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The SNP's foreign affairs spokesman was not in the House of Commons to hear Prime Minister David Cameron make his argument for air strikes. The Scottish Conservatives, Scottish Labour and the Scottish Lib Dems were all critical. The SNP defended MP and MSP Mr Salmond saying he was on constituency business. A spokesman stated that Mr Salmond attended a "full briefing" on Wednesday from the security services and the joint chiefs about the Syria situation and there was "nothing in the PM's statement which was of surprise or new". He added that SNP leader in Westminster, Angus Robertson, had responded as planned to Mr Cameron's address. And when the issue is fully debated in the Commons, Mr Salmond would make his contribution as his party's foreign affairs spokesman. After attending First Minister's Questions at Holyrood, the former SNP leader visited the Scottish National Portrait Gallery where he unveiled the painting, by artist Gerard M Burns. Later Mr Salmond is due to host a Scottish Parliamentary reception for veterans, serving armed forces personnel, and local community representatives. He will also brief MSPs on the SNP position on Syria. However, the long-arranged portrait unveiling was criticised by Ms Davidson who said: "There is nothing more serious than the potential deployment of our service personnel abroad. "Alex Salmond has form in unveiling vanity projects to himself but he needs to remember he's paid - twice over - to be a parliamentarian, not an art critic." Mr Rennie added: "Nothing gets in the way of Alex Salmond's ego including debating war and peace in our country and the Middle East. "His absence from the Commons at this critical moment means we will be more sceptical about his motivations the next time he expresses outrage on the matter." A spokesman for Scottish Labour said: "If Alex Salmond was chocolate he would eat himself. On the day that he had a job to do in parliament over Syria it's ridiculous that the SNP's foreign affairs spokesperson was in Edinburgh to look at a picture of himself."

Former first minister Alex Salmond has been criticised for unveiling his new portrait in Edinburgh on the day MPs discussed military action in Syria.

Evie Markham, 18, from Albrighton in Shropshire, made it to the embassy in Kathmandu on Friday evening only to be told it was closed, her mother said. Sue Markham said her daughter was now safe in a hostel. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said it was looking into her case. In a statement, a spokesperson said FCO teams were "working around the clock" to to help British nationals in Nepal and had assisted more than 350 people, arranging flights for 140 of them. Sue Markham, however, said her daughter had received "no help whatsoever" after arriving at Kathmandu airport. "Most countries had representatives there taking people to the embassies and sorting them out," she said. "Evie got there and there were no British people out there at all. She made her way to the embassy and was told it was closed. "They said 'our doors are closed, we work nine to five'. "She's 18 and on her own completely. When she got upset they got her inside and gave her a drink and a Snickers bar and that's all the help she's had." Evie has been on a gap year since September, visiting a number of countries. "She met up with some people she'd previously met in Cambodia and she decided to join them trekking to Everest base camp," Mrs Markham said. She said her daughter had just left base camp when the earthquake struck a week ago. "They had to run for their lives to a village, where they stayed for a couple of days. "Food was running low and and they had no access to money, so they decided to trek to Lukla, nine hours away, which was quite hazardous." With no access to money, a British man she met at Lukla airport stepped in and offered to pay the $130 for her flight to Kathmandu. Mrs Markham said her daughter was now safe and hoped to fly back to the UK on Monday or Tuesday. She said she had spoken to the FCO and would be lodging a formal complaint. The FCO said it was still heavily involved supporting British nationals in Nepal. "Helicopter airlifts continue to assist Brits in remote areas. We have emergency response teams working to locate British nationals and they have assisted several groups in the mountains over the past 48 hours," a spokesperson said. "An RAF C-17 is on its way to Kathmandu and will take British nationals out of Nepal and to New Delhi."

A woman whose daughter was travelling around Nepal when the earthquake struck has said she was shocked at the lack of support from the British embassy.

At least five members of an oil exploration team were killed, a spokesman for the University of Maiduguri said. Soldiers and members of a vigilante group also died in the ambush. The high number of casualties will be a blow for the government, which insists the insurgency is all but defeated. At least 20,000 people have been killed and thousands more abducted since Boko Haram launched its insurgency in 2009. In the most notorious abduction case, it seized 276 girls from a boarding school in the north-eastern town of Chibok in 2014. It has since freed more than 100 of the girls, in exchange for the release of its fighters detained by Nigeria's security forces. Details of what happened on Tuesday remain unclear, with initial reports from the army suggesting the abducted geologists and surveyors, who worked at the University of Maiduguri, had been rescued. On Tuesday, the army said the bodies of nine Nigerian soldiers and a civilian had been recovered. But now the university has said at least five members of staff, including two academics and a driver, were killed when the heavily armed convoy made its way back to Maiduguri, in north-east Nigeria. Several others remain missing. "We got the impression our staff on the team were rescued because that was what the military spokesman said yesterday," Maiduguri University spokesman Dani Mamman said, quoted by AFP. "But we were shocked when we were given four dead bodies. This means it wasn't a rescue. We still have other staff that are yet to be accounted for." Sources told the BBC that more than 40 people, most of them soldiers and volunteers from a vigilante group, had been killed in total - although other sources suggest the number killed may rise further still. "The death toll keeps mounting," a source told AFP, adding: "More bodies are coming in."

More than 40 people have died during an attempt to free people during an ambush by militant Islam group Boko Haram, sources have told the BBC.

The Markit/CIPS manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 49.2 from 50.7 in March. A reading below 50 indicates falling output. It is the first time that activity in the sector has fallen since March 2013. Firms blamed soft domestic demand, a fall in new business from overseas and uncertainty ahead of the EU referendum. A slowdown in the oil and gas industry, a major customer for UK companies, is also hitting production. The index for new orders fell to 50.4 in April, from 51.9 the month before, matching February's three-year low. Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, said: "On this evidence manufacturing production is now falling at a quarterly pace of around 1%, and will likely act as a drag on the economy again during the second quarter and putting greater pressure on the service sector to sustain GDP growth. "The manufacturing labour market is also being impacted, with the data signalling close to 20,000 job losses over the past three months." Last week, official figures showed UK economic growth slowed to 0.4% in the first quarter of the year from 0.6% in late 2015, propped up by the services sector. David Noble, group chief executive at the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), said: "Recent fears over a stall in the UK's manufacturing sector have now become a reality. "An atmosphere of deep unease is building throughout the manufacturing supply chain, eating away at new orders, reducing British exports and putting more jobs at risk. "A sense of apprehension across the sector is being caused by enduring volatility in the oil and gas industry, falling retailer confidence and the uncertainty created by the EU referendum." The Markit/CIPS survey found new export orders contracted for the fourth straight month in April as the global economy continued to slow. A measure of employment in the manufacturing sector was also below the 50 mark for its fourth straight month. Lee Hopley, chief economist at the manufacturers' organisation, EEF, said: "The sharp drop to a three-year low and another month of reported job cuts could be the clearest sign yet that referendum uncertainty is starting to weigh on the real economy. "However, this is just another straw on the back of a sector already grappling with the struggling oil and gas sector, softening domestic demand and weak order outlook from other parts of the world, all of which are failing to provide any counterbalance to the political uncertainty at home."

UK manufacturing activity contracted in April for the first time in three years, a survey has indicated, adding to fears over the economy's strength.

The study says girls as young as 10 are forced to marry much older men in countries including Afghanistan, Yemen, India and Somalia. Save the Children says early marriage can trigger a cycle of disadvantage across every part of a girl's life. Conflict, poverty and humanitarian crises are seen as major factors that leave girls exposed to child marriage. "Child marriage starts a cycle of disadvantage that denies girls the most basic rights to learn, develop and be children," said Save the Children International CEO Helle Thorning-Schmidt. "Girls who marry too early often can't attend school, and are more likely to face domestic violence, abuse and rape. They fall pregnant and are exposed to STIs (sexually transmitted infections) including HIV." The girl who said no to child marriage Europe struggles with migrant child brides Gambia and Tanzania ban child marriages Big money for Niger's child brides The report, called Every Last Girl, ranks countries based on the hardest place to be a girl based on schooling, child marriage, teen pregnancy, maternal deaths and the number of women in parliament. Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Mali and Somalia were ranked at the bottom of the index. The report says girls affected by conflict are more likely to become child brides. It says many refugee families marry off their daughters as a way to protect them against poverty or sexual exploitation. The charity used the example of a 13-year-old Syrian refugee in Lebanon it called Sahar - not her real name - who was married to a 20-year-old man. Now 14, she is two months pregnant. "The wedding day, I was imagining it would be a great day but it wasn't. It was all misery. It was full of sadness," Save the Children quoted her as saying. "I feel really blessed that I am having a baby. But I am a child raising a child." The report says girls also suffer during humanitarian crises such as the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone where the shutting down of schools led to an estimated 14,000 teen pregnancies. The UN children's agency, Unicef, estimates that the number of women married in childhood will grow from 700 million today to around 950 million by 2030. The Save the Children's report coincides with International Day of the Girl on Tuesday.

One girl under the age of 15 is married every seven seconds, according to a new report by Save the Children.

School crossing patrol personnel numbers have dropped by about 75 since 2013, leading to fears about safety. Overall, councils spent £810,000 less on the service than three years ago. Stirling Council has reduced its outlay by the highest percentage, spending 50% less than in 2013. West Dunbartonshire cut its spending on patrol services by 40%. The figures were obtained from Freedom of Information requests answered by 30 of Scotland's 32 local authorities. It showed there are now just over 2,100 school patrol officers in Scotland. Despite the widespread reductions, some local authorities actually increased their spend - including Inverclyde, where it went up by more than 90% and Dumfries and Galloway, where it increased by nearly 10%. A spokesman for Stirling Council, which had the biggest cut to school patrol services, said the decision was made three years ago following substantial cuts to its overall budget. He added: "The majority of these savings were made by removing lunch-time crossing patrols and removing any patrols which duplicated existing crossing safety measures (i.e. pelican and zebra crossings nearby). The safety of our pupils is of the utmost importance and we strive to maintain key crossing patrol services where these are required." West Dunbartonshire said that patroller sites had been reduced due to a variety of factors including the relocation of schools, lack of use of sites and alternative facilities nearby. A spokesman for the council said: "Over the last three years a number of our school crossing patrollers have retired or moved on to other roles. "On review, some of the sites have no longer met the criteria for a crossing patroller and in other cases we have installed a pedestrian crossing. "Increasing numbers of pupils remaining in school over lunchtime has also meant that there is no longer demand for cover during these times." The Scottish Parent Teacher Council emphasised the importance of school patrollers for pupil safety. Eileen Prior from the organisation said: "Parents want to make sure that when they say goodbye to their child in the morning they can be confident they are going to be able to get to school safely. "The reality on the ground is that services and supports for education services are being cut at local authority level. Lollipop people provide an important service that parents really value." Figures also show that over the period between 2013-16, the number of children killed on the roads fell, although the number seriously injured increased slightly. The highest numbers of children were injured while walking during school drop-off and pick-up times. In 2013 there were five children killed while on foot and 92 seriously injured - compared to three children killed last year and 97 seriously injured. However, according to Sustrans - which promotes safe walking and cycling networks across the UK - the number of children walking to school has fallen dramatically. In its 2015 policy studies institute report, it cited figures from 1971, which showed 86% of children travelled home from school alone. That compared with figures from 2010 that showed only 25% walked to school. In Scotland child pedestrians are two-and-a-half times more likely than adults to be injured in road traffic accidents. Although accident rates are falling, more child and adult pedestrians are injured in road traffic accidents in deprived areas compared with more affluent areas. Over the past decade, in deprived areas, three times as many child pedestrians were injured than in less deprived areas. A spokesman for Cosla, the umbrella group that represents many of Scotland's councils, said the issue of cuts to school crossing patrollers was related to the overall drop in council funding from the Scottish government. He said: "People all over Scotland are becoming more and more aware of the impact of cuts to council budgets. "Each council will do everything in their power to restrict the impact of budget cuts on families and communities, but the nature of our work means that these cuts impact on everyone eventually. "We continue to advocate for a fair settlement for local government in Scotland and look forward to negotiations with Scottish government on this matter." A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "Spending on school patrollers is a matter for individual councils but the Scottish government has treated local government very fairly despite the cuts to the Scottish budget from the UK government. "Taking into account the addition of the £250m to support the integration of health and social care, the overall reduction in 2016-17 funding equates to less than 1% of local government's total estimated expenditure in 2016-17."

Two-thirds of Scotland's councils have cut the amount of money spent on lollipop men and women in the past three years, research by BBC Scotland has found.

Jones, 31, suffered a shin injury while on international duty with Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday. Cardiff manager Russell Slade said there was no break and Jones will be assessed once he returns to Wales. "We're hoping he will be in on Sunday," said Slade. "We don't know how long he'll be out for." This is the second time in the space of two months Jones has been unavailable for Cardiff following international duty. He missed the opening four games of the season after being deemed unfit following his involvement in the Gold Cup, held in America and Canada in July. The latest set-back came in his country's goalless draw with Nicaragua in Port of Spain when he was carried off on a stretcher after 73 minutes. "It's not broken, that's the most important thing, but there is a lot of swelling there. It will be assessed the moment he lands," said Slade. Jones' injury ends a miserable week for Slade that also saw him lose defender Bruno Ecuele Manga for at least two months to a groin injury sustained while training with Gabon. "As with Bruno, it's difficult to get the information you require," added Slade of Jones' condition. Cardiff missed the striker's presence on Saturday in a dour stalemate with Preston. Slade admitted his side were poor as they registered two efforts on target against a team that started the afternoon on the bottom of the Championship table. "I didn't think we got going until 50 or 60 minutes into the game and that can't happen," he said. "Clearly it's not something we designed or wanted. We set out exactly what we wanted to do but we didn't do that. "It can happen away from home sometimes, but it's dangerous because when you come up against top opposition, they will punish you in those periods. "We haven't served up too many halves like that so benefit of the doubt. "We came out for the second half and looked like a team again that wanted to go on and win a football match." Slade's mood on Saturday evening would not have been helped when one of his discarded strikers, Javi Guerra, put Rayo Vallecano in front against Barcelona in La Liga at the Nou Camp. Guerra, 33, moved to Rayo on a season-long loan in August after being told he was not in Slade's plans.

Cardiff City are waiting to discover the extent of the injury to Kenwyne Jones that forced the striker to miss Saturday's draw at Preston.

The former Nottingham Forest defender signed for struggling Longford AFC in January in a bid to end its season-long losing streak and 178-goal deficit. He was due to get his boots on for the Gloucestershire non-leaguers last month, but the match was called off. A club spokesman said with Pearce on side, it was hoping to get its "very first win of the season" on Saturday. Rooted to the bottom of the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division Two, Longford AFC has lost all its games this season and conceded nearly 200 goals - earning it the name of "the worst team in England". But following their star January signing, club treasurer Mike Dean said the squad had been training hard and "games haven't been as bad". "We went down to Bisham Abbey - the old England stomping ground - a couple of weeks ago with Stuart and were training down there for about two-and-a-half hours," he said. "We have been getting beat but the scores are only 1-0, 2-0 - very low now. So things are getting better and the confidence is in the side." On Saturday, 53-year-old Pearce - nicknamed Psycho - will be turning out for Langford AFC in a bottom of the league clash with Wotton Rovers. Simon Graham, Wotton Rovers manager, said it was "chuffed" but their right winger was a "little bit nervous" about marking an "ex-England superstar". "We've got a young squad and Stuart Pearce's legs aren't as fresh as they used to be so we'll run some rings around him," he said. Pearce, who won 78 England caps, was part of Sir Bobby Robson's squad that reached the last four of the World Cup in Italy in 1990, and the Terry Venables-led side that was eliminated at the same stage of Euro '96. He retired from playing six years after that, having enjoyed spells at Newcastle United, Manchester City, West Ham, Coventry and non-league Wealdstone, as well as captaining Forest under the management of Brian Clough.

England football legend Stuart Pearce is set to finally make his debut for a team dubbed "the worst in the UK".

Keith Stewart found that the loch goes to a depth of 889ft (270.9m) on sonar equipment he uses. The official maximum depth on the current chart for Loch Ness is 754ft (229.8m). But the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), which is responsible for the official measurements, said it has no plans to resurvey the loch. Mr Stewart's discovery has been dubbed a new hiding place for the loch's mythical monster, Nessie. The MCA is responsible for mapping the sea and deep lochs and lakes around the UK. It does this in order to maintain British Admiralty charts under the UK Civil Hydrography Programme. An MCA spokeswoman said: "We currently have no plans to resurvey Loch Ness."

A tour boat skipper has recorded a new deepest point in Loch Ness on his vessel's equipment.

The 28 EU interior ministers will hold an emergency meeting on the crisis on 14 September. July was a record month, with more than 100,000 reaching the EU's borders. But it is proving difficult to get agreement on joint action, as migration pressure varies from country to country. What are the biggest obstacles to a solution? Free movement arguments The EU core principle of free movement - embodied in the passport-free Schengen area - is in dispute. UK Home Secretary Theresa May called the EU migration system "broken", saying the Schengen system had "exacerbated" the problem of large-scale irregular migration. The UK and Ireland are not in Schengen, but nearly all of their EU partners are, as well as some non-EU countries. Nationalists across Europe, such as the National Front (FN) in France and Italy's Northern League, also blame Schengen for the ease with which many migrants have travelled from southern to northern Europe. But the governments in France and Germany are among those who value Schengen for its contribution to the European economy. Schengen makes it easier for firms to hire workers from other EU countries, or to post workers abroad. The principle of free movement also has huge symbolic value for the EU. East Europeans embraced it eagerly after decades of communism, when travel to the West was impossible for most ordinary citizens. But Schengen members can re-impose border controls temporarily for national security reasons, for example if they face an extraordinary surge of migrants. There is pressure in the EU now to give authorities more discretion to do that. Why do Europe's political leaders seem unable to act? Arguments over barriers Hungary, which is in the Schengen zone, has built a 175km (110-mile) razor-wire fence 4m (13ft) high along its border with Serbia, which is outside the area. The barrier will be strengthened in the coming weeks, but it is highly controversial. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius criticised it, in remarks rejected by the Hungarian government as "shocking and groundless". In the first quarter of 2015 Hungary became a new migration hotspot, as thousands of asylum seekers saw it as an easier gateway to northern Europe. Of the 32,810 asylum applicants in Hungary in that period 70% were from Kosovo. Most Kosovans are fleeing dire poverty, rather than political or religious persecution, so in most cases their asylum claims are rejected. But now, many of those reaching the fence have fled the war in Syria and have legitimate asylum claims. Trainloads of migrants are heading for Austria and Germany from Budapest - and Hungary's neighbours worry that it has merely shifted the problem on to them. Bulgaria - not in Schengen - has also put up a razor-wire fence on its border with Turkey, to keep migrants out. Spain's small territories of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa are similarly fenced off. The UK's investment in extra border security at Calais, in northern France, is less controversial, as the UK is not in Schengen and migrants have been risking their lives jumping on to lorries and trains. But it suggests a growing "fortress Europe" attitude in the EU, contradicting the liberal values on which the EU was founded. Many Europeans cherish their hard-won democratic freedoms, and oppose the creation of new border fences. Many also argue that, instead of erecting barriers, the EU should do more to tackle the people-traffickers who make huge profits from migrants' misery. Quota disagreements EU ministers have rejected binding quotas for the distribution of refugees, despite the difficulties faced by Greece, Italy and Hungary. They are the main entry points for migrants crossing the Mediterranean and the Balkans. The European Commission urged EU governments to accept a mandatory "distribution key" to resettle 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean refugees. Instead, they agreed to accept 32,500 on a voluntary basis. The UK has opted out of any quota system, amid a widespread hardening of attitudes towards immigration. There are tensions in the EU over the whole European asylum policy, because of the disproportionate burden faced by some countries. The EU is trying to adapt the rules to deal with the crisis, but politicians want to see rapid progress, not just long-term plans. The controversial Dublin Regulation is under review, and Germany has stopped abiding by it. Under Dublin, the EU country where an asylum seeker first arrives has a duty to process their claim. So if that migrant moves elsewhere in the EU he/she can be sent back to where they first arrived. Extra EU help has been promised for the countries most in need. Of the €2.4bn (£1.7bn; $2.7bn) approved for the next six years, Italy is to get nearly €560m and Greece €473m. The UK, France and Germany have called for migrants to be fingerprinted and registered when they arrive in Italy and Greece. But the migration hotspots need more EU help, as their reception centres are overcrowded. Burden-sharing is a divisive topic. Germany accepted by far the largest number of asylum claims last year and expects to see as many as 800,000 this year. Sweden had the second-highest number, yet it has a far smaller population than the UK, which accepted fewer asylum seekers. There are calls for eastern European countries to take in more asylum seekers. Slovakia argues that most migrants will still move to richer countries, where wages and welfare are better. Arguments over conflict zones Many Europeans are calling for much greater EU efforts to end the conflicts in Syria, Libya, the Horn of Africa and Afghanistan that are fuelling the exodus of refugees. The UK government is among those arguing that the EU aid budget can help stem the flow of poor and desperate migrants seeking a better life in Europe. The UK says it is contributing generously to refugee welfare in countries bordering on Syria, which are housing far more Syrian refugees than the EU. Most refugees, it is argued, want to go home as soon as peace and stability are restored. And projects to ease poverty in sub-Saharan Africa can help to stem the considerable exodus from there. But critics of the UK stance say those are longer-term goals, whereas the crisis demands urgent action and co-operation among all 28 member states. Improving the economic prospects of young people in the Western Balkans - still recovering from war - could help stem the migrant surge from there. Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama says the EU should do much more to raise living standards in poor Balkan countries, which are negotiating to join the EU. Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo are all experiencing an outflow of frustrated citizens seeking a better life in the EU. But EU countries cannot agree on the amount of aid those countries should get. There are fears that corruption could undermine aid projects - something that has bedevilled Kosovo. Nationalist arguments Nationalist parties and movements have played a big role in hardening attitudes towards immigration. Far-right Jobbik won 20% of the vote in Hungary's 2014 parliamentary elections, making it the most successful anti-immigration party in Europe. But even in the powerful, long-standing EU member states many mainstream politicians have taken a tough stance towards migrants. The UK Conservatives are urging new EU rules to limit migrants' access to welfare benefits. The UK Independence Party, demanding strict border controls and exit from the EU, also has a strong following. France's National Front has wooed many voters away from right and left. Meanwhile, ruling coalitions have done deals with the far-right Freedom Party (PVV) in the Netherlands and the Danish People's Party (DPP) in Denmark. In Finland, the nationalist Finns have entered government. In neighbouring Sweden, which has an open-door policy towards Syrian refugees, support for the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats has soared to almost 20%. Even in Germany - seen as profoundly loyal to EU values - nationalists and Eurosceptics have staged anti-immigrant marches, under the banner of Pegida, and have been elected to regional assemblies. Insecurity about migrants is widespread in a Europe blighted by unemployment and welfare cuts. So politicians are anxious not to appear "soft" on immigration. It means less hospitality towards migrants, even genuine refugees.

Europe is struggling with its biggest migration crisis since World War Two, with unprecedented numbers of refugees and other migrants seeking asylum in the EU.

The public car park is just off the Upper Newtownards Road, one of the main routes into the city. Thousands of wooden pallets are now piled up where previously there were parked cars. The bonfire makers are involved in a dispute with the city council over the storing of pallets. They say the council collected pallets from the area earlier this year, agreed to store them and return them this month but failed to do so. Bonfire builder Macauley McKinney, 21, said: "We had an agreement with the council that they were going to store the pallets in a safe place, and now because the agreement was broken, they've let us down." Belfast City Council is not commenting in detail on the issue, as an investigation has been called into the storing of pallets. A spokesperson said: "It was agreed at a meeting of Belfast City Council's Strategic Policy and Resources Committee on Friday that an investigation and full review, led by the chief executive with independent input, would be carried out into the issue of collection and storage of bonfire material, and the future approach of bonfires across the city." The committee's decision needs to be approved at a full council meeting next week. Traditionally, bonfires are lit in many loyalist areas of Northern Ireland on the "eleventh night" - the eve of the Twelfth of July, an annual celebration to mark William of Orange's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

A car park in east Belfast has been closed to the public by young men building bonfires.

Adams will make her professional debut in Manchester on Saturday when she fights Argentina's Virginia Carcamo. "Virgil has a lot of knowledge and one thing I like about him is he knows how to take an Olympic champion and turn them into a pro," said Adams, 34. "He did it with Andre [Ward] and he's capable of doing the same with me." American Ward, 33, has gone from winning gold at the 2004 Olympics to becoming a two-weight world champion and being unbeaten in 31 fights. Adams has been training alongside the likes of IBF, WBA and WBO light-heavyweight champion Ward as she prepares for her fight, and says doing so "has left me a bit in awe, to be honest". She added: "Like every fighter, my ultimate goal is to headline a show in Las Vegas and with the way the sport is building at the moment I see no reason why I can't get there. "Other female boxers like Claressa Shields and Katie Taylor have been putting women's professional boxing on the map and now that I've joined them it can only raise the bar again."

Great Britain's double gold medallist Nicola Adams believes new trainer Virgil Hunter will play a key part in success as a professional.

While that might be true of clouds in the real world, those in cyberspace are turning out to be very different entities indeed, especially when it comes to security. Some of them are downright dangerous. The captivating idea behind using a "cloud" of computers is that it does away with having a dedicated data centre. Instead, companies get their number crunching done by a benevolent source of computational power that sits out there, somewhere, anywhere, on the net. It's the word cloud itself that is responsible for making this sound much more ephemeral than it actually is, said Martin Borrett, IBM's cloud security adviser. "There's a misconception that clouds are one thing and they are all fluffy," he said, "but clouds do not have to be nebulous." Researchers have shown that clouds are anything but misty and mysterious. The computer servers providing that on-tap processing power can be identified, enterprising scientists in Germany and Finland have found. Software tools written by these researchers identified individual servers making up a cloud and interrogated them to find out which chip that computer was running. That was important, they found, because more powerful chips get processing done more quickly. Given that many on-demand cloud services price by the hour, that could add up to a considerable saving. The researchers estimate up to 30%. Interrogating a cloud to work out how to save money sounds good on face value. But cyber-clouds are not as insubstantial as their name suggests. Unlike their wispy namesake, they can be found and become a target. That's bad because, as cyber-thieves and hackers know, there is a fine line between interrogating a computer and bullying it into coughing up details that help control it or can aid another attack. Researcher Yingian Zhang at the University of North Carolina and colleagues from Wisconsin and security firm RSA have already shown how this can provide a route to attacking and hacking a cloud. The technique developed by the team is complicated, but involves finding out how hard servers are being worked in a particular cloud. "Because we're sharing the resources there's a possibility some information will leak," Mr Zhang told the BBC. That's significant because many cloud providers run the computational jobs from different clients on the same hardware. There's no way for one company to know who its data is sharing memory with. It could be a bank, a bookshop or a bad guy. "Using the same resources is key to the cost and business model of cloud firms," he said. Knowing how hard those servers work under different conditions can give hints about the types of jobs they are being asked to do, he said. "How much resource is being allocated is dependent on the length of a cryptographic key," said Mr Zhang. Knowing how hard a server is working helps infer all kinds of useful information about what type of key is being used. That information is useful to attackers as it could radically cut down the number of possible combinations they have to try to unlock data encrypted or scrambled with that key. The dawning realisation that clouds can be found, interrogated and potentially attacked has given rise to a number of start-ups that aim to secure processing done on those cloud platforms. "Outsourcing your data cannot remove the obligation to protect that data," said Pravin Kothari, head of CipherCloud which provides tools to companies to scramble the data being uploaded and processed in a cloud. Fears about how the security of core business information when it was committed to the cloud had the potential to dampen moves to use the technology, he said. "Most of the growth in the use of cloud services is happening at the bottom end of the market," he said. "It's small businesses taking it up. "When you get to large companies people are not comfortable," he said, "And with sensitive applications that's when people get very uncomfortable." For one of the biggest cloud firms, many of the security worries being flagged up by ingenious researchers are problems that are yet to be seen by the bad guys. Stephen Schmidt, security head for Amazon Web Services said the attack mounted by Mr Zhang and colleagues only worked in the lab. "Those kind of attacks tend to be more theoretical than practical," he said, adding that the many checks and balances on a live cloud service would stymie such an attack. However, he said, that was not to be complacent about the security of computation work being done in the cloud. All day, every day, he said Amazon helped its customers defeat hack attacks of all kinds. In many cases, he said, moving to the cloud helped companies finds out what was vulnerable. "Security starts with what knowing what you have," he said. "In the cloud because of the way it works, you cannot log someone on under the desk. You can see exactly what you have."

The word cloud evokes images of all things soft and gentle; the kiss of a kitten or the soft touch of a lambswool mitten.

About 60 families were unable to get their child's remains because of poor training and out-of-date equipment at council-owned Emstrey Crematorium, Shrewsbury, between 1996 and 2012. Lawyers believe the crematorium breached the Human Rights Act. The council said it was liaising with its insurers. A spokesman for the authority said: "Shropshire Council confirms it has received a letter of notification in respect of Emstrey Crematorium and this has been passed to the council's insurers, who will deal with the matter confidentially in the usual way." If the legal challenge is successful, it could pave the way for action against crematoriums across the UK where other families were not given their child's ashes. A Freedom of Information inquiry by the BBC last year found the ashes of more than 1,000 babies were not handed to their parents between 2008 and 2013. The scandal in Shropshire came to light following a BBC Radio Shropshire investigation. The lawyers are representing families who have joined the campaign group Action for Ashes. In June, an independent inquiry into what happened in Shropshire ruled a national inspector should be created for crematoriums.

Lawyers representing families in the baby ashes scandal have said they are to take legal action against Shropshire Council.

Instead it's been about her music, her age and whether she's been banned from the Radio 1 playlist. The singer, 56, has a new album out, Rebel Heart, and the first official single is called Living for Love. But Radio 1 says age has nothing to do with tracks not being playlisted. Earlier this week, the station's Facebook page was flooded with messages urging the network to play Living for Love as part of the station's 10-Minute Takeover feature. The fans, many from South America, accused the network of being "discriminatory". Jordan, 24 and from Manchester, got in touch with Newsbeat to say he loves radio and "can't believe that Radio 1 has snubbed a song like Living for Love". "I think there's a massive problem when it comes to radio playing, particularly, female singers over a certain age," he says. "If this song had been recorded by someone younger, it would have had a lot more airplay by now. "Madonna's a musical icon and as shown by her recent Grammy performance, she's just as relevant as any other recording artist out there right now." There are several playlists run by Radio 1, including In New Music We Trust, and the tracks on it are published every week on the station's website. In a statement, Radio 1 says: "The tracks are chosen on musical merit and their relevance to our young audience on a case-by-case basis, and while around 40% of the country's 15 to 29-year-olds tune into Radio 1 each week, an artist's age is never a factor." Radio 1 DJ Diplo has also waded into the argument, tweeting "tell @BBCR1 age ain't nothing but a # and support Nicki Minaj and Madonna". But Radio 1 bosses say this track didn't make the cut. Newsbeat has occasionally been invited to sit in on the Radio 1 playlist meeting, which comprises the music team, production teams and of course - lunch. It's a meeting that can go on for up to four hours, with in-depth discussions about songs, the audience and "musical merit". But if you think about all the music being made and released in the world today, then you can imagine the competitive nature for the 15 places on the A playlist. Sir Paul McCartney, 72, has two playlisted singles (Only One and FourFiveSeconds). DJ David Guetta, 47, is on the list too with his track What I Did for Love featuring Emeli Sande as well as 39-year-old Sia and Foo Fighters, fronted by 47-year-old singer Dave Grohl (the band has a joint age of 232). Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

There's been a bit of a media storm surrounding Madonna over the last couple of days, and it's not down to the outfit she wore at this year's Grammy awards.

The woman was picked up from Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, near the Greyfriars Bobby's statue, at 03:30am. She was taken to a layby just past the Hillend Ski Slope, near the Boghall Farm in Midlothian where she was subjected to a serious sexual assault.. She was then left near the Sheriffhall roundabout on the city bypass. Police Scotland are appealing for any witnesses who may have seen the victim or the car. The suspect was described as being of South Asian appearance, aged 35-40, about 5ft 5in - 5ft 6in, of slim build. He had dark, cropped hair and was clean-shaven. He was wearing dark clothing and spoke with an Edinburgh accent. The car was described as being a five-door saloon, which was possibly a navy colour. Det Sgt Keith Mackay said: "This was a frightening experience for the woman, who is now in the care of her family. "We are eager to trace this man and are appealing for witnesses. Anyone who recognises the man's description, or the description of the car, is urged to come forward."

A 31-year-old woman has been sexually assaulted after getting into a car she believed was a private hire taxi.

The call came after "significant human remains" were found at the site of a former home in the Republic of Ireland. The home was run by the Bon Secours order of nuns in Tuam, County Galway. The bodies ranged from premature babies to three year olds. The discovery was made as part of an investigation into claims by a local historian that up to 800 babies and young children died at the home and were buried in unmarked graves. Amnesty International has said that archaeological surveys should be carried out at all former mother-and-baby homes in Northern Ireland. Archbishop Martin said many in the church and society were "ashamed" of what had emerged at the home in Tuam. He added that "families are owed an apology" and that the church had repeated an apology it made in 2014 when the claims "first came to light". "It makes me feel awful. I feel incredibly sad in recent days. We as a church do not want to repeat the awful mistakes of the past." He added: "It's an appalling time for us and everyone in society. "We're opening up a whole chapter in the society in Ireland and the rest of the world where there was a terrible stigma against unwed mothers. "There was a terrible time, we in society and in the church isolated and stigmatised them." Meanwhile, the Irish children's minister Katherine Zappone has said that 474 "unclaimed infant remains" from mother-and-baby homes were transferred to medical schools between 1940 and 1965. Irish national broadcaster RTÉ made claims about the transfer of remains in a 2011 documentary. Ms Zappone told the Dáil (Irish parliament) that the transfer of remains was "part of a tapestry of oppression, abuse and systematic human rights violations that took place all over this country for decades". She also said an interim report into the home in Tuam would be published by the end of March, a move Archbishop Martin said the Catholic Church supported.

The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has backed a call by Amnesty International for an inquiry into mother-and-baby homes in Northern Ireland.

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid told BBC One's Question Time the referendum result had been "very, very clear" and politicians should "get on with that". But three judges ruled that the PM could not trigger the formal Brexit process without Parliament's backing. The Supreme Court is expected to hear the government's appeal next month. Prime Minister Theresa May is due to speak to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker by phone on Friday to say she intends to stick to her March 2017 deadline for triggering Article 50. Addressing Thursday's ruling on Question Time, Mr Javid said the vast majority of MPs had backed legislation to bring forward a referendum on the UK's EU membership in 2015 and the public had clearly voted in favour of leaving the EU. He said there was a "moral issue" at stake: "It was a clear result, clear instructions were issued... by the British people to their politicians saying: We need a decision. Now it's our job as politicians to get on with it." He said he was not criticising the judges, but the people who brought the case: "This is an attempt to frustrate the will of the British people and it is unacceptable." But for Labour, Lisa Nandy told the programme: "Britain is leaving the EU and whether or not Parliament has to vote to trigger Article 50, this will happen because, in reality, there are no more than a handful of parliamentarians who would seek to block that decision." In the landmark ruling, the High Court judges said the government could not trigger the Article 50 process of formally leaving the European Union alone - they must have the approval of Parliament. BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the ruling as a "massive obstacle" for Mrs May, who says she wants to trigger Article 50 by the end of March. If the government loses in the Supreme Court, it will have to publish some form of new law for MPs - and the House of Lords - to vote on. MPs could then push to set the terms for negotiating withdrawal and it could face further delays in the Lords. The prime minister's spokeswoman has played down suggestions that Mrs May may call an early general election if she cannot get Parliamentary support, saying that Mrs May believed "there shouldn't be an election until 2020 and that remains her view". Brexit Secretary David Davis told the BBC the result of the EU referendum "must be respected". "Parliament voted by six to one to give the decision to the people, no ifs or buts, and that's why we are appealing this to get on with delivering the best deal for Britain." But Gina Miller, the lead claimant in bringing the case to the High Court, urged the government to "do the responsible sober thing, which is to do the job we pay them for, to debate all the aspects to do with leaving and then have a vote". By Eleanor Garnier, BBC political correspondent It is one of the most important constitutional court cases in generations. And the result creates a nightmare scenario for the government. Theresa May had said she wanted to start Brexit talks before the end of March next year but this ruling has thrown the prime minister's timetable up in the air. Campaigners who brought the case insist it was about "process not politics", but behind the doors of No 10 there will now be serious head-scratching about what the government's next steps should be. This decision has huge implications, not just on the timing of Brexit but on the terms of Brexit. That's because it's given the initiative to those on the Remain side in the House of Commons who, it's now likely, will argue Article 50 can only be triggered when Parliament is ready and that could mean when they're happy with the terms of any future deal. Of course, it will be immensely difficult to satisfy and get agreement from all those MPs who voted to remain. Could an early general election be on the cards after all? She rejected criticism that the case was subverting democracy and said it was "not about politics, this was about process". "One of the big arguments [in the referendum[ was parliamentary sovereignty... so you can't on the day you get back sovereignty decide you're going to sidestep or throw it away." The government had argued it could use ancient prerogative powers to give effect "to the will of the people". But the three judges looking at the case found there was no constitutional convention of the royal prerogative - powers used by ministers - being used in legislation relating to the EU. They added that triggering Article 50 would fundamentally change UK people's rights - and that the government cannot change or do away with rights under UK law unless Parliament gives it authority to do so. But UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he feared a "betrayal" of the 51.9% of voters who had backed leaving the EU in June's referendum. "We are heading for a half-Brexit," he said. "I worry that a betrayal may be near at hand... I now fear that every attempt will be made to block or delay the triggering of Article 50." Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "This ruling underlines the need for the government to bring its negotiating terms to Parliament without delay. Labour respects the decision of the British people to leave the European Union. But there must be transparency and accountability to Parliament on the terms of Brexit." Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron told the BBC: "What the government was seeking to do was to impose a deal that absolutely nobody voted for, that most people who voted to leave wouldn't be happy with and most people who voted to remain wouldn't be happy with, without any kind of Parliamentary scrutiny. "So it's a terrible shame it had to go to the courts, but what has happened is that democracy and sovereignty have been restored." The UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union in a referendum on 23 June. The EU's other 27 member states have said negotiations about the terms of the UK's exit - due to last two years - cannot begin until Article 50 has been invoked. What questions do you have about the Article 50 High Court ruling?

A High Court case that could delay the Brexit process is "a clear attempt to frustrate the will of the British people", says a cabinet minister.

Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull - the breakout stars of the last series of the BBC Two quiz show - are getting behind the microphone. The pair will present Monkman and Seagull's Polymathic Adventure on BBC Radio 4 on 21 August. The duo became friends during filming, despite being captains of rival teams. Monkman and Seagull each went viral in their own right, with the former proving so popular he sparked what was termed "Monkmania" among viewers. The Cambridge economics student attracted a loyal following for his animated - and very meme-able - facial expressions. The 29-year-old's blue jumper, impressive intellect and tendency to answer questions with an upward inflection cemented his place in the hearts of quiz show fans. He and Seagull became friends off screen and even travelled to interviews together during the series as their popularity soared. So what will their new radio show actually be about? Good question. The pair are set to explore whether being highly intelligent is actually a useful quality. They will discuss whether it's possible to be a useful polymath (a person of wide knowledge or learning) with guests including Stephen Fry. If this goes well, we're keeping our fingers crossed it's just the start of their media careers. Surely introducing Justin Bieber songs on Radio 1 would be the next logical step? Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

If watching University Challenge makes your head hurt, you might want to take an aspirin before listening to a new show Radio 4 are planning.

Joe Murphy's scrambled early goal was the ideal start for Down and they led 1-8 to 0-6 at half-time. With Caolan Mooney starring, the Mournemen extended their advantage to six midway through the second half. Meath reduced Down's lead but they home side held on after a nervous finish. Down went into the game propping up Division Two after disappointing opening defeats by Fermanagh and Clare. County secretary Sean Og McAteer felt compelled to release a length statement on Thursday night denying reports of unrest within Eamonn Burns' squad and Saturday's win will be a huge boost for the management. After hammering Derry at Navan two weeks ago, Meath were favourites heading into the Pairc Esler contest but the Mournemen produced a performance of grit and determination to chisel out the vital Division Two victory. Murphy's goal, as he flicked a mishit Darragh O'Hanlon free past Paddy O'Rourke, was the perfect start for the home side as they were never headed in the contest. With midfielder Peter Turley putting himself about and former under-age star Mooney producing his best game in the Down senior jersey, the home side pushed on from leading only 1-1 to 0-3 to move five ahead by the interval. O'Hanlon slotted three first-half frees while the impressive Conor Maginn, Barry O'Hagan (two), Ryan Johnston and Aidan Carr also got on the scoresheet for Down in the opening period. Fresh from his Sigerson Cup heroics with St Mary's, Kevin McKernan also excelled in the opening period for the Mournement as Meath laboured, with free-taker Donal Lenihan hitting three of their points. A McKernan point extended Down's lead to 1-11 to 0-8 by the 52nd minute after a great block at the other end by Carr had prevented Brian Menton for netting a Meath goal. After their struggles in recent times, it was not a surprise to see Down attempting to hold on to their lead in the closing stages and Meath, helped by the introduction of the speedy Eamonn Wallace, reduced the margin to three by the time the game entered injury time. Inevitably, there was a late scare for Down as Lenihan aimed for goal from his last-gasp 13-metre free and the ball skimmed off the crossbar over for a point before the final whistle was blown seconds later. ALLIANZ FOOTBALL LEAGUE FIXTURES/RESULTS SATURDAY Division One Mayo 1-19 0-14 Roscommon Division Two Down 1-13 0-14 Meath Division Three Laois 1-10 1-16 Tipperary Division Four Carlow 1-10 0-10 Limerick, Dr Cullen Park SUNDAY - 14:00 GMT unless stated Division One Donegal v Dublin, Ballybofey Kerry v Monaghan, Killarney Tyrone v Cavan, Healy Park, 14:30 Division Two Cork v Fermanagh, Pairc Ui Rinn, 13:00 Derry v Kildare, Celtic Park Galway v Clare, Salthill Division Three Antrim v Sligo, Corrigan Park Longford v Armagh, Pearse Park Offaly v Louth, Tullamore Division Four Wicklow v London, Aughrim, 13:00 Wexford v Waterford, Wexford Park, 13:00 Westmeath v Leitrim, Mullingar

Down ended a run of 14 straight defeats in competitive games stretching back to April 2015 as they earned a 1-13 to 0-14 win over Meath in Division Two of the Football League.

Media playback is not supported on this device Bottom side United's first win in Perth in four years, and Kilmarnock's draw away to Partick Thistle, means the gap between them is down to five points. "It was a wonderful effort. With 10 men, that spirit and character was there again," said the Finn. "I can't praise the boys enough. They've got real mental toughness." Media playback is not supported on this device Ryan Dow had put United into a deserved lead midway through the first half. However, Saints came back into the match and when Coll Donaldson was sent off for denying Chris Kane an obvious goal-scoring opportunity, the visiting fans may have feared another damaging day in their bid to avoid automatic relegation. St Johnstone midfielder Murray Davidson hit the crossbar as the home side pressed for an equaliser but United held firm. "We still have a long way to go but that was a small step towards it," continued Paatelainen. "The mood is positive. Killie will pick up points so we need to be strong. They have a quality manager, they have fantastic players in every department, but days like this will help our chances of survival and that's what we hang on to. "I'm really pleased with everybody's effort." Saints manager Tommy Wright was frustrated at his team's lack of bite in the first quarter of the match. "Up until they scored we didn't compete well enough, didn't make enough tackles, didn't win enough first headers or second headers," he lamented. "I thought we got a slap in the face with the goal and we were much better after that. Probably they've defended well enough overall to win the game. "When you give a team something to hold on to, even with 10 men, it makes it really difficult." Alan Mannus had made two impressive saves prior to the United goal but he will have been disappointed to have allowed Dow's shot past him. "I think in the build-up to the goal we should have done better," said Wright. "We dropped too deep and we should have dealt with the cross better. He got a free contact inside the box. "Because Alan was on the move, it hit the underside of his body and squirmed over the line."

Mixu Paatelainen praised his Dundee United players' resolve as they beat St Johnstone 1-0, despite being reduced to 10 men for the last 30 minutes.

The firm, which has had a presence in the city for more than 30 years, says it follows a restructuring review. The office will shut later this year but a new "commercial trading site" will open in the city in September. Staff are to be offered redeployment around the UK, a spokesman said. Union Unite called it a "big blow" for the finance sector in Birmingham. Regional secretary, Gerard Coyne, said: "[Royal Sun Alliance] have made us aware of their intention to close the Birmingham office. Updates on this and more from Birmingham and Black Country "We will now enter into discussions with them and try to get them to review their decision in Birmingham as it's a big blow to our members and the finance and insurance sector in the city." Royal Sun Alliance told staff on Wednesday that 190 jobs were at risk of redundancy but was "committed" to staying in the city. It has been at its current site in Colmore Row for 20 years. A spokesman said the firm's review showed it could work more effectively "if teams doing the same kind of work, or focused on the same kinds of customers, are situated together". "Unfortunately, a number of our employees will be impacted by these changes and we will be working closely with them over the next few months and will look to redeploy our people wherever possible."

One of the UK's biggest insurers Royal Sun Alliance is to close its Birmingham office, putting 190 jobs at risk.

A team from Glasgow University studied recorded speech of Glaswegians from the early 20th Century to the present. They found evidence of common UK accent changes, such as the use of "f" for "th" in words like think, and a dropped letter 'l', as in people to peopo. Overall though, the researchers said the Scots accent remained distinctive. The three-year Sounds of the City study, was led by Professor Jane Stuart-Smith, director of the university's laboratory of phonetics. "We were quite surprised by what we found," she said. "The assumption is that traditional dialects generally across the UK are being eroded and some are dying out altogether, but what we have learned, particularly with the Glasgow accent, is that Scots accents are actually flourishing. "Interestingly, what is not happening in Scotland is the dilution of accents to a more homogenised anglicised accent on the scale that we are seeing in England, and in fact the Scots accent remains very distinctive." As part of its study, the Glasgow team built up a digitised body of recorded speech sounds. The team said its work suggested the distinctive Scots accent had undergone two kinds of changes. One set are common accent changes, which have spread right across the UK, such as the "f" and "l" examples. The team said this change was being spread partly by dialect contact and partly by the popularity of TV shows set in London. The project also uncovered a second set of finer changes local to Scotland. These included how vowels were pronounced in words such as boat, goat and coat, or stop sounds that are pronounced in words like pin, top and cat. The researchers anticipated these sounds either to be stable over time, or perhaps to be changing in the same way as in Anglo-English accents. Their evidence suggested, however, that these features and others were all changing, the changes were local to Scotland and not affected by Anglo-English changes, and that they had been happening for 100 years or more. The Glasgow team said the trigger for some of these changes appeared to be the period around the First World War. The study focused on six audio recordings, made in 1916 and held by the British Library, of Scots soldiers from German Prisoner of War camps. From those recordings researchers found evidence to show that even a century ago, and perhaps even earlier, Scottish accents were already changing. The research and findings of the project will be made available to students and other researchers via an online resource.

The Scots accent is flourishing and proving resilient against a growing homogenised anglicised accent across English regions, new research suggests.

The row of huts on Mablethorpe promenade will be "rejuvenated and enhanced" with the money. Fourteen other coastal landmarks in England will benefit from a share of £700,000 from the Coastal Revival Fund. Communities Minister Mark Francois said: "We've got heritage hooks to be proud of, but some of these places need some tender loving care." He said: "This country has sightseeing gems that are a match for anywhere in the world and I'd urge people to take a trip down to the seaside to discover them." The beach huts have been at Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea for more than 70 years. Grants of up to £50,000 will be awarded to landmarks from Durham in the North East to Dorset in the South West. A disused lido in Morecambe, Lancashire, will become a venue for festivals, arts and leisure, while Herne Bay Pier in Kent will be given a "sturdy stage" with lighting, changing room and screen. Ilfracombe Museum in Devon will receive £50,000 to "protect and preserve its unique collection of Victorian curiosities right on the seafront". A full list of the projects can be seen here. In March, £800,000 was also announced for seaside communities in the South West from the Coastal Communities Fund. Mr Francois said he hoped the work would encourage "a wave of enthusiasm" for seaside trips, and help boost the £4bn already generated each year by tourism to coastal communities.

Dilapidated beach huts in Lincolnshire are to get a £50,000 makeover in an attempt to attract more holidaymakers.

I'm not sure that is the right description for the 2016 US election campaign, but some variation on that must come close - maybe instead of 'greatest' we could have weirdest, most compelling, unpredictable, disturbing, hate-filled, bizarre. Maybe all of those things - and a few more besides. I spoke to a producer in London the other day and he asked whether I could incorporate into my TV piece the standout moments of the campaign. And my mind went into Matrix mode. A thousand different, fractured memories went kaleidoscoping through my brain. A thousand different jaw-dropping episodes. Where would I start? As I start writing this (it's Sunday afternoon) the FBI director has just sought to wade out of the US election, having waded in 10 days earlier in the most astonishing fashion. So having sent the most unbelievably opaque letter that there might be a whiff ... he now says there isn't. But what an astonishing state of affairs. James Comey's letter breathed new life into the Trump campaign, and who knows how many senate races he's affected where early voting is taking place. Why did he write the letter in the first place? What was he hoping to achieve? What did he assess the fallout would be? And ultimately why put the FBI in the middle of the election when they are now trying to back out? Astonishing. And yes, I know I've already used that word in this paragraph. But this election day blog is not about the FBI - more a way of highlighting how at every turn there have been incidents that just boggle, confuse and occasionally fry the brain. Where to start? Well there are the obvious ones - Donald Trump describing Mexicans as thieves and rapists, him mocking a disabled person, disparaging PoWs, wanting to ban all Muslims. There were the ones that made me laugh. Yes, I just laughed when I read a newsflash saying the Pope goes to war with Donald Trump over his plan to build a wall. The Holy Father, I thought. No, this must be some kind of error. But on a flight back to Rome, he had indeed decided to wade in. Then there was the Access Hollywood tape - and him boasting about grabbing a woman by the pussy. We have reported on him allegedly putting his hands on a woman's vagina. We have reported on the size of his penis, when that whole subject came up (sorry) during the primary process. Small hands, he said, meaning ... well you know the rest. So in one election campaign I have been on air discussing male genitalia and female genitalia. After 30 years plus reporting and having covered elections all over the world, this is new territory for me. But give this narrative to a publisher as a book proposal, and they would write back and say 'Dear Mr Sopel, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately it seems too far fetched.' And it hasn't exactly been dull on the Hillary side either - emailgate, endless Wikileaks, her collapse from pneumonia which her aides just had no idea how to handle. Somehow we ended up with two presidential candidates uniquely unpopular in American polling history. So many people have said to me on my travels around this great continent, how was it out of a population of 320 million we ended up with such an appalling choice. A choice between death by drowning or firing squad. All of which brings me to the more important point about this election. For all the fireworks, the whizzes and bangs, the sky lighting up in luminescent colours - the bigger truth about this campaign is that it has shown a deeply polarised America. A Disunited State of America, if you like. Who knows whether Donald Trump will win or lose - there's no point trying to look into a crystal ball when we can wait a few hours and get the results proper. But what his campaign has shown is there is a sizeable minority of Americans who are not just disaffected and feeling alienated, they are furious. They feel that America is going to hell in a handcart. They feel that Washington is a corrupt cesspool. They cry 'drain the swamp' at Trump rallies - with almost as much gusto as they shout 'lock her up,' about Hillary Clinton. Trump draws most of his support from slightly less well educated, slightly older white men - but by no means all. There are a vast number of Americans who've simply had it with conventional, democratic politics. These are people who want America to pull up the drawbridge and stop trying to be the global policeman and global trader. They are people who are demanding radical change - and ideally overnight. Whoever wins this turbulent, divisive, vituperative election is not going to enjoy any kind of political honeymoon. There is too much anger for that. There will be no basking in the warm glow of the adoration of the American public. I guarantee you this: over 40% of the American public will not only feel the normal disappointment that their man/woman didn't win, but they will feel that the winner is a corrupt, fraudulent, venal charlatan. The office of the presidency should rise above individuals, but in 2016 it's going to struggle to. When I was trying to find what word to use instead of 'greatest' at the start of this blog, I should have gone for troubling.

"The greatest show on earth" was PT Barnum's claim for his three ring circus.

Pte Cheryl James, 18, from Llangollen, Denbighshire, was found with a bullet wound to her head in Surrey in 1995. Her parents said a dispute over the ballistics evidence could only be resolved if her body is exhumed. Coroner Brian Barker QC said he would wait for a doctor's report before he made the decision. He told the pre-inquest review at Woking Coroner's Court that exhumation was a "difficult and unusual" step. Alison Foster QC, representing Pte James' family, said her relatives were "really dismayed to be at this point today". "From our standpoint, an exhumation would be necessary for you to carry out a full and proper inquiry." Bullet fragments in Pte James' body were yellow, while the SA80 rifle she was armed with used red bullets, Ms Foster said. "There is no actual evidence that it was an SA80 that caused the bullet wound to Cheryl," she added. The coroner said the full inquest on 1 February would consider whether there were "shortcomings" with the barracks's policies on sexual behaviour, supervision of young females, drugs, alcohol and accommodation. Another pre-inquest hearing is to held on 10 September. Pte James was one of four soldiers found dead at Deepcut, in Camberley, between 1995 and 2002. Surrey Police's request that her inquest should be heard alongside fresh inquests into the deaths of Privates Sean Benton, Geoff Gray and James Collinson was turned down. A spokeswoman for the force said: "[Surrey Police] has now completed the review of disclosure documents relating to Pte James." She said arrangements for the inquest were a matter for the coroner. "Surrey Police is supportive of the view that there should be a thorough inquest into circumstances surrounding the death of Pte James and our thoughts remain with her family."

The family of a soldier found dead at Deepcut Barracks has urged a coroner to let her body be exhumed so a "full inquiry" can be held into her death.

US experts found B3, also known as nicotinamide, boosts the ability of immune cells to kill Staphylococcus bacteria. B3 increases the numbers and efficacy of neutrophils, white blood cells that can kill and eat harmful bugs. The study, in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, could lead to a "major change in treatment", a UK expert said. B3 was tested on Staphylococcal infections, such as the potentially fatal MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Such infections are found in hospitals and nursing homes, but are also on the rise in prisons, the military and among athletes. The scientists used extremely high doses of B3 - far higher than that obtained from dietary sources - in their tests, carried out both on animals and on human blood. And the researchers say there is as yet no evidence that dietary B3 or supplements could prevent or treat bacterial infections. The researchers say B3 appears to be able to "turn on" certain antimicrobial genes, boosting the immune cells' killing power. Prof Adrian Gombart, of Oregon State University's Linus Pauling Institute, who worked on the research, said: "This is potentially very significant, although we still need to do human studies. "Antibiotics are wonder drugs, but they face increasing problems with resistance by various types of bacteria, especially Staphylococcus aureus. "This could give us a new way to treat Staph infections that can be deadly, and might be used in combination with current antibiotics. "It's a way to tap into the power of the innate immune system and stimulate it to provide a more powerful and natural immune response." Prof Mark Enright, of the University of Bath, said: "Neutrophils are really the front line against infections in the blood and the use of nicotinamide seems safe at this dose to use in patients as it is already licensed for use. "This could cause a major change in treatment for infections alongside conventional antibiotics to help bolster patients immune system. "I would like to see in patient clinical trials but cannot see why this couldn't be used straight away in infected patients."

Vitamin B3 could be the new weapon in the fight against superbugs such as MRSA, researchers have suggested.

The BBC's Ian Pannell said the jihadists were putting up a hard fight. BBC producers Joan Soley and Peter Emmerson are also embedded with the Iraqi troops. BBC Arabic's Feras Kilani caught in crossfire. This picture from Feras Kilani shows the destruction of a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city. There are thought to be up to 1.5 million civilians in Mosul, trapped between IS and Iraqi forces. The team were with the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) when it retook Bazwaya, about 3km (2 miles) east of Mosul, on Monday.

As Iraqi special forces enter the city of Mosul for the first time since the start of the campaign to retake it from so-called Islamic State, a BBC team embedded with the troops is tweeting from the front line as the battle unfolds.

Officers from Police Scotland alerted Benbecula Community Council to the scam at a meeting of the council earlier this week. Sent from Italy, the email involves a fake story about an African man trying to transfer his inheritance to a new account after his father was poisoned. The use of Gaelic in the email is poor, according to speakers on the isles. Benbecula Community Council believed the email may have been written using online tool, Google Translate. Scots Gaelic was added to the service in February this year.

What is believed to be the first email scam using Gaelic has been targeted at residents of the Western Isles.

Mrs Merkel said she wanted friendly relations with both countries as well as Russia but Europe now had to "fight for its own destiny". Her comments come after Mr Trump refused to re-commit to the 2015 Paris climate deal at the G7 summit. Mrs Merkel is on the campaign trail ahead of elections in September. "The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I've experienced that in the last few days," Mrs Merkel told a crowd at an election rally in Munich, southern Germany. The relationship between Berlin and new French President Emmanuel Macron had to be a priority, Mrs Merkel said, adding: "We Europeans have to take our destiny into our own hands." On Saturday, the German leader had described climate change talks at the G7 group of rich nations as "very unsatisfactory". Leaders from the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan had re-affirmed their support for the Paris accord - but Mr Trump said he would make a decision in the coming week. Mr Trump has previously pledged to abandon the Paris deal, and expressed doubts about climate change. Speaking in Brussels last week, Mr Trump also told Nato members to spend more money on defence and did not re-state his administration's commitment to Nato's mutual security guarantees. Mrs Merkel's latest comments are partly a move to appeal to German voters first and foremost, the BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler says. Polls suggest Mrs Merkel is on course to be re-elected for a fourth term as German chancellor at elections in September. It might have been thanks to the beer, pretzels and Bavarian brass-band enlivening the crowd. But Mrs Merkel's words were uncharacteristically passionate and unusually forthright. By all means keep friendly relations with Trump's America and Brexit Britain, was the message - but we can't rely on them. Rapturous applause greeted her fiery calls for Europeans to fight for their own destiny. No wonder she's sounding confident. France has a new president who shares her pro free-trade, Europhile values, so there is a positive feeling in Europe that the EU's Franco-German motor is back in business. With four months to go before elections, Angela Merkel's position also looks stronger than ever domestically. Initial enthusiasm for her centre-left rival Martin Schulz has fizzled out. And Sunday's beer-tent event underscored her strength by marking an end to a potential split with her Bavarian sister conservative party. She might not have welcomed Brexit or Trump. But it seems that Mrs Merkel has decided that standing up for the EU will only strengthen her chances of winning another term in September.

Europe can no longer "completely depend" on the US and UK following the election of President Trump and Brexit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

The children, who had previously lived in areas controlled by Boko Haram, were held in a military barracks in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, a UN spokesman told the BBC. Details of the children's ages and the length of their detention have not been given. The army has not made any comment. Human rights groups argue that there is no proper legal process for civilians, including children, who are detained by the army as part of their counter-insurgency operations. "We fear that there are still kids who are being at least temporarily detained because they are being released from Boko Haram areas by the army but then kept for a while," Manuel Fontaine, regional director for the UN Children's fund (Unicef) in Central and West Africa, told Reuters news agency. Earlier this month, 21 of the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram two years ago were released and reunited with their families. Nigeria has been fighting a seven-year insurgency against Boko Haram, with the army retaking much of the territory under the Islamist militants' control in the past 20 months. 'Boko Haram took my children' Town divided by Boko Haram legacy On patrol against Boko Haram Who are Boko Haram?

The UN says it has negotiated the release of 876 children in Nigeria, who were being held by the army over possible links to Islamist militants.

Media playback is not supported on this device Our set-pieces were poor and we should have kept possession far better in open play. The midfield three who were meant to be supporting Kyle Lafferty did not get forward enough and, when he was up front on his own, he got no decent service at all. Yes, Poland dominated the game but Northern Ireland are used to that happening and I could tell from listening to their captain Steven Davis talk after the final whistle that he also felt they should have done better with the ball at certain times. You have got to remember these players are in the finals of a major tournament for the first time and maybe it will take them time to adapt to it. It certainly looked as if they gave Poland a little bit too much respect, especially in the first half, but there were some positives, too - as a defensive unit, we were excellent. For all of Poland's possession - and in the first half it was 68% - they did not batter Northern Ireland and it took them until the 29th minute to force Michael McGovern into a save. Michael O'Neill's team were excellent at staying compact and forcing the ball into wider areas but, as I said to Gary Lineker at half-time, the 10-15 minutes after the interval were vital. Unfortunately the Poles scored six minutes into the second half and I kind of saw it coming. When your team has been defending and concentrating so much for the entire first 45 minutes, it is difficult to quickly get back up to the same levels again straight after the break and they just got caught cold. Media playback is not supported on this device Northern Ireland are usually big on set-plays whoever they play and they would have worked on them a lot in the run-up to this game because they know they are not going to play through teams at this level. But apart from one well-worked free-kick where the ball just ran away from Davis in front of goal, they just did not nail them in Nice. When O'Neill brought on Conor Washington in the second half and switched to playing two up front, we carried a bit more of a threat. You could not question the effort and application of our players and the thousands of travelling fans, and everyone back home, should be very proud of them. Even so, Poland deserved to win. It was a disappointing result but it has not changed much about the Ukraine game from a Northern Ireland point of view. For me, they are not as strong as Poland or Germany and it was always the easiest-looking game in Group C. If we want to qualify out of this group, then we are going to have to win in Lyon on Thursday. How will we do it? Well, I think O'Neill might start out by being cautious to begin with. He will want to keep his favoured three-centre-halves intact but I think he will be tempted to go with two strikers so a 3-5-2 formation would work. That is the approach I would favour. Yes, we have lost our first match but one win could get us to the last 16 and, with Germany to play in our final group game, the best chance of us getting that will be against Ukraine. Neil Lennon was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan in France.

The most disappointing thing about watching Northern Ireland start Euro 2016 with a defeat to Poland was our lack of threat in the final third.

Moorways was closed to the public in 2016 but continued to be used by swimming clubs until the end of January. The decision was made in a bid to save about £350,000 a year. Council leader Ranjit Banwait said that whatever the cost of a new pool, it was important to get it right. Moorways, built more than 40 years ago, has struggled with maintenance and health and safety issues. Derby's other big pool, at the Queen's Leisure Centre, is currently closed due to structural problems, although two other pools remain open for public use at the centre. The Moorways closure was opposed by high-profile swimmers Ross Davenport, who won two gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 2006, and Olympic champion Adam Peaty, who now trains outside the city. Mr Banwait said: "To start work on the pool we've set £20m aside as an initial amount of money. "Potentially the work is going to cost more than that, we are currently looking at the designs... if it means it is going to cost more we will put that money in place. "The most important thing is that we get this right, this pool's going to be built and it's going to be there for generations to come." The new 50m pool is expected to be built by 2020.

A replacement for one of Derby's council-run swimming pools could cost more than the £20m the local authority estimated.

Individual world champion James Guy swam a superb final leg after Dan Wallace, Robbie Renwick and Calum Jarvis had put Britain in contention. The US were led off by swimming great Ryan Lochte but could not hold on. "They've always been the best 4x200m team in the world but we really stepped our game up tonight," said Wallace. "It always makes you confident to have the world champion anchoring your relay but I think we set him up pretty well and it was a great race." Britain clocked a time of seven minutes 4.33 seconds to claim the nation's first ever men's relay gold at a World Championships, with the US and Australia completing the podium. The US had won the event, which will be part of the Olympic programme in Rio next year, at the last five World Championships. Guy, 19, won the individual title on Tuesday and took the British quartet from third to first on the final leg of the relay. "The way things have been going in racing and training, the work is paying off," said Guy. "The personal bests are finally dropping down." Britain now stand third in the overall medals table behind the United States and Australia with five gold, one silver and two bronze medals after six of eight days in Kazan. In Friday's other events, Andrew Willis finished fourth in the men's 200m breaststroke but Lizzie Simmonds failed to progress in the 200m backstroke. Ben Proud and Fran Halsall qualified for Saturday's 50m freestyle and butterfly finals respectively.

Great Britain's men overhauled the United States in a dramatic 4x200m freestyle relay final to win gold at the World Championships in Russia.

In an interview marking five years as first minister, Carwyn Jones said people accepted Welsh ministers were not "miracle workers" on NHS matters. He said Labour had "kept our promises" on health and other issues. But a Conservative spokesman said the "greatest threat" to Welsh public services was an Ed Miliband government. Discussing austerity, Mr Jones told BBC Wales: "If we see the Tory plans, we are going to have this until 2020. "I do not know what the NHS in Wales would look like by 2020, or the education services, if we see those levels of cuts. "We are just not going to be able to do what we all want to do, so I hope things will change or at least there will be hope in 2015." In relation to problems in the NHS, he said: "If you are straight with people and say 'look there are problems in some parts of the NHS, money is not there as it was five or six years ago', they accept that. "They know you are not miracle workers. "But what you say to people is, we have prioritised those areas we think are important and also, of course, we have kept our promises on health and other areas," Mr Jones added. A Welsh Conservative spokesman responded: "The greatest threat to Welsh public services is an Ed Miliband government increasing spending and borrowing, leading to crippling interest payments on the national debt, which would significantly reduce the money available to invest in schools and hospitals."

It is not known what the state of the NHS or education in Wales will be 2020 if the Conservatives win the general election, the first minister said.

The 24-year-old, who has played for Greece at junior level, joins on a free transfer from Olympiacos - also owned by Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis. Bouchalakis had been expected to sign a loan deal with Forest. But he impressed in training and in friendlies with Notts County and Mansfield and has signed until 2020. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Nottingham Forest have signed Andreas Bouchalakis on a three-year contract after the midfielder impressed during pre-season with the Championship side.

There were more than 2,000 family doctors in September 2014, excluding registrars, retainers and locums working in around 460 practices. Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the statistics showed Welsh ministers' "commitment to invest in our NHS". But Plaid Cymru highlighted a 1% fall in GP numbers from 2013/14, warning a "recruitment crisis is looming". Plaid health spokeswoman Elin Jones said the fact that 23% of GPs were aged 55 or over and nearing retirement age needed to addressed.

The number of GPs in Wales rose overall by 10.5% in the 10 years to 2014, according to new figures.

A group of about 400 people, made up of the 15-year-old's friends, relatives and neighbours, took part in the Wear Pink for Paige walk on Saturday. The walkers stopped at the spot in Clydebank where Paige's body was found and a single balloon was released. John Leathem, 31, has appeared in court charged with murdering Paige. He was fully committed for trial at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday. He made no plea or declaration and was returned to custody. Paige's body was found in a wooded area just off Great Western Road in Clydebank at lunchtime on 21 March. The teenager was last seen near a deli in the town before setting off for her part-time hairdressing job. Hundreds of people gathered for a memorial event a Clydebank park on Saturday 26 March. The Titan Crane in Clydebank was also illuminated pink in memory of the teenager.

Hundreds of people have paid their respects to schoolgirl Paige Doherty by walking through the streets of her home town wearing pink.

Media playback is not supported on this device The visitors led briefly through Vasil Lobzhanidze's early try, but the Scots raced ahead through Tommy Seymour, a penalty try, Sean Maitland and Stuart Hogg before the break. Hamish Watson extended the lead, battling over soon after half-time. Lobzhanidze bagged a second from a huge Georgian scrum, before Hogg finished off a searing counter-attack. Before the Scottish points deluge, it was the Georgians who opened the scoring. It was a soft one, with Lobzhanidze, the visitors' scrum-half, darting down the blind-side of a scrum where Seymour should have halted him, but didn't. The wing made amends soon after when Hogg dinked a kick behind the Georgian defence for Seymour to run on to. In the foot-race, Seymour beat Lobzhanidze to the touch-down. It was questionable that Seymour got downward pressure on the ball, but the try was given and Scotland went ahead when Laidlaw swept over the conversion from the touchline. The floodgates began to open. Scotland owned possession and territory and got their reward when a rolling maul, destined for the try-line, was hauled to the floor by the Georgian lock, Kote Mikautadze. Scotland got a penalty try, converted by Laidlaw, and Mikautadze got the sin-bin. Merab Kvirikashvili landed a penalty but Scotland motored on regardless. Maitland scored after multiple Scotland phases and Laidlaw added the conversion and a penalty just after. There were 30 minutes gone and Scotland had 91% possession. Media playback is not supported on this device Georgia, living off scraps, put over another penalty to make it 24-11 but Hogg's try stretched the lead again. There was ambition and luck at its heart. There was nothing on for the full-back, so he chanced his arm, dinked a kick over the top and chased like hell. The breaking ball took a vicious bounce away from the covering Alexandre Todua and landed kindly in the onrushing Hogg's hands. Away he went for Scotland's fourth try, once again converted from out wide by Laidlaw. The fifth came early in the second half, Watson coming round the corner of a scrum and blasting his way over. The conversion made it 38-11. It was the belated catalyst for Georgia to get some ball of their own. They scored their second try when shoving Scotland to kingdom come in the scrum. They shunted their hosts over their own line and the dot down for Lobzhanidze was a formality. Georgia's scrum continued to cause a newly disjointed and error-prone Scotland problems. Moray Low was yellow-carded in the midst of this for another buckled scrum. The hosts had a rousing finish, though. Ali Price was only three minutes into his debut when he tapped a penalty and went from deep in his own half. Rory Hughes, another substitute, was on Price's shoulder and he in turn found Hogg who ran in his second and Scotland's sixth. Scotland head coach Vern Cotter: "It was a good first half. We scored three pretty quick tries, and we held the ball so they couldn't access the game as they would have liked. We kept the ball down the other end, and when they gave it back to us, we managed to counter-attack and get points. "In the second half, the game seemed to open up a little, it was a wet ball and it was cold out there, so the transmissions weren't as neat and quick as we'd like. And they were very good over the ball. "But I thought we did things pragmatically, kept them out of it and scored points when we had to. "I think there's been a good shift in the way we approach these games and manage them, and Greig (Laidlaw)'s done a great job in that with his guys around him. And we just keep improving." Scotland: 15-Stuart Hogg, 14-Sean Maitland, 13-Mark Bennett, 12-Alex Dunbar, 11-Tommy Seymour, 10-Finn Russell, 9-Greig Laidlaw (capt); 1-Allan Dell, 2-Ross Ford, 3-Zander Fagerson, 4-Richie Gray, 5-Jonny Gray, 6-Rob Harley, 7-Hamish Watson, 8-Ryan Wilson. Replacements: 16-Fraser Brown, 17-Alex Allan, 18-Moray Low, 19-Grant Gilchrist, 20-John Barclay, 21-Ali Price, 22-Pete Horne, 23-Rory Hughes. Georgia: 15-Merab Kvirikashvili, 14-Giorgi Aptsiauri, 13-Merab Sharikadze, 12-Tamaz Mchedlidze, 11-Sandro Todua, 10-Lasha Malaguradze, 9-Vasil Lobzhanidze; 1-Mikheil Nariashvili, 2-Jaba Bregvadze, 3-Levan Chilachava, 4-Kote Mikautadze, 5-Giorgi Nemsadze, 6-Vito Kolelishvili, 7-Mamuka Gorgodze (capt), 8-Beka Bitsadze. Replacements: 16-Badri Alkhazashvili, 17-Kakha Asieshvili, 18-Dudu Kubriashvili, 19-Lasha Lomidze, 20-Giorgi Tkhilaishvili, 21-Giorgi Begadze, 22-Beka Tsiklauri, 23-Shalva Sutiashvili

Scotland ran in six tries to conclude their trio of autumn internationals with a 43-16 victory over Georgia.

According to organisers a record 3.6 million turned out to vote in the Scottish independence referendum. More than 100,000 of the total were 16 to 17-year-olds who had registered to vote. Erin Fyfe McWilliam, 16 said: "I'm glad the government thought we were able to make decisions for our country." She thinks it's put young people in the spotlight: "Usually the older generation see us as being the 'tallywags' who don't care about politics at all. "But I do think this referendum has taught the younger generation a lot about politics." A survey, commissioned by Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft, said 71% of 16 to 17-year-olds voted for Scotland to be independent and 29% voted against. So even if the age-group contributed their political views, it didn't appear to influence the outcome. Scotland remains part of the United Kingdom after the "No" campaign won. The Scottish referendum was a one-off for 16 and 17-year-olds, after the Scottish Parliament passed legislation allowing it to happen. But for years youth campaign groups have been trying to get the UK voting age lowered, arguing you can get married at 16 and pay your taxes, so why not vote? Gaelan Miller 17, who voted in the referendum, agreed that he didn't have that much life experience but said that shouldn't matter. "Sometimes I think young folk like me can be influenced by your parents and we don't have mortgages," he said. "But that's not to say we can't look at statistics at what's happened before with mortgages and ask your parents questions." The Lib Dems are all for 16 and 17-year-olds voting and promised it in their 2010 manifesto. Labour leader, Ed Miliband, also backs lowering the age. UKIP are against it, the Green Party is for and the Scottish National Party (SNP) is in favour as well. David Cameron and the Tories oppose it, so until all the parties agree to debate the issue it's unlikely to happen. Senior Lib Dem minister and Scottish MP, Danny Alexander, told Newsbeat he believes young people "bring a freshness to the debate and ask important questions". He said: "I've always believed that 16 to 17-year-olds should have the vote. "Some of the best debates and discussion I have had about the Scottish referendum have been with young people in schools and Newsbeat's Big Debate." But when asked about lowering the voting age before the next General election in May 2015, he was less optimistic. "Not every party wants that so that we will have to look at that. We need to build a consensus across all parties for that happen. So we could have debate the constitutional changes in the UK," the chief of the Treasury said. "All parties have to agree to do that. But I think the time has come for reform." 17-year-old Erin added: "It's a bit disappointing being given this opportunity, then being told a few months down the line you have to wait a few years. I think it should be changed so that 16 and 17 year olds can vote." In the last general election in 2010, fewer than half of all 18 to 24-year-olds voted, which was much lower than the national average. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

How did it go for the 16 and 17-year-olds who were allowed to vote for the first time ever in the UK?

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

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

Officers raided a workshop in the port of Izmir, where they say they found life jackets stuffed with packaging rather than buoyancy aids. The four workers making the jackets included two young Syrian girls. On Tuesday, the bodies of 34 migrants were found along Turkey's coast. Many were wearing life jackets. Several children were among the dead. More than one million migrants crossed the Mediterranean in 2015 and the vast majority went from Turkey to Greece. Many migrants buy life jackets to help them survive the dinghy journey. A properly made jacket costs up to a £100 (€130; $150), reports the BBC's James Reynolds in Istanbul. But many migrants make do with cheaper, badly made ones, which cost just £10 and may offer no protection whatsoever, our correspondent says. Izmir: Migrants' life jacket capital The life jacket 'mountains' of Lesbos Migration to Europe explained in graphics According to the UN, 3,771 people were listed as dead or missing in 2015. In Wednesday's raid the authorities seized 1,263 life jackets that failed to correspond to safety standards, Turkey's Dogan news agency said. The workshop was in the centre of Izmir, a major hub for refugees and migrants. Four people were found working in the workshop, including two young Syrian girls, the news agency said. It did not publish the girls' ages. The confiscated life jackets have been sent to the local police for examination and an investigation has been launched. It comes one day after the bodies of more than 30 migrants were washed up in Turkey. Their boats capsized in bad weather on the way to the Greek island of Lesbos, the authorities say. Turkish media published harrowing images of the corpses, many still wearing life jackets that had apparently been of no use. Migrants are continuing to arrive on the Greek islands every day, despite the wintry weather. Lesbos is by far the most popular destination for migrants leaving Turkey. More than 500,000 reached the island in 2015. Late last year, Turkey reached a deal with the European Union to tighten its borders and reduce the numbers crossing to Greece in return for €3bn (£2.1bn) and political concessions. A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.

Police in Turkey say they have confiscated more than 1,000 fake life jackets made for migrants wanting to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece.

Several fire appliances were called to the scene at Carnsalloch House to tackle the blaze. One witness reported damage to the main part of the house at Kirkton, with floors and the roof burnt out. The category A listed building had fallen into a state of disrepair and had been described as a target for vandals, fireraisers and drug-users. The mansion house at Kirkton was built in the middle of the 18th Century, with a number of extensions added over the years. From the late 1960s until about 2000 it was owned by the Leonard Cheshire foundation. Plans for a housing development at the site were rejected and earlier this month the developers sought a council review of the decision.

A derelict historic house near Dumfries has been damaged in a fire which broke out overnight on Friday.

Owens' team suffered a record European defeat as they conceded nine tries in a 64-14 Champions Cup hammering in Paris. With New Zealand's World Rugby player of the year Dan Carter kicking six goals and organising the demolition, Wales international Owens believes Racing will be hard to beat. "It's difficult to stop a side like Racing - they've got the complete package," said Owens. "They are the best team in Europe. "Saracens in England are up there, playing very good stuff. But I think Racing, with the squad they've got, the calibre of player and the different variations in their game, have the edge." Racing beat Scarlets 29-12 in Llanelli in November, before World Cup winner Carter made his debut for the French club. "They had a different mindset when we played them before - they were happy to live off our mistakes," Owens continued. "But today they upped the tempo and brought the game to us and they have definitely improved. "Carter coming in, plenty of experience, a ball-player, really organising the backs - he's made a big difference to their back line. "He allows players to play off him and his organisation - you could just hear him talking - he's a huge asset to any team. He's the best player in the world and it shows." However, head coach Wayne Pivac was not happy with his team's discipline at Stade Yves du Manoir. Scarlets were under pressure, but had stood up to Racing's power before the Welsh region's second row Maselino Paulino was shown a yellow card for a high tackle on Yannick Nyanga deep in Racing territory. And within five minutes, Scarlets wing DTH van der Merwe followed the Samoan into the sin-bin for a tip tackle. At that point the score was 10-0, but by the time Van der Merwe returned, Scarlets trailed 31-0. "Twenty-one points came pretty quickly," Pivac said. "Look, they are a class side when it's 15 on 15, let alone taking one and then two players off, so that did hurt us. "So I was disappointed with our discipline in that early part of the game." Scarlets have now lost all five of their European Champions Cup matches this season - with the visit of Northampton Saints still to come.

Racing 92 are the best team in Europe, says Scarlets captain Ken Owens.

Fay, 33, should win a record 185th cap when Scotland play Slovenia in their opening Euro 2017 qualifier on Tuesday. She made her debut in 1998 against the Czech Republic. "The Holland matches were the first time I really took a step back to see if it was time to stop," Fay said. Having played in eight major championship campaigns - all unsuccessful - Celtic keeper Fay had a big choice to make after Scotland lost over two legs to the Netherlands in a play-off for the World Cup in Canada. "I asked myself several questions and the desire to reach a major championship was one of them," she said. "If we qualify for Euro 2017 it will probably be the most special moment of my career." Scotland, under coach Anna Signeul, have never been given a better chance. The draw - which includes Belarus, Macedonia and top seeds Iceland - is the kindest ever. With the tournament in the Netherlands in two years time having been expanded, two teams will also qualify from most of the groups. "Externally there is an expectation on us to qualify, but you can never underestimate any team," Fay said. "We're not a team that has the arrogance to say we will definitely qualify. We are a team that says we know we have good players and we work hard in every game. "We will give every team the respect they deserve. If we do that I'm confident we will do well in this group." The Scots are based at Nova Gorica, which is almost on the Italian border, but the game is being played at Ajdovscina, some 30 minutes away. "It's a beautiful setting," said Fay of a venue which lies in a valley under towering mountains. "The pitch is a decent size for us and hopefully they will water it a bit before the game. It looks like a good place to start our campaign."

Scotland women's captain Gemma Fay admits the prospect of playing in a major championship was one of the main factors in deciding not to retire last year.

The London Taxi Company's (LTC) Ansty Park site in Coventry is the home of its new electric taxi, the TX5. LTC - which now employs up to 1,500 people - has invested more than £300m in the TX5 after manufacturing the black cab in the UK for 69 years. Administrators were called into LTC in 2012 before Chinese carmaker Geely bought the business the following year. Read more news for Coventry and Warwickshire The first electric taxis to roll off the production line will go on sale in London in the final quarter of the year, before being sold around the world early in 2018. It has been described as one of the great comeback stories in UK manufacturing history - and that is exactly what it is. Back in 2013 London Taxis International was on its knees and looking for a new owner. Then Chinese firm Geely came to the rescue and almost immediately announced plans to build a new factory - but not only that, it revealed plans to make electric vehicles and employ more than 1,000 people. It is the first all-new car factory in the Midlands since 2003, when Aston Martin opened its state-of-the-art plant at Gaydon in Warwickshire. That was on a much smaller scale, though. It is also one of the biggest single Chinese investments in the region and it shows that the West Midlands continues to lead the way when it comes to both automotive research and development and production. LTC, previously known as LTI, started life in the 1920s, producing car bodies for Jaguar, Rolls Royce and Bentley. It will retain its existing Holyhead Road premises in Coventry as a paint shop once the production of the existing TX4 taxi ends in the summer. Staff have moved into the Ansty Park plant this month ahead of Wednesday's official lunchtime opening, involving company representatives. The new site will house a research and development centre for the electric vehicle, with engineers accounting for 200 of the newly-created jobs.

A £300m taxi manufacturing plant which created 1,000 new jobs is to be officially opened later.

Pro-Kremlin party A Just Russia put forward both bills, and linked them directly to the situation in Ukraine. Separatist and pro-Russian feelings are strong in Ukraine's Crimea region, which is now the focus of the crisis. Russian MPs say a referendum or a plea from a territory's leaders would be enough to trigger the new provisions. There are already many Russian citizens in Crimea. In Sevastopol, base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, a majority hold Russian passports. Under Russia's existing law, a neighbouring state would have to sign a treaty with Russia to allow part of its territory to become a new "subject" of the Russian Federation. But Mikhail Yemelyanov, deputy leader of A Just Russia, said the law had been drafted for peaceful times, and did not go far enough for situations where a state was falling apart. "In conditions where a neighbouring state is disintegrating I don't think the Russian Federation should be restricted in its ability to accept a territory whose people have expressed a clear will and desire to be in Russia," he said. Since Russia's war with Georgia in 2008, the breakaway Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have come under Moscow's control. Russia poured troops into both regions to help pro-Russian separatists who did not recognise Georgia's authority. The other bill to be considered by the Duma - Russia's lower house - would speed up the procedures for issuing Russian passports. Passport applicants would not have to pay a state tax, and previous residence in Russia would no longer be required. In addition, they would not have to have sufficient funds to support themselves and would not have to give up their Ukrainian citizenship. The bill's preamble says it is aimed "at supporting the fraternal people of Ukraine, especially the Russian-speaking ones, who are defenceless in the face of the 'brown threat'," a reference to World War Two fascists who wore brown uniforms. The bill would allow Ukrainians to apply for Russian passports at Russian diplomatic missions before 1 August, and they could become citizens after two months, instead of waiting a year, as is currently the norm. The plan to have a new fast-track procedure for issuing Russian passports was announced in Sevastopol on Thursday by A Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov. Several Russian MPs have also gone to Crimea, including Russian celebrities - former Olympic ice skating champion Irina Rodnina, former cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and heavyweight boxer Nikolai Valuev.

Russian MPs have proposed new laws that would make it easier for Russia to incorporate parts of Ukraine, and allow Russian citizenship to be fast-tracked.

Aaron Lewis, 26 and from Toxteth, was shot three times outside Anna Jungs in Grosvenor Road, Wavertree at about 19:00 GMT on Wednesday. He was taken to Aintree Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Merseyside Police believe the offender ran down the road towards the city centre and said the shooting was related to organised crime. Officers said Mr Lewis was known to them. At about 19:40, a 19-year-old man went to hospital with a gunshot wound to his upper body. His condition is not thought to be life-threatening and detectives believe he had been with Mr Lewis. The latest death follows the fatal shooting of Thomas Baker at Stanley Meat Market in Old Swan on Friday and highlighted a "serious escalation" of gang violence in Liverpool, police said. Police said that while both deaths were related to serious and organised crime, the shootings were not linked. In addition to Mr Baker and Mr Lewis, Mark Hillman and Blake Brown have been killed in the city. A police spokesman said gun crime had increased in recent months after falling year on year from 2013 to 2016. Since April, 78 firearms have been discharged, 18 more than in the whole of the previous 12 months. An increasing number of new guns are being used, the spokesman added, and officers do not know how or where gangs are obtaining them. Police said the majority of shootings this year were linked to organised crime and the victims will not co-operate with officers. Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson and Wavertree MP Luciana Berger have joined forces with Merseyside Police to appeal for public help. Ms Berger said: "We as a community need to work together to help end this violence on our streets." Mr Anderson said: "By coming together as a city we can send out a powerful message to the perpetrators that they will be found and... punished." A series of warrants are being executed across Liverpool as part of a planned crackdown on gun crime, but no weapons have been recovered.

A man has been shot dead in a "cold-blooded, targeted attack" outside a Liverpool chip shop, police said.

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

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

Welshman Davies won his second gold in Italy with an F42 discus world record after his shot success on Sunday. Hermitage also won gold number two with a world record in the T37 200m. Weir claimed his third gold, again leading home team-mate Richard Chiassaro, this time in the T54 800m. There was also a superb silver for London 2012 double bronze medallist David Devine in the T13 1500m after over three years out injured and for veteran Graeme Ballard (T36 100m), while Stephen Miller (F32 club) and Isaac Towers (T34 200m) took bronzes. Davies had a best throw of 54.14m, beating his previous record of 49.59 and his winning margin in the event, which is not part of the Rio programme, was more than eight metres. "I am absolutely delighted with that result," said the 25-year-old. "To throw a personal best on the main stage is something every athlete wants to do. For me, I was even more shocked because I haven't been doing too much discus this year as I have been focusing on the shot put for Rio, but I know there is a lot more in the tank. "I know I can throw a long way but the fact that I am surprised myself is very exciting." Hermitage followed up her T37 400m success with another superb performance, clocking 27.21 to beat France's Marie-Francois Elie's 28.35 set at the 2013 Worlds in Lyon. "I'm just so happy to get the world record and win a second European gold medal," she said. "The 400m on Monday was very pressurised but the 200m isn't a Rio event for me, however it is something I still really enjoy. I went into it a lot calmer and more relaxed so maybe that helped." Devine was overhauled late on in his race by Poland's Lucasz Wietecki but the 24-year-old Liverpudlian, who only returned to training in December, had mixed feelings on his comeback. "It is obviously great to win a medal again but I'm a little disappointed that I wasn't strong enough to hold on for the gold," he said. "I've only only raced three times since London so it is bound to take some time to get race fit. Give me a couple of months and I'll be able to hold them off. "There have been so many times when I have wanted to quit but my mum and dad told me I couldn't because I had too much talent and was too good to give in."

Aled Davies, Georgie Hermitage and David Weir all added to their gold medal tallies as Great Britain enjoyed another successful day at the IPC Athletics European Championships.

It was believed the Irish Army had removed all the wreckage at the time but a group of aviation historians and Queens University Belfast archaeologists thought otherwise. After ground surveys pointed to parts being present just four meters below the surface, a number of items were excavated on Saturday. These included the cockpit door. The pilot - Gordon Hayter Proctor - had safely bailed out of the plane on the northern side of the border after his instruments froze. It glided on before crashing in a field in Figullar, Emyvale, on 20 November 1942. The plane, which had seen action in the Battle of Britain, was considered "war-weary" and had been assigned to a weather-monitoring squadron operating out of RAF Aldergrove in Antrim in 1942. Project organiser Jonny McNee told the BBC the dig had "exceeded expectations" and they had recovered "Monaghan's Battle of Britain forgotten heritage". The aviation historian said they had unearthed internal parts of the Rolls Royce engine and plates inscribed with information, such as manufacturing details. "The cockpit door was a bit of a surprise," he said. "The last person to use it was Flt Lt Gordon Hayter Proctor who was later declared missing while serving in Burma. "He has no grave and now he will be remembered in a bit of Monaghan. The display will be homage to him". He added that the team would love to make contact with any of his family members. Mr McNee said they knew more than 90% of the plane had been taken away at the time and probably scrapped. "We had done our research and by looking at the Irish Army military archives, we knew that a substantial amount of the plane was taken away," he said. "Back in September we applied for and were granted a licence to use ground-penetrating radar which detected the impact crater and showed sizable metallic remains." Pupils from three schools - two in Monaghan and one in County Londonderry, had been invited to help out at the dig, which also attracted the attention of many locals. Josie McCusker, who remembers seeing the Spitfire fall from the sky all those years ago, stayed for the entire duration of the dig. "It was the morning, a Sunday morning and I remember the loud noise of it," she told BBC Radio Ulster. "My father was milking cows in the byre and he heard the noise and he ran into the house thinking it was on fire. "We then discovered it was a plane - it took the tops off the trees and a piece of it fell down in a gooseberry bush behind the house. "I remember much of the plane being removed by the Army, and remember seeing it on a lorry." The job now is to clean, sort, identify and catalogue the items before handing them to the County Monaghan Museum, which will then be able to claim it has artefacts from the only Battle of Britain Spitfire to be legally excavated in Ireland.

Remnants from an RAF Spitfire plane which crashed into a field in County Monaghan in 1942 have been recovered.

A statement said the initiative aimed to provide better information about Russia than is available on Wikipedia. Analysis had shown that Wikipedia "does not have enough detailed and reliable information about Russian regions and the life of the country", it said. Some 50,000 books and documents had been collected, it said, to portray Russia "objectively and accurately". But the new site has some catching up to do - Wikipedia is the world's sixth most popular website. The Russian edition has more than one million entries. The move comes amid increasing Kremlin control of the web. In August, laws were enacted forcing bloggers with more than 3,000 daily readers to register with the mass media regulator. And in March, websites run by opponents and critics of President Vladimir Putin were blocked.

Russia is planning an alternative version of the Wikipedia, the country's presidential library has said.

Yet while such a prospect would make most of us run a mile, this is in fact a traditional massage method in Russia. Called a "venik" massage, the oak bunches are first softened in warm water. And rather than being whacked on your back in anger, they are gently and rhythmically applied. It is a popular treatment in the thousands of steam bathhouses, or "banyas", across Russia. The massage, which takes place in a sauna room set at a temperature of 70C, is said to boost circulation and prevent premature ageing of the skin. And after the treatment has finished you are supposed to immediately jump into a plunge pool of cold water. You might think that such an unusual massage would struggle to be successfully exported from Russia, but the co-founder of the first banya in London says that two years after opening, almost half of its customers are non-Russians. Launching the banya, called Banya No.1, was the dream of entrepreneurial Russian ex-pat Ksenia Bobkova. The 37-year-old has lived in the UK for more than 20 years after moving from St Petersburg to study law at Edinburgh University in 1994. After graduating from Edinburgh she has had a successful career in finance in London, first working at a large commercial law firm, and then co-founding a new investment company. Yet as much as Ms Bobkova says she has always enjoyed living in the UK, the one thing she really missed was regular trips to a banya. After dreaming of opening London's first banya for more than a decade, Ms Bobkova says that in 2012 "the circumstances came together" to enable her to finally start work on it. Firstly, she realised that more and more Russians were now living in London, which she hoped would make a banya commercially viable, and she had built up enough savings to launch the business. Then she found the right building, and two other UK-based Russian investors came on board. After a year of construction work, including importing a traditional banya stove from Russia, the bathhouse opened its doors in 2013. "When we wrote the business plan, we certainly focused on the fact that the Russian-speaking community in London had grown substantially over the past 15 years," she says. "But after we opened we soon discovered that London is so international, and that people who live here are so open to new experiences, that almost half our customers are non-Russian." Customers - both male and female - who don't want to strip naked can instead wear their swimming costume, or a strategically placed towel. And for people who wish to avoid the oak leaves, Scandinavian-style, hands-based back massages are also available. After the massages, people are encouraged to stay and relax in a lounge or rest area, where they can order traditional Russian food. While Ms Bobkova is reluctant to discuss how financially successful the banya is, it is often full, and typical visits cost £100 per person. And she now plans to open more branches. Running the banya is a world apart from Ms Bobkova's main job of helping to lead investment firm Fusion Asset Management, of which she was a founding partner in 2004. The business invests millions of pounds globally on behalf of large institutions, and has a sister office in Moscow. While the original six founders included one Englishman, an American and a Frenchman, it is now owned and run by three London-based Russian ex-pats. Ms Bobkova says that she likes working in the UK, because she values what she describes as "British fair play" in business. "Without comparing specifically to Russia, what is very fundamental in British business ethics is this concept of fair play," she says. "[Doing business in the UK means] you can trust people, and people will generally not try to squeeze you too much. In the UK both sides get a fairly allocated share of the profit, rather than one gets all, and the other gets nothing." In terms of her day-to-day style as a boss she says that while she has high expectations of staff, it is a point of principle that the 20 people at the finance firm don't have to work late nights or at weekends. "Nothing in the world is so important that it needs to be done at the weekend," she says. In addition to the two businesses, Ms Bobkova is also a co-founder of a networking organisation for Russians living and working in London. Called Russians in the City, and with 2,300 members, it holds quarterly events, such as drinks parties, or polo matches and skiing trips. The world is getting wealthier - but with the gap between rich and poor feeling bigger than ever, who are the winners and losers of this richer world in 2015? A Richer World 2015 Listen to the reports and documentaries The organisation has since opened a sister branch in Switzerland, with other ones due to open in New York and Dubai. A UK passport holder, and previously married to a British husband, Ms Bobkova says that Russians in the City allow her to maintain the Russian side of her identity. "I'm British in that I have lived here for 20 years, but I'm also obviously Russian," she says. "There are different categories of immigrants. Some are so integrated that they almost deny where they came from, while at the other end, some people don't integrate at all. "I'm somewhere in the middle, I'm fully integrated, I went to a British university... I speak English.... but I also like my Russian heritage, which I nurture through the bathhouse and through the network."

As leisure activities go, you would imagine that lying naked on a wooden table while two topless Russian men hit your back with bunches of oak leaves would only appeal to a very specialist group of enthusiasts.

Media playback is not supported on this device Paris Saint-Germain's £50 million defender David Luiz waved across the Parc des Princes pitch and then gestured with a thumbs up. Beaming with a bright smile I waved back immediately, then embarrassment set in. I realised the recognition wasn't for me, it was for another Ballymena man standing just to my left, the head groundsman at PSG. I was immensely proud for Jonathan Calderwood. A man raised just 'up the road' from me in Clough, County Antrim. This is a matchday ritual for Jonathan, receiving accolades from some of the world's most expensive footballers. "When we played Barcelona, I was told that Messi and Neymar both said it was the best pitch they've ever played on, when we played Real Madrid in September I got the same feedback from them," he said. It all started at east Belfast club Glentoran, where Jonathan cut his teeth (and grass) at the Oval. Next stop was the old Wembley Stadium in London, which coincided with his studies at Myrescough College, where he gained a National Diploma in Turf Science. Jonathan worked his way through the ranks, ending up as deputy head groundsman at Wembley. Calderwood went on to become head groundsman at Wolverhampton Wanderers before a move to Aston Villa. During 15 successful years at Villa Park he picked up multiple turf related awards including two Premier League Groundsman of the Year trophies. At Villa he met Gerard Houillier, one of the game's most respected managers. Meanwhile, across the English Channel a group of investors from Qatar made PSG one of Europe's richest football clubs. They wanted the very best of everything, including the blades of grass on the Parc des Princes pitch. On the advice of Houllier that meant a groundsman from Clough. He told PSG that Jonathan was the best groundsman in the world and Carlo Ancelotti, their manager at that time, agreed. Jonathan and his family moved to a new life in Paris and he made an immediate impact, becoming French Groundman of the Year in his first season. He added: "When you hear someone saying 'the guy just cuts grass' it's a little bit hurtful because I know what skills are involved, what dedication, what hours, what knowledge and experience goes into having a pitch like what we have at PSG. "Modern day football pitches are so complex and so complicated. I spent three years full-time at university and I would say 90% of my time was spent in the laboratory doing soil analysis, weeds, pesticides, disease management, wind, water, sunshine, fertiliser programmes and aeration - there is so much to it.' Jonathan's story doesn't end there, for his pitch will host Northern Ireland's game against Germany in Euro 2016. "If you're a groundsman like me, you want to work at the very top and it doesn't come much bigger than the European Championships," he said. "For me to move to Paris and for Northern Ireland to end up playing Germany in Paris on my pitch it doesn't get any better than that - it's like a dream come true." So Jonathan has already had recognition from some of the best players in the world - come 21 June he'll be hoping for a thumbs up from the likes of Steven Davis, Jonny Evans and manager Michael O'Neill. Who knows, that could be after a win over the world champions!

It was just minutes before kick-off, and that's when it happened.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, had to shut the $30m (£18.3m) Allen Telescope Array in April. Donors, including actress Jodie Foster, raised more than $200,000 (£122,000). The 42 radio telescopes, in northern California, search space for potential signals from alien life forms. Ms Foster was one of more than 2,400 people who contributed to the fund to save the Allen Telescope Array. She played the lead role of an astronomer looking for evidence of aliens in the 1997 film Contact. In a statement on the fund-raising website she explained her support: "The Allen Telescope Array could turn science fiction into science fact but only if it is actively searching the skies." Another donor was the Apollo 8 astronaut, Bill Anders. The SETI Institute says the fund should be enough to keep the telescopes operating until the end of the year, though the plan is still dependent on the institute receiving money from the US Air Force to track space debris that could damage satellites. SETI Institute Astronomer Seth Shostak told BBC News, the deal with the Air Force is not yet done but he said he is fairly confident it will go through. Even then the money will need to be ratified by Congress and so there may be a delay. He hopes the array will re-open in September or October. Thomas Pierson, SETI chief executive, agreed that a deal with the Air Force, combined with the donations, should allow the array to start listening for space chatter once again. He said: "For those who are interested in understanding whether intelligent life might be out there elsewhere in our galaxy, the Allen Telescope Array and our SETI team doing the research are the best bet." The array began operating in 2007 and is named after its major benefactor, Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. It consists of 42 dish-shaped antennas which work as a single radio telescope. It is part of the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, run by the University of California, Berkeley. Originally the array was a joint project between SETI Institute and the UC Berkeley Astronomy Laboratory but Berkeley had to pull out because of the loss of National Science Foundation grants and state budget cuts. SETI is hoping to raise more money to contribute to the $2.5m (£1.5m) annual operating and staffing costs of the telescopes and keep them going beyond the end of this year. Ultimately the plan is to use the array to observe planets outside our own Solar System. Dr Shostak said: "People still think this very fundamental question - is there somebody out there as intelligent or more so than us - is important and worth doing." The array also contributes to research into black holes, pulsars and magnetic fields in the Milky Way.

Telescopes looking for extra terrestrial intelligence should re-open within weeks after donors replaced income lost in public funding cuts.

The Labour leader told the New Statesman his party opposed government plans to lower the overall household cap, introduced in the last Parliament. And his spokesman confirmed he was "very much in favour" of getting rid of it altogether. The Conservatives said Labour wanted a return to "unlimited welfare handouts". The BBC's Carole Walker said Mr Corbyn was asserting his authority on what was a "very difficult issue" for the party. After Mr Corbyn told the TUC conference last week he wanted to "remove the whole idea of the benefit cap", Owen Smith, his shadow work and pensions secretary, said it was "very clear" Labour was only opposing plans to reduce the limit of working-age benefits to £20,000, and to £23,000 in London. In an interview with the BBC's Newsnight, Mr Smith acknowledged the principle of a welfare cap had wide public support and it would be "foolhardy" for Labour to set themselves "unthinkingly" against public opinion. But Mr Corbyn told the New Statesman the cap was responsible for "social cleansing" in his Islington North constituency, with people forced to leave their homes because they could not afford their rent. "It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole," he added. His spokesman said Mr Corbyn had "laid out his position" and the policy would now go through a "collective decision-making process". Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Smith said the party leader had "clearly signalled that he wants Labour to review and refresh our thinking on social security, especially in respect of the benefit cap, and that's a challenge I know the entire party will rise to in the months ahead". Before Mr Corbyn was elected leader, the party was split over the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, which will reduce the cap to £20,000 outside of London, and £23,000 in London. In July, 48 Labour MPs rebelled against the decision by the then interim leader Harriet Harman to abstain and instead voted against the bill. The Conservative Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said "chaos and confusion" surrounded Labour's position. "Conservatives believe that nobody should be able to claim more in welfare than the average family earns by going out to work," he said. "By pledging to reverse this position, it's clear that today's Labour Party are simply not on the side of working people. They are still the same old welfare party - wanting to borrow more to spend more on benefits." In his interview, Mr Corbyn also said scrapping the Trident nuclear weapons system would become Labour Party policy if its conference votes for the change next week. Conferences votes are not technically binding on the party leadership. But asked whether scrapping Trident would become party policy if conference votes for it, Mr Corbyn said: "Well, it would be, of course, because it would have been passed at conference."

Jeremy Corbyn has reaffirmed his desire to scrap the welfare cap after differences with his shadow cabinet, calling the policy "devastating".

Labour MP Mrs Cox died when she was shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on Thursday. After her death, her friends set up a fundraising page, with proceeds to be divided between causes she had supported. In a tweet, her husband Brendan said the money would "change lives". The fund was pushed past the seven-figure mark shortly before 20:30 BST on Monday by a single £6,000 donation. More than 30,000 people have donated so far. Money raised will support three charities Mr Cox said were close to his wife's heart - the Royal Voluntary Service, Hope not Hate and the White Helmets. Mrs Cox's friend Tim Dixon, one of those who launched the fund, said: "The scale and speed of the public response to this fund has been overwhelming and deeply gratifying to Jo's family. "It shows how powerfully Jo's story has moved so many. Jo would be so proud." Gofundme, which hosts the appeal, said it was the largest UK campaign it had seen, and the third largest globally. The fundraising milestone came after MPs gathered in the House of Commons on Monday to pay tribute to Mrs Cox as members of her family looked on. Friends of Mrs Cox have announced plans for a public event in Trafalgar Square in London on Wednesday, on what would have been her 42nd birthday. Mr Dixon said her husband Brendan was doing "an amazing job, and we're telling him that". He said: "Over the weekend, he was thinking about how having kids just three and five years old, they're not going to have many memories of their mother when they grow up - he wants to capture those memories now. "He had them write down special memories of mummy on pieces of paper, cut them out and hang them on the tree in his parents' garden." The Batley and Spen MP died after she was attacked outside a library on her way to a constituency surgery. Bernard Kenny, 77, was discharged from hospital on Monday night after he was stabbed in the stomach as he went to the aid of Mrs Cox. A petition to the Cabinet Office calling for Mr Kenny to be awarded the George Cross has gained over 27,000 backers. Rachel Collinson, who started the petition and is a Green Party spokesperson, said the move would "draw the nation together to celebrate rather than to give in to fear". She said: "This man is a ray of light in a dark time, in a moment where the UK seems to be troubled by fear and division. This guy can be a beacon for all of us in what he did." A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "The government is of course aware of the calls for Bernard Kenny to receive an honour and we will examine the evidence, which will then be considered by the honours committee to decide whether to recommend him for an honour." Thomas Mair, 52, from Birstall, faces charges of murder, grievous bodily harm, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon in connection with the attack on Mrs Cox.

The husband of killed MP Jo Cox has praised the public's "incredible generosity" after a fund set up in her memory hit £1m in donations.

Seven people have denied conspiracy to defraud at Cardiff Crown Court after six insurance claims worth £144,000 were made between 2009 and 2011. Matthew Davies, 33, of Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, said he suffered injuries in a "genuine" crash. A guitar worth £1,850 was also damaged, he said. On Monday, the court heard Mr Davies, who runs a valeting business, expressed his disapproval of personal injury claims during an interview about his own. "It's not something I agree with," he said at the time. "I understand the reflection that personal injuries and claims have on the price of people's insurance policies." The prosecution said he was also recorded as having stated everyone else "is doing it, so I'm going to put one (a claim) in". Mr Davies told the court he and fellow defendant, Adam Fear, 27, also of Pontypridd, played together in a band called Heroes and Outlaws. They went for a jam session at a home on Shelley Walk in Rhydyfelin, Pontypridd, on 15 October 2010, Mr Davies said. He told the court the pair were later driving out of the area when Mr Fear's car collided with a BMW at the junction of Dyffryn Road and Cardiff Road. When asked whether he was telling the truth and the crash was genuine he said: "Yes, it was." The court heard Mr Davies attended his GP a week later. "Initially, I was fine but on the Sunday and Monday evening I could not sleep very well. I had numbness in my fingers and ringing in my ears," he said. He also told medics he was suffering with neck and back pain after the alleged accident. Mr Davies visited Caerphilly Miners' Hospital on 3 November 2010, having consulted with a firm of injury specialist lawyers. When quizzed by prosecutor Christopher Clee, Mr Davies said he had "no idea" why details about his injuries and the accident appeared to differ in the various medical notes. Mr Davies told the court he discovered his Gibson Les Paul Custom electric guitar was damaged only when collecting it from the wrecked vehicle after the crash. He said it only later occurred to him that he might make an insurance claim on it but, as he had failed to find a receipt, he ended up having to "cut his losses" and accept an offer of £300 for the damaged instrument. His fellow band mate Mr Fear has already told the court he is innocent of conspiracy to defraud. The case continues.

A man from south Wales accused of involvement in a car insurance fraud ring "does not agree" with personal injury claims, a court has heard.

They said that poor conditions at an overcrowded camp in Moria presented a "serious risk" to at least 3,000 migrants living there. A man in his 20s said to be a Pakistani was found dead in his tent on Monday. A 22-year-old Egyptian man and a 46-year-old Syrian man who shared a tent died last week. Reports suggest they inhaled toxic fumes from heaters. Greek police are now investigating the deaths. Local media have cited carbon monoxide poisoning as a possible cause of deaths, as the cold winter weather has forced many migrants to use heaters and wood-burning stoves to keep warm. "Something has got to give," International Rescue Committee Greece director Panos Navrozidis was quoted as saying by Reuters. "We cannot tolerate this wanton loss of life." The Doctors of the World charity said poor conditions at the camp posed "serious risk" to migrants. More than 60,000 migrants and refugees - many of them from conflict-ravaged countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan - currently live in camps around Greece. Aid groups say many of the camps are overcrowded, with Human Rights Watch describing the conditions in some of them as "deplorable and volatile". A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.

Aid groups have raised alarm over the deaths of three migrants on Greece's Lesbos island inside a week.

The station was evacuated shortly before 09:00 BST and trains did not stop at the station for nearly two hours. Pictures on social media showed smoke billowing out from a Bakerloo line train sitting on a platform. Transport for London (TFL) said the fire was caused by an electrical fault. The station reopened and services resumed at around 10:50. London Ambulance Service said it treated four people at Oxford Circus for smoke inhalation, two of whom were taken to hospital as a precaution. BBC journalist Katie Silver was in the station at the time. She said: "I was coming off the Victoria Line but there was smoke as you walked past the Bakerloo Line and there was the smell of smoke and burning plastic. "We were all being evacuated. Some people were running up the escalator but they had shut certain exits, although it was very orderly. "When we got out there were a couple of people crying. I think they were scared." TFL said a "comprehensive investigation" would take place. Nigel Holness, London Underground's director of network operations, said: "The cause of the smoke was an electrical fault under one of the carriages, which resulted in a small fire that was quickly extinguished. "Understandably this was a distressing incident for our customers, for which I give my sincere apologies." If you are ever in a Tube station and hear the announcement "would Inspector Sands please go to the operations room immediately", you may find that you are asked to leave the station a few minutes later. The message, which can be heard in the above video clip, is an automated message which is activated when the station fire alarm sounds. TFL says the message gives them an opportunity to investigate why the fire alarm is operating. It is a safety mechanism that has been agreed with the London Fire Brigade (LFB) and is the same system used in major national rail stations and airports in the UK. LFB is continuing to investigate the cause of the fire. It said it was called to attend at 08:47 and the station had been evacuated before fire crews arrived. Tom Singer, who was at Oxford Circus station at the time, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he saw a smoke-filled Bakerloo line Tube train coming into the platform. "As we were waiting on the platform you could smell something coming in, as the train was coming in, and as it got closer the smell got stronger and stronger." He added that as the train came in it was clear passengers had been moved from one of the carriages, and then when the train came to a stop people "came pouring out". He said: "There were a lot of people with hands over mouths and coughing a lot coming off of the train. "It looked like it was just one carriage that had the problem." He said he also saw smoke coming from underneath the Tube train. Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning

Four people have been treated for smoke inhalation following a fire on a Tube train at Oxford Circus in central London.

The labour peer, who died in December, was accused of sex offences against children - which his family deny. The hearings, part of the Goddard Inquiry into child sexual abuse, were due to start in September but have been put back because of other inquiries. Leicestershire Police and the IPCC are investigating people allegedly linked to the case. The Goddard Inquiry, chaired by Dame Lowell Goddard, set to be the biggest public inquiry in British history, held a preliminary hearing earlier for its investigation into the former Leicester MP, one of 13 cases it has announced so far. On Monday, the IPCC announced 11 people are to be investigated over their handling of allegations against the peer. Announcing the delay Ben Emmerson QC, counsel to the inquiry, said there are "good reasons to reconsider on timing and structure of the hearings." He said the Leicestershire force and the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) will soon interview complainants and witnesses who are also scheduled to give evidence. Postponement was "only responsible" in the circumstances, meaning the public hearings will now commence on 7 March 2017 and conclude by the end of May. Mr Emmerson revealed 33 alleged victims of Lord Janner have now been granted core participant status in the inquiry, meaning they have the right to make statements, see documents and seek permission to ask questions. Seven organisations and institutions, including the Labour Party, have previously been given the same status, which has also been granted to two individual police officers, including current Derbyshire chief constable Mick Creedon, who investigated Lord Janner for the Leicestershire force in the early 1990s. The inquiry has not received an application for core participant status from Lord Janner's family, but Mr Emmerson said there was "ongoing correspondence with their legal representatives". There have been suggestions from the family, Mr Emmerson said, that it would be "unfair" for the inquiry to make findings of fact because Lord Janner is unable to defend himself and alleged victims will not be subject to cross-examination. He said that in some cases it will be necessary to make findings of fact but only if it was fair to do based on the evidence. On the issue of cross-examination, Mr Emmerson said the inquiry is an inquisitorial process rather an adversarial one, but that he, as counsel, could still nevertheless explore the credibility of witnesses. In a statement, the peer's lawyer said: "Lord Janner was an honourable man, entirely innocent and never convicted of any crime." The hearing, at the Royal Courts of Justice, was also told the Goddard Inquiry as a whole has so far received disclosure of 35,000 documents and is receiving up to 100 communications from the public each week.

Public hearings into allegations of abuse relating to Lord Janner have been delayed by six months.

David Cameron has refused to take part in the debates unless the Green Party is included. Mr Clegg told the BBC he thought the debates would go ahead, but suggested the proposed format needed to change. Earlier this week Mr Clegg, the deputy prime minister, said the broadcasters should grow a "backbone" and push ahead without Mr Cameron if necessary. The plans put forward by the BBC, Sky News, ITV and Channel 4 in October would include the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP. One would feature a head-to-head between Mr Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband, another would also include Mr Clegg, and the third would feature the leaders of the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems and UKIP. The suggested schedule is for debates on 2 April, 16 April and 30 April, ahead of the UK-wide poll on 7 May. Mr Cameron has said all "national parties" must be represented at the live televised pre-election debates - which were first introduced for the 2010 general election. Labour leader Ed Miliband has said it was a "pathetic excuse" to avoid the debates, but Mr Cameron said Mr Miliband was "chickening" out of debating the Greens. On the BBC's Andrew Marr show on Sunday, Mr Clegg said Labour and the Conservatives were using the Greens as an "alibi" to block the debates. "They want to put the genie back in the bottle. They want to run things as they've done before. I think it's too late," he said. Mr Clegg, Mr Miliband and UKIP leader Nigel Farage have written to the prime minister saying it would be "unacceptable" for him not to appear. In separate but identical letters sent earlier this week they urged the broadcasters to press ahead with the debate before the general election. Mr Clegg said: "The broadcasters need to come forward with other proposals because clearly the current one - which I'm not wildly happy about because it excludes me as a leader of a governing party - so they need to come forward with a proposal. "I'll get my soapbox out any day of the week." Asked by Green Party in England and Wales leader Natalie Bennett - who was also on the programme - whether he would lobby for her party to be included, Mr Clegg said it was not for politicians to tell the broadcasters what to do. Ms Bennett says the polls and public opinion support the argument for the Greens to be included.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said the broadcasters should come up with "other proposals" for the TV election debates.

The 26-year-old from Bready is expected to be sidelined for between six and eight weeks. "Craig will undergo more investigative tests on the injury to decide whether he will require surgery," said a Cricket Ireland spokesperson. Ireland face Sri Lanka at Malahide on 16 and 18 June. A Cricket Ireland statement read: "He will miss the games against Sri Lanka, but we would be hopeful he will play a full part in the five-match one-day series against Afghanistan in July." Young, who has played nine ODIs and 10 Twenty20s, signed for Hampshire on a short-term loan deal in April.

Ireland seamer Craig Young has been ruled out of the two one-day internationals against Sri Lanka in June with an elbow injury.

John Duns Scotus was born in the town of Duns around 1266. A series of events kicks off with a talk in its Volunteer Hall on Saturday followed by a walk on Sunday and an library exhibition opening on Monday. Dr Philip Tonner, head of philosophy at Hutchesons' Grammar School, said Duns Scotus remained a significant figure. He said he was considered by some to be a precursor of other major philosophers such as Rene Descartes and Immanuel Kant. The festival hopes to bring the importance of his works to a new audience. "One of the problems, of course, is that medieval philosophy became seen to be something associated with very esoteric problems about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and so on," said Dr Tonner. "This is a very unfair depiction of what medieval philosophers were trying to do. "It is one of those unfortunate accidents of history that it has become associated with Duns Scotus who in many ways is certainly one of Scotland's most important philosophers and one who is still making headlines in both theology and philosophy."

A festival is under way in the Borders to mark the 750th anniversary of the birth of one of Scotland's most important philosophers.

Emergency services were called to Longtown Bridge, near Carlisle, on Tuesday after a 32-year-old man got into difficulties in the water. The man had just rescued a young girl from the river, Cumbria Police said. Chief Fire Officer for the county, Jim Onions, warned people against swimming during heatwaves because of strong currents. Divers and rescue crews were involved in the search, along with the coastguard and an RAF helicopter with thermal imaging equipment. The body has not been formally identified. Mr Onions said: "We are really worried that during a hot spell - especially in the school holidays - people enter the water for a cooling dip because the water looks calm on the surface. "But I've seen highly skilled firefighters in the water struggling because of strong undercurrents." The rescued girl is at Cumberland Infirmary receiving treatment.

A body has been recovered from a Cumbrian river after a search for a man missing in the water.

Dean Owens, from Leith, knew that his great great grandfather Ambrose Salvona was buried somewhere in Inverness. After telling this to his audience at Perth's Southern Fried Festival, Inverness resident Judi Menabney came forward and offered to find the grave. Salvona's resting place has since been found in Tomnahurich Cemetery. Owens' research of his family tree influenced the writing of Dora, a track on his Nashville-recorded album Into the Sea. The song is about his grandmother, Dora Salvona Owens, who grew up in a circus that Salvona started in Scotland. Salvona was thought to have arrived in Scotland from Italy in the company of a dancing bear, sometime in the late 19th Century. Owens' lyrics of the song include the lines: "Somewhere way back there's a lion tamer/Ambrose and his dancing bear/He's buried in the Highlands/but we're not sure where." Ms Menabney works for High Life Highland, an organisation that runs archives, registration and family history services on Highland Council's behalf. With help from her colleagues at the Highland Archive and Registration Centre in Inverness she was able to find the grave in one of the city's largest cemeteries. Family historian Anne Fraser said: "It was great fun investigating Ambrose's story. "He turns out to have been a very colourful character - which may not be a surprise - but we have also finished up raising as many questions as we've answered." The staff at the centre found out that Salvona was married twice and was the father of at least 10 children. He was 80 when he first arrived in Inverness and was, at the end of his life at the age of 88, a resident of a poor house that later became Hilton Hospital and is today a block of flats. Salvona appears to been a popular figure in the Highland town. A procession of people carried his body to a prominent position at Tomnahurich following his death on 13 October 1917. The inscription on the gravestone acknowledges his career as a lion tamer. Owens said: "I can't believe the final resting place of my great great grandfather has been found. "I'm very grateful to Judi, Anne and their colleagues for all the work they've put into discovering his story. "I'm delighted they want to use it and my song Dora - which started the search - in their own presentations." The singer added: "You really don't know what's up there, way up in the family tree. And maybe there's another song in that."

A singer-songwriter has tracked down the grave of a circus lion tamer ancestor with help from an audience member at one of his gigs.

A report commissioned by Food Standards Scotland found that in-store promotions were heavily weighted in favour of food with high levels of salt or sugar. The Stirling University academics behind the report called for a "retail revolution" to help people choose healthier options. However, the study was criticised by the Scottish Grocers' Federation. It said the report failed to take account of the efforts already being made to promote healthy eating. Food Standards Scotland (FSS) said Scottish obesity levels, currently 30%, were projected to rise to 40% by 2030. Professor Leigh Sparks, who wrote the report, told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that there was an imbalance in the type of food promoted in shops. "If you look at the environment in store in retailing, then most of the promotions are pushing the products that are less healthy for consumers," he said. "A lot of the products have been supersized as well - boxes of crisps, bags of crisps are good examples of that." He said that manufacturers needed to make changes to the composition of their products, while retailers should provide more information for consumers and change their "balance of promotions". "I think retailers are increasingly aware of the issue and they're looking at what they can do," he added. "But most of the voluntary schemes that have gone on so far have not had the impact because of this overwhelming tide in terms of unhealthy promotions as well." The report also backs the idea of a sugar tax. FSS senior dietary adviser Dr Gillian Purdon said: "The report supports Food Standards Scotland views and recommendations for the need to extend sugar tax beyond soft drinks, to reformulate products to reduce sugar fat and salt, to resize portions, address less healthy food promotion and to provide clearer consumer information on products in both the retail and out of home sectors. "This report will help us to develop new approaches to improve the balance of food offered and promoted by the retail sector. "It is clear that a combination of measures will be needed overall to enable healthier eating. Regulation of promotions of high fat, salt and/or sugar food and drink within retail stores and out of home premises should be taken forward as a priority." Previous research by FSS indicated about 50% of less healthy food choices are purchased on promotions. For healthier foods, the figure is about 30%. The report added: "We conclude that the current context for consumer choice in-store is affecting the health and diet of consumers in Scotland. "Voluntary and self-regulatory approaches or relying on consumers to make 'good' decisions are not having sufficient impact. "It will thus be necessary to regulate to make the changes have real impact." Dr John Lee, of the Scottish Grocers' Federation, which represents food retailers in Scotland, said: "This report seems to ignore the significant efforts of retailers to actively promote healthy products in-store and the efforts of manufacturers to reformulate products and reduce calories. "Additionally, extending the sugar tax will make no real or lasting impact on diet-related problems. Improved food education and awareness should be the priority rather than constantly shifting the responsibility for population health onto retailers." SGF said more than 200 stores were participating in its Scottish government-supported Healthy Living Programme. The Scottish Retail Consortium said its members were committed to helping consumers make healthier choices and called for "regulation or legislation" on the issue. Ewan MacDonald-Russell, its head of policy, said: "Fruit and vegetables are heavily price promoted and there has been a proliferation of healthy alternatives. Just as importantly, our industry has led the way on reformulating products to reduce salt, sugar and fats from products, and in producing clearer and more informative labelling. "It's worth highlighting the number of products being promoted in total is falling in response to customer demands for simpler pricing. We will continue to engage directly with FSS and the Scottish government on this issue. However, any measures on pricing and promotions will have to be done through regulation or legislation; it's not feasible, or legal, to ask retailers to voluntarily take collective measures in this area. "Ultimately however, the best way to help improve Scotland's health is for government to take steps to ensure the whole food and drink industry is working collectively, on a level playing field, to ensure no matter where customers shop or consume they are able to make healthy informed choices."

Supermarkets and other food retailers are fuelling Scotland's obesity epidemic, according to new research.

Michael Tovey, 27, formerly of Lakes Road, Erdington, Birmingham is accused of using two drones to fly contraband into HMP Birmingham last year. In the first charges of their type brought by West Midlands Police, Mr Tovey faces 13 counts of conveying banned items into a prison. He is set to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 7 June. Read more news for Birmingham and the Black Country Mr Tovey is accused of using two drones to drop contraband into the prison's exercise yard on 29 October and 6 November. He attempted to drop a consignment near N and P wings containing four phones, SIM cards, Black Mamba, steroids and cannabis, it is alleged. It is claimed he was also responsible for a drone that crashed into the same yard eight days later, carrying two phones and further quantities of the same banned drugs.

A man has been charged with using drones to smuggle cannabis, steroids and mobile phones into prison.

Media playback is not supported on this device The 18-year-old from Essex broke the tibia and fibula in his left leg after landing on a concrete floor while vaulting in November. Less than a month before his injury, Bevan was part of the first British team to claim a World Championships medal, when they won silver in Glasgow. "It hurt my head and heart knowing what I had done," he told BBC Look East. "My coach tried to jump in front of me to stop me from seeing what had happened - but I had already seen it." Bevan won a series of junior titles before he claimed bronze in the pommel horse at the 2015 European Games in Baku. He had hoped to continue that progress at the Olympics in Brazil but, with only 247 days until the Games, he knows it will be a challenge to be ready in time. "The most important thing for me is getting back to full fitness so I can carry on my gymnastics career," he said. "I don't think the Olympic Games is fully out of reach, it is going to be tough, but there is still a small chance I can push for a place in that team."

Gymnast Brinn Bevan believes he still has a "small chance" of competing in the Olympic Games in Rio next summer.

Oxford City Council said the money had mostly been used for "ground investigations of possible sites" but nowhere suitable had been found. Two cemeteries still have space, in Wolvercote and Botley, but they are expected to be full by 2018 and 2021. The council said it had not given up and was "still exploring options". Linda Smith, board member for leisure, parks and sport, said the council has been "searching for a suitable new burial site for many years". She added: "But ultimately, as with new housing sites, we have run out of suitable land within Oxford. "So far all the council-owned sites that we have identified have, following ground investigations and surveys, had to be discounted. "Either due to the size of the site, the ground conditions, a high water table or a covenant restricting the use of the site." After the two remaining cemeteries are full the council said only the reopening of family plots, the use of a few reserved plots, and the interment of ashes would be possible. The last increase in burial space in Oxford was in 1932.

A council has spent £30,500 unsuccessfully searching for new burial sites in Oxford over the last four years.

Judge Thomas Lipps rejected arguments by defence lawyers that witnesses could face intimidation or harassment outside the courthouse in Steubenville. The case has attracted attention due to social media and the high profile of the football team in the small town. Judge Lipps also ruled the non-jury trial would be open to the public. He did so over the objections of the family of the 16-year-old girl who was allegedly attacked. She wanted to protect her identity and keep evidence that might eventually be ruled inadmissible from becoming public. Trenton Mays and Ma'lik Richmond, both 16, deny the charges they face next month at a juvenile court. Three other students who witnessed the alleged attack but were not charged are expected to testify at next month's trial. Those witnesses include two who took a video and photograph, then deleted the images. The Ohio attorney general's office told lawyers for those students last autumn that if the images had been found, they would have been charged. Prosecutors say the girl, who went to a school across the river from the city in West Virginia, was attacked after an alcohol-fuelled party last August. The case was thrust into the national spotlight after attention by bloggers and the hacker activist group Anonymous. Some claimed that the community had sought to cover up the alleged crime in order protect the two accused. The trial is set for 13 March.

An Ohio judge has ruled that the rape trial of two high school football players will take place in the county where the alleged attack happened.

Dywedodd Charles Hendry, awdur yr adroddiad, y gallai morlynnoedd llanw fod yn "ddiwydiant newydd cyffrous a phwysig i'r Deyrnas Unedig". "Ar ôl astudio'r dystiolaeth a siarad â phobl allweddol ar y ddwy ochr, fy marn i yw y dylen ni gymryd y cyfle nawr i symud 'mlaen â'r dechnoleg," meddai. Ychwanegodd fodd bynnag y dylid aros i'r morlyn yn Abertawe gael ei adeiladu ac yna asesu ei effaith, cyn cymeradwyo prosiectau mwy mewn rhannau eraill o'r DU. Mae gwrthwynebwyr i'r cynllun wedi mynegi pryder am ei effaith ar fywyd gwyllt a'r amgylchedd, a hefyd wedi codi amheuon a fydd yn cynnig gwerth am arian. Ar gais Llywodraeth Prydain, fe wnaeth y cyn weinidog ynni Charles Hendry dreulio bron i flwyddyn yn astudio ymarferoldeb y cynlluniau. Gobaith y datblygwyr yw sefydlu rhwydwaith o forlynnoedd ar hyd arfordir y DU, gan ddechrau yn Abertawe. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi croesawu casgliadau'r adroddiad. Wrth ymateb i'r adroddiad, dywedodd Ceri Davies o Gyfoeth Naturiol Cymru: "Mae datblygu ffynonellau newydd o ynni adnewyddol sydd yn lleihau niwed i'r amgylchedd yn nod yr ydym yn ei gefnogi'n llawn. "Mae defnyddio'r llanw i greu ynni adnewyddol yn beth cymharol newydd ac mae'n beth cymleth iawn. Nid oes neb wedi casglu tystiolaeth o'r blaen am y dechnoleg yma sy'n cael ei ddefnyddio am y tro cyntaf. "Rydym yn cydweithio'n agos gyda datblygwyr y cynllun morlyn arfaethedig yn Abertawe a gydag arbennigwyr eraill i sicrhau ein bod yn gwneud hyn yn fanwl ac yn deg." Byddai'r cynllun ym Mae Abertawe yn cynnwys 16 o dyrbinau ar hyd morglawdd newydd, ond mae'n cael ei weld fel cynllun prawf ar gyfer cynlluniau llawer mwy. Gallai'r rhain gynnwys safleoedd yng Nghymru ym Mae Caerdydd, Casnewydd a Bae Colwyn, ac yn Lloegr, oddi ar arfordir Cumbria a Bae Bridgwater. Dywed Ysgrifennydd Cymru, Alun Cairns fod y Llywodraeth yn edrych ymlaen at astudio adroddiad Charles Hendry "a phenderfynu sut y gall lagwnau gyfrannu at anghenion ynni Cymru a gweddill y DU." Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi croesawu'r adroddiad. Dywedodd llefarydd: "Mae hyn yn amlwg yn cynnig cyfleoedd sylweddol posib i Gymru. "Mae morlynnoedd yn cynnig cyfle i gyfrannu at ddiwydiant ffyniannus Cymreig sydd yn cynnig ffyniant tra'n cefnogi ein hamcanion di-garboneiddio ehangach. "Rydym yn croesawu'r sylw fod achos cryf iawn dros sefydlu Morlyn Llanw Bae Abertawe fel cynllun bychan arloesol i liniaru'r tir, yn dibynnu ar dderbyn cymeradwyaeth." Dywedodd Hugh McNeal, pennaeth Abertawe RenewableUK , y corff sy'n cynrychioli cwmnïau yn y sector ynni adnewyddol glan, fod yr adroddiad yn rhoi cymeradwyaeth i fenter Bae Abertawe. "Nawr, dylai Llywodraeth ddod â'r broses o drafod i ben fel bod y gwaith ar yr isadeiladwaith yn gallu dechrau mor fuan â phosib." Dadansoddiad yr gohebydd amgylchedd, Steffan Messenger Heb os, mae'r adroddiad yn bleidlais o hyder yng ngweledigaeth y cwmni, sy'n gobeithio datblygu morlynnoedd llanw cynta'r byd. A geiriad neges Charles Hendry i Lywodraeth Prydain yn drawiadol o glir. Byddai bwrw ati a'r morlyn arbrofol cynta' un ym Mae Abertawe yn bolisi "na fyddai neb yn ei ddifaru" maes o law, meddai. "Dwi ddim yn credu y bydd na unrhyw ddadlau yn y degawdau i ddod nad hyn oedd y peth iawn i'w wneud." Ond mae 'na argymhellion na fydd Tidal Lagoon Power mor hapus i'w gweld, gan gynnwys y dylai'r cytundebau i ddatblygu unrhyw forlynnoedd eraill yn y dyfodol gael eu cynnig drwy broses tendro agored. A dylai fod bwlch o rai blynyddoedd hefyd, medd Charles Hendry, cyn bod y gwaith o ganiatau datblygiad morlynnoedd mwy o faint yn dechrau. Hynny er mwyn dysgu gwersi a sicrhau nad yw'r morlynnoedd yn niweidiol i'r amgylchedd. Bydd grwpiau amgylcheddol fel yr RSPB, yr Ymddiriedolaethau Bywyd Gwyllt ac eraill yn falch o weld hynny. Tra'u bod yn croesawi potential y morlynnoedd i gynnig ynni glan, dy'n nhw heb eu persawdio eto na fydd effaith ar fywyd gwyllt. Mae Tidal Lagoon Power yn mynnu na fydd eu morlynnoedd yn brifo natur ac yn addo gwario miliynau i sicrhau hynny. Ond mae'r cwmni yn dal i fod mewn trafodaethau a Chyfoeth Naturiol Cymru ynglŷn â'r drwydded forol sy'n rhaid iddyn nhw ei sicrhau cyn bod unrhyw waith adeiladu yn medru dechrau. Mae 'na gryn anghydweld ynglŷn â'r effaith posib ar bysgod yn benodol. Dwi ar ddeall fod TLP wedi cyflwyno tystiolaeth newydd i CNC a falle bydd yn rhaid i'r corff amgylcheddol gynnal ail ymgynghoriad cyhoeddus cyn cytuno ar drwydded forol. Gallai hynny gymryd amser. Ond gyda'r adolygiad heddi mor glir yn ei gefnogaeth, fe fydd na bwysau ar bawb sy' ynghlwm â'r prosiect - o Lywodraeth Prydain i Gyfoeth Naturiol Cymru - i ddatgan be'n union yw eu safbwynt... cyn hir. Bwriad y cwmni yw dechrau'r gwaith adeiladu o fewn blwyddyn i gael caniatâd gan y Llywodraeth. "Fe all lagŵn llanw cynta'r byd ym Mae Abertawe ddarparu ar gyfer ein hanghenion ynni cenedlaethol a chreu swyddi lleola am ddegawdau," meddai. Mae Cyfeillion y Ddaear hefyd wedi croesawu'r cyhoeddiad gan ddweud y gallai lagŵn ym Mae Abertawe chwarae "rôl allweddol wrth gynhyrchu ynni glan i Gymru." "Er hyn, mae'n bwysig bod ystyriaeth gywir yn cael ei roi i unrhyw effaith bosib ar fywyd gwyllt a'r amgylchedd cyn bod unrhyw ddatblygiad yn cael caniatâd," meddai llefarydd Ond yn ôl Ymddiriedolaeth Pysgotwyr, mae'r adroddiad wedi methu ag ymchwilio yn llawn i effaith codi lagŵn o'r fath. Dywedodd Mark Lloyd, prif weithredwr yr Ymddiriedolaeth, y dylai mwy o ystyriaeth "gael ei roi i astudio'r syniadau a thechnoleg fwy diweddar' i'r defnydd posib o ynni llawn." Mae'r Ymddiriedolaeth hefyd yn dweud fod yr adroddiad yn gwneud eu damcaniaethau economaidd ar lagŵn fyddai'n para 120 o flynyddoedd, sef dwbl y 60 mlynedd oedd yr amcangyfrif cyntaf ar gyfer asesu'r prosiect. Bydd angen i'r datblygwr, Tidal Lagoon Power, ddod i gytundeb gyda Llywodraeth Prydain ynglŷn â'r cymhorthdal fydd yn cael ei dalu am drydan o'r safle. Mae'r cwmni yn dweud y bydd Abertawe yn profi'r dechnoleg, ond yn gallu cynhyrchu hyd at 12% o ynni'r DU yn y pendraw. Yn ôl y cwmni, bydd y safle yn cynhyrchu trydan am 120 o flynyddoedd, ac maen nhw'n ceisio am gytundeb am daliad o £89.90 i bob megawat awr (MWh). Byddai hynny'n is na'r £92.50 i bob MWh i orsaf pŵer niwclear Hinkley C. Mae hefyd angen trwydded forol gan y corff sy'n gyfrifol am yr amgylchedd, Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru. Er i dros 20 o gwmnïau annog i'r cynllun gael ei gymeradwyo yn gynharach yn yr wythnos, mae pryderon yn dal i fod am effaith amgylcheddol ar bysgod, adar a'r posibilrwydd am lifogydd. Mae llywydd Cymdeithas, Cymdeithas Brithyll ac Eog Cymru, Rhys Llywelyn yn rhybuddio y gallai'r cynllun gael effaith andwyol ar stoc bysgod: "Ma'r niwed i bysgod a rhywogaethau eraill yn mynd i fod yn anferth, ond hefyd, os dy' chi'n edrych ar yr ochr economaidd, dyw'r syms ddim yn neud synnwyr a dweud y gwir wrthoch chi. "Maen nhw'n son am gynllun dros 95 neu 120 o flynyddoedd, lle mewn gwirionedd, dyw'r project yma ddim yn mynd i bara 40, 30, 20 mlynedd, a byddwn ni'n cael ein gadael gyda'r peth ofnadwy yma yn llygru Bae Abertawe."

Mae adroddiad annibynnol sydd wedi ei gyhoeddi ddydd Iau yn argymell adeiladu morlyn llanw gwerth £1.3bn ym Mae Abertawe.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced plans last week to form an 11-person panel to review football's scandal-hit world governing body. Domenico Scala had earlier said he would only lead the taskforce if he is guaranteed full independence. The Swiss businessman is already the independent chair of Fifa's audit and compliance committee. Scala was believed to have been prepared to lead the taskforce, after meeting presidents of three of Fifa's six continental confederations. But a spokesman for Scala told BBC Sport: "Domenico Scala never applied for such a chairmanship." He added that the post would only be considered "under the strict condition" that "independence was guaranteed". As well as an independent chair, the taskforce will have two representatives from the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), Concacaf (North, Central America and the Caribbean) and Uefa (Europe), as well as one representative from each of Conmebol (South America) and the OFC (Oceania). In a statement, Fifa said representatives from federations would not necessarily have to be "members of the football community" and the confederations could decide that themselves. Blatter, who has announced his intention to stand down as president, has said presidential term limits and integrity checks for top officials are potential areas of reform. Recommendations are due to be presented at the next meeting of Fifa's executive committee in Zurich on 24 and 25 September. The prospect of Scala leading an independent review of Fifa was described as "laughable" by campaign group New Fifa Now. And Alexandra Wrage, who resigned from Fifa's independent governance committee in April 2013 in protest at a lack of meaningful action, said even an independent chairman of the reform taskforce "can't work". She told BBC Sport: "The process needs to be taken out of Fifa's hands. Short of that, it's another reform dead-end." Blatter's resignation on 2 June followed the arrest of seven Fifa officials as part of a United States investigation that saw 14 people indicted on corruption charges. A separate criminal investigation by Swiss authorities into how the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were allocated is also under way.

Fifa has said its reform taskforce will be chaired by an independent person from outside of football.

The 30-year-old made 219 appearances for the Cherries in a five-year spell for the club between 2006 and 2011. After 94 appearances for Pompey, he left in the summer, having turned down a new contract with the club. Hollands will go into Steve Davis's squad for Saturday's League Two trip to Newport County. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Crewe Alexandra have signed former Bournemouth and Portsmouth midfielder Danny Hollands on a five-month deal running until 19 January.

The New York businessman-turned-politician said many controversial things and flip-flopped on a number of policy positions during the campaign. Here, we look back at 24 of his professed beliefs. 1. The US should use waterboarding This and other methods of "strong interrogation" should be deployed in its fight against the Islamic State group. These methods, Mr Trump said, are "peanuts" compared to the tactics used by the militants, such as beheadings. "I like it a lot. I don't think it's tough enough," he said in June of the banned practice. 2. Mexico should pay for the "great, great wall" Mr Trump has said he wants to start building the much-touted wall on the shared border from the first day of his presidency, and that Mexico will pay for it. In some of his earliest campaign comments, he suggested that Mexicans coming to the US were criminals and "rapists". BBC analysis estimates the border wall could cost between $2.2bn and $13bn. 3. Muslims should not be admitted to the US In the wake of the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, Mr Trump wrote that he was "calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on". He's since gone back on the announcement, instead saying that that he would temporarily suspend "immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism". 4. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11 Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September 2001, there were thousands of Arab-Americans celebrating in New Jersey after two planes flew into the Twin Towers. He says such public demonstrations "tell you something" about Muslims living in the US. However, there are no media reports to back up the claim. 5. Obamacare is a "disaster". Mr Trump says he wants Congress to fully repeal the president's Affordable Care Act, which aims at extending the number of Americans with health insurance, but he believes that "everybody's got to be covered". A spokesman for Mr Trump said he would propose "a health plan that will return authority to the states and operate under free market principles". The increase in premiums revealed just before the election bolstered the Trump attacks. 6. Climate change is just "weather" While Mr Trump believes that maintaining "clean air" and "clean water" is important, he has dismissed climate change science as a "hoax" and believes environmental restrictions on businesses make them less competitive in the global marketplace. "I do not believe that we should imperil the companies within our country," he told CNN on the issue. "It costs so much and nobody knows exactly if it's going to work." 7. The world would be better off if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were still in power Mr Trump told CNN that he believes the situation in both Libya and Iraq is "far worse" than it ever was under the leaders of the two countries. While he concedes Saddam was a "horrible guy", he says he did a better job combating terrorists. 8. Illegal migrants should be deported Trump once said that he wanted to deport all of the approximately 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the US, despite criticism that this idea is both xenophobic, next to impossible and prohibitively expensive - the BBC estimates a cost of $114bn. His official policy now says only those with criminal records will be deported immediately, although immigration controls will still be massively beefed up. Any undocumented migrants would also face the risk of deportation. 9. Syrian refugees could be a "Trojan horse" He says that the Paris attacks prove that even a handful of terrorists posing as migrants could do catastrophic damage, and so he will oppose resettling any Syrians in the US, and deport those who have already been resettled. It's unclear if he still believes that deportations are necessary, though he has still vowed to suspend the intake of Syrian refugees. 10. Vladimir Putin is a "leader" He has noted the Russian president's "great control over his country" and criticised the state of the relations between it and the US. He told CNN: "I would probably get along with him very well. And I don't think you'd be having the kind of problems that you're having right now". More recently he has said that Mr Putin doesn't "respect" the US, although that was no reason to get tough on him. 11. Taxes should be reduced for everyone Trump wants to condense the current seven tax brackets to just three, with no income tax for "low-income Americans". He would lower the business tax to 15%, from 35%. He would also allow multinational companies keeping profits overseas to repatriate their cash at a 10% tax rate. 12. Hedge fund managers are "getting away with murder" Mr Trump found common ground with Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren when he said that hedge fund managers and the ultra-wealthy did not pay enough taxes. However, after the campaign released specifics of his plan, analysts argued that hedge fund managers would actually get a tax cut along with the middle class. 13. China should be taken to task on a number of trade-related issues He has said he will make China stop undervaluing its currency, and force it to step up its environmental and labour standards. He is also critical of the county's lax attitude towards American intellectual property and hacking. 14. The Black Lives Matter movement is "trouble" Mr Trump mocked former Democratic candidates like Martin O'Malley for apologising to members of the protest movement against police brutality and cast himself as a pro-law enforcement candidate. "I think they're looking for trouble," he once said of the activist group. He also tweeted a controversial and widely debunked graphic purporting to show that African Americans kill white and black people at far higher rates than white people or police officers. 15. He's worth $10bn Based on Mr Trump's 92-page personal financial disclosure form, Bloomberg calculated last year that the real estate mogul was worth about $2.9bn, while Forbes recently put Trump's net worth at $3.7bn. Mr Trump has however insisted that he is worth "in excess" of $10bn. 16. Veteran healthcare in the US needs a major overhaul Mr Trump wants to clear out the executive level in the Department of Veterans Affairs, saying that waiting times for doctor visits have only increased after previous interventions failed. Thousands of veterans have died while waiting for care, he says. He will invest in the treatment of "invisible wounds" like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. He would also increase the number of doctors who specialise in women's health to help care for the increasing number of female veterans. 17. Lobbyists should be more restricted Mr Trump proposes that there be a five-year ban that prevents government officials and members of congress from leaving and then immediately becoming lobbyists. He also calls for a lifetime ban on senior administration officials from lobbying on behalf of foreign governments. 18. He is a "really nice guy" In Trump's most recent book, Crippled America, he writes that "I'm a really nice guy, believe me, I pride myself on being a nice guy but I'm also passionate and determined to make our country great again". The news site Gawker points out that he calls himself a "nice guy" throughout the book, and Mr Trump repeated that self-assessment in his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live and in an interview with the Washington Post. 19. He could not have groped an unattractive woman A video from 2005 showed Mr Trump making obscene comments about women and triggered numerous claims of alleged sexual harassment. At one rally, he suggested that one of the accusers - a "horrible woman" - was not attractive enough for him to have groped: "I don't think so! I don't think so!" 20. Tokyo and Seoul should build up nuclear arsenals He has said Japan and South Korea should not rely on the US so much and would benefit from having their own weapons. Nuclear war between Japan and North Korea may be "terrible" but it would be "pretty quick". 21. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) is a "rip-off" Why? Because the US pays more than anyone else. But he later said he was "all" in favour of the alliance. 22. Doctors should be punished for administering abortions Or should they? In an interview with MSNBC, Mr Trump said that if abortion were to become illegal, women should be punished for obtaining them. He then retracted, saying the doctor would be responsible and he or she should be punished, instead. 23. The Republican National Committee's rules were "stacked against him" He called the delegate system "crooked" and "unfair". He repeatedly clashed with the RNC over its nomination process and how it treated his candidacy during the primaries. He called rules that allowed Senator Ted Cruz to gain more delegates than him in some states "rigged", as he did later when talking about the electoral process when polls were showing Hillary Clinton ahead of him. 24. The federal minimum wage should be raised Workers should be paid more than the current level of $7.25/hour, he has said. though this is another issue he has flip-flopped on repeatedly. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

Republican Donald Trump has won victory in the presidential race, but no one's quite sure what President Trump will actually do in office.

One year on, the first handball matches since the Olympic Games have taken place inside the venue - reborn as a sports centre for the community - and on its hallowed London 2012 floor tiles. Handball will be a regular feature here. If you missed it at London 2012, handball is played on an indoor court between two teams of seven players. To simplify things greatly, you use your hands to throw the ball into the opposing team's goal. For handball's dedicated British fans, getting back in the Box at the Olympic Park has been a rare thrill. "We're in our Wembley," says Paul Stewart, who plays for Ruislip Eagles and took part in one of Sunday's inaugural games. "This is the pinnacle. You don't get to play in the biggest sports stadiums in football unless you're a pro. Every so often I look up from what looks like a gym floor and see these banks of seats, and remember - I'm in the Copper Box! Wow! "I can see the seat I sat in at the Olympics." Stewart was not a handball player this time 12 months ago, but he traded some water polo tickets with friends for the chance to see the sport and a love affair was born. "We saw a double header in the group stage, Croatia-Spain and France-Sweden. The wow factor was there, watching these amazing goalkeepers. "I went to my first session at the end of August last year, intending to be a goalkeeper, and the buzz was amazing. "I remember getting home that evening and thinking: 'That was so much better than I'd imagined.' I was thinking I'd come home bruised or not even bruised because I hadn't touched the ball... but it was so much fun." For Dani Sposi, setting foot inside the Copper Box is bittersweet. A former member of the British handball team, she narrowly missed out on selection for London 2012. "During preparations for the Games we used to go there once a month," she remembers. "When I got there, I remembered the smell, all those times we used to train there. "Being there as a player after the Olympics was a bit emotional, because I wasn't selected and it was very hard to go through all that disappointment. "I had my six-year-old son, Matteo, with me. He said: 'Mum, why didn't you play at the Olympics?' I said: 'Well, the coach made a different decision, so mummy didn't play.' Dani Sposi: "We had loads of people coming into the Copper Box on Sunday and asking about handball. We had another area in the arena where we could explain what handball is all about and let them shoot at goal. "Sometimes people don't realise how hard handball is. Even the parents are like 'oh, I'll do it' - and then 'oh, this is hard!' You have to find the right co-ordination with the three steps and the bounce." Paul Stewart: "We had easily hundreds, probably a couple of thousand people all told. There were points when it was massively busy, queues of parents with children all holding a ball waiting to have a go. It was superb. "At league level, for the next year or so, it's going to be massive. If we get the right publicity, if people can see the sport and know it's still carrying on in the Olympic venue, that might drag them in across the country." "He has been with me the whole journey, since he was eight months old - all the training sessions, travelling around. It was very good for him to be there, to go inside the Olympic arena. Even during training, I never had the chance to bring him in." Sposi's dream of an Olympic appearance for Great Britain has ended, but other players in the Box still aspire to fly the British flag - despite a critical shortage of funding leaving GB's elite teams in limbo. "Playing in the Olympic venue was a proud moment," says Gil Lewis, another who only started playing after London 2012. Lewis already has two university team-mates who have been selected for the England Under-20 squad within a year of taking up the sport; he himself was chosen to play for the British universities team, but their trip to a tournament in the Netherlands fell apart when the travel proved too expensive. A shortage of cash is a feature of life as a handball player in Britain, but Lewis is determined not to let it dampen his enthusiasm. "This year I've been invited to move up to the first team; I was in shock when I was first asked. They've asked if I want to go to the Challenge Cup, playing in Bulgaria, and that would be an amazing experience," he says. "That all has to be funded through ourselves and it's a lot of personal expense to play. But an opportunity to play in a European competition? You don't want to miss out because you didn't save up enough." British teams competed at London 2012 by virtue of being the Olympic hosts. In future, they will have to qualify for the Games on merit, which is a big ask of a fledgling sport, but Lewis is determined to take the sport as far as he can. "If a GB team is still around in the next few years, to be able to play for them would be fantastic," he says. "If you'd told me a year ago, I'd never have imagined I'd be anywhere close to being able to represent my country. "There will be a few years before I'm near that standard and with all the work being done at grassroots, by that time hopefully the standard will have improved enough to warrant some kind of funding - to at least put some form of team out." Stewart adds: "Outside the obvious problem with elite funding, we're in a very strong position to drive growth at youth level. "At Ruislip, we're working hard to get together a full youth structure, plus I'm talking to local schools and colleges and we've got a tie-in with Brunel University. "If we can get people into the sport, who knows what we can achieve?"

Last summer, the Copper Box played host to surprise smash-hit handball, a sport which engrossed unsuspecting British audiences.

Media playback is not supported on this device United remain 15 points clear at the top of the table with eight games left after a 1-0 win at Sunderland. "We are not concerned with what we have left behind us, we are only focusing on what is in front of us," said Ferguson. "The players have created a record with 25 wins out of the first 30 matches and that tells you a lot about the club." He added: "The next league game is the derby against Manchester City and we are going to go into that with a 15-point headstart on City. Manchester United have won 50 of a possible 54 points in their last 18 Premier League games. Man Utd have eight matches remaining to better Chelsea's record 95-point haul in 2005. "The focus is good and the only thing that matters is to win your next game." Ferguson will make changes for Monday's FA Cup quarter-final replay at Chelsea after seeing Rafael and Anderson suffer injuries at Sunderland, while goalkeeper David De Gea also suffered a knock after a heavy collision with team-mate Nemanja Vidic. "Our goalkeeper was knocked out for a spell and we picked up a couple of other injuries [at Sunderland] but we dealt with that well," said Ferguson, who did not start with returning England players Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley on Saturday. "There will be changes at Chelsea. We will have to wait and see how Wayne is. He was a bit tired after getting back from the England match. "We will have Ryan Giggs and Javier Hernandez available and there were a couple of others [including Rio Ferdinand] who I did not take to Sunderland. "It was a battle in the second half but in the first half we played very well and deserved to be in front, and you have to give credit to Sunderland. "They had a real go at us and made it much more difficult for us but we owe our win to determined defending and a lot of courage."

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says his side will not ease up on their march towards a 20th league title until the job is complete.

Jacob McIntyre's body was recovered from the River Ericht at Cally Bridge, near Blairgowrie, at about 12:35 on Sunday. He had been reported missing from a property in the nearby Milton of Drimmie area at 11:15. A police investigation into the circumstances of his death is continuing. Police, firefighters, a water rescue unit and air ambulance were involved in the search. Police Scotland said Jacob's family were "understandably upset at their tragic loss" and did not want to make any further statement at this time. Det Chf Insp Iain Wales said: "This is a very tragic incident which resulted in a young boy sadly losing his life. "The events will undoubtedly bring shock and sadness to this small community and further afield. "We would like to thank our Scottish Fire and Rescue Service colleagues for their courage and assistance in Sunday's difficult conditions. "Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Jacob's family at this difficult time."

A two-year-old boy found dead in a river after being reported missing in Perthshire has been named by police.

Homosexual acts are illegal in the East African nation and punishable by up to 30 years in jail. Those who advertised homosexual activities online would also be targeted, the politician warned. Tweeters accused him of homophobia and infringing on the right to freedom of expression online. But Hamisi Kigwangalla argued that homosexuality did not scientifically exist and was a social construct. In a tweet written in Swahili and English he said: "Have you ever come across a gay goat or bird? Homosexuality is not biological, it is unnatural." The 42-year-old, who is a medical doctor by profession, argued that homosexuality could only be associated with an urban lifestyle. He said that in the small town in central Tanzania where he came from, there were no homosexuals. Tweeter: "Consider the fact that your move will only fuel more hatred, violence and increased mob lynchings" Response: "Fulfils my duty as head administrator of the rules and policies of our country! I do not have any trouble with the 'community'" Tweeter : "Freedom of choice, freedom of expression and right to privacy are constitutional justifiable rights. May God change your heart" Response: "Freedoms/rights have boundaries and both are protected by law! The law in Tanzania has boundaries when it comes to sexuality" Tweeter: "It seems politics has made you forget the basics of science. Homosexuality is partly a result of biogenetics" Response: "There is no literature to suggest so. Homosexuality has no any scientific backing! I am a scientist and I read a lot than you think" Earlier this month, Dr Kigwangalla ordered three men he accused of being gay to report to the police for "spreading" homosexual activity through social media, in violation of the law. It is not clear whether they have been charged. Dr Kigwangalla's outspoken comments on Twitter follow the health ministry's move last week to suspend the activities of 40 drop-in HIV/Aids clinics, accusing non-governmental organisations of using them to promote gay sex. The BBC's Sammy Awami in Dar es Salaam says most Tanzanians are strongly opposed to homosexuality - and the gay community keeps to itself. But homosexuality was named as one of the three major challenges facing the country in a parliamentary debate about Aids earlier this month. MP Hussein Bashe said the other issues were drug use and poor education.

The threat to publish the names of suspected homosexuals in Tanzania has been defended by the deputy health minister in a fierce row on Twitter.

Media playback is unsupported on your device 19 May 2015 Last updated at 00:20 BST The interactive 3D renderings are assembled from photos of the objects, sourced from tourists who visited them before the destruction. So far the project has received more than 700 photos and produced 15 3D images of artefacts, mostly from the ransacked Mosul Museum. The archaeologists who established the project hope to widen its scope to include objects lost at other sites, to violence or natural disasters such as the recent Nepal earthquakes.

In an initiative called Project Mosul, cyber-archaeologists and volunteers are re-creating works of art destroyed by IS militants in Iraq.

Earlier this week, he refused to answer the question of whether he believed homosexual sex was a sin. But he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he was "passionate about LGBT-plus rights" and defending equal marriage would be "at the top of my agenda". He also said he wanted to extend the marital rights of transgender people. Appearing on Channel 4 News on Friday, Mr Farron, who beat Norman Lamb to the leadership, was asked three times if he believed homosexual sex was a sin. Each time, he refused to give a direct answer, instead choosing to say "my firm belief is we are all sinners". Mr Farron was asked by Andrew Marr why he voted against the Equality Bill in 2007 - a law which would have made it harder for businesses to discriminate against gay people. "Let me be crystal clear, I'm a liberal and I absolutely support equality," he replied. "I'm passionate about LGBT-plus rights, for example, and as the leader of a liberal party, that is something that will be at the top of my agenda throughout the time that I am leader of our party. "Not just defending the law on equal marriage, but also saying there are areas where it needs to be extended." Mr Farron said transgender people currently did not have equal access to marriage due to something known as the spousal veto - which means the husband or wife of someone who has changed gender must give their consent in order for the marriage to continue. He said the Lib Dems tabled an amendment to the Equality Bill because of concerns about "protection of individual liberties" and when that was defeated he voted against the bill. He did not answer directly when asked what those concerns were, but said: "I am absolutely in favour of equal access under law for all people whatever their sexuality."

New Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron says he "absolutely supports equality" amid questions over his Christian faith and politics.

Locals rush about their business, the shops are full and crowds of tourists gather here to watch the Glockenspiel, the chiming carillon, with its dancing figures and little chirping golden bird. But a glance under the Mariensaeule, a column topped with a statue of the Virgin Mary, tells you that all is not well here. Flowers and candles have been laid at the foot of the monument in memory of those who died in the shootings on Friday at a shopping centre in the north-west of the city. Their killer was an 18-year-old German-Iranian, David Ali Sonboly, who was obsessed with guns. "To the victims of the 23rd of July" one message reads. "Love is stronger than hate," says another. The series of violent attacks in the past few days has shaken people here. What is going on in Germany? What drives individuals to commit mass killings? "I'm trying not to let it affect me too much in my daily life," Xenia, a student, told me. "But when one thing after another happens like this, you can't help thinking that the world is totally crazy." "Do you think the government is doing enough in this situation?" I asked her. "Have they let in too many refugees and migrants?" "I feel generally safe in Germany," she said. "Attacks have been prevented in Duesseldorf and Bonn, and you can't do much against lone wolves. "And we can't just blame it all on the refugees. That makes it far too simple. There will always be problem cases, but in general the refugees risk their lives to come here." On the other side of the square, Alois Frank shook his head. "I think there will be more attacks like this if the government doesn't take action," he told me. "They are doing much too little. "They need to check very carefully who these migrants are, whether they are real asylum seekers or not." "What do you think about Chancellor Angela Merkel?" I asked him. "I always used to like her very much," he said. "But since she has accepted so many migrants, I am strongly against her. "I always voted for the CDU [Mrs Merkel's party]," he said, "but now I am re-considering." He looked around at a couple walking with their little girl. "I'm not worried for myself because I am 83 years old and if something happens to me, my God, who cares! But I am concerned for my family." Lothar Plomitcer, 48, agreed. "Our government seems to be controlled by the EU and Brussels. What kind of experiment is it, when a million people flee here? I know they have a good reason to leave Syria and Iraq, but it's uncontrolled. People need borders." Others in this cosmopolitan city are worried for other reasons. Wandering through a shopping street with her friend Nadia, Kadidja told me the attacks made her concerned for her safety. "As a Muslim woman with dark skin who wears a headscarf, I find the current atmosphere quite charged," she said. "I notice that lots of people are looking at me and are a bit scared of me. The mood is quite tense. "I grew up here, I see myself as a German, but people still don't totally accept me. There are still so many prejudices against Muslims. I hope that will change one day." The oppressive heat of the afternoon gave way to a violent thunderstorm, and I took shelter in the doorway of a shop, along with a middle-aged woman with brown hair. "These are strange times for Bavaria," she told me. "Even the weather doesn't like it." "Are you worried?" I asked her. "I was worried on Friday during the shootings," she said. "And I was a bit careful on the underground today. But what can you do? You can't let it stop you."

At first glance, everything seems normal in Marienplatz, Munich's central square, which is dominated by the great neo-Gothic Town Hall.

The proposal, from the right-wing Swiss People's Party, calls on Switzerland to abandon its free movement of people treaty with the European Union and introduce strict quotas on immigration. Switzerland is not a member of the EU, but has adopted large sections of EU policy, including free movement and the Schengen open-borders agreement, in order to have access to Europe's single market. Brussels has always insisted that the Swiss will not be allowed to cherry-pick only the aspects of EU policy they like. But its successful economy, and soaring unemployment in many eurozone countries, make Switzerland a very attractive destination. In 2013, 80,000 immigrants joined Switzerland's population of eight million. To put that in perspective, that would be the equivalent of more than 600,000 people entering the United Kingdom, or more than 800,000 arriving in Germany. "It's getting too crowded," says farmer Martin Haab. "On the roads, on the trains, especially in the cities." Mr Haab's farm is just outside Zurich, sandwiched between a busy railway line and an even busier motorway. "I worry for my son," he explains, "and for my grandchildren. If we have 80,000 people a year… that means in 20 years, 10 million in Switzerland; in 40 years 12 or 13 million - that means the whole of north-west Switzerland will be one big city in the end." But while Mr Haab has genuine fears about overcrowding, he is also a local politician with the Swiss People's Party, and shares its hostility to the European Union, and its determination to crack down on immigration. He would like Switzerland to return to its earlier policy of hiring foreign workers on a temporary or seasonal basis, requiring them to come to Switzerland alone and to return home as soon the specific job they came to do is finished. "With free movement now, we know that only 50% of the immigrants work here," he explains. "The rest are just families." But Mr Haab's view is not shared by many Swiss employers, who claim their success is actually because of, rather than despite, free movement. Stephan Camenzind is director of one of Zurich's most successful architect firms, with orders including a contract to design Google's offices right across Europe. Of his 20 employees, just a third are Swiss, the rest are from the European Union. "We depend on a highly skilled workforce," he explains. "And that workforce we simply can't find in Switzerland, so we do depend on being able to look for talented staff in the European Union." So what would happen if his freedom to do that was restricted by quotas? "Well it's quite simple," he says. "We would have to shrink. We would lose our critical mass to compete globally, so basically there wouldn't be a business anymore." That is a worrying thought for his German employee Claudia Berkefeld, who has worked in the UK as well as Switzerland, and relishes the opportunities offered by free movement of people. "It concerns me in the sense that being able to move around freely and work in Europe [is important], I would find it very limiting if you couldn't do that." EU workers in Switzerland are not the only ones worrying about the consequences of a no vote to free movement of people. Swiss business leaders are anxious too. Jens Atteslander, an economist with the Swiss Business Federation, points out that Brussels has made it very clear that although Switzerland is not in the EU, it cannot simply abandon aspects of EU policy which are unpopular with its citizens, such as free movement, and keep the popular ones, such as access to Europe's single market. "Integration into the single market is absolutely crucial to our economy," he explains. "Over 55% of all our exports go directly to the European single market. We import over 80% from that market. "We got very clear statements from Brussels. They tell us: 'Listen, this is the fundamental principle of the single market, those who do not comply with it do not have access or integration into the single market.' We are here in a closed neighbourhood, we are in the heart of western Europe, so there is no alternative." The latest opinion polls show the referendum on free movement is likely to be very close. Despite the very real economic concerns, despite the fact that unemployment in Switzerland is just 3% and that sectors such as the health service (over a third of staff in Swiss hospitals are foreign) depend on workers from the EU, many voters are swayed by the argument that Switzerland just cannot take any more people. A yes to free movement will mean an open door to EU workers. A yes to quotas could have potentially disastrous consequences for the Swiss economy. But it will also be a signal to Brussels that at least one European country wants to opt out of one the EU's most cherished policies. Whichever way the vote goes, the result will have big implications, for Switzerland and for Europe.

Swiss voters are going to the polls on Sunday in a nationwide referendum on immigration which is being watched closely right across Europe.

The Labour MP, who was shot and stabbed after holding an advice session for her constituents in West Yorkshire, had campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU and championed the contribution of immigrants to British society. She was also an active supporter of Syrian opposition groups against the country's President, Bashar al-Assad. US politician Gabrielle Giffords, herself the victim of an assassination attempt at a political rally in 2011, wrote on Twitter that she was "absolutely sickened" by the killing, praising Mrs Cox as "young, courageous, and hardworking. A rising star, mother, and wife". Ms Giffords survived being shot in the head in an attack that left six people dead and many injured. She was put in an induced coma and endured weeks of slow recovery. US Secretary of State John Kerry said the killing was "an assault on everyone who cares about and has faith in democracy". Germany's government tweeted about the "sad and terrible news of British MP Jo Cox", adding that "our thoughts are with her husband and children". French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Twitter that the assassination was an attack on the democratic ideal and called on people to "never accept that!" Spanish Prime Minster Mariano Rajoy said in a letter his British counterpart that "violence has no place in democracy" and asked Prime Minister David Cameron "to convey our deepest and sincere condolences to their families, relatives and all the British people". Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who also chairs the group of eurozone finance ministers, tweeted that the UK was "a beacon of peaceful politics, I hope the people of the UK can make their democratic choices serenly and in safety next week". Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg tweeted he was "saddened by the terrible murder" and included a statement from Mrs Cox's husband in his tweet. Media in Europe and the US report the killing, stressing the role of Mrs Cox as a determined campaigner for Britain to remain in the European Union in the forthcoming referendum on 23 June. The motive for the murder is still unclear but witnesses say the killer shouted "Put Britain first!" before repeatedly shooting and stabbing Mrs Cox. Campaigning in the EU referendum has been temporarily suspended, with British politicians widely condemning the attack and expressing their condolences for the family. Mrs Cox's role as a vocal supporter of Syrian opposition groups and refugee rights has also brought many expressions of solidarity and condolence. The Syrian White Helmets non-partisan volunteer rescue group tweeted: "Our thoughts and prayers are with @Jo_Cox1 and her family." The British MP had given a passionate speech on the crisis in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo and was co-chair of a recently formed cross-party parliamentary group on Syria. Syrian journalists in exile have also expressed their grief at the death of someone who they saw as a strong voice of support. Before entering Parliament, Mrs Cox worked for a number of charities including Oxfam and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Oxfam chief executive Mark Goldring tweeted that all at Oxfam were "devastated at the loss of our much loved and admired former colleague #Jo Cox MP".

Tributes to British MP Jo Cox have poured in from politicians and public figures around the world.

Police said the victim was set upon by up to eight men in the Heights area at about 02:00 BST on Sunday. A 30-year-old man was arrested but has since been released on police bail pending further enquiries. Police have appealed for information about the attack.

A 28-year-old man has been beaten by a gang armed with metal bars and bats in Coleraine, County Londonderry.

WhatsApp and similar applications make it possible for news organisations to reach the far-flung corners of the globe where other media are often blocked. Here are a few recent examples of how you have enhanced BBC News output by getting in touch via the app. A total of 38 people were killed in an attack on a beach in Tunisia on 26 June 2015. They were killed when a gunman, with links to so-called Islamic State extremists, opened fire on a beach in Sousse, outside two hotels. He had hidden a gun under a beach umbrella and he threw grenades, forcing people to run for their lives. Eyewitness Anthony Ryan got in touch with us as the news was breaking. He was able to tell us what was happening from his balcony. He could see his hotel's entertainers on the beach and could hear shouting. He could also see that two people had been brought into the hotel next door on sun beds, and were badly injured. Simon Philips shared his experience of the attacks in Paris on the night of Friday 13 November. Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars, almost simultaneously. Mr Philips, a dual French and British citizen, was sitting with his girlfriend outside La Belle Equipe bar in the rue de Charonne in the 11th district, when two men opened fire on the terrace of the cafe. He described what he had seen as "endless scenes of war". "It was complete and utter chaos. The noise of the bullets outweighed those of screams and sirens afterwards," he said. Earlier last year, we reported on the most powerful earthquake to have hit Nepal in decades. Hundreds of people were killed, and many others were trapped and injured in the quake in April. Many of the BBC's eyewitnesses to this quake came through WhatsApp, which is widely used in that part of the world. Those affected ranged from local people to the region's many tourists and climbers on Mount Everest. As well as keeping us informed of news stories, you have been telling us how you use WhatsApp every day. Jean Macleod from Glasgow, UK, says she uses it every day to message her son, Ewan, in Australia. "He's in Sydney and I'm in Glasgow. It keeps us in touch every morning and night, and if I didn't have it I'd completely crash as I miss him so much. We're not always available at the same times, so it's a bonus alongside phone calls. I use it on holiday too. Last year, on holidays in Uganda, I kept in touch with all my family including my daughter in London, and husband in Glasgow." Mal Smith agrees: "I use WhatsApp to speak to relatives in Switzerland and for sending video and pictures to family and friends. My mobile provider charges me extra for sending pictures over their network." And Julia Kinsey says she uses it at home in rural Suffolk, UK. "Mobile signal is very patchy in our house," she said. "So I use it for communicating with family in London and friends nationwide. I would feel very isolated without it." Compiled by Francesca Neagle

Mobile messaging service WhatsApp is now said to be used by a billion people monthly, but it is not just a conduit for social chat and event planning.

Workers spend on average 75 minutes a day travelling to and from work in London, compared nationally with 52.8 minutes, the TUC said. Wales sees the fastest commutes, an average of 41.4 minutes travelling, down 4.6 minutes since 2006. The study compares pre-recession travel times of 2006 with those of 2012 and found the average commute was the equivalent of five weeks a year. The TUC analysed the figures from the Labour Force Survey to mark Commute Smart week. The study found that men working in the east of England saw the sharpest rise in travel times - up 3.8 minutes to 65.2 minutes. But in London even though men spend just above 77 minutes commuting, the figure has fallen by 1.8 minutes since 2006. The study attributed the drop to an increase in part-time work, especially among men. The trend was bucked by the capital's women workers who saw their travel times rise by three minutes to 72.8 minutes. The TUC's General Secretary Brendan Barber said: "With rising transport costs far outstripping pay rises, reducing the number of peak-time commutes would save both time and money for hard-pressed workers. "Recent trends suggest there is a link between long commute times and longer hours in the office, with the growing number of men in part-time work having shorter journeys to work. "This trend is concerning if it means part-time workers and those needing to balance work with caring responsibilities are being excluded from certain types of jobs." Phil Flaxton, chief executive of Work Wise UK, urged employers to "revise tired working practices" and adopt "flexible approaches to people management".

Londoners face the longest average daily commute in the UK, a study found.

However, the 2018 event, set to showcase art, design and innovation, will not be the first in the region. In 1929, the North East Coast Exhibition was opened by the Prince of Wales in Newcastle amid great fanfare. So, will organisers take inspiration from the grand event, which attracted four million visitors? Responding to the Newcastle and Gateshead announcement, the North East Chamber of Commerce said: "The Great Exhibition looks set to be the launch pad of real growth in our regional economy." The Prince of Wales - later King Edward VIII - opened the 1929 event and said: "The industries of the North are not yet knocked out of the ring. "They are fighting back gallantly with a good Northern punch." And the "northern punch" included cutting-edge technology, such as a cow milking machine, a telescope brought down from Edinburgh University, and the local newspaper using a newly-designed electric sign to flash out the latest news items. Industry and consumer items were represented, some of them household names that remain, such as Hoover vacuum cleaners, Singer sewing machines, and Pyrex glass ovenware. Andrews Liver Salts showed off its brand with a 15ft "fountain of health". For entertainment there was an amusement park, a Himalayan Railway, and an African village. More than four million people passed through the turnstiles between May and October that year, including King Alfonso of Spain and the Sultan of Zanzibar. Each millionth visitor was presented with a gold watch. When the exhibition ended, the pavilions were dismantled and the area reverted to a public park. Unfortunately, that "northern punch" would fall victim to the economic depression a few years later, in the 1930s.

One of the reasons the Great Exhibition of the North was awarded to Newcastle and Gateshead was because of the "ambition" of organisers.

We got a foretaste a couple of weeks ago when Europe Minister David Lidington delivered a Commons statement on the government's demands for a renegotiation of Britain's EU membership. The reaction from the hard core of backbench "outers" was summed up by Bernard Jenkin's dismissive comment, "Is that it?" The government's promised in-out EU referendum was a vote-winner at the election, and probably essential to keep the lid on Tory euro-tension in the last parliament. But as the 2017 deadline appears on the horizon, it is prompting some Commons Tories to murmur of a "Corn Laws-style split" in the party. Of course, historically, the Conservative Party has always been able to rely on a powerful instinct for unity, born of an equally powerful instinct for power. But party history offers some warnings too. Issues that go to the heart of what the Conservative party is about can split it, and have split it. In the 1840s, it was agricultural protection and the move to abandon the Corn Laws which protected the incomes of landowners. In the 1900s, it was imperial protection and the idea of moving away from free trade to a customs union with the countries of the Empire. And ever since the UK joined the EU, a growing - possibly now a majority - faction of the party has wanted out. Those splits destroyed Tory governments - conjure up the ghosts of Robert Peel or AJ Balfour, ask John Major about his cabinet rebels - and recall that party management has never been David Cameron's strongest suit. Next time, the dynamics of the promised referendum suggest that it could pull the Conservative party apart again. The scenario works like this: polling suggests that, without substantial change in the UK's membership terms, the British public will vote to leave the EU - with immigration a particularly crucial area. But most people will not assess the small print setting out changes to an intricate and little understood institutional structure. Instead, they will look to figures they trust to tell them whether enough has changed. And in particular, that means Mr Cameron. His will be the crucial voice in any effort to persuade the voters that he has delivered acceptable terms. This week's tough talking to other EU leaders on benefits for EU citizens is a public display of political hardball, for UK consumption, as well as an attempt to underline his determination. But, assuming he does campaign to keep the UK inside the EU, the referendum will turn on how voters react when he says to them, "Trust Me." The "out" side of the argument will have no option but to attack his personal credibility. Tory toes are already creeping across this line. If you listen carefully to interviews by some "outers", they praise his past successes and talk about how his place in history has been secured by his victory in May. It's a subtle point, but what they're not doing is banging the normal party gong and hoping he will rule forever. And soon they will go further than that. And for the prime minister and his heir-presumptive, Chancellor George Osborne, if they do - as seems almost certain - campaign to maintain British membership, the referendum will become a struggle for survival. Whatever they say, the idea that they could campaign to stay in, then, after a vote to leave, pick themselves up, dust themselves down and negotiate the terms of a so-called Brexit, is met with frank incredulity. In the anti-EU ranks they are quite clear - if their team wins, they'll hoist the trophy, run the victory lap and provide the captain. Combine the certainty of attacks on the PM's personal credibility with the struggle for factional survival that's facing the current magic circle of the Conservative Party, and you have a sinister brew of malice and ambition certain to corrode Tory unity. The more so if Labour is languishing in the polls with problems of its own. Expect purges and punishments to be the order of the day. And whatever the referendum result, we know that there will be a Tory leadership campaign at the back end of this Parliament - into which this poison will seep. In some ways, the worst-case scenario for Tory unity is a narrow vote to stay. Scotland does not provide an encouraging precedent - a No to independence by an 11% margin has fed, rather than slain, the SNP. A tighter result in an EU referendum could allow the "out" side to sustain a "we wuz robbed" mentality and treat the forthcoming leadership election (Mr Cameron has said he won't serve another term as PM) as a continuation of the referendum by other means. A Conservative MP reminded me the other day that in 1975 Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson campaigned for and won a mandate to keep Britain in the then EEC in a referendum - but eight years later his party fought a general election on a manifesto commitment to leave. Parties, he said, can turn on a sixpence when they have to, even if such a handbrake turn can fling some passengers out of the vehicle altogether. All of which raises the question, as the country staggers towards the 2020 general election, will there, by then, be any functional UK-wide political parties left?

The sheer pyrotechnics of Labour's internal feuding have mesmerised Westminster, but Conservative MPs should not titter too hard at their opponents' discomfort - they have their own civil war brewing.

Robinson, 21, who previously had two loan spells at the Lilywhites, turned down a new deal with Villa and joins for an undisclosed compensation fee. Newcastle-born former Rotherham man Pringle, 26, signs for an undisclosed fee after one year with the Cottagers. Pringle made nine league starts during a short loan spell at Ipswich in 2016. Robinson told the club's website: "It was obviously a big decision for me leaving Aston Villa, I've been there since I was eight-years-old. "But, if there was ever a club for me to settle down with and sign permanently with, it would be Preston North End." Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Championship side Preston North End have signed Aston Villa forward Callum Robinson and Fulham midfielder Ben Pringle, both on three-year contracts.

Holdsworth, 47, beat takeover offers from banker Roger Tamraz and Bolton Wanderers Supporters' Trust. The club, owned by Eddie Davies, are £172.9m in debt and have been trying to find a buyer for a number of months. The Championship strugglers are scheduled in the High Court on Monday over a £3m unpaid tax bill. It is hoped the takeover will soon be completed as Wanderers must let the High Court know by 19 February if they are going to enter administration, and also prove they have funds to continue trading. Former Wimbledon and Brentford forward Holdsworth spent six seasons at Bolton, scoring 52 goals in 188 appearances. BBC Radio Manchester also understands the sale of the Trotters' training ground at Euxton has yet to be finalised, with League One side Wigan making an approach.

Bolton Wanderers have given preferred bidder status to former striker Dean Holdsworth's Sports Shield consortium, reports BBC Radio Manchester.

Fields around organic farms have more types of wild plants, providing benefits for wildlife, say scientists. The research is likely to fuel the debate over the environmental benefits of organic farming. Studies suggest that organic farming produces lower yields than conventional methods but harbours more wildlife. The new study, by researchers at the University of Swansea and institutes in France, looked at fields sowed with winter wheat in the region of Poitou-Charente. They found that organic farming led to higher weed diversity on surrounding conventionally farmed fields. "Wild plants are important for birds, bees and other farmland species," said Dr Luca Borger of the department of biosciences at Swansea University. "Organic farming has advantages in maintaining these, but even a mixture of organic and non-organic farming in an area can help maintain this biodiversity. "Even only 25% of fields being organically farmed can make a difference." Farmland provides essential habitat for many animals but intensification of agriculture has led to a loss of biodiversity. However, in order to provide the extra food needed by the bigger human population of the future, without destroying forests and wetlands, farming needs to be made more intensive. Supporters of organic farming say the method could be a potential compromise between meeting food security needs and providing habitat for bees, birds and other wildlife. The researchers say land-sharing between organic farms and non-organic farms could have benefits for both crop production and biodiversity. This theory needs to be tested in follow-up studies, they say. The study is published in the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B- Biological Sciences.

Organic farms act as a refuge for wild plants, offsetting the loss of biodiversity on conventional farms, a study suggests.

Adelie Ireland, which took over The Bite Group last year, has now gone into administration. The company based in the Lackaboy Industrial Estate makes sandwiches and snack foods for convenience stores and retail outlets. Staff were sent home after being informed of the news on Friday. Administrators are examining the options for the future of the business.

About 80 jobs are at risk at a food manufacturer and distributor in Enniskillen.

The leading human rights charity said the deal failed to hide the EU's "dogged determination to turn its back on a global refugee crisis". Under the plan, migrants arriving in Greece will be sent back to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or their claim is rejected. In return, Turkey will receive aid and political concessions. Under the EU-Turkey deal, Greek authorities will still process requests for asylum individually. However, many migrants, including Syrians, are keen to go to Germany and other northern European Union countries and have previously refused to apply for asylum in Greece, as requested by the current procedure. The deal says that for every Syrian migrant sent back to Turkey, one Syrian already in Turkey will be resettled in the EU. John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's Director for Europe and Central Asia, said promises by the EU to respect international and European law "appear suspiciously like sugar-coating the cyanide pill that refugee protection in Europe has just been forced to swallow". He added: "Guarantees to scrupulously respect international law are incompatible with the touted return to Turkey of all irregular migrants arriving on the Greek islands as of Sunday. Scepticism hangs heavy in the air about a host of legal issues, and about whether the agreement can actually work in practice. The idea at the heart of the deal - sending virtually all irregular migrants back to Turkey from the Greek islands - is the most controversial. European leaders insist that everything will be in compliance with the law. "It excludes any kind of collective expulsions," emphasised European Council President Donald Tusk. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) will take part in the scheme, but it is clearly uncomfortable with what has been agreed. Read more from Chris Turkey is "not a safe country for refugees and migrants", Mr Dalhuisen said, adding that any deal to return migrants based on claims it was would be "flawed, illegal and immoral". It is hoped the plan, agreed at a summit in Brussels, will deter people from taking the often dangerous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece. As part of the arrangement, EU countries will resettle Syrian migrants already living in Turkey. EU leaders have welcomed the agreement, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of legal challenges to come. Some of the initial concessions offered to Turkey have been watered down and some EU members expressed disquiet over Turkey's human rights record. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu hailed it as a "historic" day. European Council President Donald Tusk said there had been unanimous agreement between Turkey and the 28 EU members. The UN warned that Greece's capacity to assess asylum claims needed to be strengthened for the deal. Implementation was "crucial", the organisation said. Since January 2015, a million migrants and refugees have entered the EU by boat from Turkey to Greece. More than 132,000 have arrived this year alone. Tens of thousands are now stuck in Greece as their route north has been blocked. Greek Interior Minister Panagiotis Kouroublis has compared conditions at the Idomeni camp, on the border with Macedonia, to a Nazi concentration camp. The Turkey-EU statement in full A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.

Amnesty International has accused European leaders of "double speak" over a deal to return migrants to Turkey.

People in the South Ham area of Basingstoke complained about the noise coming from the ground between 22:00 BST on Saturday and 08:00 on Sunday. The club has apologised, blaming a wi-fi receiver picking up the frequencies of the radio systems of taxis. Resident Leighton Oliver has criticised the club for not acting sooner to stop the noise. He added it could be heard three miles away. Another resident, who did not want to be named, told BBC Radio Berkshire he was woken by a "horrible scraping noise". "It was like someone had put a microphone beside a really badly tuned radio," he said. "It was so loud I'd be surprised if anyone got any sleep." Basingstoke Town FC chairman Raffi Razzak said: "It's very unusual - it seems that the wi-fi in our PA box, which has been there for years for some reason, has started to pick up the frequencies of the radio systems of taxis. "It was coming and going when a taxi passed with [its] music on. "We never thought for one minute it could pick up signals from outside." He said the system would be completely turned off when not in use in the future. A Hampshire Police spokesman said officers had checked the premises after a call from a member of the public concerned that the social club may have been broken to. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council said its out-of-hours call centre received six calls about the noise. "We will be speaking to the football club to clarify what exactly happened and the safeguards and procedures they have in place to ensure a situation like this doesn't happen again," a spokeswoman said.

Hundreds of people suffered a sleepless night when a football stadium's PA system played loud, distorted music.

Martial music accompanies footage of soldiers, and statements by military commanders reinforce the military mobilization under way on both sides of the border. Meanwhile, online activists within Sudan are using social media to question the official line. State-run Sudan TV is re-running programmes made during the north-south civil war, including a 1990s repeat, "In The Fields of Sacrifice". The programmes urge "jihad" against "the enemy" - namely, South Sudan's ruling party. The TV carries videos promoting the Popular Defence Forces (PDF) militia, a mainstay of the Sudanese military. The footage features PDF "martyrs" and archive footage of battles from the long-running civil war. Other footage, broadcast under the title "The Youth Who Answer The Call To Arms", urges young men to join up. It features key figures from the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), including the defence minister and Khartoum State governor, who are shown dressed in military fatigues, extolling the virtues of jihad. Unlike its counterpart in South Sudan, Khartoum's official TV is not showing contemporary footage from Heglig. Instead, it relies on archive video from other battlegrounds. The TV repeatedly insists that Sudanese forces are about to "liberate" the area. South Sudan TV is showing footage of parades and recordings of commanders addressing soldiers. In one video, a commander addresses his soldiers in Arabic and blames the NCP and President Bashir for lying to their people and dragging the countries to the brink of war. The commander urges his fighters to "liberate Khartoum from the NCP" and talks of sending President Bashir and his tribe "back to the Arabian peninsula". Echoing the jihad calls from Sudanese commanders, the SPLA officer advocates "a Christian holy war" against the "mondokoro" (slang for Arab Sudanese), and promises to hand over President Bashir and other Sudanese officials to the International Criminal Court. The network has been showing footage of prisoners of war, said to have been captured in Heglig. The parading of the PoWs before the cameras has been condemned by Khartoum. Within Sudan, pro-government and anti-war camps are engaged in an online battle which has spilled over onto social media platforms. Pro-military outlets include the "Electronic Army for the Defence of Sudan" Facebook page , which has been reporting developments on the ground in Heglig. The Electronic Army - which appears to have close links to the Sudanese security apparatus - carries reports from "reporters" said to be embedded with the army. Its Facebook page carries a montage of a fighter jet - a symbol of Sudan's aerial superiority. There are images of corpses, purportedly those of South Sudanese soldiers killed in Heglig. The anti-war camp, meanwhile, is using social media to question the official and military narrative. Facebook group Tadaeiat carries clips that ridicule the NCP, including a video that shows President Bashir dancing and singing following a speech in which he vowed to fight South Sudan. Khartoum appears to be fighting back. Since the occupation of Heglig, pages on several popular sites including Al-Rakoba and Sudaneseonline have been rendered inaccessible. BBC Monitoring selects and translates news from radio, television, press, news agencies and the internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages. It is based in Caversham, UK, and has several bureaux abroad.

With clashes between South Sudan and Sudan threatening to spiral into all-out conflict, state TV networks in both countries are pulling out the stops to rally support for their respective causes.

The security forces are reported to have used tear gas against stone-throwing protesters. They also surrounded the hometown of Burhan Wani, 22, who was killed fighting Indian troops last year. Separately seven people are reported to have been killed in shelling across the Line of Control that divides Indian and Pakistani-administered Kashmir. Officials on the Pakistani side told Reuters that five people died in Indian shelling, while Indian officials say two people were killed by Pakistani fire. There has been an armed revolt in the Muslim-majority region against rule by India since 1989, although violence has waned in recent years. The disputed region is claimed by both India and Pakistan in its entirety. India blames Pakistan for fuelling the unrest, a claim denied by Islamabad. Burhan Wani is credited with reviving the image of militancy in Muslim-majority Indian-administered Kashmir, becoming a figurehead for young people. Saturday's violence started as people tried to walk to his home in Tral - where he died in a shootout with the army last July. His death led to a wave of protests during which dozens of people were killed. The Indian authorities imposed heavy restrictions in the Kashmir valley for the anniversary, stopping internet access and sealing off Tral. There have also been reports of army personnel being injured in a militant attack overnight on Friday.

Clashes have broken out in Indian-administered Kashmir on the anniversary of the killing of a militant leader.

Six are charged with attempted murder, accused of setting fire to newspaper with which the man had covered himself. The seventh is charged with failing to assist the Polish man, who was only saved by the actions of passers-by after his attackers fled. The attack, which was captured on CCTV, shocked the country. Six of the accused come from Syria, a seventh from Libya. They range between 16 and 21 in age. They arrived in Germany between 2014 and 2016, some as unaccompanied minors, say German media reports. The case has renewed debate about the care of unaccompanied minors, as well as adding to an ongoing argument about whether CCTV cameras help combat crime. Germany surveillance: Security trumps privacy as video bill passed Why are 10,000 migrant children missing in Europe? The attack took place in the Schoenleinstrasse underground station in the southern Berlin district of Neukoelln at about 02:00 (01:00 GMT) on Christmas Day. The alleged ringleader, a 21-year-old Syrian, is accused of lighting a handkerchief and placing it near the man's head, and then running away as the flames spread to the man's backpack and a plastic bag. A train driver used a fire extinguisher to control the flames as passers-by helped to put them out. Six of the suspects surrendered to police immediately after CCTV pictures of the incident in Berlin were released. The alleged ringleader was arrested near his home. He now says he was drunk and cannot remember what happened. But he will be charged as an adult and will face at least three years behind bars if found guilty. They have all been in detention since 27 December.

Seven young migrants have gone on trial in Germany, over a Christmas day attack on a homeless man which could have killed him.

sportscotland says it has yet to decide where the cuts will fall amid concerns that elite athletes could suffer. The cuts are being blamed on reduced government spending and a drop in National Lottery ticket sales - a major contributor to sports backing. Governing bodies are bracing themselves for potential job losses. About 60% of funding is made up from Scottish Government money, with lottery sales making up the rest. In the year ending 2015, total revenue was £65.1m, which is divided up and awarded to 52 sports. By the end of next year, that figure will have fallen to £51.8m - a cut to the Scottish sporting budget of 20% in just three years. sportscotland chairman Mel Young said: "It's heartbreaking to me because I know the effort the sport governing bodies and the community that's around it; the volunteers and the mums and dads. "And, to have to say that we're having to cut some money back is, I believe, not the right way to go." Former badminton player Susan Egelstaff, a double bronze medallist at the Commonwealth Games [in 2002 and 2006] and an Olympian, fears the cuts will have "a huge impact". "What that means in the future is that Scotland will be constantly playing catch-up," she said. "It's almost impossible to catch up if you fall too far behind the leading nations." The Scottish Government said sport and physical activity play a "key role" in a healthy Scotland and that "significant" investment would continue in those areas. "Having successfully delivered the Commonwealth Games [in 2014] we are now focusing on protecting or raising investment in areas intended to decrease health inequality and improve life chances, and the small reduction in the sport budget allows us to support those priorities," Minister for Sport Aileen Campbell said. "There is on-going support for active lifestyles through capital investment in cycling and walking, and over the last 10 years we have invested £168m in sport infrastructure - from grassroots to the elite performance which has increased the facilities and opportunities to get people active and achieve on the world stage at both the Olympics and Commonwealth Games."

Sport funding in Scotland is facing a 20% reduction over a three-year period, a move described as "heartbreaking" by the national agency.

In the alleged fraud, the volunteers rang the emergency 115 number themselves or got friends or relatives to do it. Their commander allegedly skipped shifts in order to start fires. The team, in the Ragusa district, came under suspicion because they were called out more often than others. Each was paid about €10 (£9) an hour. Italians are sweltering in a heatwave that has pushed temperatures above 40C (104F) and dried out the vegetation, making wildfires common. Spain, Portugal, southern France and the Balkans have also experienced abnormally hot weather this summer. Italian media report that most of the 15 volunteers detained in Ragusa have admitted starting fires deliberately. Ragusa is in southeastern Sicily, about 105km (65 miles) from Catania.

Italian police have detained 15 volunteer firefighters in southern Sicily accused of starting fires in order to get paid to put them out.