defence in drink-driving cases. "At first glance, it seems like a get-out-of-jail-free card," Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, told the Associated Press. "But it's not that easy. Courts tend to be sceptical of such claims. You have to be able to document the syndrome through recognized testing."

A US woman in New York state has avoided drink-driving charges after arguing that she suffers from a rare condition called "auto-brewery syndrome".

The club, which is owned by its fans via the Exeter City Supporters Trust, declared a total profit of £1.642m for 2014-15, mainly due to the sale of midfielder Matt Grimes to Swansea City. The deal in January 2015 for £1.75m, was a record sale for the club. The profits came in the same year that the club were forced to get an emergency loan to pay players' wages. In June 2014 cashflow problems meant the Professional Footballers' Association stepped in to pay the players and forced Exeter into a transfer embargo which was only lifted in August of that year. The club's accounts also show that Exeter had a surplus of shareholders' funds of £761,000, compared to a deficit of £880,000 the previous year and reduced their cost base by almost 5%. Exeter are hoping to redevelop St James Park after being given planning permission last month. "The board have agreed in broad terms how the income from the transfer should be spent to improve the infrastructure strength of the club in line with its vision and underlying model and these plans are now being developed in detail for further presentation," said a club statement.

League Two Exeter City made a profit of over £1.6m last year, according to the club's latest accounts.

David Thomas, 50, and his son Stephen, 17, from Swindon were among those who died. Stephen's mother Julie was rescued from the Leviathan ll. Nigel Hooker, 63, from Southampton, Salford-born Jack Slater, 76, who had lived in Canada for many years and Katie Taylor, 29, also died. Canadian government investigators are looking into the cause of the accident. All five of the victims were on the open, upper deck of the boat, but were not wearing life jackets, regional coroner Matt Brown told a news conference. The other passengers were all in an enclosed part of the boat. Officials have said more of the 27 people on board could have died had it not been for the "amazing response" from locals around Tofino. A 27-year-old Australian man from Sydney is still missing after the accident on Sunday afternoon. The Down's Syndrome Association described Stephen Thomas as "a very talented young man and a gifted photographer". Chief executive Carol Boys said: "We were all delighted when Stephen's beautiful image 'Moraine Lake' won the national 'My Perspective' photographic competition last year." She added that David Thomas was one of the driving forces behind the Swindon Down's Syndrome Group where he was a trustee. Isambard Community School in Swindon also paid tribute to former pupil Stephen. Headteacher Sue Banks said he was "always a positive role model for others - he never used the term 'I can't' and was constantly smiling". She said he had a love for art and his work was regularly exhibited in the school and sold at the annual art show. David Thomas worked for Microsoft. A statement from the company said they were "shocked and saddened" to hear the news. Michel Van der Bel, Microsoft UK general manager, said: "Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with their family, friends and David's colleagues and we will be doing everything we can to support them." Mr Slater's family said he was a retired navy engineer from Toronto, who had lived in Canada for over 30 years and had three daughters. He was on the boat with his wife, Marjorie, who is being treated in hospital. His daughter Michele Slater Brown wrote on Facebook he was "larger than life, a charmer, handsome, entrepreneur, engineer in the Navy... he was our dad, our lovely dad, I will miss him forever but I'm grateful for all the times I spent with him, I love you dad." Ms Taylor was also a British ex-pat living in the ski resort of Whistler. Corene Inouye, director of operations at Jamie's Whaling Station and Adventure Centre, the company that owns the boat, said: "It appears the incident happened so quickly that the crew didn't have an opportunity to send out a Mayday." She added the skipper of the ship has more than 20 years' whale-watching experience and had completed 18 years with the company. Company owner Jamie Bray said passengers on the boat were not required to wear life jackets as it has enclosed compartments, which would be difficult to exit in the event of a sinking. Another whale-watching boat operated by the same company capsized in 1998, killing two people, including the boat operator and a tourist from Germany. Greg Louie, chief councillor of the Ahousaht First Nation Elected Council, told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme that "possibly everyone" could have drowned or died of hypothermia had the local community not responded to the accident so quickly. The incident could have been "a lot worse", Lt Cmdr Desmond James of the Canadian Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in British Columbia said. He added that 21 people would not have been rescued were it not for the "amazing response" by locals. Australian Associated Press reported the missing 27-year-old Sydney man was on the boat with his girlfriend and her family when it sank. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said his thoughts were with the family and friends of those affected by Sunday's incident. Canadian prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau said he was "shocked and saddened" by the deaths.

The five Britons who died when a whale-watching boat sank off the coast of western Canada have been named.